Latitudes es un ciclo de cine experimental que surge como una iniciativa autogestiva y sin fines de lucro, dedicado a visibilizar el trabajo de colectivos independientes que desarrollan prácticas experimentales en América Latina.
A través de tres sesiones temáticas y una performance final de cine expandido, el programa ofrece un recorrido por la producción experimental contemporánea, enfatizando el trabajo con materialidad fílmica y formatos analógicos.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology explores the radical practice of one of today's most prolific and politically charged film collectives. Emerging in 2012, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos challenges cinematic conventions through a decolonial lens, making films that dissolve the boundaries between ritual and resistance, myth and history, the personal and the collective.
"En la naturaleza, cada flor, cada pétalo aislado, es capaz de maravillarnos. No es extraño que expresemos el placer que nos produce su mero color. Los espíritus de la naturaleza nos hablan a través de los colores singulares, así como los espíritus de los cielos nos hablan a través del sonido de los diversos instrumentos musicales. Apenas podemos expresar lo mucho que nos conmueve y nos afecta cada uno de los colores, pues los colores mismos nos hablan con dulce tono.” W. Wackenroder, “Die Farben”.
Join us on February 24, 2024, at 3 pm ET for an exclusive digital screening of Eco-Art Experimental Films and Videos at Deering Estate Visitor Center Auditorium. Admission is free with Eventbrite registration. Please save the date for these diverse and challenging artist-crafted films and videos that intertwine the concern for nature and our relation to it expressed within the possibilities of experimental cinema.
This Radiant World: Recent and Retrospective Experimental Films is a four-program series of exceptional experimental films from the last few years, complemented by several newly restored and preserved retrospective works. Many of the films comment directly or indirectly on the anxieties and uncertainty of the past two years; others serve as joyful and playful counterpoints. Together, they demonstrate the continuing richness of experimental cinema, the history of which is exemplified by this selection of lesser-known works that are overdue for rediscovery and reappraisal.
Repeated Apparitions is a programme of screenings, performances and events that muse over repetitive cycles of oppression and their social invisibility and normalisation. Through a shared exploration of radical images, wild experimental sounds and evocative texts, the programme looks at how repetition can be used to create processes of reparation and renewal, disrupt the past and imagine new realities.
From appropriation of dominant cinematic archives, to critical scrutiny of film techniques, the 12 modern and contemporary artists' works presented in this program exemplify an alternative and highly self-reflective form of cinema. Following Erika Balsom’s understanding of contemporary art as a potential “laboratory for film, a place in which its social, technological and aesthetic history can be picked over and recycled,” they reconsider what cinema is (or was) and what it can do. With an emphasis on the ideology behind the operation of filmic apparatus and the technological externalization of memory and time, the works in this program expose critical and aesthetic potentials of “an other cinema,” oscillating between white cube and black box.
Fechas:
De Lunes, Septiembre 6, 2021 (Todo el día) hasta Lunes, Septiembre 20, 2021 (Todo el día)
Films by makers from different backgrounds, countries, homelands and nations. Films which assert identity and presence in the face of—and regardless of—colonial histories and outdated traditions of anthropology and ethnography. Films which make space for poetry, for beauty, for movement between cosmological and visceral worlds, sometimes blurring the lines between both. These filmmakers claim what was always theirs and celebrate what was never lost.
Fechas:
De Viernes, Abril 16, 2021 (Todo el día) hasta Sábado, Mayo 15, 2021 (Todo el día)
