1967 was the year that the Canyon Cinema Co-op was born in San Francisco. Formed as a distribution cooperative for films made by members, it grew out of the itinerant Canyon Cinema formed a few years earlier by a loose association of Bay Area artist-filmmakers. The Canyon Co-Op was the west coast’s contribution to a growing international network for showing and seeing films that fell outside the bounds of polite manners, censors’ approval, and art-world decorum.
Dates:
Friday, July 14, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 18:55
By definition, framework can be voiced in a number of ways: Buildings are constructed with a skeletal structure, multiple units come together to form a whole, foundations or moral infrastructure can be defined, subjects can be arranged within a frame, and framing itself can be the emphasis. Gilded Pear Gallery seeks artist’s submissions that best exemplify the nature of Framework according to their own commentary and vocabulary.
All emerging and professional artists 18 and over, living in the United States and Canada, may apply. Open to all two- and three-dimensional mediums as well as video media.
Deadline:
Friday, July 28, 2017 - 12:00 to Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 11:45
The motif of the loop, or more precisely repetition with variations, is one of the formal and thematic principles recurrent in experimental cinema, one of its major functions being to defamiliarize the gaze in a strange paradox. This selection of films offers an overview of different techniques and conceptual variations of this fascinating and troubling motif.
Amy Dickson and Jamie Jenkinson have both made substantial series of video works with mobile phones, usually with single takes that suggest an intuitive and spontaneous approach to shooting - a mode which they consider intrinsic to their medium. They resist reshooting and post-production. Hence their work foregrounds and promotes the act of looking, embracing a certain amount of wandering and the potential for 'errors'.
What is a proper basis for deciding whether words, ideas, stories beliefs can be considered trueHow do we respond to truths and falsehoods- which can, in equal measure, motivate and protect.
Short Circuit is looking for an eclectic mix of experimental short docs that take these themes for its next screening in September
The 5th Syros Int'l Film Festival is taking place soon, from July 14-19. This year's program is focused on the theme of "Cracking Up," taking this as a jumping-off point to explore the exuberant, manic, and generative potential of making and watching cinema. We are happy to have Martha Colburn, Nusquam Productions (Mariangela Ciccarello & Philip Cartelli), and Peter Fleischmann as Artists in Focus.
Dates:
Friday, July 14, 2017 - 19:00 to Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 22:55
