The new double issue of the Swedish language film journal Magasinet Walden is out now and includes a dossier on Peter Gidal. A newly commissioned essay by John Sundholm focuses on the temporal aspects of the ‘room films’, with particular emphasis on Room Film 1973, and is accompanied by translations of “Notes on my Film Work” (1975) and “Technology and Ideology in/through/and Avant-Garde Film: An Instance” (1980), two polemical Gidal texts drawn from “Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966–2016“.
Issue 3/4 also contains articles on or by Nicole Brenez, Mary Helena Clark, Harun Farocki, Bani Khoshnoudi, Scott MacDonald, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Susana de Sousa Dias, Malin Wahlberg, and Peter Weiss.
Magasinet Walden is edited by Martin Grennberger and Stefan Ramstedt, whose introduction can be read here.
Single issues or subscribscriptions can be purchased online from www.magasinetwalden.se.
Film Implosion!
Experiments in Swiss Cinema and Moving Images
21 November 2015 – 21 February 2016
Fri Art Kunsthalle, Petites-Rames 22, CH-1701 Fribourg, Swizerland
Film Implosion! Experiments in Swiss Cinema and Moving Images, curated by François Bovier and Balthazar Lovay, includes work by Robert Beavers and Gregory J. Markopoulos in an exhibition surveying the ‘fragmented history’ of Swiss film and video art over a 50-year period.
“As the first exhibition dedicated to experimental Swiss cinema, Film Implosion! sheds light on a little known aspect of art history in Switzerland. It presents a wide panorama of genre practices within the medium of cinema more specifically, but also video work, from the 1960s to today. Through formal interventions directly on the celluloid, various in-situ installations, unconventional documentaries, political, feminist, animated, and fiction films, all these artists challenged the traditional codes of cinema.”
For more information see the Fri Art website.
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The Illiac Passion in Mexico, August 2013
The Illiac Passion will screen 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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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 events calendar and on the International House website.
“Set 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 – 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. ” (Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967)
