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*This Week [November 5 - 13, 2022] in Avant Garde Cinema* To receive the weekly listing directly via email rather than through Frameworks, just hit Subscribe <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=091193278b&e=857b71a9cb> . *DEADLINES APPROACHING* **** Enter upcoming calls for entry here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9cd2b4ec8c&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* Ongoing Films for Ukrainian Border Crossings <[email protected]?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%0a?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%20?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes> (No Dialogue + PG) 11.06.2022 SPECTRAL Expanded Cinema Residency: S.P.A.C.E <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=306e8e8cf3&e=857b71a9cb> 11.10.2022 Onion City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de23cfca00&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.13.2022 LOST IN TRANSLATION <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d4c7492c0&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=4240abb28a&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.18.2022 16mm Tips + Tricks Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6206965f38&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2022 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6698934809&e=857b71a9cb> (Second Deadline) 11.31.2022 Lightpress Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=28130472fd&e=857b71a9cb> 12.01.2022 Athens International Film + Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2b5b1ef278&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 12.15.2022 Light Field <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5dcfee2d53&e=857b71a9cb> 12.16.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0164f182e2&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 12.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5e64dd484e&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12a5202f40&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=66115f9089&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c06f2c918b&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a13e671e45&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71f8c9d063&e=857b71a9cb> 03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83edcb439d&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=28dc97df2e&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=35279010d6&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=579f827a62&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO] - Let's All Be Lichen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d7d1769477&e=857b71a9cb> [October 10-November 10, New York, NY] - Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=20758e26da&e=857b71a9cb> [November 2-5, Seattle, WA] - VISIONS: HÁ TERRA! By Ana Vaz <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=acc52a288f&e=857b71a9cb> [November 3-December 3, online] - Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: the Sun Quartet <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8050c0b529&e=857b71a9cb> [November 5, Los Angeles, CA] - Optronica1: Theise/Corcoran + Snider + Stark + 99 Hooker + <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b40931d15&e=857b71a9cb> [November 5, San Francisco, CA] - Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: New Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bea9c49d89&e=857b71a9cb> [November 6, Los Angeles, CA] - Mono No Aware Community Screening Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8dad94d09&e=857b71a9cb> [November 6, New York, NY] - The Last Forever: Live Cinema Performances By Scott Stark <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c80dc9876d&e=857b71a9cb> [November 7, New York, NY] - In Situ II: Benammar, Jobin-Paré & Rojas <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2b066ec8ad&e=857b71a9cb> [November 8, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Cinematic Syncretism: the Moving Images of Madi Piller <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=018f850151&e=857b71a9cb> [November 9, Ottawa, ON, Canada] - Moments of Perception: Experimental Film In Canada <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93d5c2a6c0&e=857b71a9cb> [November 9, Berkeley, CA] - Moments of Perception: Random Canadian Moments <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93ca0aa012&e=857b71a9cb> [November 10, Oakland, CA] - EC: Ernie Gehr <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4c48537355&e=857b71a9cb> [November 10, New York, NY] - Ultracinema X: Mexican Experimental Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cd14bd79f2&e=857b71a9cb> [November 11, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Filmmaker In Person: Scott Stark <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83f3ba5f8c&e=857b71a9cb> [November 12, New York, NY] - Incredibly Strange Music3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b21b27e960&e=857b71a9cb> [November 12, San Francisco, CA] - Secrets of the Shadow World <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d18792b830&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13 + 15, New York, NY] - EC: Franju / Genet <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fe0d5ab287&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13, New York, NY] - EC: Eggeling / Grant / Jacobs & Fleischner <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29130d4fdf&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5964051a92&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5aa16f5eb1&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE NOVEMBER 5, 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=96ff01eae1&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=529cb6b4bb&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=d3aedd71a8&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *October 10 - November 10* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Flaherty NYC <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7ff0d83775&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=e1548ef29c&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 *___________________________________________________________________* *November 2 - 5* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Interbay Cinema Society <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=547aab8fa8&e=857b71a9cb> 5, 7 & 9 PM Pacific Time, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue *Engauge Experimental Film Festival* The Engauge Experimental Film Festival, now in its 5th year, presents 4 evenings of experimental work originating on film. Program 1: Miriam Goi, Riccardo Palladino, Jennifer Hardacker, Rennie Taylor, Masha Godovannaya, Alexander Bickford, Wyatt Cunningham, Ignacio Tamarit & Tomas Maglione, Alex MacKenzie, Tracy Peters, Josh Weissbach, Kathleen Rugh, Erin Weisgerber. Program 2: Panu Johansson, Alexis McCrimmon, Dominic Angerame, Mike Hoolboom & Jorge Lozano, Camille Pueyo, Dave Johnson, Guillaume Vallée, Marcy Saude, Matt Soar, Penny McCann & Eric Walker, Ryan Marino, James Edmonds. Program 3: James Hollenbaugh, Nicky Tavares, Filip Markovinovic, Yanvin Zhao, Lisa Marr, Mary Trunk, Dagie Brundert, Federica Foglia, Lindsay McIntyre, Zazie Ray-Trapido, Tetsuya Maruyama, Anne-Marie Bouchard, Serge Gregory, Janis Crystal Lipzin. Program 4: Rocio Mesa, Douglas Urbank, Ruth Hayes, Mike Rollo, Krista Leigh Steinke, Marcus Maicher, Ans Mertens & Maika Garnica, Rana San, Tim Grabham, Jean-Jacques Martinod & Bretta C. Walker, Leandro Varela, Kalpana Subramanian, Patrick Muller, Sheri Wills. Program 5: Daniel Robin, Sarah Seene & Maxim Corbeil-Perron, Lisa Danker, Karan Talwar, Sarah Ballard, Cristiana Miranda, Linda Izcali Scobie, Kathryn Ramey, Zack Parrinella. Program 6: Francesca Svampa, Brandon Walley, Cecilia Araneda, Yuula Benivolski, Christine Panushka, Devin Jie Allen, Vicky Smith, Anna Kipervaser, Karel Doing, Luis Macias. Program 7: Kristin Reeves Solo Show and Expanded Cinema Performance. Produced and curated by the Interbay Cinema Society, co-sponsored by Northwest Film Forum. Also sponsored by The Stranger. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 3 - December 3* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=692e5b1540&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://visionsmtl.com/2022/ana-vaz/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ccbea8e3a2&e=857b71a9cb> *VISIONS: HÁ TERRA! by Ana Vaz* As part of its new online cinema series, VISIONS presents *HÁ TERRA!* by Ana Vaz with a text by Ralitsa Doncheva | 2016 | 16mm to digital | 12 mins 37 secs In *Poetics of Cinema*, Raul Ruiz writes that “films are like human beings, you look at them and they look back at you”. I think about this idea while watching *HÁ TERRA!* imagining the film’s body as a wild animal that preys on me as much as I glimpse at it. Does it sense my shame, my fear? I experience *HÁ TERRA!* as a choreography of gestures and gazes that hits like a rock. A bodily cinema where the eye blurs into the ear, ending in the shape of a mouth. Where one gazes at an animal, animal-like, and listens to the stories vibrating in the landscape while touching it. Where am I in this dream? Perhaps under the hand, hiding. Without a sense of self, levitating. Like a piece of clothing, floating at sea. There is no understanding without feeling, no justice without poetry. There is no encounter without a loss. No moving forward without paddling back to a fractured past that, like the swollen foot of the girl in the film, changes with the moon’s phases. Before language, before language. Back to the land. *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmforum / Whammy! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=525dd41865&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm PDT, Whammy! Analog, 2514 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026 *Colectivo los ingrávidos: The Sun Quartet* In person: Davani from Colectivo los Ingrávidos Masks are still required at Filmforum shows - N95 or KN95. 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. We are delighted to welcome Colectivo los ingrávidos from Mexico for two public screenings, one at Whammy! Analog on November 5, and one at 2220 Arts on Sunday November 6. In the November 5th program, we present The Sun Quartet, four films bonded by their poetic and ecstatic examination of politics and political traumas in Mexico. Their films are real knockouts, highlights of any mixed program in which they are included, stunning to eye and ear, opening new possibilities for “experimental film.” Prepare to be dazzled. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=73250c3599&e=857b71a9cb> 8p Pacific, ATA, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA *OPTRONICA1: THEISE/CORCORAN + SNIDER + STARK + 99 HOOKER +* OC's semi-annual expanded cinema spectacular happens to coincide with the launch of *Moments of Perception*, Jim Shedden's book on experimental cinema in Canada, and so Mr. Shedden, just in from the Art Gallery of Ontario, will say a few words before the fireworks begin. Among the playlist are four(!) live film-performances, clustered around Eric Theise/Kevin Corcoran's *Synesthete's Atlas*, real-time digital cartography with textural percussion and manipulated field recordings. Greta Snider and Derek Headboggle up the ante with *Instructions from Ancestors*, the world premiere of this live-tracked double-projection retinal-rivalry master-work from the much-loved SFSU prof, who spins her zine sensibility into *avant* stereoscopy. Fellow Bernal multi-projectionist Scott Stark also debuts a piece, *Music in the Air*, miraculously re-animating long-buried (in Stockton!) Kodachrome treasures through his ingenious propeller shutter. AND: National touring titan 99 Hooker mops the gallery floor with his over-loaded and over-amped Live-AV--even another Cali premiere!-- *Attention* *Surplus Disorder*. PLUS: a supporting posse of interstitial zingers, boasting Amy Halpern's (RIP) *Single Wing Turquoise Bird *light show!! *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1cf2e98519&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm PDT, 2220 W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057 *Colectivo los ingrávidos: New Works, including the premiere of Tierra en Trance* Masks are still required at Filmforum shows - N95 or KN95. 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. We are delighted to welcome Colectivo los ingrávidos from Mexico for two public screenings, one at Whammy! Analog on November 5, and one at 2220 Arts on Sunday November 6. In the November 6th program, we are delighted to host the West Coast Premiere of the work supported by our commission, “Tierra en Trance”, along with three more works from the past year. The utterly absorbing filmmaking of these four films carries the viewer into hypnotic spaces, drawing on images of contemporary, historical, and mythic Mesoamerica, run through a wide range of filmic manipulations to reflect on the social and political issues of Mexico and beyond. Their films are real knockouts, highlights of any mixed program in which they are included, stunning to eye and ear, opening new possibilities for “experimental film.” Prepare to be dazzled. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d05858108b&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAM* Featuring the world premiere of films made locally with the support of MONO in September & October 2022. This program will include films made through the educational initiatives of MONO NO AWARE, a cinema-arts nonprofit organization and film positive community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience. Established in 2007 and based in downtown Brooklyn, MONO NO AWARE presents monthly artist-in-person screenings, facilitates equipment rentals, operates a film distribution initiative, maintains wet & dry lab facilities, and hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary artists and international filmmakers whose work incorporates Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or altered light projections as part of a live performance or installation taking place November 30-December 4. For more info visit: www.mononoawarefilm.co *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0ceb5cc910&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC *The Last Forever: live cinema performances by Scott Stark* Using found family photographs (mostly 35mm slides), Scott Stark cracks open the family archive to generate imaginative and at times illogical narratives. *The Last Forever* (in collaboration with Polish filmmaker Kamila Kuc) unravels a story of a missing spouse and possible murder, while *Underlying Persistent Volumes (parts 1 and 1.1)* populates an instructional video for software development with photos of birthday parties, road trips and Christmas rituals. *Night Out of Song*, a live double-16mm projector performance using a whirling shutter to alternate and scatter light beams, posits abstractions lifted from the urban palette and deposited atop shapes both organic and inorganic in an ebb and flow of movement through the city. A kind of breathing. PLUS live music! *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *la lumière collective* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d1ae720452&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5 *IN SITU II: Samy Benammar, Moïa Jobin-Paré & Bernardo Alvarado Rojas* Proposed by la lumière collective, IN SITU II is a series that focuses on unique audiovisual works and live sound performances by local artists passionate about cinematic material, experimental moving images and sound art. Using a variety of media and techniques (Super 8, photo scanning, scratching on film, digital, video), Samy Benammar deals with political issues in films built on past personal and family experiences. Moïa Jobin-Paré produces animated films where the moving image meets pictorial interventions. Scratching directly on silver-plate photographs allows her to build imagined places, where the visceral aspect of the creative gesture pierces the screen. The electro-acoustic compositions of Bernardo Alvarado Rojas accompany the vitality and artistic characteristics of the film programme on offer. Rojas contributes to audiovisual installations and brings a particular sensitivity to the moving image as a composer and sound engineer. In addition, two surprise films made by Samy Benammar & Moïa Jobin-Paré will be presented! PROGRAMME *Assia* | Samy Benammar | 2017 | HD | 6 mins *Sous-ex *| Samy Benammar | 2022 | HD | 7 mins *Colosse *| Samy Benammar | 2022 | HD | 18 mins *LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE BY BERNARDO ALVARADO ROJAS* | 20 mins *Ondulations* | Moïa Jobin-Paré | 2013 | HD | 14 mins 35 secs *4min15 au révélateur* | Moïa Jobin-Paré | 2015 | HD | 4 mins 44 secs *Sans objet* | Moïa Jobin-Paré | 2019 | HD | 6 mins 31 secs *Sans objets avant/après* | Moïa Jobin-Paré | 2019 | HD | 3 mins *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Café Ex <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=87791a1b7a&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, ON, Canada *Cinematic Syncretism: The Moving Images of Madi Piller* Peruvian-born Toronto-based experimental moving image creator Madi Piller is one of Canada’s most aesthetically inventive, philosophically searching, and stylistically protean film artists. Working in various celluloid (Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm) and digital formats, Piller’s remarkable career includes everything from animated films to installation work, from nonrepresentative poetic experimental films to quasi-documentary digital explorations to everything in between! In fact, Piller’s impressively varied career also includes having worked in the world of advertising and music videos (even shooting one for pop sensation Shakira). In addition to all of the above, Piller is also an independent moving image arts programmer and curator. In Piller’s five Café Ex selections, striking cinematic combinations of media offer daring explorations of memory, identity (individual and familial), exile, longing and desire, and the powerful, insistent literal and metaphorical presence of landscape, whether in Peru or here in Canada. As you will see, from these combinations of image-making techniques and technologies come distinctive new ways of perceiving and expressing the worlds we inhabit and experience. After two and half years away from our home at Club SAW, we are so happy and so honoured to present, as the first guest artist in the 24th season of Café Ex, the versatile, talented, passionate moving image creator Madi Piller. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* BAMPFA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=62d25ccdd3&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA *Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada* Curator Jim Shedden In Person. In a personal account of four landmark Canadian experimental filmmakers, Jim Shedden will briefly describe the experience of seeing each of these films in his teens and how that experience blew open his sense of what cinema could do and what audiences could experience. He will also discuss the recently published Moments of Perception, which provides a history and critical framework for understanding Canadian experimental film, while also arguing that the tradition is an international one with porous borders. In the book, the term experimental reflects heterogenous approaches to cinema: sometimes magical, sensual, intellectual, emotive moving-image works that are engaged with political, personal, medium-reflexive, and philosophical themes. *Sailboat*, Joyce Wieland, Canada, 1967 *Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper*, David Rimmer, Canada, 1970 *Maltese Cross Movement*, Keewatin Dewdney, Canada, 1967 *Wavelength*, Michael Snow, Canada, United States, 1967 TRT: 65min *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=652be716e1&e=857b71a9cb> 730pm PT, Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th Street, Oakland, CA *Moments of Perception: Random Canadian Moments* Curator Jim Shedden In Person. Program presented in Association with Canyon Cinema and Shapeshifters Cinema This program is presented in celebration of Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada (2021), Barbara Sternberg and Jim Shedden, eds. with essays by Michael Zryd and Stephen Broomer, published by Goose Lane Editions. In Moments of Perception, we note the fluidity of the term “experimental,” the concept of “Canada” and the notion of nation in general. “Film” and “video” have proven to be fluid terms as well, as digital has rendered analog forms of cinema almost obsolete. And yet we decided to subtitle our book Experimental Film in Canada, a shorthand for a cinema that is more poetic than narrative, aesthetically challenging, frequently difficult and concerned with the medium, even as that has more to do with files than films these days. And “Canada?” As a nation, we are many things, a work-in-progress with shifting boundaries and an evolving understanding of our history, geography and politics. The land we occupy is Indigenous and most of us are settlers. Much of our land is unceded. This is only becoming accepted as we speak. The filmmakers in our book can be defined as Canadian, broadly speaking. The films we discuss were not always made in Canada. For this program, I have deliberately chosen work that was not only made in Canada, but represents different places in Canada, sometimes personal and sometimes grander. What becomes apparent is how vast and variable the country is, how sparsely populated it is, and how difficult it is to get anything like a coherent sense of the country and the people who live there. These films, then, are little stabs at Canada. (Jim Shedden) *Terminal City* (1982) by Chris Gallagher; 16mm, color, sound, 10 minutes, print from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre; *16mm Postcard* (2005) by Amanda Dawn Christie; b&w, sound, 3 minutes, print from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre; *Cattle Call* (2008) by Mike Maryniuk & Matthew Rankin; digital video, color, sound, 4 minutes, exhibition film from Mike Maryniuk; *Sight* (2018) by TJ Cuthand; digital video; color, sound, 4 minutes, exhibition file from Vtape; *Spanky to the Pier and Back* (2008) by Guy Maddin; digital video, b&w, sound, 4 minutes, exhibition files from the Winnipeg Film Group; *Low Tide* (2019) by Eva Kolcze; digital video, color, sound, 4 minutes, exhibition file from the maker; *Conservatory* (2013) by Stephen Broomer; 16mm color, sound, 4 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema; *Taylor Creek* (2017) by Dan Browne; 16mm, color, silent, 4 minutes, print from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre; *My Pandemonia* (2020) by Peter Lynch; digital video, color, sound, 10 minutes, print from the maker; *action: study* (1987) by Richard Kerr; 16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes, print from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre; *Light Study* (2013) by Josephine Massarella; digital video, color, sound, 13 minutes, exhibition file from Canyon Cinema; *Landfall* (1983) by Rick Hancox; 16mm, color sound, 11 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema. TRT: 73 minutes *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=82137125ff&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: ERNIE GEHR* “Ernie Gehr [makes] cinematic magic, often from the least likely materials. Indeed, Gehr’s most famous film, *SERENE VELOCITY* (1970), in which the filmmaker transforms an institutional hallway in the basement of a classroom building at the State University of New York at Binghamton into a nexus of visual and conceptual energy, merely by adjusting his stationary camera’s zoom lens every four frames for twenty-three minutes, can be read as Gehr’s manifesto. For Gehr the most everyday spaces and the most mundane actions offer the imaginative filmmaker the most interesting potential. No other filmmaker, with the exception of Michael Snow, has so relentlessly and so productively explored the capacity of filmmaking to develop the visual (and auditory) opportunities afforded by the cinematic apparatus itself.” –Scott MacDonald, A CRITICAL CINEMA 5 Brand new prints! *REVERBERATION* (1969, 23 min, 16mm) *SERENE VELOCITY* (1970, 23 min, 16mm, silent) *STILL* (1971, 54 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives) Total running time: ca. 105 min. *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* la lumière collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=063961e1e7&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm ET, 7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5 *ULTRAcinema X: Mexican Experimental Cinema* ULTRAcinema is an experimental film and found footage festival that has been held in Mexico for 10 years. The festival is run by the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegants and showcases non-commercial, experimental film and video works. In particular, the festival is dedicated to the exhibition of works by emerging and established filmmakers exploring experimental audiovisual genres such as: essay, poem, dance, performance, music, ritual, abstract, avant-garde, confessional, archival, documentary, as well as any techniques, formats, or strategies that involve appropriation. The festival has a special interest in artistic works released under creative commons licenses. This program is a survey of recent experimental film and video made in Mexico. The works in this program were exhibited at the 10th anniversary of ULTRAcinema. The theme of the festival for this year was Hacker Edition. Given the recent global lockdowns and quarantines, the festival was looking at artistic responses to a world reduced to the size of your home, a world where our interactions are mediated by a computer. *Aprendiendo a cantar [Learning to Sing]* | Carolina Meza | 2021 | 4 mins *Trayectos [Paths]* | Verónica Marín Cienfuegos | 2020 | 10 mins *El Peticionario (Ejercicio # 1) [The Petitioner (Exercise #1)]* | Edén Bastida Kullick | 2021 | 8 mins *Bienvenido a Habbo Hotel [Welcome to Habbo Hotel] *| Anna Karen Miranda Ayuso | 2020 | 7 mins *Lo inaudito [The Unheard Of]* | Valeria Vicente | 2020 | 17 mins *Colonizador incrustado [Embedded Colonizer]* | Marcela Cuevas Ríos | 2021 | 2 mins *Las brigadas negras [The Black Brigades]* | Arian Sánchez, Macarena Hernández Abreu | 2019 | 10 mins *Antropos* | Carolina Jaschack | 2021 | 5 mins *El Color del Mar [The Colour of the Sea] *| Gabriela Granados Quiroz | 2021 | 5 mins *Filmador e hijo [Filmmaker and Son] *| Antonio Bunt | 2018 | 4 mins *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ccc9e1d667&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *Filmmaker in person: SCOTT STARK* Acclaimed experimental filmmaker Scott Stark has produced more than 85 films and videos since 1980, including seminal works such as *NOEMA* (1998), *ANGEL BEACH* (2001), *THE REALIST* (2013), and many others. He has also created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations utilizing film and video, as well as elaborate photographic collages comprising large grids of images. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the cinema, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience. On Saturday, November 12, Stark will visit Anthology for a rare presentation of three recent works: the digital pieces *IS IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY* (2015) and *DAMNATION* (2022), and the multimedia work *LOVE AND THE EPIPHANISTS (PART 1)* (2019), which encompasses 35mm, slides, live sound, and other elements. Total running time: ca. 65 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4fca1244a3&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC3* STAND BY FOR FAILURE: A NEGATIVLAND DOCUMENTARY + The third of our Fall ISM GIGS proudly proffers the World premiere of Ryan Worsley's *Stand by for Failure*, thee latest and greatest of several docs to address the utter brilliance of our very own Negativland. Born in the East Bay in the early '80s, this pioneering audio-collage ensemble has marvelously demonstrated how the material of a distinctive practice of sound art can be retrieved and “redeemed” from the utterly sick detritus of pop culture. Worsley's feature wraps interviews, archival excerpts, and a zillion satirical stabs around concert clips that feature Mark Hosler, Jon Wobbly Leidecker, and Sue-C. Opening the program is a wild mix of audio-visual oddities that set the stage for Worsley's group portrait: Cuts from Negativland's out-of-print DVD *My Favorite Things*, Standish Lawder's *Dangling Participle,* Joe Milutis/Joker's *Illuminations*, and highlights from Craig Baldwin's '95 *Sonic Outlaws*, shoe-horning in glimpses of satellite members Chris Grigg, the Weatherman, and the band's wellspring and the much missed genius behind KPFA's longest-running program *Over the Edge*...Don Joyce! *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2022* *November 13 + 15* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=54d445eb15&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *SECRETS OF THE SHADOW WORLD* November 13 @ 5pm ET November 15 @ 7:30pm ET *SECRETS OF THE SHADOW WORLD* by George Kuchar, 1989-99, 135 min, digital The film ostensibly chronicles Kuchar’s attempts to make his own “flying saucer” movie, pulling from footage from across the ’90s. What emerges is a loving tableau of the strange company he keeps, an off-the-wall tribute to aliens, cryptids, B-movies, and all things gonzo Americana. Preceded by: *THE TOWER OF THE ASTRO-CYCLOPS*, George Kuchar, 1994, 17.5 min, digital A comparably zany study of ufologist Jacques Vallée. Kuchar writes: “A portrait of a French scientist and author who explores the heavens above and beyond the call of duty. A man unafraid to turn over the rocks that litter a terrain of terror and titillation: a terrain of things that go jump in the night and hide by day only, to re-surface in our nightmares. The screening on Sun, Nov 13 will be introduced by writer and musician Doug Skinner! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e445afdf91&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: FRANJU / GENET* Georges Franju, *BLOOD OF THE BEASTS / LE SANG DES BÊTES*, 1949, 20 min, 35mm-to-digital. In French with English subtitles. “This documentary on the slaughterhouses of Paris is one of the great masterpieces of the subversive cinema; here, for once, we are face to face with death, and are neither protected nor cheated. […] A dream-like quality permeates the intense realism of the images; a surrealist intent – akin to Buñuel’s slitting of the eyeball in *UN CHIEN ANDALOU* – is discernible in this anti-bourgeois film. But the eyeball, however shocking, was fictional; *BLOOD OF THE BEASTS* is real.” –Amos Vogel, FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART Jean Genet, *UN CHANT D’AMOUR*, 1950, 26 min, 16mm, silent “Genet’s only film – hounded by the censors, unavailable, secret – is an early and remarkably moving attempt to portray homosexual passions. Already a classic, it succeeds as perhaps no other film to intimate the explosive power of frustrated sex…. Like all Genet’s early work, the entire film is, in effect, a single onanistic fantasy, filled with desperate frustration and sensuous nostalgia.” –Amos Vogel, FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART “There’s no smoke without fire; *UN CHANT D’AMOUR* is a communion in which Genet takes us into the prison in order to liberate us from it.” –Derek Jarman Total running time: ca. 50 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b4338a46be&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: EGGELING / GRANT / JACOBS & FLEISCHNER* *SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE*, Viking Eggeling (1924, 8 min, 35mm) *COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS*, Dwinell Grant (1941, 5 min, 16mm, silent) *STOP MOTION TESTS*, Dwinell Grant (1942, 3 min, 16mm, silent) *COLOR SEQUENCE*, Dwinell Grant (1943, 3 min, 16mm, silent) *BLONDE COBRA*, Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner, 1959-63, 35 min, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up. With Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Total running time: ca. 60 min. *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=7fbfdd6503&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=255c1d6377&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=7eb05e89a7&e=857b71a9cb> . 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