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  Exploratory Visions Animation + Experimental + Avant Garde film program 03 – 04 December 2022 (Weekend #2) The second weekend of Exploratory Visions animation + experimental + avant garde film program focuses on the avant garde, or films with some kind of narrative even if barely recognisable as such. The individual films are mostly longer than last weekend but there are fewer of them. The multi-award-winning collage animation Once I Passed , a collaboration between Germany’s Martin Gerigk and Serbia’s Nikola Gocic opens a stylish window to the past and a poem by Walt Whitman, followed by Debjit Bagchi’s fascinating Memoir from India which explores the fragmented memories of a man we never see.                                                                    Once I passed           ...

 Two Films, Then and Now. Here are some notes, reactions to my experimental moving image work being exhibited in a group show at Brighton Gallery, in Brighton until 18 December this year, highlighting its photographic materialist experimentation. https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/threshold It’s been a while since my obsessions have gone public, especially in Melbourne. I have come to terms with why I gravitated to such a discounted local practice in the 70s when the co-op movement reared its ugly head. In a lot of ways this experimental thread even became incidental to that movement, and how that history has been remembered. it was certainly there at the start through artists like James Clayden, Michael Lee and Albie Thoms, for example, but drifted to its margins and outside its focus as documentarist and feminist waves took hold, with a last unfortunate gasp for experimentation at MIMA in 1992. And there was Cantrills Filmnotes. I was attracted to these margins, re-enacting the ...

  ALERT CINEMA IN THEORY AND LIFE PRACTICES ( Well, there's one thing you can't lose... It's that feel...) I would like to start this post with the repeated information about David King 's Web TV sequenced program " Exploratory Visions ", previously announced via the " Friends of the Armchair Traveler " blog. Impressive 60 minutes of recent experimental film and video production (a part of which I would not dare to include in my presentation programs) yet you can follow the two more days at the address:  https://www.salto.nl/programma/the-screening-room/ I am looking forward to watch the second part of this little avant-garde net show, about which you will be informed in due course and based on a number of relevant sources such as this www point. I owe a lot to David and our friendship, just to mention. BTW,  during our exchange of emails and hopefully valuable life experiences I reflected on the enormous losses for the avant-garde art scene during t...

Exploratory Visions Animation + Experimental + Avant Garde film program 26 – 27 November 2022 (weekend #1) Echoes of war reverberate through the first weekend’s Exploratory Visions animation + experimental + avant garde film program this year. From Finland, Eija Temiseva’s abstract but powerful Feelings of War is followed by Indian director Debraj Naiya’s Seedlings which looks at the trauma suffered by children in an unnamed theatre of war, followed by Janja Rakus’s Song For Haron (Slovenia) which evokes a ferry taking the dead across the River Styx.  'Feelings of War' - Eija Temiseva 'Seedlings' - Debraj Maiya 'Song or Haron' - Janja Rakus But it’s not all doom and gloom. This is the first time the program will open with a student film – Yuzuki Tachibana’s Deduce from Genjipai is a delightful and intriguing experimental animation from Japan which evokes the spirit of Rene Magritte. 'Deduce from Gejapai' -Yuzuki Tachibana Australia’s Ian Gibbins gives...

 In his previous post Darko mentioned some of Piero's films, as well as posting some lovely images from those films. Here are the films which Darko referred to: Piero Bargellini - Nelda (1969) Piero Bargellini - Morte all'orecchio di Van Gogh (1968) I CAN'T FIND THIS NEXT TITLE Piero Bargellini - Trasferimento di modulazione (1969) YOUTUBE SAYS "INAPROPRIATE CONTENT" !!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps someone shot a lot of people in a public place, or sent a number of rockets loaded with explosives into a neighbouring country for no particular reason...which might have qualified as perfectly appropriate content.    ANYHOW,  HERE IS A COMPENDIUM PIECE OF SOME OF PIERO'S WORK: FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THIS POST. pt Hi Peter Tammer,   We wanted to let you know our team reviewed your content, and we think it violates our  sex and nudity policy . We know you may not have realized this was a violation of our policies, so we're not applying a strike to your channel. However, we ha...