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Xcèntric: There is Something on Your Mind

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 11/01/2024 - 07:28

On the occasion of the seminar on film archives, filmmaker, curator, and film preservationist Mark Toscano proposes a program of experimental films restored at the Academy Film Archive with the city of Los Angeles as the protagonist.
Dates:
Friday, January 19, 2024 - 19:00
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
As Mine Exactly - Stan Brakhage & THom Andersen

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 19/09/2023 - 08:32

In this programme Charlie Shackleton selects two films in response to his intimate virtual reality performance piece, As Mine Exactly, and will join us in conversation to expand upon his most recent moving image work.
Dates:
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 18:25
Venue:
Barbican Cinema - London, Reino Unido
Thom Andersen: Work on Film

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 03/02/2023 - 04:02

In person: Thom Andersen.
Dates:
Monday, February 6, 2023 - 19:30
Venue:
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
Slow Writing. Thom Andersen on Cinema
Slow Writing is a collection of articles by Thom Andersen that reflect on the avant-garde, Hollywood feature films, and contemporary cinema. His critiques of artists and filmmakers as diverse as Yasujirō Ozu, Nicholas Ray, Andy Warhol, and Christian Marclay locate their work within the broader spheres of popular culture, politics, history, architecture, and the urban landscape. The city of Los Angeles and its relationship to film is a recurrent theme.
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Books
Publisher:
The Visible Press
Xcèntric: Acts without words, correspondence without a sender.

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 28/03/2017 - 04:08

This session proposes a series of conceptual correspondences between the most recent films of LA-based filmmaker Laida Lertxundi and some of the early works of two of her main references, Morgan Fisher and Thom Andersen.
Dates:
Sunday, April 2, 2017 - 18:30
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Scratch Projection: Notre Dame (des Anges)

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 27/09/2016 - 11:58

From the City of Angels to the City of Light, the filmmaker/programmer/film restorer Mark Toscano offers us in this program recently restored copies of Los Angeles artists' films.

The avant-garde cinematographic movement of Los Angeles has been for decades little studied and shown in comparison to the other two major US avant-garde centers New York and San Francisco. The city of Los Angeles has howver witnessed an extremely varied production and that has been the origin of a particularly influential culture of experimental film.

Dates:
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 20:30
Venue:
Studio des Ursulines - Paris, France
Light Movement 14: Oracles

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 18/07/2016 - 09:16

ORACLES: Films by Los Angeles Artists
Selected by Andrew Kim in collaboration with Labor Berlin

Messages can be obscure, and this might be the result of place: Los Angeles. Seemingly, there is no rhyme or reason ... or is there? One must look past the surface. This program represents an array of perspectives from Los Angeles area seers. Employing various formal approaches, these films attempt to see beyond face value. At once, these visions are unified by the spirit of experimentation and independent expression that characterizes the alternative cinema in Los Angeles.

Dates:
Sunday, July 24, 2016 - 20:00 to Monday, July 25, 2016 - 19:55
Venue:
SPEKTRUM - Berlin, Alemania
Art of the Real 2016

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 17:50

The Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual nonfiction showcase, founded on the most expansive possible view of documentary film, returns with new work from around the world and in a variety of genres. This year’s festival includes a retrospective of a titan of the avant-garde film world, Bruce Baillie; New York premieres of new films by Roberto Minervini, Ben Rivers, José Luis Guerín, and Thom Andersen; as well as the usual eclectic, globe-spanning host of discoveries by artists who are reenvisioning the relationship between cinema and reality. With many filmmakers appearing in-person with their work, Art of the Real continues to be one of the essential showcases for boundary-pushing nonfiction film.

Dates:
Friday, April 8, 2016 (All day) to Thursday, April 21, 2016 (All day)
Venue:
The Film Society of Lincoln Center - New York, United States
DIM Cinema: Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

By Michele Smith on Tue, 22/03/2016 - 04:59

Thom Andersen’s extraordinary meditation on the nature of vision, a project that began as a UCLA film thesis for which the aspiring filmmaker re-photographed thousands of Muybridge images, is “at once a biography of Muybridge, a re-animation of his historic sequential photographs, and an inspired examination of their philosophical implications…The ‘zoopraxography’ of the title speaks to both Muybridge’s practice of motion study — as distinct from photography — and his 1879 device, which enabled the images’ projection.
Dates:
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 19:30
Venue:
DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
FICXLAB 2015

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 13/11/2015 - 09:02

FICXLAB, the Gijón International Film Festival section devoted to experimental film & video returns next November 20-28 with a programme that combines both the work of audiovisual artists and filmmakers. Organized by LABoral, with the collaboration of Lumière Magazine this edition includes screenings of seminal works by R.Bruce Elder and Robert Nelson, as well as programmes dedicated to the work of Nathaniel Dorsky, Helga Fanderl, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva or José Val del Omar, among others.

Dates:
Friday, November 20, 2015 (All day) to Saturday, November 28, 2015 (All day)
Venue:
Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto - Gijón, Spain