{"id":952,"date":"2011-09-06T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=952"},"modified":"2013-08-12T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:25:57","slug":"2011-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2011\/09\/06\/2011-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenta Weekend 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?attachment_id=396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Abrantes-Olympia-II\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Abrantes-Olympia-II.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Experimenta Weekend is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lff\/\" target=\"_blank\">BFI London Film Festival<\/a>&#8216;s annual survey of artist\u2019s film and video. Over three days, from 21-23 October 2011, a unique sequence of programmes will offer a curated selection of outstanding work made around the world. This new independent website contains full details of the screenings and will be regularly updated with articles and additional information.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Solomon, renowned for his exquisite 16mm films, will make his first appearance in the UK to introduce the epic <em>American Falls<\/em>. In a triptych of images, waves of chemically treated celluloid reflect the aspirations and tragedies of the American dream.<\/p>\n<p>Two festival regulars return with debut features: Lewis Klahr\u2019s elliptical narrative <em>The Pettifogger<\/em> further develops his distinctive cut-out animation techniques; Ben Rivers\u2019 <em>Two Years at Sea<\/em> mixes fact and fantasy in an extended study of a marginal outsider. Observational filmmaker Robert Fenz and Portuguese artist Gabriel Abrantes are featured in solo screenings.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary moving image owes much to the pioneering generation of avant-garde filmmakers that appear in Pip Chodorov\u2019s documentary <em>Free Radicals<\/em>. Jonas Mekas, a central figure in that movement\u2019s history, will present two new works of his own: <em>Sleepless Night Stories<\/em> and <em>Correspondence<\/em> (in collaboration with Jos\u00e9 Luis Guerin). The visionary films of West Coast pioneer Chick Strand, which combine experimental, collage and ethnographic styles, can be rediscovered in newly preserved prints.<\/p>\n<p>The Experimenta Weekend is curated by Mark Webber, with assistance from Adam Pugh and Marina Ribera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/category\/2011-weekend\"><strong>SEE THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the Experimenta Weekend screenings are now repeated on subsequent weekdays. Outside the weekend programme, the festival also includes James Benning\u2019s <em>Twenty Cigarettes<\/em>, plus new preservations of Roberto Rossellini\u2019s <em>The Machine That Kills Bad People<\/em> and Nicholas Ray\u2019s experimental project <em>We Can\u2019t Go Home Again<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Experimenta Weekend is the BFI London Film Festival&#8216;s annual survey of artist\u2019s film and video. Over three days, from 21-23 October 2011, a unique sequence of programmes will offer a curated selection of outstanding work made around the world. This new independent website contains full details of the screenings and will be regularly updated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,110],"tags":[143,29],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-weekend","category-news","tag-lff","tag-lff-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}