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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0d6b321dd0&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=95f76b93a5&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO] - The New England Triennial <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=06439543ea&e=857b71a9cb> [April 8-September 11, Lincoln + Harvard, MA] - I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1c558f25e&e=857b71a9cb> [April 13-August 14, Toronto, Canada] - EC: Kenneth Anger, Program 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=08aa8f7e9d&e=857b71a9cb> [July 2, New York, NY] - EC: Bruce Baillie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c81ed687a&e=857b71a9cb> [July 2, New York, NY] - Mono No Aware Community Screening Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=94cf4ff06d&e=857b71a9cb> [July 3, New York, NY] - EC: Quick Billy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=179d5b3096&e=857b71a9cb> [July 3, New York, NY] - EC: Baillie / Belson <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29c8957110&e=857b71a9cb> [July 3, New York, NY] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ad8c10eca5&e=857b71a9cb> [July 3, online] - Smoke and Mirrors: A Mid-Summer Benefit For Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cdbd4367ed&e=857b71a9cb> [July 4, San Francisco, CA] - Oskar's Legacy | Filmmakers Influenced By Fischinger <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1106821f98&e=857b71a9cb> [July 5, Melbourne, Australia] - EC: Stan Brakhage Pgm 1 + Dog Star Man <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=afa3427ed8&e=857b71a9cb> [July 5, New York, NY] - EC: Stan Brakhage Pgm 2 + 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=45db51e4bb&e=857b71a9cb> [July 6, New York, NY] - EC: Stan Brakhage Pgm 4 + Songs 1-14 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eee51fd8a4&e=857b71a9cb> [July 7, New York, NY] - EC: Stan Brakhage: Songs 15-22 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8512f398b1&e=857b71a9cb> [July 8, New York, NY] - The Special People <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=499cc4de59&e=857b71a9cb> [July 8, Santa Fe, NM] - Drkrm & Friends - Dadaist Poetry and 16mm Film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=89424f8945&e=857b71a9cb> [July 8-9, Dresden, Germany] - EC: Stan Brakhage: The Art of Vision <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ec0941c2dd&e=857b71a9cb> [July 9, New York, NY] - Carte Blanche à Light Cone <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=24bd882ad1&e=857b71a9cb> [July 9, Montreuil, France] - Imageless Films, Part 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b13a59d6ba&e=857b71a9cb> [July 10-27, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f7e6038b52&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8cffc56044&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - Ecstatic Static Screenings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5f7701c36&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE JULY 2, 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=97f32ab8f4&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=874472ff1d&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 2022 - Fall 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Denver Museum of Nature & Science <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8094ca6673&e=857b71a9cb> open during Museum hours, The Summit Stage and Expedition Health, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO *REFRESH: *CYANOBACTERIA OFFER PERSPECTIVE ON OURSELVES This art-science collaboration looks at the microscopic ways cyanobacteria move, on an individual level and in colonies. If we study these organisms and their varied forms, we might discover ways to improve our future. On display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in the Summit Stage and Expedition Health, March 2022 - Fall 2022 The cells in your body take in oxygen and sweep out waste products like carbon dioxide (CO2). Microscopic cyanobacteria use photosynthesis to work in reverse, breathing in CO2 and pumping out oxygen. Three billion years ago, cyanobacteria created Earth’s oxygenfilled atmosphere, supporting the evolution of creatures like us. Today, they provide one-quarter of the planet’s oxygen, and cyanobacteria like spirulina provide us with food. Researchers believe that cyanobacteria —which need only sunlight, CO2, and water to thrive— could offer solutions to our changing climate. They might help reduce CO2 on a grand scale, contribute to biofuel production, and support long-term space travel. This diverse group of organisms offers a symbolic warning as well: when colonies of cyanobacteria become too dense or stressed, they can run out of nutrients or be destroyed by their own air pollution. Made with the collaborative efforts of filmmaker Erin Espelie and the Jeffrey Cameron Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder, which created a customized microscope system specifically tailored for long-term growth and quantitative imaging of cyanobacterial cells; with special thanks to microbiologist and cinematographer Evan Johnson and artists Nima Bahrehmand, Travis Austin, Will Alstetter, as well as NEST Studio for the Arts. *___________________________________________________________________* *April 8 - September 11* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The New England Triennial <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7b5ff1ffa1&e=857b71a9cb> see below for hours, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA + Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA *The New England Triennial* The New England Triennial 2022 recognizes the vitality of contemporary art across the Northeast amid the recent years of upheaval and transformation. Spanning two museum venues—deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Fruitlands Museum—this year’s iteration features artwork by twenty-five artists from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Prioritizing change over stability, many of the artists’ practices involve processes of unmaking and remaking—patching things together, dissecting, and rebuilding forms using discarded parts. Their collective artistry reveals interconnected tendencies: a focus on kinship and ancestral lineages; a search for one’s place in the world; the visualization of data; themes of ruin and decay, and processes of alchemical transmutation. Artists in this exhibition grapple with difficult and unjust moments of history and contemporary life. Some employ generations-old creative traditions in poetic, passionate, and informed ways. Altogether, their work unearths hidden energies and stories surfacing at a time defined by change and resilience. Since 1989, the New England Triennial (formerly known as the deCordova New England Biennial) has been a mainstay of deCordova’s programming and mission, exemplifying the museum’s commitment to contemporary art of the Northeast region. For the first time, this upcoming cycle will span two museum venues, deCordova and Fruitlands, expanding the platform for this highly-anticipated survey of art making in New England. We hope you will visit both locations to appreciate the exhibition’s full scope. deCordova Artists Elizabeth Atterbury, Ann Craven, Jeremy Frey, Merik Goma, Kate Greene, Meena Hasan, Baxter Koziol, Jodie Mack, Anina Major, Marla McLeod, Elle Pérez, Estefania Puerta, Allison Maria Rodriguez, Em Rooney, Michelle Segre, Nafis M. White Fruitlands Artists Sascha Braunig, Edwige Charlot, Ann Craven, David Antonio Cruz, Furen Dai, Brenda Garand, Shaina Gates, Harry Gould Harvey IV, Jarrett Key, Heather Lyon *___________________________________________________________________* *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=26c8633420&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, JULY 2, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0349a2c9c0&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: KENNETH ANGER, PROGRAM 2* “Anger’s myths address mass-erotic-consciousness through a barrage of notorious symbols. These often war with one another in Reichian power-trips of rape, will-power, fascism, and revolution. ‘I find ridiculous the idea of anyone being the leader,’ Anger has said. Pentagrams war with swastikas in *INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER*. Brando tortures Christ in *SCORPIO*, Shiva asserts absolute power over his guests in *PLEASURE DOME*. Historical heroes are reduced to pop-idols and history is demythified by comic book codes. ‘When earths collide, gods die.’” –Carel Rowe, FILM QUARTERLY *SCORPIO RISING* (1963, 30 min, 16mm) *KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS* (1965, 3 min, 16mm) *INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME* (1954-66, 38 min, 16mm) *INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER* (1969, 12 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 90 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d04c400997&e=857b71a9cb> 7:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: BRUCE BAILLIE* *MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX* (1963-64, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) *QUIXOTE* (1964-65, 45 minutes, 16mm) “In *MASS* and *QUIXOTE* [Baillie] subtly blends glimpses of the heroic personae with despairing reflections on violence and ecological disaster. […] Despite his sophistication, Baillie remains an innocent; the whole of his cinema exhibits an alternation between two irreconcilable themes: the sheer beauty of the phenomenal world (few films are as graceful to the eye as his, few are as sure of their colors) and the utter despair of forgotten men. It is in QUIXOTE alone that these two themes emerge into a dialectical form, an antithesis of grace and disgrace.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 70 min. *SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6090d84736&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 June 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=bd83f64017&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1200fb1c51&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: QUICK BILLY* “The essential experience of transformation, between Life and Death, death and birth, or rebirth. In four reels, the first three adapted from the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The fourth reel is in the form of a black and white one-reeler Western, summarizing the material of the first three reels, which are color and abstract.” –Bruce Baillie *QUICK BILLY*, by Bruce Baillie, 1971, 56 min, 16mm *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=867125716d&e=857b71a9cb> 7:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: BAILLIE / BELSON* Bruce Baillie *CASTRO STREET* 1966, 10 min, 16mm *ALL MY LIFE* 1966, 3 min, 16mm *VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS* 1968, 10 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “In [Baillie’s late 1960s films], the eye of the film-maker quiets his mind with images of reconciliation; the dialectics of cinematic thought become calm in the filming of the privileged moment of reconciliation.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Jordan Belson *ALLURES* 1961, 9 min, 16mm *RE-ENTRY* 1964, 6 min, 16mm *SAMADHI* 1967, 6 min, 16mm *WORLD* 1970, 6 min, 16mm “Our greatest abstract film poet: he has found how to combine the vision of the outer and the inner eye.” –Gene Youngblood Total running time: ca. 55 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *GearWax* https://www.gearwax.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5d27262d0f&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, JULY 4, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=56982c5092&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *SMOKE AND MIRRORS: A MID-SUMMER BENEFIT FOR OTHER CINEMA* On Monday, the Fourth of July, Other Cinema/ATA Gallery presents a very special music/film hybrid holiday event, a benefit for the cash-strapped Other Cinema project, just barely able to continue screening personal cinema after some 37 years. This festive fund-raiser features 3 San Fran art-rock bands, coupled with 3 16mm cult-cinema selections. Starting the party is the wild and watery electromagnetic waves of The Clog, and stepping into the spotlight later is not only the explosive synth attacks of Combo, but also the No Wave dance rhythms of Vivian Panache. The theme being “Smoke and Mirrors”, and the show being centered on the cross-media intercourse between music and film, then irresistible psychotronic sequences from legendary cinema anomalies will bridge between the musical performances. David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone drive to the climax of Paul Bartel's *Death Race 2000*, a Roger Corman black comedy that will hit the screen with the same impact as the live acts. And Ishiro Honda's *Gamera, the Invincible* will bring its kaiju monster-mash to the break between another pair of performances. The fusion of art-rock music and apocalyptic movies generates an eccentric cabaret vibe that calls for a performance-art presence that ATA is so famous for, here embodied in the form of local light Tommy Becker, popping up with his *Big Bang Mix*. And of course the entire mid-summer night will be enlivened with dazzling strobe lights throbbing through the delightful swirls from our smoke machines! Doors open at 7:30 for an 8PM showtime, a holiday-discount $7 admission charge. (All ages). *TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* ACMI + CVM <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e16c0bf292&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm (GMT+10), ACMI, Fed Square, Melbourne, Australia *Oskar's Legacy | Filmmakers Influenced by Fischinger* Dazzling short films by animators and filmmakers inspired by Oskar Fischinger. Introduced by Melbourne filmmaker, animator and lecturer Paul Fletcher. Over many decades, dozens of animators and filmmakers have acknowledged Fischinger’s influence on their work. Jordan Belson even called him “one of my heroes”. Our programme presents work by filmmakers impacted by Fischinger’s explorations into the relationship between animation and music. With hand-drawn animation on paper, direct painting on film, digital visualisations and algorithms, these filmmakers employ a range of styles. Some borrow techniques used by Fischinger, others invented their own. All acknowledge the visual music tradition with their music/image relationships. Some, like Gagné, created direct music visualisations, while others play more loosely with the correspondences. Scher drew in black charcoal on white paper, then photographed in negative, just as Fischinger did for his 1930s Studies series. Woloshen animated his film in his car in a specially constructed box, over four years of driving. – Curated by Cindy Keefer of Center for Visual Music This is the first of two events exploring Oskar Fischinger, whose seminal work *Raumlichtkunst* is currently on display at ACMI, thanks to the generous support of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. For more information on Raumlichtkunst, visit: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/oskar-fischinger-raumlichtkunst/ Norman McLaren, *Boogie-Doodle*, 1941, Canada, 3 min 15 sec. Originally 35mm Mary Ellen Bute, *Color Rhapsodie*, 1948, US, 6 min. Originally 35mm Jordan Belson, *Mandala*, 1953, US, 3 min, restored by CVM. Originally 16mm Jules Engel, *Play-Pen*, 1986, US, 5 min, restored by CVM. Originally 16mm Baerbel Neubauer, *Algorithmen*, 1994, Germany, 3 min 30 sec. Originally 35mm Steven Woloshen, *Shimmer Box Drive*, 2007, Canada, 3 min 45 sec. Originally 35mm Kristian Pedersen, *The Boyg*, 2016, Norway, 5 min 50 sec Jeff Scher, *Grapefruit and confused Crickets*, 2020, US, 3 min Michel Gagné, *Sensology*, 2010, Canada, 6 min Scott Draves, *Firebird*, 2007, US, 4 min 15 sec Bret Battey, *Clonal Colonies I: Fresh Runners*, 2011, UK, 7 min Oerd van Cuijlenborg, *Jazzimation 2*, 2017, France, 5 min Robert Seidel, *vitreous*, 2015, Germany, 3 min 30 sec Steve Wood, *Electric Eye*, 2020, US, 3 min Paul Fletcher, *The Drive to Work*, 2017, Australia, 3 min 30 sec Curated by Cindy Keefer. Bute, McLaren, Belson and Engel films are from the collection of CVM. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c7e210ffd9&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm + 8:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM + DOG STAR MAN* -- 6:30pm -- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *DESISTFILM* (1954, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) *REFLECTIONS ON BLACK* (1955, 12 min, 16mm, b&w, sound. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *THE WONDER RING* (1955, 4 min, 16mm) *FLESH OF MORNING* (1956, 25 min, 16mm, b&w) *LOVING* (1956, 4 min, 16mm) *DAYBREAK AND WHITEYE* (1957, 8 min, 16mm) *WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING* (1959, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) Films made during the early, “psychodramatic” period of one of modern cinema’s greatest innovators, including two of his early experiments with sound. Total running time: ca. 75 min. -- 8:30pm -- *DOG STAR MAN*, 1961-64, 74 min, 16mm, silent “...elaborates in mythic, almost systematic terms, the worldview of [Brakhage’s] lyrical films. More than any other work of the American avant-garde film, it stations itself within the rhetoric of Romanticism, describing the birth of consciousness, the cycle of the seasons, man’s struggle with nature, and sexual balance in the visual evocation of a fallen titan bearing the cosmic name of the Dog Star Man.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM “The film breathes and is an organic and surging thing…it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in every variation of color.” –Michael McClure *WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b4afad9b6d&e=857b71a9cb> 6:45pm & 8:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 2 + 3* -- EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 2: 6:45pm -- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *THE DEAD* (1960, 11 min, 16mm) *PASHT* (1965, 5 min, 16mm) *THREE FILMS: BLUEWHITE, BLOOD’S TONE, VEIN* (1965, 10 min, 16mm) *FIRE OF WATERS* (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) *THE HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN AND THE MOTH* (1968, 19 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min. -- EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 3: 8:30pm -- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT* (1958, 40 min, 16mm) *CAT’S CRADLE* (1959, 6 min, 16mm) *SIRIUS REMEMBERED* (1959, 12 min, 16mm) *THIGH LINE LYRE TRIANGULAR* (1961, 9 min, 16mm) *MOTHLIGHT* (1963, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *BLUE MOSES* (1963, 11 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) With *ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT*, Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the “closed-eye vision” period. This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a camera, *MOTHLIGHT*, and one of Brakhage’s few sound (and ‘acted’) films, *BLUE MOSES*. Total running time: ca. 85 min. *THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2769b2da02&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm + 8:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 4 + SONGS 1-14* -- 6:30pm -- All films are silent. *THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA* (1970, 29 min, 16mm) *THE MACHINE OF EDEN* (1970, 11 min, 16mm) *SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL* (1970, 7 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *ANGELS’* (1971, 2 min, 16mm) *DOOR* (1971, 4 min, 16mm) *WESTERN HISTORY* (1971, 8 min, 16mm) *THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM* (1971, 8 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 75 min. -- 8:30pm -- *EC: SONGS 1-14*, 1964-65, ca. 53 min, 8mm-to-16mm, silent “*SONG 1*: Portrait of a lady. *SONGS 2 & 3*: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering. *SONG 4*: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. *SONG 5*: A childbirth song. *SONG 6*: The painted veil via moth-death. *SONG 7*: San Francisco. *SONG 8*: Sea creatures. *SONG 9*: Wedding source and substance. *SONG 10*: Sitting around. *SONG 11*: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches. *SONG 12*: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. *SONG 13*: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. *SONG 14*: Molds, paints and crystals.” –Stan Brakhage *FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9c237a5e4f&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: STAN BRAKHAGE: SONGS 15-22* 1965-66, ca. 75 min, 8mm-to-16mm, silent “*SONG 15: FIFTEEN SONG TRAITS*: A series of individual portraits of friends and family – Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Ed Dorn, Jonas Mekas, others. *SONG 16*: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy. *SONGS 17 & 18*: The movie house cathedral and a singular room. *SONGS 19 & 20*: Women dancing and a light. *SONGS 21 & 22*: Two views of closed-eye vision.” –Stan Brakhage *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8e1bceebd5&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *The Special People* (directed by Erica Schreiner / 2021 / 120 min) FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE ~ POST-SCREENING Q&A *The Special People* is a darkly humorous, experimental sci-fi video that asks the viewer to consider the hypnotic state induced by smart technology and the human desire for authenticity. The feature-length narrative carries the audience through a hero’s journey while bathing in sparkling storybook sets, an eerie combination of VHS nostalgia and foreboding dilemmas. The citizens of a pink forest stare into iridescent cubes and cannot look away. Apple, Bird and Violet manage to break their trance, and indulge in philosophical conversation. They question why they are free while the others are not. They had their voices removed when they were babies so they learn to communicate telepathically. They experience the sensuality of fruit and each other in The Forest, but soon feel it is not enough. The Special People decide to embark on a journey to bring the other citizens of The Forest back to consciousness by attempting to destroy the master cube, guarded by The Overlords. On this journey, the three get separated and Apple must continue the journey alone. She encounters many of The Obstacles along the way and learns if she is to free the citizens of The Forest, she’ll have to sacrifice her life. Erica Schreiner wrote, directed, and stars in *The Special People*. She also single handedly built the elaborate, colorful, sparkling sets in her New York apartment where she filmed the feature using a VHS camcorder and a cast of non-actor friends. *___________________________________________________________________* *July 8 - 9* Venue type: *Live, physical event* riesa efau . Kultur Forum Dresden <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=139dae36a9&e=857b71a9cb> see below for times, riesa efau . Kultur Forum Dresden, Wachsbleichstraße 4a, Dresden, Germany *DRKRM & Friends - Dadaist Poetry and 16mm Film* The workshop will transfer the approaches of Dadaist poetry production to cine film. How might the cut-up technique be applied to the various craft processes involved in making a film? Old films will be recomposed, film spools exposed together and the chance in development challenged. The results of the workshop will be presented in the DRKRM ("Darkroom") & Friends program on Saturday evening. No previous experience is required to participate in the workshop. Lecturer Isabel Apel, trained at the Friedl Kubelka School of Independent Film in Vienna, member of the film and photography section of Konglomerat e. V., she has already been represented twice in the competitions at the dresdner schmalfilmtage. Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 4pm free of charge, registration is required. *SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6b51c89a4f&e=857b71a9cb> 4:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: STAN BRAKHAGE: THE ART OF VISION* 1961-65, 261 min, 16mm, silent “Includes the complete *DOG STAR MAN* and a full extension of the singularly visible themes of it. Inspired by that period of music in which the word ‘symphonia’ was created and by the thought that the term, as then, was created to name the overlap and enmeshing of suites, this film presents the visual symphony that *DOG STAR MAN* can be seen as and also all the suites of which it is composed. But as it is a film, and a work of music, the above suggests only one of the possible approaches to it. For instance, as ‘cinematographer,’ at source, means ‘writer of movement,’ certain poetic analogies might serve as well. The form is conditioned by the works of art which have inspired *DOG STAR MAN*, its growth of form by the physiology and experiences (including experiences of art) of the man who made it. Finally, it must be seen for what it is.” –Stan Brakhage *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Light Cone <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1c5fed7c0e&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm (GMT+2), Cinéma Le Méliès, 12 Place Jean Jaurès, Montreuil, France *CARTE BLANCHE À LIGHT CONE* To celebrate half a century of existence of the Montreuil movie theater that bears the name of the first magician of the cinematographic illusion, Light Cone presents a self-reflexive program on the origins of cinema, its fundamental elements, and the splendors of the cinephile experience. The program's starting point is none other than the inventiveness of Georges Méliès, who, thanks to a camera malfunction, accidentally discovered a trick that allowed him to make The Vanishing Lady (1896), simultaneously opening up so many possibilities for the seventh art. Experimental film would become the privileged arena of optical tricks, which are often laid bare and pushed to the extremes of spectatorial sensation, as well as a space of reflection on the medium through the medium itself. This program is thus a multiple tribute – not only to the persistence of cinema and cinephilia that Le Méliès and Light Cone support, but also to photochemical film, which is increasingly rare on the screens. All the films in the program will be shown in 35mm, providing a precious opportunity to admire the depth of the color palette and the magical vibration of this indispensable format. presented by Eleni Gioti and Mariya Nikiforova *W O W (KODAK)* / by Viktoria SCHMID / 2018 / 35mm / color / sound / 2' 35 *SELF PORTRAIT POST MORTEM* / by Louise BOURQUE / 2002 / 35mm / color / sound / 2' 30 *ARIADNE* / by Barbara METER / 2004 / 35mm / color / sound / 12' 00 *DE BLIKJESMAN (THE TINCANMAN)* / by Jaap PIETERS / 1991 / 35mm / color / silent / 3' 20 *A TO A, Kreis Wr.Neustadt* / by Johann LURF / 2012 / 35mm / color / sound / 5' 00 *HONG KONG (HKG)* / by Gerard HOLTHUIS / 1999 / 35mm / b&w / sound / 13' 00 *JIMMY'S BALLET* / by Jaap PIETERS / 1993 / 35mm / color / silent / 3' 00 *DÉJEUNER DU MATIN* / by Patrick BOKANOWSKI / 1974 / 35mm / color / sound / 12' 00 *BROUILLARD, PASSAGE #14* / by Alexandre LAROSE / 2013 / 35mm / color / silent / 10' 00 *INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE* / by Peter TSCHERKASSKY / 2005 / 35mm / b&w / sound / 17' 00 *SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2022* *July 10 - 27* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c37d8bb3a6&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York *IMAGELESS FILMS, PART 4* 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. This ongoing series represents 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 began in April, and continues throughout the summer: Part 4 features a rare presentation of artist Louise Lawler’s *A MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN WITHOUT THE PICTURE*; programs devoted to “audioscapes” and “scratch films”; and two programs focusing on films that limit their visual tracks to the printed word. 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, in collaboration with Bradley Eros and John Klacsmann. Special thanks to Elle Burchill & Andrea Monti (Microscope Gallery); Rebecca Cleman, Tyler Maxin, and Karl McCool (Electronic Arts Intermix); Gabriel Coxhead; Olivier De Vos (Auguste Orts); Martha Fleming-Ives (Greene Naftali Gallery); Tim Haines; John Knight; Louise Lawler; Malcolm Le Grice; Charmaine Lee; Andreas Leventis (Lisson Gallery); Seth Mitter (Canyon Cinema); Ryan Muller (Sprüth Magers); Kenneth Pietrobono; Charlotte Procter (LUX); Peter Rose; Keith Sanborn; Michael Snow; Katie Trainor (MoMA); and Mark Webber. Upcoming Screenings Louise Lawler A MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN WITHOUT THE PICTURE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2a0aa755e8&e=857b71a9cb> July 10 at 7:00 PM July 11 at 7:00 PM WORD FILMS: “SO IS THIS” AND ITS ANTECEDENTS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c94f1fe8fc&e=857b71a9cb> July 13 at 7:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: AUDIOSCAPES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c1b4cbb7cc&e=857b71a9cb> July 18 at 7:00 PM July 26 at 7:00 PM WORD FILMS: MEDIA + LANGUAGE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=13e42c2d07&e=857b71a9cb> July 24 at 7:30 PM July 27 at 7:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: SCRATCH FILMS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=085e32d14c&e=857b71a9cb> July 25 at 7:30 PM *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=2c5ccf7fa4&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=7e7eb6ecf7&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *Artists' Moving Image Works* 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. There are now more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works available to view on the website. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Ecstatic Static* https://www.ecstaticstatic.com/screenings/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=edaff78f14&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. 17: Five Films by Jenny Brady* Jenny Brady, *Receiver*. 2019, 14 min, 35 sec Jenny Brady, *Going to the Mountain*. 2016, 10 min, 14 sec Jenny Brady, *Bone*. 2015, 10 min, 49 sec Jenny Brady, *Wow and Flutter*. 2013, 13 min, 3 sec Jenny Brady, *Carve Up*. 2013, 9 min, 56 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=e0088e10c6&e=857b71a9cb> . 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