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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=98cbaf6bc3&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2394a5356e&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO] - Imageless Films, Part 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0bf333903f&e=857b71a9cb> [September 10-29, New York, NY] - Shirley Clarke's Jazz + Ornette <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=64eee9ba41&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13 + 25, Amsterdam, NL] - Crossroads 2022 Online Echo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9b75354861&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22-October 16, online] - New Black Wave, Vol. 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a0aeb2341a&e=857b71a9cb> [September 24, San Francisco, CA] - Climate Change <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=55233fb7d9&e=857b71a9cb> [September 24, San Francisco, CA] - Tabita Rezaire: Orbit Diapason <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=178f0de2fd&e=857b71a9cb> [September 25, Los Angeles, CA] - A Synesthete's Atlas - Eric theise & Kyle Bruckmann <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=031595bcff&e=857b71a9cb> [September 25, Oakland, CA] - Workshop: 16mm Film Loops <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f73bc310bb&e=857b71a9cb> [September 25, Washington, DC] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5563c7d94a&e=857b71a9cb> [September 25, online] - Eye On Art: Selected Artist's Moving Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d8c0df47c4&e=857b71a9cb> [September 27, Amsterdam, NL] - In Situ: Skawennati & Émilie Serri <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4acf95d0c4&e=857b71a9cb> [September 29, Montreal, Canada] - No One Was Happy To See Us: A Phantasmagoria For Samhain <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9f7a076e00&e=857b71a9cb> [September 29, Los Angeles, CA] - Morgan Barnard <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15f9a029d4&e=857b71a9cb> [September 30, Santa Fe, NM] - Jonas Mekas Tribute Screenings, Part 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7bad9c37a4&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1-4, New York, NY] - Incredibly Strange Music2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=49b12af599&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1, San Francisco, CA] - Canyon Cinema Discovered: Insurgent Articulations <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e45631af68&e=857b71a9cb> [October 2, San Francisco, CA] - Canyon Cinema Discovered: Prime Time Reverie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c6b26daf16&e=857b71a9cb> [October 2, San Francisco, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f771e16376&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c441a188af&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SEPTEMBER 24, 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=fc268934a4&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=57041e7793&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=cc32e80935&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *September 10 - 29* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b2bf1bcd4&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York *IMAGELESS FILMS, PART 5* 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. The ongoing series, “Imageless Films”, which we’ve been presenting since April, 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). With the September chapter, we bring the series to a close – and in high style, thanks to rare screenings of Gregory Markopoulos’s *GAMMELION*; a program featuring works that directly address the audience and/or projectionist (including Morgan Fisher’s *PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS* and Hollis Frampton’s *A LECTURE*); a screening in which we’ll share some of the most memorable voicemail messages we’ve received over the years at Anthology; and several live-performance pieces, including Malcolm Le Grice’s *PRE-PRODUCTION* and a work designed specifically for the Maya Deren theater by Bradley Eros *(MAYA)*. This final chapter will also bring the publication of a booklet featuring the complete program notes and a selection of related texts. Programmed by Jed Rapfogel, in collaboration with Bradley Eros and John Klacsmann. Special thanks to Elle Burchill & Andrea Monti (Microscope Gallery); Olivier Marboeuf (Spectre Productions); and Jeff Perkins. 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/ Upcoming Screenings IMAGELESS FILMS: SO IS THIS + SO’S NEPHEW <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=18b087583c&e=857b71a9cb> September 13 at 7:30 PM AFTERIMAGE, PGM 2: GAMMELION (Gregory Markopoulos) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dbd33a2b16&e=857b71a9cb> September 14 at 7:30 PM WORD FILMS: YANN BEAUVAIS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1983744fff&e=857b71a9cb> September 17 at 7:30 PM PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE: ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES VOICEMAILS THROUGH THE AGES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=88c8917c6a&e=857b71a9cb> September 21 at 7:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: (PROJECTOR) PERFORMANCE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=806d1ecd01&e=857b71a9cb> September 22 at 7:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: MAYA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ac2cf1ae1e&e=857b71a9cb> September 25 at 7:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: DAVID WHARRY <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bc23bf5868&e=857b71a9cb> September 27 at 8:15 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: MOVIES FOR THE BLIND + FOYER <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2a8071dd1f&e=857b71a9cb> September 28 at 7:30 PM IMAGELESS FILMS: EL CAFETAL + VERA CRUZ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b54eebbc5&e=857b71a9cb> September 29 at 7:30 PM *___________________________________________________________________* *September 13 + September 25* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Eye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71476c8614&e=857b71a9cb> Sept 13 @ 7:15pm + Sept 25 @ 9:30pm GMT+2, Eye, IJpromenade 1, 1031 KT Amsterdam, NL *SHIRLEY CLARKE'S JAZZ + ORNETTE* with live music by Giuseppe Doronzo, Michael Moore and Sun Mi Hong A special on Shirley Clarke, with a screening of *Ornette: Made in America*. Ahead of this, a special ode to Clarke's love of jazz and her refreshing way of working: three jazz musicians play three different jazz scores in the spirit of Clarke to accompany *Bridges-Go-Round*. *September 22 - October 16* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e9b025a77d&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://www.sfcinematheque.org/festival/crossroads-2022-online-echo/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b7bc6c38b4&e=857b71a9cb> *CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo* CROSSROADS 2022 was the thirteenth manifestation of Cinematheque’s annual film festival. Featuring 67 works of film, video and performance by 71 artists representing 18 countries and territories, CROSSROADS 2022 was presented at Gray Area August 26–28. By popular demand, Cinematheque proudly presents the CROSSROADS 2022 online echo, a cross-sectional sampler of select works representing themes of the year’s festival, including considerations of the contrasts between individual sensual experience and the rise of the corporate media state; the ongoing collisions and interminglings between analog and electronic media; the role intimacy plays in the spaces of public communication and the narration of generational lineage. The CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo is presented worldwide to the public free of charge. ——— CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo 1 shadows tremble <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4179e3b29d&e=857b71a9cb> program online September 22–October 16 SCREENING: *Curve the Night Sky* (2021) by Peggy Ahwesh (US); digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes. *THAT WAS WHEN I THOUGHT I COULD HEAR YOU* (2021) by Matt Whitman (US); digital video, color, silent, 9 minutes. *The Girl Who Is* (2021) by Sara Sowell (US); digital video, b&w, sound, 6 minutes. *Paper Bag Test* (2019) by Trevon Jakaar Coleman (US); digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes. *Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons *(2021) by Jodie Mack (US/UK); 16mm, color, silent, 5 minutes. *Feriado* (2021) by Azucena Losana (Mexico/Argentina); digital video, b&w, sound, 2 minutes. *Configurations* (2021) by James Edmonds (UK/Germany); 16mm, color, sound, 8 minutes. *Solace* (2021) by Chantal Partamian (Lebanon): digital video, color, sound, 1 minute. *from time without beginning* (2021) by Lorenzo Gattorna (US); digital video, color, sound, 7 minutes. *Estuary *(2021) by Ross Meckfessel (US); 16mm, color, sound, 12 minutes. *Dreams Under Confinement *(2020) by Christopher Harris (US); digital video, color, sound, 3 minutes. ——— CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo 2 space to stretch my longing <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a786f9f61a&e=857b71a9cb> program online September 22–October 16 SCREENING: *Time Crystals* (2021) by Abinadi Meza (Wixárika); digital video, color, sound, 6 minutes. *Light Signal *(2022) by Emily Chao (US); digital video, color, sound, 13 minutes. *The Day Lives Briefly Unscented* (2021) by Brandon Wilson (US); digital video, color, sound, 4 minutes. *Lácrimas* (2021) by Jeremy Moss (US); digital video, color, sound, 14 minutes. *First Hypnotic Suggestion* (2020) by Brittany Gravely (US) & Ken Linehan (US); 16mm double projection, color, sound, 10 minutes. *Up Close* (2021) by Sam Gurry (US); digital video, color, sound, 3 minutes. *Dans les cieux et sur la terre* (2022) by Erin Weisgerber (Canada); 16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 12 minutes. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Canyon Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e368a7834&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm PT, The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA *New Black Wave, Vol. 2* Ticket info: bit.ly/nbw-vol2-sf <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1866fef6ff&e=857b71a9cb> Curated by Solomon Turner and DaManuel Richardson of Hello Benjamin Films. New Black Wave showcases films by Black filmmakers that push cinema’s conceptual and aesthetic boundaries to explore deep-rooted emotions within the African Diaspora. Back for its second edition, the films in New Black Wave, Vol. 2 remix public and personal archives to reveal new meanings within familiar images of Black life in America. We bear witness to the absolute and overwhelming freedom exhibited in Black expression and the ever-present power of Black culture. The show features brilliant films by Michčle Stephenson and Imani Dennison, Julie Dash, Ja’Tovia Gary, Paige Taul, Jenn Nkiru, Moďse Togo, and Darol Olu Kae. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the curators, filmmakers Paige Taul, Moďse Togo, and Darol Olu Kae, and writer and producer ruth gebreyesus. Note: New Black Wave, Vol. 2 also screens at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 10 at 1pm, co-presented by the California African American Museum. In person: Curators DaManuel Richardson and Solomon Turner, Darol Olu Kae, and ruth gebreyesus. *i ran from it and was still in it* (Darol Olu Kae, USA, 2020, 11 min, digital) A poetic meditation on familial loss and separation, and the love that endures against dispersion. *10:28,30* (Paige Taul, USA, 2019, 5 min, digital) As a part of the larger constellations of works concerning familial relationships, 10:28,30 examines the relationship between myself and my sister, and our relationship to our mother. I am interested in the dissonance of our lives apart and the tension in the desire to be together. *An Ecstatic Experience* (Ja’Tovia Gary, USA, 2015, 7 min, digital) A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration. *For Our Girls* (Michčle Stephenson and Imani Dennison, USA, 2020, 10 min, digital) The film is a love letter to Black daughters—acknowledging the sacred, and at times, tense relationship mothers and daughters share as they face challenges and accept each other’s flaws. *$75,000* (Moďse Togo, France, 2020, 14 min, digital) A look at the biological aspect of albinism, which is a genetic and hereditary condition that affects not only the pigmentation of sufferers but also, and above all, their physical and mental health. These people are victims of discrimination, mutilation, and ritual crimes in Africa. *What’s good Bruce?* (Paige Taul, USA, 2018, 4 min, digital) A reference to Bruce Nauman’s Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square (1967) in order to question whose body and whose body language is allowed in the studio space. Instead of mimicking the way Nauman walks, Peter uses the pimp walk (sans cane). *Standing at the Scratching Line* (Julie Dash, USA, 2016, 11 min, digital) Traveling between Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina, to Mother Bethel AME in Philadelphia, Julie Dash creates a cinematic tone poem about returning to sacred spaces of departure and arrival. *BLACK TO TECHNO* (Jenn Nkiru, United Kingdom, 2019, 21 min, digital) BLACK TO TECHNO is a music documentary charting the anthropological, socio-economical, geopolitical roots of techno from Detroit and how it traveled and translated into becoming the soundtrack to fall of the wall in Berlin. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1b11a00813&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA *CLIMATE CHANGE* THE ANTI-BANALITY UNION's EARTH II + LJ Frezza, a honored emissary from our sister micro-cinema in Brooklyn—Spectacle Theater—has managed to make it all the waay out here for a West Coast tour to unspool their latest cult masterpiece, a energized montage of climate-disaster earthshakers... to reach a critical mass of environmental consciousness: With human civilization facing ever-worsening climate calamities, the captains of industry set their sights on a new planet. Soon, a secret public-private partnership is selling tickets to Mars at a premium out of reach for the majority of the population, for whom the choice is either indentured servitude in the new offworld colony or perishing in the coming cataclysm. When the world’s governments decide to speed things up by declaring war on Earth and the rabble they’re leaving behind, the planet forges a strategic alliance with an unlikely partner: an underground luddite movement. Some will join the uprising, others will become fanatical defenders of entrenched power structures, while yet others will do everything in their power to continue living exactly the same way they always have. Its star-studded cast and astronomical production values — painstakingly purloined from some of the biggest blockbusters of the past three decades — make *Earth II* the most expensive climate disaster epic to be produced for no money. *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022* Venue type: *Both online and physical* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=640e88b945&e=857b71a9cb> 1:00 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 Event URL: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/summer-fall-2022/tabita-rezaire-orbit-diapason/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2570b52893&e=857b71a9cb> Tabita Rezaire: Orbit Diapason Two films will be at the in-person screening; three other films will be available online from September 18-September 30. Filmforum has commissioned five artists to make new work, generously funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, and over the next year will be presenting the premieres of the works, including discussions with the artists. Tabita Rezaire is the first of our recipients. Based in French Guyana (a province of France in South America, still remaining from colonial days), and frequently making work in Africa, Rezaire is a healer, artist, and farmer whose multi-faceted practice has revolved around concerns of the internet as a colonial technology, the possibilities of digital interfaces for spiritual and ancestral information, African spirituality, ecological collapse, untold histories of Black womxn, decolonizing uses of technology, and the power of the womb. The works we are exhibiting gather imagery from the internet, machinima, appropriated films, and her own interviews with philosophers and others in vivid and colorful geometric landscapes. This program is made possible by generous support from the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. In addition to the two works being screened in person, with a remote discussion with Rezaire, three earlier works of hers will be available online for viewing before or after the show, from Sunday September 18 to Friday September 30, available through the Filmforum website. *Orbit Diapason*, 2021, color, sound, digital, 44:44 *Premium Connect*, 2017, color, sound, digital, 13:04 Screening Online: *Sorry for Real*, 2015, digital, color, sound, 17 min. Screening Online: *Sugar Walls Teardom*, 2016, digital, color, sound, 21:30 Screening Online: *Deep Down Tidal*, 2017, digital, color, sound, 18:44 ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Rhizome DC <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be4d75834e&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm ET, Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC *WORKSHOP: 16mm Film Loops* Participants will learn about 16mm film projection, create their own hand drawn physical film loops, and see their own film loops projected. Materials will be provided. Emily Francisco is a sculptress utilizing signal flow as medium. Born in Honolulu, raised in the lead belt, educated in Saint Louis and the District of Columbia - she has exhibited work internationally and occasionally performs around Washington DC. Emily currently maintains her studio at STABLE Arts and works at a museum to support her toddler and their furry friends. Joana Stillwell is an artist working with video, installation, text, and photographs. She was born in the Philippines and raised around the Pacific. She received her BFA from the University of Washington and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an audiovisual archivist working between Baltimore and D.C. Masks are required inside the building at all times. In order to attend this event at Rhizome, we require proof of full vaccination for all audience, staff, and performers. Accepted forms of proof include: 1. A physical vaccination card that matches the patron's photo ID. 2. A photo of a vaccination card that matches the patron's photo ID. 3. Documentation of medical or religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine AND proof of a negative PCR or antigen test within the last 24 hours. If you feel sick or have had recent exposure to covid, stay home. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d8ec53c67c&e=857b71a9cb> 7p Pacific, 567 5th Street, CA 94607 *A Synesthete's Atlas* Eric Theise: map manipulations Kyle Bruckmann: oboe An evening of real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, directed and accompanied by genre-trampling oboist Kyle Bruckmann. Expect a visual wash of street grids, land masses, bodies of water, and curiosities from the built environment. Saturated colors and subtle tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching. The flicker film as wayfinding device. Orphaned information & untethered symbology. Crowdsourced data with Swiss precision, with glitches a kilometer wide. OpenStreetMap as light show. This will be the first performance of A Synesthete's Atlas on the West Coast. Masks are required for entry. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9b31f5065b&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! *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Eye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68fe4beebd&e=857b71a9cb> 7:15pm GMT+2, Eye, IJpromenade 1, 1031 KT Amsterdam, NL *EYE ON ART: SELECTED ARTIST'S MOVING IMAGE* New work by Dutch artists and experimental filmmakers that was recently added to Eye’s collection. The program includes short films by filmmakers and artist’s like Karel Doing, Bernardo Zanotta and Lichun Tseng. Most of the filmmakers featured in the program will be present for a Q&A. The new films in the collection will be distributed by Eye and will also be screened at international festivals. The selection highlights recent trends in artists' films and short experimental films. *INSIEME INSIEME* (BERNARDO ZANOTTA, FR/NL 2022, 37’) *A PERFECT STORM* (KAREL DOING, NL/GB 2022, 3’) *OUR ARK* (DENIZ TORTUM, KATHRYN HAMILTON, NL/US 2021, 12’) *SHUNYATA* (LICHUN TSENG, ROBERT KROOS, NL 2021, 13’) *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* la lumière collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6aa4967a98&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 7080, rue Alexandra, #506 Montréal, QC H2S 3J5 *IN SITU: Skawennati & Émilie Serri* As part of the IN SITU screenings series, la lumière collective presents Skawennati & Émilie Serri with a musical performance by Martin Rodriguez on September 29, 2022. Digital and 16mm projection. In the presence of the filmmakers. *Words Before All Else (parties 1-3) *| Skawennati | 2017 | Numérique | couleur | son | 3 mins *She Falls for Ages *| Skawennati | 2017 | Numérique | couleur | son | 21 mins *Greetings from Skyworld *| Skawennati | 2020 | Numérique | couleur | son | 1 min *No Time for Tomorrow *| Émilie Serri | 2015 | Numérique | couleur | son | 5 mins *À l’est des vents *| Émilie Serri | 2009 | 16mm | couleur | son | 6 mins *Microform *| Émilie Serri | 2010 | 16mm | couleur | son | 6 mins ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Whammy! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=528d071ca6&e=857b71a9cb> 730pm PT, Whammy! 2514 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA (Entrance in rear off Rampart!) *No One Was Happy to See Us: a Phantasmagoria for Samhain* Join Whammy! for a terrifying takeover of the store and microcinema as it is filled with chilling storytelling, short films, live music and a magic lantern show that is sure to bring nightmares! Author and director Einar Baldvin will read selections from his illustrated dark masterwork The Crawling King; Director and Magic Lanternist Melissa Ferrari will summon spirits using her magic lantern with live music by Coffee Ghost; short horror films and frightening audio will augment the evening as host Ryan Betschart brings to Whammy! the most delightfully evil event in its history. *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f86df7f387&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *Morgan Barnard* Live expanded cinema performance & Works for single channel video. Artist in attendance + Post-screening Q&A Barnard’s expanded cinema performance includes a rendition of ‘InCamera’ - an improvisational performance that uses video sampling and audience participation to create a dynamic live cinema experience. Starting with no content, Barnard uses a copy stand camera system to rephotograph objects that the audience brings into the performance. For this performance, he will be exploring light as a subject matter and is requesting that audience members bring in objects that either emit light or allow light to pass through them. In addition, several single channel videos will be screened during the evening that highlight past projects that explore the terrain of expanded cinema and live audio visual performance. *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022* *October 1 - 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/55123> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York *JONAS MEKAS TRIBUTE SCREENINGS, PART 5* On January 23, 2019, almost a month after his 96th birthday, Anthology’s founder Jonas Mekas passed away. Despite his advanced age, Jonas’s energy, joy, and perceptiveness, as well as his mischievous spirit and boundless openness to new forms of expression, were unflagging until his very final days. He remained a fixture of experimental and independent culture – in NYC and internationally – and a major driving force here at Anthology, until the end. In a very real sense, every program we present – and every film we save, preserve, and restore – has been and will continue to be a tribute to Jonas, to his tireless promotion of avant-garde film and his creation of multiple institutions and initiatives to support the infrastructure of non-commercial cinema. Jonas was, of course, not only a writer, poet, artist, and co-founder of Anthology, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and Film Culture Magazine, but also a filmmaker of great renown. Immediately following his death, we embarked on a multi-part, comprehensive retrospective of his films and videos, both widely celebrated classics and far more obscure works. That retrospective was all set to conclude with a fifth and final chapter in the spring of 2020, which was ultimately postponed due to the pandemic. Now, as both a long-delayed continuation of the memorial retrospective, and a celebration of Jonas’s centennial (he was born on December 24, 1922), we present the series of screenings that were initially planned in 2020. The earlier chapters of the retrospective were devoted to his diary films, his portraits of people and places, and his films documenting various forms of art or performance. This installment, on the other hand, showcases the remaining films in Jonas’s filmography, which don’t easily fit into any category. The selection encompasses a small subset of films that constitute film- or video-letters to friends, colleagues, or to the public at large, as well as numerous others that demonstrate Jonas’s restless and ever-inventive openness to new cinematic forms. Very special thanks to Oona & Sebastian Mekas, and to Elle Burchill. All descriptions are by Jonas Mekas unless otherwise noted. Upcoming Screenings JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1611b700ae&e=857b71a9cb> October 1 at 4:00 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7026472d43&e=857b71a9cb> October 1 at 5:45 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2eaf0b20d4&e=857b71a9cb> October 2 at 4:00 PM THE EDUCATION OF SEBASTIAN OR EGYPT REGAINED <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c25f7adc07&e=857b71a9cb> October 2 at 6:15 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c6f7722114&e=857b71a9cb> October 3 at 7:15 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7512ba487b&e=857b71a9cb> October 4 at 6:45 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 6 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=122361363d&e=857b71a9cb> October 4 at 8:30 PM ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7fbe2140d6&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC2* THROBBING GRISTLE'S *OTHER, LIKE ME* + LIVE ELECTRONICS >From performance art to industrial music, Throbbing Gristle generates controversy by using disturbing imagery in their live acts and publications. In this hour-long BBC doc, the fascinating early years of the infamous band are explored, with copious stills and motion picture clips, to paint a highly detailed living portrait of these true trailblazers—in fact, practically inventors of the industrial genre. Riveting performance samples and tell-all interviews afford a sense of depth to not only the four band members, but also their circle of free-thinkers. V Vale of Research Pubs shares Genesis anecdotes in a generous introduction to this major release. Beginning the program is Marian Wallace/Pablo Duran’s personal gallery-walk with T.G. at a recent opening, re-tracked with live in-house synth and treated vocals by Josephine Torio. PLUS a glimpse of Mills College icon Pauline Oliveros! *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Canyon Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=477521e589&e=857b71a9cb> 1:15pm PST, The Roxie Theater *Canyon Cinema Discovered: INSURGENT ARTICULATIONS* A strong interest in the social, political, and cultural contexts has always been part and parcel of a good variety of experimental filmmaking practices, even though canonical works on experimental cinema tend to focus solely on the formal explorations that supposedly reflect the filmmaker’s own (hermetic) subjectivity. Because of this exclusive focus on formal experimentation, the socio-historical, cultural, and representational politics, ethics, and concerns of much experimental work remained unnoticed until recently. Focusing on the theme of the aesthetics of socio-political unrest and protest, this program showcases examples of experimental filmmaking that fictionally constructed or experimentally reconstructed in formally explorative and reflexive ways demonstrations, rallies, marches, and sit-ins. Curated by Ekin Pinar. *PIG POWER* (Single Spark Film, 1969, 6 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm) *DEMONSTRACTION ‘68* (Dominic Angerame, 1968-74, 4 minutes, color, silent, 16mm) *SOLIDARITY* (Joyce Wieland, 1973, 11 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) *SISTERS!* (Barbara Hammer, 1973, 8 minutes, color, sound, 16mm) *NEW LEFT NOTE* (Saul Levine, 1968-82, 26 minutes, color, silent, 16mm, 18fps) *GAY POWER, 1971/2007/2012* (Sharon Hayes, Kate Millett, and The Women’s Liberation Cinema, 2012, 33 minutes, color, live sound, 16mm) *ON THE NATURE OF THE BONE* (Elena Pardo, 2018, 2 minutes, color, sound, digital video) *A PROTEST, A CELEBRATION, A MIXED MESSAGE* (Rhea Storr, 2018, 12 minutess, color, sound, digital video) *B.L.M.* (Toney W. Merritt, 2020, 1 minute, b&w, sound, digital video) Approximate running time: 100 minutes *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Canyon Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5023f6c93&e=857b71a9cb> 3:30pm PT, The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA *Discovered: Prime Time Reverie* Curated by Aaditya Aggarwal >From cosmetic commercials to women-led talk shows to narrative melodrama, television catered to feminized viewers is a formally diverse genre, nudging, socializing, and mirroring its spectators in intimate and discerning ways. Capturing the urgent, anchoring spirit of prime time telecasts, Prime Time Reverie stages a fragmented history of television as a women’s medium. The works in this program engage multiple tides of broadcasting, from soapy to confessional, from sensationalist to documentarian. Weaving an absent or corporeal presence through each work, televised portrayals of womanhood—hermetic, large, versatile—incite daydreams among a mass populace, flirting with histories of technology, desire, and visuality. *Chronicles of a Lying Spirit* (by Kelly Gabron) (Cauleen Smith, 1992) *No No Nooky TV* (Barbara Hammer, 1987) *Removed* (Naomi Uman, 1999) *Waiting for Commercials* (Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, 1966-72, 1992) *No Land* (Emily Chao, 2019) *MTV Artbreak* (Dara Birnbaum, 1986) *Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry* (Dara Birnbaum, 1979) *That Woman* (Sandra Davis, 2018) *10:28,30* (Paige Taul, 2019) *Still Life with a Woman and Four Objects* (Lynne Sachs, 1986) *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=b90c308cde&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=6fa8869084&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. ------------------------------ *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=29b7eb228e&e=857b71a9cb> . 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