Por dentro somos color, by Elena Pardo Mexico, 2024, 16mm projected on video, 13' In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, in the state of Oaxaca, the women's organization Poj Kaa manages a community herbarium. Plant-searching expeditions are a way to share knowledge with midwives, healers, and xëmaapyë. In Teotitlán del Valle, the Ruiz family searches for colors they find in plants and insects, which they use to dye the wool they use to weave rugs. Both practices involve traveling the land, recognizing it, naming it, and connecting with everything it contains.
“(...) The artist must be given more rope than necessary. He often hangs himself to experience, although this creature has a stiff neck. Give him time! Perhaps he is more aware of time than any type of individual. He is an explorer of his own dualities.(...)” Stan Brakhage. Make room for the artist.
For LaborBerlin’s first collaboration with the Youth Resistance Museum situated in the Galiläakirche, a former church in the iconic Rigaer Straße, we present a programme of films, installations and performances in dialogue with the organic materiality of film, the thin line between the human and non-human, as well as the cultural spaces that are activated by collective gestures of resistance.
Dates:
Saturday, October 4, 2025 (All day) to Sunday, October 5, 2025 (All day)
Float into COSMOGENESIS, a weekend-long journey of transcendental films, lectures, and live performances celebrating the visionary art and cosmic cinema of Jordan Belson.
Presented in partnership with SF Cinematheque and BAMPFA.
Dates:
Friday, September 26, 2025 (All day) to Sunday, September 28, 2025 (All day)
In collaboration with Shhh, the film festival of Monokino in Ostend (26 – 27 September), Art Cinema OFFoff is delighted to welcome filmmaker Adriana Vila Guevara.
Welcome to a screening with the Basel-based filmmaker and artist Hannes Schüpbach. Since the 1990’s, Schüpbach has created a dynamic work focusing on the fine-calibrated changes of the gestures, landscapes, bodies and light. In his 16mm films, we often encounter a peculiar movement between spontaneity, intimacy and a progestically fragmented work in which, as he expressed it—the “the surroundings meet the eye” — crystallizes a form that is unmistakable Schüpbachsk.
As part of the Subtropics 2025 Marathon at the Deering Estate Black Box Theater, Miami-based artist Barron Sherer premieres Sketch No. 2 Fire Station No. 9. This two-channel 16mm projection layers temporal and spatial impressions of the historic Kendall Jackson Hospital Annex with a sound composition by Archival Feedback. Produced by Sherer's Moving Image Alliance studio project and fiscally sponsored by Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places as part of Sherer's ongoing A.P.P. commission, "Sketch No. 2" is also now distributed through Canyon Cinema.
Archivio Aperto is the festival dedicated to the rediscovery of small-format film heritage — private, amateur, experimental, artist’s cinema — and their contemporary reuse organised by Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia.
Dates:
Friday, September 26, 2025 (All day) to Tuesday, September 30, 2025 (All day)
