Alternative Visions 2017

September 20–December 3, 2017

BAMPFA's avant-garde showcase is a chance to explore the rich history of experimental cinema.

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  • Sins of the Fleshapoids

  • Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

  • Claudio Caldini: Un enano en el jardín

  • South

  • Lydia García Millán: Color

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  • Selected
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  • Past
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Past Films

  • Sins of the Fleshapoids

    Mike Kuchar
    United States, 1965
    Wednesday, September 20 7 PM
    Mike Kuchar in Person

    Mike Kuchar’s sci-fi extravaganza of lusty robots in revolt—featuring his brother George as an evil prince—helped launch American underground cinema. With the Kuchar brothers’ short Night of the Bomb.

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  • Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Tyler Hubby
    United States, 2016
    Wednesday, October 4 7 PM
    Tyler Hubby in Person

    This playful portrait captures filmmaker, artist, and musician Tony Conrad’s radical and creative life. “Essential viewing for anyone involved in the history of music and visual art” (Artforum). With Beverly and Tony Conrad’s short flicker film Straight and Narrow.

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  • The Films of Claudio Caldini

    Wednesday, October 18 7 PM
    Claudio Caldini in Person

    A rare visit by the Argentine filmmaker Claudio Caldini, whose Super 8 and regular 8mm films are “eternal, dematerialized, and transcendent” (Pablo Marin).

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  • South

    Chantal Akerman
    France, Belgium, 1999
    Wednesday, November 8 7 PM

    Chantal Akerman’s film on the American South “conjures the ghosts of the hate crimes and lynchings that have plagued that part of the US for decades. [South] makes its sorrowful points succinctly” (Variety).

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  • Experimental Latin American Women Filmmakers

    Sunday, December 3 4:30 PM
    Introduction by Ángela López Ruiz

    This program showcases female filmmakers who sought to carve out a place within the male-dominated world of Latin American independent audiovisual production. 

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