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New Irish underground film

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 06/11/2013 - 18:03

Irish cinema has never been renowned for harboring a vibrant underground or experimental film scene. There have been significant exceptions (most importantly, aspects of the Irish “First Wave” of the 1970s), but it’s only in recent years that a body of films has emerged that offer a powerful rebuttal to that perception. While to announce a fully-fledged “movement” would be premature, it is safe to say that the work of the four filmmakers featured in this series – Rouzbeh Rashidi, Maximilian Le Cain, Dean Kavanagh and Michael Higgins – represent an important new direction in Irish cinema.

Working with minimal and usually non-existent budgets, primarily on video, with zero crew and casts typically drawn from friends and family, all four filmmakers have been developing at a prolific rate over the past few years. Between them, they have produced 32 features since 2008 – though it must be admitted Rashidi, who in 2012 alone directed 9 features and 76 short films, has been the most insanely fertile contributor. All the filmmakers are members of the Experimental Film Society, an international organization founded by Rashidi aiming “to produce and promote films by its members” who are “distinguished by an uncompromising, no-budget devotion to personal, experimental cinema.” As this series will make clear, they have also been known to appear in each other’s films, and even collaborate on film projects together from time to time. (Strangely enough, Rashidi, Le Cain and Kavanagh have even released three albums of sound art together, under the collective moniker “Cinema Cyanide”.)

Fechas:
Jueves, Noviembre 7, 2013 - De 19:30 hasta 23:30
Jueves, Noviembre 21, 2013 - De 19:30 hasta 23:30
Jueves, Diciembre 5, 2013 - De 19:30 hasta 23:30
Local:
Spectacle Theater - Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Spectacle of Light and Languages

By Marcos Ortega on Dom, 03/11/2013 - 09:52

Microscope Gallery welcomes Philadelphia-based film and video artist Peter Rose for “Spectacle of Light and Languages”, a comprehensive screening of his works in film and video since the 70s, including the premiere of his latest short Solaristics and footage from new 3D works-in-progress.

A mathematical training underlies Rose’s early structural films, where quick cuts and superimposed images form the basis of a kinesthetic exploration of space, time, light and perception. Lyricism and a persistent attempt at breaking down language and meaning continue to guide the artist’s later works, in a personal and uncompromising search for transcendence.

Peter Rose will be in attendance to introduce the screening and available afterwards for Q&A.

Fechas:
De Sábado, Noviembre 16, 2013 - 19:00 hasta Domingo, Noviembre 17, 2013 - 18:55
Local:
MICROSCOPE GALLERY (previous) - Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Guy Sherwin - 11 films from 'Short Film Series'

By kerry baldry on Lun, 21/10/2013 - 11:30

Projection Rooms is pleased to be screening a programme of 11 films from 'Short Film Series' by Guy Sherwin between the hours of 12 and 4.30pm on Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st. The work is part of an ongoing film project by Guy Sherwin which began in 1975. '

The series is held together by certain formal considerations: each film is three minutes long, i.e. the length of a roll of 16mm film, all films are b/w and silent, and the order in which they are shown is flexible. Apart from this there is a range of imagery from portraiture to still life to travel. The films operate on the border between movement and stillness, revealing their inner logic through an active engagement in looking. For the exhibition I have made two DVDs from the 16mm originals, one with 5 films and the other with 6 films. Thus the connections between the films are always changing. A DVD of 34 films from Short Film Series is in production with LUX, to be released late 2013'. - Guy Sherwin

Fechas:
Sábado, Noviembre 30, 2013 - De 12:00 hasta 16:30
Domingo, Diciembre 1, 2013 - De 12:00 hasta 16:30
Local:
Projection Rooms - Hull, Reino Unido
8x8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

By Marcos Ortega on Dom, 20/10/2013 - 12:38

Descrita por el propio Hans Richter como "parte Freud, parte Lewis Carroll", la película es una exploración de los misterios del subconsciente aplicado a la creación basándose en el juego del ajedrez.

- 8x8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, de Hans Richter y Jean Cocteau. EE. UU., 1957. 80´. 16 mm VOSE.
Fechas:
De Martes, Octubre 22, 2013 - 20:00 hasta Miércoles, Octubre 23, 2013 - 19:55
Local:
La Casa Encendida - Madrid, España
Unconscious Archives: The Perfect Medium is the Wrong Message Part 2

By Marcos Ortega on Mar, 15/10/2013 - 15:26

Exploring the dual meaning of ‘mediation’ within performance – the physicality of interpretation, and transcendent ritual.

The fleeting trick of light from the corner of the eye, the brief contact point of chemicals intertwining and reacting, ghosts trapped in the home movie archive, non-human sounds and bodily digressions – ephemerality as told through the body’s appearance and disappearance.

Film archivist Guy Edmonds expounds his impossibly cross-genre home movie séance complete with invited local medium. Tai Shani’s personal pulp theatre show presents things unseen and unheard from the supernatural, and Jonathan Kemp attempts the recursive microwaving of sound. The ever prolific yet inherently underground Ryan Jordan (noise=noise) sets the scene for Possession Trance as DDD. Finally in an unique appearance Glasgow’s TVO (head honcho of the Broken 20 label), conducts his experiments for a bedtime dance floor.

Fechas:
De Sábado, Noviembre 2, 2013 - 19:00 hasta Domingo, Noviembre 3, 2013 - 21:55
Local:
Apiary Studios - London, Reino Unido
Unconscious Archives: The Perfect Medium is the Wrong Message Part 1

By Marcos Ortega on Mar, 15/10/2013 - 15:16

Exploring the dual meaning of ‘mediation’ within performance – the physicality of interpretation, and the psychogeographic mode of ritual (intervention, ghost/shadow, chemical/hack, seance/spook and invocation as divergent themes).

The fleeting trick of light from the corner of the eye, the brief contact point of chemicals intertwining and reacting, ghosts trapped in the home movie archive, non-human sounds and bodily digressions – ephemerality as told through the body’s appearance/disappearance.

Malcolm Le Grice’s seminal expanded cinema and rarely seen Horror Film 1 from 1971 will be performed beside new contemporary live light sculpture from emerging artist Amy Dickson. Renowned artist Aura Satz presents a unique sonic sculpture from her treasure trove, Sally Golding performs her classic projection piece Face of An Other, and Britain’s most under rated and detestable, accidental comic thespian Sir Gideon Vein brings us some live TV.

Fechas:
De Viernes, Noviembre 1, 2013 - 19:30 hasta Sábado, Noviembre 2, 2013 - 22:55
Local:
Cafe Oto - London, Reino Unido
Lamp Posts

By kerry baldry on Mar, 15/10/2013 - 04:39

Projection Rooms will screen a selection of video works from Riccardo Iacono's ongoing project, Lamp Posts: An expanding body of videos and photographs captured using mobile phones, following the artist's experience of everyday situations, such as walking, travelling on the underground, people watching and using the bathroom.

Screenings will take place on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th November between the hours of 12 and 4.30pm. The programme will be looped and lasts approx. 1 hour.

Fechas:
Sábado, Noviembre 9, 2013 - De 12:00 hasta 16:30
Domingo, Noviembre 10, 2013 - De 12:00 hasta 16:30
Local:
Projection Rooms - Hull, Reino Unido
Massart Film Society presents The Films of Tomonari Nishikawa

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 14/10/2013 - 16:22

"In five silent 'sketch' films, introduced by San Francisco morning’s newspaper and its date, Japanese filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa assembles single-frame constructions of cityscapes, of walks down streets, which take on their own quietly spastic frenzy even while evoking other things, such as the many-eyed camera of a Google Street View street car gone into a drunken, propulsive swoon. Lines, circles, numbers, windows, doorways, oval windows and buildings that persist only as angled precipice. Fragmentary glimpses are patterned to create an illusion of persistence of vision, but they are shards upon shards. Weirdly, the effect is both limpid and soothing.

In the mini-DV 'Clear Blue Sky,' ordinary traffic sounds of a warm day rise up against images slightly out-of-focus, or reflected across metal, like a funhouse mirror fashioned from macular degeneration."

Filmmaker in attendance!

Fechas:
De Miércoles, Octubre 16, 2013 - 20:00 hasta Jueves, Octubre 17, 2013 - 19:55
Local:
MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
Bruce Baillie: Coming Into Vision

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 14/10/2013 - 15:22

“One-year journey through the land of incessant progress, researching those sources which have given rise twenty years later to the essential question of survival.” —B.B. on Quixote (1965).

Regarded as the father of the ‘60s West Coast experimental/lyrical film movement and co-founder of Canyon Cinema, Bruce Baillie's virtuoso command of the 16mm film medium has introduced generations of viewers to the wider possibilities of a cinema that is both intensely personal and socially conscious. In anticipation of Baillie's upcoming in-person appearances at the REDCAT (November 3 and 4), and part of a three program retrospective, UCLA Film & Television Archive will present three early masterworks: his rarely-screened and haunting first film, On Sundays (1961), the landscape meditation To Parsifal (1963) and Quixote (1965), Baillie's sumptuously layered, epic road poem on mid-century America and Americana, and others.

Fechas:
Viernes, Octubre 25, 2013 - 19:30
Local:
Billy Wilder Theater - Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
One Minute Volume 7 screenings at The Projection Rooms

By kerry baldry on Sáb, 12/10/2013 - 08:56

One Minute Volume Seven curated by fillmmaker Kerry Baldry will screen at The Projection Rooms on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27th October between the hours of 12 and 4pm

One Minute Volume 7 includes work by: John Smith, Rose Butler, Tony Hill, Steven Ball, Alexander Costello, Leister/Harris, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Louisa Minkin, Claire Hope, Max Hattler, Guy Sherwin, Steven Woloshen, Lynn Loo, Lumiere and Son, Tansy Spinks, Gary Peploe and Peter Nutley, Eva Rudlinger, Michael Szpakowski, Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic) , Matthias Kispert, Stuart Pound, Sellotape Cinema, Alex Pearl, My Name Is Scott, Kerry Baldry, Esther Johnson, Marty St. James, Nicki Rolls, Katherine Meynell, Chris Paul Daniels, Riccardo Iacono, Edwin Rostron, Martin Pickles, Grant Petrey, Annabel Dover, Kelvin Brown

Fechas:
Sábado, Octubre 26, 2013 (Todo el día)
Local:
Projection Rooms - Hull, Reino Unido

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