Screenings

Collective Filmmaking: a Chorus of Resistance

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 03/02/2025 - 09:35

In the two decades of the 1960s and 1970s, a wave of filmmakers united into film clubs, and film collectives, a shift from an individual, hierarchical model of production to one based on fluidity and embracing the DIY and ‘amateur’ spirit of such collaborations. Nevertheless, the screening and post-screening talk aim to emphasise the labour of female filmmakers within such collectives, who are often written out of the narratives of their radical efforts.
Dates:
Sunday, February 23, 2025 - 15:30
Venue:
Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom
Moments from a Sensual Cinema: A Tribute to Malcolm Le Grice

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 31/01/2025 - 07:45

Last year, BIMI ran a series of screenings inspired by the journal Afterimage, showing some of the avant-garde work it had celebrated. One English filmmaker who could well have been included sadly left us in December. Malcolm Le Grice was a towering figure in independent and avant-garde film, not only in Britain but known around the world as a driving force in the arts lab movement, and a mainstay of the London Filmmakers Co-Op during its most influential period.
Dates:
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 17:00
Venue:
Birkbeck Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Shadow Whispers: Selected Filmworks of Kaoru Tachibana

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 31/01/2025 - 02:29

“SHADOW WHISPERS”
Selected Filmworks of Kaoru Tachibana

A filmmaker now unknown and forgotten but with a rich production of personal works on film, ranging from experimental cinema to avant-garde home movies.
Eight of these titles have been carefully selected for the first overseas solo exhibition dedicated to Kaoru Tachibana's films.The screening will be held in Parma in the Borgo Santa Brigida 5/a theatre at 9:00 pm.
Dates:
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 21:00
Venue:
Borgo Santa Brigida 5/A - Parma, Italy
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Unstable Ground: Science, Extraction, and Belief in Monisme (Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film, Program 16)

By Alex G on Fri, 31/01/2025 - 02:12

Many things collide in Riar Rizaldi’s Monisme: magic, science, indigenous knowledge systems, violence, and a tenuous boundary between the past and the future, fact and fiction. These all collide around Mount Merapi, one of the most active stratovolcano in the world, located in Java, Indonesia. Monisme’s multiple collisions ultimately illuminate the various modalities of relation between humans and nature.

The screening will be followed by a panel with Riar Rizaldi, Fern Silva, and Jasmine Nadua Trice and by a free dinner.

Curated by Jheanelle Brown.
Dates:
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 19:30
Venue:
2220 Arts + Archives - Los Angeles, United States
Scratch Projection: Over-Applications - Streams of 1970-1980s' Japanese Experimental Cinema

By Light Cone on Tue, 28/01/2025 - 05:23

Guest program by Koyo Yamashita, director of the Image Forum Festival and programmer at the Image Forum Theater.
Dates:
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 20:30
Venue:
Luminor Hôtel de Ville - Paris, France
Xcèntric: The Confessions of Curt McDowell

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 27/01/2025 - 04:57

Dirty, playful, bawdy, freaky, raunchy, sexy, brilliant, campy, punky, puerile, gross, glamorous…there are not enough evocative adjectives to accurately encompass the innumerable pleasures of Curt McDowell’s resolutely queer and radically multi-sexual body of film work in all its florid fecundity.
Dates:
Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 19:00
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Screening LAV #025: Film Bricolage

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 27/01/2025 - 04:27

"For the DIY filmmaker, the means are often also the ends. Canadian film scholar Éric Thouvenel argues that the history and practices of experimental film embrace a “DIY mode of thinking” that “runs counter to industrial practices, which more often than not employ machines whose functions have been standardized and whose uses have been highly prescribed.”
Dates:
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 19:30
Venue:
Círculo de Bellas Artes - Madrid, Spain
Frequency in Motion live in Athens, Greece on 2/10/25

By chris lynn on Mon, 27/01/2025 - 03:27

AUDIO VISUAL BUTOH PERFORMANCE
frequency in motion

Silent images on the screen
A Dancer pauses

sounds and notes linger on frequency in motion

Monday February 10
@REVMA

We will explore spaces and collaborate with image and dancer through sounds and music.
Dates:
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 20:00 to 21:30
Venue:
Revma - Athens, Greece
Los Angeles Filmforum presents This Bit of That India (Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film Program 15 )

By Alex G on Sat, 25/01/2025 - 13:50

The history of experimental film in India is tied to the history of India’s quest for modernity and is particularly visible in the experimental films on science and technology produced by the Films Division of India during the cultural revolution of the late 60’s and early 70’s. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister was committed to building modern temples i.e., industry powered by science & technology, which he believed would propel Indians towards a Soviet style trajectory of building a socialist utopia.
Dates:
Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 19:30
Venue:
2220 Arts + Archives - Los Angeles, United States
An Evening with Heather McAdams

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 22/01/2025 - 05:07

As part of MoMA's preservation festival To Save and Project, and its artist cinema series Modern Mondays, Heather McAdams joins us to present new 16mm restorations of her irreverent collage films from the 1980s, recently preserved by the Chicago Film Society

Known for her work as a cartoonist and filmmaker, McAdams has long been a fixture of Chicago’s alternative film and music scenes and was once hailed by B. Ruby Rich in the Chicago Reader as combining “the collage finesse of a Bruce Conner with the crude campiness of the Kuchar brothers.”
Dates:
Monday, January 27, 2025 - 19:00
Venue:
MoMA New York - , United States