Films about artists tend to focus on the unruly details of their lives, which is no great surprise, since showing them painting is about as interesting as … well, you know the old saw about watching paint dry. The Mill and the Cross is a rare film about an artist that includes neither angst, intrigue, [...]

L’hôtel des sapins 2008, interractive video installation, 12 min. Three women and three men are naked and masked. They each have a number assigned. The action takes place in an abandonned building. Each protagonist holds a camera in his hands. Everyone of them must film the other persons without being seen by the other moving [...]

The Sharjah Art Foundation announces recipients of the 2011 Sharjah Biennial Prize as the 10th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, Plot for a Biennial, continues with eight weeks of cutting-edge exhibitions, film, performance, music and publications, March 16–May 16, 2011. Honorees of this year’s award totaling 30,000 USD include Trisha Donnelly, Imran Qureshi, Rania Stephan, Rayyane Tabet, and Jalal Toufic as selected by a jury of distinguished members.

Steven Baldi Work from his oeuvre. “Steven Baldi’s work attempts to examine the multifaceted nature of visual language by taking on overburdened material forms of representation such as painting, 16mm film and photography, thus re-establishing meaning through process method and proximity.  Baldi utilizes cascading sign systems inherent in the photographic medium to evaluate how the [...]

Big Picture is the title of a work by recently-deceased California artist Jason Rhoades (1965–2006), an expression term also suggestive of a “larger overview.” When Rhoades—in an ironic reversal—displays a large garden on a small flatscreen, he sets the tone for an exhibition of film and video installations which features the most diverse approaches to the cinematographic art installation.

University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
March 20–June 12, 2011

Jill Magid’s work involves infiltrating systems of authority and power to explore issues of vulnerability, observation, and trust. By drawing institutions closer, exploiting their loopholes, seducing their agents, repeating their logic, and pushing the limits of revelation, she has developed a highly conceptual, performance-based practice.

Hayward Gallery Project Space
12 March–2 May 2011

Looking ahead to the wedding of Prince William of Wales to Kate Middleton, ‘The Royal Family’ is an exhibition that focuses on contemporary artist’s representations of the House of Windsor. It features works in a range of media—including drawing, photography, film and ceramics—that examine the family’s individual members, and the signs and signifiers of 21st century monarchy.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
18 March–12 September 2011

Noches eléctricas [Electric Nights] takes its name from Les nuits électriques, a short film directed by Eugene Deslaw in 1928, in which he focused on city lights at nighttime, sequencing street lamps, neon signs and shop windows of Paris, Berlin and Prague almost as if it were a fireworks show. Similarly to fireworks, film is an intermittent ephemeral projection of light in the darkness.

ICA London
9 March–15 May 2011

A two-headed talking animatronic sculpture and video installations showing three episodes of Nathaniel Mellors’ absurdist sitcom Ourhouse are included in the artist’s first major solo exhibition in a UK public institution at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) from 9 March to 15 May 2011. A programme of music events, film screenings and talks devised by Mellors complements the exhibition.

daadgalerie
11 February–12 March 2011

On the occasion of the publication of Artur Żmijewski’s interview book Drżące ciała in English (Trembling Bodies) and in German (Körper in Aufruhr) the daadgalerie is showing film and video works and documentations of performances of the art in Poland from the 1990s till the present.

Call for entries: We seek independent, unique and compelling work in film, videoand animation. NO ENTRY FEE. Categories of Competition: Documentary Short,Narrative Short, Animation/ Experimental, Student , Energy Theme (works in any genre that take the…

Call for entries: We seek independent, unique and compelling work in film, videoand animation. NO ENTRY FEE. Categories of Competition: Documentary Short,Narrative Short, Animation/ Experimental, Student , Energy Theme (works in any genre that take the…

Artists’ Television Access invites experimental film and video makers to submit their work to its 6th Annual ATA Film and Video Festival. Short works including but not limited to, animation, documentary, narrative, abstract and found footage based wi…

Call for entriesextended deadline: 1 May 2011——————————————–CologneOFF 2011 – videoart in a global context –  - a world wide unique festival project by - Cologne International Videoart Festival -started its virtual tour o…

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents a four-part alpine-themed film series in conjunction with the exhibition, Alpine Desire, which is on view through May 8. A cooperation with the Austrian Film Museum and curated by Michael Loebenstein, the film series features restored gems from the silent movie era as well as rarely seen contemporary films.

IHME 2011

The Danish artist group Superflex’ installation created for the IHME Contemporary Art Festival is a film and sculpture titled Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki). The work shows the Stora Enso building in Helsinki. The film will be shown in Helsinki Market Square on a 40m2 LED screen, so that the original building can be seen simultaneously with the building in the film.

Dara Birnbaum – Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (197envoyé par merzboy. – Regardez des web séries et des films.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has dedicated a permanent-collection gallery to time-based art, an important new aspect of the media arts initiative at the museum that includes acquisitions, exhibitions, educational programs and archival research resources related to film, video and the media arts.

Bergen Kunsthall
4 February – 27 March 2011

Cerith Wyn Evans’ exhibitions often combine an all-round sensory experience with intricate juxtapositions of fragments of meaning. With a background in experimental film and video art in the 1980s, he has primarily worked since the 1990s with spectacular installations where a number of media such as sculpture, photography, film, text, light and sound form natural elements.

an exhibition celebrating 15 Years of the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art in 2011.The Time Machine in alphabetical order, by Thomson & Craighead, is a complete rendition of the 1960 film version of HG Wells Novella re-edited by the ar…