moves11: call for submissions

29.10.10
With the launch of its 2011 theme: INTERSECTIONS – Filming Across Culture & Technology, moves is looking for films, installations, live events and papers that create connections at various levels on capturing, discussing and imagining different INTERSECTIONS. moves11 will investigate the importance of the fusion of classic conceptions/practises with new technologies/techniquess in screen-based art. To showcase the best experimental short films and video art exploring ‘movement ...
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Remodernist Film by John A Riley

28.10.10
so tell me again, Jesse Richards The history of modernist art is littered with manifestos of one kind or another. Some are greedily devoured and incorporated, others seen as nothing more than an elaborate joke, a put-on that could never be put into action. More recently, in the world of film, the canny von Trier and Vinterberg have been able to market their films with a ...
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onedotzero_adventures in motion festival returns

25.10.10
The Johnny Cash Project by Chris Milk & Aaron Koblin Dates: 10-14 November 2010 | Location: BFI Southbank The return of the internationally renowned adventures in motion festival sees onedotzero and BFI Southbank join forces once again to present an array of audiovisual and cinematic experiences. Every bit as important as the programme itself is the sense of community that exists as artists, filmmakers and practitioners from ...
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Hold Me Tight/Holding On Forever

22.10.10
Tommy Hartung, The Ascent of Man, 2009: Video still. Courtesy of Stellar Rays Date: Thursday 28 October, 6.30pm | Location: Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA The MAB Film Exercise this month is curated by Al Cameron, film and music programmer at Arnolfini. His programme, Hold Me Tight/Holding On Forever, includes work by Tommy Hartung, Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix PointNever), Michael Robinson and Jordan Wolfson. Recomposing mass entertainment into new quests towards ...
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Ajay RS Hothi on Experimenta 2010

21.10.10
Ruhr, James Benning, 2009 In 1998, the year of the inaugural Experimenta element at the London Film Festival, then-Festival Director Adrian Wootton called it “…a distinct strand to showcase perhaps more radical, challenging and innovative work from filmmakers throughout the world.” Nine years later in 2007, curator Mark Webber described, in his introduction to the weekend, the strand as “…an island drifting away from the BFI Southbank.” ...
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Call for submissions: Flatpack Festival

19.10.10
Flatpack Festival Lengthening nights and falling leaves mean it’s time to start cranking up for Flatpack – Birmingham’s excellent season of spring screenings and events. It’s time now for filmmakers to submit their work for the 2011 call for submissions. The team will be spending their christmas holidays sifting through hundreds of shorts for the programme, make sure they see yours by submitting before the 10 ...
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Lewis Klahr by Colin Perry

19.10.10
Nimbus Series, Lewis Klahr Lewis Klahr – “One of the most evocative, accessible, and culturally aware experimental filmmakers alive and working” (Village Voice) –  is at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. In the USA, Lewis Klahr has been feted with accolades: Critic J Hoberman has named him the ‘reigning proponent of cut and paste’; his work has appeared in three Whitney Biennials and can be found ...
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