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*This Week [November 12 - 20, 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=d78c611389&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) 11.13.2022 LOST IN TRANSLATION <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a979768c44&e=857b71a9cb> 11.15.2022 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ccd1d4f2f8&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.17.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9123d76294&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.18.2022 16mm Tips + Tricks Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5558eea3c&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2022 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2a31d0e929&e=857b71a9cb> (Second Deadline) 11.30.2022 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=713a1b1378&e=857b71a9cb> 11.31.2022 Lightpress Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3ded39950e&e=857b71a9cb> 12.01.2022 Athens International Film + Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b8cfb4f9c&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 12.13.2022 LMCC Arts Center Residency & 2023 SU-CASA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=07c067ce45&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2022 Light Field <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e0e94006ba&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2022 Onion City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6efbdb549c&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 12.16.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc056ee267&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 12.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5a0bcac4f&e=857b71a9cb> 01.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f180c229f0&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=95a0b09642&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ec4c41ca3&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2a8347f690&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ffdf5f7ef7&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc761453a4&e=857b71a9cb> 03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7f26576088&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=df5bd7efa4&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=154f3a9c93&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d7d277281&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO] - VISIONS: HÁ TERRA! By Ana Vaz <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1334f644fb&e=857b71a9cb> [November 3-December 3, online] - Filmmaker In Person: Scott Stark <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fbaf6e2db2&e=857b71a9cb> [November 12, New York, NY] - Incredibly Strange Music3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=abf69719d3&e=857b71a9cb> [November 12, San Francisco, CA] - Secrets of the Shadow World <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=43adb01fea&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13 + 15, New York, NY] - EC: Franju / Genet <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9b2748af76&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13, New York, NY] - EC: Eggeling / Grant / Jacobs & Fleischner <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e563cfbe1e&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13, New York, NY] - Pool Party 2022: Three Parts Group Screening <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=60036c5a0c&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13, New York, NY] - Anne Rainwater, Eric theise + Krys Bobrowski <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bffebea316&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13, Oakland, CA] - Films By Massimo Bacigalupo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=274dbfe659&e=857b71a9cb> [November 14, New York, NY] - An Evening With Simon Liu <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=16d62dbbb2&e=857b71a9cb> [November 14, New York, New York, NY] - EC: Jerome Hill <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c3bfad9bf7&e=857b71a9cb> [November 15, New York, NY] - aCinema: Notes For A Future Ecology <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=31d4386267&e=857b71a9cb> [November 15, Milwaukee, WI] - J.P. Sniadecki: Two Films, A Decade Apart… <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5cc3f438e4&e=857b71a9cb> [November 16, Los Angeles, CA] - Millennium Film Journal No. 76 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4fb3d5e39f&e=857b71a9cb> [November 16, New York, NY] - Films by Chick Strand on 16mm <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5adcd61d1&e=857b71a9cb> [November 18, Pittsburgh, PA] - Film Diary NYC 2.0 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a9b4bce66&e=857b71a9cb> [November 18, Santa Fe, NM] - Eighth Annual Report <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=52d00f02db&e=857b71a9cb> [November 18-20, Petaluma, CA] - Archive Fever2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cee849dd71&e=857b71a9cb> [November 19, San Francisco, CA] - Lewis Klahr: Circumstantial Pleasures <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e4b873d05a&e=857b71a9cb> [November 20, Los Angeles, CA] - Gary Adlestein Memorial Film Screening <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bc91d91b06&e=857b71a9cb> [November 20, Reading, PA] - Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e9a1718f97&e=857b71a9cb> [November 20, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11d625a4f8&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a75d2c5d86&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE NOVEMBER 12, 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=bcb35dd533&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=7493494d6c&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=fd56308408&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 3 - December 3* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4136270ca8&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=d3b050270f&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 12, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e9af9afce&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=e657eec3bb&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=6fb3c3e8c4&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=6d528d7491&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=c50d8a72a4&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. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fb4da0190f&e=857b71a9cb> 3:00pm ET, 4:30pm ET, 6:00pm ET, 525 W 29th St, New York, NY Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/pool-party-2022/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5fc6bae0ed&e=857b71a9cb> *Pool Party 2022: Three parts group screening* Advance In Person Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/4r5w3bx7 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3ac4fe7f4c&e=857b71a9cb> All New York-based artists will be in attendance. Online tickets available at 6pm ET day of show for full program here: https://microscopegallery.com/pool-party-2022/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1429501001&e=857b71a9cb> The 3-part program features a wide-ranging program of artists, established and emerging, from around the globe utilizing and incorporating Super 8mm, 16mm film, 35mm photographs, miniDV, HD, 4K, stop-motion, 3D animation, computer graphics and other formats. The works were selected from our most recent Open Call. With the majority of works made while the artists were entrenched in lock-down, the event finds many considering their bodies, personal spaces, computer screens, and relationships with nature — other animals and insects, oceans and plant life, and the light from our sun, and more. Several highly personal works celebrate everyday moments with friends or unearth previously unprocessed memories and histories. Others focus on acts of protests; themes of social justice and war; the excess living styles of the super rich; utopian proposals of world community and connection; and a longing for and appreciation of connections. The program will take place in 3 parts of approximately 65 minutes each, with tickets available for individual parts or for the full program. --- PART 1, 3pm ET --- Yuula Benivolski // Jean-Michel Rolland // Megan Dieudonné & Andrea Rüthel // Bayu Kusuma // Yacob Bizuneh // Lorenzo Gattorna // Vivian Ostrovsky // Zorica Čolić // Anuj Malhotra // Abigail He // Duane Peterson III. --- PART 2, 4:30pm ET --- Nate Dorr // Zainab Aliyu // Kamila Kuc // Diane Nerwen // Jung-Chul Hur // Hana Yoo // Lucas Kane // Rodrigo Nava Ramirez // Francisco Rojas // Sabine Gruffat // Gloria Chung // Shon Kim. --- PART 3, 6:00pm ET --- Niyaz Saghari // Michael Lyons // Tetsuya Maruyama // Allyson Packer & Jesse Fisher // Anna Kipervaser // Sara Bonaventura // Yinglin Zhou // Paul Khahliso Matela Zisiwe // Agustina Markez // Jeri Coppola. Masks Required *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Mosswood Sound Series <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be7cc7fc39&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, mosswood chapel, 3630 telegraph, oakland, ca (2 blocks from macarthur bart, enter 2nd door on 37th st) *ANNE RAINWATER ERIC THEISE + KRYS BOBROWSKI* ANNE RAINWATER performs San Francisco composer Danny Clay's Ten Pages for piano and electronics, written for her in 2016. The program also features Ian Power's Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi, which takes a melody by the Italian composer and augments it and distorts it through meditative and penitent variations. ERIC THEISE and KRYS BOBROWSKI present real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps, and custom-built electro-acoustic instruments. Evenings of street grids, rivers, islands, and curiosities from the built environment. Saturated colors. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology. masks and vaccination required. performers may be unmasked *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7d5f08458b&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 pm ET, 525 W 29th St, New York, NY *Films by Massimo Bacigalupo* An evening of rarely screened films by Italian experimental filmmaker Massimo Bacigalupo, on the occasion of one of his seldom visits to New York. Bacigalupo will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening. After first receiving attention at the age of 19 for his independent, medium-length film *Quasi una tangente (Almost a tangent)* (1966) — which like many of his early works was shot on standard 8mm — Bacigalupo soon became a central figure in the experimental film scene in Italy as both artist and critic/theoretician. As a student in Rome he was a founding member of the Cooperative del Cinema Indipendente in 1967 — which was modeled after the Film-makers’ Co-operative in New York — and wrote film criticism for magazines such as “Film Critica,” “Bianco & Nero,” and Mekas’ “Film Culture.” Bacigalupo’s filmmaking has been informed by American poetry and the lyrical and anti-commercial forms of the New American Cinema in New York. Shot on black & white 8mm film and often edited in camera, early ambitious films in terms of length and aesthetic, like* Quasi una Tangente* and *60 Metri per il 31 Marzo (200 ft. for March 31st)*, nevertheless retain a sense of the personal. And, at the time they were made, they could be shared with friends in a living room via a small-sized 8mm projector. Located outside of the perceived epicenter of the film revolution in the US, through his oeuvre — which is infused with experimentation, everyday life, and friendship — Bacigalupo offers a unique contribution to the history of avant-garde and independent film. The filmmaker has always had deep connections with the United States. His mother was born and raised in Elizabeth, PA, and between 1973 and 1975 he lived in New York, where he attended Columbia University and received his PhD in American Literature. *QUASI UNA TANGENTE (ALMOST A TANGENT)*, 8mm film, b&w, 1966, 37 minutes *60 METRI PER IL 31 MARZO (200 FEET FOR MARCH 31st)*, 8mm film, b&w, 1968, 15 minutes *HER *, 16mm film, color, silent, 1968, 5 minutes *CARTOLINE DALL’AMERICA (POSTCARDS FROM AMERICA)*, 16mm film, color, 1975, 25 minutes *RICERCAR*, 16mm film, color, sound, 1973, 8 minutes 30 seconds Masks Required *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Museum of Modern Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ff18c775c4&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY *An Evening with Simon Liu* Join filmmaker Simon Liu for a deep dive into his wide-ranging body of analog-based experimental films. Made between 2014 and 2022, Liu’s sensorially overwhelming repositories of memory and feeling function as transnational time machines. Over this relatively short period, Liu—who was born and raised in Hong Kong and is now based in New York City—has created a psychogeographic archive of his homeland as it undergoes rapid historical changes, a body of short films that powerfully reflect on his place of origin and family, including breathtaking 16mm multiple-projection performances (two of which, *Highview* and *Harbour City Redux*, are featured in this program). His work channels the post-digital, post-colonial, and postmodern qualities of a contemporary diasporic experience. A slew of labor-intensive image-making processes, utilizing both the camera and film lab, reveal a search for unpredictable images, reflecting dislocation and pushing visual experimentation to extremes. This is exemplified by the evocatively titled E-Ticket, a collage comprising 13,000 individual 35mm splices that frantically merges the kaleidoscopic and the encyclopedic in the obliteration of a personal archive. Liu’s unique combination of editorial precision and trust in light and photochemical processes allows for moments of tender clarity amid frenetic abstraction. *Signal 8*, *Happy Valley*, and *-force-*, a trio of works that subvert documentary form, made amid the ongoing sociopolitical upheaval in Hong Kong, consciously avoid explicit imagery of the unrest, but eeriness, pain, and violence haunt the edges of their hypnotic frames. When working in Hong Kong, a city already richly captured in its own cinematic history, Liu focuses an expansive gaze on overlooked details, elevating the mundane to conjure ghostly whispers from the concrete. The digital animation in *-force-*, made in collaboration with sibling Jennie MaryTai Liu, is especially notable for this post-Internet, analog filmmaker, suggesting a point of no return. These deeply enigmatic works can be viewed as clues to what it means to call a place home. Liu’s films wonder, can we ever go back? Perhaps only through images. *Harbour City Redux*. 2015/22, Hong Kong/USA. Directed by Simon Liu. Quadruple 16mm projection performance. 12 min. *Signal 8*. 2019. Hong Kong/USA. Directed by Simon Liu. 14 min. *E-Ticket*. 2019. Hong Kong/USA. Directed by Simon Liu. 13 min. *-force-*. 2020. Hong Kong/USA. Directed by Simon Liu & Jennie MaryTai Liu. 9 min. *Happy Valley*. 2020. Hong Kong/USA. Directed by Simon Liu. 13 min. *Highview*. 2017. Hong Kong/USA. Directed by Simon Liu. Quadruple 16mm projection performance. Silent. 22 min. Program approx. 87 min. All films produced by Rachael Lawe. Sound from *Signal* 8 and E-Ticket by Devin Johnson. Sound from *-force-* by Andrew Gilbert. Sound from *Harbour City Redux* and *Happy Valley* by LiuSeeLiu. Please note this program contains strobing effects *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=117a5ef2c0&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *EC: JEROME HILL* These 35mm prints are the result of a preservation project undertaken by the Museum of Modern Art. *DEATH IN THE FORENOON* (1934/66, 2 min, 35mm) *CANARIES* (1969, 4 min, 35mm) *FILM PORTRAIT* (1971, 81 min, 35mm) “*FILM PORTRAIT* is an autobiography in the sense that it deals explicitly with Jerome’s most personal life’s relationship to film. It draws on film clips taken in his childhood and his whole childhood involvement in art and life. It comes closest to any kind of filmic answer to Proust. […] *FILM PORTRAIT* is, I believe, the only direct autobiography we have in film. There is Jonas Mekas’s WALDEN, which is diary but not autobiography in a strict sense. We have Cocteau’s *BLOOD OF A POET*, *ORPHEUS*, and *TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS*. One could say that this last is autobiographical, but it is also allusive and poetic; whereas Jerome’s *FILM PORTRAIT* is a very straight attempt to present autobiography on film. Of course, subsequently, James Broughton’s *TESTAMENT* and my own *SINCERITY & DUPLICITY* series of autobiographical films were very much inspired by Jerome’s *FILM PORTRAIT* as well as by Jonas’s *WALDEN*. […] Jerome Hill’s films are great because they are poised on wit and achieve a balance – a gentle, intentional, particularly American balance.” –Stan Brakhage, FILM AT WIT’S END Total running time: ca. 90 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *aCinema* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75099985bb&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm CT, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, 273 E Erie St, Milwaukee, WI *aCinema: Notes for a Future Ecology* This screening is being held at MIAD in conjunction with the current exhibition *THEN AS NOW: Woodland Pattern 1980 - 2022* which celebrates the COVID-delayed 40 year anniversary of our host venue Woodland Pattern Book Center *Reverie At Noon* | 03:13 | Melina Kiyomi Coumas *The Decameron I* | 03:09 | Kim Kielhofner *The Well-Prepared Citizen’s Solution* | 04:45 | Lydia Moyer *Inner Smoke* | 11:39 | Kim-Sanh Châu (in collaboration with Ray Lavers) *Call Me Back* | 02:38 | Melina Kiyomi Coumas *What’s Best (part 2)* | 03:15 | Lydia Moyer *MIDLAND* | 06:59 | Kim-Sanh Châu *The Coldest Day Of The Year* | 08:46 | Kim Kielhofner We will have screening artists Kim Kielhofner (in-person) and Kim-Sanh Châu + Lydia Moyer (virtual via Zoom) available for a Q&A following the program! *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Academy Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4a8d758f35&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 *J.P. Sniadecki: Two Films, A Decade Apart…* In person: J.P. Sniadecki A thinker, anthropologist, and filmmaker, J.P. Sniadecki works between the US and China, producing an incredible array of films that explore collective experience and the possibilities of cinema in the scope of sensory ethnography and observational filmmaking. In his films, Sniadecki employs cinematic techniques and an engaging narrative approach to help create idiosyncratic spaces between the filmmaker(s), subject, and audience, in which radically inquisitive and responsive senses and sympathetic sensibilities are allowed. Land, sky, and Sundog—a recluse who lives in the Sonora Desert and the central character compositions of *A Shape of Things to Come* (2020)—together construct a type of rhythmic pattern that humanely reminds the audience of the bleak truth about our fragile biological and intellectual capacities. In this collaboration co-directed with Lisa Marie Malloy, Sniadecki focuses an intimate lens on Sundog’s everyday life and his unpredictable characteristics, which are constantly recreated by the filmmakers and Sundog himself. In the Sonoran Desert, the idea of a harmony of nature is ironically challenged by the contradictions developed by a human being and traces of civilization—Sundog's resentment toward mainstream society, which harms and terrorizes the environment, brings him to this desolate nature, but his off-the-grid everyday life somewhat resembles the societal structure he dismisses. In this fascinating work, the complexities of undefinable relationships between humans and their surroundings (whether conventional society or vast nature) are candidly explored, showcasing poetic compositions of cinematography and soundscape. Following *A Shape of Things to Come* is *Foreign Parts*, Sniadecki’s 2010 collaboration feature with Verena Paravel. The film starts with a loud mechanical noise over the title text, followed by shots of a blue Chevrolet van being mercilessly dismantled by a mechanic from Willets Point, Queens (aka the Iron Triangle), where a community of auto body shops, salvage junkyards, and a small mom-and-pop bar/restaurant are run harmoniously along with residents who live on and/or off the neighborhood streets. Despite the significantly urgent matter (the city’s redevelopment/gentrification plan) hanging above their heads, the members of the Iron Triangle community steadily and zealously live their lives, fulfilling their daily functions and responsibilities. The sympathetic gaze of the camera and the filmmakers is modest and subjectively fair, portraying the stories of all characters encountered, including non-living ones such as car scraps, mud, and rain. Programmed and notes by Hyesung ii *A Shape of Things to Come*, DIRECTORS: J.P. Sniadecki, Lisa Marie Malloy. 2020. 77 min. USA. Color. English. DCP. *Foreign Parts*, DIRECTORS: J.P. Sniadecki, Verena Paravel. 2010. 80 min. USA/France. Color. English, Spanish, Hebrew. DCP. Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d95dfff1c&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York *MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 76* Celebrating the publication of Millennium Film Journal No. 76, this program consists of six recent experimental media works from around the world. The subjects cover a wide range: from the ambiguity of gesture in the time of Covid (Eva Giolo, Belgium); the hurricane-battered East coast of India (Paribartana Mohanty, India); and a discussion between a mother and her filmmaker son about the almost-lost Pechanga language of the Luiseño Indians (Sky Hopinka, USA); to a layered animation produced as spiritual practice (Alisi Telengut, Canada/Mongolia). The program also includes fascinating works by Vika Kirchenbauer (Germany) and Chiara Caterina (Italy). Programmed by Grahame Weinbren and Jonathan Ellis. Chiara Caterina *L’INCANTO [ENCHANTMENT]* Italy, 2021, 20 min, digital Eva Giolo *FLOWERS BLOOMING IN OUR THROATS* Belgium, 2020, 8 min, 16mm-to-digital Sky Hopinka *KICKING THE CLOUDS* U.S., 2021, 15 min, 16mm-to-digital Vika Kirchenbauer *THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER* Germany, 2021, 15 min, digital Paribartana Mohanty *RICE HUNGER SORROW* 2021, 20.5 min, single channel video. Commissioned by VH AWARD of Hyundai Motor Group. Alisi Telengut *FOURFOLD* Canada/Mongolia, 2020, 7 min, digital Total running time: ca. 90 min. *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pittsburgh Sound + Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=95df51b0ba&e=857b71a9cb> 8PM EST, Eberle Studios, 229 E. 9th Ave, Homestead, PA 15120 *Films by Chick Strand on 16mm* Pittsburgh Sound + Image is excited to partner with scholar, author, and archivist Adam Hart to co-curate a show we've all dreamed of for years: an evening of films by Chick Strand! Strand is a legend, known for co-founding landmark of the avant-garde film world, Canyon Cinema, and then going on to herself create many movies. In the process, she refined her own radical melding of avant-garde and documentary film forms. Yet her work has largely remained unavailable outside of the occasional 16mm presentation. Those few that circulate online are mostly poor quality digital transfers. Join us for these Strand films, in sensuous 16mm, just as they were meant to be experienced: *Waterfall Cosas de mi Vida Cartoon le Mousse Kristallnacht Anselmo and the Women* Doors open at 7:30, the films dance at 8. BYOB *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a29c0e2e85&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe *FILM DIARY NYC 2.0* Festival selections of experimental non-fiction films that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker and the world they encounter. A showcase highlighting the most heartfelt but most overlooked cinema: diary films, home movies, and personal documentary. Films by Sonnie Wooden, Grant Conversano, Pegah Pasalar, Devon Narine-Singh, Jason Younkman, RS Magtaan, Ilina Bhatia, Peixuan Ouyang, Ji Stribling, Grace E Mitchell, Hunter Blu, Jard Lerebours. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 18 - 20* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Camera Obscura <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ea1370e2f&e=857b71a9cb> times variable, Hotel Petaluma [205 Kentucky Street, Petaluma, CA] *Eighth Annual Report* The reconvened Camera Obscura Film Society, under the coordinated co-direction of Amanda Salazar and Jonathan Marlow, will present its Eighth Annual Report from 18- to 20-November in its long-anticipated return to Petaluma, California (roughly forty-five minutes north of San Francisco)! Over the course of this extraordinary weekend, "unusual, antique and experimental" films will be presented at a pop-up cinema constructed inside the grand ballroom of the one-hundred-year-old Hotel Petaluma. Selections of longer-works-paired-with-shorter-works will be screened along with filmmaker Q&As and related events at the venue (and a handful of assorted nearby locations in downtown Petaluma). The original Camera Obscura Film Society was founded in 1957 by Lawrence Jordan and Bruce Conner (along with Roger Ferragallo, Willy [Wilma] Werby, Ben Payne and a handful of others) in the years following the closing of Frank Stauffacher's legendary "Art in Cinema" series at SFMOMA. COFS' eclectic programs continued at occasional intervals until the organization ceased to exist in 1962 (although research by Steve Seid suggests that it largely folded after Conner and Jordan disappeared in late-1958 to open the Movie, a cinema in North Beach dedicated to underground film). With CO-VIII-AR, the reconstituted Camera Obscura has existed for a handful of years longer than its original incarnation! EXPANDING CO-Independence: Annual Reports are occasionally accompanied by Quarterly Reports around the world and supplemental Monthly Reports in Petaluma and surrounding areas. In the intervening period, Camera Obscura has featured works by its illustrious original founders and over one-hundred-twenty other remarkable filmmakers. As in prior Reports, the precise program of film screenings and events of CO-VIII-AR will only be announced in the days prior to opening night. *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=55a83499b4&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *ARCHIVE FEVER2* PRELINGER's HOME MOVIES + BEST OF FOUND FOOTAGE FEST Prelinger present! Yes, walking amongst us is thee planet's most visionary polymath facilitating Public Memory, and tonight he brings us a pair of revelatory programs of amateur films originally curated for the esteemed Art Gallery of Ontario. One is the broader *Panorama*, a half-hour “montage” of clips from personal, small-gauge cameras, surveying everyday life in the last half of the 20th Century. His other “special collection” is a super-rare cache of 8mm material from an African-American scene-maker in the River Rouge (Detroit) area from the dynamic '63-'67 period, including dances, street views, and historic anti-racism protests. After Rick's home-movie hour, we return for a 40-min. *focus* on archival production in the Art World, drawing from the fantastic *Found Footage *boxset recently published by the eponymous Spanish collective...their marvelous catalog boasting exquisite digital versions of essential pieces from the last 60 years. Five of their 16 selections will sparkle again on our big screen---landmark works from Jeff Keen, Cécile Fontaine, Thomas Draschan, Jean-Gabriel Périot, and Gianikian/Lucci. Free film cans! *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a82f1167aa&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm PT, 2220 W. Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90057 *Lewis Klahr: Circumstantial Pleasures* We’re happy to welcome back Lewis Klahr with the long-overdue Los Angeles premiere of his feature film *Circumstantial Pleasures*! “Leaving the seductive mid-century imagery that he’s best known for far behind, *Circumstantial Pleasures* looks at the raw materials of contemporary life and distills them into a demanding and powerful work of anxiety, alienation, agitation, and abrasion. The film consists of six short works (ranging from two to 22 minutes) that convey the experience of being alive in the 21st century in ways that few other films have…---Chris Stults, Assistant Curator Film/Video Wexner Center for the Arts. In person: Lewis Klahr *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Moviate + Albright College <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ca3669b8e&e=857b71a9cb> 3PM EST, 1621 N. 13th St, Reading, PA *Gary Adlestein Memorial Film Screening* A special screening of films by Gary Adlestein, who passed away in June. This special memorial will be held in Klein Hall, where many Berks Filmmakers screenings occurred since the early 90's. A curated program of his Super-8, 16mm, and video pieces will be screened at 3pm on Sunday November 20th. Klein Hall is located in the Center for the Arts at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9ac9821c15&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=091d7fdfd6&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=e15d7c4d84&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=1f37e6efd2&e=857b71a9cb> . 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