Avant-Garde Cinema Night

Een avond met experimentele korte films waarin film en beeldende kunst samenkomen.

Peng Zuqiang maakt videowerk op het snijvlak van film en beeldende kunst. Hij heeft een heel eigen kijk op het medium en het materiaal van film. Tot en met 3 mei is aan de Langestraat de expositie Chronical te zien met werken van Zuqiang.

Tijdens de Avant Garde Cinema Night zie je in onze bioscoopzaal een selectie van schitterende korte films. Met werk van Zuqiang zelf én van beroemde filmregisseurs die hem beïnvloed hebben. 

De avond wordt gepresenteerd door Giovanni Giaretta, lecturer History of Moving Image bij AKI-Artez en zelf ook kunstenaar en filmmaker.

Filmprogramma:

Sight Leak (Peng Zuqiang, 2022, 12')
“The moon, the sometimes dark street, trees, it's warm […] at last, a certain eroticism possible (that of the warm night).” When Roland Barthes visited China in 1973, he jotted down these impressions… Sight Leak engages with these impressions and their cinematic afterlives.

Night Dances (Sandra Lahire, 1995, 15')
“Night Dances is for my mother, who died whilst helping me to make this piano musical. The Dance of Death is bound to life – Lechaim – as we whirl together by Hebrew gravestones. A dreaming woman is ferried through our decaying city. This is the age of the Personal Computer – the Private Catacomb for the switched-on elite. Its dark doorways are for the wandering homeless… true survivors.”

Sunflower Siege Engine (Sky Hopinka, 2022, 13’)
Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one’s reflections on their body as they exist in the world today, These are gestures that meditate on the carceral inception and nature of the reservation system, and where sovereignty and belligerence intersect and diverge. 

If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2022, 12’)
Derek “Dripp” Whitfield Jr. and Taymond “ChoSkii” Hughes of the music group BmE are composing and recording their latest composition, “Shiesty”, in the Columbus, Mississippi studio, only to be interrupted by a John Cage score.