Events

  • MassArt Film Society: Urban Forest / Human Jungle

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    Yes? Oui? Ja? (Thomas Draschan & Ulrich Wiesner, 2002)MassArt Film Society: Urban Forest / Human Jungle
    Experimental Short Films from Germany
    Wednesday, September 22th, 20h, 4$
    Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department
    Screening room 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

    When I started making films in the 1980s I was part of a thriving artist community in Frankfurt/Main. There was a lot of controversy about Peter Kubelka, the influential and eccentric teacher of film and cooking at the “Städel”, Frankfurt’s art academy. We had excellent programmers at the Filmmuseum and a regular “Avantgarde & Experiment” series. Our discussions reached beyond Kluge and Adorno and for many the American avantgarde was existential.

    This program collects some highlights from that period and later years. The first part spins around urban topics, extended into outer space and rooted back to the woods. The second part diversifies the use of found footage, respectively found clothes and sounds.

    All films (originally 16mm/35mm) are shown on DVD and have never been presented in the US (very few exceptions), despite awards and glory at the homebase.

    Dagmar Kamlah / Curator

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  • Directors lounge: The Destructive Power of Happiness

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    Directors lounge: The Destructive Power of HappinessDirectors lounge: The Destructive Power of Happiness
    Video and Film Works by Riccardo Iacono
    Thursday, 23 September 2010, 21h
    Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

    Riccardo Iacono, London-based artist and filmmaker, presents a selection of films and video from three different bodies of work: abstract videos, hand-painted films and performance tapes (produced between 1993-2007).

    “The title of the programme has nothing to do with the works that will be screening, I just found it interesting” — his statement already shows a quality also to be found in his work; with a gentle sarcasm, he likes to confront prejudices with opposing strategies. The trained painter (Glasgow School of Art) found his way to 16mm film through video collaborations with musicians both in contemporary Musique Concr ète and rave events. ”A major influence on my early work was William Burroughs' Electronic Revolution (1970), which discusses the use of recording, looping and feedback to stimulate and escalate riots.”… “I began making abstract hand-painted films in 1993, following a screening of Stan Brakhage and Pat O'Neil films on Television. I started to read books by Brakhage, but there were limited resources for seeing artists' moving image works in Glasgow back in the late 80's.”

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  • Views from the Avant-garde 2010

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    NYFF 2010 logoThe fourteenth edition of Views from the Avant-Garde, curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith, to be held from September 30 to October 3 within the context of the 48th New York Film Festival, presents an interesting mix of retrospectives and group programmes with the latest avant-garde and experimental works. This year's highlights include dedicated programmes to Helga Fanderl, Jeff Keen and the 'unreleased' films of Pierre Clémenti, as well as presenting the latest works of Dominic Angerame, Nathaniel Dorsky, Jeanne Liotta, Emmanuel Lefrant, John Price, Deborah Stratman, Phil Solomon, Stephanie Barber, Tomonari Nishikawa and many others.

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  • Muestra itinerante de cine Playtime - Programa La Realidad

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    Playtime - La realidadMuestra itinerante de cine Playtime - Programa La Realidad
    Tuesday, September 16, 21h
    Off Limits, C/ Escuadra, 11, Madrid

    Playtime Audiovisuales premieres its touring programme La realidad (Reality), about recent Spanish documentary films.

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    Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 21:00 to Friday, September 17, 2010 - 20:55

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    Off Limits - Madrid , España

  • UBS 12 x 12 Artist Talk: Ben Russell

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    This Is My Land (Ben Rivers, 2006)UBS 12 x 12 Artist Talk: Ben Russell
    Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 18h
    MCA Theater, Free
    220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

    As part of his UBS 12 x 12 artist's talk, Ben Russell presents films from his past curated programs in order to expand on themes that lie within his newest work, Trypps #7 (Badlands). "From early cinema to psychedelic mind-melt, ethnographic study to hand-processed portrait, and occult attraction to aquatic flicker film, this is a media map of analog influence that locates curatorial practice as a critical component to art-making today." - Ben Russell

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  • eluparcettecrapule: Paul Clipson & Nozal Cube

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    Lightmaze (collage) (Paul Clipson, 2010)eluparcettecrapule: Paul Clipson + Nozal Cube
    Friday September 24, 20:30h, 5€
    PiedNu, Fort de Tourneville, 55 rue du 329e RI 76620 Le Havre

    Paul Clipson (San Francisco) - Super 8 & 16mm films
    Nozal Cube (Le Havre / Paris) - Electroacoustic trio

    1st part - screening
    - Sphinx on the Seine (Paul Clipson, 2008-9, 7.5 min., 16mm, color/b&w, sound by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
    - Chorus (Paul Clipson, 2009, 7 min., Super 8mm, color/b&w, sound by Gregg Kowalsky)
    - Union (Paul Clipson, 2010, 15 min., 16mm, color/b&w, sound by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

    2nd part - Lightmaze / performance
    During his performances, Paul Clipson is accompanied by live musicians who improvise on the projections. On the occasion of his visit to Le Havre (in the course of an European tour) the Nozal Cube electro-acoustic trio (Le Havre / Paris) will give his own interpretation of Lightmaze, composed of recent super8 shots by the artist.

    Produced by eluparcettecrapule in collaboration with PiedNu with the help of l’Atelier de Musique du Havre and studio Honolulu and the support of DRAC Haute-Normandie, the Haute-Normandie Region and the City of Havre

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  • Light Industry: Anthony Ramos - About Media

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    About Media (Anthony Ramos, 1977)Light Industry: Anthony Ramos - About Media
    Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 19:30h, 7$
    177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Presented with Electronic Arts Intermix

    EAI is pleased to present a special screening and conversation with pioneering media artist Anthony Ramos at Light Industry.

    Ramos belonged to the first generation of artists who used video as a tool to critique mass media, give voice to marginalized individuals and communities, and produce radically new forms of cultural documentation, combining art and activism in a series of potent but now rarely seen works.

    His 1977 video About Media is an astute deconstruction of television news, focusing on the media coverage of President Jimmy Carter's declaration of amnesty for Vietnam War draft evaders as well as an interview conducted by New York reporter Gabe Pressman about Ramos's own eighteen-month prison term for conscientious objection. Through repetition and juxtaposition, he contrasts the unedited interview footage—and patronizing comments of the news crew—with Pressman's final televised report. In his ironic manipulation of the material, Ramos exposes the illusion of "objective" television news.

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  • Light Industry: David Gatten's Secret History of the Dividing Line

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    Light Industry: David Gatten's Secret History of the Dividing Line
    Friday, September 10, 2010, 19:30h, 7$
    177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA
    Friday, September 10, 2010 at 7:30pm

    Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts (Parts I-IV)
    David Gatten, 16mm, 1999-2004, 97 mins

    Presented with Triple Canopy as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival.

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    Friday, September 10, 2010 - 19:30

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    Light Industry - New York, United States

  • Tate Modern: To Be Is To Be Perceived

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    Island Race (William Raban, 1996)Tate Modern: To Be Is To Be Perceived
    17-26 September 2010
    Tate Modern Starr Auditorum
    Bankside, London, SE1 9TG, UK

    In conjunction with Tate Modern’s exhibition Exposed: voyeurism, surveillance and the camera (until 3 October 2010), this film programme explores ways in which artists have used the camera to draw attention to a society mediated by permanent observation. It looks at how the camera has been used as a weapon, as a tool to reveal moments of privacy, and as a means of creating cultural icons.

    Featuring the premiere of William Raban’s About now MMX, as well as work by Javier Aguirre, Peggy Ahwesh, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Samuel Beckett, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Jean Colom, Harun Farocki, Coco Fusco, William E Jones, Helen Levitt, Yoko Ono, Chris Petit, Nicolas Provost, Julia Scher and Andy Warhol.

    Curated by Cristina Camara and Stuart Comer.

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