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  • Xcèntric: Landscape Plus. The cinema of Laida Lertxundi

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    Llora cuando te pase (Cry When it Happens) (Laida Lertxundi, 2010)Xcèntric: Landscape Plus. The cinema of Laida Lertxundi
    Sunday, February 10 2013, 18:30h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    The cinema of Laida Lertxundi, made in and around Los Angeles, draws out a physical and psychological geography of the area, as well as dismounting cinematographic conventions. This session includes her most recent films and a selection of works in 16 mm by Hollis Frampton, Bruce Baillie and Morgan Fisher, who had a major influence on her work.

    - Lemon (Hollis Frampton, 1969, 16 mm, 7 min)
    - Footnotes to a House of Love (Laida Lertxundi, 2007, 16 mm, 13 min)
    - My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, 2009, 16 mm, 4 min)
    - All My Life (Bruce Baillie, 1966, 16 mm, 3 min)
    - Llora cuando te pase (Cry When it Happens) (Laida Lertxundi, 2010, 16 mm, 14 min)
    - A Lax Riddle Unit (Laida Lertxundi, 2011, 16 mm, 5 min)
    - Picture and Sound Rushes (Morgan Fisher, 1974, 16 mm, 11 min)
    - Farce Sensationelle! (Laida Lertxundi, 2004, 35 mm, 2 min)

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  • Environmental Agency: A Landscape Film Programme

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    Water Wrackets (Peter Greenaway, 1975)Environmental Agency: A Landscape Film Programme
    Tuesday March 5 2013, 18:20h
    BFI Southbank
    Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT

    The awe-inspiring power of nature and its associated weather systems as explored across a range of groundbreaking works by renowned artist filmmakers. Subtle shifts in natural light, delicate tidal movements and the terraforming power of seasonal change determine the shape and structure of several of the films here. Others reflect with great beauty on the impact that nature has on our lives as an alchemical, elemental force. A timely programme for today’s changing world.

    Breath (1975. William Raban. 16min); Colour Separation (1976. Chris Welsby. 2min); Colours of This Time (1972. William Raban. 4min); Water Wrackets (1975. Peter Greenaway. 12min); Three Short Landscape Films (1979. Renny Croft. 6min); Walk (1975. Jenny Okun. 5min); Bridge (1980. John Woodman. 4min); Aerial (1974. Margaret Tait. 4min); Aspect (2004. Emily Richardson. 9min); Proximity (2006. Inger Lise Hansen. 4min)

    Introduced by artist John Woodman and BFI National Archive curator William Fowler.

    The programme will be followed by a launch in the BFI Shop of two new LUX titles on DVD: Trilogy (Inger Lise Hansen) and Landscape Films 1977-1982 (John Woodman).

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  • Geometry in motion

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    Radio dynamics (Oskar Fischinger, 1942)Geometry in motion
    Wednesday, February 18 2013, 18h
    Musée d'art moderne André Malraux
    2, boulevard Clemenceau, 76600 Le Havre

    A programme in resonance with the coming of the Centre Pompidou Mobile to Le Havre that will present "Circles and Squares," a selection of works about geometric abstraction.

    Shortly after painting, cinema takes possession of abstraction in the first decades of the 20th century. After the first works (the chromatic music of the Italian Futurists, the colorful rhythms of Leopold Survage) it is in Germany where the first stream of abstract film develops.

    Based on this historical avant-garde, this programme will provide an overview of geometry in motion along with American films and contemporary digital experimentation.

    Programme:
    - Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, 1921-23, 3’20, 16 mm, b&w)
    - Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggeling, 1921-24, 7’00, 16 mm, b&w)
    - Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp, 1925-26, 2’00, 16 mm, b&w)
    - Kreise (Oskar Fischinger, 1933, 2’00, 16 mm, colour)
    - Squares (Oskar Fischinger, 1934, 5’00, 16 mm, colour)
    - Radio dynamics (Oskar Fischinger, 1942, 4’00, 16 mm, colour)
    - Matrix III (John Whitney, 1972, 11’00, 16 mm, colour)
    - 69 (Robert Breer, 968, 5’00, 16 mm, colour)
    - Get Set (Ian Helliwell, 2005, 3’25, video, colour)
    - Machination (Lia, 2010, 5’43, video, colour)
    - Star light n°5 bis (Cécile Fontaine, 2012, 5’55, video, colour)

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  • A Shroud to Hold the Light: films by John Price

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    the sounding lines are obsolete (John Price, 2009)Double Negative Collective presents:
    A Shroud to Hold the Light: films by John Price
    Saturday February, 16th 2013, 21h
    Cinémathèque québécoise, Claude-Jutra Theatre
    335, De Maisonneuve Blvd East, Montréal, Québec, H2X 1K1
    Filmmaker In Person

    In a career spanning over two decades, Toronto-based filmmaker John Price has created an impressive body of work in 16mm and 35mm. Price’s remarkably prolific creative output places him among the finest voices working today in the tradition of diaristic filmmaking.

    An avid chronicler of the quotidian, Price documents the intimate details of his personal life. His careful observation captures precious moments of domestic events – the birth of his child (naissance #1), family trips and Thanksgiving celebrations (Party #4, Camp #2), the growth of his children (domashnyee kino / home movie). The episodic fragments he collects often form a series of thematically linked vignettes (Sea Series #5, #7, #8 and #11), and one of the pleasures his films offer derives from viewing them in ensemble rather than in isolation.

    His films, however, extend far beyond the simple memorialization of the everyday; they also foreground his engagement in aesthetic experimentation with light, colour, grains and textures, functioning as the records of the filmmaker’s meditation on the medium he chooses to work with. His filmmaking grew out of his early interest in traditional darkroom photography. The tactile experience of working with physical material constitutes the essential part of his craft. Experimenting with unconventional processing techniques that produce unpredictable photochemical reactions on the fragile emulsion, Price creates images that have unique tonal and textural qualities, imbued with timeless beauty and quiet lyricism.

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  • The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge

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    The 9th Berlin International Directors LoungeThe 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge
    the festival for contemporary media and film
    February 7 - 17, Naherholung Sternchen, behind the Kino International
    U-Schillingstraße, Berolinastr. 7, 10178 Berlin-Mitte

    [DL9], the 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the annual festival for contemporary media and film, is heading at you, faster than a bullet and with more power to knock you off your feet. Flights of fancy without (more than occasional) flights from sanity - just what the doctor ordered, antidote and overdose rolled into one. Films have come in from all over the globe, all shapes and sizes, to be trussed up into the neatest of packages and their fuses lit for the explosion. And snaking around it all, live music and performance art and a whole lot more. These eleven days dare you to miss them.

    The Naherholung Sternchen, in-spot with cult appeal, will once again provide the stage for this melding of flickering visions and formidable visionaries... just behind the near-legendary Kino International near Alexanderplatz, eleven days waiting to shake your world. A truly one-off Berliner film-and-more experience. No sides drawn up - filmmaker and film-goer thrown together. No red carpet, but a yellow brick road into Wonder City.

    Nine years can't be wrong. Believing is indeed seeing.

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  • Xcèntric: Political matters

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    Austerity Measures (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, 2012)Xcèntric: Political matters
    Thursday, February 7, 20h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    Political reality is frequently limited to a more documentary or realistic register. This programme presents different contemporary approaches to politics and the corrosive effects of capitalism, from the viewpoint of the sensitive, formalist abstraction of the visual material itself: the clandestine night-time recording of Afghan and Iraqi refugees at the camp at Sangatte, France (Border); the crushing of cars at the end of the consumer cycle (Chevelle); protests against austerity measures in Athens (Austerity Measures), and the political commentary of Ken Jacobs on the decline of capitalism.

    - Border (Laura Waddington, 2004, video, 27 min)
    - Chevelle (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2012, 35 mm, 7 min)
    - Austerity Measures (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, 2012, 16 mm, 8 min)
    - Seeking the Monkey King (Ken Jacobs, 2011, Blu-ray, 39 min)

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  • Scratch Projection: F O C U S

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    1859 (Fred Worden, 2008)Scratch Projection: F O C U S
    Tuesday 12 February 2013, 20:30h
    Cinéma Action Christine
    4, rue Christine, 75006 Paris

    Program introduced by Erwin van ‘t Hart (International Film Festival of Rotterdam and freelance programmer)

    Zen for film, a retreat in the cinema. Complex film structures leading to a coherent visual experience, striving for simplicity and ultimately: nothingness. Films by Nicholas Brooks, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Fred Worden, Takahiko Iimura and Paul Sharits will fill the space. An invitation to sit and contemplate.
    How to prepare for a choreographic etude for unusual objects, a symmetrical film concept with two distinct centers, a celestial space filled with spherical light flares, a balanced superimposition of natural and rectangular form or a complex narrative of solid color harmonies? A quote by Arata Isozaki from the text of the film Ma: Space/Time from the Garden of Ryoan-ji will lead the way.

    Perceive not the objects
    but the distance
    between them
    not the sounds
    but the pauses
    they leave unfilled

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  • Scratch Projection: F O C U S

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    1859 (Fred Worden, 2008)Scratch Projection: F O C U S
    Tuesday 12 February 2013, 20:30h
    Cinéma Action Christine
    4, rue Christine, 75006 Paris

    Program introduced by Erwin van ‘t Hart (International Film Festival of Rotterdam and freelance programmer)

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    Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 19:30 to 21:30

  • Xcèntric: Museum Films II - The MACBA Collection

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    Not I (Samuel Beckett, 1972)Xcèntric: Museum Films II - The MACBA Collection
    Thursday January 31st 2013, 20h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    The early days of video: the day a camera was taken into an artist’s studio not only provided a reflective, narcissistic gaze, as Rosalind Krauss has said, it also discovered a time of its own—genuine, expanded and with no restrictions whatsoever. Four titles provide an introduction to the key decade around which the MACBA Collection is constructed. Presented by Carles Guerra, chief conservator at the MACBA and programmer of this session.

    - Pulling Mouth (Bruce Nauman, 1969, 11 min.)
    - Marcel Broodthaers. Musée d’art du XVIIe siècle (Jef Cornelis, 1969, 5 min.)
    - Not I (Samuel Beckett, 1972, 12 min.)
    - Baldessari Sings Lewitt (John Baldessari, 1972, 13 min.)

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