At Filmhuis Cavia we are always happy when we can bring the magic of 16mm back to our cinema. This time we are even more excited, as we will be hosting New York-based artist and filmmaker Ryan Marino with his suitcase full of 16mm prints! Having coupled up with wysiwyg in Den Haag to bring Ryan over the Atlantic, we will be screening a retrospective of his work carefully curated by our partners of wysiwyg. The author will be present in the cinema to play his own prints.
Experimental visual artist Federica Foglia intertwines fragments from the work of pioneer of Italian cinema Elvira Notari with orphan films, home movies, and images from her own filmography, creating a cinematic collage that traverses times and geographies.
In dialogue with these images, musician Silvia Cignoli performs live a score for electric guitar, electronics, and voice, evoking and transforming the emotional universe of Notari’s cinema.
Maria Lang, along with Ute Aurand, belonged to a group of female students at the Berlin Film and Television Academy who shaped a new experimental film language in the 1980s. During this time, she created her most important films, Familiengruft – ein Liebesgedicht an meine Mutter (1982) and Zärtlichkeiten (1985), which explored lesbian life in Berlin. With the question «Who were the first women to make films in Germany?», Aurand and Lang founded the Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend at the Kino Arsenal.
"Anyway, the notion that anyone would conspire with a halfwit like Oswald to actually assassinate a sitting president is ludicrous on the face of it. They didnt expect that he would even hit Kennedy. That was just a fluke". Let’s try to suggest a few threads – without resolving anything – through five short films. Not to shed light on the assassination of JFK, but to ask whether a plot can also be traced in experimental cinema.
A program of work by Filmmaker Abraham Ravett, with introduction by Dr. Stephen Broomer. Free Ticketed Event Co-presented with AdHoc Supported by The Petman Foundation.
Program:
- 24 Cards ( 2020) 14:48 A tribute to film critic, writer and filmmaker, Donald Richie who from the early 1980's was a friend and mentor. Donald Richie was instrumental in introducing traditional Japanese film to western readers and audiences. The film is SILENT.
Join us for a dreamlike celebration of far-out and experimental short films crafted by both veterans and newcomers from the SoCal underground. Every type of surreal and abstract filmmaking will be united for a night that celebrates exploration, D.I.Y. and unbound imagination. Nine unusual short films will be featured. Filmmakers will be in attendance. Tyler will tell a joke. Filmmakers and film lovers will mingle and meet at The Plunge Bar next door. An all around fun time will be had by all. And rest assured, you will see nothing normal.
