Events

  • Xcèntric: On the meaning of construction. Robert Beavers

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    Ruskin (Robert Beavers, 1975/1997)

    With the presence of the filmmaker. 

    For Robert Beavers, the camera is not a simple recording device; it has a very lively quality that surrounds the elements of filming. This session presents two films he made in the 1970s based on a 15th-century painting and the writings of John Ruskin. The construction of images and sounds in these works connects the present with the past and the past with the present in a continual toing and froing.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, February 10, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, España

  • Cineinfinito #10: Robert Beavers

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    Cineinfinito #10: Robert Beavers

    For Robert Beavers, the camera is not a simple recording device; it has a very lively quality that surrounds the elements of filming. This session presents two films he made in the 1970s based on a 15th-century painting and the writings of John Ruskin. The construction of images and sounds in these works connects the present with the past and the past with the present in a continual toing and froing.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, February 11, 2017 - 17:00 to Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 16:55

    Venue: 

    Filmoteca de Cantabria - Santander, Spain

  • Xcèntric: Anne Rees-Mogg. Sentimental Journey

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    Sentimental Journey (Anne Rees-Mogg, 1977)

    Anne Rees-Mogg (1924-1984) was a dedicated teacher and an active defender of 16mm film. Her films deal with time, memory, personal relations and the discovery of cinematography. This session presents a series of works that sketch out a short personal journey through the history of the cinema: from the pre-cinematographic devices of the magic lantern to a poetic tutorial about how to make experimental films, via the photography and the time and movement studies of Muybridge.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, February 3, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, España

  • Concrete Happenings: Frames of Resistance - Vostell and Friends in 16mm

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    Sun in Your Head (Wolf Vostell, 1963)

    Frames of Resistance explores Wolf Vostell and other Fluxus filmmakers’ use of film as political interventions into the built environment and the media landscape. Vostell proposed this list of films to be shown during his visit to the MCA in January 1970 when he supervised the production of Concrete Traffic. Screening are Vostell’s films Sun in Your Head (1963), Starfighter (1967), and others.

    Presented by UChicago Arts, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Film Studies Center.

    Dates: 

    Friday, February 3, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, February 4, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Logan Center for the Arts - Chicago, United States

  • Austrian Film Museum - In Person: Robert Beavers

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    From the Notebook of... (RObert Beavers, 1971/98)

    "The goal is for the projected image to have the same force of awakening sight as any other great image."

    Over five decades, American filmmaker Robert Beavers (*1949) has come closer to this self-set goal than anyone else in his métier. Those fortunate enough to have experienced the complete retrospective of Beavers' work organized by the Austrian Film Museum in the autumn of 2010 are familiar with the sensory intoxication and the intensity of visual and aural experiences these works give rise to. They offer an immersion into the beauty and intelligence of craft – both when it comes to the places and activities recorded by Beavers (anywhere between Florence and Massachusetts) and in relation to his own film craft shining in the projection.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 20:15
    Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 20:15

    Venue: 

    Austrian Film Museum - Vienna, Austria

  • Urban Research: Private Affair

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    Urban Research: Private Affair

    In the times of public intrusion into the private sphere, right wing populists and religious fundamentalists threatening the freedom of expression and diversity, and conservative politicians pressing for control and surveillance, the expressions of private life become a political affair again. Related to the slogan of 1968 "The personal is political", the here presented films talk about personal or private affairs in relation to the public sphere and the urban space.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 21:00 to Friday, January 27, 2017 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Z-Bar, Berlin - Berlin, Germany

  • BUNGALOW by Alex MacKenzie

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    Iris Film Collective is pleased to present the inaugural installation of IN HOUSE, a year-long series of film and light installation at the Falaise Fieldhouse (3434 Falaise Avenue, Vancouver BC, Canada) by Collective members.

    BUNGALOW is a site-specific installation by Alex MacKenzie on view every evening from 6-9pm at the Fieldhouse from February 13 through the 26th, 2017.

    Dates: 

    Monday, February 13, 2017 (All day) to Sunday, February 26, 2017 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Iris Film Collective's Falaise Field House - Vancouver, Canada

  • Xcèntric: A bitter well and an orchard of pomegranates - 'Lacrima Christi' by Teo Hernández

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    Lacrima Christi (Teo Hernández, 1978-1979)

    Lacrima Christi is the longest of the over 150 films made by the Mexican filmmaker resident in Paris, Teo Hernández. Part three of a tetralogy devoted to Christ’s Passion, Lacrima Christi is an exploration of the transfer between desire and myth that takes as its starting point a series of objects found in the flea market of Belleville.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 29, 2017 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, España

  • OFFoff Cinema: Precipitation Mechanism

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    Dream Enclosure

    Art Cinema OFFoff presents a unique screening of Asian experimental films in Belgium.

    In a two-part evening, the history of experimental film in Korea since the 1960s will be shown, alongside several contemporary creations from Asia. Together, the two programs explore the relations between the historical avant-gardes and their lasting influences on contemporary work, despite important social and political changes. Next to specific works, there's attention for pioneering groups that make up the Korean underground.

    Dates: 

    Monday, February 6, 2017 - 20:00 to Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Belgium

  • Troubling the Image: Tales of Sound and Vision

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    Noite sem distancia (Lois Patiño, 2015)

    The five-program series "Troubling the Image: New + Restored Experimental Cinema" features an eclectic and wide-ranging group of works that celebrate the vibrancy of experimental and almost-experimental cinema from near and far, now and then.

    Directly and obliquely, narratives are enacted, told, sung, and implied. Keewatin Dewdney’s Wildwood Flower (1971) is a simple, lovely imagining of the Carter Family’s eponymous song. Lois Patiño’s ghost-like smugglers haunt a phantasmagorical Portuguese mountain region in the cryptic Night without Distance (2015). Robert Flaherty’s long-lost film A Night of Storytelling (1935) captures the essence of Irish oral folklore. French-based Iranian filmmaker Arash Nassiri visualizes a conspiracy-driven monologue with a hallucinatory trip through the Paris catacombs in Darwin Darwah (2016). In Edward R. Feil’s The Inner World of Aphasia (1968) medical instructional film becomes a psychological horror film when a nurse becomes the patient.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 27, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Logan Center for the Arts - Chicago, United States

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