Experimental Cinema

Focus: Pablo Marín
Viernes 18 de mayo, 18:30h
Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Arenales 1540, Buenos Aires
Entrada libre

Pablo Marín nació en 1982 en Buenos Aires. Es docente, traductor, cineasta y creador de La región central, blog dedicado al cine experimental. Fue curador de muestras de cine y video, y del dvd Dialéctica en suspenso: Argentine Experimental Film and Video, editado por Antennae Collection. Como crítico, colaboró en diversas publicaciones, y su ensayo sobre Claudio Caldini, “Construcciones espirituales”, acompaña una edición en Blu-ray de próxima aparición. Sus películas han sido exhibidas en el Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Oberhausen, TIE, Festival Internacional de Cine de Rotterdam, Festival de Cine de Londres, Museo de Cine de Austria, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Pacific Film Archive, The 8 Fest, FLEX Fest, $100 Film Festival, BAFICI y Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, entre otros.

The 56th BFI London Film Festival
10-25 October 2012

The BFI London Film Festival will present its annual survey of avant-garde and artists’ film & video in October 2012.

Eligible works must have been made within the last two years and should receive their UK theatrical premiere in the festival. Recent archival restorations may also be considered. The final deadlines for receipt of entries are 22 June 2012 (short films) and 6 July 2012 (features).

If you would like your work to be considered for the programme, complete the appropriate online form and send preview copies, or email details of works in progress, as soon as possible. Label all preview materials clearly “for the attention of Mark Webber”. Please note that there is no entry fee for works made in the UK or by UK artists.

For UK works : http://form.jotformpro.com/form/20644981059964

For international works : http://form.jotform.com/form/20502823171

Further information on eligibility and regulations : http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/2104

Details of the 2011 programme can still be found online at :
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/films/experimenta
http://www.experimentaweekend.org/

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Think:Film
International Experimental Cinema Congress 2012
10-14 October 2012
Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg, Berlin

Following a period of diversification of experimental forms of artistic production, it has become necessary to come up with new ways to think about film and the types of thought created by it and within it.

The ability to break down and translate image and sound into digital codes represents a fundamental shift in filmmaking practice and has led to massive changes with regard to production technology. The concentration and processing of different time-based art forms within computers has let loose a wealth of new synesthetic opportunities, many of the examples of which were anticipated by certain advanced film forms. Practices that used to be the strict reserve of the experimental, avant-garde and underground film genres have been seized upon thanks to these new technologies, placed in new commercial contexts and popularized. In this way, the economic history of the "avant-garde" has become of relevance above and beyond its cultural impetus. The position of artistic authorship and curatorial and production activity within this new distribution landscape needs to be reflected upon in new ways.

The central goal of Think:Film is to make a philosophical reassessment of the special position enjoyed by film and the cinematic image in artistic and intellectual practice and to redefine what this position might be. What direct influence does the cinematic image have on current thought and how can film itself become a way of thinking? The congress is not concerned primarily with film genres, but seeks instead to pose fundamental questions: What is thought in connection with cinematic images and what are these images in connection with thought? Which types of images trigger which types of thought, which are capable of eradicating which types of thought? Which types of images can become an integral part of which types of thought? Which cinematic images are in circulation and which kind of thinking does this point to?

Atelier Impopulaire #3: Double Negative
New canadian experimental cinema: works from the Double Negative Collective
Friday, May 18 2012, 20.30h
O’ via pastrengo 12, milano isola

For its third installment, Atelier Impopulaire presents a selection of the works by the collective of canadian filmmakers and visual artists Double Negative Collective, presented by Philippe Léonard. Since its inception in 2004, the Double Negative Collective has become a major presence in today’s experimental cinema scene in Montreal, Canada. Its inique existence has had an undeniable impact on the shifting landscape of moving-image art in the local community. Self-financed, the Double Negative Collective has succeeded for over eight years to maintain its own studio with a variety of analogue filmmaking equipment, as well as organize experimental film screenings, performances and artist talks that continue to inspire the artistic communities both at home and abroad.

Curated by Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi