NEW YEAR NEW FILMS Film Festival February 10-11, 2023

 

NEW FILMS NEW YEAR FILM FESTIVAL - Film-Makers Cooperative, New York

Join the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, 2023, at 7pm, for a two-night program of recent additions to the growing collection of experimental and avant-garde films, submitted by new and longstanding members of the FMC/NACG!

**TICKETS FOR EACH NIGHT ARE $10 AND MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY ON THE ONLINE STORE.**

FRIDAY NIGHT PROGRAM:
1. TOO LATE, Kinga Syrek
2. BAMBOO IN THE WATER, Wei Gao
3. MEMORIES (PARIS VU PAR), Joe Wakeman
4. TIGER EATS A BABY, Kalil Haddad
5. ROOFTOP FLICKER, Pop Chodorov
6. A PORTRAIT OF COWBOY ON BOLEX, Katherine Burns
7. LAURIE ANDERSON'S STUDIO, Cody Simons
8. INSOMNIA, Emilia Izquierdo
9. THREE PRIDE FLAGS, Tom Bessoir
10. TIME CRYSTALS, Abinadi Meza
11. INFERNO, I SAW YOU ON MY WAY TO THE GARDEN, Priyanka Das

SATURDAY NIGHT PROGRAM:
1. CASUAL TRIBUTE TO MARIE MENKEN, Rrose Present
2. SWERVE, Lynne Sachs
3. REFLECTIVE MEDITATION, Rosalind Schneider
4. CURLY'S THANKSGIVING, Bill Morrison
5. BIRTH, Erica Schreiner
6. BALLET ANEMIC, Siegfried A. Fruhauf
7. THE SUGARCANE LABYRINTH, Anne Senstad
8. THE SLOW LIGHT BETWEEN ABSENCE AND BELONGING, Phil Weisman
9. BUSINESS CASUAL, Matt McKinzie & Zach Cargie
10. REMEMBRANCE: A PORTRAIT STUDY, Edward Owens (recently preserved by the FMC!!)

NEON GUIDES ME in Bookshops and Libraries

We are happy to announce that NEON GUIDES ME is available at  Walther König & Cahiers d’Art Bookshop at Palais de Tokyo in Paris,  Dashwood Books in New York and Tronsmo Bookshop in Oslo, Norway.

Tronsmo Bookshop was praised by both Allen Ginsberg and The Financial Times as one of the best bookshops in the world. Read the story in FT on the worlds most brilliant bookshops here.

NEON GUIDES ME presents an index of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad's light and space practice through the spatial light sculpture installation works ELEMENTS I-VI with sound environments composed by JG Thirlwell (ELEMENTS IV-VI) and CC Hennix (ELEMENTS III BLUE). The book includes texts by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell in conversation with media writer Patrick Rolandelli(US), composer, philosopher and mathematician C.C Hennix(SWE), author, artist and curator Sarah Walko (US), author and social-political anthropologist Marianne Solberg(NO), Art Historian Erik Meling, Professor of Architectural History and Theory Andres Kurg (EE), director Seinajoki Kunsthall Finland Sanna Karimaki-Nuutinen (FI), art historian, author and philosopher Dr Aura Seikkula (FI). Designed and published by Praun & Guermouche.

Contributing photography: Sarah Bauwens (BE), SHAO Yi (CHN), Samuli Kuusisto (FI), Anne Katrine Senstad

The publication and forthcoming presentations of Neon Guides Me and/or the artworks in the book have been made possible with support from Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Governmental Grant for Artists, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Kunst og Ny Teknologi, Norske Billedkunstnere BKV, Fritt Ord, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Emily Harvey Foundation New York and Venice, Italy.

NEON GUIDES ME has been collected by or acquired by these libraries and institutions:

The Museum of Modern Art Archives, Library, and Research Collections (ALRC)

The National Museum of Norway's Library collection

The National Library of Norway

The Musea Brugge Library serving 13 museums in Bruges, Belgium 

Nordnorsk Kunst Senter Library, Svolvær, Norway

Artica's Library in Longyearbyen, Svaldbard, Norway - the northernmost library in the world

Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York

The New York Public Library's Photography, Art and Prints collection 

Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

The Haas Arts Library, Yale School of Art at Yale University, New Haven, CT

The Bobst Library, NYU, New York

Libraries at MIT, Cambridge, MA

School of Visual Art Library, New York

The Marquand Library, Princeton University, NJ

Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Sachsische Landesbibliotek Staats und Universitetsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany

Jamestown Art Center, Rhode Island, US

The Great Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Libraries at The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Jafet Library. The American University in Beirut, Lebanon

Galerie 8 + 4/Bernard Chauveau Editions, Paris

Atelier Carlos Cruz-Diez, Paris 

Rune Johansen Museum, Norway

Photo: The National Museum of Norway Library: New acquisitions wall.

We are proud NEON GUIDES ME is part of the private library of Atelier Cruz-Diez in Paris. The art work ELEMENTS I featured in the book was exhibited alongside Cruz-Diez's light and color work CHROMOSATURATION in the exhibition Through the Spectrum, 2018, including light and space artists James Turrell, Robert Irwin,Carlos Cruz-Diez, Leo Villarreal, Anne Katrine Senstad, Timo Nasseri, Nasser Al Salem and others.

Photo: Carlitos Cruz-Diez of Atelier Cruz-Diez. Photo by Anne Katrine Senstad

PALAIS DE TOKYO

Walther König & Cahiers d’Art, two key trademarks in the world of art, have created one of the largest art bookshops in Paris situated at Palais de Tokyo.

American Scandinavian Cultural Grant exhibition opening February 2, 2023

Announcement of the 2022 American Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant and the Elfie von Kantzow Alvin Art Award - I am honored to be a recipient of the Norwegian Cultural Grant.

Exhibition opening and concert

7 pm, February 2nd, 2023

Curated by Anita Alvin Nilert

Anne Katrine Senstad and Tine Lundsfryd

Trygve Lie Gallery

317 East 52nd street,

New York, NY

Anne Katrine Senstad: Color Kinesthesia 4A52, 2012

For over 100 years, the American Scandinavian Society has been promoting and celebrating the cultural and intellectual ties between the people of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the US.