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In Our Sleep

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 06/09/2025 - 11:34

Curated by Matt Feldman and Syd Farrington, In Our Sleep brings together the work of 8 artists for a screening of films presented on 16mm. The films offer a unique approach to 16mm filmmaking in their consideration of landscape, domestic space and media as a means of addressing notions of ‘Place’. Through reflections on light, magic, death and dreams, each film considers the importance of what remains unseen and beyond the surface of image.

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Dates:
Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 20:15
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
27. VIDEOEX Festival - Int. Experimential Film & Video Festival Zürich 2025

By Videoex Festival on Thu, 27/02/2025 - 09:28

From the 16th to the 25th of May 2025, the one and only Festival for experimental films and videos - VIDEOEX - is taking place again in Zürich. Get ready to experience the whole range of what experimental film art has to offer, from short to long, funny to sad, beautiful to disturbing, relatable to utterly confusing, it's all there at our festival.
Dates:
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 14:00 to Sunday, May 25, 2025 - 23:00
Venue:
Kunstraum Walcheturm - Zürich, Suiza
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 20/09/2024 - 04:39

SCREENING OF BEING IN A PLACE: A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT (Luke Fowler, 2022) + Q&A WITH PETER TODD AND SARAH NEELY
Cinema Museum, London
Sun 22 Sep 2024 @ 19:30
Dates:
Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 19:30
Venue:
Cinema Museum - London, United Kingdom
The Poetic Lens of Margaret Tait, 16mm Film Programme at Barbican Centre

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 04/09/2024 - 10:32

A special programme presenting a selection of Margaret Tait's evocative films, all screened in their original 16mm format.

The collection showcases her distinctive blend of visual poetry and documentary realism, inviting viewers to experience the delicate interplay of light, colour, and rhythm that defines her work.
Dates:
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 18:30
Venue:
Barbican Cinema - London, United Kingdom
From Bliss to Garden Pieces: Gregory Markopoulos and Margaret Tait

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 23/06/2024 - 05:47

Curated by Peter Todd, this programme is centred on two films by visionary filmmakers Gregory J. Markopoulos and Margaret Tait. Both films centre on place; interior in Bliss and exterior in Garden Pieces. It also celebrates the preservation, advocacy, and restoration necessary to continued circulation of such works. Bliss is by Markopoulos who, in the last ten years of his life, toiled over Eniaios, the ultimate reworking of his entire film oeuvre.
Dates:
Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 18:00
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 25/03/2024 - 09:28

Introduced by Peter Todd with Luke Fowler, Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin in attendance.

“There is no language. There is no art. There is no knowledge. There is but film as film: the beginning and the eternal moment.” – Gregory J. Markopoulos

“In poetry, something else happens. Hard to say what it is. Presence, let’s say, soul or spirit, an empathy with whatever it is that’s dwelt upon, feeling for it – to the point of identification". – Margaret Tait
Dates:
Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 18:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Xcèntric: Tait Constellation: Bricolages of Past, Present and Imagination

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 05/02/2024 - 04:38

This programme explores the influence and revisiting of Margaret Tait’s cinema by means of 16-mm filming, carried out by a group of contemporary filmmakers related with her work, such as Ute Aurand, Peter Todd and Luke Fowler. Alex Pirie defined Tait’s work as bricolage of past, present and imagination, which is where this constellation is formed.
Dates:
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 19:00
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, España
Cinéseries Presents: An evening with/for Margaret Tait

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 22/09/2023 - 07:47

An Evening with/for Margaret Tait
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995, (2020) Ute Aurand
Being in a Place- A Portrait of Margaret Tait (2022), Luke Fowler
Wex Film/Video Theater • October 4th 7 pm • Free
Dates:
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 19:00
Venue:
Wexner Center for the Arts - Columbus, United States
Portraits: Films by Ute Aurand and Margaret Tait

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 14/09/2022 - 02:48

The September Mutual Films Session features films by artists who have been collaborators and friends. Berliner filmmaker and curator Ute Aurand (born in 1957), one of the greatest contemporary exponents of experimental cinema in Europe, will come to Brazil for the first time to present two programs of her films (all in their Brazilian premieres) in their original format in 16 mm She will also present a program of short films by the Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait (1918-1999) – whose work process Aurand knew in depth in the 1990s –, in new high-resolution digital copies that have been shown at festivals and cinematheques around the world in recent years in honor of the centenary of Tait.

Dates:
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 (All day) to Sunday, September 18, 2022 (All day)
Personae
Margaret Tait, filmmaker and poet, was born in Orkney in 1918. She trained first as a medical doctor before studying film in Rome in the 1950s. After returning to Edinburgh, Tait established her film studio, Ancona Films, before eventually returning to Orkney in the 1960s, where she lived and continued to make films until her death in 1999. Personae is Tait’s previously unpublished non-fiction manuscript edited by Sarah Neely with a selection of photographs from Margaret Tait’s personal archive with a foreword by Ali Smith and beautifully designed by Maeve Redmond.
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