Reading sessions, The Book to Come
Using Marcel Broodthaers’ book Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1969) as her starting point, Amaia Urra presents a singular reading of texts and interviews with the Belgian artist. Words follow one another as in a throw of the dice, forming new combinations and calling up hidden presences in language. “Bla…(Read More)
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Screening of Traité de bave et d’éternité (Isidore Isou 1951, 123 min), proposed by Loty Negarti, followed by discussion. “My friends told me, after seeing the recent American film on Rudolph Valentino, that they’d thought of me throughout the screening. Rudolph Valentino is a lower Isou of the tango age, just as Isou…(Read More)
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Exposición “Anywhen” Philippe Parreno. Tate Modern, Londres. 2016. Olatz González Abrisketa
Photo: Exhibition “Anywhen” Philippe Parreno. Tate Modern, Londres. 2016. Olatz González Abrisketa Bulegoa z/b is beginning a series of readings coordinated by Olatz González Abrisketa and Susana Carro Ripalda around the term “Cosmopolitics”. The term “Cosmopolitics” was proposed by Isabelle Stengers in 1996 to suggest a way of doing politics that would…(Read More)
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L’Anticoncept (Gil J. Wolman, 1951, 60 min.). Screening proposed by Loty Negarti, followed by discussion. “On 11 February, 1952, Gil J. Wolman’s film L’Anticoncept was screened at Avant-Garde 52, Paris. A few months later, the censors declared the film illegal on the grounds that it was an assault on what was…(Read More)
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Siddheshwari (Mani Kaul, 1989, 92 min.) Screening proposed by Héctor Rey, followed by discussion. Mani Kaul (1944 – 2011) was an Indian film director and musician who strongly influenced the Paralleo Cinema movement, and a pioneer in the Indian New Wave. I first encountered his work in Berlin through a friend, the American composer Cat…(Read More)
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Le Jardin d’essai [Dania Reymond, 2015, 42 min] Screening proposed by Komisario Berriak, followed by discussion. Samir is an Algerian film-maker who wants to make a low-budget film on a besieged city with a group of young amateur actors and actresses. As the auditions, rehearsals and filming progress in a lovely, calm…(Read More)
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The Garden [Derek Jarman, 1990, 1h 28min] Screening proposed by Komisario Berriak, followed by discussion. The Garden is Jarman’s personal interpretation of the passion of Christ. Two lovers are humiliated, arrested and tortured in a non-linear collage that expresses the director’s deepest, most personal concerns: religious dogma, individual beliefs, and spiritual journeys…(Read More)