Screenings

  • Independent Frames: Exploded View

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    Artists discovering animation in the mid-1960s and early 1970s did so in a culture of pop art, psychedelia and Marshall McLuhan’s media theory. They responded by creating overwhelming works of graphic collage, violent flickering colours and sensory overload. Exploded View begins with a look at several foundational works from animators whose explorations of radical form and content stood out in the 1960s, from established figures like Stan Vanderbeek and Disney animator Ward Kimball to lesser-known, underground artists such as Fred Mogubgub and Irene Duga.

    Dates: 

    Friday, February 17, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Tate Modern - London , United Kingdom
  • Celebrate the Middle Ages - Canyon Cinema 50th Anniversary and Benefit Party

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    Canyon Cinema Foundation will throw a 50th anniversary and benefit party to commence a year-long celebration of the avant-garde and artist-made film distributor. Celebrate the Middle Ages will officially kick-off the 50th anniversary of Canyon Cinema Inc., the famed independent filmmaker owned and operated distribution cooperative. Founded in San Francisco by influential cinema artists including Bruce Baillie, Bruce Conner, Chick Strand, Lawrence Jordan and Robert Nelson.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 19:00 to Friday, March 10, 2017 - 23:55

    Venue: 

    Starline Social Club - Oakland, United States
  • Changing the Shape of Film: An Evening with Barbara Hammer

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    Join us for an evening of transmuted cinema, where images break through the traditional rectangular screen and emerge as unexpected and amorphous shapes. Working since the late 1960s, Barbara Hammer’s career has been marked by experimentation, intellectual rigor, and a commitment to testing boundaries.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Exploratorium - San Francisco, United States
  • The Dream That Kicks presents Spatial Cinema

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    We are happy to welcome the British artist Stephen Connolly who will be present to introduce a selection of his films. Connolly is a true “auteur” of a provocative and reflective cinema - who makes no concessions. His films combine archive footage, textual quotations, interviews and semi-scripted recordings, drawing links between nature, our relationship with space and the restrictions on liberty that have unfolded in the twenty-first century.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 18:00 to Monday, February 13, 2017 - 17:55

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  • Film Panic Presents! Orphine (2014 / Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian) + Pregnant (2015 / Fabrizio Federico)

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    Film Panic Presents! is a monthly showcase of contemporary underground and experimental films, bringing to Porto a range of unique films, cinematic visions and explorations of bold filmmakers who are challenging and expanding the art of cinema today. These sessions are presented by Film Panic (Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais) in association with Shortcutz Porto, and take place at Auditório Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, with the support of Câmara Municipal do Porto.

    In this session we are delighted to present ORPHINE, a short film by Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian, followed by PREGNANT, a feature by Fabrizio Federico.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 21:30 to 23:45

    Venue: 

    Almeida Garrett Library - Porto, Portugal
  • Light Movement 18: Gregory Markopoulos

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    For this months screening we are extremely lucky to have access to two prints of films by Gregory J. Markopoulos -the longer duration of Twice a Man, in which the filmmaker pushes his vision of an entirely new narrative cinematic form, followed by Bliss, a six minute film portraying with typical Markopoulos restrictiveness, an interior of an 18th century Byzantine Church on Hydra in Greece.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, February 10, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    SPEKTRUM - Berlin, Germany
  • Xcèntric: Rituals of transfiguration

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    In this session, in the framework of the exhibition "1,000 m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality", we see three essential pieces of US experimental film. Barbara Rubin, Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith film their respective transgressive visions of the body and desire located in the space of pure fantasy.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 18:30

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  • Xcèntric: Cinema of the intimate. The limits of the filmable

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    In the framework of the exhibition "1,000 m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality", Xcèntric Cinema presents Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974, by Kazuo Hara, a revolutionary film that borders on self-therapy to heal the wounds of mutilated love. In his ex-wife’s new apartment, the camera gives the filmmaker the explanation he needed about the end of their relationship .

    Dates: 

    Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, February 17, 2017 - 19:55

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  • Xcèntric: L.A. Plays Itself

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    L.A. Plays Itself, Fred Halsted’s first feature, opens this series of sessions in the framework of the exhibition "1.000 m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality". Made in 1972, the film traces a route around the cruising areas of the city of Los Angeles. The session is completed by one of Halsted’s shorts, Sex Garage.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 18:30

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