Since 2006, Amy Dickson, Jennifer Nightingale and Mary Stark have been creating new links between experimental cinema and textile practices through their individual practice-based research projects. The selection of films and expanded cinema performances that they will show at Close-Up look to generate a dialogue around themes of craft, community, technology and the way different media measure time. Unique processes and artistic networks are central to their shared interests.
Bringing back the underground spirit of our early days, this year's Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) includes a block of experimental shorts. The program, Celluloid Synergy, features work previously screened at AAIFF from the 1970-90s by seminal experimental filmmakers (Danny Yung, Takahiko Iimura, Al Wong, Sean O'Gara) alongside more recent films of the next generation (Erica Sheu, Tiffany Jiang). We are very excited to see many of these films again on the big screen after so many decades, please join us!
Please join us for the inaugural screening and meet-up of the East London Experimental Film Club at Good Shepherd Studios, a new forum for encountering alternative cinema in all of its forms in a friendly and welcoming environment. We are thrilled to be sharing a rare screening Welsh artist Scott Barley's acclaimed debut feature Sleep Has Her House. Through a series of painterly, static shots of the natural world and a haunting soundscape, the film asks you to look at the world--and your place in it--in an entirely new way.
Ragtaga feature film by filmmaker Giuseppe Boccassiniwill have its Japanese Premiere at the Image Forum -Cinematheque in Tokyo, on July 20.
RAGTAG is a found footage epic film composed of material gathered from 310 film noirs from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. The narrative is deconstructed and reconstructed into flickering images that vary in repetition.
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.
