On the UNESCO World Day of AV Heritage, October 27, the SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana traditionally prepares a screening at the Slovenian Cinematheque. This year, it has joined forces with the Autumn Film School to extend an invitation to Light Cone. For this occasion, we have put together two programs of 16 mm and 35 mm experimental films made over a span of almost a hundred years, between 1927 and 2016.
We are very pleased to invite you to the eleventh session of Kinu will be dedicated to the American artist Jeanne Liotta (New York, 1960). Her collages, performances and experimental films focus on scientific themes, which she approaches through observation, recording, recreation and the editing of phenomena that are perceptible to the naked eye.
Artist in person – Q&A following the screening In person & online
Microscope is very pleased to present a solo screening of works in 16mm and video by Sasha Waters, including the New York premiere of her new short video “Ashes of Roses” (2023). Waters will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening, which will take place both in-person and online.
Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with percussionists Darien Baiza and Paul Neidhardt. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Driving beats. Orphaned labels and free-floating symbology. Auditory roundabouts and redirections. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals.
On the occasion of Bay Area Now 9, Cinematheque returns for two special screenings at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the month of October. Running October 6–31, CROSSROADS at 14 looks back on the first fourteen years of Cinematheque’s annual festival. San Francisco Cinematheque: Contemporary Views from the Bay Area, featuring work by ten Bay Area filmmakers created 2020–2023, screens October 21.
Light Cone presents the third edition of Scratch Collection, a journey through our catalogue of 6,500 films whose goal is to draw up a great world atlas of experimental cinema and reaffirm Light Cone as an evolving and thriving collection.
Book presentation and screening of the films Essais & Instants with Hannes Schüpbach. November 16th, Metropolis, Kinemathek HamburgExperimental films with book presentation: Hannes SchüpbachWith guests and conversation
Rouzbeh Rashidi's latest feature film, "Elpis" (2023), will have its German premiere at the 7th Berlin Revolution Film Festival in Berlin on Sunday, October 22, 2023, at 9 PM.
The screening will take place at the iconic Kino Moviemento in Kreuzberg, Berlin, showcasing a pristine 4K DCP format. Following the screening, a Q&A session will be conducted with Rouzbeh Rashidi, as well as the cast and crew.
For nearly 50 years, the Bay Area filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin has been an inspiring figure in contemporary media arts. His acerbic, densely-packed found footage films have traveled the globe, encouraging scores of nascent collage-essayists, culture jammers, and mockumentarians to action. A welcoming presence and steadfast fixture of San Francisco’s Mission District, Baldwin has been holding it down at 992 Valencia Street for decades, in defiance of sweeping gentrification, presenting his Other Cinema microcinema screenings in its street-level storefront theater while maintaining his legendary film archive/hoarder cave/work studio in the building’s basement. Ever seeking to revise and hybridize existing modes and genres, and invent and name new ones, Baldwin’s filmmaking amalgamates cinephilic literacy and voraciousness, a sharp understanding of political and cultural history, and a sly critical polemics.
