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*This Week [February 19 - 27, 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=bc4bd7efa5&e=857b71a9cb> ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 02.28.2022 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1f9500025e&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.28.2022 VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b7d920ca0f&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2022 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=426526fe34&e=857b71a9cb> 03.04.2022 Sheffield Doc Fest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=88eec4148c&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.04.2022 Colour Reversal Incubator <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bb2a34edc9&e=857b71a9cb> 03.05.2022 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fd73dd837d&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.06.2022 Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6900fe4837&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.11.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=13752268a3&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=4558d8d154&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2022 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a91c27a1fc&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.31.2022 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2062ab6902&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.31.2022 FIDMarseille <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2dfa7a08f8&e=857b71a9cb> 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=0761655ade&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 06.01.2022 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=398c23fcca&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=81333e7c10&e=857b71a9cb> ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Jonas Mekas 100! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=72e34c5dfb&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=b86643ff68&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=13a345fbb0&e=857b71a9cb> [January 14-March 4, San Francisco] - aCinema: Transpareidolia <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00333586bc&e=857b71a9cb> [February 1-28, online] - New Year New Work Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3e6dd11203&e=857b71a9cb> [February 4-March 4, online] - The Autobiographical Animal <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=589f703d59&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=24e01b00fa&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=7bb86c57dd&e=857b71a9cb> [February 8-March 1, online] - Roger Beebe Tour <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=469475f879&e=857b71a9cb> [February 16-March 4, various locations] - Side/The Other Side <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dcba5eccf1&e=857b71a9cb> [February 19, Allentown, PA] - Tony Conrad: Completely In the Present + Short Works By Tony Conrad <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93234f948f&e=857b71a9cb> [February 19, Santa Fe] - SF Psycho-Geo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7d088884ac&e=857b71a9cb> [February 19, San Francisco] - Handmade Films From Grenoble's MTK Film Lab <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c17f4453ca&e=857b71a9cb> [February 24, NYC] - This Radiant World: Harmonies and Discords <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c106fe6932&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25, Chicago] - Incredibly Strange Music1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=081cc4d43a&e=857b71a9cb> [February 26, San Francisco] - Terra Femme <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cea7b0afd5&e=857b71a9cb> [February 26, Astoria, NY] - Space Exploration With Johann Lurf <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05d8eb5e97&e=857b71a9cb> [February 27, Los Angeles] - Cinema Parenthèse #33: Jerome Hiler <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e81c59c2ac&e=857b71a9cb> [February 27, Brussels, Belgium] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1543aca20e&e=857b71a9cb> [February 27, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=157da013a3&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=81204411ca&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f2b0a0401d&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE FEBRUARY 19, 2022* *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=d9f4922646&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=bf875cb317&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=19a7d18d0a&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=5c3115f178&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=7e771881bf&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=966eee3644&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=e2a8192571&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=1be41d9ebe&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/newyearnewwork2022 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ba1777e71e&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=03cbba7357&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://deluge.squarespace.com/now <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39e3ec8a6c&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=f19ec56eee&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=ab8177cb7b&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=e4c92c2ed3&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/25th-anniversary/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=227f0ec61f&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 16 - March 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Roger Beebe <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=01b1573d18&e=857b71a9cb> various times, various locations *Roger Beebe Tour* Roger Beebe is traveling with a car filled with 16mm projectors to do another round of multi-projector shows in the coming weeks. If you’re in the south/southeastern U.S., I may be coming to a town near you. Here’s the current itinerary (with an additional show or two still to be added): Weds., Feb. 16: minicine? (Shreveport) Thurs., Feb. 17: Austin Film Society Fri., Feb. 18: Aurora Picture Show (Houston) Sat., Feb. 20: Silver City Grocery (New Orleans) Mon., Feb. 21: Contemporary Art Gallery (Hammond, La.) Weds., Feb. 23: 621 Gallery (Tallahassee) Fri., Feb. 25: FLEXfest (Tampa) Weds., March 2: If Art Gallery (Columbia, SC) Fri., March 4: Fatwood Studio (Carrboro, NC) *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Allentown Art Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=85d98cb46f&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. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* NO NAME CINEMA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f53b5e9fbb&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe *Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present + short works by Tony Conrad* Opening the night's program will be a series of rarely screened SHORT FILMS & PERFORMANCE VIDEOS by Tony Conrad. Eclectic in approach, technique & delivery - this collection of shorts offers a brief sampling & overview of Conrad's work. Expect a wild ride of density, humor & visceral cinematic experience! [PORTIONS OF THE OPENING PROGRAM ARE NOT ADVISED FOR VIEWERS PRONE TO VISUALLY-INDUCED SEIZURES] *TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT* (directed by Tyler Hubby / 2016 / 96 mins) trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=dB052dIM99U <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2cb24bcc27&e=857b71a9cb> Tony Conrad remains one the greatest American artists of his time, yet to the world at large he remains criminally underappreciated. Since the early 1960s, Conrad's films & compositions have been the stuff of legend for artists and musicians everywhere. He recorded the soundtrack to Jack Smith’s legendary Flaming Creatures; he laid bare the paradigms of cinema with The Flicker, a film composed of only black and white frames; his powerful & startling drone compositions still have the music establishment scratching their heads; his early work with La monte Young & John Cale played a role in the formation of The Velvet Underground; as an early adopter of activist public access television he democratized the emerging medium of portable video for ordinary citizens. His vast, fifty year inter-disciplinary repertoire inspired & confounded generations of artists, collaborators & fans... This feature documentary, recorded over a 22 year period, draws on a rich archive of videos with a non-linear & non-obvious structure allowing Conrad to wildly free associate his streams of consciousness, revealing an honest and humane way of navigating a remarkable, creative life. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eabaf38cbe&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *SF PSYCHO-GEO* ARLYCK + BALDWIN + SFSU + OC comes roaring back for a full-fledged Spring calendar, starting with this very lively range of film records of our Fair City! Headlining is *Natural Habitat,* the ultra-rare '70 city symphony from one of the Haight*'*s own, Ralph Arlyck (later making *Sean*, another Haight-based doc, Academy nominated). ALSO out of the SFSU Archive Project is* It's a Good Thing*, a 1966(!) comic-essay on the evils of landfill at the Dump. Craig Baldwin's 1976 *Stolen Movie,* shot in S8 double-system, shifts the focus to the Mid-Market area, where City planners battle to this day! SOMA is covered by way of James Hong's 16mm *Folsom Street Fair*, the Mission District by Carla Leshne's *Playground Not for Sale*, and local legend Jeremy Rourke chips in a piece about ATA Gallery itself! Tho the highlight might well be the custom-cut comp of clips that connect the Key System to Lake Merritt boat races to Chris Marker's *Junkopia* to Bobby Breen's *Wharf* to Steve McQueen's *Bullitt* route to the '82 Niners!...AND free postcards and champagne, of course! *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f5c25d178d&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC *Handmade films from Grenoble’s MTK film lab:* Katherine Bauer, Loïc Verdillon, Joyce Lainé, All films on 16mm Bauer & Verdillon in attendance! Rare evening of 16mm films by Katherine Bauer, Loïc Verdillon, and Joyce Lainé made at the Atelier MTK film lab in Grenoble, France, as well as a collective film by artists from MTK, L’Abominable (Paris, France), and Labo Brussels (Brussels, Belgium). The screening concludes with two live collaborative performance works for dual 16mm projection by Bauer and Verdillon, who are visiting from France. The renowned Atelier MTK is an independent film lab founded in 1992 by a group of artists and focused on filmmaking as an artisanal, handmade practice, while offering “an introduction and an education to lab techniques in order to provide filmmakers with the necessary independence to make their own films.” Please note: This event is in person only. All films will be screened on 16mm film. *Abracadabra el Corazón *By Katherine Bauer, 16mm film, silent, b&w, 2020, 18 minutes *Capture d’écran #1 *By Loïc Verdillon, 16mm film, b&w, sound, 2020, 6 minutes *La dernière vague *By Katherine Bauer and Loïc Verdillon, 16mm film, b&w stained red from sea-weed, sound, 2020, 7 minutes *40AW *By Joyce Lainé, 16mm film, color, sound, 2016, 3 minutes 33 seconds *L’amitié, c’est pas toujours comme du ski de fond *Collectively made with artists from MTK (Grenoble/FR), L’Abominable (Paris/Fr), and Labo Brussels (Bxl/Bel), 16mm film, silent, b&w, 2021, 8 minutes *Faut-pas délirer! *By Loïc Verdillon and Joyce Lainé, 16mm film, b&w, sound, 2018, 10 minutes *Les Vacances de Blanchen*By Katherine Bauer and Loïc Verdillon, 2 x 16mm film, b&w, 2021, 10 minutes *Dark&Mush for Room&Room *Katherine Bauer and Loïc Verdillon, 2 x 16mm film, b&w, 2021, 10 minutes Proof of vaccination for Covid-19 and masks are required. Capacity is limited to 30 audience members. Advance tickets: https://microscopegallery.ticketleap.com/handmade-films-from-grenobles-mtk-film-lab/dates/Feb-24-2022_at_0730PM *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* University of Chicago Film Studies Center <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9320f0bb4f&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm CT, Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St., Chicago *This Radiant World: Harmonies and Discords* These visually rich works cover a range of emotional terrains in their search for meaning in a confusing and chaotic world, some looking at the past, others at our unpredictable present. Celebrated collage animator Lawrence Jordan’s *Belle du Jour* continues his trademark quasi-surreal assemblage of found images. Also working in collage animation, Chicagoan Lisa Barcy creates a mysterious and anxious world populated by cut-out paper dolls in *Ephemeral Orphanage*. Hand-processed images of nature combine with a droning score and an indecipherable incantatory voice in Charlotte Clermont’s tactile and mesmerizing *Lucina Annulata*, while composer Olivia Block fashions a score for footage she shot of a happened-upon scene of fire and ice in *Axiolite (for Anna Kavan)*. Michael Robinson’s *Polycephaly in D* threads a cryptic narrative about connection and disconnection through a web of dissociative images, overwhelming and disturbing in their insistence, and *Moon Veils* is a simple and delicate dance of light by the Mexican group Colectivo Los Ingrávidos. Swirls of decaying emulsion aid two secret lovers in the midst of a costume ball in Bill Morrison’s *Her Violet Kiss*, and Eve Heller’s *Singing in Oblivion* combines footage shot in an overgrown Jewish cemetery in Vienna with images printed from found negative glass slides of anonymous individuals. Abandoned threads of history intersect--an ode to those lost and a celebration of lives once lived. Masks and proof of vaccination are required for entry for this in-person event at the Logan Center. (digital and 16mm, 80 min.) *Belle du Jour *(Lawrence Jordan, 2021, 10 min, 16mm) *The Ephemeral Orphanage* (Lisa Barcy, 2020, 15 min, digital video) *Her Violet Kiss* (Bill Morrison, 2021, 5 min, digital video) *Lucina Annulata* (Charlotte Clermont, 2021, 4 min, digital video) *Axiolite (for Anna Kavan) *(Olivia Block, 2021, 6 min, digital video) *Polycephaly in D *(Michael Robinson, 2021, 23 min, digital video) *Moon Veils* (Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2021, 4 min, digital video) *Singing in Oblivion* (Eve Heller, 2021, 13 min, digital video) *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4f52d95e75&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC1* WORSLEY's NEGATIVLAND/SUE-C + Comes now the triumphant return of a band who have suffered the worst in the past decade... but are back together in this doc with our fave *visualiste! *Raving genius Ryan Worsley's lovely and lively documentation of Negativland's late '21 tour not only renews hope in an expanded music/expanded cinema aesthetic, but it also happens to be damn fun, doncha know? The sublime sonic architecture generated by the Contra Costa audio crew is here married to the ecstatic opticals of VJ extraordinaire Sue-C!..and the whole perceptual overload has been marvelously consolidated into an hour of sensory delight by our Ms. Worsley. In fact we'll open with five of her magnificent music-vid collabs with the band: *More Data, Don't Don't Get Freaked, This is Not Normal, Destroying Anything, and Anything Else?*. PLUS pick hits from their neo-Dada DVD *My Favorite Things*. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Museum of the Moving Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42f9d9b873&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm ET, Museum of the Moving Image – Bartos Screening Room, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY *Terra Femme* Dir. Courtney Stephens. United States. 2021, approx 60 mins. Live performance with digital projection. With the emergence of cinema came the nascent phenomenon of amateur movies, which also coincided with the relative accessibility of international travel for the wealthier leisure class—a small subset of whom were women. Courtney Stephens’s Terra Femme is comprised of archival footage from the first half of the 20th century, all shot by women in locations far from home. An essay film, a memoir, a post-colonial reckoning, Terra Femme is a work of live cinema that takes the form of a narrated travelogue, with Stephens taking the viewer on a deep dive into errant cinematic scrapbooks, seeking out the stories behind the images, and wondering after the women who captured and witnessed them. Please note: This screening was rescheduled from December 19. *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17c5323598&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm PST, 2220 W. Beverly Blvd. *Space Exploration with Johann Lurf* Free parking on the street and across Beverly at the church In-person: Filmmaker Johann Lurf, Tickets: $12 general, $8 students/seniors, $0 Filmforum members. $12 tickets can be purchased in advance at https://dice.fm/event/5qbp8-screening-space-exploration-with-johann-lurf-27th-feb-2220-arts-archives-los-angeles-tickets Vienna-based artist Johann Lurf is fascinated by image production and exhibition technologies, and his filmmaking practice is a diverse and thrillingly engaging demonstration of those passions. Across his eclectic body of truly inventive films, he employs an acute awareness of the possibilities for magic and revelation to be found in the interplay of real and filmic space. The elemental qualities of the moving image are activated via his conceptual and technical artistry and the medium itself always plays an active role. The result is an expanded adventure of cinema that involves the viewer in a thoughtful exploration of perspective and time. This program will span a variety of short films, diverse in their themes, materials, and execution, but all representing the poetry, discipline, humor, and excitement that one can expect from any work by Johann Lurf. Found footage is radically re-presented to release its formal energies, artful and revelatory surveillance is made of eerie and sinister landscapes, and the elemental properties of cinema itself are thrown into powerful, surprising relief through Lurf’s articulate and inspired filmic alchemy. *Cavalcade* (2019) 35mm screening digitally, color, sound, 5m *Picture Perfect Pyramid* (2013) 16mm, color, silent 24fps, 5m *12 Explosionen / 12 Explosions* (2008) digital, color, sound, 6m *Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagen Viktor quer über den großen Sylter Deich 140 9 / The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog* (2009) 35mm screening digitally, color, sound, 3m *RECONNAISSANCE* (2012) digital, color, sound, 5m *Endeavour *(2010) digital, color, sound, 16m *EMBARGO* (2014) digital, color, sound, 10m *VERTIGO RUSH *(2007) 35mm screening digitally, color, sound, 19m Program and notes by Mark Toscano. All films courtesy of Johann Lurf. 35mm titles will show digitally. Johann Lurf will also be presenting his film ★ at the Academy Film Museum on February 24 at 7:30 pm. “A one-of-a-kind cinematic experience, Vienna-based filmmaker Johann Lurf’s ★ is quite literally the ultimate cosmic trip through the entire history of cinema.” For more information: https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/by-johann-lurf-7864cff2-60f6-275a-dfbd-1f37976bd03b *Note: This program contains some elements of flicker* *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cinema Parenthèse <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fb4363beab&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm GMT+1, iMAL, Quai des Charbonnages 30, Brussels *Cinema Parenthèse #33: Jerome Hiler* The films of HILER blend a beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude. They are occasions for reflection and meditation, on light, landscape, time and the motions of consciousness. Hiler's encounter with the films of Nathaniel Dorsky, Marie Menken, Gregory Markopoulos and Stan Brakhage deeply affected his own artistic path. For example, "In the Stone House" Hiler compiles physically fragile and intensely poignant footage shot during the same period chronicled in Nathaniel Dorsky's "Hours for Jerome" (1966-1970). Hiler and Dorsky lived together in rural New Jersey in the late '60s, and their films draw from the same well of intimate experience and acute retrospection. But how rare it is to see such a highly refined syntax multiplied across sensibilities in this way! Brought together 40 years after its inception and 20 years after "Hours for Jerome", "In the Stone House" draws out moments of lost time like pressed flowers from a book. Lacing through the fleeting visions of passing days are several more elaborate rituals: preparations made to film an eclipse. For most of his life, Hiler only screened his work among his circle of friends. However, from 1995 on, his work has been seen more publicly. These films are available only as 16mm copies, so this is a great opportunity to watch them. *IN THE STONE HOUSE* 1967-71 (edit 2012) | 16 mm | color/b&w | silent | 18fps | 35’00 *WORDS OF MERCURY* 2010-11 | 16 mm | color | silent | 18fps | 25’00 *BAGATELLE I* 2016-2018 | 16mm | color/b&w | silent | 18fps | 16'00 *RULING STAR* 2019 | 16mm | color | silent | 18fps | 22'00 Film prints from LightCone, Paris. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *GearWax* https://www.gearwax.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7cfd6a9bbc&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=00f7c90004&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=cb298513d4&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=6bf0dc0b8f&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=20d27fbfd5&e=857b71a9cb> . 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