Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.
Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Chris Corsano, Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in the Hamilton Mausoleum, Hamilton.
