Experimental Cinema

Some recent releases on DVD

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:31:37 +0000

- Lowave releases Samuel Bester's multimedia work "Sylt - The Land Where The Ground Shrinks". Produced by Cumulus & Les Editions du réel.
- Other Cinema DVD is offering the 5-DVD pack Media Mash-Ups containing Johan Grimonprez' "dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y", TV Sheriff's "Not 4 $ale", Animal Charm's "Golden Digest", Negativland's "Our Favorite Things", and Craig Baldwin's "Mock Up On Mu" for 75US$.
- Re:voir reissues on DVD format their formerly available only on tape "Fluxfilm Anthology" and Berthold Bartosch's "L'idee". They're currently working on new titles by Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Gunvor Nelson and Jonas Mekas.
- Pat O'Neill has two new DVDs for sale in his website, "Water and power" and "Seven Three Six Two".

Wavelengths 2010

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:03:50 +0000

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.

Resistance(s) III

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:47:20 +0000

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€.

Or-bits: on-looking

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:13:51 +0000

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.

Barbara Hammer retrospective at MoMA

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:09:20 +0000

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.

WNDX Festival of Film and Video Art 2010

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:08:52 +0000

"Winnipeg's festival of film and video art" WNDX reaches its fifth edition, as always, with the intent to offer the most innovative film and video works by artists from Canada and all over the world. From September 30 to October 3, the festival's highlights include partial retrospectives dedicated to Barbara Sternberg and George Kuchar (who will also be the protagonist of a conversation with Guy Maddin, the screening of Jennifer M. Kroot's It Came From Kuchar and a workshop); a multi-projector film and video installation by Malena Szlam; and their already classic One Take Super 8 Event.

Abstracta 2010

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:31:06 +0000

The fifth edition of Abstracta, the international exhibition of abstract cinema, will take place next August 25-28 in the Isola Tiberina, Rome. During its evening screenings, the festival will present 54 short films in both competitive and non-competitive sections.
This year's jury will be presided by Spanish filmmaker Javier Aguirre and comprised by Vanna Fadini (President of Link Campus University), Gerardo Lo Russo (Director of Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma), Pierluigi Raffaelli (Cofounder Cineteca Lucana), Gennaro Migliore (Cultural National responsible of S.E.L.), Saul Saguatti (filmmaker) and Anton Fuxjaeger (TFM, Universitaet Wien).

VisualcontainerTV: Michal Brzezinski

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

VisualcontainerTV: Michał Brzeziński
July 18th - September 1st 2010
VisualcontainerTV

Web TV channel VisualcontainerTV dedicates a mongraphic programme to the work of polish multimedia artist Michał Brzeziński. Brzeziński, theoretician and curator in the Contemporary Art Center Laznia in Gdansk, combines in his work the tradition of video art and experimental cinema and reflects on the phenomenon of identity in the world of new media.

3rd VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival

videoholica@gmail.com (videoholica) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:34:37 +0000

Between August 10th and August 18th, 2010, the 3rd edition of VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival will be held in Varna accompanying AUGUST IN ART International Biennial of Visual Arts. During the festival 9-day duration, according to the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 motto 'KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE', various video selections and projects describing diverse concepts and interpretations of the term ‘illusion’ as a phenomenon discovered and studied with the techniques of video art will be screened and presented.

VIDEOHOLICA 2010's main program, which includes over 150 video art works (selected from more than 500), part of which thematically divided into the selections 'East Asia', 'Dance' , 'BG', will be presented in a series of evening screenings in four different open-air places, such as the inner yard of the Varna Archaeology Museum, the back yard of the Varna Puppet Theatre, the Rakovina open-air stage and the outside space of Music Cafe LOOK.

Rhapsodies in Silver

expcinema@expcinema.com (Marcos Ortega) — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:48:14 +0000

Coinciding with the end of his video installation American Falls at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Phil Solomon's work is the subject of a nearly-complete survey at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Phil Solomon: Rhapsodies in Silver, a retrospective in three parts presenting Solomon's work from his recent videos using the Grand Theft Auto videogame software to his earliest films from the 1980s, will be screened on July 10, 11 and 17. Solomon will be present to introduce the programmes at the screenings of July 10 and 11.