5th Cairo Video Festival
Video Art & Experimental films
Call for entries. Deadline: June 30, 2013

Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submission to the Fifth Cairo Video Festival hosted in Medrar’s space in September 2013.

Participation:

• Individuals, groups, curators or associations are invited to participate.
• The number of entries by one author is limited to three works only
• Documentary, feature or commercial videos will not be recognized for enrolment in the festival.
• Videos should be produced after January 2010, and no longer than 30 min of duration.
• Screening of the submitted videos should not have any specific recommended format of installation.
• The festival does not offer screening fees; neither requests any entry charges from the applicants
• A committee appointed by the organizers of the festival will do the selection of entries.
• Notification of the selection of a Video will be issued by 15 August  2012, by email only.
• The organizing crew has the right to use the participating data within all promotional means and publications, with reserved copyrights.

La 4ª edición de la (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, que se celebrará los próximos 5 a 8 de junio en A Coruña tiene como foco central de su programa el cine experimental argentino: varios programas, comisariados por Pablo Marín y Magdalena Arau, se centrarán en la historia de este cine (Antología Fantasma, con obras de Narcisa Hirsch, Horacio Vallereggio, Jorge Honik & Laura Abel o Gabriel Romano); los trabajos de los cnieastas en Super8 Pablo Mazzolo, Sergio Subero y Pablo Marín; así como una selección de cine doméstico y amateur. Claudio Caldini, el legendario cineasta superochero estará presente en el festival para presentar una amplia retrospectiva de su cine, tanto en formato monocanal como expandido, incluyendo algunas de sus obreas más recientes, como H R Z N T (2011), Fantasmas Cromáticos (2012) y Tamil Nadu View (2010); además, realizará un taller sonre proyección múltiple y cine expandido. Fernando Martín Peña y Fabio Manes, directores del programa de televisión “Filmoteca, Temas de Cine” presentarán una selección de películas raramente vistas, desde cine mudo hasta la obra del recientemente fallecido Leonardo Favio. Destacar también la programación de la sección Sinais, que este año pondrá su foco en la obra de los artistas gallegos Lois Patiño y Miguel Mariño.

La decimonovena edición del veterano festival Media City se inicia la próxima semana (21-25 de mayo, Windsor, Ontario) en su una sesión de apertura con las performances de CCMC (Michael Snow, John Oswald y Al Mattes) y la banda de avant-noise de Detroit Wolf Eyes. Una selección de películas en Super 8 y 16mm de Saul Levine, quien además será parte del jurado, y el estreno en Canadá de la última obra de James Benning, Stemple Pass están entre los eventos destacados.

El núcleo, sin embargo, del festival lo forma su programa de competición, que este año incluye a casi 50 piezas de vídeo y cine de artistas tales como Bruce McClure, David Gatten, Jeannette Muñoz, Kevin Jerome Everson, Mary Helena Clark, Stephen Connolly, Johann Lurf, Robert Todd y Nick Collins, entre muchos otros.

Balagan presents... Mirror Stage
Monday, May 13 2013, 19:30h
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Much has been said about what is regarded as the quintessential cinematic experience: the darkened, softened, uterine surroundings, the hypnotic flicker ahead, the lulling whirr from the projection booth. It is a comfortable hiding place from which to observe others\' nightmares and desires. As much as we at Balagan embrace this fancy, we like to break the spell on occasion by channeling an earlier form of cinema, when projected images elicited bewilderment instead of reverie.

This time, we aim to shatter cinematic illusions by shifting our attention 180° away from the spectacle. As we ponder the screen, the stage and the curtains; as we gaze into the spectators\' faces and observe their body language -- entranced or impatient -- we see a reflection of ourselves. So we enter Lacan's "mirror stage": the anxious moment of catching sight of oneself for the first time and beginning to grasp the reality of one\'s existence.

Barbara Hammer:Incorporating ‘The Lesbian Museum’ and ‘The Hidden Hammer’
Friday, May 10 2013, 19h
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498

Fresh from retrospectives at the Tate, MoMA and Jeu De Paume, the acclaimed pioneer of queer cinema Barbara Hammer will be talking/performing/showing slides and film clips on the body of work that has made her an internationally celebrated artist and feminist.

A key figure in American experimental film, she is credited with producing the earliest avant-garde films that openly address lesbian life and sexuality. Her work remainsfundamentally influential to contemporary artists exploring daring and experimental thought and film.

For a sneak peek of Barbara Hammer at the Jeu De Paume Gallery in Paris, click here.