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  • A Fischinger Celebration - Benefit Art Exhibition and Reception

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    Painting by Oskar FischingerA Fischinger Celebration - Benefit Art Exhibition and Reception
    Tuesday, September 23rd, 19h
    Goethe Institut Los Angeles
    5750 Wilshire Blvd. #100, Los Angeles, CA

    Benefit Art Exhibition and Reception. Celebrating Elfriede Fischinger on her 100th Birthday.

    Hosted by Center for Visual Music in association with Goethe Institut and The Fischinger Trust.

    Join us for a celebration of the life of Elfriede Fischinger (1910-1999), widow of the avant-garde filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger. This special evening features an Art Exhibition of selected photographs, artifacts and Paintings by Oskar Fischinger, a Reception, and Home Movies and Videos of Elfriede. Highlights include Oskar’s first Stereo Painting (1949), The Lumigraph film (1970) by Elfriede, and unshot animation drawings by Oskar. Proceeds from the evening, which includes a silent auction, will benefit the Fischinger preservation, conservation and digitization work underway at Center for Visual Music, a nonprofit 501(c) 3 archive dedicated to preserving and promoting the Fischinger films and legacy.

    Tickets available through www.cvm.eventbrite.com or through Center for Visual Music. MAP and other details also at www.cvm.eventbrite.com

    Info soon on the silent auction items.

    Can't attend? Please consider making a donation of the ticket price ($40) to the Fischinger preservation and digitization project. Your donation is tax deductible; Center for Visual Music is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. You can donate online here, or contact CVM for additional methods: www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger/FundingNeeds.htm

    Images from Oil paintings by Oskar Fischinger, to be exhibited at the Fischinger Celebration. Images (c) Fischinger Trust

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  • 25FPS 2010

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    25FPS logoCroatia's 25FPS Experimental Film & Video Festival keeps growing each year and is becoming one of the most interesting festivals in Europe. This year's edition will take place from 21 to 26 September in the city of Zagreb, and features a competitive section with 48 short films (selected out of 1500 submissions) screened in eight themed programmes. The section Focus on Croatia will present a selection of recent film and video works from the Balkan country. Legendary Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka will introduce two programmes of his films (Metaphoric cinema and Metric cinema) and give lectures on his cinema. The festival jury, formed by Florian Wüst (Germany), Leila Topic (Croatia) and Joost Rekveld (Netherlands) is also the protagonist with one programme curated by each member. This year's edition continues offering a special space dedicated to expanded cinema, with four performances by Bruce McClure, Phill Niblock and Ivan Marušic Klif, Hrvoje Nikšic, Hrvoje Radnic & Ivan Cadež.

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  • Wavelengths 2010

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    COMING ATTRACTIONS (Peter Tscherkassky, 2010)Wavelengths, the avant-garde film & video section of the Toronto International Film Festival, reaches its tenth edition presenting six programmes with the latest experimental works from all over the world.

    Curated by TIFF Cinematheque programmer Andréa Picard and running from September 10 to 13, among the section's highlights are the latest works by Peter Tscherkassky, Nathaniel Dorsky, Dominic Angeranme, Tomonari Nishikawa, Vincent Grenier and John Price. This year's edition also features some jewels from early twentieth-century film, including a short work by cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón. Also worthy of interest is this year's section City to City, dedicated to Istanbul, that features experimental works by turkish filmmakers Eytan Ipeker, Yoel Meranda and Burçak Kaygun.

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  • MassArt Film Society: Anabel Vázquez

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    MassArt Film Society: Anabel Vázquez
    Recent raw and in-camera edited Super 8 films.
    Wednesday, August 25th, 20h, 4$
    Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department
    Screening room 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

    Recent raw and in-camera edited Super 8 films.
    Including a 2007-2008 collaboration film with Barcelona artist Montse Morcate, plus a selection of 1999-2005 films.

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    Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 20:00 to Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 19:55

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    MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos

  • Robert Breer

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    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (Robert Breer, 1980)Robert Breer
    Wednesday 25 August 2010, 19h, £5
    South London Gallery
    65 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UH

    Prolific American artist and filmmaker Robert Breer was pivotal in merging cinema and collage, mechanics and sculpture.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 19:00 to Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 18:55

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    South London Gallery - ,

  • MassArt Film Society: Anabel Vázquez

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    MassArt Film Society: Anabel Vázquez
    Recent raw and in-camera edited Super 8 films.
    Wednesday, August 25th, 20h, 4$
    Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department
    Screening room 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

    Recent raw and in-camera edited Super 8 films.
    Including a 2007-2008 collaboration film with Barcelona artist Montse Morcate, plus a selection of 1999-2005 films.

    http://anabelvazquez.com/

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  • Cut And Run Tour

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    Cat’s Cradle (Ray Rea, 2010)Echo Park Film Center: Cut And Run Tour
    Saturday, August 21, 20h
    Echo Park Film Center
    1200 N. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Evolution and Life of the Mind, Body, and Medium
    Curated by Brenda Contreras and Mallary Abel

    Dates: 

    Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 20:00 to Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 19:55

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    Echo Park Film Center - Los Angeles, Estados Unidos

  • Light Industry: Gordon Matta-Clark's Day's End & Arch Brown's Pier Groups

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    Day's End (Gordon Matta-Clark, 1975)Light Industry: Gordon Matta-Clark's Day's End + Arch Brown's Pier Groups
    Friday, August 20, 2010, 19:30h, 7$
    177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Introduced by Douglas Crimp

    - Day's End (Gordon Matta-Clark, 16mm, 1975, 23 mins)
    - Pier Groups (Arch Brown, 1979, 57 mins)

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    Friday, August 20, 2010 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Light Industry - New York, United States

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