As part of the summer cycle Femmes femmes, a dedicated special program to the outstanding contribution of director Joyce Wieland to development of Canadian experimental cinema.
Dates:
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 21:00 to Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 20:55
The CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual Music will explore the theories, histories and practices of Visual Music. It features two days of talks and presentations from international scholars, artists, students, curators and researchers (August 14-15), plus a final half day of special sessions. Set in Sonoma County’s wine country, the symposium also features several special events.
Dates:
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, August 16, 2018 (All day)
Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, co-directors of ACRE TV will facilitate a three hour (with breaks!) workshop in which all participants will learn about and make LIVE and LIVE-TO-TAPE TV! All ages and experience levels are welcome, no equipment is required, though if you have a laptop or camera please bring it. In this workshop we will:
The Moving Image Catalog's next guest curator will be Julio Fermepín, whose selection of experimental films - entitled BEYOND THE FOREST - will be published online from Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th July.
Julio Fermepín is an Argentinian filmmaker and teacher. Since 2005 he has made several experimental films which have been shown at numerous international venues, including L'Age d’Or (Belgium) and the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany). His most recent film is Corriente.
Dates:
Monday, July 23, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, July 29, 2018 (All day)
The Obscuritads Collective(Scott Barley, Mikel Guillen and Sebastian Wiedemann) will present a selection of their works at La Générale (Avenue Parmentier 14, 75011 Paris) next July 27th & 28th at 19h (free entrance)
The screening will be introduced by critic and programmer Boris Monneau. The programme has been curated by critic and scriptwriter Miquel Escudero.
Dates:
Friday, July 27, 2018 - 19:00 to Saturday, July 28, 2018 - 18:55
Saturday, July 28, 2018 - 19:00 to Sunday, July 29, 2018 - 18:55
For three days, Horn, a unique festival dedicated to new experimental cinema will be held in the cozy garden of Musrara Art School in the city of Jerusalem.
Each evening a variety of convention-defying films from all around the world will be screened to the local crowd. The festival hopes to break the common film festival experience by a mixture of different genres and modes of cinema: documentaries, animation and fiction in a casual and intimate atmosphere.
Dates:
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, July 19, 2018 (All day)
“I once became infatuated with someone I could never know,” William E. Jones states at the outset of his probing essay film Finished, the director’s voice running calmly over scenes purloined from an old black-and-white Hollywood movie. “He was a loner and a rebel, a tragic character determined to sacrifice himself for some higher purpose. Most people dismissed him as a lunatic or a fraud, but they had been deceived by appearances. I wanted to fall into his arms and say that I cared about him for who he really was.
From 16mm to super 8mm, remixed archival footage to newly shot live action narratives, Red Bank's Indie Street Film Festival is proud to present its first ever program of experimental short films. This highly imaginative and engaging program will explore the nuances of analog nostalgia, choosing film as a medium, and what filmmakers are doing to preserve and archive their works in both a physical and digital sphere.
