To trace back the beginning of the complicated relation between Israel and Palestine is not a simple task even for international experts. However, how do world-renowned and acclaimed documentarists see the long-lasting dispute with moments of fragile peace alternating with acts of aggression?
Desde sus inicios el cine se anuncia como una promesa lumínica de un cuerpo en movimiento. En la pantalla el cuerpo danza, el cuerpo goza, desafía a veces los cánones de representación y nos invita a reflexionar sobre cuestiones de identidad y género. Esta edición del Aula Xcèntric propone un acercamiento a la historia del cine experimental a través de la fascinación de los y las cineastas de vanguardia por la figuración del cuerpo y por las posibilidades que ofrece la materia fílmica y el cine digital para representarlo.
Introduction: Toward a new history of the experimental cinema
Part one. Origins of the American avant-garde cinema, 1920-1959. - The first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak - Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas - The woman filmmaker in the New York avant-garde / Lauren Rabinovitz - Women in the avant-garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Trinh T. Minh-ha / Agnès Varda
“I sometimes keep to one shot for a long time. A certain tension builds up between the beginning and the end of that shot, which immediately looks like fiction. It is indeed difficult to escape from fiction. But in the same way it’s also difficult to escape from the documentary style.” —Chantal Akerman.
GAZE invites submissions for Certain Tension, a tribute to Chantal Akerman’s vision and practice in exploring tensions between documentary and fiction. With this exploratory homage, we invite films and videos that extend or critique Akerman’s work. The call is open to short form films, videos, or installations that draw on the themes of Akerman’s legacy––personal explorations that entangle with social issues, the relation between personal memory and political history, the cinematic experience of time, and the interweaving of fiction and documentary.
OnFilm is excited to present the Spring 2016 program “Voicing,” featuring the works of Chantal Akerman, Mounira Al Solh, Jayce Salloum and Mónica Savirón. Formally, these works are organized around the possibilities of spoken or textual narration enlivening an otherwise minimal soundtrack. However together, they elaborate an idiosyncratic critique of the authority of the voiceover as material and political conquest, problematizing the narration of identity (or imperatives to do so) in politically fraught art markets, and restating the performative faculties of the camera in playfully inventive and wildly affecting ways.
Fechas:
De Jueves, Febrero 18, 2016 - 19:30 hasta Viernes, Febrero 19, 2016 - 20:55
This program presents new experimental films and videos not yet shown in New York, in conversation with rarely seen works by avant-garde masters such as Lis Rhodes and Chantal Akerman. These artistic views have the ability to enhance our perception through symbolism, transformation, and a keen sense of creative freedom. By shifting cinematic, private, gendered, financial, and geographical priorities, what is usually absent becomes present. These works are meditations on the act of looking, visual poems in which imposed narratives get rejected or argued against. Words, forms, and depictions of any kind are broken apart to explore and expose the language of cinema. For these artists, making films is like “writing on burning paper” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Heretical Empiricism, 1967).
A Critical Cinema 4 is the fourth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald once again engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the network of interconnections within the community of filmmakers.
