Stop Calling Them Dangerous: Cinema Has Power vol. 9

Sarah Möller, one of the artistic directors of the Berlin dance film festival POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM. Since 2016, under the name SHINE - NEW YORK TRACES, the festival has been featuring films from the New York dance and experimental film scene of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Sarah Möller is an artist-curator based in Berlin. She is one of the co-directors of the international dance film festival POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM. Especially interested in the various ways of interweaving cinematic and physical movement, she regularly offers workshops and training in the field. Additionally, she has been invited as a film programmer, lecturer, and jury member for several international dance film festivals and exhibitions. In 2021, she founded the Shine Collection which represents 16-mm films by artist Yoshiko Chuma created between 1979 and 1983.

www.sarahmoeller.de
‍www.shine-collection.de
‍www.pool-festival.de 
‍www.shine-collection.de  

Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, has been consistently producing thought-provoking work that is neither dance nor theater nor film nor any other predetermined category. She is an artist on her own journey. A path that has taken her to over 40 “out of the way” countries and collected over 2000 artists, thinkers and collaborators of every genre since establishing her company The School of Hard Knocks in New York City in 1980. 

Movement played a pivotal role in the visual work of the intermedia artist and composer Phill Niblock. His films are characterized by textures of rhythms, pulsations, vibrant imagery, and masterful play with light and time. Niblock's work with numerous choreographers and dancers, including Elaine Summers, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton and Becky Arnold, Meredith Monk, Ann Danoff, Barbara Dilley, and Dana Reitz, showcased his dedication to exploring the intersection of movement, visual expression, and music. On January 8, 2024, at the age of 90, Phill Niblock bid farewell to the world. We invite the audience to join us for a curated selection of his films, to celebrate his legacy and the profound influence and deep inspiration he had on the artistic landscape.  The event is initiated by Yoshiko Chuma, Conceptual Artist, Choreographer, and Director of The School of Hard Knocks, and curated by Sarah Möller, artistic co-director of the Berlin dance film festival POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM.Since 2016, under the name SHINE - NEW YORK TRACES, the festival has been featuring films from the New York dance and experimental film scene of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. www.pool-festival.de

Phill Niblock (1933-2024, USA) was an artist whose fifty-year career spans minimalist and experimental music, film and photography. Since 1985, he has served as director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a branch in Ghent, and curator of the foundation’s record label XI. Known for his thick, loud drones of music, Niblock’s signature sound is filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. In 2013, his diverse artistic career was the subject of a retrospective realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and Musée de l’Elysée. The following year Niblock was honored with the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award.‍

www.phillniblock.com
www.experimentalintermedia.org

Founded by the Japanese writer/lecturer/healer Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham in 2004, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) offers arts and cultural programming as well as spiritual mind-training rooted in the non-dualistic teachings of A Course in Miracles (ACIM), which reminds us that we are limitless spiritual beings and encourages us to remember our true nature by committing to a practice of deep, non-judgmental inquiry. CRS produces the Crossing Boundaries and Paradise Laboratory concert series conceived by gamin, publishes the web magazine only love art, offers grants to artists, and is an ongoing funder of Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M3).