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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e4c45a4a5&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - aCinema: Bones of the Future <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=37a5f99055&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1-31, online] - seen only, heard only through someone else’s description <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5908e5ec43&e=857b71a9cb> [March 5-April 30, San Francisco] - 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9f29664824&e=857b71a9cb> [March 22-27, Ann Arbor, MI] - Focus: Su Friedrich <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e79e75a679&e=857b71a9cb> [March 24-27, Santiago, Chile] - Terra Femme <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4abde3fda8&e=857b71a9cb> [March 25-26, Minneapolis, MN] - Optronica1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=63b4d9a2c9&e=857b71a9cb> [March 26, San Francisco] - Pictures You Can Hold: Films By Greta Snider <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e36dc76c0&e=857b71a9cb> [March 26, San Francisco] - Early Blossoms/Perilous Thirds <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9b3fb83556&e=857b71a9cb> [March 26-May 7, Baltimore, MD] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=120b9c9736&e=857b71a9cb> [March 27, online] - Baltic Experimental Films <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b719c597cd&e=857b71a9cb> [March 28, Toronto] - Timon, James Fotopoulos Screening <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a97d788c19&e=857b71a9cb> [March 28, New York + online] - Jodie Mack: Matter Matters <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6d97b1fd94&e=857b71a9cb> [March 29-June 19, Rochester, NY] - Roger Beebe Tour Part 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f5df7d3ca3&e=857b71a9cb> [March 29-April 14, Tour] - Luis Macias: Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dfa164d1e4&e=857b71a9cb> [March 31, Rochester, NY] - EC: Lawrence Jordan <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=58375d6646&e=857b71a9cb> [March 31, New York] - Imageless Films, Part 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c22f412f65&e=857b71a9cb> [April 1-20, New York] - Mono No Aware Community Screening Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9439400496&e=857b71a9cb> [April 3, New York] - Womanhouse Now: Films and Experimental Shorts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=526195c1fb&e=857b71a9cb> [April 3, Los Angeles] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=90162fcffa&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=af92a55bae&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=98c923cfc9&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE MARCH 26, 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=1276c0fc7e&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=825ca67057&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *March 1 - 31* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* aCinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=690e5ecbd8&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=51ab91242a&e=857b71a9cb> *aCinema: Bones of the Future* *A Juncture of Pleasures* • Jacarrea Garraway, 3 min 36 sec • video *Hojas (Leaves)* • Camila García, 2 min 23 sec • video *Roserade* • Véro Marengère, 4 min 44 sec • video *Volatilis* • Jenna Eriksen (with Anna Seymour; performer), 11 min • video *SO NATURAL* • Tara Olayeye, 1 min 18 sec • 16mm to video *De las Cenizas (From the Ashes)* • Donna Conlon, video • 2 min 56 sec 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. *___________________________________________________________________* *March 5 - April 30* Venue type: *Live, physical event* McEvoy Foundation for the Arts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=336de9f826&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. ---- March 5 – April 30, 2022 /// Drawing Energy ---- Ilene Segalove, *Mom in Famous Women*, 1978 sair goetz, *me and my army*, 2017 Deborah Stratman, *Vever (For Barbara)*, 2019 Onyeka Igwe, *Her Name in My Mouth*, 2017 Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, *Spit on the Broom*, 2019 Lily Jue Sheng and Rita Ferrando, *Ikebana*, 2020 *___________________________________________________________________* *March 22 - 27* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=52b73fdedf&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm ET, Michigan Theater, 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Event URL: https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/list.aspx?epguid=f3c48a74-5bc1-4953-b2e2-68f08008e0a3&; <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4fcfa0e016&e=857b71a9cb> *60th Ann Arbor Film Festival* IN-PERSON AND ONLINE - The 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival will be a hybrid festival, with both in-person and online opportunities for attendees. In-Person Festival: Features in Competition, Shorts in Competition, Juror Presentations, Special Programs, After Parties, Panels & Discussions, Off The Screen! Installations, & access to the online festival. Online Festival: Features in Competition, Shorts in Competition, Juror Presentations, Online Film Forum, Filmmaker Interviews. Online content will be available through Wednesday, March 31st, 2022. COVID PRECAUTIONS - AAFF is following Michigan Theater COVID requirements to ensure a safe environment for our attendees. This includes wearing a mask, and proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test. We will continue to adapt to changes in partnership with the theater. Of note, the theater HVAC systems have been upgraded to guarantee a high level of outside air flow to greatly reduce recirculation within the theater. To see the Michigan Theater's current policy: https://michtheater.org/covid-safety-plan. FESTIVAL PASSES - NOW AVAILABLE *___________________________________________________________________* *March 24 - 27* Venue type: *Live, physical event* FEMCINE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=128cce4966&e=857b71a9cb> times and locations vary, see below *Focus: Su Friedrich* Su Friedrich is a fundamental force for lesbian-queer cinema. Her work radicalized certain forms of cinema by incorporating a feminist perspective and themes of lesbian identity with wit and a visceral style, achieving a remarkable and innovative synthesis between the experimental, the documentary and the narrative. Her films move between the personal and the political, crossing her own biography of home footage with found archive, research, interview and narration to talk about female roles, compulsory heterosexuality and above all other possible ways of life. Thursday March 24. 7pm. Biblioteca Nicanor Parra. *Sink or Swim* (48', 1990) Thursday March 24. 7pm. Biblioteca Nicanor Parra. *Cool Hands, Warm Heart* (16', 1979) Friday March 25. 7pm. Biblioteca Nicanor Parra. *The Odds of Recovery* (65', 2002) Sunday March 27. 7:30pm. MATUCANA 100. *Hide and Seek* (63', 1996) *___________________________________________________________________* *March 25 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Walker Art Center <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d367f8dab&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm CT, Walker Cinema, 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN *Terra Femme* Combining personal travel movies shot by women in the 1920s–1940s, Courtney Stephens’s archival essay film complicates the early freedoms and power that leisured middle-class white American women experienced as they traveled through picturesque landscapes. The artist will attend both evenings. On Saturday, Stephens performs the poetic narration live on stage, reflecting on how the women’s spontaneous ethnographies shaped a feminized gaze and transformed objectification in film. 2017–2021, US, DCP, 62 min. Friday, March 25: Introduction and post show Q&A with Courtney Stephens Saturday, March 26: Screening with live performance/accompaniment by Courtney Stephens Students watch for free on Fridays! *SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=58dcff5dad&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *OPTRONICA1* STARK + KUC + TBD + Using found family photographs (mostly 35mm slides), Scott Stark cracks open the family archive to generate imaginative and at times illogical narratives. *The Last Forever* (in collaboration with Polish filmmaker Kamila Kuc) unravels a story of a missing spouse and possible murder, while *Underlying Persistent Volumes* populates an instructional video for software development with photos of birthday parties, road trips and Christmas rituals. Plus an exercise video and (LIVE!) musical interludes. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Canyon @ The Roxie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c97e46c4e9&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm PT, Little Roxie, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco *Pictures You Can Hold: Films by Greta Snider* Canyon at The Roxie returns with a spotlight on acclaimed San Francisco filmmaker and professor Greta Snider. This wide-ranging survey brings together a selection of Snider’s early – now classic – 16mm autoethnographies, found footage essays, and materialist inventions, and recent projects focusing on human rights issues, especially as manifested in the schism between document and body; culminating with Cult of Compliance, a stereoscopic, two-projector foray into dystopic oppressive structures and the gestures of trying to exist among them. 3D glasses will be provided. *Hard Core Home Movie* (1989, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm) *Blood Story* (1990, 3 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) *Our Gay Brothers* (1993, 9 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) *No-Zone* (1993, 19 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) *Quarry Movie* (1999, 10 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) *Flight* (1995, 5 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm presented as a digital file) *Prayer for the Torture Memos* (2015, 8 minutes, color, sound, digital file) *A Small Place* (2019, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital file) *Cult of Compliance* (2019, 10 minutes approx., color, sound, 16mm dual projection stereoscopic with polarizing filters/glasses/silver screen) Approx. running time: 75 minutes *___________________________________________________________________* *March 26 - May 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Current Space <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1f415167c&e=857b71a9cb> various times, see below, Current Space, 421 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD *Early Blossoms/Perilous Thirds* Current Space is proud to present "Early Blossoms/Perilous Thirds." an exhibition of works by Stephanie Barber, Patrick David, and Josh Dorman; curated by Andrew Shenker, Michael Benevento, and Julianne Hamilton. Please join us for the opening reception! Opening Reception: March 26th, 6-9pm Exhibition Duration: March 26th – May 7th Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 1-5pm "The work from these three artists presents questions of the narrative image, an experience that opens an associative window––what does a line you once recognized become as it breaks, what does a body? The conversation arrives in threes, triangulates the snake in the garden and holds it to the glass. A symbol contorts to reflect itself in the eye that catches it. To take the icon out of its rank, the head from its neck, to weigh how small or smooth the evidence of a hand in the world it creates. Broken time, things in place, place in things." - Caroline Preziosi "\[Shared most of all, perhaps, is a meditative and uncanny mood at the edge of the sayable, close to oblivion; a dreamlike warmth (and horror).\]" - Andrew Shenker *SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *GearWax* https://www.gearwax.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75cdceb7b8&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! *MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* PIX FILM Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=416725425b&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, PIX FILM Gallery, 1411 Dufferin St Unit C, Toronto, ON *BALTIC EXPERIMENTAL FILMS* Presented by Curator: Ieva Balode (Baltic Analog Lab) In Person Ieva Balode is a founder of artist’s collective and film lab Baltic Analog Lab from Riga, Latvia that gathers filmmakers and photographers working in a field of a photochemical and experimental film. Baltic Analog Lab is a collective founded in 2016 in Riga uniting filmmakers and artists interested in analogue film and photography, Baltic Analog Lab aims to produce, teach and inspire an audience by providing a space for creation, learning and teaching. High focus of the lab is education and collaboration; this is maintained by regular workshops led by BAL members and foreigner guests, as well as international film school organised by the lab. It also includes film screenings and expanded cinema events. The main curatorial event of the lab is the experimental film festival ‘Process’, which happens since year 2017. *Center Fugue*. Roberts Vanags / Latvia / 2021 / b/w / sound / 3’ 20’’ / 16mm >> digital *Bonds Of Time*. Henrijs Laķis / Latvia / 2021 / colour / sound / 16’ / 16mm >> digital *Père au ciel / Father In Heaven*. Kei Sendak / Latvia / 2021 / colour & b/w / sound / 4’ 30’’ / 16mm >> digital *The Bearers of Memories*. Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė / Lithuania / 2020 / colour / sound / 13’ 20” / 16mm >> digital *Compos Mentis**. *Linda Lindenberga / Latvia / 2021 / colour & b/w / sound / 6’ / 16mm >> digital *Notes from the underground**. *Eglė Razumaitė / Lithuania, France / 2020 / colour / sound / 18’ 30’’ / Super 16mm >> digital *?* Betija Zvejniece / Latvia / 2021 / colour / digital sound / 2’ 40’’ / 16mm >> digital *Factory of Collision*. Ieva Balode / Latvia / 2021 / b/w / digital sound / 4’ / 16mm *The Silva Method*. Mersedes Margoite / Latvia / 2021 / colour & b/w / digital sound / 5’ 25’’ / 16mm *Wildflower Solstice*. Ieva S. Aleksa / Latvia / 2020 / colour / sound / 5’ / Super 8 >> Super 8 *ReaLitis*. Sintija Andersone / Latvia / 2021 / colour / sound / 4’ 20” / 16mm >> 16mm Program co-presented by PIX FILM and LIFT *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e625e5181&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm ET, 525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001 Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/james-fotopoulos-timon/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=edd3a895fe&e=857b71a9cb> *TIMON, James Fotopoulos screening in person & online* Microscope premieres James Fotopoulos new video TIMON. The artist will be in attendance — along with actors Jim Fletcher, Christina Masciotti, Laurena Allan and Danusia Trevino — for this event taking place both in person and online. The work will be preceded by a new short video by the artist titled “Faustus.“ Fotopoulos’ 52-minute feature centers around Timon of Athens — the legendary misanthrope and subject of several literary works — who lived around 400 B.C. Similar to other, earlier loose film adaptions by the artist including “Christabel” (2001) and “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), Fotopoulos considers the fractured nature of the sources, such as the disputed authorship and possible incompleteness of the eponymous Shakespeare play, as offering wider avenues for exploration into the soul of the main character. A man not born as but one that evolved into a hater of mankind by the behavior of those close to him as he dramatically shifts between wealth and indigence, Timon ultimately resorts to living in a cave and raising an army against the city of Athens. In Fotopoulos’ work, Timon, as artfully embodied by Jim Fletcher, is engaged in interrupted monologues as well as dialogues with his fiancée, daughter, and mistress (played respectively by Laurena Allan, Christina Masciotti, and Veronica Sheaffer). Fotopoulos’ Timon combines black and white sequences with unsettling sounds that only add to Timon’s tragedy. For the video, made in 2020 during the pandemic lockdown, the actors recorded themselves with their own camera following Fotopoulos’ indications, testing the ways in which independent cinema readjusts itself and its usual practices in order to survive in times of little human contact. The scenes were then reedited and repositioned against backgrounds composed with handmade drawings by the artist, and interrupted by additional original video footage. A Q&A with the artist, actors, and the audience (online and in-person) will follow the screening. *General in-person admission $9 Member in-person admission $7 Online tickets and the link to watch will go live at 7pm ET on the day of the show at *https://microscopegallery.com/james-fotopoulos-timon/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fdcaeba1aa&e=857b71a9cb> *Please note: The event has a limited capacity of 30 on-site, with proof of vaccination for Covid-19 and masks required.* For in-person ticket: https://microscopegallery.ticketleap.com/james-fotopoulos-timon/dates/Mar-28-2022_at_0730PM *For more information: https://microscopegallery.com/ <https://microscopegallery.com/>* *TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2022* *March 29 - June 19* Venue type: *Live, physical event* George Eastman Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a00091e24&e=857b71a9cb> Tue-Sat,10-5pm + Sun 11-5pm ET, Multipurpose Hall, George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY *JODIE MACK: MATTER MATTERS* The George Eastman Museum is pleased to present selected experimental animated films by Jodie Mack (UK, b. 1983), an artist who has developed a remarkable filmmaking style that provides new perspectives on a variety of familiar materials. Mack’s subjects often include captivating decorative objects and vintage, ornate textiles. Her films invite viewers to contemplate the objects’ significance and the nature of disposability. Mack often works with a Bolex camera and 16mm film, and her films explode with dizzying displays of colors, shapes, and patterns. While her mastery of traditional stop-motion animation technique is highly precise and sometimes abstract, Mack’s films have a joyful, handmade quality that radiates humor and human warmth. The following film descriptions are provided by the artist. A program of four animated short films. Originally shot in 16mm the films will be screened digitally in this presentation on a loop (21 min. total) during museum hours. *Posthaste Perennial Pattern* (US 2010, 4 min.). Rapid-fire florals and morning birdsong bridge interior and exterior, design and nature. *Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart is* (US 2012, 3 min.). Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty-gritty. *Blanket Statement #2: All or Nothing* (US 2013, 4 min.). A battle of extreme extremes. *Something Between Us* (US 2015, 10 min.). A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets: costume jewelry and natural wonders join forces to perform plastic pirouettes, dancing a luminous lament until the tide comes in. *___________________________________________________________________* *March 29 - April 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Roger Beebe <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=006796dbcf&e=857b71a9cb> various times, various locations *Roger Beebe Tour Part 2* Roger Beebe is getting on the road with a car filled with 16mm projectors to do another round of multi-projector shows in the coming weeks. Here’s the itinerary: Tuesday, March 29: Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY) Thursday, March 31: Playhouse Cinema (Hamilton, ON) Friday, April 1: TAP Centre for Creativity (London, ON) Sunday, April 3: PIX FILM Gallery (Toronto, ON) Tuesday, April 5: Trent University (Peterborough, ON) Wednesday, April 6: Club SAW (Ottawa, ON) Thursday, April 7: la lumière collective (Montréal, QC) Friday, April 8: Epsilon Spires (Brattleboro, VT) Saturday, April 9: New Haven Free Public Library (New Haven, CT) Monday, April 11: Tufts University (Medford/Somerville, MA) Tuesday, April 12: The Campus Theatre--Bucknell (Lewisburg, PA) Thursday, April 14: Cornell Cinema (Ithaca, NY) *THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visual Studies Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bb631914de&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY *Luis Macias: Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines* **Due to the small capacity of the VSW microcinema, we are requiring masks for all audience members at this time.* *Your Eyes are Spectral Machines* is a multimedia analog and digital film program that experiments with the transitory nature of illuminated images, presented by Spanish filmmaker Luis Macias. This performance on 16mm, 35mm slide and digital projectors will illustrate what Macias calls “Spectral Cinema” by engaging with analog film as both material and form. From photochemical illusions to mechanical manipulations, Macias allows for improvisational experiences that stimulate unique multi-sensory responses with the audience. --- PROGRAM --- *Spectral Landscape* is an intermittent, subtle and violent performance with several modified slide projectors that explores the image of nature and how it is revealed to us. *The kiss* is a video-cinematographic project composed by 24 formats and where the structure builds and destroys the image itself through its inner process. Like *The eyes empty and the pupils burning of rage and desire*, it begins with the absence of image that is its own destruction and builds a particular organic universe that is slowly emerging from a relation of excitement and love between the emulsion and the projector. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b277bd32c&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: LAWRENCE JORDAN* *DUO CONCERTANTES* (1962-64, 6 min, 16mm, b&w) *HAMFAT ASAR* (1965, 13 min, 16mm, b&w) *GYMNOPEDIES* (1968, 6 min, 16mm) *THE OLD HOUSE, PASSING* (1966, 45 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE* (1968, 9 min, 35mm) “With a taste for nostalgic romanticism…Jordan creates a magical universe of work using old steel engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit into the subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as a prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner self.” –Jackie Leger Total running time: ca. 85 min. *FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2022* *April 1 - 20* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7ba8434565&e=857b71a9cb> various times, 32 Second Avenue, New York *IMAGELESS FILMS, PART 1* If there’s one central element that would seem to be intrinsic and indispensable to any reasonable definition of the cinema it would be the presence of imagery, whether photographed, animated, or generated through more experimental methods such as hand-painting, scratching, collaging, and so on. Nevertheless, throughout the history of the medium, artists have challenged even this seemingly core tenet of the art form by producing works that subvert or entirely dispense with the image, by expanding the definition of the kinds of experience that can be shared within the space of the cinema, or by provocatively defining as “cinema” performances that might seem a thing apart. 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. With this ongoing series, Anthology embarks on an extended, in-depth, and multi-chapter exploration of the various ways that filmmakers and artists have experimented with the possibilities of an “imageless” cinema (or have played with the idea of “emptiness” or visual subtraction in a more general sense). The series will include short and feature-length films by filmmakers as various as Stan Brakhage, Guy Debord, Bradley Eros, Hollis Frampton, Takahiko Iimura, Derek Jarman, Margaret Honda, Louise Lawler, Maurice Lemaître, George Maciunas, João César Monteiro, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Jeff Perkins, Luther Price, Walter Ruttmann, Paul Sharits, Michael Snow, and many others. The series begins with several programs in April, but will continue throughout the summer. In addition, Microscope Gallery will participate by presenting a number of expanded cinema works or pieces that are specially designed for a gallery space; for more info visit: https://microscopegallery.com/ Programmed by Jed Rapfogel & Bradley Eros, in collaboration with John Klacsmann. Special thanks to Elle Burchill & Andrea Monti (Microscope Gallery); Keith Sanborn; Jesse Brossoit (CFMDC); Théo Deliyannis (Collectif jeune cinema); Emmanuel Lefrant & Eleni Gioti (Light Cone); Seth Mitter (Canyon Cinema); Emily Russo & Nancy Gerstman (Zeitgeist); MM Serra (Film-Makers’ Coop); Katie Trainor (MoMA); Gerald Weber (sixpackfilm); and Lise Zipci & Raphaëlle Quinet (Les Films du Losange). *Upcoming Screenings:* IMAGELESS FILMS: STRUCTURING ABSENCE – THE FRAME <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ceb5a3c144&e=857b71a9cb> April 1 at 7:30 PM Guy Debord HOWLINGS IN FAVOR OF SADE / HURLEMENTS EN FAVEUR DE SADE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=656410a077&e=857b71a9cb> April 2 at 6:15 PM April 3 at 8:15 PM Derek Jarman BLUE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f21c776da5&e=857b71a9cb> April 2 at 8:30 PM April 3 at 4:00 PM April 4 at 9:00 PM PASSAGE THROUGH: A RITUAL + WEEKEND + FIRE OF WATERS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0fa63add11&e=857b71a9cb> April 3 at 6:15 PM April 4 at 7:00 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: EMPTINESS AS IMAGE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=13a20671d9&e=857b71a9cb> April 14 at 6:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: WORD MOVIES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=145ef0c7dd&e=857b71a9cb> April 14 at 8:30 PM April 19 at 7:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: COLOR STUDIES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6105187fa8&e=857b71a9cb> April 16 at 5:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: IMAGINARY FILMS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3529c57d46&e=857b71a9cb> April 17 at 5:00 PM April 20 at 7:30 PM *SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d34dc8bee8&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAM* Featuring the world premiere of films made locally with the support of MONO in March 2022. This program will include films made through the educational initiatives of MONO NO AWARE, a cinema-arts nonprofit organization and film positive community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience. Established in 2007 and based in downtown Brooklyn, MONO NO AWARE presents monthly artist-in-person screenings, facilitates equipment rentals, operates a film distribution initiative, maintains wet & dry lab facilities, and hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary artists and international filmmakers whose work incorporates Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or altered light projections as part of a live performance or installation. For more info visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=09b151beda&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=41ec010d02&e=857b71a9cb> 1:00 PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *Womanhouse Now: Films and Experimental Shorts* In-person: Judith Dancoff, Cheri Gaulke, and Anat Ebgi Senior Director Stefano Di Paola Tickets: $12 general, $5 students/seniors, $0 Filmforum members. $12 tickets can be purchased in advance at https://link.dice.fm/w684fc0231ac <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29ebada0ad&e=857b71a9cb> In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Womanhouse, a site-specific installation and performance space, Anat Ebgi Gallery in partnership with LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and LA Filmforum have organized an afternoon of films including Johanna Demetrakas 1974 documentary on the Womanhouse home alongside a set of experimental shorts from participating artists including Shawnee Wollenman, Judith Dancoff, Karen LeCocq, Judy Chicago, and Cheri Gaulke. After the screening there will be a conversation moderated by Anat Ebgi Senior Director Stefano di Paola. *Womanhouse*, Johanna Demetrakas, 1974, 47 minutes, color, sound, 16mm (possibly screening digitally) *Dressing*, Shawnee Wollenman, 1972, 12:47, digital *Judy Chicago & the California Girls*, Judith Dancoff, 1974, 25 minutes, 16mm *Women and Smoke*, Judy Chicago, 1971-72, 15:13, screening digitally *Eclipse in the Western Palace*, Cheri Gaulke, 1977, 5 minutes The exhibition is at Anat Egbi, 4859 Fountain Ave., Los Angeles CA until April 16, 2022: https://anatebgi.com/cpt_exhibitions/womanhouse/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=08de705df3&e=857b71a9cb> *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=57fddd8c3e&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=99a3931129&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=1a850eaa3f&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. 13: For the Birds* Margaret Salmon, *Bird*. 2016, 6 min. Kevin Jerome Everson, *Cardinal*. 2019, 2 min, 29 sec. Frédéric Moffet,* The Magic Hedge*. 2016, 9 min. Kelly Reichardt and Christopher Blauvelt, *Owl*. 2019, 4 min. Jayne Parker, *Catalogue of Birds: Book 3*. 2006, 6 min. Stanya Kahn, *For the Birds*. 2013, 4 min, 38 sec. ------------------------------ *Let us know about your alternative film/video event!* Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5a27df4d82&e=857b71a9cb> . 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> . Longtime recipient of This Week in Avant Garde Cinema This Week in Avant Garde Cinema · everywhere · Durham, NC 27701 · USA
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