If you are in Barcelona, Vienna, Plymouth, London, Frome or Newcastle in the next weeks, come check out Alex MacKenzie’s EXPERIMENTS FOR A SINGLE PROJECTOR, as he tours this live expanded cinema show to a few select stops in Europe (see below for dates and locations) and presents workshops along the way.
Exploring the potential of the 16mm film projection apparatus and amplifying the possibilities of this refined and precise tool, EXPERIMENTS FOR A SINGLE PROJECTOR is a suite of expanded and performed works that use the mechanism to its fullest potential; manipulating, modifying and enhancing various aspects of its functionality. Found footage, painted filmstrips and light are transformed with beam interference, bipacked looping, focus, lens and shutter alterations to create radically transformed and dreamlike spaces—epic, immersive, and abstracted. The results shimmer across the screen, uniting “the cosmic with the microscopic...in an ecstatic splendour of light” (Marilyn Brakhage).
“Alex MacKenzie is the unequivocal master of contemporary Canadian expanded cinema: using rare and outdated technology with the deft touch of a visual alchemist, MacKenzie spins his stunning and mesmerizing anti-narratives using the detritus of cinematic history to create a completely unforgettable, and undeniably powerful, alternate vision.” -Antimatter Media Art
“MacKenzie is a key player in the revival of expanded cinema forms, having performed an array of super 8 and 16mm projection works over the last twenty-five years. His projects stretch the possibilities of the analogue form, manipulating images to beyond our received expectations.”
-Chris Kennedy, Early Monthly Film Segments (Toronto)
Experiments for a Single Projector DATES AND LOCATIONS:
28 July Barcelona - Crater-Lab Hangar, door T 8pm
31 July Vienna - filmkoop wien 7pm
02 August Plymouth - CAMP/37 Looe Street 7pm
07 August London - Close-Up Film Centre 8:15pm
09 August Frome - Bennett Centre 7:30pm
11 August Newcastle - Star & Shadow Cinema 7:30pm
new eps coming soon. link in bio. #vrgbls #manicpixievideovixen #youtubeseries #experimentalcinema https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckk0rZzuRfN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
We had a truly beautiful evening of recent experimental films from Mexico presented by filmmaker Elena Pardo at Cineworks, a huge thanks to Elena for bringing them to us, to all the filmmakers, and to Cineworks for hosting!
Panta Rhei (everything is in flux) is an Official Selection of Worldfest Houston IFF; Laurels and a view from the seats… . . . . . #abstractfilms #nonobjectivefilm #experimentalcinema #avantgardefilm #filmfestivalawards (at Cinemark Memorial City) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChxqwrDONEF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The (@gabrieloshea ‘s ) selection of films projected during the 1st QÚO gathering were: 1. Salomé (1976) directed by Téo Hernández. 2. The Color of pomegranates (1969) directed by Sergei Parajanov. We will screen a new selection of films during QUO gatherings in the future. Thank you for joining us. • #quomovement #teohernandez#sergeiparajanov#thecolorofpomegranates#salome#experimentalcinema#experimentalfilm (at QÚO) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfkSHxnpFpv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A roll of Ektachrome (along with some plant matter) was enclosed in a black photo bag riddled with pinholes. The package was mailed. The recipient developed the film; it was later scanned. Here are details from 5 of the strips. #correspondenceart #collaborativeart #mailart #ektachrome #pinholephotography #lightleak #35mmfilmphotography #multipleexposurephotography #abstractphotography #lensless #cameraless #sequentialart #longexposurephotography #avantgardefilm #analogphotography #experimentalfilm #expandedcinema #experimentalphotography #experimentalcinema #trippy #psychedelia #photogram #sprocketholes #instafilm #dreamsequence #filmstills #colorfilmphotography #fotografiaexperimental #wip #pinholefilm https://www.instagram.com/p/CPOhobuHXQa/?utm_medium=tumblr
We had a truly beautiful evening of recent experimental films from Mexico presented by filmmaker Elena Pardo at Cineworks, a huge thanks to Elena for bringing them to us, to all the filmmakers, and to Cineworks for hosting!
Asia Strikes Back (1983) First in last night's triple-feature w/ @NathanDorsett. A stunning, mind-melting Japanese cyberpunk short film from the early 80s about a group of post-humans with psionic abilities, training for some future conflict. Feel a little bit like a mutant practicing psionic abilities, these days. Like cooking down VHS tapes and injecting into yr optic nerve. For fans of Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Hardware. . #AsiaStrikesBack #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkMovies #JapaneseCyberpunk #psi #psychicabilities #fortean #80s #1980s #1983 #80sscifi #80shorror #shortmovie #shortfilm #shortmovies #experimental #experimentalcinema #experimentalfilm #experimentalshortfilm #scifi #sciencefiction #bunker #bunkerlife #quarantine #quarantinemovies #movielover #cinephile #movieobsession #lofi #JSimpson https://www.instagram.com/p/B_d8rSAF4sg/?igshid=gbsmst7zepce
AUGUST 23rd 7pm
Elena Pardo IN PERSON from Mexico City with
TERRA INCOGNITA, TERRA INDOMITA.
Copresented Iris Film Collective and Cineworks.
This evening presents a selection of experimental films curated by Elena Pardo and Isabel Rojas that explore present and past untamed territories through a speculative gaze that subverts preconceptions about identity, ethnicity and territory.
Featuring many films originally created on 16mm and Super 8, these works hail from Mexico City’s Experimental Film Collective LEC and their friends. The programme is co-presented with Cineworks and takes place at their Black Box Studio, alley entrance 1131 Howe Street - FREE admission!
Films featured are by: Carolina Jaschack, Azucena Losana, Elena Pardo, Marcela Cuevas, Edén Bastida, Jael Jacobo + Ezequiel Guido, Daniel Valdez Puertos, Bruno Varela, and Annalisa Quagliata.
Don’t miss the rare chance to see these works and meet filmmaker and co-curator Elena Pardo.
PLUS:
Echo Park Film Centre presents a picnic with Elena Pardo & Friends!
Sunday, August 28 11am-2pm. Elena will facilitate a relaxed “Expanded Cinema” workshop where attendees can experience the playful wonder of 16mm projection using various gels, filters and lenses to distort analog images.
Elena is a featured guest at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival and will be presenting Pulsos Subterráneos, a live expanded cinema work, on September 3rd at the festival.
More tickets and info here: https://www.goelevent.com/VLAFF/e/PulsosSubterraneos
Big thanks to VLAFF for their support with this program.