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- Can the electronic stutters, crashes, errors and glitches that we encounter with technology in our day-to-day lives be considered beautiful in their own right? This programme of extraordinary video work showcases contemporary artists who exploit and explore the imperfections hidden in the signal/ data structures of moving image technology to striking effect. Recalling early video [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A highly acclaimed experimental filmmaker in his own right, Pip Chodorov has crafted a highly accessible and infectiously enthusiastic history of the artists and poets of experimental cinema. His’free radicals’ are crazy about filmmaking and pushing the artform in radical new directions, trapped in a no man’s land, excluded both from the art world and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A surreal masterpiece, newly restored and subtitled, and Japan’s first feature-length underground film. One of the leading figures of Japan’s 60s avant-garde art scene, Adachi co-founded the communal living space and artist’s lab VAN Film Science Research Centre, was scriptwriter for Koji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Oshima, and joined the Palestinian liberation movement in the early [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A gloriously free-wheeling selection of films on Super8 and 16mm, made by artists at DIY film labs and chosen for their sense of fun, freedom and their uncompromising attitude, which seem to emanate from the very material itself. Enjoy some black and white Lithuanian cat-stroking in Paris, a Portuguese radical manifesto, Berlin’s kaleidoscopic art and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Two medium length films which explore the relationship between language and possession in politically resonant ways. Roee Rosen’s film Tse confirms his status as one of Israel’s most interesting and provocative experimental filmmakers, forming a link between S/M bondage practices and the policies of Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, renowned as one of [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The Camera Lucida is a prismatic device that was used as an aid to drawing and David Hockney would argue that it ushered in Renaissance perspective of art. These wondermental film and video works consider life through the cinematic magic of the prism, as light spills its bounds, inviting us to see the world in [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A shop unit in Granary Wharf by the river Aire has been transformed into a temporary Microcinema for this long weekend of experimental film, offering stunning pieces by original filmmakers for your pleasure and illumination! The Microcinema shows that any location can become a cinema given a few basic ingredients. Enjoy complimentary drinks and the [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A dazzling selection of recent artists’ cinema from some of the most interesting and engaging contemporary artist filmmakers, bringing together an eclectic mixture of ideas, aesthetics, technique and forms. Wondermental cinema has a long relationship with obscurity and these films emerge out of the shadows into the blinding light of the Microcinema space for one [...]Click to read more about this film »
