Essay Film Festival: 2016
Cite as:
Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew
(2023):
Essay Film Festival: 2016.
Birkbeck College, University of London.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18743/DATA.00000245
Description
FESTIVAL
17-24 March 2016, Birkbeck Cinema, ICA Cinema, and Goethe-Institut London
Programme introduction EFF 2016
The Essay Film Festival is an annual celebration of this elusive, disruptive, and dynamically hybrid form. The aim of the festival is to expand the visibility of the essay film, not as a fixed genre but as a possibility, shifting between registers and playing with conventions. Bringing together the most striking, innovative examples of essayistic filmmaking – both contemporary and historical – from around the world, the festival complements the screenings with masterclasses and in-depth discussions with special guests.
This year’s festival features a retrospective of the wide-ranging career of Kidlat Tahimik, the Filipino filmmaker and artist, including the UK premiere of his latest film Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III, and his rarely screened masterpiece Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? There are special events devoted to two British women essayists, Miranda Pennell (The Host) and Sarah Wood (I Am a Spy), and the first UK screening of Iranian filmmaker Bani Khoshnoudi’s political essay The Silent Majority Speaks. On its opening night at the ICA, the festival is proud to host the UK premiere of Manoel de Oliveira’s posthumously released Visit, or Memories and Confessions.
At Birkbeck Cinema, the highly regarded essay filmmaker Mark Rappaport will screen several recent short works – including The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (2014), Our Stars (2015), and I, Dalio, or The Rules of the Game (2015) – for the first time in the UK. In a similar vein of audiovisual criticism, Richard Misek will present Rohmer in Paris (2013), a profoundly engaging exploration of the pleasures of cinephilia. The festival will also host screenings and workshops devoted to exploring the recent explosion of video essays online and their impact on the practice of film criticism and academic teaching of film; the latest in experimental found footage films; and a few of the remarkable series of groundbreaking essayistic documentaries made in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s under the aegis of the Arts Council, including A Sign is a Fine Investment (1984), directed by Judith Williamson.
17-24 March 2016, Birkbeck Cinema, ICA Cinema, and Goethe-Institut London
Programme introduction EFF 2016
The Essay Film Festival is an annual celebration of this elusive, disruptive, and dynamically hybrid form. The aim of the festival is to expand the visibility of the essay film, not as a fixed genre but as a possibility, shifting between registers and playing with conventions. Bringing together the most striking, innovative examples of essayistic filmmaking – both contemporary and historical – from around the world, the festival complements the screenings with masterclasses and in-depth discussions with special guests.
This year’s festival features a retrospective of the wide-ranging career of Kidlat Tahimik, the Filipino filmmaker and artist, including the UK premiere of his latest film Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III, and his rarely screened masterpiece Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? There are special events devoted to two British women essayists, Miranda Pennell (The Host) and Sarah Wood (I Am a Spy), and the first UK screening of Iranian filmmaker Bani Khoshnoudi’s political essay The Silent Majority Speaks. On its opening night at the ICA, the festival is proud to host the UK premiere of Manoel de Oliveira’s posthumously released Visit, or Memories and Confessions.
At Birkbeck Cinema, the highly regarded essay filmmaker Mark Rappaport will screen several recent short works – including The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (2014), Our Stars (2015), and I, Dalio, or The Rules of the Game (2015) – for the first time in the UK. In a similar vein of audiovisual criticism, Richard Misek will present Rohmer in Paris (2013), a profoundly engaging exploration of the pleasures of cinephilia. The festival will also host screenings and workshops devoted to exploring the recent explosion of video essays online and their impact on the practice of film criticism and academic teaching of film; the latest in experimental found footage films; and a few of the remarkable series of groundbreaking essayistic documentaries made in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s under the aegis of the Arts Council, including A Sign is a Fine Investment (1984), directed by Judith Williamson.
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[EFF16X2] Special screening of Seasons of Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
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| Date: | 21 June 2023 |
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