Monday, 30 August 2010 19:03
Marcos Ortega
 Wavelengths, the avant-garde film & video section of the Toronto International Film Festival, reaches its tenth edition presenting six programmes with the latest experimental works from all over the world.
Curated by TIFF Cinematheque programmer Andréa Picard and running from September 10 to 13, among the section's highlights are the latest works by Peter Tscherkassky, Nathaniel Dorsky, Dominic Angeranme, Tomonari Nishikawa, Vincent Grenier and John Price. This year's edition also features some jewels from early twentieth-century film, including a short work by cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón. Also worthy of interest is this year's section City to City, dedicated to Istanbul, that features experimental works by turkish filmmakers Eytan Ipeke, Yoel Meranda and Burçak Kaygun.
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Monday, 24 May 2010 13:47
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 The third installment in Lowave's anthology series Resistance(s), presenting experimental films and videos from the Middle East and North Africa, launches next May 29th. BFI Southbank celebrates the release with a screening of the programme curated by Silke Schmickl and Christine Sehnaoui, followed by a Q&A with Silke Schmickl and a reception at the BFI Filmstore. DVD includes 9 films, interviews, bios, (runtime 118 minutes, PAL/NTSC, region free, stereo, 4:3/16:9), plus a booklet with a text by Olivier Hadouchi, RESISTANCE[S] III : Body poetry, politics of space and time. 25€.
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 11:13
Marcos Ortega
 Or-bits is a web-based curatorial project, that aims to provide ' a platform displaying contemporary arts and (be) a trigger for the production of new works.' They present multidisciplinary curated programs of film, video, text and sound works ' exploring (the) ways we perceive things, promoting practices and dialogues across and beyond media'. Their latest programme, on-looking, begins by discussing Takahiko Iimura's Observer/Observed and other works of video Semiology and displays works from emerging video artists, such as Emma Hart and Annalisa Sonzogni, as well as other artists using video as a tool to explore the subject, such as Alexandra Ferreira and Bettina Wind and Davide Tidoni.
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 08:09
Marcos Ortega
 The Museum of Modern Art in New York will present a month-long retrospective of the work of Barbara Hammer, spanning from her first films from the late 60s to the premiere of her new film Generations, made in collaboration with Gina Carducci (Stone Welcome Mat). From September 15 to October 13, the museum will screen a total of 15 themed programmes covering both her experimental and documentary work. Barbara Hammer will be present at some of the screenings to discuss her films or read from her recently published autobiography, Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life (The Feminist Press, 2010). The event Modern Mondays: Hidden Hammer, An Evening with Barbara Hammer (October 4, 19h) will concentrate on her performance, photography, and installation work, and discuss some of the lesser known and hidden aspects of her practice.
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- Lowave releases Samuel Bester's multimedia work "Sylt - The Land Where The Ground Shrinks". Produced by Cumulus & Les Editions du réel.
