Guy Maddin, named after B-movie star Guy Madison, was born in 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada. This remote and, in winter, forty below-zero degree extinct place, where he still lives and works, is often found in the settings of his films. He gives names like Gimli, Mandragora, Bad Tölz or Archangelsk to the mostly isolated and overdrawn places of Ma…
Laura Waddington's video works are a connection between her literary texts and her vague world of images, which, slowed down, partially or entirely colored, sometimes blurred and mostly coarse-grained, make the question of a supposedly objective depictability of a reality seem obsolete.
The filmmaker deliberately pushes the boundaries of the phot…
Irit Batsry Born 1957 in Ramat-Gan, Israel, lives in New York since 1983. Studies of ceramic art and video at the Bezazel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. She works mainly with video and installations, which have been exhibited and awarded internationally. Irit Batsry mostly confronts us with the process of abstraction and the question of the traces o…
Born in Milwaukee in 1945. Studied mathematics, then film and graphic arts at the University of Wisconsin. From 1972 he worked as an independent filmmaker and made a significant contribution to the American avant-garde. Between 1978 and 1985 he also created a series of projection and computer installations. Since 1987 Benning has taught in the vid…
Program 1
Leading Light (GB 1975, 16mm, colour, 11 Min.)
The Girl Chewing Gum (GB 1976, 16mm, b/w, 12 Min.)
Hackney Marshes - November 4th 1977 (GB 1977, 16mm, colour, mute, 15 Min.)
Om (GB 1986, 16mm, colour, 4 Min.)
The Black Tower (GB 1985-87, 16mm, colour, 24 Min.)
Programm 2
Blue Bathroom (GB 1979, 16mm, colour…
David Larcher was born in London in 1942. He studied anthropology and archaeology at Cambridge for three years and then moved to the Royal College of Art, Department of Film and Television.
He is considered one of the founding fathers of British avant-garde film and was known primarily as an abstract film artist in the late 1960s before being inv…
Pat O'Neill was born in Los Angeles in 1939. He produced his first short film in 1963 in collaboration with computer graphics pioneer Robert Able. Since then he has completed 14 avant-garde films that are in many major film collections. From 1970 to 1975, he was in charge of the film and video department at the Californian "Institute of the Arts".…
Born in New York, high school in Rio de Janeiro and university studies (psychology and film) at the Sorbonne in Paris: Vivian Ostrovsky's biography establishes the motif of 'continuous transit' that characterises her cinematic work. In
In the 1970s, she worked for Ciné-Femmes, a feminist film company. When she decided to make films, she cont…
Born in 1972, she was given the Fisher Pixelvision 2000 by her father, the film artist James Benning, for Christmas when she was 15. Actually designed as a toy video camera, easy to operate, always ready with projection films in the frame, it caught on less with children than with avant-garde artists.
Sadie's first works, such as Welcome to Norma…
Born 1942 in Vancouver. Professor of film at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design there. David Rimmer began making films in the late 1960s. Early works such as Square Inch Field (1968) and Migration (1969) were influenced by the lyrical-poetic films of Stan Brakhage and Bruce Conner as well as Rimmer's preoccupation with oriental music.
At the…