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VP Recommends 2: Avant 2014

The Visible Press Recommends : Avant 2014

We appreciate that not everyone can be in the New York area for our many Film as Film launch events this September, so we would also like to recommend AVANT 2014, the latest in a wonderful series of annual events organised by Karlstad University in Sweden.

AVANT 2014 is dedicated to the subject of found footage and will feature screenings and performances byĀ Schmelzdahin, JĆ¼rgen Reble & Thomas Kƶner, Matthias MĆ¼ller & Christoph Girardet, Masha Godovannya and others.

Full details and the schedule are online here.

Avant 2014

AVANT is Swedenā€™s first international event entirely focused on experimental film.Ā The first edition (held in 2002) presented a comprehensive retrospective on GunvorĀ Nelson and attracted key figures such as Paul Arthur, Pip Chodorov and Steve Anker.Ā Since then, a broad range of artists and academics, archivists and amateurs gather inĀ Karlstad, Sweden every year.

www.avantfilm.se

The Illiac Passion in Philadelphia

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The Illiac Passion at International House Philadelphia, 17 September 2014

Robert Beavers and Mark Webber will introduce a screening of The Illiac Passion (1964-67) at International House in Philadelphia on Wednesday 17 September 2014. The event is presented in association with Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Film as Film will be available for purchase throughout the evening.

More details in the eventsĀ calendar and on the International House website.

ā€œSet afire, the soul of the film spectator and the mythic characters or real personalities of The Illiac Passion commence to alternate, sometimes obliterate and then return to a moment passed or forgotten. That moment taking on greater meaning (upon its return, second return or reference in the film ā€“ via single frames, clusters of frames, and the classic principles of film editing), the symbols, the individual psychology united in a single structure, i.e. The Illiac Passion. ā€ (Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967)

Latest website update

The Visible Press website has now been updated and now includes several new pages, including two complete essays, in addition to the latest events listing.

Excerpt from the introduction to Film as Film
Biography of Gregory Markopoulos
Filmography of Gregory Markopoulos
The Responsibility of the Cinema in Our Age
The Complex Illusion

More screenings on the US East Coast in September and October 2014 will be announced soon.

More Illiac Passion in Mexico

The Illiac Passion in Mexico, August 2013

There will be a second screening of “The Illiac Passion” in Mexico, at Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City DF on 5 August 2014, at 8pm. More information on the event page and on the CCD website.

The Illiac Passion will also be shown at the historic Teatro Juarez in Guanajuato, Mexico, on 2 August as a special event of the Guanajuato International Film Festival. More information on the event page and on the GIFF website.

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