Stan Brakhage (14 de Enero de 1933 – 9 de Marzo de 2003) fue un cienasta experimental estadounidense. Es considerado como uno de los más importantes cineastas experimentales el siglo XX. Trabajó con diversos formatos de celuloide: 16mm, 8mm, 35mm, e IMAX, y fue un practicante de lo que denominó como 'pure cinema'.
Fred Camper has written about the films of Stan Brakhage for over five decades. Collected here for the first time in a single volume, his writing forms a body of criticism commensurate with the importance of Brakhage's films to late 20th century American art.
Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 8pm Session : De la roche/About the Rock (in presence of Juliette Agnel) Espace En cours, Paris
Braquage proposes a session revolving around the material of rocks, boulders, stone and their geological or plastic modifications. (Screening with the photographer Juliette Agnel)
Scenes from under childhood. STAN BRAKHAGE. 1967 Study in natural magic. CHARLOTTE PRYCE. 2013 In the shadow of Marcus mountain. ROBERT SCHALLER. 2011 The secret Garden. PHIL SOLOMON. 1988 Night Train. GUY SHERWIN. 1979 Sound over water. MARY HELENA CLARK. 2009
Regarded for decades as one of the monumental and iconic works of the historical American avant-garde, Stan Brakhage’s five-part Dog Star Man remains a defining and radically original work of independent cinema. Utilizing numerous inventive filmmaking techniques ranging from distortion lenses, multiple superimpositions, hyperkinetic editing, hand-painting, and even the physical collaging of materials onto the film strip, Dog Star Man employs a vividly subjective, hypnagogic vision following a mythic man’s ascent and struggle through the obstacles and vicissitudes of existence. Images of birth, death, nature, the cosmos, and the psyche gradually combine and coalesce over the course of the film’s 74 minutes with increasing intensity and complexity, resulting in a total cinematic experience that remains unique nearly sixty years after its initial making.
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) is most well-known for the development, from the late 1950s onwards, of a cinema (he made over 450 films) in which the camera replaces the protagonist, freeing it from conventional positions and hence engagement with both subject and the viewer. His work is characterized by images where variations in exposure and focus, handheld camera movement, light flares, refractions and flashes are in a constant state of flux and interplay.
El 4 de noviembre de 2001 tuvo lugar la primera sesión de Xcèntric, un programa regular de proyecciones dedicado al cine experimental y de artistas inédito en la ciudad de Barcelona. Justo 20 años después, celebramos el aniversario de Xcèntric con un conjunto de proyecciones, performances y charlas que conforman un homenaje al cine como experiencia colectiva, a la supervivencia del film fotoquímico y al oficio del proyeccionista, además de una necesaria reflexión sobre el presente y el futuro del cine en la era digital.
“Mientras follamos siento que toda mi historia política, que todos mis años de feminismo avanzan directamente hacia el centro de su cuerpo, se derraman sobre ella como encontrando en su piel su verdadera y única playa. Mientras me corro encima, borbotean a mi lado Wittig y Davis, Woolf y Solanas, la Pasionaria y Kate Bornstein. Ella está cubierta de mi feminismo como por una eyaculación fina, como por un océano de purpurina política.” (Testo Yonki. Paul B. Preciado).
The impact of significant loss has exerted a powerful influence on several American avant-garde filmmakers. The Melancholy Lens offers a detailed look at biographical and psychological factors discernible in the art of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, and Ernie Gehr with an aim toward a greater understanding of their work.
No other avant-garde filmmaker explored and celebrated the aesthetics of home movies with more fervor and complexity than Brakhage, most notably in his Songs, Sincerity, Nightmare, and Duplicity series. This program, selected by his wife Marilyn Brakhage, is a sampling of this work. Program 95 min.
Fechas:
De Viernes, Enero 10, 2020 - 19:00 hasta Sábado, Enero 11, 2020 - 18:55
