Screenings

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
Xcèntric: The Devil Has Struck Us with the Staff of Evil. The Cinema of George Kuchar

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 21/01/2025 - 02:15

George Kuchar materialized camp sensibility like no other filmmaker, with equal measures of precision and excess. Made on the fringes of both independent and avant-garde cinema, his hundreds of films and videos, of which this session features a selection, represent an essential chapter in the history of gay cinema and the beginnings of queer cinema.
Dates:
Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 18:30
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
CAROUSEL IV: Underground Fantasy

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 17/01/2025 - 05:32

CAROUSEL IV: Underground Fantasy
6-10:30 pm I Friday 24th January 2025
12-10:00 pm I Saturday 25th January 2025
Photo Book Café, 4 Leonard Circus, EC2A 4DQ, London

CAROUSEL IV presents an exhibition & film screening by experimental artists and filmmakers responding to the theme of Underground Fantasy on Friday 24th January & Saturday 25th January 2025 at Photo Book Cafe. Part one of Carousel’s fourth edition.
Dates:
Friday, January 24, 2025 (All day) to Saturday, January 25, 2025 (All day)
Venue:
Photo Book Café - London, United Kingdom
GLITCH CINEMA: The art of error

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 17/01/2025 - 05:28

“Take a familiar piece of technology and do something unfamiliar with it” – thus Nick Briz explained a basic formula for Glitch Art in one of his famous hypermedia essays that attempted to introduce then new form of digital art activism which exploded in 2010s. But this formula is not new to many artists who had been disrupting the normative uses of the technology, like early avant-garde artists in the 1920s, experimental filmmakers of the 1960s or early video artists of the 1970s.
Dates:
Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 20:00
Venue:
Cinéma le Grand Action - Paris, France