In 1991, shortly after the end of the Gulf War, filmmaker Simone Bitton recorded an encounter between Palestinian historian Elias Sanbar and French film critic Serge Daney. Sanbar is a collector of images – an exile who archives the memory of his people: press photographs, family albums, postcards, and so on. To him, the image serves as proof of his identity. By contrast, although he spent most of his life watching films, Daney always refused to keep still images.
Visual Studies Workshop presents Monster in Me: Video Work by Cecelia Condit, a screening of works from across the four decade career of video artist Cecelia Condit. Her experimental videos are deeply personal, dense with texture, and threaded with wry humor as they explore themes of feminist horror. These videos connect surreal dream spaces to the real, waking world, commenting on everyday cycles of violence.
Homegrown Stories is an online collaborative media project featuring the work of nationally and internationally recognized film, video and sound artists. Established in 2013, Homegrown Stories has resulted in the creation of over 160 short experimental videos. These ‘moving poetry’ projects are inspired by prompts and chance strategies. Filmmaker LeAnn Erickson, Jeff Caplan, and Brian Alves will be in attendance for Q&A.
Micro Spells: Expanded Cinema & New Music Performance is a quarterly series of live collaborative exchanges between artists working within the areas of performance cinema and the sonic arts, curated by John Davis & Steve Polta and presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and Vallejo Experimental Arts. Each live event will offer audiences an opportunity to share in the multisensory integrations and temporal shifts unique to the juxtaposition of moving images and sound, featuring artists from California and beyond.
Signal Overload is an interdisciplinary celebration of experimental time-based media returning for its second year to the Starlite Drive-in Theater in Bloomington, Indiana on October 1st. The festival brings together experimental film, video synthesis, live music, poetry, and other forms of time-based art in an informal, accessible setting. The drive-in provides a unique environment for experiencing experimental media. Audiences can move through the space, watch live performances up close, or relax in their cars with popcorn while experiencing the projections on screen.
Silver Sillon Performance by Gaëlle Rouard and Lê Quan Ninh As part of the "Festival Pour Les Oiseaux"
*Silver Sillon* is a collaborative performance by filmmaker Gaëlle Rouard and Lê Quan Ninh.
On stage, 16mm films, projectors, streaks of light, and vinyl records are set in motion simultaneously. Gaëlle Rouard treats the film stock as living matter: she projects and transforms it, allowing its imperfections, dust, and colors to emerge.
