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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The 2012 Alternative Film/Video Festival
Have no respect, it’s only film. – Vassily Bourakis The Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade has historically been one of a triumvirate of critical festivals,
Raiders of the Lost Archive: the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
The biennial Bangkok Experimental Film Festival had its sixth incarnation from 24 January to 5 February 2012 with a focus on the archive as inspiration
Mike and Stefani (R. Maslyn Williams, 1952)
Mike and Stefani is a neo-realist-style drama influenced, according to Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper (1), by the work of Roberto Rossellini and Robert Flaherty.
Lighting the Body as Public Space: Public Lighting
Public Lighting (2004 Canada 76 mins) Source, Filmmaker: Mike Hoolboom Art is always a witness, sometimes a witness to events before they actually occur. -
Image-Smithing: Early Abstractions
Early Abstractions (1957 USA 23 mins) Source: NFVLS Filmmaker: Harry Smith You shouldn’t be looking at this as a continuity. Film frames are hieroglyphs, even
Putting out of Place in its Place: An Interview with Jan Willem van Dam
Also included in D-Light, van Dam discusses at length his remarkable films as well as his strategies and filmmaking practice
Putting the Cards Back on the Table: An Interview with Anna Abrahams and Erwin van’t Hart
These two curators outline the background for the genesis of MM2 and D-Light
D-Light + MM2 = Dutch Experimental Film
Rotterdam 2004 saw the celebration of Dutch Experimental Cinema with the launch of a book and retrospective program devoted to this area
Rocks in his Eyes: An Interview with Edward Luyken
Luyken's films, an ever-growing body of work that premieres regularly at Rotterdam and were part of D-Light, are characterised by a concern with the metamorphosis
Tracing an Original and the Law of Diminishing Returns: Brakhage
Brakhage (1998 USA 75 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Sphinx Productions Prod: Alexa Frances-Shaw Dir, Scr: Jim Shedden Phot: Gerald Packer, Alexa Frances-Shaw Ed: Alexa
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