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.
LaborBerlin is pleased to present a programme with films by members of our fellow filmlab Harkat Lab from Mumbai. Harkat Lab was founded three years ago as part of Harkat Studios, a production company who turn their space into an off-space on several evenings a week, showing a diverse program of theater plays and concerts. Based on this existing community, Harkat Lab have evolved over the past three years in terms of personnel, technology and space, and established international connections.
Seminario teórico-prácticodirigido aartistas residentes en todo el mundo,con experiencia en trabajo audiovisual (cine experimental, videoarte, etc.) que cuenten con proyectos en desarrollo vinculados al cine experimental.
Microscope kicks off its series of “imageless” performances in connection and collaboration with the current series “Imageless Films” at Anthology Film Archives with “Films Imaginaires,” a rare evening of 16mm films and performances by the French artist Maurice Lemaître (1926 – 2018).
Katherine Bauerwas born in Houston, Texas, and has recently been living in France.She mainly works with 16mm film and its plastic potential in the context of sculptures, installa
