INTERVIEW: Local Filmmaker Billy Palumbo
Sometimes after I’ve watched an experimental kind of film, I know whether I’ve enjoyed it or not, but I can’t quite articulate…
Isaac Fuhrman
To See: Recent Works by the AgX Film Collective
6/30 @CCTV
Review: Watersmith (1969) dir. Will Hindle
On Thursday, May 19 at the Coolidge, the Balagan Film Series presented eight short films by the late American experimental filmmaker, Will…
BUFF18 REVIEW: Standby for Tape Backup (performed by Ross Sutherland)
“One day I will see my life perfectly on that screen.” Ross Sutherland (UK) estimates that he’s performed his “ritual” that is…
Pleasure Dome Presents: New Toronto Films 2015 @ AgX (Waltham)
Toronto-based experimental media exhibition group, Pleasure Dome, treks down to the AgX Film Collective this Thursday to present a selection of recent film and video work from Torontinian makers. This selection will include stop-motion animation, travelogues, found footage films, and general works in the experimental/avant-garde realm.
Human Nature (2014-2016) dir. Robert Todd @ MassArt
Filmmaker and Emerson professor, Rob Todd, will present three films, which comprise his Human Nature series. ‘Emerald Necklace’ (2016), ‘Over Water’ (2014), and ‘Artificial Atmospheres’ (2016) all examine humanity’s relationship with/to/subordination of nature.
Black Radical Imagination @ ICA
Black Radical Imagination is a touring program of shorts that delve into the worlds of new media, video art, and experimental narrative. Each artist contributes their own vision of postmodern society through the state of current black culture. The screening will be followed by a discussion with curators and featured filmmaker Terence Nance to contemplate the work and its impact on our ever-changing global culture. Nance will lead a workshop for teens in the Fast Forward program in conjunction with this event.
Regarding Susan Sontag
Get acquainted or reacquainted with writer/critic/filmmaker/activist icon, Susan Sontag, in this documentary, which explores Sontag’s life through experimental imagery, archival footage, interviews with friends, colleagues, and lovers, and through her own words.
One Cut, One Life
A deeply moving, personal documentary told from two filmmakers’ perspectives on mortality, intimacy, privacy, and the like.
On Copper Wings (world premiere!) @ MassArt
The 103-minute world premiere of an abstract film made about (and by) insects. Providence based director, David Fischer, in person.
Out 1: Noli me tangere
Paris, April 13th 1970. Two theater groups each rehearse avant-garde adaptations of plays by Aeschylus. A young deaf-mute begs for change in cafés while playing the harmonica. A young woman seduces men in order to rob them. As a conspiracy develops, the protagonists’ stories start to intertwine…
Spying and Other Provocations: The Works of Joe Gibbons @ MassArt Film Society
MassArt Film Society presents two celebrated films by Boston based experimental filmmaker, Joe Gibbons.
