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Altered States, Coastal Currents 2015

story © Michael Betancourt | published July 20, 2015 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS

Altered Statesis an immersive multi-screen show of the latest experimental film and video work curated by the Hastings-based filmmakers Toby Tatum and Mark French. Altered States features moving image by over seventy of the most fascinating international moving image practitioners working today, much of it unseen in the UK.

This exhibition includes the fruits of a worldwide search for works that articulate film's power to initiate heightened states of consciousness, transporting us across the threshold into a mind-expanding visionary state. The programme features a selection of cutting edge films that imaginatively reshape the base materials of the everyday world into something rich and strange..




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Unseen Zinema 3 Program June 19

story © Michael Betancourt | published June 13, 2015 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS

Unseen Zinema 3 llega a su fin y qu mejor manera de celebrarlo que con una fiesta por todo lo alto. El ao que viene volveremos, pero antes queremos divertirnos como nos merecemos, con cine y msica.




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CROSSROADS 2015, program 4: Saturday April 11 @ 4 PM

story © Michael Betancourt | published April 7, 2015 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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forward reverse read write: conjectures about the animal

Victoria Theatre
4pm
$5 - $10

In Person: Michael Betancourt; Karissa Hahn; Jeremy Moss and Deborah Stratman





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10th anniversary Experiments in Cinema Best of Show

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 17, 2015 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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The Best of Experiments in Cinema at the Southwest Film Center at the University of New Mexico, 6 pm Friday March 20

Tickets are $5




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Crossroads Festival schedule announced!

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 11, 2015 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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My movie Dancing Glitch is in Crossroads, Program 4: forward reverse read write: conjectures about the animal

In Person: Michael Betancourt; Karissa Hahn; Jeremy Moss; Deborah Stratman

Screening on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm:

Cicatrix (2014) by Jeremy Moss
Soon (2014, Bay Area premiere) by Jeanne Liotta
Dancing Glitch (2013) by Michael Betancourt
Lentre Deux (2014) by Karl Lemieux
Sayres Vapor (2013, world premiere) by Karissa Hahn
Conjectures (2013) by Pablo Mazzolo
As Near as Light (2014, world premiere) by Susan DeLeo
Second Sighted (2014, Bay Area premiere) by Deborah Stratman
The Golden Hour (2014; Bay Area premiere) by Ross Meckfessel
Laborat (2014, Bay Area premiere) by Guillaume Cailleau
Jenny Haniver (2014, world premiere) by Stephen Broomer.




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