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*This Week [April 16 - 24, 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=afcf4d32ce&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* Ongoing Films for Ukrainian Border Crossings <[email protected]?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%0a?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%20?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes> (No Dialogue + PG) 04.18.2022 Oak Cliff Film Fest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e2066d65e&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 04.24.2022 Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f08a8ca552&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 04.25.2022 Edinburgh International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5f64f5ddf9&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=283bfbf901&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 04.30.2022 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f7a825eaee&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 04.30.2022 Ecologies & Cosmologies Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4bed81c2cc&e=857b71a9cb> 04.30.2022 non-syntax Experimental Image Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9fa97d0661&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 05.15.2022 VSW Project Space Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05fca7a483&e=857b71a9cb> 05.15.2022 Sharjah Film Platform <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=04c8e596f2&e=857b71a9cb> 05.16.2022 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1102d1969a&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.20.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6eb6bce898&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.20.2022 New Orleans Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=809a2c2436&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.31.2022 25 FPS Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7e82af5955&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2022 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9f2a927042&e=857b71a9cb> (2022 Films) 05.31.2022 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7d25f6a60b&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2022 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6a0cee56cf&e=857b71a9cb> 06.03.2022 New York Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=abe078fbc8&e=857b71a9cb> 06.10.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a7f011ece6&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 06.14.2022 VIDEONALE.19 – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e56b050f63&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 06.15.2022 Revolutions per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=89302c2d32&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.15.2022 Imagine Science Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1014fb0e5&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 07.31.2022 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=90c5b927e6&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6a2f53b544&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=246b165609&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - seen only, heard only through someone else’s description <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d534698eef&e=857b71a9cb> [March 5-April 30, San Francisco, CA] - Jordan Belson LANDSCAPES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a007e712b&e=857b71a9cb> [March 11-April 24, New York, NY] - Early Blossoms/Perilous Thirds <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=993a6b9ec3&e=857b71a9cb> [March 26-May 7, Baltimore, MD] - Jodie Mack: Matter Matters <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=315d3b1606&e=857b71a9cb> [March 29-June 19, Rochester, NY] - Imageless Films, Part 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d04fb16cab&e=857b71a9cb> [April 1-20, New York, NY] - aCinema: KIRISAME <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e088583573&e=857b71a9cb> [April 1-30, online] - I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9f82e18ce0&e=857b71a9cb> [April 13-August 14, Toronto, Canada] - Jordan Belson: An Evening of Film, Audio, and Visual Rarities <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75983e4b8e&e=857b71a9cb> [April 16, New York, NY] - Neil Rolnick @ No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=683ead5fa5&e=857b71a9cb> [April 16, Santa Fe, NM] - Optronica2: Stereoscopy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74311baf19&e=857b71a9cb> [April 16, San Francisco, CA] - Allen Downs: Chasing Light From Minnesota To Mexico <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4ac83e9416&e=857b71a9cb> [April 17+18, New York, NY] - A Synesthete's Atlas <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dad2d34332&e=857b71a9cb> [April 21, Lisboa, Portugal] - Film Talks Live: William Raban and John Smith <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ec111c663&e=857b71a9cb> [April 21, London, UK] - I Am Here: Rick Prelinger <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=372d2f5e0e&e=857b71a9cb> [April 21, Toronto, Canada] - Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9857b55cce&e=857b71a9cb> [April 21-26, New York] - The Works of Ken Jacobs <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b9347860c7&e=857b71a9cb> [April 22, Santa Fe, NM] - “…Whatever Norm Bruns Decides To Bring”: A Norm Bruns Retrospective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=048ca5bede&e=857b71a9cb> [April 24, New York] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ceb881f73b&e=857b71a9cb> [April 24, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=14d1a2992d&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=ab429ed92c&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bcf3296138&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE APRIL 16, 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=d1c0255d3e&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=f7d91bb7d0&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 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=f9551283a8&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 11 - April 24* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Matthew Marks Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39bf8f9592&e=857b71a9cb> Tue-Sat 10am - 6pm ET, 526 West 22nd Street, New York, NY *Jordan Belson LANDSCAPES* Jordan Belson: Landscapes features a series of collages made between 1970 and 1973. Exhibited here for the first time, Belson’s collages were created from torn paper painted in various colors. They were inspired in part by the 1000-year-old Japanese art of chigiri-e, which uses torn paper to create images of landscapes and flowers. Jordan Belson (1926–2011) is a seminal figure in twentieth-century avant-garde cinema. He studied painting as a young man, receiving a degree in studio art from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1946. He initially achieved some success as a painter, exhibiting his work at SFMOMA and the Guggenheim Museum in the late 1940s. After 1950, however, he focused primarily on filmmaking, and although he continued to make paintings and drawings for the remainder of his life, he never publicly exhibited this part of his work again during his lifetime. All works are Untitled, c. 1970–73, paper collage and mixed media mounted on board. *___________________________________________________________________* *March 26 - May 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Current Space <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71787112e8&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 *___________________________________________________________________* *March 29 - June 19* Venue type: *Live, physical event* George Eastman Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de9fc346af&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *April 1 - 20* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=243b70c188&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=acd1de65a1&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=afbffb8b90&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=6b1eea4c51&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=1f9b23f9b5&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=6448582a8a&e=857b71a9cb> April 14 at 6:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: WORD MOVIES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c79b8f9ea0&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=835a7588ee&e=857b71a9cb> April 16 at 5:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: IMAGINARY FILMS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=854ede4bfc&e=857b71a9cb> April 17 at 5:00 PM April 20 at 7:30 PM *___________________________________________________________________* *April 1 - 30* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* aCinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ff56f5741&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=d950600a76&e=857b71a9cb> *aCinema: KIRISAME* *Chiyo* • Chiemi Shimada • 12 min 39 sec • video *bakufuu, hinoumi: bomb wind, ocean fire* • Sancia Miala Shiba Nash • 22 min 18 sec • video aCinema is a monthly exhibition dedicated to the screening of works by moving image artists from around the globe for audiences during the 9 month period of September to May. aCinema also organizes a yearly festival programmed from an open call for works titled, aDifferent festival. Through the exhibition of artists -- historical and contemporary, emerging and established -- in curated programs, aCinema creates a platform for artists of all career statuses to share a common exhibition space. Through the curatorial themes and independent thoughts expressed within the works, aCinema hopes to inspire and expand audiences' views of the moving image, fostering an arts educational space, where audiences are free to engage in discussion with curators and artists (when present) following the screenings. *___________________________________________________________________* *April 13 - August 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Art Gallery of Toronto <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=55847af883&e=857b71a9cb> during gallery hours, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario *I AM HERE: HOME MOVIES AND EVERYDAY MASTERPIECES* >From the earliest cave paintings to TikTok, humans have found creative ways to document their day-to-day lives. *I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces*, a major new AGO exhibition opening in April of 2022, is a revealing look at our universal need to capture, share and cherish the everyday. Featuring lost-and-found home movies from the Prelinger Archives, alongside celebrated artworks by the likes of David Hockney, Patti Smith, Claes Oldenburg, Annie Pootoogook, Arthur Jafa and Mary Pratt, as well as snapshots, photo albums, letters, television, grocery lists, and social media, *I AM HERE* brings together a broad range of personal records from different time periods and locales to explore the shared human impulse to document life as it happens. Co-curated by Jim Shedden, the AGO’s Manager of Publishing, and Alexa Greist, AGO Associate Curator and R. Fraser Elliott Chair, Prints & Drawings, in collaboration with archivist, scholar and writer Rick Prelinger, the exhibition is a celebration of daily life and human creativity, replete with music and creative prompts. Among the artworks on display will be a digital collage of the more than 3000 submissions received from around the world as part of the AGO’s 2021 Portraits of Resilience exhibition. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue co-published by the AGO and DelMonico Books/D.A.P *SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c0a2f2bfb4&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *JORDAN BELSON: AN EVENING OF FILM, AUDIO, AND VISUAL RARITIES* Jordan Belson (1926-2011) was a seminal figure in 20th-century avant-garde cinema. He studied painting as a young man, receiving a degree in studio art from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1946. He initially achieved some success as a painter, exhibiting his work at SFMoMA (then the San Francisco Museum of Art) and the Guggenheim Museum (at the time, the Museum of Non-Objective Art) in the late 1940s. After 1950, however, he focused primarily on filmmaking, and although he continued to make paintings and drawings for the remainder of his life, he never exhibited this part of his work again publicly during his lifetime. Belson’s first one-person New York City exhibition would occur only posthumously, at Matthew Marks Gallery in 2019. This spring, Matthew Marks presents a second exhibition devoted to Belson’s work, an occasion we will celebrate here at Anthology with an evening of audio and visual rarities. On view from March 10-April 23 at Matthew Marks Gallery (526 West 22nd Street), the new exhibition showcases a group of artworks made by Belson between 1970-73, displayed for the first time. These are untitled landscape collages, created from torn paper painted in various colors, inspired in part by the 1,000-year-old Japanese art of chirigi-e. Many of these works were inspired by the gentle mountainous landscapes the artist viewed daily from his window overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Others, evoking distant planetary landscapes, appeared as backgrounds in later films such as *INFINITY* (1979) and *APOLLO* (1982), both of which will be shown at this screening, along with the even more rarely-screened *PISCES/BLUES* (1980). In addition, we will be projecting 16mm prints of *COSMOS* (1970), *MEDITATION* (1971), and *CHAKRA *(1972). Curator Raymond Foye will also present examples of Belson’s visual art, unseen images from Belson’s extensive archives, and a selection of recently restored audio tape compositions by Belson. The program will include: *COSMOS* (1969, 5 min, 16mm) *MEDITATION* (1971, 7 min, 16mm) *CHAKRA *(1972, 6 min, 16mm) *INFINITY *(1979, 8 min, 16mm-to-digital) *BLUES* (1980, 9 min, 16mm-to-digital) *APOLLO* (1982, 10 min, 16mm-to-digital) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* NO NAME CINEMA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d69559d6d6&e=857b71a9cb> 2pm, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe *NEIL ROLNICK @ No Name Cinema* midday solo musical performance for laptop and keyboard! Rolnick has been a pioneer in the use of computers in musical performance since the late 1970s, his work has been performed world-wide and released on over 20 albums. It's an extreme delight and honor to host Rolnick at NNC for this live solo performance! Free admission & Free herbal tea (donations appreciated) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e275f10f28&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *OPTRONICA2: STEREOSCOPY* McLAUGHLIN + BLOOMBERG + SNIDER + The SF Earthquake and Firestorm of 1906 was one of the first natural disasters to create a true media frenzy. On the (almost) anniversary of the '06 Quake, we are *spectacularly* pleased to have back the literally eye-popping 3-D projections of the Bay Area's own Pad McLaughlin, this time with fellow stereo superstar Bob Bloomberg!! These two masters offer a full 40 amazing minutes of the '06 and '89 temblors, true history lessons as well as delirious visual thrills. Our second half releases a riot of 3-D formats, from a half-dozen artistes: Bernal Heights media-queen Greta Snider shares her *Unfinished Business from Ancestors*, unsettled ghost visions made from phytograms and found footage, while Hy Hirsch provides a post-mortem peek at *Come Closer.* PLUS OC faves John Warren, Rich Pell, Pete Smith, and even the Three Stooges. Come early for the free wine and anaglyph visit to a Viewmaster factory! *SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2022* *April 17 + 18* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f9822d159d&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *ALLEN DOWNS: CHASING LIGHT FROM MINNESOTA TO MEXICO* Far from the burgeoning underground film scenes in NYC and San Francisco, Allen Downs started making films in the 1950s in Minnesota. Inspired by the documentary photographers before him, and graced with a painterly eye, Downs made films in the spirit of a poet chasing light. In perhaps the greatest of his early films, THE COLOR OF THE DAY (1954-56), Downs documented the urban landscape with patient walks through St. Paul and the West Bank of Minneapolis, capturing reflections and moments of the summer’s day. Allen Downs earned an MA degree in painting and printmaking from the State University of Iowa in 1940. He became an accomplished photographer and filmmaker and was a professor of photography and film at the University of Minnesota from 1950 through 1977. In 1952 he started the UMN film program, which continues to this day. Much of what is known about Allen Downs today stems from his legacy as a teacher. No less an experimental film luminary than Bruce Baillie once claimed, “Allen Downs taught me everything I know about filmmaking.” In the early 1970s Downs helped create an experiential learning program through the University of Minnesota that sent students to Tlaxiaco, Mexico, to learn about the traditions of pottery, weaving, and blacksmithing from the local Mixtec residents. Students would also learn about painting, photography, and filmmaking from Downs and guest faculty from Minnesota. As a result, many of Downs’s later films are about life in Mexico, where he moved after retiring from teaching in 1977. He passed away in Oaxaca City on November 6, 1983, at the age of 68. By the early 2000s, unaware of their value, the University had slated his reels for the dumpster. Thankfully, Matthew Bakkom and Adam Sekuler of Search and Rescue saved his films and eventually donated them to the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. This program consists of 16mm prints from the Walker’s RBMIC Collection; both screenings will be presented by Michael Walsh, Assistant Curator/Archivist of the Walker’s Moving Image department. *THE COLOR OF THE DAY* (1954-56, 17 min, 16mm) *LOVE SHOTS* (1971, 8 min, 16mm) *WINTER IN CHINA* (1970, 8 min, 16mm) *A MEXICO* (1973, 7 min, 16mm) MAKING MIXTEC POTTERY (1973, 38 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 85 min. The program is supported by the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection at the Walker Art Center. Major support to preserve, digitize, and present the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection is generously provided by the Bentson Foundation. *THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Hangar: Centro de Investigação Artística <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ec80c77fcb&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 WEST/UTC +1, Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12, Lisboa, Portugal *A Synesthete's Atlas* An evening of expanded cinema: projected digital cartography, manipulated in real time, in performance with Helena Espvall, cello and voice. Follow https://www.instagram.com/erictheise/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=902ed283c7&e=857b71a9cb> for updates. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Contact <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17f120c11f&e=857b71a9cb> 8:15pm (GMT+1), Close-Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater Street, London, UK *Film Talks Live: William Raban and John Smith* Film Talks Live is a series of events related to the book *Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema*, published by Contact. This screening is a programme of two films each by William Raban and John Smith, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. In Film Talks their conversation, entitled ‘Made in London’, covers significant developments in their careers, a mutual interest in structural film processes and the coincidence of politics and the everyday in their immediate environment. Both Raban and Smith live and work in East London, a location which often features in their films. *Hackney Marshes - November 4th 1977*, John Smith, 1977, 14'30 min *About Now MMX*, William Raban, 2010, 26’22 min *London Republic*, William Raban, 2016, 2'22 min *Citadel*, John Smith, 2020, 16 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Art Gallery of Toronto <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d5411d5617&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm ET, on Zoom Event URL: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GrZpU0mKQNiwrHjUZAVcZA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=da58840285&e=857b71a9cb> *I AM HERE: RICK PRELINGER* Join archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger for a talk about his film background, love for "ephemeral films", home movies, the Internet Archive and his multimedia installation *PANORAMA*. Rick Prelinger is an archivist, filmmaker, writer and educator. He began collecting "ephemeral films" (films made for specific purposes at specific times, such as advertising, educational and industrial films) in 1983. His collection of 60,000 films was acquired by Library of Congress in 2002. Beginning in 2000, he partnered with Internet Archive to make a subset of the Prelinger Collection (now over 8,500 films) available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. His archival feature *Panorama Ephemera* (2004) played in venues around the world, and his feature project *No More Road Trips?* received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His *26 Lost Landscapes* participatory urban history projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere. With Megan Prelinger, he co-founded Prelinger Library in 2004. He is currently Chair and Professor of Film & Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. Presented in conjunction with the AGO exhibition *I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces*. *___________________________________________________________________* *April 21 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eda3e97041&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York *FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER* Astonishingly prolific both as a photographer (under the name Friedl Kubelka) and a filmmaker (as Friedl vom Gröller, since 2009), Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller has been active since the 1960s, but the majority of her moving-image work has emerged in the years since 2000, with a nonstop flood of short films whose refreshing but deceptive brevity (they rarely exceed 3 minutes in length) belies their formal variety, thematic richness, and vibrant spontaneity. Though her films encompass a wide range of ideas and approaches, they very often gravitate around the practice of portraiture. Indeed, even if she had never made a motion picture herself, Kubelka vom Gröller’s photographic body of work would be vitally important within the realm of experimental cinema thanks to her commitment to producing extraordinary portraits of many of the most important avant-garde filmmakers of her time, including her ex-husband Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Bruce Baillie, Kenneth Anger, Hollis Frampton, Shigeko Kubota, Stan Brakhage, Ken & Flo Jacobs, George Landow, and many others (as well as numerous artists, friends, and strangers). But of course, Kubelka vom Gröller has made many films of her own – in fact, more than 120 and counting. Though these works have cropped up in various short film festivals and showcases of new avant-garde cinema in the U.S. over the years, they have rarely, if ever, been showcased all together. Long overdue, this five-program survey of her work will take place in conjunction with her month-long residency at the Deutsches Haus at NYU, a component of the ExtraVALUE Award that was bestowed on her film L’AVENIR? DE F.V.G? at the 2019 Viennale film festival. The series – which will combine her films with slides of selected photographs from throughout her career – has been guest-programmed by Dietmar Schwärzler, Austrian artist film distributor, representative of the distribution company Sixpack, and editor of the book Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller – *One Is Not Enough. Photography & Film II* (Buchverlag Walther König & Index 2018). Both Kubelka vom Gröller and Schwärzler will be here in person to present each program. This program is co-presented by Erste Bank, Deutsches Haus at NYU, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, and Sixpack. Special thanks to Juliane Camfield & Sarah Girner (Deutsches Haus at NYU); Christian J. Ebner (Austrian Cultural Forum New York); Ruth Goubran (Erste Bank); Eva Sangiorgi & Paolo Calamita (Viennale); and Gerald Weber (Sixpack). FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER, PROGRAM 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=10a62f0054&e=857b71a9cb> April 21 at 7:30 PM FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER, PROGRAM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d33f99c3ca&e=857b71a9cb> April 22 at 7:30 PM FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER, PROGRAM 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d8ff584f6b&e=857b71a9cb> April 23 at 7:30 PM April 26 at 6:30 PM FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER, PROGRAM 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eac7e57be4&e=857b71a9cb> April 24 at 7:30 PM April 26 at 8:30 PM FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER, PROGRAM 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=581891e443&e=857b71a9cb> April 25 at 7:30 PM FILMMAKER IN PERSON! *FRISDAY, APRIL 22, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* NO NAME CINEMA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bbb1557776&e=857b71a9cb> Time TBD, visit website, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe *The works of Ken Jacobs* A program of short films & videos by the seminal avant-garde pioneer Ken Jacobs! Presented in partnership with Millennium Film Workshop *SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ddaa5ba76&e=857b71a9cb> 4:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *“…WHATEVER NORM BRUNS DECIDES TO BRING”: A NORM BRUNS RETROSPECTIVE* Norm Bruns was a singular figure in the 1980s Chicago experimental film scene. His filmography includes elaborate bargain-basement set pieces and effects worthy of Jack Smith or James Bidgood’s *PINK NARCISSUS*; eccentrically rumpled eroticism akin to the brothers Kuchar, with a touch of Warhol; and some visual witticisms that recall Stuart Sherman. He used such palpably simple symbolic elements with such a pure-hearted twist of legerdemain that the films seem out-of-time. Bruns worked at a blazing pace with startling boldness: after purchasing a Super-8mm camera in 1980, he created 11 films in 10 months. In the words of Barbara Scharres, writing in the Chicago Reader in 1981, these early films are “strikingly in the tradition of Jean Cocteau and of American avant-garde filmmakers like Maya Daren and Curtis Harrington in their concern with personal ritual and the replication of dreamlike states.” Most of Bruns’s films are in swirling black-and-white, and show a natural confidence in his skill and vision. As he developed as a filmmaker, his sets, costumes, and complicated superimpositions and laboratory techniques expanded his palette and allowed for a deepening of his focus on bodies, city life, dreams, and rituals. Sadly, Norm passed away in 1990, and his films went unseen for 30 years until librarian and filmmaker Josh B Mabe tracked down the prints, which had been residing with family members in the far western side of Illinois. The films were shown virtually as part of the Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival in 2020, but this presentation at Anthology represents their first screening on Super-8mm since Bruns’s death, and quite possibly their first ever appearance in New York City. Guest-programmed and presented by Josh B Mabe. *THEATRE OF THE HORSE AND MOON* (ca. 1980-81, 13 min, Super-8mm, silent) *SWIM *(ca. 1980-81, 7 min, Super-8mm) *BED DESERT* (ca. 1980-81, 5 min, Super-8mm, silent) *FIGURE WITH 14 TRAINS* (ca. 1980-81, 7 min, Super-8mm) *BINGO* (ca. 1980-81, 6 min, Super-8mm, silent) *BLUE AURA* (ca. 1980-81, 4 min, Super-8mm) *DUCK* (ca. 1980-81, 3 min, Super-8mm, silent) *THE POET AND THE POND* (ca. 1980-81, 6 min, Super-8mm) *SCREEN TEST* (ca. 1980-81, 3 min, Super-8mm, silent) *THE UNUSUAL BOOK *(ca. 1980-81, 10 min, Super-8mm) Total running time: ca. 70 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *GearWax* https://www.gearwax.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7227fb1f66&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=3d3b9a42d6&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=af2ede9d2a&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=16fda5ba13&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. 14: ———* Mohamad Hafeda, *Sewing Borders*. 2018, 25 min Irene Gutiérrez, *Diarios de Frontera (Border Diaries)*. 2013, 25 min Ryan Ferko, *Hrvoji, Look at You From the Tower*. 2019, 17 min Jumana Emil Abboud , *Smuggling Lemons*. 2006, 20 min Randa Maroufi, *Bab Sebta (Ceuta's Gate)*. 2019, 19 min Chen Chieh-jen, *Empire's Borders I*. 2009, 26 min, 50 sec Annemarie Jacir, *Like Twenty Impossibles*. 2003, 17 min Alia Syed, *On a Wing and a Prayer*. 2016, 19 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=d758319963&e=857b71a9cb> . 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