
Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
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.
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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.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Radu plays a trombone, Klaus creates pure sine waves: they sound on their own, or sometimes together and often with considerable space and silence.
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.