Events

  • Perpetual Motion

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    Perpetual Motion is the most comprehensive convergence of international performance cinema practitioners ever seen in the Bay Area. Presented over seven evenings September 16–December 7, 2016, with all artists performing in person, this series is curated by San Francisco Cinematheque and will be presented at Gray Area’s historic Grand Theater, located in San Francisco’s Mission District.

    Featured artists include the return of legendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs (NYC), rising Montréal duo Le Révélateur (video artist Sabrina Ratté & musician Roger Tellier-Craig, of Fly Pan AM and formerly Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and in a rare North American appearance, the spectacular Trinchera Ensamble film-performance collective from Mexico City.

    Dates: 

    Friday, September 16, 2016 - 20:00 to Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 19:55
    Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 20:00 to Sunday, September 18, 2016 - 19:55
    Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 20:00 to Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 19:55
    Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 20:00 to Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 19:55
    Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 20:00 to Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 19:55
    Tuesday, November 22, 2016 - 20:00 to Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 19:55
    Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - 20:00 to Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Gray Area / Grand Theater - San Francisco, United States
  • HOME Artist Film Weekender 2016

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    HOME's annual celebration of the alt-wonderful world of artist film is crammed with special guests, premieres and discussions. The weekend launches with artist Clara Casian and musician Robin Richard’s new collaboration, Birdsong – Stories from Pripyat, featuring footage captured in the famously abandoned ‘ghost city’ adjacent to the Chernobyl Power Plant blended with archive material and unique soundtrack by a live quartet.

    Other highlights include Boston-based video artist Luther Price introducing a rare retrospective of his groundbreaking work, a focus on contemporary Finnish Video Art, screen work by artists Oreet Ashery, Rob Crosse, Basim Magdy, Manchester film collective FOOMOO, a workshop on curating artist film, plus the North West premiere of the brilliantly bizarro feature La Distancia and Q&A with director Sergio Caballero.

    Dates: 

    Friday, September 30, 2016 (All day) to Sunday, October 2, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    HOME - Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Close-Up Cinema: Field and Frame

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    Having shared a studio for two years; Bea Haut, Jenny Baines and Laura Hindmarsh here bring together their respective film work, using the screening as a conversation between the individual works and a chance to examine the echoes, absorptions and outcomes of their interlacing practices. Serving as a continuation of an ongoing dialogue that started in the studio with no specific mediated outcome, this programme is a reflection of the open situation and interrelation between approaches over the past two years. Exploring the outer reaches of the film frame, analogue processes and projection structures, these three artists take the subjective as pivotal.

    Dates: 

    Friday, August 26, 2016 - 20:00 to Saturday, August 27, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido
  • Chaos and Order, an iotaCenter Salon

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    Witness a collection of visual music from across time and from around the world that represent the spectrum of rationality. Order on the one side and chaos on the other.  Are they truly polar opposites? Is there order in total chaos or chaos in highly organized forms?  Tell us your thoughts in this night of films and discussion.

    Salons are a signature component of the iotaCenter, the world’s first organization devoted to visual music.  These are wonderful nights where we get together as a community of artists, academics and curious onlookers to pontificate on the wild and abstract works called “visual music.”

    Dates: 

    Friday, August 26, 2016 - 20:00 to Saturday, August 27, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Artists' Television Access - San Francisco, Estados Unidos
  • BOOM CUT GUERILLA

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    TANK art space invites you to the opening of the exhibition BOOM CUT GUERILLA that will take place on August 25th from 6 to 10 pm. Artists and curators in attendance.

    BOOM CUT GUERILLA consists of a selection of video art pieces, installations, documentary essays and experimental films which question the materiality of the image through different reuse practices (found footage, mash up, datamoshing) in order to tackle the actual proliferation of images, their supposed message, and their usages.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, August 25, 2016 - 18:00 to Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    TANK art space - Marseille, France
  • Early Monthly Segments #87: Remembering Roberto Ariganello

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    Early Monthly Segments presents a special evening of 16mm films by the late Roberto Ariganello (1961-2006) on the 10th anniversary of his sudden passing. We will remember Roberto at an intimate screening in his former apartment on College and Dufferin. Even if you only met Roberto once, it’s guaranteed that his warmth, exuberance and passion for film making has stayed with you ever since. The energies he shared with filmmakers and film lovers in Toronto and beyond resonates ten years after he left us much too soon.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, August 14, 2016 - 19:00 to Monday, August 15, 2016 - 18:55

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  • En foco: Claudio Caldini

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    Kino Palais se enorgullece de saldar una deuda histórica con uno de los más importantes realizadores de nuestra historia del cine experimental: Claudio Caldini. Verdadero prócer del cine de los márgenes nacional, conocedor y memorioso de cada uno de los momentos importantes de su historia, Claudio Caldini se erige como un faro para reflexionar, en plena era digital, sobre cómo el en el futuro del cine está su propio origen, tal como más de una vez él mismo ha señalado.

    Dates: 

    Friday, August 12, 2016 - 19:00 to Saturday, August 13, 2016 - 18:55
    Saturday, August 13, 2016 - 19:00 to Sunday, August 14, 2016 - 18:55
    Sunday, August 14, 2016 - 19:00 to Monday, August 15, 2016 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Palais de Glace - Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • VISIONS 08|16 - Nicolás Pereda

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    In collaboration with la lumière collective, VISIONS presents SUMMER OF GOLIATH + MINOTAURO by Nicolás Pereda.

    "A rising star of contemporary Mexican cinema, Nicolás Pereda (b. 1982) is a central figure in a diverse group of Ibero-American directors whose innovative approaches to narrative filmmaking over the last ten years have together defined one of the most exciting trends in world cinema. Pereda’s films are resolutely Mexican in focus and almost exclusively deal with stories drawn directly from the everyday lives and worlds of their working-class characters.” -Haden Guest - Harvard Film Archive 

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 20:00 to Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 19:55
    Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 20:00 to Friday, August 19, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    la lumière collective - Montréal, Canada
  • Seeing Double: Films by Antonia Kuo and Lily Jue Sheng

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    The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is pleased to present
    Seeing Double: Films by Antonia Kuo and Lily Jue Sheng
    Kuo and Sheng in attendance

    Antonia Kuo and Lily Jue Sheng are visiting artists from Brooklyn collaborating at LIFT from July 4 to August 17. This screening will present a number of their single and dual channel 16mm films—including Chromoflux, Seeing Double and Point, Line, Plane—as well as showcasing the work that they've done while in residency at LIFT. Their films explore the fleeting temporality of an immersive optical experience, emphasizing oscillating, flickering compositions that exploit the frame-by-frame structure of 16mm film through in-camera and stop-motion collage animation and mirror the visual world of their parallel practices in print-making and photography. The frenetic pace of shifting abstractions create visual unrest, mirroring the unstable flux inherent in natural systems, spanning all scales of matter.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 20:00 to Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Cinecycle - Toronto, Canada

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