Screenings

  • Southern Lights: Films by Pablo Marín

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    Pablo Marín in person.

    A prominent figure in the burgeoning filmmaking scene of Argentina, Pablo Marín appears in person from Buenos Aires to present a screening of his personal, lyrical Super-8 films, which—in the traditions of Narcisa Hirsch, Claudio Caldini and Marie Louise Alemann—bring “a structural/formal concern into the realm of autobiographical/intimate cinema” and demonstrate a dazzling proficiency at in-camera composition superimposition.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, August 9, 2014 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Artists' Television Access - San Francisco, Estados Unidos
  • Mirror Me - Experimental Selfies

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    Everyday millions of hand-held self-portraits, or ‘selfies’, are uploaded on to the internet. With today’s personal technologies, private self-representations-made-public seem symptomatic of Guy Debord's ‘Society of the Spectacle’ or Jean Baudrillard’s ‘Simulacra and Simulation’. Yet for decades, experimental filmmakers and video artists have interrogated questions of self-identity and -referentiality. With the performing body as the site of action produced in relation to the film apparatus and video system, they offer a powerful critique of the male gaze and, in turn, the seeming narcissism at the center of today’s ‘selfie’ culture. A diverse range of artists and traditions have thereby subversively taken up subjective, first-person cinema and issues of self-performance in order to explore questions of identity, power, memory, and the construction of the self. ‘Mirror Me’ presents a selection of musings on the mirroring of the ‘self’ in self-reflexive film and video auto-portraits and personal diary films in order to weave together something of a ‘pre-history’ of the ‘selfie’.

    Curated by Pascal Richard and Christopher Zimmerman

    Dates: 

    Monday, July 21, 2014 - 19:30
    Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Austrian Cultural Forum New York - New York, United States
  • Dirty Looks: Anger + Rapture

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    Films by Kenneth Anger + Ivan Zulueta

    - Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 16mm, 11 min., 1969)
    - Arrebato (Rapture) (Iván Zulueta, 35mm on video, 105 min., 1980)

    Starring Mick Jagger (who also composed its score), His Satanic Majesty Anton LaVey, and Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil, Kenneth Anger has described Invocation of My Demon Brother as "an attack on the sensorium."

    Rarely screened on these shores, Iván Zulueta's sex and drugs filled cult classic Arrebato (Rapture) is legendary in Spain, where it launched a cinematic revolution, inspiring filmmakers like Pedro Almodóvar (who can be heard in an uncredited dubbing- as the voice of a female character). "He never filmed a single banal image," Almodóvar would later write of Zulueta, describing Zulueta's work as "David Lynch, but less shadowy and more pop." Mixing genre and experimental filmmaking, Arrebato tells the story of a hack horror director and heroin junky who becomes consumed by the vampiric apparatus of cinema. Introduced by Clara López.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    White Columns - New York, United States
  • 'A to Z of London' (a raw film)

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    A to Z of LONDON – a raw film.

    26 episodes linked by recurring characters and themes.

    Materials used: found film footage and home movies.

    Each episode is under 3 minutes in length.

    A to Z of LONDON is mosaic in style. The episodes can be watched in any order.

    The film project is evolving and images will be replaced if and when required.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 17:30

    Venue: 

    The Winns Gallery - London, United Kingdom
  • Basement Media Fest Baltimore

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    Sight Unseen welcomes back Basement Media Fest for a second survey of contemporary artists working with lo-def, lo-tech, and lo-fi motion pix techniques. Founded in response to hi-res commercial media and corporate-sponsored film fests, Basement is a celebration of the mediated experience as an aesthetic experience. Equal parts glitchd digital vidz, fuzzy vhs, and grimy 16mm film, we’ll be presenting a mixd program of celluloid and .movs. Come enjoy some 100 yr old tech in a state of the art converted bodega theater. 

    Dates: 

    Friday, July 11, 2014 - 20:00 to Saturday, July 12, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    The Holy Underground - Baltimore, United States
  • Hybrids {with Avant Ads}

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    Curated by Bradley Eros
    w/ works by Oskar Fishinger, Walter Ruttmann, Len Lye, Peter Kubelka, Scott Bartlett, Victoria Keddie & Scott Kiernan, Kenneth Zoran Curwood, Gill Arno, Jeannie Liotta, Lary 7, Aline Mare, and Bradley Eros
    admission $6 - Bradley Eros and other artists in person

    In connection with his current solo exhibition at the gallery eau de cinema: constellations & contradictions, Bradley Eros presents a special screening event of historical and present day works, including several of his own collaborative pieces. The program focuses on two concepts essential to his exhibition: “Hybrids”, those bridging the distinction or separation between film and video, as a form of synaesthetic cinema that combines elements of both, and “Avant Ads”, or experimental films made as (often subversive) advertisements, or (often failed) promotional films.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 19:00 to Friday, July 4, 2014 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    MICROSCOPE GALLERY (previous) - New York, United States
  • LUX DVD Launch: Guy Sherwin/Nicky Hamlyn

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    To mark the launch of two new LUX DVD releases (Guy Sherwin - Short Film Series 1975 - 2014 and Nicky Hamlyn - Selected Works 1974 – 2012) LUX presents a special evening of screening and conversation with two of the UK's most renowned artist filmmakers, Guy Sherwin and Nicky Hamlyn. Each will present a personal selection of the other's films and together they will discuss their work and practices within wider British artists' moving image over the past 40 years.

    The new DVDs and other LUX publications will be available for a special launch price on the night.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 19:00 to Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Cafe Oto - London, United Kingdom
  • KABANE77 Acte VII: Flesh Cinema

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    KABANE77 is putting the reel back in motion this summer and is proposing a new series of outdoor events. Dedicated to independent and experimental filmmaking, KABANE77 is inviting you under the trees for ACTE VII.
    16mm film projection outdoor screening

    - Wedlock House: An Intercourse (Stan Brakhage, 1959, 11 minutes)
    - Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1964-1967, 23 minutes)
    - Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin, 1963, 30 minutes)
    - T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits, 1968, 12 minutes)

    On the occasion of the book launch of Ara Osterweil, "Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in Avant-Garde Film" (Manchester Univ. Press, 2014)

    Dates: 

    Sunday, June 29, 2014 - 21:30

    Venue: 

    KABANE77 - Montréal, Canada
  • Directors Lounge: Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause - Szenario

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    Szenario, a collaboration of the filmmakers Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause appears to be a documentation about a love affair; a chronicle of 3 months in fall 1970, when a married man called Hans starts an affair with his secretary, called Monica, also married. The main character of the film could be called “the suitcase”, though, a collection of notes, photographs, tickets and other papers from a suitcase, apparently collected by “him”, the male lover. The notes conof diary entries, where Hans meticulously wrote down every date he met with Monica, how long they had sex, and in which position they had intercourse. He also added to the record the places and circumstances they met, yet and always in the spare lasistnguage of a book keeper or bank clerk. The typewritten notes are spoken by a female voice, while the film images show passages of urban landscape of Köln, mostly slow tracking shots, some of them from car, and both at night and at day time.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 21:00 to Friday, June 27, 2014 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Z-Bar, Berlin - Berlin, Alemania
  • Black Box @ Edinburgh International Film Festival

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    Black Box is Edinburgh International Film Festival's regular experimental strand, curated by Kim Knowles. From abstract to narrative, celluloid to digital, Black Box celebrates the diversity of experimental film from around the world. Since 2013 the strand also includes an expanded film performance event Black Box Live.

    Black Box Shorts 1: Commodification-Appropriation
    27 June, 18:30h

    The films in this programme subtly underline the way capitalism infiltrates and defines the environments we inhabit and the images we consume. From real estate to pornography, and from Coca-Cola to Miley Cyrus, the works showcased here present idiosyncratic critiques of commodity culture and social alienation. The images of capitalism are reclaimed and reworked to form alternative readings and understandings of contemporary consumer society.

    Dates: 

    Friday, June 27, 2014 (All day)
    Saturday, June 28, 2014 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Edinburgh Filmhouse - Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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