Screenings

Unconscious Archives #16: Bruce Mcclure + Roberto Crippa

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 26/03/2015 - 06:06

Bruce McClure steps off the international stage to treat an intimate audience at Apiary Studios to his durational, banging, attack and decay on overdriven celluloid with an hour long film and sound projection performance. With support from Roberto Crippa providing his special brand of corporeal-aural intensity.

Dates:
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 20:00 to Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 19:55
Venue:
Apiary Studios - London, United Kingdom
Xcèntric: Tortured dust

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 24/03/2015 - 15:50

Stan Brakhage, central figure in US avant-garde cinema, lived from the early sixties in Rollinsville, Colorado, with his wife and children, isolated in the mountains. There, he developed a highly personal and lyrical cinema, centred on his family: a series of autobiographical films that he entitled The Book of the Family. Tortured Dust was the end of this cycle. Filmed throughout three years in the eighties, at the heart of a household in crisis, it is his longest and most moving home movie. Using a hand-held camera, a rhythmic, intricate editing process and touches of psychodrama, the film portrays with insight and distance their everyday life. Through windows, mirrors, flashes of colour and chiaroscuro, Brakhage records his children leaving home, the lack of communication and the breakdown of his marriage.

Dates:
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 20:00 to Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:55
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
CROSSROADS 2015, program 9: greetings to ancestors

By SF Cinematheque on Thu, 19/03/2015 - 19:21

In Person: Mary Helena Clark; Joshua Gen Solondz and Eric Stewart

- PRISONER'S CINEMA (2012) by Joshua Gen Solondz; digital video, b&w, sound, 10 minutes, from the maker bay area premiere
—It has been widely reported that prisoners confined to dark cells often see brilliant light displays, which is sometimes called the “prisoner’s cinema.”
Dates:
Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 20:00 to Monday, April 13, 2015 - 19:55
Venue:
Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, United States
CROSSROADS 2015, program 4: forward reverse read write: conjectures about the animal

By SF Cinematheque on Thu, 19/03/2015 - 18:57

In Person: Michael Betancourt; Karissa Hahn; Jeremy Moss and Deborah Stratman

- CICATRIX (2014) by Jeremy Moss; digital video, color, silent, 7 minutes, from the maker
—A textural experience in layers, scars and deterioration that combines hand processed, tinted and toned 16mm imagery. Both sight and sound ooze and emulate those tangible tremors catalyzed by increasing awareness of loss and decay. Footage created at the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Mt. Forest, Ontario, Canada. (Jeremy Moss)
Dates:
Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 16:00 to Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 15:55
Venue:
Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, United States
CROSSROADS 2015, program 1: visitations, dreams of falls (watch them collapsing)

By SF Cinematheque on Thu, 19/03/2015 - 18:39

IN PERSON: Tommy Becker; Jon Behrens and Vanessa Renwick

- LAYOVER (2014) by Vanessa Renwick; digital video, color, sound, 6 minutes, from the maker
—A swan song for the factory age. A vortex of swirling Vaux’s Swifts which layover for three weeks in Portland OR each fall on their migration to South America. Birds swoop over our demise, their relentless choreography signaling a new start. (Vanessa Renwick)
Dates:
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 18:55
Venue:
Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, United States
Animation and Earthworks; Eyeworks and Errata: Films by Alexander Stewart

By SF Cinematheque on Thu, 19/03/2015 - 18:22

The films of Chicago-based filmmaker/graphic artist (and co-director of Chicago’s Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation) Alexander Stewart are variously energetic and animated and oddly geological. They flirt with the legacies of structural film and psychedelic cinema while adding significantly to the obscure traditions of the hand-drawn animation and film-as-abstract-graphic-art.
Dates:
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:30
Venue:
Artists' Television Access - San Francisco, Estados Unidos
The Body Extended: Works by Scott Stark

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 18/03/2015 - 12:18

Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Born and educated in the midwest, he has always been interested in aggressively pushing his work beyond the threshold of traditional viewing expectations, challenging the audience to question its relationship to the cinematic process; yet he also tries to build into the work elements of humor and incongruity that allow the viewer an entryway into the work while maintaining a critical distance. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the theater, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience.

Dates:
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 21:00 to Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 20:55
Venue:
The Red Room - Baltimore, United States
Screening Room (1972-1981): A Tribute to Robert Gardner

By Anonymous on Tue, 17/03/2015 - 12:32

In association with the festival Cinema du Reel, the film department of the Centre Pompidou pays a tribute to Robert Gardner from March 19th to March 28th. Anthropologist and filmmaker, founder of the Film Study Center at Harvard University, Robert Gardner is the author of a singular oeuvre, dedicated to distant societies – from the Dani's tribe of New Guinea (Dead Birds, 1964) to the Ika Indians of Colombia (Ika Hands, 1988) or the Hamar in Ethiopia (River of Sand, 1973) - as well as po
Dates:
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 19:00 to Friday, March 20, 2015 - 18:55
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 18:55
Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 19:00 to Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 18:55
Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 19:00 to Monday, March 23, 2015 - 18:55
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 19:00 to Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 18:55
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 18:55
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 19:00 to Friday, March 27, 2015 - 18:55
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 18:55
Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 19:00 to Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 18:55
Venue:
Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
Godina & Marc on Film (Presented by Jurij Meden)

By Almudena Escoba... on Tue, 17/03/2015 - 12:11

Introductions and Q&A by Jurij Meden, Curator of Film Exhibitions at the George Eastman House

Karpo Godina, arguably the most internationally acclaimed Slovenian filmmaker and cinematographer, launched his career in the mid-sixties with a quick succession of independently produced 8mm experimental shorts, predominantly designed to question everything he was being taught at the state film academy. DIVJAD, PES and ANNO PASSATO, which comprise only a small part of this succession, are primarily exercises in motion: constant motion of the gaze, constant motion in front of the gaze, motion in all known and unknown directions, all linked together through seemingly random editing and mere hints of lustful stories.

Dates:
Monday, March 30, 2015 - 19:30 to 21:30
Venue:
Hoyt Auditorium - Rochester, United States
Light Movement 3: Werner Nekes

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 17/03/2015 - 08:15

Light Movement presents Werner Nekes' Diwan, a film anthology in five installments: 1. sun-a-mul (16 min) 2. alternatim (15 min) 3. kantilene (17 min) 4. moto (16 min) 5. hynningen (21 min). The fifth installment, "hynningen" was awarded the Bundesfilmpreis in Silber in 1975.

"Hynningen (Swedish for 'honey roof') begins with long multiple exposures of a landscape with a clearing, opening up to the horizon. In the middle of the clearing there is a simple log cabin of the type characteristic of Northern Europe or Quebec. There are actors a man and a woman - at the window, at the doorway, strolling in the grass, doubled or even tripled by multiple exposure. Traces they have left at different moments of the day and in the changing light appear as gentle phantoms. If our varying perceptions would outlast changes in location we would experience a strong sense of continuity and of repetition.

Dates:
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 19:30
Venue:
Echo Bücher - Berlin, Germany