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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d4e9bbb377&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9ab8ec07d2&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO] - Crossroads 2022 Online Echo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c7e5317f78&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22-October 16, online] - Let's All Be Lichen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bd9a1ed9cd&e=857b71a9cb> [October 10-November 10, New York, NY] - Up and Down the River <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2dbcb32bb1&e=857b71a9cb> [October 15, Montague, MA] - PSYCHO-GEO2: SoCAL <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4b739cb683&e=857b71a9cb> [October 15, San Francisco, CA] - Canyon Cinema Discovered: Trajectories of Self-Determination <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f2039a6ec3&e=857b71a9cb> [October 16, San Francisco, CA] - Canyon Cinema Discovered: Playing In the Dark: Watery Experiments <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f56dd8156d&e=857b71a9cb> [October 16, San Francisco, CA] - ausland-filme: Christin Turner <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a896acae1f&e=857b71a9cb> [October 16, Berlin, Germany] - James Fotopoulos’ Film Migrating Forms <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cebdc86853&e=857b71a9cb> [October 16, Paris, France] - Bradley Eros (& Co-Conspirators) Black Screen: Imageless Films, Performances <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=94603adff4&e=857b71a9cb> [October 20, New York] - A Synesthete's Atlas - Eric theise & Liz Draper <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a53924b737&e=857b71a9cb> [October 22, Minneapolis, MN] - Ephraim Asili: Measuring Time <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cac8d18624&e=857b71a9cb> [October 22, New York, NY] - Magick/Cirkus Gala <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cd5a28f9d8&e=857b71a9cb> [October 22, San Francisco, CA] - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d8516b3fbd&e=857b71a9cb> [October 23, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=04b96bc828&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4244735ab9&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE OCTOBER 15, 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=bcd182b9f9&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=be29d50e7a&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=e72972b1fd&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=8683354653&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=0d45ed8883&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=bc3260315d&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=3df0faa834&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *October 10 - November 10* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Flaherty NYC <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=785d7432ec&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, locations vary, see below *LET’S ALL BE LICHEN* let’s all be lichen is an Inukjuamiut’s response to 100 years of our namesake’s seminal film*. Featuring the works of largely circumpolar (Inuk, Sámi, Evenk and Sakha) filmmakers, the series weaves together works by artists who have harnessed their own power and distinct voice through the moving image. The series shimmers with personal histories, the spiritual anthropocene, questions of agency, memory, and urbanization, as well as a fierce and love-filled reclaiming of the arctic imaginary. With works by Siku Allooloo, Zinnia Naqvi, Sunna Nousuniemi, Lindsay McIntyre, Chris Marker, Nivi Pedersen, Svetlana Romanova, Lada Suomenrinne, Zulaa Urchuud, asinnajaq, and her father, world-renown filmmaker Jobie Weetaluktuk. let’s all be lichen is a five-part series that runs from October 10 to November 10, 2022 at Anthology Film Archives, e-flux Screening Room. Online programs will be announced shortly. The Opening Night will take place on Indigenous People’s Day, October 10, and will be hosted by Anthology Film Archives. The screening will be preceded by Inuit games in Albert’s Garden — all are welcome, RSVP required. Our closing event on November 10th will be at e-flux Screening Room. Additional screenings will be hosted on campuses thanks to the Colgate/Flaherty Distinguished Global Filmmaker Residency program, NYU Cinema Studies Department Friday Night Screening Series & NYU Center for Media, Culture and History, and on The Flaherty’s custom-built platform virtual.theflaherty.org <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=078eb97a61&e=857b71a9cb>. Audiences all around the world, stay tuned: details of the hybrid and online components will be forthcoming! --- program 1 --- LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF Monday, October 10, 7 pm Anthology Film Archives ** In collaboration with NYU Cinema Studies Department Friday Night Screening Series & NYU Center for Media, Culture and History, this screening will repeat on Friday, October 14th at Michelson Theater, NYU Department of Cinema Studies (721 Broadway 6th Floor). The event will be moderated by Iñupiat filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. Jobie Weetaluktuk, *INUKSHOP*, 2009, 2 min, digital Asinnajaq, *THREE THOUSAND*, 2017, 14 min, digital Jobie Weetaluktuk, *UMIAQ SKIN BOAT*, 2008, 31 min, betacam-to-digital --- program 2 --- OBSERVATIONS & LITTLE EPIPHANIES Monday, October 17, 7 pm Anthology Film Archives Siku Allooloo, *SPIRIT EMULSION*, 2022, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital Lindsay McIntyre, *SEEING HER*, 2020, 4 min, digital Zulaa Urchuud, *ULAANBAATARAZATION*, 2017, 3 min, 16mm-to-digital Zulaa Urchuud, *NUUDELCH KHANDLAGA (NOMADTITUDE)*, 2021, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital Lada Suomenrinne, *MUN & DON (YOU & ME)*, 2018, 2 min, digital Lada Suomenrinne, *Я неба (ME THE SKY)*, 2022, 17 min, digital --- program 3 --- SLOW GROWTH Tuesday, October 18, 7 pm e-flux Screening Room Sunna Nousuniemi, *BOSO MU RUOVTTOLUOTTA (BREATHE ME BACK TO LIFE)*, 2021, 24 min, digital Nivi Pederson, *PILLUARNEQ ERSIGIUNNAARPARA (HAPPINESS SCARES ME NO MORE)*, 2020, 70 min, digital --- program 4 --- OUT OF SIGHT, HELD IN MIND Monday November 7, 7pm Anthology Film Archives Zinnia Naqvi, *SEAVIEW*, 2015, 12 min, digital Zinnia Naqvi, *THE TRANSLATION IS APPROXIMATE*, 2021, 11 min, digital Zinnia Naqvi, *FARZANA*, 2021, 34 min, digital --- program 5 --- MUTATIONS Thursday, November 10, 7 pm e-flux Screening Room Svetlana Romanova, Chelsea Tuggle, *Тарыҥ SEASON OF DYING WATER*, 2022, 62 min, digital Chris Marker, *LETTER FROM SIBERIA*, 1957, 92 min, digital *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Montague Common Hall <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ca1cc2180&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Montague Common Hall, 34 Main St, Montague, MA 01351 *Up and Down the River* An evening of artist's film on place and placemaking by local filmmakers living along the Connecticut River. A program of 11 short-form films celebrating (but not limited to) work shot and screened on celluloid. When's the last time you saw film projected on film? How do artists live around you see and think about place? Have you ever used your own body to move a filmstrip through a projector? Come and try it out on a set of rewinds and Moviescope! Filmmaker Eric Stewart will be performing live sound to accompany his 16mm film Helios. *Down to the Water*. Hand-processed 16mm. B&W, sound. 05:00. 2022. Davey Bendiksen *Łódź:22592* . HD. 22:06. 2019. Abraham Ravett *Decroux’s Garden* . 16mm, color, silent. 4:00. 2012. Baba Hillman *Quaker City Home Movies: Pressing Cider* . Super 8 blown-up to 16mm, 2015, 3min., b&w, optical sound. Taylor Dunne *Unless You're Living It* . Hand processed 16mm transferred to HD. B&W, tinted and toned. 08:22. 2019. Sarah Bliss *To All Those* . Super 8 on 16mm. 6:48. 2020. Josh Weissbach *Helios* . 16mm. Color. 5:02. Eric Stewart *Arcadia Rolls I+II* . 16mm, color and b&w, silent, 5:00. 2017. Josh Guilford *Haunted* . 16mm transferred to HD. 02:22. 2020. Danielle Vishlitzky *Stories of Simulated Intimacy* . 16mm transferred to HD. 11:00. 2017. Emily Drummer *100 Ways to Cross the Border* . HD. Excerpt from 84 minute film. 2022. Amber Bemak Q&A with filmmakers follows the screening. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d2e6deaf9f&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *PSYCHO-GEO2: SoCAL* LERNER/HARRIS' DOC ON PURIFOY's DESERT ART-PARK Here's the premiere of prolific documentarian Jesse Lerner's marvelous exploration of Noah Purifoy's legendary sculpture-park in the desert around Joshua Tree. Jesse flies up from his Pitzer College duties to introduce this feature work, *The Fragmentations Only Mean...*,made with Sara Harris, that celebrates the storied career of this African-American *assemblage* artist from Watts, who retired from the California Arts Council in 1986, to spend the last 18 years of his life creating over 100 uncanny junk-sculptures in the high desert. Opening is a handful of shorts and performances about the SoCal landscape: Mission visionaries Bivoulab, with their immersive Virtual Reality piece *Re-Turn to Zabriskie Point* (via both projection and VR helmet), Kelly Sears' *Maximum Umbra*, Laura Gabbert's *Monument/Friendship Park*, on the border wall, and Yash Pathak's live musical recitation to the *Coast Daylight*, the most beautiful train-trip in the US (SF to LA). *$9 *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Canyon Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1aa7460e0&e=857b71a9cb> 2:10pm PT, The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA *Canyon Cinema Discovered: Trajectories of Self-Determination* Presented by Canyon Cinema, as part of its Canyon Cinema Discovered curatorial fellowship program. EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA’S EMBRACE OF JAZZ. Curated by Juan Carlos Kase Experimental cinema has long embraced American vernacular music as a generative model, whether it supplied a formal template, an affective inspiration, or a point of cultural reference. From the collective polyphony of Charles Mingus’ kinetic ensembles to the gale and squall of Joe McPhee’s storming cornet, the improvisational energies of jazz – as well as blues and other popular-modernist musics – have continued to inspire American avant-garde filmmakers. Collectively, the films in this program explore the myriad ways in which experimental cinema has drawn from African-American improvised music and embraced its spontaneous, collaborative, polyrhythmic, and lyrical energies. *Dufus (aka Art)*, Mike Henderson, 1970/73, 8 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm *Up and Atom*, Doug Wendt, 1970, 3 minutes, color, sound, 16mm *Not a Music Video*, Toney W. Merritt, 1987, 7 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm *Pilgrim*, Cauleen Smith, 2017, 8 minutes, color, sound, digital video *Duet for Trumpet and Camera*, Robert Fenz, 1992, 10 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm *Mirror Animations [Film #11]*, Harry Smith, 1957, 4 mins, color, sound, 16mm *28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark)*, Christopher Harris, 2009, 3 mins, color, silent, 16mm *The Clown*, Donna Cameron, 1998, 13 mins, color, sound, 16mm *Many Thousands Gone*, Ephraim Asili, 2014, 8 mins, color, sound, digital video *Four Women*, Julie Dash, 1975, 8 mins, color, sound, 16mm transferred to digital video *All My Life*, Bruce Baillie, 1966, 3 mins, color, sound, 16mm Online through October 22 at https://connects.canyoncinema.com/program/trajectories-of-self-determination-experimental-cinemas-embrace-of-jazz/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cb4bc9cd40&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Canyon Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=352bf96d53&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm PT, The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA *Canyon Cinema Discovered: Playing in the Dark: Watery Experiments* Presented by Canyon Cinema, as part of its Canyon Cinema Discovered curatorial fellowship program. PLAYING IN THE DARK: WATERY EXPERIMENTS. Curated by Chrystel Oloukoï Playing in the Dark engages the various ways in which blackness haunts the sea and is haunted by the sea. Borrowing from Toni Morrison, “playing in the dark” references the subdued Africanist presence which mediates imaginations of water in the wake of variegated yet entangled transoceanic slave trades but also takes seriously darkness as a subversive ecological milieu, against lures of transparency. In the works gathered here, nothing is left untouched by the confounding qualities of water and its corrosive opacities, from bodies to the environment, to the materiality of film itself. As such, “playing in the dark” also references attempts in Black experimental filmmaking to chart paths in which cameras do not write with light but probe shadows in search of “an aesthetics of turbulence whose corresponding ethics is not provided in advance” (Glissant, Poetics of Relation). *By the Sea*, Toney W. Merritt, 1982, 3 minutes, color, silent, 16mm *What the Water Said Nos 1-3*, David Gatten, 1998, 16 minutes, color, sound, 16mm *Aqua*, Samba Félix N’diaye, 1989, 12 minutes, color, sound, 16mm transferred to digital video *The Dislocation of Amber*, Hussein Shariffe, 1975, 32 minutes, color, sound, 16mm transferred to digital video *Giverny I (Négresse Impériale)*, Ja’Tovia Gary, 2017, 6 minutes, color, sound, digital video *Pattaki*, Everlane Moraes, 2019, 21 minutes, color, sound, digital video *What the Water Said Nos 4-6*, David Gatten 2006-2007, 17 minutes, color, sound, 16mm *Towards the Colonies*, Miryam Charles, 2016, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital video *Song for the New World*, Miryam Charles, 2021, 9 minutes, color, sound, digital video Online October 23-29 at https://connects.canyoncinema.com/program/playing-in-the-dark-watery-experiments/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b40305ca2f&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* ausland <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75f8446a68&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm GMT+2, ausland, Lychener Str. 60, 10437 Berlin *ausland-filme: Christin Turner* I have been debating where to go with the screening, and I suppose it’s more important to show where I am headed vs. where I have been. I think the series will be cracking open my relationship to mystery, ritual, and landscape. The program is 60 minutes long. The three most recent films are commissions, wherein I explored ideas in order to expand Vesuvius at Home into an experimental essay revealing how a mysterious mural depicting a Dionysian woman’s cult can unlock ancient secrets of Pompeii, Cinema and the Self. *Born to be Yves Klein Blue* (2016) - HD, 5min *What Happens to the Mountain* (2016) - HD & 16mm, 12 min *Vesuvius at Home* (2018) - HD, S8, 16mm, 14 min *Vulkan im Wörlitz* (2019) - 16mm, 5 min *A Dream in Red* (2020) - HD, 16mm, 35mm Nitrate, 11 min *Hymn to Dionysus* (Born of Semele) (2022) - HD, 5 min *Hymn to Dionysus* (The Liberator) (2022) - HD, 8 min ausland is an independent venue for music, film, literature, performance and other artistic endeavours. We also offer our infrastructure for artists and projects for rehearsals, recordings, and workshops, as well as a number of residencies. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The Film Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=864956b040&e=857b71a9cb> 5pm GMT+2, Cinéma L’archipel - 17 boulevard de Strasbourg, 75010 PARIS *James Fotopoulos’ film Migrating Forms* Screening & Artist Talk As part of the exhibition *The Mirror Mask* at The Film Gallery (on view thru Nov 12) we are very pleased to present a screening of James Fotopoulos’ 16mm film *Migrating Forms* (1999) A film that shocked New York’s film community and beyond at its first showing at Anthology Film Archives in the context of the NY Underground Film Festival in year 2000, *Migrating Forms* is a caustic, decadent, life-non-affirming, visionary feature 16mm film made by a then 23-year-old Fotopoulos as though channeling Baudelaire in portraying a love story à la “Les Fleurs du Mal” reframed within a Chicago urban wasteland. Fotopoulos, in considering the film today, writes: “Nothing has really changed in how I see it. I made it — and then moved on to the next film — I just put the films out there. When I think of it, I don’t think things have changed in terms of how I do things. I make what I feel, what I see at that time I am making it. And I don’t think anything has changed in what I think about film itself, in all its elements: a shadow world or dream place, that atmosphere, the fantastic… Meanings have to be in front of the camera to be seen.” Fotopoulos in attendance and available for Q&A following the screening. “...the film that stays with me the most… *Migrating Forms* has a formal purity and obsessive power that’s all too rare these days. It’s not a film you’d ever find at Sundance (Blair Witch is a party by comparison). It alone gives the Underground Film Festival a reason for being.” — Amy Taubin . *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bf2b1e2f07&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm ET, 525 W 29th St, 2nd floor, NYC, 10001 *Bradley Eros (& co-conspirators) Black Screen: Imageless Films, Performances* a night of live film, sound and olfactory performance by Bradley Eros and his “co-conspirators.” The event is taking place as part of our series of “Imageless” film performances — now in its final week — in connection and collaboration with the “Imageless Films” series at Anthology Film Archives Velvet, silk, leather, rubber, satin, whiskey, glass, fire, crystal, ice & liquids ~ with darkness & perfumes, metal & electricity ~ like nothing you've never not seen. Activated installations, with live sound & projections. — Bradley Eros & co~conspirators Please note: Masks are required for entry to our events at this time. *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MirrorLab <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=badb65df07&e=857b71a9cb> Doors 7:30p, Show 8p Central, 3400 Cedar Av S, Minneapolis, MN *A Synesthete's Atlas - Eric Theise & Liz Draper* An evening of real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, directed and accompanied by upright & electric bassist Liz Draper. 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 serrated. The flicker film as wayfinding device. Orphaned information and untethered symbology. Crowdsourced data with Swiss precision, and glitches a kilometer wide. OpenStreetMap as light show. This will be the first performance of *A Synesthete's Atlas* in the Midwest. While it's presented as the finale to the North American Cartographic Information Society's Annual Meeting it is open to the public. Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and real time performance he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, op artists, and the light and space movement as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography. A Synesthete's Atlas premiered with cellist Helena Espvall in Lisbon in April 2022 and has since been performed in East & West Coast US venues. Theise's 16mm films have screened across the United States, Canada, and France; he’s held residencies at Hangar (Lisbon), Signal Culture, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and he's received grants from the Interbay Cinema Society and Bay Area Video Coalition. Liz Draper, classically and jazz-trained versatile bassist, is fortuitously on break from an international tour with Low. She's performed, recorded and/or toured internationally with such groups as the Grammy Award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, Soul Asylum, Charlie Parr, The Rose Ensemble, Ben Weaver, Orkestar Bez Ime, and Davina and the Vagabonds. A professional musician since age 16, Liz has performed in an astonishing array of musical genres and ensembles, from jazz and classical to folk, metal, improvisational, experimental, Balkan, and chamber strings. Liz holds a Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance from the University of Minnesota and has studied at The School For Improvised Music in Brooklyn, New York. She was awarded a 2019 fellowship through Giant Steps Music Action Women, a partnership with the University of San Francisco. https://erictheise.com/ https://lizdraper.bandcamp.com/album/hours-solo-bass-e-p https://nacis.org/annual-meeting/current-meeting/ *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=88c7aca6f3&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm ET, 525 W 29th St, 2nd floor, NYC 10001 *Ephraim Asili: Measuring Time* an evening of live sound performance by Ephraim Asili taking place as part of our series of “Imageless Film” performances in connection and collaboration with the “Imageless Films” series at Anthology Film Archives. A Q&A with Ephraim Asili will follow the performance. New York-based artist Ephraim Asili will provide an improvised soundscape performance on the Boss SP-404 SX Linear Wave Sampler Sequencer, which was used to score several of his films, tapes, and most recently the vinyl record included in his recently published book, “Measuring Time” (VSW PRESS). “My first medium was sound/music. Eventually film replaced sound as my main mode of artistic communication. Whenever time permits and the spirit moves, I make audio sketches and notes, what I consider Hip Hop inspired aural journal entries. The audio-collage entries on the enclosed record were made with my vinyl record collection, a Technic 1200 turntable, a Boss SP 404 sampler, and a Tascam four track cassette recorder.” — Ephraim Asili Please note: Masks are required for entry to our events at this time. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0775ee635c&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco *MAGICK/CIRKUS GALA* DIEHL's *MISDIRECTIONS* Our *Supernatural Suite* opens with a mind-melting carnival ride, through both a rich legacy of the American circus subculture, and through the particular sideshow art of the sleight-of-hand magician. We celebrate the SF launch of Carl Diehl's utterly genius zine about his great-uncle Werner “Dorny” Dornfield. Carl sends in a custom video cut that draws from the chapbook itself, delving into Dorny's association with Harry Houdini, as well as a series of conversations with historians, performance artists, and magicians. ALSO: jaw-dropping contortionist footage, Kathleen Quillian's animation *The Conjuror*, and Craig Baldwin's live magic trick! As to the broader cultural phenomenon of the circus in the US, well, we DO have the very best material in the form of a 1949 16mm Technicolor, *Circus Train*. PLUS: *vérité* footage of the marvelous Bicentennial circus, also in luscious color. AND an excerpt from the recent miracle acquisition, *Soviet Circus* (if you can believe that!). *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1f334a118b&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=2e0a406bf9&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=d9eb973c16&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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