Labor Neunzehn and AVARIE are pleased to invite you to the fifth edition of KAMERA SERIES N° 11, featuring the work of visual artist Christine Gedeon. Working between New York and Berlin, Gedeon explores memory, disappearance, and the fragile traces of personal archives through drawing, mapping, textiles, and experimental film.
Dates:
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 (All day) to Sunday, December 7, 2025 (All day)
The Greek-born American filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992) was one of the most original filmmakers in American experimental film history. His films, which often translated literary or mythological sources to a contemporary context, are celebrated for their extraordinary creativity, the sensuous use of color and innovations in cinematic form.
This 16mm program features four films engaged variously with ideas of "text-as-image." Whereas Chaplin and Murnau once rejected silent era intertitling practices as "unfilmic," these filmmakers explore how text on screen could be just the opposite. Proposing self-consciously literal responses to longstanding scholarly questions about "film language," these conceptual works are as playful and comedic as they are formally rigorous.
Various elements characterize the port area: built structures, quays, basins, canals, locks… lifting and transport systems, cranes, gantries, trolleys, straddle carriers… container storage areas, tanks, and warehouses.
For the third retrospective event by @borgosantabrigida5a on the cinema of Kenji Onishi, we are bringing back one of the filmmaker's most personal and unknown filmworks, the 8mm feature "Light of Darkness."
The screening will be held in Parma at Borgo Santa Brigida 5/a theatre at 9:00 pm.
On Friday, December 5th, at 7pm, new digital restorations of Warren Sonbert's early films screen at The Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor), where they were originally distributed on 16mm beginning in the 1960s. These digitizations are now available to rent from the Coop, both individually and as a touring package.
On Thursday, December 4th at 7pm, Non Films presents “DarkRoom: Screening & Salon” at the iconic Film-Makers' Cooperative! The selected films all represent various imitations of life through limited animation, collage, and paintings. We are honored to return to FMC to curate another evening of exceptional experimental cinema.
@circulo_roto is a quarterly film night highlighting works by independent makers. For their fourth edition, they present a program of short films that experiment with an analogy between film and writing.
