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*This Week [November 26 - December 4, 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=fd9efd0b3f&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) 11.28.2022 Atelier 105 Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=46709c64e6&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b34841a084&e=857b71a9cb> (Half-time Deadline) 11.30.2022 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4d8cecb7cd&e=857b71a9cb> (Second Deadline) 11.30.2022 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11240ef63f&e=857b71a9cb> 11.31.2022 Lightpress Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=45dde67aaa&e=857b71a9cb> 12.01.2022 Athens International Film + Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d0219c21bd&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 12.05.2022 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d513929822&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 12.13.2022 LMCC Arts Center Residency & 2023 SU-CASA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7f1212c4b9&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2022 Light Field <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=19639cf951&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2022 Onion City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=882d24cf28&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 12.16.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c207714dd&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 12.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2b5bfe2008&e=857b71a9cb> 01.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b652fcb78&e=857b71a9cb> 01.15.2023 Video Art Miden <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a7bc8fdc3d&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2023 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b3c630e1c3&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=27a0ef03d3&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d63162c73&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d3d7bfda3&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2794153a72&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=30537a2bba&e=857b71a9cb> 03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=161c204d17&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3ceb4a8ca3&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=613571a453&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, 2023, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68661a3fee&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=4d59bbe553&e=857b71a9cb> [November 3-December 3, online] - No-Thanks Giving <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f76dea85e0&e=857b71a9cb> [November 26, San Francisco, CA] - Aliens and Afterlifes <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1cf9a20c95&e=857b71a9cb> [November 28, Toronto, ON, Canada] - EC: Kubelka / Lye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=da90c422b0&e=857b71a9cb> [November 29, New York, NY] - EC: George & Mike Kuchar <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0d7abbd2bc&e=857b71a9cb> [November 29, New York, NY] - Vegetal Beings // Recent Works By Janelle Vanderkelen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=77502dd4bf&e=857b71a9cb> [November 30, Washington, DC] - MONO NO AWARE XVI <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6e8bb29f08&e=857b71a9cb> [November 30-December 4, New York, NY] - VISIONS: Fern Silva <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=804c43e4f3&e=857b71a9cb> [December 1, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Super 8 Cinema Soirée - 12th Edition <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4915d8ac68&e=857b71a9cb> [December 2, Ft. Lauderdale, FL] - Ukrainian Benefit <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f5536c1b0&e=857b71a9cb> [December 3, San Francisco, CA] - EC: George Landow, AKA Owen Land <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5afff3b21a&e=857b71a9cb> [December 3, New York, NY] - Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e1951f4ac6&e=857b71a9cb> [December 3-13, New York, NY] - Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6b7b20a735&e=857b71a9cb> [December 4, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=127ea3d4cb&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc070715cb&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE NOVEMBER 26, 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=157a939666&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=17292e229a&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=3e0fbe97a2&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=f1f9ff66db&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=9b68640331&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 26, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=723a2ae0f1&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *NO-THANKS GIVING* PECK'S *EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES* + NATIVE VOICES Our yearly No-Thanks Giving program in this case is anchored on the must-see *Exterminate All the Brutes* project of Haitian auteur Raoul Peck. The internationally acclaimed firebrand is a prolific maker (*The Young Karl Marx*, *Lumumba: Death of a Prophet*, *I Am Not Your Negro*) who has masterminded this recent round of radical histories about settler colonialism and slavery in the Americas, and his frank, even shocking docu-drama looks at the arrival of the Europeans from the Native POV. Hosting the program is guest MC Luis Booth (Passamaquoddy) who shares his own *Any Face, Whatever Body*, as well as introducing an eclectic set of opening shorts on Indigenous issues: Crazyboy/Ybarra’s hilarious *Peace Pipeline*, Vice’s *What Really Happened at Standing Rock*, and Melting Barricades*’ *triptych of stories from their utterly unique perspective--the intuits of Greenland! *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* PIX FILM Collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a53b37208e&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00pm ET, PIX FILM Gallery, 1411 Dufferin Street Unit C, Toronto, ON, Canada *Aliens and Afterlives* SCREENING WITH VISITING ARTIST MATTI HARJU. Co-presented by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and PIX FILM Finnish filmmaker Matti Harju will joins us on Monday, November 28, 2022 to present a screening of his cinema work. This screening complements his residency as the third resident in LIFT’s collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki and the Saastamoinen Foundation. The residency supports the making of a new film-based work by alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts. Matti has been at LIFT since September 9th and will show a selection of his films as well as an excerpt of a work in progress film. *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c03fbbf4dd&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: KUBELKA / LYE* Peter Kubelka *MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN* (1955, 16 min, 35mm, Made in collaboration with Ferry Radax.) *ADEBAR* (1957, 1 min, 35mm) *SCHWECHATER* (1958, 1 min, 16mm) *ARNULF RAINER* (1960, 7 min, 35mm) *OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE* (1966, 12 min, 16mm) “Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world’s greatest filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above all else…etcetera.” –Stan Brakhage Len Lye *TUSALAVA* (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent) *RHYTHM* (1957, 1 min, 16mm) *FREE RADICALS* (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm) A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of ‘scratch’ or ‘direct’ filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film’s surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms. Total running time: ca. 60 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=246de8aa29&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR* All films in this program have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. *PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF* 1961, 14 min, 8mm-to-16mm “It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy.” –George Kuchar *TOOTSIES IN AUTUMN* 1963, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm A cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. *A TOWN CALLED TEMPEST* 1963, 33 min, 8mm-to-16mm Rarely has the cinema equaled such a spectacle! Seldom have movies probed so deeply into the rotten core of hypocrisy and weakness! Total running time: ca. 65 min. [*A TOWN CALLED TEMPEST* is not part of the Essential Cinema collection, but is included here as a special bonus.] *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Rhizome DC <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bbf679bbbb&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC *Vegetal Beings // Recent Works by Janelle VanderKelen* *A Valley Without Trees*, 2021, 16mm transferred to video + Sound, 6:00. *Language Unknown*, 2022, 16mm transferred to video + Sound, 6:10. *The Floating World*, 2019, Video + Sound, 17:00. *Clara: Forever Summer*, 2016, Video + Sound, 8:00. *The Neighbors*, 2016, Video + Sound, 12:00. *Grey Blue And*, 2015, Video + Sound, 5:30. *Ambrosia*, 2017, Video + Sound, 4:30. Q-and-A the artist follows, over Zoom. Janelle VanderKelen is an artist, curator, and educator based in Milwaukee, WI. Her films and intermedia installations imagine alternative acts of relation between imperfect bodies (human, vegetal, geological, or otherwise) and make the agency of plants visible through experimental time-based media processes. She co-curates a monthly screening series called aCinema and teaches film and video at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she received both her MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres and her MA in Intermedia Art. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 30 - December 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MONO NO AWARE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5ce00b7eff&e=857b71a9cb> times and locations vary, see below *MONO NO AWARE XVI* Our 16th anniversary exhibition of expanded cinema, performance, installation and sculpture that incorporates the moving image. The five night program is free, all ages and open to the public thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Our year-round partners, Festival sponsors-in-kind and every person who takes a workshop, rents equipment, purchases film, printed publications or services from our organization. *NOV 30 : OPENING NIGHT* 7 PM EST, 718 Studios * 130 Thames Street Brooklyn New York US Premiere screening of two commissioned works on film: *THE MEADOW*, 2022 / 16MM HAND DRAWN CELL ANIMATION by MAYA EDELMAN (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) & *FOR CYNTHIA*, 2022 / 16MM 2-D CUT OUT & HAND DRAWN ANIMATION by NORA RODRIGUEZ / (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) *DEC 1 : "STEPPING INTO THE FRAME" by Lauren Noelle Oliver* 7 PM EST, CPR - Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Ave Brooklyn, NYC RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cpr-mono-no-aware-stepping-into-the-frame-tickets-467631306827 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c2caf4adf2&e=857b71a9cb> *STEPPING INTO THE FRAME*, 2022 / 16MM TRIPLE PROJECTION PERFORMANCE by LAUREN NOELLE OLIVER (QUEENS, NEW YORK) ALL AGES, FREE TO ATTEND, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC VERY LIMTED SEATING * MUST RSVP - MASKS MUST BE WORN, PROOF OF VAX & BOOSTER WILL BE MANDATORY *DEC 2 : INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ONE : "SELF-REFLECTING PROPHECY"* 7 PM EST, 718 Studios * 130 Thames Street Brooklyn New York US INSTALLATIONS: *BEAM* / 16MM DUAL-PROJECTION INSTALLATION BLINN & LAMBERT (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *BIRTHDAY SONG* / 16MM TRIPLE-CHANNEL INSTALLATION ERICA SHEU 徐璐 (LOS ANGELES, CA UNITED STATES), *COAL* / 16MM SINGLE-CHANNEL INSTALLATION JANIKA HERLEVI (OSTROBOTHNIA, VAASA, FINLAND) PERFORMANCES: *THREE FACES SCRATCHED IN CLOTH* / 16MM TRIPLE-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH OPTICAL SOUND PEACHES GOODRICH (PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES), *AND SO SHE WORKS... 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AS DOES SHE* / 16MM DUAL-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH OPTICAL SOUND SIMONE BARROS (DURHAM, NC, UNITED STATES), *THREE CITIES WINTER ‘19* / 16MM PROJECTION W/ STEEL GUITAR PERFORMANCE CONNOR KRAMERER (QUEENS, NY, UNITED STATES), *DUST IN THE WIND* / 35MM SLIDE PROJECTION WITH LIVE NARRATION HSUAN-KUANG HSIEH (LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES), *THE FOLLY* / 16MM SINGLE-PROJECTION WITH LIVE NARRATION HASABIE KIDANU (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *PULSOS SUBTERRANEOS / UNDERGROUND PULSES* / 16MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND ELENA PARDO (MEXICO CITY, MEXICO) MILLIE WISSAR ((LIMA, PERU & VANCOUVER, CANADA) MISHA MARKS ((WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND & MEXICO CITY, MEXICO), *OPTIPUS: THE MUSHROOM ARCHIVE* / 16MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND & POETRY BRADLEY EROS (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LARY 7 (MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) SCOTT KIERNAN (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) RICHARD SYLVARNES (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) RACHAEL GUMA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) GABRIEL GUMA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) MASAMI TOMIHISA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LELE DAI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) AVA WITONSKY (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LINH VU (MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) BENJI SANTOS (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LILY SAROSI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *INTER-PROGRAM DJ / HOUSE *DJ SPAWTR (BROOKLYN, NY, US) & MARCO ENRI ( BROOKLYN, NY, US)* Free, All Ages & Open to the public *DEC 3 : INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM TWO : "OUT OF SHADOWS CAST"* 7 PM EST, 718 Studios * 130 Thames Street Brooklyn New York US INSTALLATIONS: *TOUCHING THE RUMBLE OF MELTING* / 16MM INSTALLATION NUNG-HSIN HU (LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES), *EVERYTHING COMES FULL CIRCLE* / 16MM INSTALLATION LILAN YANG (PROVIDENCE, RI UNITED STATES), *INTO THE NIGHT* / KINETIC SCULPTURE RAY CHANG (BURBANK, CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES) PERFORMANCES: *MERE DIL MERE MUSAAFIR */ 16MM SINGLE-PROJECTION WITH LIVE NARRATION JULIA ZANIN DE PAULA (BENTO GONÇALVES, BRAZIL) IMAN SELACHII (LAHORE, PAKISTAN), *WHEN THE SEEDS SAY ENOUGH* / S8MM DUAL-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND & NARRATION DOMINICK RIVERS (BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, UNITED STATES), *NOWADAYS* / MULTI-FORMAT MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE TESSA HUGHES-FREELAND (NEW YORK, NEW YORK UNITED STATES), *DEVOTION* / 16MM SINGLE-PROJECTION WITH LIVE SOUND SARA SCUR (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) HUGO WAI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *THE LOVESICK SERPENT* / 16MM SINGLE CHANNEL-PROJECTION WITH LIVE SOUND CHAE YU (SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA), *CONTENT WARNING* / 16MM SINGLE-CHANNEL PROJECTION WITH SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE AYANNA DOZIER (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *SEVEN SINS OF MEMORY* / 16MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND IEVA BALODE (RIGA, LATVIA) MAKSIMS ŠENTEĻEVS (RIGA, LATVIA) Free, All Ages & Open to the public. *DEC 4 : **"DEPRIVATION" by Caity Arthur* 7PM & 8:30PM EST, The Wythe Hotel Cinema, 80 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn NY RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eRrl_Yyi2P5xMFTK5Hm7P4BhXszN7EAqIRGSTYDVmBg/viewform?edit_requested=true <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=18b5813901&e=857b71a9cb> *DEPRIVATION* / 16MM FILM WITH OPTICAL SOUND - CAITY ARTHUR (BROOKLYN, NY, US) & CHANDLER ARTHUR (BROOKLYN, NY, US) Just a year after losing their partner, Chuck is still battling nightmares and paranoia, leading them to believe that what appears in the shadows is all in their mind. They quite quickly find themself unable to explain the unusual hauntings and surreal visions that seem to keep intervening. Are these delusions of sleep paralysis a product of repressed grief, or are they actually real? Centered on the repercussions of trauma, *Deprivation* asks what limitations there are when it comes to blurring reality from personal fear. Free, All Ages & Open to the Public *THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5d599e22ed&e=857b71a9cb> 6 pm ET, cinémathèque québécoise, 335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montréal, QC, Canada *VISIONS: FERN SILVA* In collaboration with Tënk + the cinémathèque québécoise, VISIONS presents *ROCK BOTTOM RISER* by Fern Silva, on 35mm with artist in attendance *ROCK BOTTOM RISER* | 2021 | 35 mm | 70 mins >From the earliest voyagers who navigated by starlight, to present-day astronomers scanning the cosmos for habitable planets, explorers have long made Hawaii the hub for their searching. Today—as lava continues to flow on the island—another crisis mounts as scientists plan to build the world’s largest telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s most sacred and revered mountain. In his dynamic feature debut, Fern Silva examines myriad encounters with an island world at sea. Drawing from subjects as seemingly disparate as the arrival of Christian missionaries and the controversial casting of Dwayne Johnson as King Kamehameha, the film weaves a vital tapestry of post-colonialism and pop culture with cinematic brio and a wry wit. *Rock Bottom Riser* is an essential document and an exhilarating tour-de-force, a palimpsest that traverses geology, ethnography and astronomy. *FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Super 8 Cinema Soirée <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5f5f85d1b6&e=857b71a9cb> 7 PM (EST), MetroLab, 111 East Las Olas Blvd, Ft Lauderdale, FL *Super 8 Cinema Soirée - 12th Edition* Join us in celebrating the 12th edition of the Super 8 Cinema Soirée! 20 never-before-seen films, shot and exhibited on super 8! The Super 8 Cinema Soirée (est. 2006) is distinct in that none of the films are viewed by the filmmakers before the screening. Participants are not allowed to preview or edit their films. What’s shot in-camera is what’s shown. Each participant gets one chance, one reel, and one take, premiering them at a one-night collective event. Sound is done separately, often designed, edited, and mixed post-shoot. The 2022 exhibition marks the first since 2019, no thanks to COVID-19. So come on out for some exciting new films, food, and bevy. It's free to attend and open to the public. *SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f12071b477&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *UKRAINIAN BENEFIT* CURTIS' *TRAUMAZONE* + STONE's *UKRAINE ON FIRE* + In our ongoing collaboration with our fave non-profit Humanity Now, benefiting international war refugees, here's a program of mostly docs on Ukraine and Russia. Featured is the new and utterly astonishing *TraumaZone* (*Ep.7*) by UK comp-doc master Adam Curtis! The last of his 7 hours on the “Fall of Democracy” in Russia contextualizes Putin's rise and posits Ukraine as a casualty of the Old Empire's political and economic implosion. The first hour of our program is constituted by hefty excerpts from a pair of provocative histories of the past decade of Ukrainian upheaval: Eugeny Afineevsky's *Winter on Fire *and Oliver Stone's (!) *Ukraine on Fire*, the latter offering a little-seen perspective on Ukrainian antisemitism and that nationalism for which the Kremlin reserves the word “Nazism”. Comparing Stone's lighting-fast editing style to the decidedly elliptical leaps of Curtis proves a special treat, especially with our added exemplar of Dziga Vertov, whose *Enthusiasm* pops up. AND the downright jaw dropping *Playing Apocalypse*, by UCB grad Aleksandra Simonova (in person), which parlays her documentation of Odessa's historical role-players in scary Cold War tunnels into a larger allegory on dystopian subcultures in the beleaguered country. *$8-$100 (out-of-towners can donate *here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a38376248a&e=857b71a9cb>* ). *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=23ae99fc68&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND* “The unique contribution of Land’s work lies in the fusion of intellectual reason and, significantly, the humor that distances it from the supposedly ‘boring’ world of avant-garde film. Having explored the basic properties of the celluloid strip itself in early works such as FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR…, his attention turned to the spectator in a series of ‘literal’ films that question the illusionary nature of cinema through the use of word play and visual ambiguity. His work often parodies experimental film itself by mimicking his contemporaries and mocking the solemn approach of film theorists and scholars.” –Mark Webber, TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND *FLEMING FALOON* (1963, 6 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR EDGE LETTERING, SPROCKET HOLES, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC.* (1965-66, 5 min, 16mm, silent) *DIPLOTERATOLOGY* (1967/78, 7 min, 16mm, silent) *THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER* (1968, 9 min, 16mm) *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY* (1969, 5 min, 16mm) *REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION* (1970, 5 min, 16mm) *WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?* (1972, 13 min, 16mm) *THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT* (1973, 6 min, 16mm) *A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA* (1974, 11.5 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH…*, *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY*, and *FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR…* have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Total running time: ca. 70 min. *___________________________________________________________________* *December 3 - 13* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=99e4f9d2e8&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *JEAN-LUC GODARD (1930-2022)* To mark the passing of one of the titans of cinema, we present two of Jean-Luc Godard’s most rarely-screened series of films: the politically and aesthetically radical works he made between 1968-71 – including those produced as part of the Dziga Vertov Group, in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Gorin and others – and his later, magisterial collage-work, *HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA*, which is often cited as one of the finest achievements of the second half of his career. Special thanks to Bret Berg (American Genre Film Archive) and Louise Paraut (Gaumont). THE DZIGA VERTOV GROUP Upon the completion of *WEEKEND* in 1967, Jean-Luc Godard shifted gears to engage more directly with the radical political movements of the era – thus creating a new kind of film, or, as he eventually put it: “new ideas distributed in a new way.” This method involved collaborating with the precocious young critic and journalist, Jean-Pierre Gorin. Both as a two-person unit, and as part of the loose collective known as the Groupe Dziga Vertov (named after the early 20th-century Russian filmmaker/theoretician), Godard and Gorin would realize “some political possibilities for the practice of cinema” and craft new frameworks for investigating the relationships between image and sound, spectator and subject, cinema and society. These films, long out-of-circulation except in film dupes and bootleg video copies, represent one of the least-known chapters in Godard’s extraordinary career. They provide a crucial glimpse of his radicalization, and of the aesthetic dialogue between Godard and Gorin that, in essence, invented a modern militant cinema. As Godard told an English journalist of the era, film is not a gun, but “a light which helps you check your gun.” For this series we present screenings of three of the Dziga Vertov Group films (*WIND FROM THE EAST, STRUGGLE IN ITALY, and VLADIMIR AND ROSA*, as well as two preceding films that led directly to the formation of the group (*A FILM LIKE ANY OTHER and BRITISH SOUNDS*). “Are these films ready for a second chance? It would be quite something if they finally joined the great Godardian corpus. They have been the gaping wound in the man’s authoritative canon for so long, the films that are allegedly ‘better read about than seen.’ […] It’s possible that time and history have caught up with the Dziga Vertov Group, in the sense that two of the discourses that permeate the films – socialism and fascism – are now once again very much on the table. This is not to say that ‘Godardian pedagogy’ will find its rightful place as the aesthetic mode of the 21st century, but the films’ handmade, declamatory style does fit nicely with the age of rampant amateur media production and a younger generation for whom activism and technology are entirely coextensive.” –Michael Sicinski, MUBI NOTEBOOK Upcoming Screenings Jean-Luc Godard A FILM LIKE ANY OTHER / UN FILM COMME LES AUTRES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7086370e9f&e=857b71a9cb> December 3 at 5:15 PM December 5 at 7:00 PM December 8 at 7:30 PM Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger BRITISH SOUNDS (aka SEE YOU AT MAO) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a86f0112c3&e=857b71a9cb> December 3 at 8:00 PM December 6 at 7:00 PM December 12 at 8:45 PM Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) WIND FROM THE EAST / LE VENT D’EST <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a182ee9832&e=857b71a9cb> December 4 at 4:00 PM December 6 at 8:45 PM December 12 at 6:30 PM Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) STRUGGLE IN ITALY / LOTTE IN ITALIA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1aa3cb87f7&e=857b71a9cb> December 4 at 6:15 PM December 7 at 7:00 PM December 13 at 8:45 PM Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) VLADIMIR AND ROSA / VLADIMIR ET ROSA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1db2279b69&e=857b71a9cb> December 4 at 8:15 PM December 7 at 8:45 PM December 13 at 6:15 PM Jean-Luc Godard HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4a11bb490e&e=857b71a9cb> December 10 at 5:30 PM December 11 at 5:30 PM *SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0009d36d0f&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://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3839cacb77&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://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=59ef409375&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *Artists' Moving Image Works* 6x6 project is an online artists' community that serves as a platform for disseminating artists' moving image works, and to create an ever-growing network among peers. 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