Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) is pleased to share New Utopia and Light Fracture by Luther Price, the latest publication from VSW Press/Film Art Book imprint.This book features images taken from artist Luther Price's "handmade" 35mm slides with excerpts from texts and emails sent by the artist to
Jonathan Schwartz made films as he lived his life. His short works are gestures of appreciation and awe towards the world and for those he loved. They are often also dialogs with texts and ideas he found compelling. In all his 16mm films, he gives expression to both the beauties of the concrete and the transience and potency of ineluctable time. A flower, a face, melting ice, a shift in light — Jonathan’s lens holds them with generosity and care, for his and our gaze. Time becomes a palpable preoccupation through his filming of the seasons and their variations, and in his own cinematic processes. These include his physical movements with the camera and the in-camera winding and re-winding of filmstock to embody both his and the world’s fortuitous memory.
CIRCUIT and Pyramid Club welcome French-American avant garde filmmaker, curator and musician Maximilien Luc Proctor to Aotearoa for a screening of his 16mm film works.
Ranging from the Arcadian village of Raftis to the American Southwest, he records oblique impressions with a sharp eye for composition and an intuitive sense of rhythm, gently arguing in favor of the minor and the fleeting” - Phil Coldiron
In this session of the monthly program curated by the artist and historian Pablo Marín we will discover the work of the American Sandra Davis, an unusual figure in avant-garde cinema.Larry Jordan said of her: “Her work explodes inside the mind, opening holes, impressions, deep voids and unknown interior visions.Her editing is so relentless in the search f
A space for experiences and questions, kinships and solidarities 09.02.24 - 02.03.24
Opening 09.02.24, 19:00
How do you show love in a movie? Who is your audience? Why do you think you can use archives? Will there be a song in your movie? Why is there so much fear and what can you do about it?
During the workshop ARCHIVAL LANDSCAPES that took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and online throughout 2023 we collected personal stories and family histories, sounds and images and created films using the method of found footage.
Dates:
Friday, February 9, 2024 (All day) to Saturday, March 2, 2024 (All day)
Dream Screen, directed by Albert Gabriel Nigrin, is an abstract atmospheric venture into the world of dreams, showcasing the strength of surrealist and experimental film in a study of the subconscious. The film will be screening at the United States Super 8 Film + DV Festival/Spring 2024 New Jersey Film Festival but will be shown out of festival competition on Sunday, February 18th.
R Colvile's new video work Bystander (2023) has its worldwide premiere on the Video Art Festival Turku (VAFT) website as a digital exhibition lasting from 15 February until 31 March 2024 (visit www.videoartfestivalturku.com/).
