Events

  • Close-Up: Abandoned Archives And Forgotten Histories Remembered

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    Close-Up: Abandoned Archives And Forgotten Histories Remembered
    Tuesday February 1st, 20h, Doors open at 19.45h
    The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
    Free entrance

    Close-Up presents two films discovered in a stockpile of discarded 16mm film. The first film, Black Umbrella, is a new montage by filmmaker Louis Benassi, who uses footage of fires in London to present a unique vision of the capital during war and peacetime. Black Umbrella will be followed by Peter Watkins's notorious 1965 drama documentary The War Game, a complete 16mm copy of which was found along with the fire footage.

    "…It became apparent that what was contained in these cans was in fact a forgotten history an abandoned archive spanning over five decades of film shot in London at major fire incidents. The burning down of Crystal Palace in 1934, the flying bomb raids on central and east London in 1940, the fire at the Houses of Parliament in 1958 and, even more shocking, a discarded 16mm print of Peter Watkins's 1965 film The War Game." — Louis Benassi

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  • SAM / OTO - Balloon and Needle: The New Korean Avant-Garde

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    Balloon and NeedleSAM / OTO - Balloon and Needle: The New Korean Avant-Garde
    Thursday January 20th-22nd, 17h
    Cafe OTO
    18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL

    A three day residency at Cafe Oto, 20th - 22nd January 2011

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 17:00 to Friday, January 21, 2011 - 16:55

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    Cafe Oto - London, United Kingdom

  • One Minute volume 4

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    One Minute volume 4
    Saturday 5th February, 12-17h
    The Museum of Club Culture, 10 Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TG

    One Minute volume 4 - the fourth in the series of programmes of artists' moving image, curated by artist Kerry Baldry will be screened at The Museum of Club Culture next 5th February.

    One Minute volume 4 includes work by: Katharine Meynell, Jonathan Moss, Eva Rudlinger, Chris Meigh Andrews, Martin Pickles, Gordon Dawson, Sam Renseiw and Philip Sanderson, Tony Hill, Laure Prouvost, Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker, Kerry Baldry, Alex Pearl, Steven Ball, Anahita Razmi, Kate Jessop, Bob Levene, Erica Scourti, Elizabeth Hobbs, Liam Wells, Claire Morales, Michael Cousin, Tina Keane, Virginia Hilyard, Riccardo Iacono, Fil Ieropoulos, Marty St. James, James Snazell, Stuart Pound, Richard Tuohy, Simon Payne, Tansy Spinks, Louisa Minkin, Zhel Vukicevic, Leister/Harris, Nicki Rolls, Nick Herbert, Daniela Butsch, Michael Szpakowski, David Kefford, Cate Elwes.

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  • 12th Dresdner Schmalfilmtage

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    12th Dresdner SchmalfilmtageThe Festival for experimental film, home cinema, trash and classical independent film is running its 12th edition in 2011 at the Motorenhalle Centre of Contemporay Art in Dresden, Germany. From 20th to 22th of January the festival is focusing on productions with Super8/16 mm  films. It has been the first German place of the international 8/16 mm-scene. Works by filmmakers from more than 20 countries have been presented in Dresden, including well-known European filmmakers such as Lisl Ponger, Mathias Müller, Jan Peters, Matt Hulse, Johanna Vaude or Helga Fanderl.

    This year's topic is "Vagabonding Images - from the art crossing borders". Iceland, Afghanistan, Portugal, Italy, Pakistan, USA, Japan ... bizarre landscapes, extraordinary musicians and newly discovered artists. The cine-camera always ready for shooting, like filming how the composer and improvisational genius Fred Frith creates his ideas while sheep grazing or walking through the supermarket. The German filmmakers Werner Penzel and Nicolas Humbert wouldn't like to miss this during their trips abroad. Or as Fridrik Thór Fridriksson - Icelandic and Oscar-nominated director: The camera mounted on the car roof connected to the odometer, all 12 km shots a picture and so not only mapped his own country but also discoverd its diverse and bizarre natural and cultural landscape. Million feet of films were exposed like this on the road or differently.

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  • Filmforum’s 35th Anniversary Show: A Celebration of Kodachrome

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    The Secret of Wendel Samson (Michael Kuchar, 1966)Los Angeles Filmforum presents
    Filmforum’s 35th Anniversary Show: A Celebration of Kodachrome
    Sunday January 30, 2011, 19:30h
    At the Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
    6712 Hollywood Blvd. (at Las Palmas), Los Angeles CA 90028

    Michael Kuchar in person!

    Filmforum started its regular public screenings in January 1976, and we're doing better than ever! We're delighted that we are still bringing you film and video art that you won't be able to see anywhere else.  In the coming year we will be bringing you an amazing array of films and videos over the next year, such as highlights from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, our Festival of (In)appropriation, traveling artists such as Michael Robinson and Fred Worden, a brilliant new documentary from China, filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, and a wide array of contemporary film and video work exploring the possibilities of the media. Fall 2012. Spring 2012 will bring our mammoth 16-part series Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, as part of Pacific Standard Time.

    We're celebrating our 35th anniversary with a celebration of Kodachrome, that marvelous film stock that has just been forced into early retirement.  We're screening a few classic films shot or printed on Kodachrome, followed by an intimate and delightful reception, and we hope that you will join us!

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  • Scratch Projection: Sculpter le temps

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    About now MMX (William Raban, 2010)Scratch Projection: Sculpter le temps
    Tuesday January 18th 2011, 20.30h, 6 €
    Cinéma Action Christine
    4, rue Christine, 75006 Paris, France

    Since its inception, cinema has emerged as a powerful tool to freeze time, to stretch it, to lengthen it, to condense it giving the human eye the capacity to see phenomena that can be normally perceived.

    Many artists have captured the technical means to work filmic time as a malleable poetic material, revealing the hidden splendor of the land of the invisible. Lamartine's famous sonnet finally becomes reality ...

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  • Cinema Arts: The Soul of Things and Light Play With Live Music

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    The soul of things (Dominic Angerame, 2010)Cinema Arts: The Soul of Things and Light Play With Live Music
    February 5, 2011, 15h
    McBean Theater, Exploratorium
    3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, California 94123-1099
    With Filmmaker Dominic Angerame
    Live Music by Kevin Barnard
    And
    László Moholy-Nagy’s Light Play

    On Saturday, February 5, at 2 pm, the Exploratorium presents a special screening of two short films that examine light and shadow. They are The Soul of Things by Dominic Angerame and László Moholy-Nagy’s Light Play. This event is included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium.

    Award-winning filmmaker Dominic Angerame will present The Soul of Things (2010, 15 min.), a work that uses historical San Francisco footage to explore the fluid nature of urban architecture through the saturated chemistry of black and white high-contrast film. The film will be presented in 16mm and accompanied by a live soundscape written and performed by San Francisco musician Kevin Barnard.

    The program also includes Light Play: Black/White/Gray (1930, 6 min.), László Moholy-Nagy’s cinematic study of a kinetic sculpture called the Light-Space Modulator that creates luminous shadows and reflections. Don’t miss this unique event and the opportunity to meet filmmaker Dominic Angerame. The Cinema Arts Program is funded in part by the Louis Goldblatt Memorial Fund and by a grant from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.

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  • Experimental Series: Expanded Cinema; The Poetics of the Frame

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    j. (Solomon Nagler & Alexandre Larose, 2009)Winnipeg Film Group presents
    Experimental Series: Expanded Cinema; The Poetics of the Frame
    May 28-June 4, 2011

    Held over two weekends, this workshop will focus on the poetics of First Person Cinema. Participants will watch and discuss work by filmmakers who explore meditative subtle explorations of carefully framed shots and indexical in-camera abstractions. Participants will be invited to show their final projects in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. After one week of shooting two rolls of high contrast 16mm, participants will hand process their footage with an emphasis on clean images (no scratches) and no image manipulation. Experience in hand processing is an asset, but not essential.

    Dates:
    Sat May 28 & Sat Jun 4 11am-5pm
    Fee: $120 mem/ $150 non-mem
    Instructor: Solomon Nagler

    Online registration available

    For more information on workshops, please contact Darcy Fehr at 925-3450 or darcy@winnipegfilmgroup.com

    * Please read our registration policy before registering!

    About the instructor
    Solomon Nagler's films have played across Canada, in the U.S., Europe and Asia at venues such the Centre Pompidou (Paris), L'Université Paris Panthéon Sorbonne and Lincoln Center in New York. His work has been featured in Retrospectives at the Winnipeg Cinematheque in August of 2004, at the Excentris Cinema in Montreal in August of 2007, the Festival De Le Cinéma Different in Paris in December 2005 and 2007, The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and The Canadian Film Institute in 2009. Originally from Winnipeg, Solomon Nagler currently lives in Halifax where he is a professor of film production at NSCAD University.

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