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A Conversation on film and video distribution with Jonas Mekas, Moira Tierney, Pip Chodorov, Aoife Desmond and Maeve Connolly


Organised by MAVIS in association with SOLUS Film Collective
Upstairs, Ha’penny Bridge Inn, Dublin 2.
Monday, February 18, 2008, 6-8pm


The discussion will focus on the development of artist/filmmaker-led approaches to film and video distribution, from co-op structures in the 1960s to more recent developments. It will explore some of the differences and tensions between these approaches and the curator-led model often associated with gallery, museum or biennial exhibitions.

 

Invited Speakers
Jonas Mekas is one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking or the “New American Cinema,” as he dubbed it in the late ‘50s. In 1954, he became editor and chief of Film Culture; in 1958 he began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 he co-founded the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque in 1964, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films.


Moira Tierney is a filmmaker and a founder member (along with Alan Lambert) of SOLUS, an independent film collective and platform for film-makers working in Super-8mm/16mm/DV, formed in 1998 in Dublin. SOLUS has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short & and avant-garde film in Dublin.


Pip Chodorov is an American filmmaker living in Paris. His films have played in festivals worldwide, at the Whitney Biennial and PS1. In addition to filmmaking, Pip also works as a programmer, publisher, teacher, organizer, activist and distributor. He worked in feature film distribution in both New York and Paris, in experimental film distribution for Light Cone and the Collectif Jeune Cinema, and in 1994 founded Re:Voir Video project, publishing experimental films for home video, as well as the internet-based forum on experimental film, FrameWorks. In 1996, Pip also co-founded L'Abominable, a cooperative do-it-yourself film lab in Paris, and in 2005, The Film Gallery, the first gallery devoted to artists who work in film. He has studied cognitive science in the U.S. as well as film semiotics in France.

 

Aoife Desmond is an interdisciplinary artist who works with drawing, gardening, installation, performance, photography and most recently film. During her recent residency with the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris (2007) she developed a new Super 8 and slide projection piece 'Museum of Nature' and met the film-makers Moira Tierney, Pip Chodorov and Jonas Mekas. She is currently working on a new Super 8 and slide projection piece for Blackrock Park commissioned by Dun Laoighaire Rathdown County Council as part of the Concourse Offsite Programme 2008. She is also working on a collaborative book project 'Ex-Situ' with writer Sinead Halkett and designer Robin Watkins and on a collaborative film, performance and installation project 'Trespass' with artist Seoidin O'Sullivan. Both these projects are funded by the Arts Council Project Award Scheme. She is a recent graduate of MA Visual Arts Practices IADT (2005).
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