Experimental Cinema

Filmarmalade: Call for artists' film and video works
Deadline: April 1st 2013

Filmarmalade would like to invite artist film makers to submit film or video works for publication in our 2013 artists' film and video DVD series. Every year Filmarmalade publish a series of films, selected through a process of invited and open submission. Each DVD includes one film only and is accompanied by a specially filmed interview with the artist.

Filmarmalade DVD's include work by the following artists: Maia Conran, Kristian De La Riva, Miranda Whall, Let Me Feel Your Finger First, Mirza and Butler, Adam Roberts, Julia Dogra-Brazell, Aukje Dekker, Luciano Zubillaga, Claudia Joskowicz, Emily Russell, James Lowne, Sara Preibsch, Alexander Schellow, Miranda Pennell, Lena Nix, Patricia Shrigley, Jenny Stark, Ralitza Petrova, Kelvin Kyung Kun Park and Francisca Benitez. All published works will be launched at the BFI, London and individually screened at IMT gallery, London and will be available to buy at the BFI Filmstore, London, ICA, London, Close-up, London, IMT Gallery, London, Image/Movement, Berlin and at the Konst-ig, Stockholm or by order from all good bookshops.

Please send film or video works on PAL or NTSC DVD for consideration to:

Gordon Shrigley, Filmarmalade
Studio 4
21 London Fields Eastside
London E8 3SA, United Kingdom
www.filmarmalade.co.uk

Xcèntric: The parallel attempt. Italian experimental film
Thursday January 24th 2013, 20h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

A reflection on the figure of Marinella Pirelli, an Italian experimental filmmaker with a body of work that has languished for over 40 years in a dark basement. Her films dialogue directly with those of two other Italian filmmakers, Piero Bargellini and Paolo Gioli, constantly questioning the paradigms required to generate an image and its relation with the cinematographic device. Styles, forms and means of production that initially seem very different come together in this session to generate a narrative that runs through the cinema, the technological imaginary and the optical unconscious of Italian experimental film production of the 1960s and 1970s.

- Gioco di dama (Marinella Pirelli, 1961-1963, 6 min)
- Inter-vento (Marinella Pirelli, 1969, 3 min)
- Sole in mano (appropriazione, azione propria, a propria azione) (Marinella Pirelli, 1973, 6 min)
- Il lago (soggettivo-oggettivo) (Marinella Pirelli, 1965, 14 min)
- Nelda (Piero Bargellini, 1969, silent, 4 min)
- Secondo il mio occhio di vetro (Paolo Gioli, 1971, 10 min)
- Immagini reali immagini virtuali (Paolo Gioli, 1972, 10 min)
- Doppio autoritratto (Marinella Pirelli, 1974, 12 min.)

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival 2013
Deadline: Friday, March 29, 2013

The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival is now seeking submissions for the 2013 edition, running May 3-5 at multiple venues in Milwaukee, WI.

The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival is a student-run, international film festival dedicated to showcasing contemporary works of film and video that innovate in form, technique, and content. This annual event exhibits independent films from around the world. We are interested in publicly presenting the best in artistic, experimental, original, humorous, political and visionary film and video work. The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival is a nationally recognized non-profit student organization at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Entry form is available for download.

Exhibition formats accepted: Super-8, 16mm, 35mm, (PAL or NTSC) Mini-DV, DVcam, Blu-ray, DVD, QuickTime files...

Entry Fee: $10 per entry / $15 total for multiple entries ($5 per entry for Milwaukee County residents - not to exceed $15 for multiple entries).
Entry fee waived for all international entries and for filmmakers who have exhibited their work in previous editions of MUFF.

Multiple-projector/ expanded cinema/ installation proposals encouraged.

Questions? Contact: Kelly Bronikowski / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Corin Sworn: The Rag Papers
8 February - 24 March 2013
Preview: Thursday 7 February 2013, 18:30-20:30h
Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

Chisenhale Gallery presents a newly commissioned work by the Canadian, Glasgow based artist Corin Sworn. This will be Sworn’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date and comprises a film presented as part of an installation with synchronised lighting and sound.

The Rag Papers (2013) explores the socially constructed nature of attention and the implications of reuse and appropriation as they reconfigure the meaning of things. The film’s worried narrative shifts between the perspectives of three characters who interact with a series of objects at distinct moments in time. The film uses point of view shots and cutaway sequences to suggest the roaming of each character’s attention and in doing so introduces itinerant spaces such as hotel rooms, sorting depots and markets.

Sworn uses the language of filmmaking to question human agency, layering multiple subjective viewpoints and presenting the distracted nature of attention and thought patterns as she shifts back and forth between the modes of remembering, looking, processing and reading. Objects play a central role in the film, almost as characters in their own right, but the suggestion that they indicate or hold specific meaning is deflected as designations shift.

Xcèntric: Dressing for pleasure
Thursday January 17th 2013, 20h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

Julien Temple offered segments of the film Dressing for Pleasure in the Sex Pistols’ documentary The Filth and the Fury (2000). Four years later, designer Vivienne Westwood, the mother of punk style, ran the entire film on a continuous loop at the London retrospective of her career. Only then was the first recognition expressed of the work of John Samson, a forgotten filmmaker who influenced the British punk aesthetic of the seventies and eighties. He has often been considered the European Kenneth Anger, which is why we present the work of the two in a single session for the first time. Scorpio Rising is a fundamental work in American underground cinema that continues to fascinate contemporary creators. To top it off, we retrieve the recreation of Scorpio Rising that video clip artist Luis Cerveró made for the CCCB to publicise the exhibition “That’s Not Entertainment! Film Begets Film”.

- Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963, 16 mm, 29 min)
- Dressing for Pleasure (John Samson, 1977, 25 min)
- Tattoo (John Samson, 1975, 20 min.)
- Xcèntric. That’s Not Entertainment (Luis Cerveró, 2007, 35 mm, 1 min 30 s.)

VIDEOEX 2013
International Experimental film & Video Festival Zürich
24 May - 2 June 2013
Entry Deadline 15 February 2013

VIDEOEX invites you to submit your work for the international & Swiss competition. The festival will present an international competition and a wide range of thematic programs. Cooperations with other exhibition sites in Zurich are planned.

We are looking for experimental films (35mm / 16mm / 8mm), videos (experimental,videoart, essay,....), innovative animations, experimental digital & graphic productions (to be screened), experimental documentaries & innovative music videos. No entry fee.

Xcèntric: The Gas Works Screenings & Threaded Cocktails performance
Friday, January 11, 18:30h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

The Gas Works are a series of unique films conceived as instable performances of sonic light. Made and projected by hand, the author - Esperanza Collado- describes them as "ephemeral collages in motion or gaseous light sculptures in which cinema is derailed and subject to stitching." The project explores performative aspects involved in mechanical projection such as the plasticity of luminous space, the reading of optical sounds, and the microstructures of the interval.

- The Gas Thus Cuts in Bits (Esperanza Collado, 2012, 16mm and Super16, colour and b&w, optical sound, 8min. 40sec.)
- The Illuminating Gas (Esperanza Collado, 2012, 16mm and Super16, colour and b&w, optical sound, 9min 6sec.)

Operation Rewrite is the artistic collaboration of The Consecutive Impostors (Esperanza Collado and Maximilian Le Cain), in which they explore the cinematic workings of the cut and interruption. Their performances are disturbing and humorous, showing the artists as 'scientist' figures realizing a series of actions involving elaborate projections and sounds, awaken dreams, and domestic objects. Irish theatre maker John McCarthy collaborates.

With the support of Culture Ireland.

Xcèntric: Exquisite collages I & II
Friday, January 11, 20h
Saturday, January 12, 20h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

A selection of shorts by classic collage artists alongside new talents.

Programme 1, Jan.11, 20h
- Las Variaciones Schwitters (Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 2012, 6 min)
- Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963, 4 min)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage, 1981, 1 min 30)
- Solar Sight (Larry Jordan, 2011, 15 min)
- Odds and Ends (Jane Congel Belson Shimane, 1959, 4 min)
- Recreation (Robert Breer, 1957, 2 min)
- Jamestown Baloos (Robert Breer, 1957, 6 min)
- Unnamed Film (Caroline Avery, 1989, 45 seg)
- Fil(m) (Frédérique Devaux, 2001, 4 min)
- La Pêche Miraculeuse (Cécile Fontaine, 1995, 10 min)
- Speak (John Latham, 1962, 11 min)

Programme 2, Jan.12, 20h
- Brana Calypso Dendrita (David Domingo, Darío Peña y Dostopos (Ana Pfaff y Ari Ribas), with music of Afrika Pseudobrutismus, 2012, vídeo, 14 min (produced for the Picnic Sessions 2012 of CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo))
- Rabbit (Run Wrake, 2005, 35 mm, 5 min)
- Cineblatz (Jeff Keen, 1967, 16 mm, 3 min)
- Nook & Cranny (Francien Van Everdingen, 2008, 16 mm, 3 min)
- Cats Amore (Martha Colburn, 2002, video, 2 min 30 seg)
- À la Mode (Stan Vanderbeek, 1959-1960, 16 mm, 7 min)
- Tango (Zbigniew Rybcynski, 1981, 35 mm, 8 min)
- Höhenrausch (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 1999, 16 mm, 4 min)
- Nujiman no borei / 200 000 Fantômes (Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2007, vídeo, 10 min)
- Phantom Canyon (Stacey Steers, 2006, 35 mm, 10 min)

Sheffield Fringe 2013
Call For Entries
Deadline 18th February

Now in its 3rd year, Sheffield Fringe is inviting artists’ moving image submissions for our 2013 screening series at Bloc Projects, Sheffield in June 2013, with touring venues to be announced.

There are no restrictions in theme or approach. We want the selection to be a response to artists’ practice interests and theoretical concerns. Works should not exceed 30 min and have some relationship to ‘actuality’.

Sheffield Fringe is an artist-led curatorial project, exploring the confluence point between art & documentary practice. It was first staged as a nano festival in June 2011 to coincide with Sheffield Doc/Fest. We are interested in single-channel works that inspire dialogues, and/or are playful critiques of the documentary form, performance and spectatorship.

One Minute Volumes 1-6
Saturday 19 - Sunday 20 January 2013: One Minute Volume 1-2
Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 January 2013: One Minute Volume 3-4
Saturday 02 - Sunday 03 February 2013: One Minute Volume 5-6
Open 12-16h
Furtherfield Gallery
McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ

In partnership with 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Furtherfield Gallery is pleased to host One Minute Volumes 1-6 curated by the filmmaker Kerry Baldry over three consecutive weekends in January and February 2013. The programme will also be shown at 20-21 later in 2013.

One Minute Volumes 1-6 are an eclectic mix of artists moving image constrained to the time limit of one minute and includes over 80 artists at varying stages of their careers.

The artists involved range from established figures, such as Guy Sherwin and Catherine Elwes, to comparative newcomers through a multinational roster of those in between; and the methods deployed and content treated of are hugely diverse, a master class in the very short form film.

These programmes have toured nationally and internationally including, among others: FACT in Liverpool, Artprojx Space - London, Directors Lounge - Berlin, London Underground Film Sessions - Horse Hospital, London. National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Bucharest, Plymouth Arts Centre, S1 Artspace - Sheffield, The Hull Short International Film Festival, Castlefield Gallery - Manchester, Peloton Gallery - Australia

Artists/filmmakers include: Chris Meigh-Andrews, Kerry Baldry, Steven Ball, Kelvin Brown, Rose Butler, Daniela Butsch, Samantha Clark, Callum Cooper, Michael Cousin, Chris Paul Daniels, Gordon Dawson, Claudia Di Gangi, Fil Ieropoulos and Lilly Zinan Ding, Ron Diorio, Annabel Dover, Catherine Elwes, Clint Enns, Andy Fear, Unconscious Films, The Gluts, Dave Griffiths, Leister/Harris, Steve Hawley, Nick Herbert, Tony Hill, Virginia Hilyard, Elizabeth Hobbs, Riccardo Iacono, Hilary Jack, Tina Keane, David Kefford, Deklan Kilfeather, Kate Jessop, Nick Jordan & Jacob Cartwright, Esther Johnson, Helen Judge, Hollington & Kyprianou, Bob Levene, Barry Lewis, Lynn Loo, Paulo Menezes, Katherine Meynell, Louisa Minkin, Claire Morales, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Jonathan Moss, Simon Payne, Alex Pearl, Gary Peploe, Martin Pickles, Stuart Pound, Laure Prouvost, Anahita Razmi, Emily Richardson, Nicki Rolls, Barbara Rosenthal, Jennifer Ross, Edwin Rostron, Matthew Rowe, Eva Rudlinger, Sam Renseiw and Philip Sanderson, Alex Schady, Janine Schneider, Margie Schnibbe, My Name Is Scot, Erica Scourti, Guy Sherwin, James Snazell, Tansy Spinks, Marty St.James, Priya Sundram, Michael Szpakowski, Richard Tuohy, Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic), Phillip Warnell, Liam Wells, Mark Wigan, Michael Woody, Eleni Xintaras, Juan Zamora.