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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c524193d17&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, 2023, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4ed14189d6&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=618da8e517&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=4083795035&e=857b71a9cb> [Dec 8-Jan 21, New York, NY] - It's the End of the World <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5a85197227&e=857b71a9cb> [December 30, Pittsburgh, PA] - Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d4888ad99e&e=857b71a9cb> [January 1, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6387f97c3c&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=24c68424eb&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE DECEMBER 24, 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=9ca7efa584&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=13ffedc9ff&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=148c3bc692&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=b3c0e02cbf&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=6152d88767&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=17b75106f8&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=0ed646c8b2&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. *FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pittsburgh Sound + Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5bc752d1b9&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM EST, Eberle Studios, 229 E. 9th Ave, Homestead, PA 15120 *It's the End of the World* We’re going to finish the year with a bang. Join us as we let loose with an evening of cataclysmic bacchanalia. Feast on an array of short films depicting apocalyptic events with celebratory verve. Including: *Flaming Creatures* - legendary, banned classic of the underground. On 16mm! *A Shipwrecked Movie* - super 8 portrait of a 1980s New Year’s Eve party at Pittsburgh Filmmakers where you DON'T want to drink the Kool-Aid *Psychic Parrot* - one of the most requested films from the Flea Market Films collection (nearly impossible to see anywhere else) And more! BYOB *SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2023* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=659faabfde&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=f803386254&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=8e96402091&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=068a21f5b9&e=857b71a9cb> . 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