The Maya Stendhal Gallery (New York) has opened its exhibition George Maciunas 1953 - 1978: Charts, Diagrams, Films, Documents and Atlases, dedicated to the work and life of the leader of the Fluxus movement. The works to be exhibited are Atlas of Russian History, Prehistoric Chinese Art (Shang and Chou Dynasties), European and Siberian Art of Migration, Biography Chronicling Activity between 1939-1978, and Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus (incomplete). The exhibition will close next October 28th.
In time with the beggining to this exposition about his friend and countryman, Jonas Mekas has published in his web an excerpt of his film Zefiro Torna: Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas.
At the MoMA (New York) and until tomorrow September 30th, there is a Su Friedrich retrospective. The event, aptly called The personal films of Su Friedrich, will center in her mid-career films, with titles such as Hide and seek (1996), The ties that bind (1984), Sink or swim (1990), The odds of recovery (2002) or her new film Seeing red (2005).
Su Friedrich has seen this year 13 of her films remastered and edited in a 5 DVD edition by Outcast Films. Seeing Red has also been released as a separate DVD.
Finally, Index, the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation hosts an exhibition featuring the work of Harun Farocki. The exhibition, that will close next November 5th, will center on the film Videogramme einer Revolution, and offers a DVD library with 12 of Farocki's works.
For the very first time since its beginning in 1979, the 28th edition of the 
The 2006 edition of The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE) festival, that will take place days 11-15th of October in Denver, Colorado, USA has made public its programme. Highlights are: the screening of newly restored prints of Frans Zwartjes' films Sorbet III, Spectator and Living, and a restored print of The Illiac Passion, by Gregory Markopoulos; new films by Luther Price and Kerry Laitala, and a programme dedicated to the work of fillmmaker and video artist Sheri Wills.
The programme for the 10th edition of 
The 50th London Film Festival will present this year its fourth 
En el centésimo aniversario del nacimiento de Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983), Cinematexas proyectará una retrospectiva completa de sus 14 cortos el próximo 21 de Septiembre. Bute, que comenzó como su carrera como pintora desarrolló su obra fílmica entre los años 30 a 50, a través de cortos de animación abstractos en los que plasmaba el sonido en imágenes.
El 
En el Festival Internacional del Cine de Toronto (TIFF), la presencia del cine experimental va cobrando mayor fuerza cada año. La edición de este año que se celebra del 7 al 16 de Septiembre, alberga la sexta edición de su programa Wavelengths. Wavelengths (en homenaje al artista canadiense Michael Snow), está dedicado en eclusiva al cine experimental, en palabras de sus creadores, "mostrando obras de artistas que usan el medio como forma de expresión personal para explorar las cualidades únicas temporales, táctiles y auditivas del cine". Entre las obras destacadas del 
Ken Jacobs presentará su nuevo film, Two Wrenching Departures, el próximo 28 de Septiembre en el MoMA (Nueva York). La película es "una meditación de 90 minutos sobre las muertes de sus amigos Jack Smith y Bob Fleischner, que murieron con cuatro días de diferencia en 1989." Tanto Smith como Fleischner aparecieron frecuentemenete en la obra de Jacobs, sobre todo en