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An Other Cinema: Apparatus and Histories

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/09/2021 - 03:40

From appropriation of dominant cinematic archives, to critical scrutiny of film techniques, the 12 modern and contemporary artists' works presented in this program exemplify an alternative and highly self-reflective form of cinema. Following Erika Balsom’s understanding of contemporary art as a potential “laboratory for film, a place in which its social, technological and aesthetic history can be picked over and recycled,” they reconsider what cinema is (or was) and what it can do. With an emphasis on the ideology behind the operation of filmic apparatus and the technological externalization of memory and time, the works in this program expose critical and aesthetic potentials of “an other cinema,” oscillating between white cube and black box.

Dates:
Monday, September 6, 2021 (All day) to Monday, September 20, 2021 (All day)
Zin Ex. From Abstraction to Algorithm

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 12/09/2020 - 05:49

Looking back over a history of one hundred years, experimental cinema has rigorously challenged cinematic conventions. To reach beyond telling stories, artists and filmmakers examined the material conditions of their medium, such as light, motion, celluloid and, with the advent of television and video, electronic signals. This relationship with the technical device—whether a camera or a computer—revolutionized the creative process and opened ever new possibilities for critically reflecting the world we live in.
Dates:
Friday, September 11, 2020 (All day) to Sunday, January 31, 2021 (All day)
Venue:
Tabakalera - San Sebastián, Spain
Intimate Strangers

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 14/01/2020 - 05:57

The films of this screening offer varied views on the concept of the foreigner, by emphasizing the personal experience of the filmmakers: the feeling of strangeness experienced towards the place of origin, the discovery of the other and the bond of sympathy within the journey, the experience of exile, and finally the history of the split of a country. Vehicles of this otherness, the forms break, shatter in contact with the other, calling into question their borders.<
Dates:
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 20:00 to Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 19:55
Venue:
Cinéma le Grand Action - Paris, France
MFJ 65 Screening: Architecture On Screen and Off

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 08/05/2017 - 12:08

This program celebrates the publication of Millennium Film Journal No. 65 “Architecture On Screen and Off” with a special screening of works featured in the issue. The title refers to recent moving-image artists’ considerations of the built environment and its connection with character, politics, social norms, class, race and gender.

Dates:
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Anthology Film Archives - New York, Estados Unidos
Nocturnal Reflections: On the Surface of Things

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 05/03/2017 - 15:03

Nocturnal Reflections presents: On the Surface of Things
Curated by Zachary Epcar

- Bunte Kuh (Faraz Anoushahpour & Parastoo Anoushahpour & Ryan Ferko, 5 minutes, 2015)
"Through a flood of images and impressions, a narrator attempts to recall a family holiday. Produced in Berlin and Toronto, Bunte Kuh combines a found postcard, family photo album, and original footage to weave together the temporal realities of two separate vacations." - FA, PA, RF
Dates:
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 21:30
Venue:
Macao - Milan, Italy
Edge of Frame Programme One: with special guest Jordan Baseman

By Anonymous on Sat, 04/06/2016 - 13:19

Edge of Frame presents an evening of films exploring ideas of experimental documentary, moving image portraiture and abstraction, featuring special guest Jordan Baseman, who will show a selection of his work followed by a Q&A. Preceding this will be a programme of films curated by Edge of Frame, connecting to the ideas of experimental documentary, moving image portraiture and abstraction which run through Jordan’s work, featuring films by Jesse McLean, Kayla Parker, Aaron Zeghers and others.

Dates:
Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 20:00 to Friday, July 1, 2016 - 19:55
Venue:
DIY Space for London - London, United Kingdom
Angular Volume 1
Compilation of experimental cinema and artist-made videos selected from the participants of the call made by the publisher. The DVD includes a printed booklet with analytical texts on the works selected and also critical essays, written by specialists and programmers.

Contents:

- Stephen Broomer
Spirits in Season (16 mm, 12 min., 2012, Canada)
Rating:

Average: 3.6 (8 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
Angular
NO NEW YORK: Selections from a Decade of FLEXFest

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 01/09/2015 - 13:48

Microscope welcomes Roger Beebe back to the gallery for the last Event of our 2014-15 Season. For the evening, Beebe has curated a night of selections from a decade of FLEXFest by filmmakers working outside of the tradition epicenters of experimental film New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago.

With works by Drew Christie, Lauren Cook, Christopher Harris, Jason LaRay Keener and J. Ledbetter, Jesse McLean, Jodie Mack, Kristin Reeves, Kelly Sears, Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, Scott Stark, Robert Todd.

Dates:
Friday, September 4, 2015 - 19:30
Venue:
Microscope Gallery - New York, United States
La Vidéoshop

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 08/06/2015 - 12:21

La Vidéoshop is the first and last store in a video rental chain that will never stretch from North America to France. La Vidéoshop will offer videos that you can’t find at a video shop. Avant-garde, anti-commercial, and DIY. La Vidéoshop will be located in a space that we can’t afford (Do you have any idea how much it costs to rent this place?). La Vidéoshop doesn’t sell anything. We don’t charge admission to the nightly screenings. Even the wine is free. Our business model is fatally flawed. La Vidéoshop won’t last. Enquire within for franchising opportunities. One day, there won’t be a Vidéoshop near you.

Dates:
Thursday, June 18, 2015 (All day) to Tuesday, June 30, 2015 (All day)
Venue:
La Vidéoshop - Paris, France
Sight Unseen presents Sound Matters - Works from Collectif Jeune Cinéma

By Anonymous on Thu, 13/11/2014 - 03:27

Sight Unseen is honored to have Filipe Afonso, Curator with Collectif Jeune Cinéma, to present a collection of works from CJC. Founded in 1971, Collectif Jeune Cinéma promotes experimental moving image work including the distribution of experimental cinema, regular monthly screenings and the yearly Different and Experimental Cinema Festival of Paris (FCDEP). CJC’s catalogue includes more than 1,300 films from more than 350 filmmakers.

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its own qualities of timbre and texture, to its own personal vibration. So just as directors and cinematographers (even those who will never make abstract films) have everything to gain by refining their knowledge of visual materials and textures, we can similarly benefit from disciplined attention to the inherent qualities of sounds. – Michel Chion, The Three Listening Modes, The Sound Studies Reader, 2012

Dates:
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 21:00 to Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 20:55
Venue:
The Red Room - Baltimore, United States

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