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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8138974a65&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2022 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2889d8ec03&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.01.2022 MONO NO AWARE XVI <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=01f2ca9101&e=857b71a9cb> 10.03.2022 SPECTRAL: Wandering Sounds and Images <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1724cbe61&e=857b71a9cb> 10.03.2022 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d1b1cea80&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 10.04.2022 International Film Festival Rotterdam <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f24e2407b&e=857b71a9cb> (features) 10.10.2022 Handmade Film Workshop @ VSW <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e773e13ef&e=857b71a9cb> 10.11.2022 Analogue Resilience: A Film Labs Gathering <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a2b5fff6bd&e=857b71a9cb> 10.14.2022 Melbourne Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4bb7af78d3&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 10.14.2022 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=206952a021&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 10.15.2022 Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0de3f0c09e&e=857b71a9cb> 10.17.2022 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=affc69e3e5&e=857b71a9cb> (Extra Late Deadline) 10.17.2022 Josephine Massarella Artist Award <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=56c6cc7791&e=857b71a9cb> 10.30.2022 Harkat 16mm Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=006177fe73&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 10.31.2022 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6c53719426&e=857b71a9cb> (Inaugural Deadline) 11.01.2022 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=13e66b654c&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.01.2022 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d140875ee6&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2022 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f3b71d68de&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.04.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0546635a71&e=857b71a9cb> 11.17.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bf7eb0a92b&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.31.2022 Lightpress Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9be69641cd&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2022 Light Field <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de4f52b25d&e=857b71a9cb> 12.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=97d4312986&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=80d0d30f12&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f149f575df&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=003f56514f&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=698b47f29c&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ab7cc666e&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO] - Crossroads 2022 Online Echo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b1110a578f&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22-October 16, online] - Jonas Mekas Tribute Screenings, Part 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=91647a1095&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1-4, New York, NY] - Incredibly Strange Music2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a323469568&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1, San Francisco, CA] - Canyon Cinema Discovered: Insurgent Articulations <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7247c8bae5&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=6658c12817&e=857b71a9cb> [October 2, San Francisco, CA] - The Festival of (In)Appropriation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0bf9e23da0&e=857b71a9cb> [October 2, Los Angeles, CA] - Lori Felker: Intrusions and Interruptions <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eeeac82fb0&e=857b71a9cb> [October 5, Ithaca, NY] - Lori Felker: Recent Shorts 2016 – 2021 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=309acaf756&e=857b71a9cb> [October 6, Binghamton, NY] - How Film Shapes Behaviour - Pixelvision Salon <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f606e5aa11&e=857b71a9cb> [October 7, Topanga, CA] - Memory In Decay <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2919f327ed&e=857b71a9cb> [October 8, Queens, NY] - Psycho-Geo 1: San Franciskino! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ba5a51839&e=857b71a9cb> [October 8, San Francisco, CA] - Los Angeles Filmforum and Mezzanine Present Light Field In Los Angeles <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4c536227dc&e=857b71a9cb> [October 9, Los Angeles, CA] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b7cbf06148&e=857b71a9cb> [October 9, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=596a7589c0&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e5cd9386bd&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE OCTOBER 1, 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=aa6cd69334&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=daf9a7667a&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=79f6c645fc&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 22 - October 16* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=297453e582&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=4d87a3cb0b&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=c76293153b&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=26b0630937&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, OCTOBER 1, 2022* *October 1 - 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9ed4b85737&e=857b71a9cb> 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=7d24914426&e=857b71a9cb> October 1 at 4:00 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4c8e93c9a9&e=857b71a9cb> October 1 at 5:45 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de040c93be&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=42fd2d3619&e=857b71a9cb> October 2 at 6:15 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=589f2f885d&e=857b71a9cb> October 3 at 7:15 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c42467a6f3&e=857b71a9cb> October 4 at 6:45 PM JONAS MEKAS, PROG. 6 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5cea5b8f91&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=4e035e84c5&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=e47757ced1&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=01f50a5790&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) ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=995f96aa3a&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *The Festival of (In)Appropriation* In person: Guest Curators Marie-Pierre Burquier, Mariquita “Micki” Davis, and Allyson Unzicker, and filmmakers Misael Oquendo and TT Takemoto 4 world premieres, 3 US premieres, 1 LA premieres, and 3 West Coast premieres! Collage or compilation. Found footage film or recycled cinema. Remix or détournement. Whatever one might call it, the practice of incorporating preexistent media into new artworks engenders novel juxtapositions, new ideas, and latent connotations… often entirely unrelated to the intentions of the original makers. In that regard, such works are truly “inappropriate.” Indeed, the act of (in)appropriation can reveal unimagined relationships between past and present, here and there, intention and subversion, artist and critic, and perhaps even compel us to reexamine what it means to be the "producer" or "consumer" of visual culture itself. Fortunately for our purposes, the past decades have witnessed the emergence of countless new kinds of audiovisual material available for artistic (in)appropriation. In addition to official state and commercial archives, resources like vernacular collections, home movie repositories, and digital archives now provide the artist with a wealth of fascinating matter to reprocess, repurpose, and endow with new meaning and resonance. Founded in 2009 by Jaimie Baron, Greg Cohen, and Lauren Berliner, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a yearly showcase of contemporary, short-form, audiovisual works that appropriate existing film, video, or other media and redeploy them in “inappropriate” and inventive ways. This year marks the culmination of the Festival’s first decade, with a program that ranges from militant political documentary, uncanny TV supercuts, and raucous re-mix juggernauts, to quasi-DIY orphan film animations, haunting YouTube mash-ups oozing with existential teen angst, and a brooding digital experiment performed upon a single, black-and-white, still photograph. For the first time since its inception, this year’s festival will be guest curated by Marie-Pierre Burquier, Mariquita “Micki” Davis, and Allyson Unzicker. *Persistence & Loss,* By Joseph Clark, Canada, English, 35mm archival & 16mm archival, b/w and color, sound, 2021, 2:49. *The following images never happened*, By Noé Grenier, France, 2022, English, 16 mm on digital, color, sound, 7:12. *Al Atlal (The Ruins)*, By Raed Rafei, Lebanon, 2021, Arabic & English, English subtitles, digital video, color, sound, 15:37. *On the Line*, By TT Takemoto, United States, 2018, digital video & 16mm, color, sound, 6:40. *How the dead live*, By Marcelo Amorim, Brazil, 2018, Portuguese, English subtitles, digital video, b/w, sound, 3:22. *Ouroboros*, By Antonio Arango Vásquez, Mexico, 2018, Spanish, English subtitles, digital video & 16mm film archive, b/w, sound, 8:44. *JUST LIKE THE FILMS*, By Sara N. Santos, Portugal, 2020, English, digital video, b/w, sound, 10:00. *two sisters*, By Magdalena Bermudez, United States, 2021, English, digital video, color, sound, 7:46. *Dandelions in Virginia*, By Misael Oquendo, United States, 2022, English, digital video, color, sound, 5:29. *The Footprint of Freedom*, By Tom Rosenberg, United States, 2021, French & English, English subtitles, digital video, color, sound, 11:00. *Cinema as Ritual*, By Darren Wallace, United States, 2020, English, digital video, color, sound, 3:16. *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cornell Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d49c05b69&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, Cinema Cornell, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca NY *Lori Felker: Intrusions and Interruptions* with filmmaker Lori Felker in person Lori Felker is a filmmaker/artist, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her moving image work focuses on the ways in which we process, share and disseminate information, via screens, dreams, gestures, games, and dialogue. By employing and pushing these structures, she attempts to study the ineloquent, oppositional, delusional, frustrating, and chaotic qualities of human interaction. Lori works in a variety of mediums and has shown her work internationally at festivals and spaces including the Rotterdam International Film Festival; NYFF: Views from the Avant-Garde; VideoEx, Zurich; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal; Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival, Portugal; Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago; LA Filmforum; BAMcinemaFest, Brooklyn; Space Gallery, Pittsburgh. She is an Illinois Arts Council Artists Grant recipient, a Wexner Center Artist in Residence and a Fulbright Fellow. She lives in Chicago and is currently an Assistant Professor at DePaul University. *Spontaneous* (Lori Felker, 2020, 14min, 16mm to DCP) *Discontinuity* (Lori Felker, 2016, 14min, DCP) *Not You* (Lori Felker, 2021, 11min, DCP) *Milk Factory* (Corinne Botz, 2021, 11min, DCP) *Two Sons and a River of Blood* (Amber Bemak & Angelo Madsen Minax, 2021, 10min, DCP) *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Binghamton University <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4392f1aea4&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, Binghamton University, Lecture Hall 6, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, NY *Lori Felker: Recent Shorts 2016 – 2021* In-person presentation *Look Down & Find It* (made with Julian Day, 13 min., 2021) *Memoria Data* (12 min., 2018) *I Can’t* (5 min., 2020) *Not You* (10:41 min., 2020) *Discontinuity* (15:33 min., 2016) *Spontaneous* (13:53 min., 2020) TRT 70 min. LORI FELKER is a filmmaker, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her films celebrate the ineloquent, oppositional, frustrating, chaotic qualities of human interaction. She has made work in a variety of forms including, experimental film, video installation, music video, documentary, and fiction. Her short films and one feature documentary have screened internationally at festivals including Rotterdam, Slamdance, Ann Arbor Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, EXiS in Korea, Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal and Kinodot in Russia. She loves every facet of filmmaking and has worked as a cinematographer, editor, and/or actor for various artists and directors and has programmed for the likes of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Slamdance, and Roots & Culture Gallery in Chicago. She is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Grant, a Wexner Center Residency, a Brico Forward Fund and a Fulbright (Berlin, 2000). As of 2022, she is an Assistant Professor at DePaul University in Chicago. *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Topanga Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=59aee3ef26&e=857b71a9cb> 2pm PT, Rosewood Art Center, 1111 N Topanga Canyon Blvd #1135, Topanga, CA 90290 *HOW FILM SHAPES BEHAVIOUR - PIXELVISION SALON* Park at Froggy's 1105 N Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga, CA 90290 (right next door) part of Topanga Film Festival, HOW FILM SHAPES BEHAVIOUR - PIXELVISION SALON - Gerry Fialka, Director of the PXL THIS Film Festival, hosts a fun interactive salon on how film shapes behaviour through the lense of the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 toy video camera. Pixelvision is electronic folk art evoking the maxim: "The Balinese have no word for art, they do everything as well as they can." Lo-Fi Hi-Jinx. We'll explore the significance of this raw DIY moving image art tool through the percepts of Marshall McLuhan, George Seaurat, Salvador Dali, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Frank Zappa & more. James Wickstead invented the plastic camcorder and Fisher-Price produced it from 1987 to 1989. It records picture and sound directly onto audio cassettes, which creates its grainy look. Another distinguishing feature is its "in-focus" capability from zero to infinity. The "in your face" attitude restores a certain human vitality to the overpowering sensory overload that bombards us daily. It illustrates McLuhan's percept that television is tactile - you can practically touch the dots, all 2,000 of them (as opposed to the 200,000 you normally see on TV). Orson Welles said that a movie studio is "the biggest electric train set a kid ever had." On the other end of the spectrum, the PXL-2000 video camera is the cheesiest failed toy ever -- a train crashes on the playground. Yet, in the hands of visionary video-makers, it has become an essential tool of cutting-edge creativity. The irresistible irony of the PXL is that the camera's ease-of-use and affordability, which entirely democratizes movie-making, has inspired the creation of some of the most visionary, avant and luminous film of our time. More: Gerry Fialka [email protected] 310-306-7330 Laughtears.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Fialka https://www.facebook.com/events/949145489315187 *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Maenad Collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11ba7ef1f4&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, Maenad Collective, 46-55 Metropolitan Avenue, suite 305, Queens, NY 11385 *Memory in Decay* An immersive exhibit hosted by Maenad Collective/ 8mm films & related objects by Alex Faoro/live cello & sound processing by Alice Gerlach. Culling images from his catalogue of personal materials, artist and filmmaker Alex Faoro enacts various methods of decay to create colorful and synaptic films that explore the ontology of memory. Using self-made images and found footage - sometimes together - he produces transfixing works that convey the aesthetic and processual qualities of recall, and consider the complex relation between memory, materiality, forgetting and the moving image. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d37a925887&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *PSYCHO-GEO 1: SAN FRANCISKINO!* JOHN LAW + SOAPBOX DERBY + PEOPLE's PARK + The Bay Area's radical curiosity about both its natural and built environments is celebrated in this rollicking program of brave inquires and discovery! Heading the bill is Cacophony conspirator John Law's *The Known Unknown*, finally revealing some secrets of urban exploration in the Bay Area and beyond.--fascinating details on his many forays into the City's off-limits areas. John's 45-min show n' tell covers not only the sewers but bridge expeditions as well, with lots of forbidden footage from impossible angles. Supporting his oral history are reports on the Wharf, Playland, People's Park (via Anthony Buchanan), and even last spring's already-legendary MOMA Soapbox Derby (Gregory Gavin and Jake Scott). PLUS: Ellie Vanderlip's *faux* report on the disappearance of public water fountains, Jeremy Rourke's *What Is ATA?*, Steve McQueen's *Bullitt* promo (paired with Simon Cox' *Sideshow*), 16mm of the Niners in the '82 Superbowl, and free postcards of course. *$11 *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4033565250&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *Los Angeles Filmforum and Mezzanine present Light Field in Los Angeles* In person: Light Field Members Samuel Breslin, Emily Chao, Zachary Epcar, Trisha Low, tooth, Syd Staiti, and Patricia Ledesma Villon and filmmaker Alee Peoples All 16mm prints! Dedicated to the memory of Amy Halpern Filmforum and Mezzanine are delighted to present the inaugural L.A. screening with Light Field, an annual artist-run exhibition of recent and archival moving-image art on celluloid, traditionally held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2016, the Light Field festival is collectively organized by a motley crew of practicing artists, poets and filmmakers: Samuel Breslin, Emily Chao, Zachary Epcar, Trisha Low, tooth, Syd Staiti, and Patricia Ledesma Villon. All of the works in this show will be 16mm prints! The Bay Area has had a long and storied tradition of alternative moving-image exhibition, one that has been negatively impacted by recent developments including the closure of SFMOMA’s film program and the impending renovation of the historic Castro Theater. In spite of a global pandemic bringing further pressures to real estate and cost of living—not to mention the exhibition of artist’s cinema—the spirit of collective action and ambitious film curation have continued to find a home in Light Field. The group is unique in their desire to place both recent and archival experimental films into conversation with each other and to always prioritize a multiplicity of aesthetic and curatorial viewpoints. – Micah Gottlieb Mezzanine is an irregular independent and revival film series based in Los Angeles, developed and overseen by Micah Gottlieb. Programs are frequently done in collaboration with local artists, filmmakers, writers, curators and other luminaries from specific disciplines. For more information, and to subscribe to our newsletter, please visit mezzaninefilm.com. This program has been curated by the members of Light Field. Special thanks to Micah Gottlieb (Mezzanine), Patricia Ledesma Villon (Light Field), Mark Toscano, and Seth Mitter (Canyon Cinema). *Moon Streams*, By Mary Beth Reed, 2000, U.S., 16mm, color, silent, 6 min. *Configurations*, By James Edmonds, 2021, 8m, UK/Germany, 16mm, color/b&w, sound, 8 min., *Astor Place*, By Eve Heller, 1997, USA, 16mm, b&w, silent , 10 min. *Standing Forward Full*, By Alee Peoples, 2020, U.S., 16mm, color, sound , 6 min. *Letters*, By Dorothy Wiley, 1972, U.S., 16mm, color, sound, 11 min. *3-Minute Hells*, By Amy Halpern, 2012, U.S., 16mm, color, sound, 14 min. *NE Corridor*, By Joshua Gen Solondz, 2022, U.S., 16mm, color, sound, 7 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2700cf293c&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm-8pm PT, *GEARWAX: OLD VINYL, REPURPOSED* A bi-weekly online radio program featuring old LPs, 45rpm and 78rpm records. Hosted by Kathleen and Scott from San Francisco. Every other Sunday, 6-8pm PT! *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Riverwest Radio* https://www.riverwestradio.com/show/the-long-conversation/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e4c2a7488&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=592cfeb5b6&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. 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