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*This Week [February 12 - 20, 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=35efb25517&e=857b71a9cb> ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 02.14.2022 Crescent City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e2eacf5394&e=857b71a9cb> 02.28.2022 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1e2d54bd11&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.01.2022 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cb18578a7e&e=857b71a9cb> 03.04.2022 Sheffield Doc Fest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6941ede46d&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.05.2022 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7224f18d4e&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.11.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=14e575c62e&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=97f64fb641&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2022 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e2758b27fa&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 04.30.2022 Antimatter [media art] <http://filmfreeway.com/AntimatterMediaArt> (Early Deadline) 04.30.2022 Analogica <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=77b057535a&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 06.01.2022 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aa6345134a&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=af4aff5498&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=3ae37b8956&e=857b71a9cb> [October 22-February 13, Cambridge, MA] - Jonas Mekas 100! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ecaebf4a6&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bbabb81a90&e=857b71a9cb> [November 20-February 26, Vilnius, Lithuania] - seen only, heard only through someone else's description <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8a1642f85&e=857b71a9cb> [January 14-March 4, San Francisco] - aCinema: Transpareidolia <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5f09c3424&e=857b71a9cb> [February 1-28, online] - New Year New Work Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=21ee8c6e7d&e=857b71a9cb> [February 4-March 4, online] - The Autobiographical Animal <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e899bbc9a1&e=857b71a9cb> [February 4-March 12, online] - Artistic Processes and Cinematic Techniques Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be5aaf2e35&e=857b71a9cb> [February 7-28, online] - Media City Film Festival 25th Anniversary: Virtual Edition <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6d821bcd6c&e=857b71a9cb> [February 8-March 1, online] - Canyon Cinema: Recent Acquisitions (Winter 2022) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b6eaecb16f&e=857b71a9cb> [February 10-16, online] - Beginning Longing: Cinema As Threshold <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=82b8eb7629&e=857b71a9cb> [February 12, Baltimore] - Lawrence Jordan On Experimental Animation and Joseph Cornell <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c310ecf3b2&e=857b71a9cb> [February 12, Berkeley] - Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83053c3030&e=857b71a9cb> [February 13, New York] - Going Home <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=748d01a839&e=857b71a9cb> [February 13, New York] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=47daa60ef0&e=857b71a9cb> [February 13, online] - New York City Symphonies of the Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=73094e72b2&e=857b71a9cb> [February 16-17, New York] - Side/The Other Side <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eea0e2faf8&e=857b71a9cb> [February 19, Allentown, PA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6157776796&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works — Edition Nº 27 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4118f88b99&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b6dc954455&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE FEBRUARY 12, 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=081bff6e4b&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=6174ab2a21&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=34dd7ac79c&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=889e86dfff&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=d8d251419e&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=aaa1a8cfa6&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* *January 14 - March 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* McEvoy Foundation for the Arts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7b1b214b17&e=857b71a9cb> Wed - Sat, 11am-6pm PT, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, 1150 25th Street, Building B, San Francisco *seen only, heard only through someone else’s description* Short films offer new temporal spaces for considering how images and narratives construct meaning, artifice, and memory. *seen only, heard only through someone else’s description* engages filmmakers and artists whose interdisciplinary practices draw from performance, film, photography, research, and writing. The program’s title stems from *Audience Distant Relative* (1977) by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)—a poem, performance, and mail art piece that uses language to unravel dynamics of distance, visibility, hearing, and communication. The program is organized in two sessions of experimental short films by women and nonbinary artists from the 1970s through the 2010s. *Sometimes We Stand Alone* explores personal identity and history through experimental processes and found footage. *Drawing Energy* is concerned with communities of women and their collective power to document and deeply engage with artistic, cultural, or familial lineages. The collected works interweave varied perspectives to probe formal tensions between the moving image and still photography. *Sometimes We Stand Alone* screens daily from January 14 through March 4, 2022. *Drawing Energy* debuts March 5 and runs through April 30, 2022. Guest curated by Gina Basso in conjunction with Image Gardeners, an exhibition of modern and contemporary photography from the McEvoy Family Collection. ---- January 14 – March 4, 2022 /// *Sometimes We Stand Alone* ---- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, *Permutations*, 1976 Marie Losier, *Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine*, 2003 Lucy Kerr, *Sensible Ecstasy*, 2018 Stephanie Barber, *Oh My Homeland*, 2019 Paige Taul, *10:28,30*, 2019 Brenda Contreras, *La Lucha Sigue: Marichuy in Mexico City*, 2018 Tina Takemoto, *Wayward Emulsions*, 2018 Everlane Moraes, *Aurora*, 2019 *___________________________________________________________________* *February 1 - 28* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* aCinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=036a47c26c&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=f0814c7758&e=857b71a9cb> *aCinema: Transpareidolia* Sebastian Ziegler • *skeletonized espresso machine fountain* • 6 minutes 30 seconds Violeta Mora • *Impossible to Find Something Looking* • 8 minutes 30 seconds Leah Beeferman • *The Elements* • 34 minutes Teja Miholič • *So That Humanity Can Survive* • 6 min 32 seconds 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. *___________________________________________________________________* *February 4 - March 4* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Filmmakers Coop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a3e420032b&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/newyearnewwork2022 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=062867a9b1&e=857b71a9cb> *New Year New Work Film Festival* 9TH ANNUAL NEW YEAR, NEW WORK 2022: Celebrating recent additions by new and longstanding FMC members to our growing collection of experimental and avant-garde films. ♣ Program 1: *Under the Jazz. Circulation. Formation* by Priyanka Das [Runtime: approx. 68 min] ♣ Program 2: *Drink This!* by Michelle Borreggine & Cristina Pachano-Lauderdale *Book* by Thomas Jenkins *Potatosaur* by Tom Otterness *The Parking Lot of Dreams* by Alexis Krasilovsky *Swish* by Jean Sousa *Double Elvis* by Henry Hills *War Years* by David Schmidlapp *Leftover* by Victor Faccinto *The Stream XI* by Hiroya Sakurai [Runtime: approx. 62 min] ♣ Program 3: *3 Seasons of 2021* by Janis Lipzin *Cage Match Refractions* by Barbara Lattanzi *Building Trees (the shooting goes on)* by Toby Kaufmann-Buhler *Maima: The Water Spirit* by Mai’yah *Sodium Light Years* by Nicole Galpern *The Silence of Snow* by Rosalind Schneider *The Ones I Kept* by Sara Muñoz Ledo Rodriguez *Memories, Materials, Missing* by Linh Vu [Runtime: approx. 56 min] ♣ Program 4: *Seagulls - Gaviotas* by Ed Darino *3383* by Linh Vu *In and Out a Window* by Richard Tuohy *Variations* by Martín Klein *Quarantine* by Erica Schreiner *QUEUE* by Walter Ungerer *Love in the Time of Erosion* by Morrison Gong [Runtime: approx. 52 min] *___________________________________________________________________* *February 4 - March 12* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Deluge Contemporary Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b077cc5521&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://deluge.squarespace.com/now <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4449ab8a18&e=857b71a9cb> *The Autobiographical Animal* An online exhibition comprising four works considering hypotheses of post-human narrative via moving image. Animals do not produce autobiography in any sense we can even begin to comprehend, so the human imagination steps in to create it. The artists in this exhibition approach an often frustrated desire for interspecies communication and equity in surprising and open-ended ways, employing the POV of the protagonists while avoiding the coercion and sentimentality of anthropomorphism—deprivileging their own status in favour of the other. Occurring on built sets and Saskatchewan prairies, in virtual environments and appropriated cinematic landscapes, these films allow for the failure of connection as well as success, accepting delusions of wildness and power, limitations of human empathy and vast possibilities of the sensory and perceptual surrounding what we know about animal consciousness. *Best of Breed*, VALENTINA GAL | 2017 | 7 MIN *Horsey*, FRÉDÉRIC MOFFETT | 2018 | 9 MIN *aen loo pawatamihk*, DIANNE OUELLETTE | 2020 | 6 MIN *The animal that therefore I am (L’ animal que donc je suis)*, BEA DE VISSER | 2019 | 11 MIN *___________________________________________________________________* *February 7 - 28* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Duo Strangloscope <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b6c7a9c97d&e=857b71a9cb> Mondays in February, Event URL: https://www.facebook.com/667568086/posts/10158685710498087/?sfnsn=mo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bbb187a6b0&e=857b71a9cb> *Artistic Processes and Cinematic Techniques Workshop* We are opening registrations for Duo Strangloscope's Artistic Processes and Cinematic Techniques Workshop which will be held on 07, 14, 21 and 28/2 every Monday. The workshop aims, from the exhibition of 4 short films of Duo Strangloscope, selected by the different experimental techniques applied, discuss, reflect and propose an analysis of the potential of contemporary procedure creation cinematic techniques created or recreated by the Duo's technical-conceptive cover. Email registration: [email protected] Free Event *___________________________________________________________________* *February 8 - March 1* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d9b130103b&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/25th-anniversary/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a81ed440a3&e=857b71a9cb> *Media City Film Festival 25th Anniversary: Virtual Edition* Presenting more than 70 films and digital artworks from 30+ countries over the course of its 25th anniversary virtual celebration. Audiences can experience new films and restorations by artists, including Sergei Parajanov, Carolee Schneemann, Luther Price, Karpo Godina, Sky Hopinka, and many more. All screenings and events are FREE! *___________________________________________________________________* *February 10 - 16* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Canyon Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bfd8be42cb&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ccfwinter2022 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4b788df955&e=857b71a9cb> *Canyon Cinema: Recent Acquisitions (Winter 2022)* Stream our latest Canyon-on-Demand offering. This round-up of recent additions to the Canyon Cinema catalog includes a mix of new titles in distribution, new artists now represented by Canyon, and new digitizations. *Working Class* (Al Wong, 1975), 13:05 *Mountain View* (Markus Maicher, 2018), 02:40 *3 peonies* (Stephanie Barber, 2017), 03:13 *Triptych In Four Parts* (Lawrence Jordan, 1958), 12:49 *Solitary Acts #5* (Nazli Dincel, 2015), 05:25 *He Needs Dark To See* (Abigail He, 2021), 01:23 *Shadow and Act* (Taiki Sakpisit, 2019), 23:00 *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Sight Unseen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c029fba062&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm ET, SNF Parkway Theatre, 5 W North Avenue, Baltimore, MD *Beginning Longing: Cinema as Threshold* A program of five shorts made since 1997 by Baltimore resident Joanna Raczynska: a full-time museum worker and film programmer who is neither a highly exhibited filmmaker nor a curator of an historic motion picture collection. The presentation is bookended by two longer format films with seeming polarities in style and approach by filmmakers Peter Hutton and Susan Stein, major influences on Raczynska’s approach. *Łódź Symphony* (Peter Hutton, 16mm, silent, 1993, 20 minutes) *The Past is a Foreign Country* (Joanna Raczynska, 1998, 16mm to digital, 8 minutes) *The Essential Chair* (Joanna Raczynska, 1997, 16mm to digital, 5 minutes) *Nonfunctional Seasonal Confessional* (Joanna Raczynska, 2003, analog video to miniDV, 3 minutes) *Kathleene* (Joanna Raczynska, 1997, 16mm to digital, silent, 4 minutes) *Beginning Longing* (Joanna Raczynska, work in progress, 16mm and super8 to digital, 3 minutes) *Tracks* (Susan Stein, 16mm, 1989, 24 minutes) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* BAMPFA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d3e5b99cb&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm PT, BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA *Lawrence Jordan on Experimental Animation and Joseph Cornell* Artist and filmmaker Lawrence Jordan has created a monumental body of work since the mid-1950s. Much of his output is in the realm of cut-out animation, but he is also well known for his very personal, poetic documentaries and his collaborations with the American artist Joseph Cornell. Jordan stated, Cornell’s “influence on me touches the very foundation of my life.” This program features a selection of Jordan’s experimental animation, including two of his best-known films, Duo Concertantes and Our Lady of the Sphere, revealing the influence of surrealism on his approach. Also included are three films by Cornell, completed by Jordan. *Duo Concertantes*, Lawrence Jordan, United States, 1961–64 *Our Lady of the Sphere*, Lawrence Jordan, United States, 1969 *Chateau/Poyet*, Lawrence Jordan, United States, 2004 *Ogre’s Garden*, Lawrence Jordan, United States, 2019 *Jack’s Dream*, Joseph Cornell, United States, 1930–70 *The Midnight Party*, Joseph Cornell, United States, 1938–68 *Thimble Theater*, Joseph Cornell, Lawrence Jordan, United States, 1938–68 *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *GearWax* https://www.gearwax.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dbb1286bc1&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! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12affc4aed&e=857b71a9cb> 5pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA* Jonas Mekas, U.S./Lithuania,, 1971-72, 82 min, 16mm-to-35mm Beginning in New York, 1950, among the postwar dypukai (“displaced persons”), Jonas Mekas’s diary film leaps forward more than 20 years in a single intertitle – “100 GLIMPSES OF LITHUANIA, AUGUST 1971” – to document his exile’s return to hometown Semeniškiai, where relations and old friends are now working a communal farm. Some subjects are self-conscious of how they’ll seem to Americans, but life under the Communist SSR is only incidentally the subject of this sentimental journey, as Mekas’s voiceover asks rhetorically, “You would like to know something about the social reality…but what do I know about it?” The film’s closing contrast, monastery libraries paired with a fire in Vienna, champions the act of archiving as civilized resistance. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ac39afad2&e=857b71a9cb> 7:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *GOING HOME* Adolfas Mekas, U.S./Lithuania, 1972, 61 min, 16mm-to-DCP Filmed concurrently with Jonas Mekas’s *REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA* was the lesser-known but no less fascinating *GOING HOME*, by Adolfas Mekas and his wife, the singer Pola Chapelle. Along with his brother, Adolfas had left Semeniškiai 27 years earlier to travel to the University of Vienna, but the two wound up instead in a forced labor camp; now he returns after a long absence to be greeted by long-lost family and friends, and celebrations for both the living and the dead. The film features commentary by Mekas and Chapelle, including readings from his labor camp diaries, as well as travelogue digressions of its own, including a trip to Port Santo Stefano, Italy, on which Mekas is visited by “St. Tula,” whom he deems the Patron Saint of Cinema. *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022* *February 16 - 17* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83bd59c08b&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 PM EST, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53 St *New York City Symphonies of the Millennium Film Workshop* For decades, Millennium Film Workshop has served as a hub for independent experimental film production and exhibition, a place to bring forth personal cinema, open to anyone seeking a different vision beyond the mainstream. The original Workshop, located in New York City’s East Village from 1966 to 2011, was a community space providing low-cost equipment rentals, access to a screening room and editing facility, and the independence traditionally associated with painters or poets. Such filmmakers and artists as Andy Warhol, James Benning, Bruce Conner, Todd Haynes, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, and Michael Snow screened their work at Millennium, some premiering their first films. Today, Millennium holds instructional workshops for students and adults around the city, and maintains a community of critical engagement through its long-running publication, Millennium Film Journal. Through digital platforms, and in collaboration with other like-minded organizations, Millennium continues to foster experimentation and artistic development in film and video, steadfast in its mission to highlight new and unknown visions from beyond the commercial world of film. The many changes and adaptations Millennium has weathered over its long years of existence reflect the protean nature of the city it calls its home; though names and places may change, a certain character of filmmaking is always recognizably Millennium, just as our ever-changing city is always recognizably New York. Over the past few decades the filmmakers of Millennium Film Workshop have produced a wide range of films devoted to New York. These films can be understood as a continuation of the venerable “city symphony” genre and a modernization of the genre through new technology, interpretation, and techniques. This series aims to invoke the spirit of the early City Symphonies and apply it to the New York of the late 20th century and the early part of this century. Each filmmaker in this program has been affiliated with Millennium over the years, some educated through its workshop programs, others active members of their ongoing screening community. Each film offers its own particular and idiosyncratic view of the city, but it is hoped that the screenings will offer something more than just a compilation. Rather, as with any great symphony, the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. Perhaps, when these short films are viewed together, the viewer will gain a deeper understanding of the city, its inner workings, its organic growth, and the profound changes that it has undergone in its recent history. With this series the Department of Film celebrates its acquisition of the Millennium Film Workshop and Howard Guttenplan Collections. Film selections and program text are by Joe Wakeman and Victoria Campbell. *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Allentown Art Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cd634773bd&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm ET, Allentown Art Museum, 31 N 5th St, Allentown, PA *Side/The Other Side* Presented by the Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites and the Allentown Art Museum. A program of experimental film and video art curated by Ghen Dennis that investigates how people negotiate design systems - both as autonomous individuals and as collective social forces. The selected works will address design systems of the social world - citizenship, language, power and ideology - with design systems related to architecture, photography and surveillance, costume and performance, objects and tools, and public/private space. Questions the selected works will ask include: What do we assume about the functions of objects and machines, and space and place, as we move about our individual and collective worlds?; How can we reconcile that what we feel may not reflect what we see?; and, How does design teach us not to make assumptions? The selected films and videos will approach these topics and questions with both a poetic and a “socio-scientific” methodology. *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=7b733300ef&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=9f8cd8d82d&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-seven editions with six different artists. There are now a total of one hundred and sixty-two artists’ profiles and more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works available to view on the website. Edition Nº 27 includes works by Krzysztof Honowski, Tilly Shiner, André Santos Martins, Deniz Şimşek, João Pedro Faro, Clara Helbig *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Ecstatic Static* https://www.ecstaticstatic.com/screenings/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=51449b146d&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. 11: Remainder* Volker Sattel, *La Cupola*. 2016, 40 min Gastón Solnicki,* Circumplector*. 2019, 3 min Melisa Liebenthal , *Aquí y allá*. 2020, 21 Marwa Arsanios,* Falling is not collapsing, falling is extending*. 2016, 20 min, 08 sec Onyeka Igwe, *a so-called archive*. 2020, 19 min, 40 sec Adam Baran, *Trade Center*. 2021, 9 min Zachary Epcar, *The Canyon*. 2021, 15 min, 03 sec Yuri Ancarani, *Séance*. 2014, 30 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=64dfdace44&e=857b71a9cb> . 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