Ben Van Meter among Lawrence Jordan, Robert Nelson and Lenny Lipton is one of the co-founders of notable distributor of Avant Garde Cinema Canyon Cinema Inc. in 1967. Canyon Cinema is located in San Francisco. His work is understated and has often been ignored in the history of experimental cinema. Tonight’s program is a tribute to Ben Van Meter and his contributions to the avant scene of San Francisco during the 60s. Ben passed away in August 2019.
In Garden of Earthly Delights, Stan Brakhage places leaves and plants on a strip of film and copies them to create a captivating rush of images. With the help of a homemade pinhole camera, Paolo Gioli approaches nature in Natura Obscura without a lens or stabilizing perspective in a way that is both direct and mysterious.
Atomiserpresents a programme of the films of Robert E Fulton III (1939-2002), recently restored and transferred to a high definition digital master, screening in the UK for the first time.
Occurring alongside an intermission performance from Gal Go and Abi Asisa.
Synch Pulse is a monthly experimental film night happening in Brighton, assembled and presented by artist/electronic music composer/filmmaker Ian Helliwell. It features a different theme each programme represented by archive and contemporary shorts, including artists' film and video, vintage adverts and public information films, and unusual documentaries. The Synch Pulse for July will be themed around the motor car.
Ultra Dogme are excited to announce So Many Love Stories: an Ultra Dogme Movie Club Live Session.
Screening at the Zumzeig Cooperativa in Barcelona on 2 July, 7pm. It will feature 6 films of love and revolution by Nour Ouayda, Nazlı Dinçel, Craig Scheihing, Blanca García, Camille Simon Baudry & Ellie Epp and will be presented by the full Ultra Dogme team.
Tickets are €5 with all proceeds going to Amb Palestina Co-Op in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
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.
El programa de este mes de la sección Confesionario. Mapa de voces experimentales, comisariada por el cineasta de vanguardia Pablo Marín, estrá dedicada al largometraje 'Falling Lessonss de Amy Halpern.
Cientos de rostros que desfilan en pantalla como una cascada componen un retrato colectivo que se transforma, progresivamente, en una plataforma de despegue desde la cual Halpern ensaya una película de denuncia de otro mundo, a la vez sutil y radical, lacerante y alegre.
