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'.
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
Todo hombre recuerda las primeras palabras de Neil Amstrong tras pisar la superficie lunar, el 20 de julio de 1969. Pocos recuerdan, en cambio, las de su compañero Buzz Aldrin: “Magnífica vista. Magnífica desolación”. ¿Qué vio Aldrin, dónde están esas imágenes, cómo era esa desolación? Cuando se cumplen 50 años del alunizaje del Apolo 11, Cineteca revisita los caminos cruzados del cine, la ciencia y la exploración lunar, y recorre las imágenes con las que el cine soñó la luna y el espacio exterior.
Avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage moved to New York in 1954, a stay which culminated in the seminal film Anticipation of the Night. Brakhage broke with the idea that film should record and tell a story acted out for the camera. Here, there is no on-screen protagonist; the protagonist is the director, the images on screen communicate his subjectivity. To do so, Brakhage developed an array of strategies and techniques, including fluid handheld camera movements, rapid editing, and the use of abstract imagery.
Fechas:
De Martes, Mayo 28, 2019 - 19:00 hasta Miércoles, Mayo 29, 2019 - 18:55
The special programme “Expanded Painlevé”, conceived with guest curator Federico Rossin, combines the films of Jean Painlevé, surrealist poet of wildlife, with those by filmmakers from the American and European avant-garde who have pursued different modes of openness to the animal world.
