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International Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8749ac056&e=857b71a9cb> 09.30.2021 Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc5a41fe63&e=857b71a9cb> 10.15.2021 Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=023dc5670c&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2021 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ae637dc8b2&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f7721780a1&e=857b71a9cb> ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ceca68b37b&e=857b71a9cb> [August 4 - August 10, Boulder] - Razor Blades, Paul Sharits <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1dfb71ecc2&e=857b71a9cb> [August 5 - August 8, New York, New York] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ff1ee3c94b&e=857b71a9cb> [August 8, online] - Film Kitchen Presents A Tribute To Leo Vale <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a119a632fb&e=857b71a9cb> [August 10 - August 24, online] - Superimpositions 1964 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74c87d68e1&e=857b71a9cb> [August 12 - August 15, New York, New York] - Kenneth Anger <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75c31e2c10&e=857b71a9cb> [August 14, New York, New York] - Baillie / Belson <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d9effc8ba0&e=857b71a9cb> [August 15, New York, New York] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=adf2aa4932&e=857b71a9cb> [August 15, online] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a7c9140525&e=857b71a9cb> [August 15, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7e9e55cec8&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 7, 2021* *August 4 - August 10* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ba96b0402&e=857b71a9cb> varies, Boulder, CO *Mimesis Documentary Festival* Announcing the 2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival Program August 4th-10th, 2021 - Boulder, CO. The festival is an immersive theatrical and virtual experience featuring in-person and at-home screenings, workshops, and conversations with documentary artists, scholars, and producers from across the world. We're excited to announce the program for the 2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival, welcoming Featured Artist Pedro Costa! With 22 blocks of nonfiction programming and installation-based documentary by more than 80 artists from around the world, the second annual Mimesis Documentary Festival comes to the Dairy Arts Center and the B2 Center for Media Arts. *___________________________________________________________________* *August 5 - August 8* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f0ff7c80da&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm + 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue *RAZOR BLADES, Paul Sharits* (Brand new restoration!) Produced in association with the American Film Institute. Newly restored by Anthology Film Archives. Special thanks to Colorlab and Audio Mechanics. Anthology Film Archives marks its long-awaited post-pandemic reopening with a program that could only take place “in real life,” projected theatrically and on film: our brand-new restoration of Paul Sharits’s rarely screened early masterpiece, RAZOR BLADES (1965-68). The latest in our ongoing series of restorations of Sharits’s films, RAZOR BLADES is a typically mind-bending, consciousness-expanding experiment in perception and a classic among “expanded cinema” works. By means of color combinations, the strobe-like flickering of the dueling projectors, a high-volume stereo soundscape, and single-frame imagery, it demonstrates the cinema’s capacity for exploring the mysterious interaction between light, color, rhythm, eye, and mind. The double projection piece never exhibits precisely the same way, rendering every screening a unique experience. “A mandala opens to the other side of consciousness/since the film ends as it begins and because its inner fabric is made up of (14 different) loops, an infinite loop is suggested/the varied length loops are constructed so that viewers may chart variations in their consciousness of speed, rhythm and image recognition/projected side by side so that both images are regarded as one large image, subjective variability is geometrically increased and ‘repetition’ is transcended.” –Paul Sharits “[A] twin-screen ‘flicker’ film that boggles mind and eye. [...] Sharits assaults the eye with contradictory, Strobe-lit patterns, images, designs and colors that, projected on two adjacent screens, fluctuate in intensity with the rhythms of the light flashes. Compared to Tony Conrad’s THE FLICKER and Michael Snow’s WAVELENGTH, RAZOR BLADES is a kind of BEN-HUR of structural films, employing not only abstract designs but also little, almost Vanderbeekian cutouts of identifiable things (a strawberry sundae, a penis) and people (a man apparently cutting his wrist). The effect is extraordinarily unsettling as the mind tries desperately to make intelligent connections between recognizable images, while at the same time it automatically falls into the pace of the light explosions.” –Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES Preceded by: Paul Sharits RAY GUN VIRUS 1966, 14 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “Although affirming projector, projection beam, screen, emulsion, film frame structure, etc., this is not an ‘abstract film’/projector as pistol/time-colored pills/yes=no/mental suicide and then, rebirth as self-projection/dedicated to Regina Cornwell.” –Paul Sharits “With films like RGV, LSD may become obsolete.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Total running time: ca. 45 min *SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2021* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Riverwest Radio* riverwestradio.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=67e18f0ef0&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, *THE LONG CONVERSATION* THE LONG CONVERSATION...new episodes live every Sunday night! 8 pm eastern standard time & 7 by Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber for Riverwest Radio, 104.1 or at riverwestradio.com ***& a new song by stephanie & xav for every episode*** *TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2021* *August 10 - August 24* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Film Kitchen* https://www.jumpcuttheater.org/film-kitchen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e8d4433360&e=857b71a9cb> 7 PM EST August 10, recording avail until August 24, Event URL: https://www.twitch.tv/jumpcuttheater <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1655f407fc&e=857b71a9cb> *FILM KITCHEN PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO LEO VALE* Film Kitchen presents a very special tribute to Leo Vale, stalwart of the 1970s and 80s Pittsburgh film scene, who passed away in December of 2020. Leo was a lifelong movie lover who started making 8mm films with his brother Jim (J.T.) when they were kids. He attended CalArts in the 1970s and was also a crucial figure in the early days of Pittsburgh Filmmakers, where he developed a distinctive style of filmmaking reflecting a breadth of cinematic and historical influences. His work can varyingly be described as experimental, narrative, documentary, found footage, b-movie (and sometimes all at once) but it is consistently visionary. Yet his films have been almost entirely unseen for over 30 years, so we are honored to be able to present every extant, complete Leo Vale movie. Of particular note is the world premiere of a brand new 2K digital transfer of Leo’s most well-remembered film, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, a brilliantly edited, shot-on-a-shoestring adventure spectacle that reimagines Pittsburgh’s South Side as the site of holy fortress under attack from an airplane gunner. Leo’s family and friends will join hosts Matthew R. Day and Steven Haines for a remembrance. The live program will be broadcast free of charge to the Jump Cut Theater Twitch stream starting at 7 PM on Tuesday, August 10th. A recording of the event will remain viewable online until 8/24. www.twitch.tv/jumpcuttheater *THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2021* *August 12 - August 15* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ec5f4d851&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm + 9pm ET, 32 Second Avenue *SUPERIMPOSITIONS 1964* 1964 brought about the release of two pioneering superimposition films: FILM NO. 14 (LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS) by artist, animator, and mystic Harry Smith, and CHUMLUM by bohemian film legend Ron Rice. Both feature mesmerizing, complex, and psychedelic in-camera Kodachrome layering set to memorable soundtracks. While the two films share a lot in common and are among the most celebrated experimental films of that era, they have rarely screened together. For this program, we’ll be pairing these seminal films in glorious new 16mm-to-35mm blow-ups, and further contextualizing them with shorts by two other trailblazing (if under-recognized) New York City filmmakers – Barbara Rubin and Jerry Jofen – who also worked wonders with the technique of superimposition. Special thanks to The Film Foundation, Simon Lund (Cineric, Inc.), and John Polito (Audio Mechanics). *Harry Smith* FILM NO. 14 (LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS) 1964, 28 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Restoration premiere! “Superimposed photographs of Mr. Fleischman’s butcher shop in New York, and the Kiowa around Anadarko, Oklahoma – with Cognate Material. The strip is dark at the beginning and end, light in the middle, and is structured 122333221. I honor it the most of my films, otherwise a not very popular one before 1972.” –Harry Smith *Ron Rice* CHUMLUM 1964, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. With Jack Smith, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez, Joel Markman, Frances Francine, Guy Henson, Barry Titus, Zelda Nelson, Gerard Malanga, Barbara Rubin, and Frances Stillman. Music by Angus MacLise. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. “In a house that one could believe was created just for the purpose, Rice gives us an infinite spectacle, superimposing bodies swinging in hammocks, back and forth through diaphanous gossamer draperies that slow the movements, and suspend them on the edge of the abyss.” –Rene Micha, LES TEMPS MODERNES Preceded by: *Barbara Rubin* [REEL 5347] ca. 1964, 4 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *Jerry Jofen* HOW CAN YOU TELL THE DANCER FROM THE DANCE? ca. 1968, 10 min, 16mm-to-digital Total running time: ca. 70 min. *SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=88f559b55f&e=857b71a9cb> 4:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue *KENNETH ANGER* “Scandal, evil, violence, and Fascism, like Hollywood, are centers of fascination for Anger, and his films are the fields in which the dialectic of that fascination is played and fought.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM “All of [Anger’s] films have been evocations or invocations, attempting to conjure primal forces which, once visually released, are designed to have the effect of ‘casting a spell’ on the audience. […] Not a surrealist who puts blind faith in his own dream images and trusts his dreams to convey an ‘uncommon unconscious,’ Anger works predominantly in archetypal symbol. As the magus, he is the juggler of these symbols, just as in the Tarot, where the Magician is represented by the Juggler and is given the attribution of Mercury, the messenger.” –Carel Rowe, FILM QUARTERLY FIREWORKS (1947, 15 min, 16mm-to-35mm, b&w. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.) RABBIT’S MOON (1950-70, 15 min, 35mm. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.) EAUX D’ARTIFICE (1953, 13 min, 16mm) SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 min, 16mm) KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965, 3 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 min. *SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2021* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1733608557&e=857b71a9cb> 4:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue *BAILLIE / BELSON* *Bruce Baillie* MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64, 20 min, 16mm, b&w) CASTRO STREET (1966, 10 min, 16mm) ALL MY LIFE (1966, 3 min, 16mm) VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS (1968, 10 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) “In [Baillie’s late 1960s films], the eye of the film-maker quiets his mind with images of reconciliation; the dialectics of cinematic thought become calm in the filming of the privileged moment of reconciliation.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM *Jordan Belson* ALLURES (1961, 9 min, 16mm) RE-ENTRY (1964, 6 min, 16mm) SAMADHI (1967, 6 min, 16mm) WORLD (1970, 6 min, 16mm) “Our greatest abstract film poet: he has found how to combine the vision of the outer and the inner eye.” –Gene Youngblood Total running time: ca. 75 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *GearWax* https://gutsyradio.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42475a0875&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm-8pm PT, *GEARWAX: OLD VINYL, REPURPOSED* A bi-weekly online radio program featuring old LPs, 45rpm and 78rpm records. Hosted by Kathleen and Scott from San Francisco. Every other Sunday 6-8pm Pacific time on Gutsy Radio @ https://gutsyradio.org/ *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Riverwest Radio* riverwestradio.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db091bef7a&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, *THE LONG CONVERSATION* THE LONG CONVERSATION...new episodes live every Sunday night! 8 pm eastern standard time & 7 by Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber for Riverwest Radio, 104.1 or at riverwestradio.com ***& a new song by stephanie & xav for every episode*** *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Ecstatic Static* https://www.ecstaticstatic.com/screenings/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e115f643bb&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *ECSTATIC STATIC SCREENINGS* We host regular online screenings of artists’ films and videos on the landing page, as a way to share work both new and rare, that may otherwise have a limited release. For more information on each artist and ways on how to support their work, please see the links below. *Screening No. 4: I Remember* Bani Abidi, Funland (Karachi Series II). 2014, 12 min, 48 sec Luis Arnías, Punky Eye / Ojo Malcriado. 2018, 15 min Tinne Zenner, Sleeping District. 2014, 12 min Miko Revereza, Distancing. 2019, 10 min Catarina Vasconcelos, Metaphor or Sadness Inside Out. 2013, 31 min Leonardo Mouramateus, A Festa e os cães. 2015, 25 min *Screening No. 3: W,O,R,D,S* Erica Sheu, first draft. 2017, 3 min Anna Thew, Lost for Words. 1980, 25 min Abigail Child, Mutiny. 1983, 11 min Yann Beauvais, SID A IDS. 1992, 5 min, 30 sec Rhea Storr, Junkanoo Talk. 2017, 11 min, 36 sec John Smith , Steve Hates Fish. 2015, 5 min Jenny Brady , Wow and Flutter. 2013, 13 min, 3 sec Eva Giolo, A Tongue Called Mother. 2019, 18 min *Screening No. 2: Five Films by Jodie Mack* Jodie Mack, Wasteland #1: Ardent, Verdant. 2017, 4min, 30 sec Jodie Mack, Something Between Us. 2015, 9 min, 30 sec Jodie Mack, Razzle Dazzle. 2014, 5 min Jodie Mack, Undertone Overture. 2013, 10 min, 30 sec Jodie Mack, Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart is. 2012, 3 min *Screening No. 1: The Ecstatic Static* Luca Werner, Schöngeising. 2020, 1 min, 10 sec Kersti Jan Werdal, Slow Shapes. 2017, 12 min, 54 sec Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Wrestlers. 2015, 7 min Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces. 2016, 8 min Simon Liu, Signal 8. 2019, 14 min Anna Marziano, La Veglia. 2010, 2 min Andrea Franco, East Los Angeles Punk. 2012, 7 min Jeano Edwards, Familiar Strangers. 2020, 2 min, 22 sec. Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega, Parres Trilogy. 2004, 12 min, 56 sec Gillian Garcia, YDS. 2021, 3 min, 49 sec ------------------------------ *Let us know about your alternative film/video event!* Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f976c7ade7&e=857b71a9cb> . To receive the weekly listing directly via email rather than through Frameworks, hit Subscribe <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=debd3b8199&e=857b71a9cb> . *Copyright © 2020 Flicker, All rights reserved.* Longtime recipient of This Week in Avant Garde Cinema This Week in Avant Garde Cinema · everywhere · Durham, NC 27701 · USA
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