Avant-garde

Imagination & Liberty: The films of Pierre Clémenti

Imagination & Liberty: The films of Pierre Clémenti

Pierre Clémenti may be more familiar to audiences as a magnetic on-screen presence, but from May 1968 onwards he was also a maker of underground films filled with psychedelic energy and radical leftism. On the occasion of a retrospective at MoMA, Ruairí McCann takes a journey into his unique visions.

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Experimenta correspondences #4: Interior/Exterior

Experimenta correspondences #4: Interior/Exterior

ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the fourth and final of these letters, Sophia reflects on internal and external geographies across several films from the Experimenta programme and beyond.

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Experimenta correspondences #3: Opaque and emerging narratives

Experimenta correspondences #3: Opaque and emerging narratives

ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the third of these missives, Patrick reflects on the obfuscation and emergence of narratives within and around films screened.

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Experimenta correspondences #2: America, divided

Experimenta correspondences #2: America, divided

ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the second of these messages, Sophia discusses her experience(s) watching James Benning’s The United States of America.

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Experimenta correspondences #1: Dissolving Boundaries

Experimenta correspondences #1: Dissolving Boundaries

ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the first of these messages, Patrick discusses some of the films in the programme ‘Some Say the Devil is Dead.’

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