The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America, founded by George Manupelli in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 180 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, fiction, and performance-based works.
She Tales is a collective screening from both past and present female members of LaborBerlin. The wide spectrum of analogue methodologies in this non-thematic screening reflects the diverse constellations of conceptual and aesthetic pursuits of filmmakerin working at LaborBerlin.
Programme:- Bilderbuch (Luisa Greenfield 3 min, 16mm, live sound, 2017)On the value of scraps - A live lecture performance on Walter Benjamin's children's chronicle in 3 minutes.
Dates:
Friday, June 30, 2017 - 20:00 to Saturday, July 1, 2017 - 19:55
06.07.17 + 07.07.17 | Brett Kashmere[plus films by Nathaniel Dorsky + Robert Breer + Nam June Paik + Lillian Schwartz + Takashi Ito + Yvonne Rainer + Will Hindle]
AVANT – Bodies and Boundaries 2017.09.08 – 2017.09.09Karlstad, Sweden
The 14th edition of AVANT focus on bodies and boundaries. The body is both our most private territory and a social interface, a boundary that both divides and unites. The point of departure of AVANT is in one of the most legendary artists when it comes to the socio-political dimensions of the body, VALIE EXPORT, followed by Jayne Parker’s early performance-based films.
Dates:
Friday, September 8, 2017 (All day) to Saturday, September 9, 2017 (All day)
The Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media seeks for current positions in the fields of short and experimental films, installations, network culture, audiovisual performances and vj-sets. The festival offers a platform for film and media art in discourse and practice. We are looking forward to inspiring meetings, intensive exchange, new and old discoveries as well as holistic experiences till the 5. dimension - with or without schnaps!
Nicky Hamlyn and Neil Henderson both make observational films that are most obviously documentaries when they focus on sites that are fast disappearing. Hamlyn's Gasometers 4 is part of a series of films recording the dismantling of gas holders in North London, while Henderson's Grain Tower centres on a giant power station chimney that has recently been demolished.
Rattis Books is pleased to present a night of Expanded Cinema performance of Tyburnia by James Holcombe, Dead Rat Orchestra and Lisa Knapp, launching the Tyburnia 2017 tour across Britain from the 14th July to the 5th August 2017.
Dates:
Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 21:00 to Friday, July 14, 2017 - 20:55
