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Early Monthly Segments #98: Abigail Child & Julie Murray

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 11/07/2017 - 04:49

Celebrate the heat of July with classics by two of the sharpest editors in the experimental scenes in the USA. Abigail Child’s heady Is This What You Were Born For? series (from which we’re showing four films) took the Eighties by storm creating “found” footage collages of sultry noir seduction—turning erotic desires on its head.

Dates:
Monday, July 24, 2017 - 20:00 to Tuesday, July 25, 2017 - 19:55
Venue:
Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, Canada
Scratch: Embodied Fires - The Fire Within

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 22/05/2017 - 08:53

Carte blanche to Ana Vaz, in her presence.

Light Cone offers a carte blanche to Brazilian filmmaker and artist Ana Vaz whose films, installations and performances elaborate relationships between myth and history, ethnography and speculation, through a cosmology of references and perspectives.

Dates:
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 20:30
Venue:
Studio des Ursulines - Paris, France
The Great Blondino and Other Delights, presented by Guy Maddin

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 05/04/2017 - 06:29

Canyon Cinema has joined together with SFFILM to welcome renowned Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin to the Bay Area. As a part of the 60th San Francisco International Film Festival, Maddin will present a program of rarely seen works from Canyon’s collection of over 3,200 artist-made films.
Dates:
Saturday, April 15, 2017 - 20:30
Venue:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco, United States
Eye on a Director: Canyon Cinema

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 06/07/2016 - 15:22

For the second installment of Eye on a Director, MAD highlights the collection of the legendary film distributor and archive Canyon Cinema. In the late 1950s, Canyon Cinema brought together independent film artists whose work reflected a remarkable diversity in style and content. Variously called avant-garde, underground and experimental, these artists shared a vision of filmmaking as a form of personal expression, free from the demands and constraints of commercial conventions.
Dates:
Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 8, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 15, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 22, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 29, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 4, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 5, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 12, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 19, 2016 - 18:55
Venue:
Museum of Arts and Design - ,
A Mirror Avant-Garde: Non-Canonical Canonicals By Women Filmmakers

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/06/2015 - 16:35

"If you’ve seen more than three of the films in this program, I’d be surprised. Yet every single one of these films by women filmmakers, chosen from the collection of the Filmmaker’s Co-op, deserves to be written about, taught in classes, and be part of the canon of avant-garde film. In a program of striking artistic voices from filmmakers with large bodies of work, you’ll see resonances with the films of Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye, Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Barbara Rubin, Malcolm LeGrice, and many others."

Dates:
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 18:55
Venue:
Filmmakers Co-op - New York, United States
Xcèntric: Scenes in the life of Mary Shelley

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 13/12/2012 - 10:31
Xcèntric: Scenes in the life of Mary Shelley
Sunday, December 16 2012, 18:30h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

Filmed in Italy with amateur actors, A Shape of Error is an experimental feature film based on the diaries of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and her stepsister Claire, two emancipated women for their time. In the form of an imaginary home movie, Abigail Child tells her story, centring particularly on the passionate affair of Mary with Percy Shelley, employing formal strategies developed in earlier works (The Future Is Behind You, Covert Action), such as the shared screen and split images.

- A Shape of Error (Abigail Child, United States, 2012, 72 min, 16 mm/digital).
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Abigail Child - Is This What You Were Born For?
L'œuvre filmique d'Abigail Child, d'une rare densité, constitue un point de repère incontournable dans le cinéma expérimental des années 1980. Ses films recourent aux stratégies du found footage, de l'art de l'appropriation, de la Language Poetry, ainsi q

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DVD
Publisher:
Sophie Lynch
Eyes Upside Down:Visionary Filmmakers & the Heritage of Emersson
Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussSitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War.
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Books
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
A Critical Cinema 4: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
A Critical Cinema 4 is the fourth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald once again engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the network of interconnections within the community of filmmakers.

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Books
Publisher:
University of California Press

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