For Robert Beavers, the camera is not a simple recording device; it has a very lively quality that surrounds the elements of filming. This session presents two films he made in the 1970s based on a 15th-century painting and the writings of John Ruskin. The construction of images and sounds in these works connects the present with the past and the past with the present in a continual toing and froing.
Dates:
Saturday, February 11, 2017 - 17:00 to Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 16:55
LemoArt Gallery Berlin is calling out for emerging film artists for an exciting brand new project taking place later this year!
This project aims to showcase new artists and propel them into the art scene through exhibitions, events, support and exposure in one of Contemporary Art’s most influential cities, Berlin.
We are looking for…
+ Video Art + Short Films + Dance Films + Animation + Short Film Documentaries
Dates:
Friday, March 31, 2017 - 20:00 to Saturday, April 1, 2017 - 19:55
Anne Rees-Mogg (1924-1984) was a dedicated teacher and an active defender of 16mm film. Her films deal with time, memory, personal relations and the discovery of cinematography. This session presents a series of works that sketch out a short personal journey through the history of the cinema: from the pre-cinematographic devices of the magic lantern to a poetic tutorial about how to make experimental films, via the photography and the time and movement studies of Muybridge.
Dates:
Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, February 3, 2017 - 19:55
Frames of Resistance explores Wolf Vostell and other Fluxus filmmakers’ use of film as political interventions into the built environment and the media landscape. Vostell proposed this list of films to be shown during his visit to the MCA in January 1970 when he supervised the production of Concrete Traffic. Screening are Vostell’s films Sun in Your Head (1963), Starfighter (1967), and others.
Presented by UChicago Arts, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Film Studies Center.
Dates:
Friday, February 3, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, February 4, 2017 - 18:55
Process is the first experimental film festival in The Baltics dedicated to experimental, analog filmmaking. Taking place on the 22nd to 25th of March in Riga, Latvia, the festival will provide four days of intensive program consisting of film screenings, talks, discussions, lectures and expanded cinema performances. We welcome the submission of experimental short films where the use of celluloid has been part of the filmmaking process.
"The goal is for the projected image to have the same force of awakening sight as any other great image."
Over five decades, American filmmaker Robert Beavers (*1949) has come closer to this self-set goal than anyone else in his métier. Those fortunate enough to have experienced the complete retrospective of Beavers' work organized by the Austrian Film Museum in the autumn of 2010 are familiar with the sensory intoxication and the intensity of visual and aural experiences these works give rise to. They offer an immersion into the beauty and intelligence of craft – both when it comes to the places and activities recorded by Beavers (anywhere between Florence and Massachusetts) and in relation to his own film craft shining in the projection.
In the times of public intrusion into the private sphere, right wing populists and religious fundamentalists threatening the freedom of expression and diversity, and conservative politicians pressing for control and surveillance, the expressions of private life become a political affair again. Related to the slogan of 1968 "The personal is political", the here presented films talk about personal or private affairs in relation to the public sphere and the urban space.
Dates:
Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 21:00 to Friday, January 27, 2017 - 20:55
