Guest program by Martin Grennberger, independent curator
When attempting to remap some early milieus of experimental film culture in Sweden, one cannot help but notice their scattered nature. The 1950s saw the beginning of co-op initiatives with the establishment of Svensk Experiment Film Studio in 1950 (today, Filmform); artists and painters, transfixed by its polysemic kinetic and temporal nature, turned to filmmaking; and a steady group of cinephiles was incipient in the burgeoning film clubs.
Welcome to the book release & film screening for Claes Söderquist and the new monograph "Claes Söderquist. The film and the passage of time" at Zita Folkets Bio, Monday 7 November at 5-8pm
Mingle and book sale in Zita's foyer from 17. The book is available for sale at a favorable price throughout the evening. At 6 pm the doors to Salon 1 open for a film program and artist talk with Claes Söderquist.
Cinema Parenthèse is happy to bring Claes Söderquist in Brussels again. "Le génie civil" (1969), "Landskap" (1985-87) and "Briefe aus dem Schweigen" (1989) will be shown in the presence of the artist.
Dates:
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 19:00 to Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 18:55
Claes Söderquist is a prominent figure of Swedish experimental film whose visually appealing and personal films revolve around slow cinematic reflections on architecture, landscape, strata, time and space. With influences from and interests in Land-Art, minimalist music (like Charlemagne Palestine) and structural film processes, Söderquist's dystopian and desolate scenery is sometimes reminiscent of the films by Michael Snow and Larry Gottheim.
Cinema Parenthèse presents Land/Scapes, a series in three programs with films by Claes Söderquist (Sweden), Els van Riel (Belgium), and Werner Nekes (Germany), that seeks to explore the encounter of film and the expanse of landscape. The encounter stages the possibility on the one hand of the investigation of historical and dimensional aspects of space, and on the other, a reflective reconnaissance of the film medium.
Dates:
Sunday, October 7, 2018 - 16:00 to Monday, October 8, 2018 - 15:55
The history of Swedish experimental film is a story of small broken histories. Sometimes it has resulted in significant works, such as Viking Eggeling's seminal Symphonie diagonale, or in significant experimental filmmakers, such as Gunvor Nelson. But, that is rather the exception than the rule. However, what unites Eggling, Nelson and the films that will be presented in this program is the international context as a prerequisite for the work and the individual films.
Dates:
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 20:00 to Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 19:55
Index and Film i Samtidskonsten present a joint series of four evenings of experimental films at Index' gallery. The programs have been developed as an extension of the most recent issue of the cultural magazine OEI #69-70: On film, published in autumn 2015, with 496 pages about significant practices of the Swedish experimental film scene. The events are organized as part of the decentral festival Kortfilmsdagen on December 21, supported by the Swedish Film Institute.
Curated by Martin Grennberger and Daniel A. Swarthnas, the program shows a selection of important Swedish experimental films, contextualized by works of international film practitioners. Several of the films are being shown for the first time in Sweden.
