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From 22 October to 13 December, the ICA in London presents a major retrospective of Shōhei Imamura, one of post-war Japan’s most distinctive filmmakers. More than 25 years after the UK’s last major Imamura retrospective, the programme brings together new restorations, rarely seen works, contextual screenings and guest introductions, alongside a new monograph on his work.
French independent cinephile label Capricci is re-releasing sixteen films by Chantal Akerman in French cinemas, alongside the release of a Blu-ray box featuring Akerman's feature-length and short films – the most complete collection available worldwide to date.
From 4 to 8 September, Frankfurt based festival exf f. - tage des experimentellen films frankfurt is hosting a four-program retrospective of American experimental filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos, one of the most idiosyncratic and influential figures of avant-garde and experimental film in the post-war period.
Sabzian is going into summer mode. During July and August, Sabzian will publish at a reduced pace. We'll be back to full speed in September!
To mark the beginning of our summer break, we offer you an overview of the texts we have published over the past year, which we hope will end up on your summer reading list!
The sun is out and so is the cinema-goer. Here is a list of cinema events for the summer (mostly outdoors), so you don’t have to miss the silver screen in the summer break.
Retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London
In collaboration with Another Gaze Editions, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London presents a full retrospective of Marguerite Duras’ work. The retrospective will include her shorts, features and televisual work, alongside several works in literal or theoretical conversation with hers.
L’Atelier de Production du GSARA organise une résidence annuelle invitant un.e artiste sonore artisan et un.e artiste visuel.le spécialisé.e en film analogique (super8, 16mm) à créer un court métrage de 10 à 15 minutes sur la diversité bio-culturelle, en prenant comme point de départ le Marais Wiels à Forest.
An overview of the graduation screenings of the film schools in Flanders and Brussels.
The Harvard Film Archive recently launched a new section called “Conversations” on their website. The conversations are part of The Harvard Film Archive Visiting Artists Collection documenting visitors to the HFA’s cinematheque.
From 8 June to 30 August, Courtisane is hosting the programme We Have Long Been Silent, an expanded version of the programme of the same name presented at the Courtisane festival earlier this year, at CINEMATEK.
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