'C r i s e s de films: 35 ans de Cinéma expérimental dans les collections Cinédoc / Paris Films Coop' is the title of the big retrospective presenting over eighty films grouped in six themed programmes from the Cinédoc and Paris Films Coop collections that will be held next November 25th-28th at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
This event marks the 35th anniversary of Cinédoc / Paris Films Coop, cooperatives of independent/experimental/avant-garde filmmakers founded in the early seventies, and that currently distributes near 700 films and videos from 165 filmmakers.

The 2nd edition of the Punto y Raya Festival (Dot and Line Festival) dedicated to abstract two-dimensiona animation will be held next November 25th-29th in Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain. Among the many conferences, installations and workshops a special programme titled "Larry Cuba retrospective and other classics" will feature classic visual music films and digital animations by Larry Cuba, Jules Engel, Hy Hirsch, Adam Beckett, John Whitney Sr. and Frank and Caroline Mouris. Curated by the iota Center.

'“Ben Callaway’s works are constructed from anonymous, secondary footage taken from a diverse range of documentary, educational, promotional or amateur videos. Ben Callaway stresses the materiality of the medium through different manipulations of the source material: the images are dissolved by repeated analogue transfers, and then reconstructed in digital format, while their speed is also radically altered throughout the process.' Miguel Wandschneider, Curator, Culturgest, Lisbon.
Ben Callaway’s technique results in work that is as visually rich as it is intriguing. Narrative and image break down as the artist transfers and attacks the material of video in order to create uneasy structures and a complex juxtaposition of form and content.

The online exhibition includes the works Tampa, K, Rigadoon, Lufthansa, Guatiza and Thanamine.

Two upcoming events for those living in Paris or planning a trip there in the next few days:

- On October 21th, an encounter with Jonas Mekas, including the projection of '13 of 365' a selecion of 13 films from the 365 Project. At the ENSBA (Mediatheque) - 14 Rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris.

- On October 22th-25th, at the FIAC 2009 fair you'll be able to see Quartets, a videoinstallation created by Jonas Mekas in 2007. FIAC - Stand A22 - Cour Carrée du Louvre, Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. Presented by The Film Gallery in collaboration with La Galerie Du Jour Agnes B.