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  • States of Belonging: A Lynne Sachs Retrospective

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    Window work (Lynne Sachs, 2001)Working since the mid-1980s, variously on lyrical formal shorts and long form experimental documentary, Lynne Sachs’ body of film and video work has explored the relationships between individual memory and experience in the context of large historical forces. Foregrounding personal history and autobiography, Sachs exalts the intimate gesture as perhaps the most heroic of poetic and political acts. With a keen grasp on cultural theory and media history, Sachs’s films avoid academicism in their celebration of life and mindful political engagement, presenting complex pictures of the world with lyrical grace and even joy.

    Lynne Sachs: States of Belonging is a four-part retrospective of the filmmaker’s work, presented as a collaboration between San Francisco Cinematheque, Pacific Film Archive, ATA’s Other Cinema and Oddball Film + Video. The series in accompanied by a limited-edition monograph—available at screenings—featuring original writings by Susan Gerhard, Kathy Geritz, Lucas Hilderbrand and Bill Nichols.

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  • Serpentine Cinema CINACT - Hannah Sawtell

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    Serpentine Cinema CINACT - Hannah Sawtell
    Sunday 11 April, 1.45pm
    The Gate
    87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ
    Tickets £6/£5

    Serpentine Cinema: CINACT is a series of monthly artists' film screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill. CINACT takes its name from American artist Henry Flynt's 2007 cinema manifesto. Sawtell has made a new work Entroludes 1-6 specifically for this presentation and the context of the cinema.

    Hannah Sawtell's work scrutinises the excess of physical and media based production through objects, text and films. By using generic images and found footage from the digital realm and by setting up semi-archival systems of retrieval, she examines what Levi-Strauss termed 'Entropology'. In doing this she proposes a trajectory that forces a fragile equanimity, as it attempts to reconcile the ‘human’ with the culture of disintegration and over-proliferation.

    Sawtell's videos and installations investigate the ways in which form and image are disseminated, interpreted and used. Interrogating how we categorize and respond to the barrage of homogenous and repeated imagery they generate relationships between objects, creating playful but critical dialectical encounters.

    Recent exhibitions and events: Intervention, Hotel Gallery, London, ongoing from 2009; Artist Film Screening, (with Martin Creed and John Smith), Three Sisters, 2009; Display With Sound (with Oscar Tuazon and Simon Denny), International Project Space, Bourneville, 2009; 6 Artists, 3 Shows (with Owen Land) Vilma Gold, London, 2009, Novel (Publication edited by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams), Launch: Anna-Catherina Gebbers, Bibliothesque, Berlin and Donlon Books, London, 2008, The Death of Affect, Parade Space, London, 2007. Hannah Sawtell lives and works in London.

    The Gate
    87 Notting Hill Gate
    London W11 3JZ
    Tickets £6/£5
    Tickets available from
    The Gate 0871 704 2058 or
    www.picturehouses.co.uk

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  • The 2010 Wilderness Filmmaking Expedition

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    The 2010 Wilderness Filmmaking Expedition
    August 7 - 15, 2010

    Spend a week making films in a remote wilderness area of the high Colorado Rockies.  We're just back from honing our equipment and thinking in Jamaica (at the Jamaican Film Workshop), and have a host of refinements and new experiences to apply this year!

    This will be a truly unique event, combining an immersion in the wilderness with an immersion in zero-emmissions, self-carried, handmade filmmaking.  We will shoot film, process it under the stars, edit, and project, surrounded by the majesty of the high mountains.  This is not just a class, but a transcendent experience of what filmmaking can be, with the wilderness itself as the vast and endlessly fascinating subject.

    This trip will be strenuous and is limited to 6 participants.  It is certain to be unforgettable.  Last year's trip was a great success; watch a trailer of the documentary we made about it at:

    http://www.handmadefilm.org/wildernessFilmmaking/wildernessFilmTrailer.html

    For details, visit our website at www.handmadefilm.org

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  • The 2010 Rocky Mountain Hand-Made Filmmaking Camp

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    The 2010 Rocky Mountain Hand-Made Filmmaking Camp
    July 24 - August 1, 2010

    This week-long intensive course, held in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, explores and explains the physical and chemical nature of the medium and its hand-made photographic possibilities.  Its goal is to create an open and artistically charged environment where experiment, discovery, and questioning can yield new and exciting results and inspiration.  It is open to beginners and veterans alike, requiring only a desire to understand the medium, its nature, applications, and role in an artistic life.

    Beyond offering in-depth tools and techniques focused on participants¹ creation of their own hand-made films, the week is also structured to foster meaningful dialogue with other filmmakers and their work through screenings, discussions, visiting filmmakers, and immersion in the aesthetic possibilities of hand-processed film.  The week¹s principal guide and teacher is Robert Schaller, an experimental filmmaker and innovator of hand-made and interdisciplinary processes who has run the Handmade Film Institute since 2003, after teaching at the University of Colorado, the San Francisco Art Institute and the San Francisco Film Arts Foundation.

    The Camp takes place amidst aspen groves, ponderosa pine forests, and wildflowers in an idyllic setting located in the Rocky Mountains, 45 minutes northwest of Boulder, Colorado, at an elevation of 8,200 feet. The setting is conducive to an intense focus on the work at hand while providing immersion in the beauty of the natural world, and just minutes away from the wilderness areas of the Colorado Front Range.  The week features local, organic vegan gourmet fare by our chef extraordinaire, Cynthia Sliker, so all you have to do is think about filmmaking!

    The Camp begins Saturday, July 24th and runs through Sunday, August 1st.

    Visit www.handmadefilm.org for details.

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