This Radiant World: Recent and Retrospective Experimental Films is a four-program series of exceptional experimental films from the last few years, complemented by several newly restored and preserved retrospective works. Many of the films comment directly or indirectly on the anxieties and uncertainty of the past two years; others serve as joyful and playful counterpoints. Together, they demonstrate the continuing richness of experimental cinema, the history of which is exemplified by this selection of lesser-known works that are overdue for rediscovery and reappraisal.
Ultra Dogme will be live-streaming their third special UDVFF program this Friday, February 4th at 8pm Berlin Time (Central European Time). It will remain online for 48 hours.
For decades, Millennium Film Workshop has served as a hub for independent experimental film production and exhibition, a place to bring forth personal cinema, open to anyone seeking a different vision beyond the mainstream. The original Workshop, located in New York City’s East Village from 1966 to 2011, was a community space providing low-cost equipment rentals, access to a screening room and editing facility, and the independence traditionally associated with painters or poets.
To celebrate the publication of Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema edited by Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance LUX is hosting a series of live discussion events between filmmakers featured in the book. For this event we are welcoming Jasleen Kaur & Alia Syed who will show a selection of their works followed by an in-person discussion where they will explore mutual interests in their work.
The second in a series of events at IKLECTIK, which are presented in association with the new publication Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, is a screening of expanded and experimental cinema from the internationally renowned artists, Jenny Baines , Amy Dickson and Bea Haut.
Claudine Eizykman (1945-2018) was a major figure of the French experimental film renaissance since the Seventies. She was filmmaker, theoretician, and professor of cinema at Paris VIII Vincennes University, co-founder of the Paris Films Co-op (1974) and of Cinedoc (1979).
Repeated Apparitions is a programme of screenings, performances and events that muse over repetitive cycles of oppression and their social invisibility and normalisation. Through a shared exploration of radical images, wild experimental sounds and evocative texts, the programme looks at how repetition can be used to create processes of reparation and renewal, disrupt the past and imagine new realities.
Working in the late 60s, Edward Owens created a series of films which were largely forgotten until re-discovery in 2009. This is the first chance to see all four of Owens' films together in the UK.
