At a time when images are increasingly subject to digital processing through a multiplicity of technologies and formats, artists are confronted by a plethora of visual and expressive possibilities. The 16mm films and videos by New York artists assembled for this programme present personal ways of chemically or digitally manipulating moving images.
Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Katherine Bauer, Lisa Gwilliam & Ray Sweeten (DataSpaceTime), Sarah Halpern, Josh Lewis, Zach Nader, Keith Sanborn, Leslie Thornton, Matt Town
Dates:
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - 19:00 to Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 18:55
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of Thursday, December 15th, 2016 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment in our Salon series. We’re pleased to welcome filmmaker Adele Horne who will present an evening of films set in gardens and forests.
“I am honored to come up with this dream program showing my films alongside work by Ernie Gehr and Naomi Uman, whose delicate and startling visions have changed the way I see the world.” – Adele Horne
Sink or Swim is a sophisticated poetic ode addressed by Su Friedrich to his father, a linguist who left his family when the filmmaker was a child. Raymonde Carasco formally revisits the myth of Gradiva, causing the pathological symptoms to migrate (in response to Freud's study of the text of the writer Jensen) towards plastic variations in which thought becomes form. Two dissymmetrical approaches of the "essayist cinema" under the sign of the questioning of the fathers (direct for Su Friedrich, linked to the archetypes in Raymonde Carasco).
Dates:
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 20:00 to Friday, December 9, 2016 - 19:55
Close-Up is pleased to present the films of Nina Danino, including her most recent feature film Jennifer. Ranging from early 16mm works – which combine observational narrative with personal or subjective memory to inscribe and defer the representation of the woman – to her recent studies of the unseen women who dedicate themselves to enclosed monastic lives, Danino seeks to capture the ephemeral aspects of place through the medium of film.
Dates:
Saturday, December 3, 2016 - 16:00 to Sunday, December 4, 2016 - 21:55
“Marie it was who first of all of us discovered that hypnagogic envisioning need not only be done at night.” -Stan Brakhage
The influence of Marie Menken on American experimental filmmaking cannot be overstated. Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger — all these better-known names owed much of their own development as filmmakers to her. Trained as a painter, she manipulated her Bolex camera like a set of brushes and palette knives. The films in this program, several of them tributes to other artists, are bold experiments with light and motion. Beyond the pyrotechnics of camerawork and editing, what inspires is the bodily connection to subject matter, held close like a partner in dance.
In this third installment of the X-Ray series hosted by the Department of Media Art of Ghent's Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), guest curator Sebastian Buerkner (UK) together with Courtisane personally presents a program featured around spatiality.
Buerkner's computer animated work guides us through an ambiguous universe of abstract interiors, stylized forms and fluid color fields. He situates his films Triband and The Chimera of M within an experimental context that misleads viewers in its spatiality, with work by Ken Jacobs (Capitalism: Slavery), Blake Williams (Red Capriccio), Takashi Ito (Spacy) and Alexandre Larose (Brouillard Passage #14).
Dates:
Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 20:30 to Friday, December 2, 2016 - 21:55
