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*This Week [December 25, 2021 - January 2, 2022] in Avant Garde Cinema* To receive the weekly listing directly via email rather than through Frameworks, just hit Subscribe <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=091193278b&e=857b71a9cb> . *DEADLINES APPROACHING* Enter upcoming calls for entry here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fcccfc8ce0&e=857b71a9cb> ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 12.31.2021 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8eff7df28&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 12.31.2021 Microscope Gallery Open Call <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0fa38156c1&e=857b71a9cb> 01.01.2022 Cosmic Rays <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2efb764cdf&e=857b71a9cb> 01.07.2022 Struts Gallery Open Studio Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5c1a3ed60b&e=857b71a9cb> 01.07.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f9d4ebc07&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 01.15.2022 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e6ae4934da&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 01.30.2022 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=16da79196a&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 01.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9df4290963&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2022 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9544e43eab&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2022 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71bdcf0eff&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fb1488fd53&e=857b71a9cb> ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d39a70ed0b&e=857b71a9cb> [October 22-February 13, Cambridge, MA] - Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c1f8d485c2&e=857b71a9cb> [November 20-February 26, Vilnius, Lithuania] - aCinema: Syzygy & Polemicee <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2acd843bfb&e=857b71a9cb> [December 1-31, online] - Alfred Leslie's *The Last Clean Shirt* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4a25ef8372&e=857b71a9cb> [December 1-31, online] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12c25662cf&e=857b71a9cb> [January 2, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1269d9abd&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works — Edition Nº 26 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=44485a5ce3&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2981a28610&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE DECEMBER 26, 2021* *October 22 - February 13* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MIT List Visual Arts Center <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4dff3c496d&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, MIT List Visual Arts Center 20 Ames Street, Bldg E15, Atrium level, Cambridge, MA *LESLIE THORNTON: BEGIN AGAIN, AGAIN* Thornton’s List Center exhibition marks the artist’s first US solo museum exhibition and most comprehensive presentation to date. The exhibition will premiere a new video work, *Hemlock *(2021), as well as a new installation of Thornton’s influential cycle *Peggy and Fred in Hell* (1983–2015). In a career spanning nearly five decades, Leslie Thornton has produced an influential body of work in film and video. Her early encounters with experimental, structuralist, and cinéma vérité traditions as a student in the 1970s fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound, Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central to scientific discourse and narrative in general. Engaging these themes within a focused survey, Thornton’s List Center exhibition will mark the artist’s first US solo museum exhibition and most comprehensive presentation to date. The relationship between technology, power, and violence is an enduring concern for Thornton. In early works, such as *X-TRACTS* (1975), *All Right You Guys* (1976) and *Jennifer, Where Are You?* (1981), Thornton contends with the basic conditions of representation in film and how the camera itself wields power. In *Let Me Count the Ways* (2004–ongoing) and *Cut >From Liquid to Snake* (2018), Thornton takes up the United States’ history of nuclear warfare—a subject fraught with personal resonance for her, as both her father and grandfather were involved in the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort that produced the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Japan in the final days of World War II. A touchstone of experimental film, *Peggy and Fred in Hell *is a multi-chapter work that surfaces the Cold War-era anxieties that shaped Thornton’s formative years and plumbs the psychological impact of technology in postwar America. Thornton’s recent film *Ground* (2020) embeds the voice of a physicist discussing particle decay within elegant yet foreboding technological landscapes. The exhibition’s title, *Begin Again, Again*—borrowed from a line in *Peggy and Fred in Hell*—alludes to human-made cycles of destruction and renewal as well the hallmarks of Thornton’s practice: an accumulation and repetition of images and language and a radically open-ended approach to observing, processing, and understanding. Thornton’s exhibition is organized by Natalie Bell, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center. In conjunction with the exhibition, the List Center is co-publishing the artist’s first monograph with Sternberg Press. *Exhibition Brochure with list of works exhibited*: https://listart.mit.edu/sites/default/files/MIT_List-Thornton_Brochure_2021.pdf <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=888839645c&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* *November 20 - February 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* National Gallery of Art, Vilnius <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5fad9c8dc&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr.22, Vilnius, Lithuania *Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde* The exhibition presents Jonas Mekas' (1922-2019) work in the expanded sense. It covers his filmic practice as well as his intellectual, organizational, and often bluntly administrative approach to the labour of building and running multiple institutions and fostering new habits of looking at film as an art form. The exhibition focuses on the first three decades of Mekas' activities, starting with his coming to New York as a displaced person in 1949, through to him becoming a central figure in advocating, producing, distributing, promoting, and preserving the filmic avant-garde. The exhibition features Mekas' filmic corpus, including his celebrated diary films that epitomize his lifelong practice of recording glimpses of everyday life: while they show personal experiences, marked by exile, longing, family, and friendships, they are also steeped in the social and political events of the day. Though known primarily as a poet and a filmmaker in Lithuania, Mekas wore many more hats that granted him the title of the 'godfather' of American avant-garde cinema. Before premiering his first film, Mekas together with his brother Adolfas Mekas began publishing *Film Culture* magazine in 1955 and soon joined the *Village Voice* as a film critic. These became the main outlets through which Mekas channeled his ideas about film as an art form of personal expression and called for a new kind of cinema free from censorship and existing production and distribution systems. An alternative arts movement sprang up across New York in the postwar years, as artist-run spaces, groups, and cooperatives took the production and distribution of art into their own hands in response to mainstream institutional structures and official cultural politics. Mekas had been a crucial part of it. By the mid-1960s, Mekas' loft at 414 Park Avenue South became a headquarters for the fermenting avant-garde film culture; a sleepless hub frequented by filmmakers and artists alike. This decade marked Mekas' embrace of the avant-garde spirit, as he took part in the formation of the New American Cinema Group, and the establishment of the Film-Makers' Cooperative, the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, and Anthology Film Archives. These time-consuming activities occasionally seeped into his filmic diaries and even, as Mekas suggested, to some degree determined his films' fragmentary structure. They are presented in the exhibition through a selection of critical writings, photographs, magazines, institutional ephemera, and other archival material arranged in porous conceptual clusters on the table traversing the exhibition space. Images, sounds, and materials Mekas collected and organized throughout his lifetime - in his films and in his personal archive - serve today as an entry point into the history of avant-garde film culture in New York. The exhibition pays tribute to this era of the burgeoning American avant-garde film scene and contextualizes Mekas' output by presenting a selection of works by filmmakers who shared his aesthetic sensibility, whom he championed, and with whom he worked, including Gideon Bachmann, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Maya Deren, Storm de Hirsch, Ken Jacobs, Marie Menken, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol. A selection of films is screened behind the curved wall in the specially designed projection rooms. These rooms are loosely inspired by the Invisible Cinema, an experimental movie theater designed by the Austrian artist and filmmaker Peter Kubelka and originally installed at Anthology Film Archives in 1970. *Curators:* Inesa Brašiškė and Lukas Brašiškis an article: https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/events/25859-jonas_mekas_and_the_new_york_avant-garde/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be2152a161&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* *December 1 - 31* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* aCinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9b23682edd&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://www.acinema.space/current-program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=548b9b0158&e=857b71a9cb> *aCinema: Syzygy & Polemicee* *Reunification of the Motherland*, Franek Wardynski, 10 min 57 sec, video *The Asphodel Phases*, Edwin Rostron, 23 min 27 sec, animation *Thuy & T.*, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, 7 min 13 sec, video *Speaking of Flowers*, Shelby Dillon, 7 min 13 sec, video aCinema is a monthly exhibition dedicated to the screening of works by moving image artists from around the globe for audiences during the 9 month period of September to May. aCinema also organizes a yearly festival programmed from an open call for works titled, aDifferent festival. Through the exhibition of artists -- historical and contemporary, emerging and established -- in curated programs, aCinema creates a platform for artists of all career statuses to share a common exhibition space. Through the curatorial themes and independent thoughts expressed within the works, aCinema hopes to inspire and expand audiences' views of the moving image, fostering an arts educational space, where audiences are free to engage in discussion with curators and artists (when present) following the screenings. *___________________________________________________________________* *December 1 - 31* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* San Francisco Museum of Modern Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e2da5d72d2&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://www.sfmoma.org/alfred-leslies-the-last-clean-shirt/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ee7f249285&e=857b71a9cb> *Alfred Leslie’s The Last Clean Shirt* *The Last Clean Shirt*, Alfred Leslie, 1964, 40 minutes. B/W. Sound. Digital. English subtitles by Frank O’Hara. Joan Mitchell’s artists circle in the 1950s and 1960s, known as the New York School, included poet Frank O’Hara and SFMOMA collection artist Alfred Leslie, a painter and filmmaker known for *Pull My Daisy*, a 1959 film co-directed with Robert Frank. While the artists and writers held firm to their own practices, wonderful things happened when they came together. Released in 1964 and screened at SFMOMA that year, *The Last Clean Shirt* is an avant-garde classic that probes the limits of cinematic form and predates the rise of structuralist film. This collaborative project between Leslie and O’Hara features a young Black man and white woman driving around downtown Manhattan with an alarm clock taped to the dashboard. While the woman speaks in a mix of Finnish and gibberish, their meanderings and musings are told through O’Hara’s subtitles in a beautiful stream of consciousness that runs throughout the film. In a letter to O’Hara, Leslie describes a goal of the film: “We will shoot for two SEPARATE LEVELS on the film. One is the VISUAL, the other the HEARD & the spectator will be in TWO places or more SIMULTANEOUSLY. NOT AS MEMORY BUT AT THE SAME MOMENT. PARALLELISM! MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW!” Screens courtesy of LUX. *SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 2022* *HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!* *SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *GearWax* https://www.gearwax.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b2f1b3d2c1&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 PT! *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Riverwest Radio* https://www.riverwestradio.com/show/the-long-conversation/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b048bad8d1&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *THE LONG CONVERSATION* THE LONG CONVERSATION with Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber is on indefinite hold. But... all episodes from the last year and a half are streaming!!! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *6x6 Project* https://6x6project.com/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b8dd493886&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *Artists' Moving Image Works — Edition Nº 26* 6x6 project is an online artists' community that serves as a platform for disseminating artists' moving image works, and to create an ever-growing network among peers. To date, there have been twenty-six editions with six different artists. There are now a total of one hundred and fifty-six artists’ profiles and almost four hundred artists’ film and moving image works available to view on the website. Edition Nº 26 includes works by Jenna Bliss, Kerry Jones, Ruaidhri Ryan, Daniel Theiler, Tetsuya Maruyama. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Ecstatic Static* https://www.ecstaticstatic.com/screenings/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00d5146c2f&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. 8: At Land* Maya Watanabe, *Sceneries II*. 2014, 15 min Lois Patiño, *In Landscape´s Movement*. 2012, 9. min, 30 sec Minjung Kim,* (100ft)*. 2017, 3 min Salomé Lamas, *Encounters With Landscape (3x)*. 2012, 29 min Malena Szlam, *Altiplano*. 2018, 15 min, 30 sec Carla Andrade, *The Landscape Is Empty and Emptiness Is Landscape*. 2017, 15 min Jumana Emil Abboud, *Hide your Water from the Sun (Chapter II)*. 2016, 9 min Jeremy Leatinu'u, *Mai i te kei o te waka ki te ihu o te waka*. 2018, 8 min ------------------------------ *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=9094e206a7&e=857b71a9cb> . 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