Artists' Cinema

24 x A SECOND

Saturday 24 November
Sallis Benney Theatre 11:00AM

Austrian avant-garde cinema

The essential qualities of cinema – light, movement, space, time – have been rigorously explored by Austrian avant-garde cinema. Probably more than any other national artists’ cinema, these film-makers have engaged with the materiality of film to create a cinema of purity and intensity. Collectively, these Austrian artists have a remarkable and distinguished place within the international history of artists’ films.

This special CINECITY programme is devoted to the work of Austrian film-makers Martin Arnold, Gustav Deutsch , Peter Tscherkassky and the Viennese distributors sixpackfilm. We are delighted to welcome in person Gustav Deutsch, Peter Tscherkassky and Dietmar Schwärzler of sixpackfilm to CINECITY.

These special screenings and presentations also inaugurate the new cinema within the Sallis Benney Theatre. Thanks to support from Arts
Council England, South East and the University of Brighton, this new facility will provide a home for artists’ cinema in Brighton & Hove throughout the year.

SIXPACKFILM (11am)
Founded in 1990, sixpackfilm distributes and promotes internationally Austrian film and video art. In this special presentation for CINECITY, Dietmar Schwärzler of sixpackfilm introduces us to many of the key artists and screens work by Peter Kubelka, Kurt Kren, Valie Export, and Mara Mattuschka.

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FILM IST. 7-12 (2:15pm)
“Like a dream book, FILM IST makes one imagine an archive that Jorge Borges might have assembled.” (Tom Gunning)

Gustav Deutsch is an architect, artist, musician, photographer and film-maker. Since 1996, he has been scouring film archives, retrieving fragments of film and adding them to his ongoing project entitled FILM IST. These found clips, freed from their original context, develop new meanings and associations.

FILM IST. 7-12 is the second in Deutsch’s series of ‘tableau films’. The chapters are discreet works which may be shown in any order but build into a profound reflection on the nature of cinema. Made with the assistance of five major film archives, 7-12 features moving images from the first thirty years of cinema and reflects this period’s fascination with tricks, humour and theatre. These hand-tinted, scratched and decayed images are awe-inspiring, funny, breathtaking and simply beautiful to watch.

Gustav Deutsch. Austria 2002. 90 mins.

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GUSTAV DEUTSCH MASTERCLASS (4:15pm)
Film Ist.: finding and searching

Gustav Deutsch will present and discuss a range of found films, each with its own specific historical context: a Hindi film footage found in the streets of Casablanca, a burning skyscraper by a Croatian cinema owner that survived both World Wars in an Austrian cellar and a working copy of a Brazilian tele-novella containing two frames from every scene that was used to determine exposure times and had been used by a cleaning lady in Sao Paolo to scrub the floor-tiles of a bathroom.

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