Events

  • BLITZ #9: The Uncertain Archive

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    Dessert-Disaster by Alison Nguyen

    A screening series of film/video artists who subvert the codes of mass-media, oftening appropriating found footage. These works question and rewrite the visual archives that form our perception of authority, gender, space, and history. Curated by Alison Nguyen. Approx. run time: 72 minutes.

    Featured artists: Ololade Adeniyi, Peggy Ahwesh, Bradley Eros, Timothy Geraghty, Scott Kiernan, Brian Murphy, Alison Nguyen, Sabrina Ratté, Lily Jue Sheng, Soda_Jerk, Leslie Thornton, X-PRZ

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    Dates: 

    Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 21:00 to Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, España

  • Essay Film Festival Prelude 1: The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin and Trying to Kiss the Moon

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    The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin and Trying to Kiss the Moon

    Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image in collaboration with Reading School of Art presents
    Essay Film Festival Prelude 1: The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin and Trying to Kiss the Moon

    This screening and discussion provides an introduction to the work of Stephen Dwoskin through his autobiographical montage-film Trying to Kiss the Moon (1994, 95min) and Anna Ambrose’s portrait The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin (1984, 60min),

    Dates: 

    Saturday, February 10, 2018 - 13:00 to 17:30

    Venue: 

    Birkbeck Cinema - London, United Kingdom

  • Xcèntric: The written screen. The films of Michele Fleming

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    Private Property (Public domain) (Michele Fleming, 1991)

    Michele Fleming’s films bring together most of the artistic disciplines with which she worked and combine the rhythmic observation of the world around her with references to other films and, most of all, a multitude of books; they feature work with the text on screen, portrayals of bodies and the alternating superimposition of colour and black and white.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

  • New Beginnings: Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Sadie Benning, Nina Fonoroff

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    Martina’s Playhouse (Peggy Ahwesh, 1989)

    New Beginnings for the New Year features a selection of Sadie Benning’s proto-riot grrl PXLvision cine-confessions, Peggy Ahwesh’s documentary-styled verité melodrama Martina’s Playhouse (1989) and Nina Fonoroff’s The Accursed Mazurka (1994), an epic collage consideration of spiraling mental illness, recovery and identity.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Artists' Television Access - San Francisco, United States

  • Close-Up Film Course: Expanded Cinema

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    Point Source, by Tony Hill

    At the cross-over between performative arts and film, expanded cinema emerged in the mid-60s and is now considered to have influenced many aspects of contemporary media installations and performances. American artist pioneers explored its means in regards to politics and collective participation as well as radical subjective experimentation. In Britain filmmakers used its structural and analytical means to criticise the canons of commercial cinema.

    Dates: 

    Monday, February 5, 2018 (All day) to Monday, February 26, 2018 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido

  • Directors Lounge Screening: Clara Bausch - Momentum

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    Directors Lounge Screening - Clara Bausch - Momentum

    Observations through the camera combined in different ways create new realities. Clara Bausch, who is born in Berlin and lives here as artist, strictly works with analogue images in her films, installations and photography. She studied Fine Arts at UdK Berlin and is co-founder of Labor Berlin. It is the ordinary, simple things in life that capture her attention. And it is the combinations of impressions, occurrences and images that create reality. The new realities that Clara Bausch creates in her art work are by no means out of this world.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 21:00 to Friday, January 26, 2018 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Z-Bar, Berlin - Berlin, Alemania

  • Secrets of the Deep: Dreams on Film

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    On January 25, 2018, Secrets of the Deep: DREAMS on Film will screen dream-infused films by: Douglas Hart (Jesus and Mary Chain), vocalist She Rocola, Joe Whitney (Flaming Stars), Kirsty Allison* (Cold Lips Magazine UK), Scottish rocker Gil de Ray* (Vagrant Lovers), twice Emmy Award nominated actor Emily O’Brien, Stephen Rutterford* (NYC), Vincius Santos (Brazil), Liz Tabish* (Texas), Russian animator Olga Guse (Berlin), record producer (Strokes, Regina Spektor) Gordon Raphael (Berlin), and festival curator Jeffrey Wengrofsky* (NYC).

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 20:00 to Friday, January 26, 2018 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    The Gene Frankel Theatre - New York, United States

  • Back to the POSTFUTURE

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    “Back to the POSTFUTURE” is the new exhibition organized by the Venetian organization Zuecca Projects at Spazio Ridotto, Venice, and curated by ADAF – Athens Digital Art Festival and the PhotoPhore.

    The opening is on January 19, and the show will run until February 16, 2018.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 19, 2018 - 18:00 to Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 17:55

    Venue: 

    Spazio Ridotto - Venezia, Italy

  • BLITZ #8: Burn

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    A programme curated by Alison Nguyen

    A screening series of film and video artists who employ modes of appropriation, dematerialization, and electronic signal manipulation in their moving image works. These pieces subvert the visual codes of mass media, repositioning material such as commercials, pornography, and Hollywood films. In burning contemporary archives, these artists create new texts that challenge our way of seeing dominant social constructs.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, January 20, 2018 - 19:00 to Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, España

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