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  • Brand New Blinkers - BIG and SMALL

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    Join Us for an evening of odd and experimental short films loosely based around the theme of BIG and SMALL. 

    Do come along to the third installment of our campaign to bring indelible images to the screen in a straightforward way, at DIY Space For London, off Old Kent Road.

    Including (amongst other things): clones, bananas, a reptile, High Budget Movies, and David Byrne.

    Including films by Max Hattler, John Smith, Peter Millard, John Wilson, Chuck Workman, The Situationists, and many more...

    Dates: 

    Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    DIY Space for London - London, United Kingdom

  • VIDEO – (Im)materialists

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    Steve hates fish (John Smith, 2016)

    Presented by Evelyn Yard, VIDEO is a screening event highlighting the specific use of video by contemporary artists. The programme focuses less on the polished "moving-image" production, and more on experimentation and the use of more accessible popular video technologies. The screenings will highlight areas where video has been used for its specific characteristics, opening up the rising debate of medium specificity in and around ideas of post-media hybridisation.

    Dates: 

    Friday, October 7, 2016 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido

  • SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: Film Screenings celebrating the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative

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    At The Academy (Guy Sherwin, 1974)

    An afternoon of screenings celebrating the first decade of LUX’s predecessor, the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative (1966–76). The LFMC was founded in October 1966 as a non-commercial distributor of avant-garde cinema. In contrast to similar groups that emerged around the world, it grew to incorporate a distribution service, cinema space and film laboratory. Within this unique facility, filmmakers were able to control every aspect of the creative process.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 15:00 to Monday, April 11, 2016 - 14:55

    Venue: 

    Borlase-Smart Studio - St Ives, United Kingdom

  • Slow Glass and other films

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    Slow Glass (John Smith, 1988-91)

    Wry and formally ingenious, John Smith’s films are playful explorations of the language of cinema and thought-provoking reflections on the image’s role in politics, war, and the global economy. The 2013 Jarman Award winner will screen and discuss a selection of films from throughout his career including Slow Glass (1988-91), an exploration of memory, perception and change through the stories of a nostalgic glazier; Blight (1994-96) a stunning montage depicting the destruction of a London street to make way for new roads; and Pyramids / Skunk (Hotel Diaries #5) (2006-07), in which a chocolate bar in a Rotterdam hotel room eventually reminds the filmmaker that there are important things going on in the world outside. (76 minutes)

    Dates: 

    Friday, October 17, 2014 - 19:00 to Saturday, October 18, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Logan Center for the Arts - Chicago, United States

  • L’Âge d’or 2014

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    Belgian experimental film festival L’Âge d’or 'returns' to Brussels on October 8-14. 'Reviving the spirit' of the EXPRMNTL festival will present twenty-three films in competition as well as programmes dedicated to and with the presence of Birgit Hein (president of the jury), Gustav Deutsch (who will also deliver a masterclass), Friedl vom Gröller, Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet, Robert Todd and John Smith. Mark Webber, editor of the recently published anthology of writings by Gregory Markopoulos will introduce two programmes of his works with new prints. The festival will also pay homage to Stephen Dwoskin and Adolfas Mekas and present curated programmes dedicated to the Italian avant-garde, and a double selection of “ethnographic poems”, with works by Raymonde Carasco and Robert Gardner. 

    The festival's brochure, including the complete programme, can be downloaded here.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, October 8, 2014 (All day)
    Thursday, October 9, 2014 (All day)
    Friday, October 10, 2014 (All day)
    Saturday, October 11, 2014 (All day)
    Sunday, October 12, 2014 (All day)
    Monday, October 13, 2014 (All day)
    Tuesday, October 14, 2014 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Cinematek - Brussels, Belgium

  • John Smith

    This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—contains essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

    Herbert’s text provides an incisive overview of Smith’s work over the past four decades while Christie examines Smith’s oeuvre within the context of English eccentricity. Meyer’s essay discusses Smith’s film The Black Tower in relation to absence and abstraction while de Seife looks at cinematic scale through the prism of Smith’s Gargantuan.

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    Average: 2.7 (3 votes)

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  • John Smith

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    This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—contains essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

    This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—contains essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

    Herbert’s text provides an incisive overview of Smith’s work over the past four decades while Christie examines Smith’s oeuvre within the context of English eccentricity. Meyer’s essay discusses Smith’s film The Black Tower in relation to absence and abstraction while de Seife looks at cinematic scale through the prism of Smith’s Gargantuan.

    The publication includes a complete fully illustrated filmography spanning 84 pages, with images and synopses from nearly fifty film and video works made between 1972 and 2012.

    With texts by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife
    Edited by Tanya Leighton and Kathrin Meyer

    Copublished by Sternberg Press and Mousse Publishing

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  • Transparent Things: Mary Helena Clark’s films & influences

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    Transparent Things: Mary Helena Clark’s films & influences
    Monday 25 March 2013, 20:30h
    OFFoff Cinema
    Lange Violettestraat 237  9000 Gent, Belgium

    “I want to make cinema that is both trance-like and transparent: that operates on dream logic until disrupted by a moment of self-reflexivity, like tripping on an extension cord.”

    What are we seeing when watching images flickering on the screen? One could say that the cinematic experience always involves an unique play of imaginary presence (perceptual experiences, fantasies, illusions) and real absence (what is represented but not really there). The act of perception may be real, but the perceived is merely a shade, a phantom, “a hallucination that is also a fact”. It is this fundamental tension between presence and absence, actual and perceptual, the visible and the spectre of the hidden, that is at the heart of Mary Helena Clark’s work. Taking cues from the fantasy and illusion of early cinema as well as the material and formal exercises of the avant-garde, her hypnotic pieces explore cinema’s primitive magic, hurtling us down the secretive rabbit holes of the moving image. After having screened several of Mary Helena’s films in previous years, Courtisane will once again showcase her work during the coming Courtisane festival (17-21 April 2013), with the screening of her latest short film, Orpheus (outtakes). As a prologue to this year’s festival, Courtisane will present at OFFoff six films by Mary Helena Clark together with a selection of works by other filmmakers that have inspired her practice.

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  • John Smith DVD boxset

    John Smith’s influential films have been shown in cinemas and galleries around the world for more than three decades. Inspired by the Structural Materialist ideas that dominated British artists’ filmmaking during his formative years, but also fascinated bJohn Smith’s influential films have been shown in cinemas and galleries around the world for more than three decades. Inspired by the Structural Materialist ideas that dominated British artists’ filmmaking during his formative years, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, Smith has developed a body of work that deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction. Drawing upon the raw material of everyday life, his meticulously crafted films rework and transform reality, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema.

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    Average: 2.3 (44 votes)

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