Various elements characterize the port area: built structures, quays, basins, canals, locks… lifting and transport systems, cranes, gantries, trolleys, straddle carriers… container storage areas, tanks, and warehouses.
Microscope is excited to welcome UK-based artist and filmmaker Karel Doing to the gallery on one of his rare visits to New York for a special evening of expanded cinema performance and double-screen 16mm films.
Karel Doing is an experimental filmmaker and researcher who has worked across the globe with fellow artists and filmmakers, creating a body of work that is difficult to pinpoint with a simple catchphrase. In Ruins and Resilience he weaves autobiographical elements and critical reviews together with his wide ranging interdisciplinary approach, reflecting on his own practice by positioning key works within the context of a vibrant experimental film scene in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.
Join us on February 24, 2024, at 3 pm ET for an exclusive digital screening of Eco-Art Experimental Films and Videos at Deering Estate Visitor Center Auditorium. Admission is free with Eventbrite registration. Please save the date for these diverse and challenging artist-crafted films and videos that intertwine the concern for nature and our relation to it expressed within the possibilities of experimental cinema.
Close Up Film Centre in London presents a special screening. This programme is a continuation of an enduring dialogue between Karel Doing and Franci Duran, two experimental filmmakers who are both interested in Donna Haraway's multi-species thinking. An initial exchange took place in 2018 at the Film Farm in Canada where they both experimented with phytography, a technique that makes it possible to inscribe detailed images of plants on film emulsion. Both films combine microscopic vegetal worlds with scavenged found footage to haunting soundscapes.
Film Talksis an edited collection of unique conversations on experimental cinema from a range of eminent and emerging film and video makers. The book represents a contemporary snapshot on the ways in which experimental cinema is perceived by its practitioners, often in relation to other art forms, moving image culture at large and wider social issues. It is an invaluable guide for those keen to immerse themselves in the insights and perspectives that only artists can offer.
In this time of waiting and distance, VISIONS has teamed up with various local collaborators to put a select few videos by artists online and pair them with texts by local writers.
All of the 'screenings' are happening over at our usual microcinema venue la lumière collective : www.lalumierecollective.org
Online now until December 9th
Dates:
Thursday, November 12, 2020 (All day) to Wednesday, December 9, 2020 (All day)
