Ascending Leaders 1. Courtesy the artist and Tiff Bell LightboxWhether opting for the institutional designation “time-based media” or the more colloquial “movies,” the art of cinema can seem antithetical to any suspended moment or image. This in spite the fact that we’re typically watching 24 (or 25) still frames pour before our eyes every second. Since his early years as a student at Ontario’s Sheridan College, alongside fellow luminaries of the since-dubbed “Escarpment School,” artist and filmmaker Richard Kerr has routinely pursued an interest in the material elements of celluloid film. In addition to his prolific work in experimental shorts and features, and an extensive teaching background at Concordia University in Montreal, Kerr has quietly been producing what he calls Motion Picture Weavings since the early 1990s, lightboxes displaying 35mm and 65mm IMAX film strips arranged into unique patterns.Postindustrial, on view at the Tiff Bell Lightbox until June 10, consists of...
- 4/4/2017
- MUBI
Experimenta India, International Festival of Moving Image Art, India’s only film festival dedicated to experimental films has unveiled the line-up for its 8th edition. This year the festival will showcase more than 50 films from Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK and India.
Kannada film Samskara, directed by Pattabhi Rama Reddy, will open the festival. The film is based on a story of the same name by U.R. Ananthamurthy. A 35mm print of the film received from the Arsenal Institut For Film And Video, a film archive in Berlin, will be showcased at the festival.
Nineteen films will compete in the International Competition section with nine of them coming from India. The Indian films selected are Black Pot Movement by Chaoba Thiyam, Nayi Kheti by Pallavi Paul, Blood Earth by Kush Badhwar, Pulse by Anuradha Chandra, Weapons of Mass Destruction by Payal Kapadia, Mount Song by Shambhavi Kaul,...
Kannada film Samskara, directed by Pattabhi Rama Reddy, will open the festival. The film is based on a story of the same name by U.R. Ananthamurthy. A 35mm print of the film received from the Arsenal Institut For Film And Video, a film archive in Berlin, will be showcased at the festival.
Nineteen films will compete in the International Competition section with nine of them coming from India. The Indian films selected are Black Pot Movement by Chaoba Thiyam, Nayi Kheti by Pallavi Paul, Blood Earth by Kush Badhwar, Pulse by Anuradha Chandra, Weapons of Mass Destruction by Payal Kapadia, Mount Song by Shambhavi Kaul,...
- 11/20/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Grim Prairie Tales: Doreen Girard and Irene Bindi Talk about The Kult Mania of Their Expanded Cinema Performance Winter Night
– Interview by Kier-La Janisse –
On Sunday December 12th, Austin will be host to a unique cinematic experience dreamt up by a handful of multidisciplinary lo-fi artists from the weirdest and coldest English-speaking place on earth: Winnipeg, Canada. Winter Night is a program that utilizes live music, live manipulation of 16mm and slide projectors, and Winnipeg’s rich history of Diy crafts, Aboriginal magic, heavy metal, and random violent outbursts to create an anthology of stories sure to make your spine tingle.
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Doreen, how did you become interested in slides as your primary visual medium, and what are the advantages or limitations of working with slides?
Doreen: A number of my friends are filmmakers, and I started working with slides as a way of overcoming my own technical shortcomings in terms of making film.
– Interview by Kier-La Janisse –
On Sunday December 12th, Austin will be host to a unique cinematic experience dreamt up by a handful of multidisciplinary lo-fi artists from the weirdest and coldest English-speaking place on earth: Winnipeg, Canada. Winter Night is a program that utilizes live music, live manipulation of 16mm and slide projectors, and Winnipeg’s rich history of Diy crafts, Aboriginal magic, heavy metal, and random violent outbursts to create an anthology of stories sure to make your spine tingle.
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Doreen, how did you become interested in slides as your primary visual medium, and what are the advantages or limitations of working with slides?
Doreen: A number of my friends are filmmakers, and I started working with slides as a way of overcoming my own technical shortcomings in terms of making film.
- 12/9/2010
- by Zack Carlson
- OriginalAlamo.com
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