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*This Week [April 23 - May 1, 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=8784ccb2eb&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) 04.24.2022 Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3e85ba0591&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 04.25.2022 Edinburgh International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cff29a21b7&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 04.29.2022 Southwest Seen Commission & Exhibition <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4bbe0eb815&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=661662945f&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 04.30.2022 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=35ac3bb847&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 04.30.2022 Ecologies & Cosmologies Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=96e6195c6a&e=857b71a9cb> 04.30.2022 non-syntax Experimental Image Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1840b8bfe0&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 05.15.2022 VSW Project Space Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=059bde7ad8&e=857b71a9cb> 05.15.2022 Sharjah Film Platform <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12ccd1d061&e=857b71a9cb> 05.16.2022 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fab20dbb65&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.20.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=67768224ca&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.20.2022 New Orleans Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1de6d7ec8e&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.31.2022 25 FPS Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1765b53aa4&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2022 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=90c2684d24&e=857b71a9cb> (2022 Films) 05.31.2022 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68ae3e5eec&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2022 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2334c82232&e=857b71a9cb> 06.03.2022 New York Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7e06c05bc7&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=87f590ff2e&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=1a16f6f177&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 06.15.2022 Revolutions per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ea67f02968&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.15.2022 Imagine Science Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5345fcd115&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 07.31.2022 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=56b1d7fe8b&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=92cd647161&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=878140c66f&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=ce8545f39e&e=857b71a9cb> [March 5-April 30, San Francisco, CA] - Jordan Belson LANDSCAPES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d3aea5383&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=6a8fd65d9e&e=857b71a9cb> [March 26-May 7, Baltimore, MD] - Jodie Mack: Matter Matters <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b062e21502&e=857b71a9cb> [March 29-June 19, Rochester, NY] - aCinema: KIRISAME <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bffe776f75&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=c734985447&e=857b71a9cb> [April 13-August 14, Toronto, Canada] - Machinalive: Nomadica At Laba 2022 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f6c0baa2e7&e=857b71a9cb> [April 21-25, Brescia, Italy] - Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ddff7df63&e=857b71a9cb> [April 21-26, New York, NY] - Psycho-Geo2: Calexico <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=58f23d890a&e=857b71a9cb> [April 23, San Francisco, CA] - Barbara Hammer's My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1e7782a5f9&e=857b71a9cb> [April 23-May 30, online] - “…Whatever Norm Bruns Decides To Bring”: A Norm Bruns Retrospective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=65d4b944eb&e=857b71a9cb> [April 24, New York, NY] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f5b8359667&e=857b71a9cb> [April 24, online] - Ieva Balode. Loop of Fear. Solo Show <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=23990bc999&e=857b71a9cb> [April 30 - June 12, Riga, Latvia] - Psycho-Geo3: Southwest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=720b702077&e=857b71a9cb>[April 30, San Francisco, CA] - Reversing Reversal: A Filmmaking Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=922cf24092&e=857b71a9cb> [May 1, Oakland, CA] - Southern Climes: Films From AFW Melbourne <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1b89aa323e&e=857b71a9cb> [May 1, Oakland, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b0cc38da99&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=524fdb4b00&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=844f74d9d7&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE APRIL 23, 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=c51652ba18&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=db2bcfc1e9&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=ab6c008b93&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=ecf05174a4&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=8c86c905ca&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=70181eeb43&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 - 30* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* aCinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ea4b888316&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=56eb0f3e4f&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=1642bdaec5&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 *___________________________________________________________________* *April 21 - 25* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Nomadica at LABA 2022 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f81f1354ed&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, visit website, Spazio Contemporanea, Nuovo Cinema Eden, Indica-Spazio Idra, Brescia, Italy *MACHINALIVE: Nomadica at LABA 2022* Libera Academy of Fine Arts (LABA) Artist film lab screenings, performances & exhibitions Five days of radical immersion in international experimental and artist cinema, with film screenings, focuses, seminars, tributes, meetings, and workshops. Artistic activities and open discussions will create opportunities for informal exchange between viewers, students, filmmakers, artists, and curators. A unique event organized by Nomadica and LABA to discover dozens of off-the-grid works from the past and the future and from all corners of the world. with films, performances, installations, seminars by AA++ / Angel RUEDA and Ana DOMÍNGUEZ, Dianna BARRIE, Yonay BOIX, Dietmar BREHM, Giulia CALIGNANO, Sílvia DAS FADAS, Manuela DE LABORDE, Claudia LARCHER, James EDMONDS, Benjamín ELLENBERGER, Zachary EPCAR, Morgan FISHER, Philipp FLEISCHMANN, Siegfried FRUHAUF, Paolo GIOLI, Teo HERNANDEZ, Baba HILLMAN, Shun IKEZOE, Andrew KIM, Sandra LAHIRE, Christian LEBRAT, Mikhail LYLOV, Luis MACIAS, Elke MARHÖFER, Pablo MARÍN, Jean Jacques MARTINOD, Yuri MURAOKA, Daniel MURPHY, Lydia NSIAH, OJOBOCA / Anja DORNIEDEN and Juan David GONZALES MONROY, Jun'ichi OKUYAMA, Jacques PERCONTE, Charlotte PRYCE, Sofia RUSSO, Lucy RAVEN, Jorge SUÁREZ-QUIÑONES RIVAS, Michael ROBINSON, Karen RUSSO, Luca SANTESE / CESURA, Gianni SERRA, Suneil SANZGIRI, Paul SHARITS, Francesco VESPIGNANI, Bretta C. WALKER, WARSHADFILM / Tiziano DORIA and Samira GUADAGNOLO, Josh WEISSBACH, Chris WELSBY, Andrew Norman WILSON, and many more ... *___________________________________________________________________* *April 21 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=569556d63b&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=3a97fb133d&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=84691231a1&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=8608465a94&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=272e061676&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=4fe6259573&e=857b71a9cb> April 25 at 7:30 PM FILMMAKER IN PERSON! *SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2342f23351&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *PSYCHO-GEO2: CALEXICO* HODO + SCOTT + WATTS TOWERS + OC presents the first of a dual-citizenship double-header locus-focused on the Southwest of the continent, with a compelling cadre of makers from Mexico as well as an audio-visual feast of provocative shorts from the North. Greg Berger's outrageous Joe T Hodo project demonstrates how a SF expat activist has managed to construct a potent satirical character on the margins of contemporary Mexican politics, Charles Fairbanks/Saul Kak's *Echoes of the Volcano* surveys the Oaxacan soundscape, and the Postcommodity Collective bisects the border wall with beautiful balloons! Whereas the psycho-politics of the LA area, layered in time and grounded on Simon Rodia's landmark sculpture hand-wrought in Watts, is echoed in Noah Purifoy's junk-art-park in the desert of Joshua Tree and reverberates through the mesmerizing Cali-fire reveries of San Luis Obispo's Lana Z Caplan. PLUS the legendary Matt Wolf/Guadalupe Rosales coverage of Latinx resistance to neighborhood gentrification in Boyle Heights, Georg Koszulinski's rhapsodic on-the-road collage-essay *Continental Drifts*, and Jake Scott's transformative farewell-to-Frisco hybrid performance. *___________________________________________________________________* *April 23 - May 30* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Electronic Arts Intermix <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bae74efe68&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://fifty.eai.org/video-features/barbara-hammer-my-babushka <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ef18b0241b&e=857b71a9cb> *Barbara Hammer’s My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities* Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and the Estate of Barbara Hammer have made Hammer’s 2001 personal documentary My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities available to view through May 30th. As the artist writes, this timely video “centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine.” *My Babushka: Searching for Ukranian Identities* 2001, 53:16 min, color, sound “The current news is full of Ukraine and the Ukrainians who claim it as home. However, many people in the world admit they know little of either. The video, made in 2001, provides a glimpse into the people who were struggling at that time for identity in a divided and economically depressed country. Following her natural curiosity and love of adventure, Hammer went to Ukraine in 2000 to trace her roots and find family members. As with most of her work, Hammer wanted to uncover hidden histories, so she sought out information about anti-Semitism and homophobia among Ukrainians. Hammer discovered that old political, societal and cultural barriers were collapsing but without new ways to replace them. Fast forward to 2022 and we see ruin, death, renewed poverty, and destruction, but we also see strong people fighting for their country and their future. There will be many more questions for others to research and art to be made, but we felt it important to show this film now.” - Florrie Burke, Spouse and Executor of Hammer Estate Louky Keijsers Koning, Director, Estate of Barbara Hammer *SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7c82d3635a&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=0189ef7186&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! *SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022* *April 30 - June 12* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Latvian National Museum of Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=47f1b0d818&e=857b71a9cb> Tu-Th 11am-6pm, F 10am-8pm, Sa-Su 10am-5pm (GMT+3) 1 Jaņa Rozentāla laukums, Riga, Latvia *Ieva Balode. Loop of Fear. Solo Show* Loop of Fear turns to the subject of fear in society, which is particularly relevant today, after two years of the pandemic and the current horrors of the war in Ukraine. Fear has always existed in a variety of gradations and forms: fear of the unknown, fear of the dark, fear of the enemy, fear of death. Since the beginnings of mankind fear has been both a driving force for humanity and a stumbling block. It is an instinctive force that has made humanity form communities for safety and shelter from the danger that is lurking in darkness. The fear of death has compelled civilisations to build temples and for people to dedicate their lives to preparing society for the afterlife. Likewise, the medium of analogue photography and analogue cinema, which Ieva Balode uses in this exhibition, embodies this same fear – the fear to lose and forget what once took place or was alive. It is the propensity to make the world immortal, the propensity to freeze time in a capsule for eternity, which, through the lens of the camera, leaves an instant's impression on the light-sensitive surface of the film. Here light serves as a record on the surface of a film, which, by dispelling darkness in the body of the camera, captures what is in front of it through the glass of the lens, similar to the human eye. The exhibition presents 16 mm film loops and spatial image projections. Their mechanical nature interacts with the architecture of the space to create a slight sense of alarm, reminding us of the fragility and mortality of the material world. The exposition gives visitors the opportunity to become familiar with the photochemical film stock as a kinetic object which, together with several other analogue projectors, illuminate the museum's gallery in a different light. About the artist Ieva Balode is an artist and analogue film activist who works with analogue film and image. She earned her BA and MA from the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. Her interest in analogue media resides in its relationship to nature, memory and human perception. The artist's works have been exhibited in art galleries Platform, Munich (2020), Den Frie, Copenhagen (2019), Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2018), Latvian National Museum of Art (2018–2020), Latvian Museum of Photography (2018), LCCA Office Gallery, Riga (2016), Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre (2018), Бükü, Leipzig (2016), 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2018), Riga Photomonth as well as international film festivals: Harkat 16mm film festival (India, 2021), 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany, 2019), KRAAK (Belgium, 2019), Luminous Void (Ireland, 2018–2019), MIEFF (Russia, 2018), Riga IFF (Latvia, 2017–2021), EFF Process (Latvia, 2017–2021), Kinoskop (Serbia, 2017–2019), TIFF Wavelength series (Canada, 2017), Zabroffka (Poland, 2013), Oslo Screen Festival (Norway, 2012) and others. As a cinema activist Ieva Balode is the founder of Baltic Analog Lab – an artist collective providing a space and platform for the production, research and education of analogue cinema. Since 2017 she is also a director of the Riga-based experimental film festival Process. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f983fd299c&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *PSYCHO-GEO3: SOUTHWEST* PLANTE's WITH EARP CAME THE WEST + C/W GEMS + After the moment of the Gunfight at the OK Corral in late 1881, Wyatt Earp became famous in his own time. He was already known within the Western territories as a tough lawman. The gunfight represented the epitome of what the wild west stood for: good guys against bad guys in a thrilling duel. The real event was 30 seconds long. The motivations behind it have complicated details. But Wyatt wanted us to forget all that. He was never shot in a gunfight and lived into old age. By chance, at a championship boxing match at the turn of the century, he saw the power of cinema in action. He decided he could rewrite history through the magic of movies, hanging out in Hollywood in the 1920s to try to get a movie made about his life. And it actually worked.The Western theme is set by a rousing half-hour of classic 16mm C/W tunes, from Gene Autry to Elvis Presley, from Tex Ritter to Spike Jones. $8.88 *SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Shapeshifters Cinema + San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=67bc2aa482&e=857b71a9cb> 11am - 4pm PT, Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th Street Oakland, CA *Reversing Reversal: A Filmmaking Workshop* This one-day workshop, led by Paddy Hay, a member of the Melbourne, Australia-based Artist Film Workshop, will be geared towards anyone interested in Super-8 filmmaking, and especially for those interested in learning B&W negative processing for the first time. Participants will shoot on B&W reversal film, but process as a negative. Why B&W negative? In a nutshell, it gives greater exposure latitude (especially good for dodgy, old S-8 cameras) and a faster processing time. Also much safer… no bleach! (Potassium Dichromate, the essential ingredient of B&W bleach mixture, is a highly toxic carcinogen.) Various techniques for shooting film and recording sound will be discussed. The workshop aims to equip participants with a better understanding of how to approach small-gauge film ideas that might rely upon sync sound (documentary ideas, for instance). People with little or zero experience with these mediums are very welcome and encouraged to participate! Space is limited. Register Now! This all-day workshop (11am–4pm) will be followed by a 7:30pm screening—Southern Climes: Films from AFW Melbourne—also presented by Paddy Hay, of films produced by members of Artist Film Workshop, Melbourne. The Workshop and screening are ticketed separately. Full screening details here. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Shapeshifters Cinema + San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7f8df03863&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th Street Oakland, CA *Southern Climes: Films from AFW Melbourne* Initiated by filmmakers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie in 2009, Artist Film Workshop (AFW) is a film collective and not-for-profit organization which provides access to knowledge and resources for filmmakers and artists in Melbourne, Australia. AFW holds regular screenings and workshops for people interested in film or working with sound and vision. Visiting as part of an epic west coast tour, AFW member Paddy Hay will present a selection of recent and brand-new 16mm film works produced by members of AFW. The program reflects the diversity of interests, methodologies and technologies investigated by AFW members, showcasing a wide variety of filmmaking styles across forms of abstraction, archival/ found footage, audio-vision and lo-fi documentary. Techniques including contact and optical printing, DIY cameras and traditional lens-based photography are among the methods and approaches explored. ALL FILMS TO BE PRESENTED ON 16MM. SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA FILMMAKING WORKSHOP: This screening will be preceded by an all-day filmmaking workshop—Reversing Reversal: A Filmmaking Workshop—also presented by Paddy Hay. Workshop details here. *Valpi* (2019) by Richard Tuohy; 16mm, color, sound, 9 minutes; *Is Anybody Coming Over to Dinner* (2022) by Audrey Lam; *Self Portrait With Bag* (2020) by Dianna Barrie; *Southern Climes* (2018) by Hanna Chetwin; *4000 Frames from Hobart to Queenstown* (2020) by Ilona Schneider; *Window* (2020) by Rowena Crowe; *Fade* (2017) by Callum Ross-Thomson; *Landing* (2019) by Sabina Maselli; *Sensor Lights in Flemington* (2022) by Lucas Haynes; *The Gardens* (2022) by Paddy Hay & Giles Fielke. TRT: 74 minutes *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=51c405b11f&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=5a9d2c262e&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=8836811f23&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=4fb90fc61c&e=857b71a9cb> . 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