Experimental or avant-garde film is set to take centre-stage at the
Film Archive during This is Experimental: A Festival of Experimental
Film and Film Makers.
The event, organised by Film Archive Exhibitions Manager Mark Williams
is an exciting three days of screenings, talks and a workshop –
presented by, and featuring, local and international guests from the
outer edges of cinematic adventure.
Highlights include: a screening and workshop by Guy Sherwin, one of the
pre-eminent British film artists of the last 40 years; Free Radical:
The films of Len Lye, a collection of work by New Zealand's most
internationally successful film maker, that returns to New Zealand from
a successful North American tour; and The Michael Nicholson Studio
Visual Music Project Stage 3: Ops 1–4, a video installation that pays
homage to the abstract expression paintings of Wassily Kandinsky.
Featuring:
Michael Nicholson, Martin Rumsby, Guy Sherwin, Len Lye
Dates:
Thu 14 Aug 08 - Sat 16 Aug 08, every day, All day event
Venue:
New Zealand Film Archive - Wellington, Cnr Ghuznee and Taranaki Streets, Wellington City
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Measures is a new series of seminars that use screening, reading, discussion and analysis to look at critical assumptions about the image and its meaning once a week over a 10 week period. The first series ‘Politics and the Experimental Film: a sense of urgency’ will by led by AL Rees with one session led by Patrick Keiller who will discuss his film Robinson in Space. The second series will be led by curator Maxa Zoller and will be advertised in January 2009.
Rees will examine key passages of work by (amongst others): Bunuel, Anstey, Richter, The Duvet Brothers, Vertov, Watkins, Le Grice, Gidal, Eatherly, Rhodes, Straub-Huillet, Conner, Debord, Welsby and Ivens seeking the elusive union of film and politics in the last half-century to question what a contemporary political cinema might be?
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Rencontres Internationales will take place at the
Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key
locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented
in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin in June 2009.
Those three events will propose an international programming
focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and
filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young
artists and filmmakers.
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'The Young and Evil' on www.tank.tv
Curated by Stuart Comer
14th July 2008 - 21st September 2008
The digital glow of the internet has largely replaced the dark space of the cinema as the site where furtive desires are first expressed and encountered on flickering screens. Consequently, the web continues to evolve into an uncanny hybrid of personal longing and collective interaction where configurations of watching and being watched take on radically new form. Reconsidering the historical contours and shifting relationships of sex and community in the digital age, a range of artists has been invited to select two works: one contemporary video shown to be shown online, and one historical film to be screened in the cinema. Selectors include Andrea Geyer, William E Jones, Carlos Motta, Emily Roysdon, Akram Zaatari, Daria Martin, Karol Radziszewski and Bruce Yonemoto.
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Bruce Conner, a San Francisco–based artist known for his assemblages,
films, drawings, and interdisciplinary works, passed away Monday
afternoon. Conner moved to San Francisco in 1957 and quickly found his
place within the city’s vibrant Beat community. His gauzy assemblages
of scraps salvaged from abandoned buildings, nylon stockings, doll
parts, and other found materials gained him art-world attention, as did
A Movie (1958), an avant-garde film that juxtaposed footage from
B movies, newsreels, soft-core pornography, and other fragments, all
set to a musical score. (In 1991, A Movie was selected for
preservation by the United States National Film Registry at the Library
of Congress.) Conner was active in the Bay Area’s 1960s counterculture
scene, designing light shows for Family Dog performances at the Avalon
Ballroom, and in the ’70s focused on drawing and photography. Art-world
recognition resumed in the ’80s and continued to the present: Conner
was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, was the subject of a touring
survey in 1999–2000, and is featured in the current Carnegie
International. At Conner’s request, there will be no funeral.
Experimental or avant-garde film is set to take centre-stage at the
Film Archive during This is Experimental: A Festival of Experimental
Film and Film Makers.
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