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*This Week [January 14 - 23, 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=f60e070407&e=857b71a9cb> ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 01.15.2022 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=33c4c3455d&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 01.30.2022 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5cb0fb0dfb&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 01.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a16983ccf2&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2022 Bethesda Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d3873ae3b&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2022 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b4aea17e79&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2022 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78b252a042&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2022 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e53105ec8&e=857b71a9cb> 03.11.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b2e61f178&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.20.2022 Videoart.Ist International Video Art Screening Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2c2eb40451&e=857b71a9cb> 04.30.2022 Antimatter [media art] <http://filmfreeway.com/AntimatterMediaArt> *EVENTS* Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=24e366f8d1&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=03b8441b20&e=857b71a9cb> [October 22-February 13, Cambridge, MA] - Jonas Mekas 100! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1016b3bb36&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1-January 25, 2023, worldwide] - Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bf5159de74&e=857b71a9cb> [November 20-February 26, Vilnius, Lithuania] - Memories For Forgetfulness Elsewhere: iii. Images of Resistance From Elsewhere <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a02420831f&e=857b71a9cb> [January 5-18, online] - 'Expedition Content' Expanded: Robert Gardner + Imageless Films <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3dd5830058&e=857b71a9cb> [January 7-16, New York] - This Radiant World: Dis-Articulations: Dances, Sketches, and Gestures <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=169c06c15f&e=857b71a9cb> [January 14, Chicago] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5d25bba8f2&e=857b71a9cb> [January 16, online] - Film Talks Live: Nicky Hamlyn / Lynn Loo / Guy Sherwin <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aeb9665b3e&e=857b71a9cb> [January 20, London, UK] - New Time: the Future Is Feminist. Utopian Visions <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fcb33f447e&e=857b71a9cb> [January 20, Oakland] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f242414bc5&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=c159b8cf61&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1315b72484&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE JANUARY 14, 2022* *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=c6dbe99eb1&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=71834754d9&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* *November 1 - January 25, 2023* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Jonas Mekas 100! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=03607ac840&e=857b71a9cb> times and locations vary, see below Event URL: https://jonasmekas100.com/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e4691fbe8&e=857b71a9cb> *Jonas Mekas 100!* In 2022, the world and Lithuania celebrate the life and work of Jonas Mekas, one of the country’s most prominent cultural figures of the 20th and 21st centuries and a global cultural phenomenon in his own right, considered by many to be the “godfather of avant-garde cinema”. Throughout his life, Mekas always emphasized and cherished his Lithuanian roots. After fleeing the foreign occupation of his native land, he arrived in New York City, in his own words “at exactly the right moment”, joining thousands of others escaping the devastation wrought by destructive ideologies and tyrannical regimes in Europe. One might say that Mekas left one village, his native Semeniškiai in northern Lithuania, and immersed himself in the life of another – the Village thriving in and around lower Manhattan, and in its landmark publication, the Village Voice, helping to shape American and global culture so profoundly in the latter half of the 20th century. This centennial celebration, Jonas Mekas 100!, seeks to expand global recognition of his work and encourage a deeper exploration of Mekas’ prolific contributions to cinema, film criticism, cultural organization, and, in particular, his body of poems and prose, now published in Lithuanian, French, German, English, Japanese, Hebrew, and many other languages. The centennial program features over 50 events in an expanding list of countries, including: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The vast scope of Mekas’ contribution to global cultural is examined through film screenings and retrospectives, exhibitions, readings, workshops, new publications and translations of Mekas’ writings, and concerts celebrating the spirit of his work, among other events. The centennial program is a joint international collaboration between leading art and cinema organisations, curators, publishers, the global network of Lithuanian cultural attachés, the Estate of Jonas Mekas, and the Lithuanian Culture Institute. *___________________________________________________________________* *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=76dc03e005&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=3c2432638d&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* *January 5 - 18* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* e-flux Video & Film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=54828ae3f5&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://www.e-flux.com/video/programs/439671/iii-images-of-resistance-from-elsewhere/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7461955e62&e=857b71a9cb> *Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere: III. Images of Resistance from Elsewhere* The films in this program pose the question of the image of political struggles elsewhere from the point of view of the engaged observer. What are the stakes in the circulation of images of wars elsewhere? What must be considered when the filmmaker travels to the site of conflict to document it? What is an image of solidarity that can break through the hegemony, technocracy, and capitalism that mediate the consumption of images of conflict elsewhere? Harun Farocki, *War at a Distance*, 2003, 58 minutes The Otolith Group, *Nervus Rerum*, 2009, 32 minutes Jocelyne Saab, *One Dollar a Day*, 2016, 6 minutes b.h. Yael, *Even in the Desert*, 2006, 33 minutes Mohanad Yaqubi, *Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory*, 2016, 62 minutes Images of Resistance from Elsewhere is the third of five chapters in Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere, an online film program curated by Irmgard Emmelhainz on e-flux Video & Film. The program streams in five thematic group screenings each two weeks long, and will be accompanied by two live discussions. *___________________________________________________________________* *January 7 - 16* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc8891a94b&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see description, 32 Second Avenue, New York *'EXPEDITION CONTENT' EXPANDED: ROBERT GARDNER + IMAGELESS FILMS* On the occasion of Anthology's week-long theatrical premiere run of Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati's EXPEDITION CONTENT <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11f227f7a1&e=857b71a9cb>, which concerns filmmaker Robert Gardner's 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea (current day West Papua), we present a short series expanding on the new film's source materials and formal strategy. This weekend-long program features screenings of Gardner's celebrated feature, DEAD BIRDS (1964), as well as his BALIEM VALLEY 1961 series of short films, which he left unfinished upon his death but which have now been completed (thanks to the efforts of Adele Pressman, Olivia Wyatt, Ernst Karel, and Documentary Educational Resources). We will also present a handful of programs placing EXPEDITION CONTENT <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ad5e5bd8d2&e=857b71a9cb> in the context of the tradition of entirely or mostly imageless films: in particular, films that have similarly placed an imageless visual track alongside field recordings or other “found” or spoken audio tracks (such as Derek Jarman’s BLUE, Jeff Perkins’s MOVIES FOR THE BLIND, and so on). These screenings will represent a sneak preview of a larger series coming later in the winter which will more deeply explore the various kinds of “imageless films.” *EXPEDITION CONTENT will be screening from Fri-Thurs, Jan 7-13 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly (with co-director Veronika Kusumaryati in person on Sunday, January 9 and Tuesday, January 11). For more details, click here. <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7ce83706a2&e=857b71a9cb>* *IMAGELESS FILMS:* EXPEDITION CONTENT sets Michael Rockefeller’s Harvard Peabody Expedition sound recordings against a visual track consisting predominantly of black leader, interrupted only by title cards, captions, and occasional brief flashes of imagery. Though this formal technique is bold and unusual, it’s far from unprecedented. Infrequently but consistently throughout the history of the cinema, artists have challenged the conventional (and seemingly self-evident) conception of the medium as a predominantly visual one by creating works designed for the cinema auditorium that are – perversely – mostly or entirely imageless. These subversions of the idea of a medium of “moving images” have taken many forms: works that emphasize spoken dialogue or sound collages; films whose visual tracks consist primarily of written text; projector performances that showcase or manipulate light and darkness; flicker films; pure color studies; films that punctuate long stretches of darkness with near-subliminal bursts of imagery; and so on and so forth. Later this year, Anthology will present a series surveying the various kinds of “imageless films”. In the meantime, in connection with EXPEDITION CONTENT, we offer a kind of sneak preview, highlighting a brief selection of works that – like Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati’s new film – anchor their “imagelessness” in a foundation of field recordings, spoken language, or found sound. *BALIEM VALLEY 1961: PROGRAM 1: DAILY LIFE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b32242284d&e=857b71a9cb>* January 8 at 4:30 PM January 15 at 7:00 PM *BALIEM VALLEY 1961: PROGRAM 2: RITUALS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f65940ba85&e=857b71a9cb>* January 9 at 4:30 PM January 16 at 6:30 PM *Robert Gardner DEAD BIRDS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ad5e2567e&e=857b71a9cb>* January 14 at 7:00 PM January 16 at 8:30 PM *Derek Jarman BLUE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=24ffae3953&e=857b71a9cb>* January 14 at 9:15 PM January 15 at 9:00 PM *Jeff Perkins MOVIES FOR THE BLIND, VOLUME 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3a5168efb6&e=857b71a9cb>* January 15 at 4:30 PM *Gilad Baram & Adam Kaplan THE DISAPPEARED <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=113b612bcf&e=857b71a9cb>* January 16 at 4:30 PM *FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* University of Chicago Film Studies Center <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=644c86b79f&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm CT, Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St., Chicago *This Radiant World: Dis-Articulations: Dances, Sketches, and Gestures* Small moments of dancing, sketching, kissing, goofing, and driving that are fleeting on screen but linger in the mind and build to a more complex whole. Set to the titular song by Frank Sinatra, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács’s *All or Nothing at All* imagines a flooded dystopian netherworld in which dance is a futile act of resistance. In *Caricaturana*, Romanian provocateur Radu Jude realizes an unmade project of Sergei Eisenstein--a film using a series of lithographs by Honoré Daumier depicting fictional swindler Robert Macaire--but can’t help tweaking things with a surprising pop culture cameo. Kevin Jerome Everson & Kahlil I. Pedizisai’s *Glenville* presents a contemporary incarnation of the joyfully kissing Black couple in the recently rediscovered 1898 film *Something Good - Negro Kiss*, while a trio of tiny sketch films by Toney Merritt: *Lonesome Cowboy, Three Masked Pieces*, and *EF* are playful yet thoughtful cultural and political repositionings of Black identity. Finally, Al Wong’s *Twin Peaks* features the filmmaker driving in circles around the San Francisco hills over the course of a year. A travel film without a destination; a structural film that doesn’t take itself too seriously; a durational meditation; a major rediscovery. (digital and 16mm, 75 min.) *SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *GearWax* https://www.gearwax.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c528ed7e8a&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! *THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2022* IKLECTIK Venue type: *Live, physical event* Contact Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6a4d6c236e&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 GMT Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, England *Film Talks Live: Nicky Hamlyn / Lynn Loo / Guy Sherwin* The first in a series of events at IKLECTIK presented in association with the new Contact publication Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, edited by Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance. ( https://www.contactscreenings.co.uk/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=58e7ac7f3d&e=857b71a9cb>) This event is a screening of expanded and experimental cinema from the internationally renowned artists: Lynn Loo, Guy Sherwin and Nicky Hamlyn. The programme will include: Nicky Hamyln: *4 x 3 x 2* (film-performance, 2 x 16mm projector); Lynn Loo:* Washi MM* (film-performance, 3 x 16mm projector); Guy Sherwin: *Remjet #3 *(film-performance, 3 x 16mm projector) See here for details and tickets: https://iklectikartlab.com/film-talks-live-nicky-hamlyn-lynn-loo-guy-sherwin/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2915ddd41d&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8825816774&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street, Oakland, CA *New Time: The Future is Feminist. Utopian Visions* This program features six experimental films that suggest a communal vision for the future arising out of actions in the present. Madeleine Hunt Smith’s *Spit on the Broom *explores the secret history of the United Order of Tents, an organization of Black women dating to the 1840s, the height of the Underground Railroad. *Pilgrim *arose from Cauleen Smith’s cross-country trip to visit sites of creativity and inspiration—Alice Coltrane’s Sai Anantam Ashram, the Watts Towers, and the Watervliet Shaker Historic District. In *Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 2*, Marwa Arsanios documented two all-women eco-communities in Syria. Other films include Adele Horne’s *Rock Clay Sand Straw Wood*, depicting the communal building of a cottage, and two films by Emily Chao, *chive pockets *showing her grandmother cooking, and *As Long As There Is Breath*, a short cine-poem. *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=43462d58d5&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=a49f643a17&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=0829be57cc&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=bd4e92ff94&e=857b71a9cb> . 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