The call for the first Persian Independent Experimental Short Film Festival has been published. In the heart of the Iranian capital, Tehran, the first online event of the Persian independent experimental short film festival focusing on world peace and Covid 19 as well as alternative filmmaking will be held freely. Experimental filmmakers and Experimental music video makers can participate.
Celebrating the release of “Dirk Schaefer : Peter Tscherkassky, All the Soundtracks (2005–2021)” by purge.xxx, Sonic Cinema presents Peter Tscherkassky & Dirk Schaefer’s four collaborations to date: Train Again (2021); The Exquisite Corpus (2015); Coming Attractions (2010); Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005); as well as Tscherkassky’s classic of avant-garde cinema Outer Space (1999).
Video Art Miden presents “Anatomy of silence“, a Greek video art selection curated by Gioula Papadopoulou, at [.BOX] Videoart Project Space, Milan, from 14 to 22 of September 2021.
Acclaimed Massachusetts experimental filmmaker Luther Price (also known as Tom Rhoads) passed away last June and now Boston’s avant-garde film community comes together to celebrate his life and work with this special 16mm screening of three of Price’s early films.
“The most important question – Where is the experimental film movement? – is the one which I wish someone could answer for me”, wrote Maya Deren in August 1946 to the filmmaker Frank Stauffacher who was preparing a program for the San Francisco Museum of Art called “Art in Cinema”. Deren, who was 29 at the time, was a reference because in 1943 she had already started showing the experimental films she made with Alexander Hammid to a select audience.
Dates:
Thursday, September 23, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, September 30, 2021 (All day)
With “the cinematic moment” Directors Lounge brings together a selection of artists challenging the separation of film and art. Spanning a breadth of backgrounds and artistic styles, the art works are blurring the lines between cinema and visual while sharing the titular „cinematic moment“.
Throughout the Berlin Art Week the Tor218 Artlab gallery will be our base. The gallery is also home of the legendary Melody Nelson Bar, making it a true Lounge space and the perfect meeting point for any art and/or cocktail lover.
Dates:
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 (All day) to Sunday, September 19, 2021 (All day)
Films and Sounds: Reflecting on 60 Years of The New York Experimental Film Community w/ MM Serra , Chuck Smith . Sebastian Mekas Emily Singer and Michelle Borreggine
Screening in-person premiere , Tales and Visions of Community with MM Serra: "To Jonas, with Love" (2021) is a short film honoring Jonas Mekas' films diaries and his impact on the underground film world. Accompanied by a screening of personal vision films featuring artists Maya Deren, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, MM Serra, Edward Owens, and Barbara Rubin distributed by The Film Makers Coop.
