Location:
Muhka_media
Waalsekaai 47
2000 Antwerpen

Kinship is a long term collaboration between Extra City Center for Contemporary Art and Muhka_media which aims at presenting a comprehensive overview and re-evaluation of experimental film history of the 60s and 70s and beyond. The program is designed in the form of a growing "map", connecting the various centers of experimental and underground production world wide, accompanied by writers, researchers and public debate. The opening program "Underground /Overseas" (continued in December) sets out to trace the connection between New York circles such as Jack Smith and Andy Warhol to the "Zanzibar" group in Paris. "Underground /Overseas", compiled by Marc Siegel (Film Scholar, Berlin), presents rare and never seen material next to classics and cornerstone work of both art and film history, this first weekend introducing newly recovered Jack Smith films, next to some of the most remarkable works from the "Zanzibar" scene. Live guests of "Underground / Overseas" include Jerry Tartaglia (Filmmaker/Archivist, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania), Jackie Raynal (Filmmaker, Paris), Patrick Deval (Filmmaker, Paris), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Director of Friends of the German Cinemathèque, Berlin). The opening lecture for the KINSHIP program is delivered by Branden W. Joseph from Columbia University New York.

KINSHIP is conceived by Anselm Franke (Extra City) and Edwin Carels (Muhka_media). A collaboration with the Friends of the German Cinemathèque Berlin.

Friday 5 October

18:00
Introductory lecture by Branden W. Joseph (Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York): The Roh and the Cooked: Travels of Structural Film, Actionism, and Paracinema between New York, London, Vienna, and Cologne

19:00
Introduction to Underground/ Overseas: From Jack Smith and Andy Warhol to Zanzibar by Marc Siegel (Film scholar, Berlin)

19:30
The Beautiful Film Jewels of Jack Smith
Scotch Tape (1959-1962), 3 min
Overstimulated (1959-1963), 6 min
Jungle Island/Reefers of Technicolor Island (1967), 15 min
Hot Air Specialists (1970s), 4 min
Unedited Super 8 Film Rushes (1970s), 45 min

21:00
Introduction to Jack Smith by Jerry Tartaglia (Filmmaker and Restorer of Smith's Films)

21:30
Normal Love (1963-4), 120 min

Saturday 6 October

18:00
A Re-Evaluation of the Heritage of Experimental Film?
Panel Discussion with Jerry Tartaglia (Filmmaker/Archivist, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania), Jackie Raynal (Filmmaker, Paris), Patrick Deval (Filmmaker, Paris), Branden W. Joseph, Marc Siegel, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Director of Friends of the German Cinemathèque, Berlin), Edwin Carels (Film and media curator and head of MuHKA_media, Gent), and Anselm Franke (Artistic director of Extra City, Antwerp)

19:30
The Zanzibar Films
Introduction by Marc Siegel, with Jackie Raynal and Patrick Deval

20:00
Deux Fois (Jackie Raynal, Fr, 1968), 60 min
Acéphale (Patrick Deval, Fr, 1968), 65 min

22:00
Détruisez-vous (Serge Bard, Fr, 1968), 75 min

Language English