The UMW Media Wall is now accepting submissions (videos and generative programs) for the 2019-2020 academic year. The Wall is a unique public exhibition space for moving image art. Visit umwmediawall.com for relevant technical specs and additional details.
The first weekend of June Cinematek celebrates the combat of women, female artists and filmmakers, feminists and their commitment. A weekend focus on female pioneers who have brought new representations of women to the screen, made the camera a weapon for emancipation and have innovated film language: From Les Insoumuses, Carole Roussopoulos & Delphine Seyrig, to Barbara Hammer, and Carolee Schneemann. Four screenings that are remarkably intertwined.
Dates:
Saturday, June 1, 2019 (All day) to Sunday, June 2, 2019 (All day)
These 8 films approach loss and lineages through experimental visual strategies that document rebirths and Queer utopic visions. Calling out a shared invitation to a then and there, leaving behind and moving towards a Queer sublime, the diverse strategies in these films weave together a step out of harm and endings in this time, to something fuller, vaster, and more beautiful. Curated by Finn Paul.
It was announced on Tuesday the list of films selected for the third edition of the ECRÃ Festival that will take place between July 11 and 21 at the MAM Cinematheque (Río de Janeiro, Brazil).
Marie Louise Alemann (North Rhine-Westphalia, 1927 - Buenos Aires, 2015) was a pioneer filmmaker of Argentine experimental cinema.Between the seventies and eighties, she teamed up with fellow filmmakers such as Narcisa Hirsch, Claudio Caldini and Juan José Mugni, among others, and played an important role in the promotion of experimental cinema in Buenos Aires.
Dates:
Sunday, June 2, 2019 - 18:00 to Monday, June 3, 2019 - 17:55
Avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage moved to New York in 1954, a stay which culminated in the seminal film Anticipation of the Night. Brakhage broke with the idea that film should record and tell a story acted out for the camera. Here, there is no on-screen protagonist; the protagonist is the director, the images on screen communicate his subjectivity. To do so, Brakhage developed an array of strategies and techniques, including fluid handheld camera movements, rapid editing, and the use of abstract imagery.
Dates:
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 19:00 to Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 18:55
LOOK INSIDE THE GHOST MACHINE (Péter Lichter / Hungary / 2012 / 4’) The first avant-garde filmmakers believed that cinema had the function of a machine, created to manage pure emotions.
Dates:
Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 18:00 to Friday, May 24, 2019 - 17:55
