OtherFilm / IMA

Over the last fifty years, New York film artist Ken Jacobs has made a massive contribution to experimental film and expanded-cinema performance. He is known for his pioneering two-hour 1969 structuralist film Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son, which probes, deconstructs, and reorganises a…

A rare screening of Ken Jacobs’s 1969 structuralist masterpiece, Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son. 16mm print courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. A joint project between OtherFilm and IMA.

Seminal films from 1960 to 1972 by an unsung pioneer of British experimental film. “Keen’s films are high-voltage visual shocks, eruptions of pulp imagery, eroticism, violence, language games, uncensored imagination and sheer giddy exuberance. His early films are love-letters to…

Jean Genet’s 1950 gay prison romance A Song of Love and Alain Resnais’s 1955 holocaust documentary Night and Fog on 16mm film. Prints courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. A joint project between OtherFilm and IMA.

Longing looks on film from Daniel McKewen, Fetus Productions, Tim Johnson, David Noonan, AES+F, Robin Hely, and others.

Conrad Rooks’s rarely seen, semi-autobiographical, counter-culture drug odyssey Chappaqua (1966), featuring Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Moondog, and The Fugs. A joint project with OtherFilm.

Heavy visions of annihilation and ascension featuring Robert Nelson, Ron Rice and Ira Cohen.

Power to the styles of ongo flava, hiplife, kuduro, and coupé-decalé. New York ethnomusicologist Brian Shimkovitz burns up a cassette-fueled dancefloor with curiously insane highlights from his increasingly-popular blog, Awesome Tapes From Africa. Institute of Modern Art 6PM FREE –…

Legendary Austrian experimental filmmaker Peter Kubelka is an extremist, yet he argues that he ‘never wanted to be radical, only consistent, like a scientist working toward his results’. Jonas Mekas said, ‘Kubelka’s cinema is like a piece of crystal, or some other…

British artist Luke Fowler is known for his film portraits of radicals. His recent film, All Divided Selves, which featured in last year’s Turner Prize, addresses the controversial Scottish anti-psychiatrist R.D. Laing. Published in 1960, Laing’s most famous book, The Divided Self,…

Luke Fowler’s 2006 documentary Pilgrimage from Scattered Points addresses the English composer Cornelius Cardew, who formed Scratch Orchestra with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton in 1968. Their draft constitution, published in The Musical Times in June 1969, set out the…

Soviet documentary maker Dziga Vertov is justly celebrated for his dizzingly experimental Man with a Movie Camera (1929). This feature-length film—which has been described as a ‘whirligig visual ruckus’—combines images of the heroic lives of everyday people at work and at play with audacious…

Being embedded in entertainment—’the culture industry’—the moving image has often been a target for radical film artists. Some make explicitly political, socially engaged, strident, ideological works. Others process popular imagery through their avant-garde language, making the critique more abstract and…

Being embedded in entertainment—’the culture industry’—the moving image has often been a target for radical film artists. Some make explicitly political, socially engaged, strident, ideological works. Others process popular imagery through their avant-garde language, making their critique more abstract and…

OtherFilm screen Paris-based filmmakers Graeme Thomson and Silvia Maglioni’s In Search of UIQ, a new experimental documentary based on Félix Guattari’s unmade science-fiction film script. After discovering the unpublished script, Thomson and Maglioni initiated a multi-form research project that culminated…

When Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills was sold in 1955, it became a popular Hollywood filming location—over sixty feature films have used the mansion as a set. Filmed on location in 1963, House of the Damned highlights the mansion in all…