After our long stint in suspended time, we welcome you back to the immersion and intimacy of a dark movie theater. To celebrate, we have put together a compelling program we hope will energize you.
The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards, always a pivotal point, allow us to promote and support local artists/ filmmakers, thus enabling them to continue their work. The selected films respond to the current audio-visual scene and present us with a multiplicity of practices that are engaging and respond to our current uncanny times.
Two prizes will be awarded: The Lia van Leer Award on behalf of Rivka Saker and the Ostrovsky Family Fund Award.
Other Textures, Other Pleasures is composed of two programs of exploratory moving images made by women. Starting in the last century and ending now, it is a multicentric adventure through global geography. These handmade works reveal hidden poetics which prod us to perceive things in another light and can lead to other pleasures. Following the screening, a discussion will take place between Sharon Balaban, Vivian Ostrovsky, and the public.
To balance the female gaze we have chosen Arnaud des Pallières’ Journal d'Amérique which uses archives (the Prelinger archives, free on internet), as cinematographic territory, composing an impressive ‘work diary’ which weaves its way through the 20th century via thoughts by mostly American writers, philosophers, thinkers - all on intertitles - and mostly a male point of view. While the charismatic color footage dictates its own story, memory is what holds the film together.
Come and explore our programs; we hope you will find them impactful, stimulating, and captivating. See you soon!
Vivian Ostrovsky and Sala-Manca
