Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

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http://www.cccb.org
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Carrer de Montalegre, 5
08001   Barcelona, Barcelona
Spain
41° 23' 1.986" N, 2° 10' 0.4116" E
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Events in this venue

  • Xcèntric: A camera of one’s own. Film portraits and diaries by Ute Aurand, Margaret Tait and Marie Menken

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    Paulina (Ute Aurand, 2011)

    A central figure on Berlin’s film scene, Ute Aurand makes her films in the tradition of the diary and the filmed portrait, strongly influenced by Margaret Tait, Marie Menken and Jonas Mekas. Films that explore the private lives of her friends, the beauty and sensibility of light and the textures of spaces, meticulously edited and structured “that evoke the specific rhythms and the personality of people and places captured by the camera”. This programme centres primarily on the recent filmed portraits of Aurand, whose work has just started to become known internationally in the last few years. It is brought together with that of Tait and Menken, with the presentation of a little-known film made on a trip to Spain with Kenneth Anger and left unfinished. Ute Aurand will be present at the screening.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 20:00 to Friday, February 7, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

  • Xcèntric: Andrew Noren, Charmed Particles

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    Charmed Particles (Andrew Noren, 1978)

    Andrew Noren’s The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse film series has an autobiographical dimension and is both a testimony to his private life and a tribute to love. Part four, Charmed Particles, is one of the best examples of the abstract, transforming qualities of black and white film. It explores textures and forms, combining high-contrast photography, detail shots and pixilation to create visual music of a delicate yet powerful kinesis that reveals the simple beauty of the domestic and the phantasmal nature of appearances. A luminous world in which light becomes real and illusion, flesh.

    - Charmed Particles (Andrew Noren, 1978, 16mm., silent, 78 min.)

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 20:00 to Friday, January 24, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

  • Xcèntric: Time capsules. The collage films of Arthur Lipsett

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    21-87 (Arthur Lipsett,1964)

    The figure of Arthur Lipsett occupies one of the most original and exciting fringes of editing and film collage. His work, which fascinated filmmakers as varied as Kubrick, Brakhage and George Lucas, was interrupted by Lipsett’s mental problems (he suffered from bipolar disorder) and the torment that led to his suicide, at the age of 46. He started out making sound collages, which he then transferred to his brilliant, enigmatic pieces produced by Canada’s NFB: combinations of images and sounds, in films of recycling and deconstruction, ironic and sarcastic visual essays about consumerism or critiques of the mass media, with jazzy or syncopated rhythms that illuminated a sense of cinema and a unique way of thinking.

    Programme:
    - Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett,1961, video, 6 min)
    - 21-87 (Arthur Lipsett,1964, 16 mm, 9 min)
    - Perceptual Learning (Arthur Lipsett,1965, video, 11 min)
    - Free Fall (Arthur Lipsett,1964, video, 9 min)
    - A Trip Down Memory Lane (Arthur Lipsett, 1965, video, 12 min)
    - Fluxes (Arthur Lipsett,1968, 16 mm, 23 min)
    - Lipsett Diaries (Theodore Ushev, 2010, 35 mm, 14 min.)

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 20:00 to Friday, January 17, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

  • Xcèntric: Antoni Pinent - Experimental sketches

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    G/R/E/A/S/E (Antoni Pinent, 2008-13)

    Set in the field of experimental cinema, the films of Antoni Pinent are a kind of reflection on the cinematographic medium, where the material aspects of moving images form the content. Over the years, he has developed a very particular camera-less cinema, working directly on the support and fragmenting its smallest unit, the still, in a technique he calls “polyframe”, which he has used to make his latest films. This task of décollage using filmic materiality and presenting the film as something concrete that you can work on with your hands is a reference to the cinema of attractions, that powerful visual experience packed with punches, shocks and humour of early film. This session will present some of his works in a dialogue with others by Volker Schreiner, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, Morgan Fisher, David Matarasso and Peter Tscherkassky; some have been an important influence, others introduce concepts to reflect on his work.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 20:00 to Friday, January 10, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

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