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Fire+Light+Vision: New projections by James Harrar

By Anonymous on Jue, 30/10/2014 - 15:34

James Harrar's experimental and highly personal film/video images will be viewed with a live musical rendering of soundtracks for each work. The musical concepts are created, directed and performed by Harrar, often with local musicians. The project places attention on exploring the moving image with live performance and when combined, attempts to reveal deeper levels of interpretation within Harrar’s visceral film poems. This presentation also celebrates the early beginnings of cinema, providing live music to support and elevate the silent movie experience.

With the performance, the viewers will experience the spiritual states of mind through Harrar’s visual poetry, comparable to a moving painting.

Fechas:
Sábado, Noviembre 8, 2014 - 19:30
Local:
UnionDocs - Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Fall 2014 Flaherty NYC: Systems and Layers

By Marcos Ortega on Mar, 30/09/2014 - 08:44

This series presents films and videos that depict and embody systems of power and ruptures where these systems become visible. The nature of observing and being observed; life within a surveillance state; individual testimony and collective memory; and the role of the artifact as evidence within suppressed histories are ideas and themes that will be explored throughout the six programs.

Programmed by David Dinnell and Ted Kennedy.

Fechas:
De Lunes, Octubre 6, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Martes, Octubre 7, 2014 - 18:55
De Lunes, Octubre 20, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Martes, Octubre 21, 2014 - 18:55
De Lunes, Noviembre 3, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Martes, Noviembre 4, 2014 - 18:55
De Lunes, Noviembre 17, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Martes, Noviembre 18, 2014 - 18:55
De Lunes, Diciembre 1, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Martes, Diciembre 2, 2014 - 18:55
De Lunes, Diciembre 15, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Martes, Diciembre 16, 2014 - 18:55
Local:
Anthology Film Archives - Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Sight Unseen presents Creative Destruction: The Smyth Brothers

By Anonymous on Vie, 01/08/2014 - 09:39

Creative destruction is an economic concept that describes the paradox of progress by attaching evolutionary theory to capitalism. "It's the process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one." The dualistic nature pairs well with who we are as twins and the stories we try to tell- tales of a people and their pursuit of money. How does this pursuit mutate now that change is the only constant in capitalism?

Fechas:
De Martes, Agosto 12, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Miércoles, Agosto 13, 2014 - 19:55
Local:
The Windup Space - Baltimore, Estados Unidos
ARKIPEL 2014

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 05/02/2014 - 15:26

This second year of ARKIPEL International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival will have a special theme, Electoral Risk, which is trying to see how cinematic reading of democracy, activism, politics, and civil power today. Changes in geo-economic and global geo-political issue have changed so much our view of everyday reality, which also have shifted the order of social life.

Various socio-political events that show tendency of ‘civilian power’ occurred lately in the Middle Eastern countries, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, have questioned the meaning of democracy. The concept of democracy is adopted from the ‘West’, which means, the power is in the hands of people to determine all matters relating to the direction of their lives, in practice it is not going well. On the other hand, the development of technology, especially in media and information technology—cinema has become one of its parts, it has shown how the civil power ‘criticize’ state policies.

Fechas:
Miércoles, Abril 30, 2014 (Todo el día)
Truth Through the Lens

By Anonymous on Lun, 27/01/2014 - 16:52

The Studio Two Three Film + Video Series is currently seeking submissions for the upcoming Truth Through the Lens film screening on February 20th, 2014. We are looking for short documentary film/videos (under 10 minutes in length) from both students and established artists. The documentaries can be traditional or experimental and can cover any subject matter. Guidelines for submissions and more info on the Studio Two Three film series can be found at this link: http://studiotwothree.com/s23s-film--video-series

Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2014

Fechas:
Jueves, Febrero 13, 2014 (Todo el día)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema.

Valoración:

Promedio: 3.2 (10 votos)
Categoría:
DVD
Editor:
Kino Lorber
Echo Park Film Center: Abraham Ravett

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 29/08/2012 - 02:11
Echo Park Film Center: Abraham Ravett
Saturday, September 8, 2012, 20h
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, California USA

Abraham Ravett will present a program of recent and previously made films. The screening includes three films that reflect the complexities of filial relationships; the lingering impact of the Holocaust, and with Horse/Kappa/House, the Japanese rural landscape is presented as a space of loss, memory and collective history.

Programme:
- The March (1999)
- Horse/Kappa/House (1995)
- Tziporah (2007)
- Notes for a Polish Jew (2012) (on DVD)
Categoría:
Eventos
Philip Hoffman - What these ashes wanted (2001)
“In the documentary film What these ashes wanted Hoffman arranges the jagged bits of life he shared with writer Marian McMahon. Her early death in 1996 provoked this essay on mortality. Hoffman’s goal: “to illuminate the conditions of her death… the mystery of her life and the reason why, at the instant of her passage, I felt peace with her leaving… a feeling I no longer hold.” Using painterly swatches of sunflowers, hand-processed film, found sound recordings, the “antiseptic fictions” of doctors and other mortal icons, Hoffman takes us on journeys to London, Helsinki and Egypt. Pondering morbidity in its many forms, Hoffman discloses an early photographic assignment involving his deceased grand-father, a failed suicide, and his own personal numerology of death centering on the number seventeen. Through these and other memories, he develops a soul-searching vocabulary of love for one whose journey continues into the beyond. ‘If you had to make up your own ritual for death, what would it be? Would it be private or shared?’ asked his partner, Marian. Hoffman’s answer is this beautiful document. (San Francisco International Festival Catalogue, 2002)

Rating:

Promedio: 3.6 (11 votos)
Categoría:
Vídeos en la red
Luke Fowler: All Divided Selves

By Marcos Ortega on Mar, 24/07/2012 - 15:29
Luke Fowler: All Divided Selves
Friday, July 27th, 19h
Flat Time House
210 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4BW, UK

A lyrical collage of film about R.D. Laing completed in 2011. Using footage from the Flat Time House archive amongst multiple other sources, Luke Fowler's film focuses on one of the key characters in the history of Better Books.

The film concentrates on archival representations of radical psychiatrist RD Laing and his colleagues as they struggled to acknowledge the importance of considering social environment and disturbed interaction in institutions as significant factors in the aetiology of human distress and suffering. RD Laing was associated with the art and poetry gatherings at Better Books and his controversial psychiatric writings and methods considerably influenced the creative practices of the artists involved at Better Books. All Divided Selves reprises the vacillating responses to these radical views and the less forgiving responses to Laing's latter career shift; from eminent psychiatrist to enterprising celebrity. A dense, engaging and lyrical collage- Fowler weaves archival material with his own filmic observations including footage from a SIGMA gathering with John Latham and others at Brazier's Park in 1964.
Categoría:
Eventos
Ben Rivers: Shorts

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 18/07/2012 - 15:55
Ben Rivers: Shorts
Saturday August 4th, 16:10h
Sunday August 5th, 2012 18:40h
Thursday August 9th, 2012 18:40h
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT

This new LUX touring programme brings together five early shorts by Ben Rivers - The Coming Race; This Is My Land; A World Rattled of Habit; Origin of the Species, Ah, Liberty - which together present a series of portraits of unconventional lives - of people existing, to varying degrees, in wilderness or isolation. River's films are compassionate and elliptical, ambigious documents of both the reality of life outside urban norms and our own Romantic preconceptions of a life beyond bounds. The programme includes This Is My Land, Rivers' first portrait of Jake Williams, later the subject of Two Years at Sea.
Categoría:
Eventos

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