Posted in Exhibitions, Experimental film, Experimental video, Multimedia, Thinking, Watching on February 5, 2012 |
My short film, “American Arabesque” will have its first public screening in Berlin at Directors Lounge 8. The screening takes place on Saturday February 11 at 10pm.
Directors Lounge has previously screened “A season of wants” Embarkation” at DL 6 2010 and “Winter wind” and “The sick passenger” at DL 7 in 2011.
Posted in Experimental film, Experimental video, Multimedia, Thinking, Watching on June 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This ongoing series, currently made up of six short videos fit for the twenty-first century and all its attendant anxieties of vigilance and control.
It is a composite world, where time, place and premonitions collapse and context continually shifts. Overtones of hysteria and self-identification reproduced from memories on digital cards. It does not directly hold a single narrative instead opting to explore multiple notions of cinema.
Re-presented and estranged histories, memories and meanings conflate those stereotyped by popular culture blurring the boundary between the imaginary and the real. The societal impulse that draws us to the subtle, intimate and extremely personal darker side of life becomes historical but arguably unauthenticated.
What I did during the war
Part 1: Fear
Part 2: Money
Part 3: Sex
Part 4: Art
Part 5: Blood chit
Part 6: Dreaming (not sleeping)
Posted in Exhibitions, Experimental film, Experimental video, Multimedia, Watching on May 30, 2011 |
A Century of artist films 21 May – 2 July
Curated by Michael Cousin in partnership with Oriel Mwldan.
For info visit: http://www.outcasting.org/
Contemporary Art Ruhr 2011, the media art fair, June 3-5
Directors Lounge will exhibit my video “A winter wind”
Currents 2011 June 10-19
I have three videos making their world premieres
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Aid and abet at 6pm on 15th July
One Minute Volume 5 curated by Kerry Baldry
Cambridge, UK http://ow.ly/53Y7d
Posted in Exhibitions, Experimental film, Experimental video, Multimedia, Watching on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I will screening work in a program curated by Michael Cousin in partnership with Oriel Mwldan.
A Century of Artists’ Films
The ability to understand and bestow importance to moving images is embedded in the cultural psyche. From cinema, television and the Internet there is an endless stream of content to view, one that we can
never hope to keep up with. A hundred films to see before you die. A thousand. A hundred thousand. But the beauty of this is choosing your own hundred, your own thousand. You make your own list.
For this show Outcasting, the online moving image gallery is screening a hundred films from those that it has screened in three years of programming. The films come from a variety of genres and styles and hopefully reflect the full breadth of artists engagement with this medium. Over the course of the 43 days that the show will be running audiences will be able to see a truly international range of work with the 100 films being rotated throughout that time.
For info visit: http://www.outcasting.org/
Posted in Exhibitions, Experimental film, Experimental video, Multimedia, Watching, tagged Director's Loungue, Ron Diorio on February 9, 2011 |
I have two world premiere screenings in Berlin during the 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge.
A Winter Wind 3min 2s 2009
opening mix II, Thurs 10th 10pm
The Sick Passenger 2 min 11s 2010
traveler , Thurs 17th 8:30pm
The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2011
@ art house meinblau, Pfefferberg.
Schoenhauser Allee 176 / Christinenstr. 18, 10119 Berlin
Press release
Once again this year, the Berlinale is drawing a great many filmmakers and cineastes to Berlin. In parallel and by now an insiders’ tip, the Directors Lounge, developed by Berlin artists, is hosting for the 7th year in a row its own very special kind of film festival.
On the Pfefferberg, on the premises of the Meinblau Gallery, a broad audience will be presented an international of- fering of experimental and short films as well as media art. Out of 700 submissions, a heady program has been put together, to be accompanied by live events, DJs and a lounge bar.
Encounters and discussions between artists and audience are an essential feature of the concept, and so once again this year many national and international artists will be on hand in person to present their projects.
The multiple-award-winning British composer Michael Nyman, known to the general public in particular for his music for The Piano as well as for numerous Peter Greenaway ventures, will personally present his own films.
Guy Maddin, Canadian filmmaker and juror at this year’s Berlinale, will be the subject of a special evening, with his own personal selection of his short films. This program will be complemented by readings by Kenton Turk and films bearing the mark of his influence.
Ten days long, starting daily at 6 pm, issue and country-specific programs and the best films of the Open Call will be presented. Further highlights include Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma; Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil); Klaus W. Eisenlohr ́s “Urban Research”; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a few.
Exhibitions
Directors Lounge 8
Nightlight
One minute Vol 5, Feb 15, 9pm
Publication
Empire City
Book, print and 3 video works on DVD
Limited edition of 50
Signed and numbered
Published by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
Oct 2011
(ISBN 978-0-9839698-0-8)
Comin' around again
Limited Edition Book and Print
Published by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
April 2010
(ISBN 978-0-615-35269-5)
