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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=18652154b4&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, 2023, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=91445eb3b1&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO] - Films From Iran For Iran <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=570b314c95&e=857b71a9cb> [December 5-January 4, online] - Jonas Mekas: A Small Table, With A Bottle of Wine, Garlic, Sausage, Bread <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=169777a271&e=857b71a9cb> [Dec 8-Jan 21, New York, NY] - Yasujiro Ozu <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fdd60fbec5&e=857b71a9cb> [December 14-21, New York, NY] - The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=206ad03738&e=857b71a9cb> [December 15-18, New York, NY] - Avant To Live: New Experimental Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=58b9da7457&e=857b71a9cb> [December 17, San Francisco, CA] - Water and Power and Freeways <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=81f197f188&e=857b71a9cb> [December 17, Los Angeles, CA] - EC: Georges Méliès, Program 1-3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=31ec21cb96&e=857b71a9cb> [December 17-18, New York, NY] - Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b0c789d68d&e=857b71a9cb> [December 18, online] - Independent Film Series-A Season Close To Mountains <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=351ba24937&e=857b71a9cb> [December 19, Hyattsville, MD] - EC: Marie Menken <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=48d329c2c8&e=857b71a9cb> [December 19, New York, NY] - EC: The Great Blondino <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1aa7ee4526&e=857b71a9cb> [December 20, New York, NY] - EC: Sidney Peterson <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3cddb3a6c2&e=857b71a9cb> [December 21, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8eacc0935c&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5e7a1c3113&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE DECEMBER 17, 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=c5faf12b50&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=559d9c559f&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=300246e0b7&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *December 5 - January 4* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Another Screen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f2e7d57915&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://www.another-screen.com/films-from-iran-for-iran <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c02f5d326&e=857b71a9cb> *FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN* A group programme with Bani Khoshnoudi, Mitra Tabrizian, Sanaz Azari, Tara Najd Ahmadi, Nahid Rezaei, Niki Kohandel, Sepideh Farsi, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Katayoun Jalilipour, Maryam Tafakory, Maaman Rezaee, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Nia Fekri, Parisa Aminolahi; convened by Another Screen/Daniella Shreir. On September 16, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was murdered in Tehran following her arrest by Iran’s Morality Police for wearing “improper” hijab. This brutal state-sanctioned murder spurred a new women-led revolution across the country: with women, schoolgirls, and their allies mobilising against veiling (mandatory since the foundation of the Islamic Republic in 1979), as well as countless other manifestations of the Islamic Republic’s all-pervasive oppression. Since then, hundreds of protesters have been murdered, with the particular targeting of ethnic and religious minorities. The images of mass resistance that have come out of Iran – relayed largely on social media (with the mainstream press remaining, for the most part, negligently silent or ill-tuned to the complexities) – portray a revolution on a micro and macro level. Some of the most emblematic include women on the streets cutting their hair and burning their hijabs en masse; a woman eating alone, unveiled, in a café; schoolgirls finding novel ways to protest in their classrooms; large demonstrations populated by all generations and genders; and mass strikes by steel and oil workers… FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN is a programme of films by women and non-binary filmmakers, made from 1979 to the present day, with a focus on experimental and non-fiction work. Exploring ideas around forced and chosen departures, return, mother and other tongues, familial and non-familial feminist and proto-feminist lineages, we seek to extend solidarity to the struggle in Iran, and contribute some much-needed nuance and context to the long history of feminist resistance to state violence that has existed there, at the intersections between gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity. Bringing together a multitude of diaspora and non-diaspora voices speaking across generations, the programme was created in the spirit of community, with artists suggesting other artists with whom they are friends or whom they admire. It aims to provide a non-institutional corrective to the opportunism of big western art institutions, whose interest lies almost exclusively in the fetishisation of certain symbols of Iranian society, which have themselves been moulded by the Islamic Republic – institutions that foreground only those artists who reflect and reinforce this western gaze. This project can only be idealistic, however: shaped as it is by sad absences and other forms of positionality. At the time of writing, nearly one-hundred filmmakers have been arrested since the beginning of this new revolution, and are awaiting trial and sentencing; fifty are now in prison. Several artists we approached did not feel safe having their films online – those who live in Iran, or between Iran and the west, or who still have family in the country; while most artists in the programme, for whom one or more of these apply, are taking significant risks in showing their work. Another Screen would like to thank all of them for their courage and generosity, and for several weeks of invigorating conversations that have informed and immeasurably enhanced this project. As one artist, who did not feel able to share her work publicly, wrote in her email: “Hopefully in some bright future, there will be an opportunity for us all to show our films together: in Iran”. *Iranian Women's Liberation Movement: Year Zero (Le mouvement de libération des femmes iraniennes: année zéro*, 1979, 13’) *The Silent Majority Speaks* (Bani Khoshnoudi, 2010, 94’) *Cem* (Bani Khoshnoudi, 2012, 4’) *Transit* (Bani Khoshnoudi, 2005, 35’) *Journey of No Return* (Mitra Tabrizian, 1993, 23’) *I For Iran* (Sanaz Azari, 2014, 50’) *A Week with Azar* (Tara Najd Ahmadi, 2018, 11’) *Dream of Silk* (Nahid Rezaei, 2003, 43’) *The Sparrow is Free* (Niki Kohandel, 2021, 14’) *Harat* (Sepideh Farsi, 2007, 75’) *Letter to an Unborn Child* (Sepideh Farsi, 1988/2015, 3’) *Royal Debris* (Gelare Khoshgozaran, 2022, 35’) *Men of my Dreams* (Gelare Khoshgozaran, 2020, 9’) *rial and tERROR* (Gelare Khoshgozaran, 2011, 15’) *Gut Feelings: Fragments of Truth* (Katayoun Jalilipour, 2021, 12’) *Irani Bag* (Maryam Tafakory, 2021, 8’) *Minuet For A Disappearance* (Maaman Rezaee, 2016) *And Their Eyes Were Not Watching Us* (Maaman Rezaee, 2020) *Chooka* (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, 2018, 22’) *Pictures of Departure* (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, 2018, 12’) *Mothers Apricot Compote* (Nia Fekri, 2020, 23') *Away* (Parisa Aminolahi, 2013, 15’) * [Essay] "The Commodification of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom) by Art Institutions in the West," by Pegah Pasalar, Katayoon Barzegar and Niloufar Nematollahi Donations are to be made via our Donorbox @ https://donorbox.org/embed/another-gaze-a-feminist-film-journal <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a0ce022fa1&e=857b71a9cb>, which allows us to redirect funds most effectively. Funds will go to covering the website’s hosting fees, to NGOs based in the west who are now redirecting their funds to besieged cities in Iranian Kurdistan and to Baluchistan, to LGBTQ+ organisations raising money for activists on death row, and to the mass purchase of VPNs for those across the country. The amount of funds raised and what they have gone to support will be published here regularly. The authenticity of each organisation has been verified but for security reasons, some organisations cannot be named. *___________________________________________________________________* *December 8 - January 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=36473e83c7&e=857b71a9cb> 12:00-6:00pm ET, 525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001 *Jonas Mekas: A small table, with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread* “A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread,” a solo exhibition of works by Jonas Mekas, opening on December 8 and taking place in connection with 100th anniversary of his birth on December 24, 1922. “A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread" features Mekas’ final work *Requiem* (2019), an 84-minute video piece that, after its debut as part of a live visual/orchestral performance at The Shed in 2019, is being exhibited for the first time in its final single-channel video form. Additionally, the show includes a selection of the artist's 4-channel video installations, know as “quartets,” as well as multi-projector 35mm slide, sound, and photographic installations made between 2000 and 2018 — most of which have rarely, if ever, been presented in the United States. Associated events will also be taking place during the course of the exhibit. *___________________________________________________________________* *December 14 - 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a30f7c0009&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *YASUJIRO OZU* Anthology closes out 2022 with screenings of a selection of masterpieces by Yasujiro Ozu, focusing in particular on those items in his filmography that are – explicitly or implicitly – reworkings of earlier films. Of course, Ozu’s entire body of work is marked by a constant revisiting of closely related themes, characters, and situations (not to mention the development of a unique visual style and approach to pacing). But nevertheless, certain of his films are especially closely connected, and find him revisiting and refining specific elements across different periods of his career. This is particularly true of two of his most acclaimed early films, *I WAS BORN, BUT…* (1932) and *A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS* (1934), both of which Ozu remade in 1959, as *GOOD MORNING* and *FLOATING WEEDS*; as well as *LATE SPRING* (1949), which Ozu remade a decade later with *LATE AUTUMN* (1960). In December we’ll be presenting all of these works (alongside Essential Cinema screenings of *THERE WAS A FATHER*). Special thanks to Brian Belovarac (Janus Films). Upcoming Screenings Yasujiro Ozu EC: I WAS BORN, BUT… <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=211fb73150&e=857b71a9cb> December 14 at 6:15 PM December 19 at 6:30 PM Yasujiro Ozu GOOD MORNING / OHAYÔ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d20f242cec&e=857b71a9cb> December 14 at 8:45 PM December 20 at 6:00 PM Yasujiro Ozu EC: THERE WAS A FATHER <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e590bf0bd6&e=857b71a9cb> December 16 at 9:15 PM December 21 at 6:30 PM Yasujiro Ozu A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS / UKIKUSA MONOGATARI <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=886c9b1d8d&e=857b71a9cb> December 17 at 1:30 PM December 19 at 9:00 PM Yasujiro Ozu FLOATING WEEDS / UKIKUSA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=38b0ad832f&e=857b71a9cb> December 17 at 3:45 PM December 20 at 8:30 PM Yasujiro Ozu LATE SPRING / BANSHUN <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=21862dbc5c&e=857b71a9cb> December 18 at 1:00 PM December 21 at 8:45 PM Yasujiro Ozu LATE AUTUMN / AKIBIYORI <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5ca8ce017a&e=857b71a9cb> December 18 at 3:45 PM *___________________________________________________________________* *December 15 - 18* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=37efa5c4ff&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *THE CINEMA OF GENDER TRANSGRESSION: TRANS FILM* “The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film” is an extensive, ongoing series exploring the ways in which cinema has intersected with the experiences, struggles, and ideas of transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming lives and communities. Organized with the participation of a variety of guest curators, the series showcases contemporary films and videos that explore concepts related to gender transgression as well as films that have had historical resonance within and beyond these communities. Transgender and gender-nonconforming issues hold a more prominent place in the national conversation today than ever before, though gender transgression and the experiences of these individuals have always existed. This series aims to call attention to those films that dared to question gender norms in periods when even to broach the topic was considered controversial, and to provide a platform for the contemporary socio-political concerns of trans filmmakers and artists challenging the gender binary today. This installment – the first since the series was interrupted by the pandemic – encompasses four programs. We begin with “Exuberance As Process”, a program of short films by visual artists, removed from their gallery installation contexts and collated into a linear program. Asa Mendelsohn’s new diaristic essay film *PASTURE*, in which he unpacks his role in a border community’s resistance movement, will screen as a stand-alone screening and conversation with the filmmaker, as will Devynn Emory’s *DEADBIRD*, a filmic reimagining of a live performance piece whose scheduled premiere in Spring 2020 was canceled thanks to the coming of COVID. And last but not least, *CASA SUSANNA*, the most recent work from established queer filmmaker Sebastien Lifshitz, traces archival materials to discover a secret network of cross-dressers and trans women who, during the 1950s, founded a clandestine club in New York’s Catskills. “The Cinema of Gender Transgression” is curated in collaboration with Joey Carducci and Angelo Madsen Minax. Throughout the series, guest curators contribute programs as well. Upcoming Screenings Sebastien Lifshitz CASA SUSANNA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=41510bcea6&e=857b71a9cb> December 15 at 7:00 PM December 18 at 7:30 PM TJ Cuthand, Vika Kirchenbauer, Carlos Motta & Tiamat Legion Medusa, Augusto Cascales EXUBERANCE AS PROCESS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1bbfdd5581&e=857b71a9cb> December 16 at 7:15 PM Asa Mendelsohn PASTURE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=44040749ad&e=857b71a9cb> December 17 at 6:00 PM devynn emory deadbird <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bcaa91d339&e=857b71a9cb> December 17 at 8:15 PM *SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=50d34115f7&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *AVANT TO LIVE: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS* A “mini-fest” of innovations in film form, this season’s *NEW *boasts more than 20 cine-initiatives, with more then 10 artists in-person! Spotlit is the return of Jeremy Rourke with the world debut of his live musical animation *Do I Write?*. Others of our (10!) premieres are Lori Varga’s double-Super8 live-narrated *Time Forgot*, Ellie Vanderlip’s *Goats as a Measure of Time*, Tomas Talamante’s *Attention Span*, TT Takemoto’s *After Bed*, Molly Hankwitz’ *Toxic West*, Alex Miller’s *Burnt by the Sun*, and Bryan Boyce*’*s semi-annual *bon bon*. ALSO: recent pieces from ex-SF-er Lynne Sachs (*Swerve*), Dutch genius Michael Fleming ( *Showtime*), Seattle image-smith Salise Hughes (*The Eduction of Lulu*), Calgary whiz Greg Marshall (*Between the Blur*), local light Max Oginz (*Seismic Properties*), Midwest trooper Charles Cadkin (*Pump*), and OC Hall-of-Famer Mark Street. PLUS: delicious snippets from Martha Colburn (*Snake*), Jenny Stark (*Pretty Is As Pretty Does*), Wang Yuyan (*Attempts To Be An Ocean**)*, and Bob Ross (*Happy Little Mystery*). Free pencils! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Hammer Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0be5513b6b&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA *Water and Power and Freeways* Of car culture, Joan Didion famously wrote: “Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.” Babette Mangolte offers an outsider’s counterpoint in her elegant meditation on the Southern California landscape and its built environments, while Pat O’Neill, in this classic of Los Angeles experimental filmmaking, takes on another of Didion’s preoccupations, West Coast water infrastructure. *There? Where?*, U.S., 1979, 16mm, color 8 min. Director: Babette Mangolte. *Water and Power*, U.S., 1989, 35mm, color, 54 min. Director: Pat O'Neill. Total runtime: 62 min. *___________________________________________________________________* *December 17 - 18* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=09620feffa&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM 1-3* Magician, master of special effects, Méliès broke with the realistic (Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). “All early filmmakers were fascinated at first with the camera’s possibilities for tricks and illusionism. In fact, many were magicians before becoming filmmakers. But it was Georges Méliès, the French magician, producer of spectacles, actor, artist, and poet, who had the imagination and enthusiasm to fully exploit its marvels. His films are spectacles that amaze and delight. He created fantastic visions – all of them curious, some of them comic.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART --- December 17 @ 4pmET - EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3121b73b48&e=857b71a9cb> --- All films in this program are b&w and silent. *THE CONJUROR / L’ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE* (1899, 1 min, 35mm) *TRIP TO THE MOON / VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE* (1902, 12 min, 35mm) *THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS* (1905, 21 min, 35mm) *MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU DIABLE* (1906, 18 min, 35mm) *DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L’HUILE* (1907, 5 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min. --- December 18 @ 4pmET - EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1253013b8c&e=857b71a9cb> --- The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent. *A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE* (1909, 8 min, 35mm) *THE CASCADE OF FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU* (1904, 3 min, 35mm) *VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE VOYAGE À TRAVERS L’IMPOSSIBLE* (1904, 20 min, 35mm) *THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA FÉE CARABOSSE* (1906, 13 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 50 min. --- December 18 @ 5:45pmET - EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=32f6fb4170&e=857b71a9cb> --- All films in this program are b&w and silent. *EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS / ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE PUITS FANTASTIQUE* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA MANCHE* (1907, 25 min, 35mm) *THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *THE DOCTOR’S SECRET / HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE* (1909, 11 min, 35mm) *SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN OU LES MESAVENTURES D’UN BUVEUR* (1909, 5 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 55 min. *SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=48005b59eb&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! *MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Hyattsville Library <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e6c93d1176&e=857b71a9cb> 7.00 pm ET, 6530 Adelphi Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20782 *Independent Film Series-A Season Close to Mountains* Filmmaker Chris H. Lynn will present his latest audiovisual work *A Season Close to Mountains*. at the Hyattsville Library's Independent Film Series program. He will also premier two new silent Super 8 films from *The Journal of Drifting Hours* series. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e09e42b517&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: MARIE MENKEN* All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN* (1957, 5 min, 16mm) *ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER* (1961, 4 min, 16mm) *EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR* (1961, 4 min, 16mm, silent) *NOTEBOOK* (1962-63, 10 min, 16mm, silent) *GO! GO! GO!* (1962-64, 12 min, 16mm, silent) *ANDY WARHOL* (1965, 17 min, 16mm) *LIGHTS* (1964-66, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) “Marie Menken pioneered the radical transformation of the handheld, somatic camera into a formal matrix that would underpin an entire work in the films she made between 1945 and 1965. […] The extraordinary cinematic style that I have been calling Menken’s somatic camera has been her most influential gift to the American avant-garde cinema. It is an embodiment of the Emersonian invention of a pictorial air, the spiritual emancipation automatically brought about by ‘certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local position.’ It is also analogous to the equally Emersonian somatic theory of poesis Charles Olson was developing at nearly the same time: his emphasis on breath and proprioception corresponds to Menken’s identification of the camera with her body in motion and her cultivation of the respiratory and nervous agitation of the handheld camera even in its quietest moments.” –P. Adams Sitney, EYES UPSIDE DOWN Total running time: ca. 65 min. *TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=25d8447165&e=857b71a9cb> 6:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: THE GREAT BLONDINO* by ROBERT NELSON 1967, 42 min, 16mm Newly preserved print; thanks to the Academy Film Archive! “The original Blondino was a 19th-century tightrope artist who among other feats crossed Niagara Falls trundling a wheelbarrow. In this film, Nelson sees Blondino as a metaphor for those who still try. Too subtle to be allegorical, the picture is in the shape of a quixotic search in which the goal is the journey and the means is the end.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART “It is…difficult to get at the rich visual texture that is the film’s most striking attribute. Long stretches are concerned with Blondino’s visions, dreams, and dreams within dreams. The film unfolds in brief recurring patterns of imagery. Even the more straightforward sections are dense with interpolated newsreel and TV commercial footage, visual gags, and homemade special effects. The net effect is funny, seamless, and elusive.” –J. Hoberman, “A Filmmakers Filming Monograph” & *BLEU SHUT* (1970, 33 min, 16mm. Newly preserved print; thanks to the Academy Film Archive!) “Boat-name quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer’s *JOAN OF ARC* in montage with a sultry whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a passionate embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating Dreyer and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What’s happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid.” –Leo Regan Total running time: ca. 80 min. *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=272ac579b5&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: SIDNEY PETERSON* *THE POTTED PSALM* and *THE PETRIFIED DOG* have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. *MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR* and *THE LEAD SHOES* have been preserved by Anthology with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. *THE POTTED PSALM* (1946, 19 min, 16mm) *THE PETRIFIED DOG* (1948, 19 min, 16mm) *MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR* (1949, 21 min, 16mm) *THE LEAD SHOES* (1949, 17 min, 16mm) “These images are meant to play not on our rational senses, but on the infinite universe of ambiguity within us.” –Sidney Peterson “Sidney Peterson’s work and sensibility are those of a native American surrealist. Many of his films chronicle the picaresque adventures of a wacky protagonist and use disjunctive editing strategies to construct new time and space relations…. But perhaps their best-known feature is the use of distorted, funhouse mirror-images, which he created by shooting with an anamorphic lens. […] In his films, he investigates extreme states of consciousness, and the primary tool of his epistemology of irrationalism is the photographic image distorted and transformed to register the impact of those states.” –R. Bruce Elder, IMAGE AND IDENTITY Total running time: ca. 80 min. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8773380efb&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=9a373fa270&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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