The program changed, because some of the films that we had ordered didn´t arrived.


Tuesday references:


Japanese film Onibaba (鬼婆) (1964), directed by Kaneto Shindō. After the opening it will develop more to be like a fantasy / horror film. 


Several early Lumière films, including: 
La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon (literally, "the exit from the Lumière factories in Lyon", or, under its more common English title, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory) (1895) 
L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat (literally, "the arrival of a train at La Ciotat Station", but more commonly known as Arrival of a Train at a Station) (1897)
Repas de bébé ("Baby's Breakfast") (1895) 
Le Jardinier (l'Arroseur Arrosé) ("The Gardener," or "The Sprinkler Sprinkled") (1895) 


Georges Méliès
Voyage a travers l'impossible (1904) 


Edwin S. Porter
The Great Train Robbery (1903)


Abel Gance: Napoléon (1927)


John Baldessari: The Title (1972)


Maya Deren
Meshes of the afternoon (1943)
At land (1944)


Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 


Michelangelo Antonioni
Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert, 1964)


Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Unser Taeglich Brot (Our Daily Bread, 2005)


On Wednesday:


Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin


Jean-Luc Godard: trailers of Pierrot le fou (1965) and Le mépris (1963)

Corrugated Screen: Brain & Cinema 25.5. - 26.5. 2010

Place: Film theatre Bunuel, The Aalto-university School of Art and Design, Department of Film and Television, Hämeentie 135 C (take the elevator to the 1st floor, go 1st left and then right)

To whom: organised by The Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts for aivoAALTO project only

Our aim is to learn about moving image as a medium for thinking. We will examine the mechanisms of experimental film, arthouse cinema and Hollywood cinema. We will go through some aspects and themes concerning thought and film introduced by the film directors, cognitive film theorists and philosophers. Also we will be watching lots of films.

The Program:

25.5. Tuesday

9 - 12 About perception, narrative and other aspects (classical narrative film and modern cinema)

12 - 13 Lunch break
13 - 16 About perception, alternative narration and non-narrative strategies in experimental film and in the new forms of moving image

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26.5. Wednesday (Extra day for screenings and discussions)
9.00 - 12.00 Screenings and discussions in Bunuel

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch Break
13.00 - 15.30 Screening of the film Facs of Life by Silvia Magnoli and Graeme Thomson in the presence of the directors and the students from ELO. Place: Sampo-sali (very big Sampo Hall), The Aalto-university School of Art and Design, Media Centre Lume, Hämeentie 135 C, 2nd floor. The screening will be hosted by yours truly, together with mollecular organisation.

Changes are possible!