Preserving Artists’ Film and Video: Screening & Discussion
Combined programme
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IFFR 2006
An international community of film and video distributors of experimental film and video art present a programme of recently conserved jewels from their collections. The screening will be followed by a debate about the practice of conserving experimental films and video by the distributors concerned. Often these have been the only organisations that have taken on the task of maintaining and preserving essential national and international archives of moving picture artists.
In this combined programme
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Passage to the North
Enchanting mixture of drama, humour, text and image. -
Die Distanz zwischen mir und meinen Verlusten
Looking for a humourous metaphor for a self-chosen identity, Odenbach uses found footage, music, text and video fragments. -
Inktpot
In the dunes near the Belgian coastal resort of Koksijde, a bunker is transformed into a giant ink pot. -
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Women’s Liberation Demonstration NYC, August 26, 1970
Street interviews with participants in one of the first feminist demonstrations in New York (1970). -
Symphonie Diagonale
This classic by Eggeling is one of the first abstract animation films from film history. The film was conserved in 1994 by film maker Gösta… -
Engels Smoking His Signature, Signing the Universe
In this conceptual video work, made up of three parts, the director makes statements about his own work. -
Giraglia
Film based on the music written by Pierre Henry for the ballet Messe pour le temps présent by Maurice Béjart.
