Ben Russell (1976) is an American artist, filmmaker and curator whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and psychedelia. His films and installations are in direct conversation with the history of the documentary image, providing a time-based inquiry into trance phenomena. Russell was an exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017) and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art Chicago, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale, among others.
Dates:
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, November 18, 2021 (All day)
Join us on Sat 27th November for a special online edition of the Moving Image Salon with featured artist Lindsay Seers, who will discuss her moving image, installation and VR works.
On November 18th, the spectral body of Rocío Molina, elevated by the powerful voice of El Niño de Elche, will vibrate in the space of the Sala Gaudí at La Pedrera by way of 16mm analogue images manipulated live by Adriana Vila Guevara herself.
In the form of a filmic performance blending light and sound in a poetic way, the proposal follows the metamorphosis of an erased and damaged woman, who progressively heals and mutates.
In collaboration with Xcèntric, l'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, presents this workshop by Adriana Vila Guevara invites participants to meet a series of nameless ghosts from the past as part of a voyeuristic exorcism that explores the line between preserving the past and creating anew. Found footage is plundered to create an extrasensory conversion of the remnants of other lives, an appropriating ceremony combining contemplation, reinvention and hands-on filmmaking.
Dates:
Saturday, November 20, 2021 (All day) to Sunday, November 21, 2021 (All day)
Develop your super8 movie with the ingredients and flavors of the Mediterranean in an environmentally non-toxic developer called "eco-soup"! With Dagie Brundert, expert in "eco-soup" and super8, specially coming from Berlin for the cinema and video meetings in Nice!
Zumzeig's 5th anniversary! Screening of films that deal with the issue of obsolescence and the current state of analog film and a round table on the exhibition of analog cinema in Barcelona
Screening Sunday, 11/7/21 at 4 PM PST, Los Angeles Filmforum presents the first of three programs of "Underground movies," curated by Jenny Perlin and Leo Goldsmith. “Underground Movies” charts a unique aesthetic terrain through which to explore larger questions of human’s material and psychological relation to the planet’s substructure—as a space to be reshaped and exploited, but also as one in which to imagine ourselves anew.
Join us on Sat 6th November for the MIA Masterclass - a new series of events featuring moving image professionals sharing insights into the behind the scenes workings of producing and exhibiting moving image art.
This first event will be presented by Richard Ashrowan, who will share his journey as a filmmaker, curator and moving image activist:
On November 4, 2001, the first session of Xcèntric took place, a regular program of screenings dedicated to experimental cinema and artists unpublished in the city of Barcelona.Just 20 years later, we celebrat
