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SCREENING LAV #033: Firefly-Films

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 14/04/2026 - 03:16

“The room is darkened so that a ray of light can pierce it, enchant it, and unfold an entire world onto a two-dimensional white screen. That’s why, for me, darkness is neither unpleasant nor gloomy. On the contrary, I associate it with a condensed form of life. Immense, like the night. Intimate, like the pupil of an eye.”
(Anouk de Clercq quoted in Vicente Monroy’s A Brief History of Darkness)
Dates:
Saturday, April 25, 2026 - 20:00
Venue:
Círculo de Bellas Artes - Madrid, Spain
Screening LAV #025: Film Bricolage

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 27/01/2025 - 04:27

"For the DIY filmmaker, the means are often also the ends. Canadian film scholar Éric Thouvenel argues that the history and practices of experimental film embrace a “DIY mode of thinking” that “runs counter to industrial practices, which more often than not employ machines whose functions have been standardized and whose uses have been highly prescribed.”
Dates:
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 19:30
Venue:
Círculo de Bellas Artes - Madrid, Spain
Du film performatif
De nombreuses performances artistiques aujourd’hui se proposent de remplacer le film par son énoncé sous la forme d’une conférence illustrée ou d’une lecture. Des fragments d’un film à venir (photographies, documents, fragments de scénario) sont présentés en guise du film lui-même. On peut s’interroger sur ces nouveaux formats. De quoi sont-ils le symptôme ? S’agit-il d’un futur performatif du cinéma ?
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Mire: Mechanics of the Copy

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 07/12/2016 - 06:41

This special session is the launch of the "Re-engineering the industry" program, dedicated to a Mire laboratory machine, the Debrie contact printer, which makes it possible to copy 16mm film. In the coming months, masterclass, workshop and artist residency will aim at a dialogue between artists and technicians in order to perpetuate and develop the use of machinery abandoned by the film industry and to reappropriate its use for artistic purposes.

Dates:
Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 21:00 to Friday, December 16, 2016 - 20:55
Venue:
Le Cinématographe - Nantes, France
Ponrepo Cinema: Emmanuel Lefrant

By Alexandra Morales on Fri, 14/10/2016 - 07:26

French experimental filmmaker and curator Emmanuel Lefrant presents a program composed of his own films and films of his film-friends (16, 35 mm).

Dates:
Monday, October 24, 2016 - 20:00 to Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 19:55
Venue:
Ponrepo Cinema - Prague, Czech Republic
Rewriting Film History, Reinventing Film Apparatus

By Anonymous on Tue, 03/06/2014 - 15:37

Microscope is very pleased to present Rewriting Film History, Reinventing Film Apparatus a program of 16mm films curated by Enrico Camporesi. The evening includes historical and more recent works by Jean-Michel Bouhours, Werner Nekes, David Wharry, Mary Helena Clark, Ernst Schimdt Jr., and Peter Miller that have rarely, if ever, screened in the US, and coming from the Light Cone Collection (Paris). Enrico Camporesi's description of the show follows: The notion of rewriting film history has constantly haunted moving image production. In the same way, challenging the basic cinematographic apparatus (the screen, the projection, etc.) has been a crucial issue in avant-garde filmmaking. The program seeks to explore the diverse strategies that have been adopted by experimental and avant-garde filmmakers in order to investigate such themes. The films are selected from the collection of Light Cone, the main European distributor for experimental and avant-garde films, and have been rarely (if ever) screened in the United States.

Dates:
Saturday, June 7, 2014 - 19:00 to Sunday, June 8, 2014 - 18:55
Venue:
MICROSCOPE GALLERY (previous) - New York, Estados Unidos
Balagan presents... Mirror Stage

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 10/05/2013 - 03:14
Balagan presents... Mirror Stage
Monday, May 13 2013, 19:30h
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Much has been said about what is regarded as the quintessential cinematic experience: the darkened, softened, uterine surroundings, the hypnotic flicker ahead, the lulling whirr from the projection booth. It is a comfortable hiding place from which to observe others\' nightmares and desires. As much as we at Balagan embrace this fancy, we like to break the spell on occasion by channeling an earlier form of cinema, when projected images elicited bewilderment instead of reverie.

This time, we aim to shatter cinematic illusions by shifting our attention 180° away from the spectacle. As we ponder the screen, the stage and the curtains; as we gaze into the spectators\' faces and observe their body language -- entranced or impatient -- we see a reflection of ourselves. So we enter Lacan's "mirror stage": the anxious moment of catching sight of oneself for the first time and beginning to grasp the reality of one\'s existence.
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Projektion - Situative Systeme

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 17/10/2012 - 16:16
Projektion - Situative Systeme
Sunday October 18, 2012, 20h
kunstraum t27
Thomasstr. 27, 12053 Berlin
Curated by Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy

- Feuerfaust (Thorsten Fleisch, Super 8, 1 Min, 1999)
- DIAGRAM II (Jeanne Liotta, 16mm, 4 Min. 2012)

Melting Intermission I (Anja Oornleden & Juan David González Monroy)

- Silber (Jan Korthaeuer, 16mm, 8 Min, 2002)
- 14x14 (Albert Alcoz & Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 16mm, 3 Min, 2012)
- Her Mona (Klaus Telscher, 16mm, 1 Min, 1992)

Melting Intermission II (Anja Oornleden & Juan David González Monroy)

- Ritournelle (Christopher Becks & Peter Miller, 16mm, 4 Min, 2012)
- Flexcam (Thorsten Fleisch, Super 8, 2 Min, 1998)
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Experimenta Weekend 2012

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 22/09/2012 - 18:20
Experimenta, the avant-garde and experimental films strand of the London Film Festival returns in its 2012 edition (October 19th-21st) with the biggest and broadest programme to date. The main protagonist of the section curated by Mark Webber with assistance from Shama Khanna, is the presentation in Europe of Peter Kubelka's latest work Antiphon (2012), as part of his lecture Monument Film. Kubelka will also be the protagonist of a full retrospective of his work, and of Martina Kudlácek's latest documentary film Fragments of Kubelka (2012).

The festival opens with the screening of a newly-restored print of Isidore Isou's masterpiece Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951), and will present as always, a selection of the most recent experimental works including the latest films and videos by Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, Luke Fowler, Mati Diop, Beatrice Gibson, Ben Rivers, Laida Lertxundi,... Experimenta will also present present several screenings the precious week coinciding with the Frieze Art Fair, from 10-13 October.
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