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Disasters of Peace @ Whitechapel Gallery & BIM

Sky Room screens as part of Disasters of Peace at Whitechapel Gallery (11/29) and Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (11/03), curated by Sam Jury and Kamila Kuc.

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/disasters-of-peace/
http://www.bim.com.ar/?slugifiedTitle=disasters-of-peace
http://www.disastersofpeace.com/

“A distinguishing feature of our age is the seismic shifts that have arisen from the after-burn of the 20th century: the end of the Cold War, the failed colonial projects giving rise to civil war and mass migration, the unfettered consumption that is slowly destroying the planet, the shifts towards political extremes, and the defiance of the rule of law through mass surveillance. In Western Democracies, we consider ourselves to be in the longest period of peace, but we increasingly fear the other. Paranoia and anxiety infuse our media. We are beset by dis-ease and forebodings of disaster, yet major disasters have already happened: the genocides of indigenous populations, Chernobyl and Fukushima, the Syrian refugee crises, Hurricane Harvey (Texas), Hurricane Maria (Puerto Rico), to name but a few. How then can we represent these caustic aftermaths to expose the slow violence they continue to enact? What languages can transform the legacy of recent histories into a constructive future view? This touring programme draws together artist filmmakers who in a myriad of ways, challenge the prevalent representations of disaster, beyond the apparatus of spectacle. Featured here are films that in varying ways respond to the ideas of transformation and re-imagining, works that are positioned in a place where we are as likely to look back as we are to imagine a future.”

Nightwatchers- Work in Progress

Nightwatchers. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. In production.

This experimental documentary will track the complex state of contemporary wildlife conservation through scientist and citizen-scientist led species monitoring and stewardship initiatives across Canada and the U.S. A meditation on humans’ complex relationship to nature- what we have lost, where we are headed, and what it means to live in the present moment.

Time Out Chicago Review: “See two experimental films about Chicago at the Onion City Film Festival”

https://www.timeout.com/chicago/news/see-two-experimental-films-about-chicago-at-the-onion-city-film-festival-030518

“Onion City is one of the world’s longest-running and most prestigious festivals dedicated exclusively to screening experimental film and video works. The Experimental Film Coalition founded the event in the 1980s and it was taken over by Chicago Filmmakers in 2001. This year’s edition, which runs from March 8–11, was programmed by Emily Eddy, a digital media artist from Portland who has been curating at the Nightingale Cinema since 2013. Taking into account the brief running times of many of the films and videos being exhibited at the fest—most of which are bundled together in loose, thematically related programs—there’s a surplus of exciting works for local cinephiles to check out. Chicagoans, however, should be especially interested in two wonderful shorts with local connections: Marianna Milhorat’s Sky Room and Kristin Reeves’ CPS Closings & Delays.

Sky Room is a collaboration between filmmaker Marianna Milhorat and sound artist Brian Kirkbride that was commissioned by the Chicago Film Archives. Consisting entirely of pre-existing footage that has been extensively reworked—Milhorat credits herself only with “Picture Edit” in the brief closing credits—and married to a soundtrack of retro-sci-fi sound effects and pounding electronic music, Milhorat and Kirkbride weave a beguiling tapestry that contrasts archival images of organic life (plants rapidly growing via time-lapse cinematography) with images of “futuristic” technology (a woman strapped to a hospital bed being fed juice through a straw by a robot arm). The results are at once humorous, disturbing, dreamlike and poetic.

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Sky Room screens as part of “Shorts Program 1: Growing” on Friday, March 9. CPS Closings & Delays screens as part of “Shorts Program 6: Listening” on Sunday, March 11. For more information, including the complete Onion City schedule, visit www.onioncity.org.”- Michael Smith

Michael is an independent filmmaker, author and film studies instructor. His debut feature film Cool Apocalypse has won multiple awards on the film festival circut. He is the co-author of Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry and the sole author of the film blog White City Cinema.

Roy’s World: Barry Gifford & Chicago

Milhorat joins Rob Christopher as Editor for his upcoming film, Roy’s World: Barry Gifford in Chicago.

“Barry Gifford is one of America’s greatest storytellers. His work includes the novel Wild at Heart, which was adapted by David Lynch into a Palme d’Or-winning film, and dozens of other screenplays, novels and books of poetry and essays. In a series of autobiographical stories spanning more than forty years he has chronicled the adventures of Roy, a boy coming of age largely on the gritty streets of 1950s Chicago.

In Roy’s World: Barry Gifford & Chicago, excerpts from the Roy stories performed by Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, and Lili Taylor will be interwoven with Gifford’s recollections of his childhood. Fusing vintage footage and photographs of Chicago with an evocative jazz score by Jason Adasiewicz, Roy’s World will present an impressionistic portrait of a vanished world.” (RC)

https://randomcha.net/tag/marianna-milhorat/ 

Labocine

Une Terre familière is featured in Labocine’s November issue, “Psychological Architectures”.

“Exterior reality reflects the interior. This relationship can extend in both directions. At home we may surround ourselves with significant objects and build our spaces into extensions of our mental states — attics of memory, basements of the subconscious, rooms housing hopes, desires, and practical working recall. Conversely, city planning and civic architecture have long been tools to shape the psyches of their inhabitants from the top down, to utopian or dystopian purpose. But how is the mind itself structured? What can be observed from outside? Its complexity defies analogy, but we try anyway — neurons may be forests of interlocked branches, interconnected circuits become labyrinths, the optic lobe the ultimate movie theater. This month’s issue explores the dual subjects of psychology and architecture, winding through asylums and laboratories, family homes and crumbling apartment blocks that nonetheless nurture dreams. The design of our environments is inherently connected to and expressed by our thinking. Sometimes, inner and outer worlds may be the same.” (Labocine)

https://www.labocine.com/issue/16
Trailer

“Labocine is an Imagine Science Films initiative to extend our film programming to a broader and more diverse audience. We have over 1,500 film titles from 200 countries for all ages brought to you by artists, scientists, filmmakers and educators.

By experimenting with cinematic form and style, we are committed to provoking scientific intrigue and understanding, always ensuring compelling and well-founded narratives. Periodically, we release Spotlights online. On the first Tuesday of every month, enjoy our issue selections which complement newsworthy science by proposing a surgically curated online festival. From documentary to fiction to lab footage, we hope to always challenge the way you understand, interpret and appreciate scientific ideas and perspectives.” (Labocine)

 

There May Be No Before At All @ The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries, Memphis

THERE MAY BE NO BEFORE AT ALL: SELECTED MOVING IMAGE WORKS

September 8 – October 27, 2017
Opening Reception: September 8, 5-7 PM
The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art
The University of Memphis

This exhibition features selected moving image works that use the human form to interrogate the slippage of place and time. How does the human form transgress from one location to another, from one body to another, from one moment to another? How do gender, gesture, and language inform embodiment and how does the medium of moving image shape this process? The international roster of artists explores physical transgression, gender expression, the death drive, and the archive. The exhibition includes the work of Vika Kirchenbauer + Mysti (Germany), Laura Henno (France), J. Louise Makary (United States), Marianna Milhorat (United States), and Patrick Staff (United States/United Kingdom).

There May Be No Before at All is curated by artist Madsen Minax, Assistant Professor in Time-based Media at the University of Vermont.

http://www.memphis.edu/fogelmangalleries/exhibitions/index.php

 

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