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Friday, April 12 2013, 20h
The Nightingale
1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, Illinois 60642

Curated by Amelia Ishmael

.blacK~SSStaTic_darK~fuZZZ_dOOm~glitCH. is a screening program inspired by storms and digital sorcery or, more pointedly, it is an assemblage of lights and sounds to elicit a chaotic vortex of smudgy black charcoal that is streaked with freezing water, painted on celluloid, stained by sea creatures, hexed through new media, and entranced by guitar riffs. Artists included are Aldo Tambellini, Cultus Sabbati, Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert, jonCates, mojo (for Aluk Todolo), Reto Mäder and Daniel Steffen (for Ural Umbo), Alexander Stewart, and Semiconductor.

Programme:
- White God (Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert (in collaboration with Xavier Massaut), 2002-2010, 5:47)
- ERRORRUNNINGWWWATERNOISES (RE:MIXXX for Amelia Ishmael) (jonCates, 2012, 6:44)
- Descent into the Maelstrom (Cultus Sabbati, 2011, 8:12)
- Black is (Aldo Tambellini, 1965, 3:38)
- Unground: Phase 6 (Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert, 2012, 5:37)
- CH405_M4J1K meets GL!TTER GLØØM (jonCates, 2012, 2:16)
- Black Rain (Semiconductor, 2009, 3:02)
- Aluk Todolo live at Cave 12 in Ecuries de l’Ilôt 13, Geneva 12.05.2010 [I] (Michel Pennec, 2010), 8:42)
- Black Trip (Aldo Tambellini, 1965, 4:07)
- Errata (Alexander Stewart, 2005, 6:05)
- Ural Umbo - Self Fulfilling Prophecy (Reto Mäder and Daniel Steffen, 2011, 5:14)

This Chicago screening will also include an additional chapter, with video by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder and sound by Olivia Block.

GAZE #4: Bodies Rest and Motion
Friday, April 5 2013, 20h
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

As San Francisco’s dank and verdant spring arrives, GAZE presents a kinetic program of short moving image works that lay bare both streams of consciousness and visceral embodiment. Absurdity, queerness, and melodrama collide; the camera is a mirror, the screen is a diary.

Featuring film, video and animation by local and international women filmmakers:

Jillian Peña
Angel Rose
Jamie Walters
Emily Kuehn
Maria Magnusson
Kristin Reeves
Christina Kolozsvary
Allison Halter
Dolissa Medina
Daniela Zahlner

and more…

GAZE is a film series dedicated to screening independent film and video made by women. GAZE promotes women’s artistic expression and creates dialogue related to the influence of this powerful medium.

Back To Landscape
As part of the 1st International Festival Of Short Movies About Painting Arts "Erarta MOTION PICTURES"
Saturday, March 30 2013, 20h
Erarta Museum
Line 29th, 2 Vasilyevsky island, Saint-Petersburg 199106, Russia

Curated by Xavier G.Puerto

After the appearance of Giorgione’s “La Tempesta” in 1506, the importance of landscape grew. It occupied the centre of compositions and became a key topic of consideration for the history of painting in recent centuries, reaching its pinnacle with the German proto-Romantic movement “Sturm und Drang” and the British painters of the 19th Century.

But this huge popularity prompted a use and abuse of the topic, and tastes changed with the arrival of the Novecento (20th.). The new art of the century, cinematography, made its final bet on fiction, setting landscape to a decorative function. When painting, its original and main field of action, underwent the rise of abstraction, it seemed the last nail in the coffin for what was now considered a kitsch topic. While some masters of cinema tried to place landscape at the centre of discussion their championing wasn’t enough for a seventh art which focused its attention on new techniques.

Right at the turn of the second millennium, with a wide development of different techniques and methods in filmmaking, stunning new special effects technologies, and the possibility of creating worlds from nowhere, artists have paradoxically decided to return to an ancient means of expressing themselves - not as the topic of their works in an intellectual manner but in transforming, manipulating, and retouching nature with new tools, taking the landscape as a concept for demonstrating all their capacities, and providing a new interpretation of a historic issue.

Take a seat, a program of more than an hour will bring us in a soft and rough trip. “Back to Landscape”, through different pieces, sees filmmakers employing unusual lenses, coordinated choreographies, barely real environments or new perspectives, considering whether landscape or cityscape a free field for experimentation and a testing place for new techniques and formal innovation.

Oporto apresenta #30: From the Age of Recklessness
Saturday, March 23 2013, 22:30h
Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa

"From the Age of Recklessness" by Klaus Wyborny
16 mm film transfered to video, color, sound, 70', 1994

Oporto is finally presenting the seventy-minute-long autobiographical film by Klaus Wyborny. In this film the film-maker, a former quantum physicist, talks about memory and traveling along with history and geometry, all seen from his adventurous past relationships. The film is an eternal flow of memories presented alongside a cocktail of extremely dry humor and melancholia. Wyborny approaches film as a scientific experiment in fiction and truth, and his goal is to capture (with a special camera device) the untenable flux of life in order to trigger the untenable flow of memories.

"Instructions on death avoidance and the eternal energy flow" - Alexandre Estrela