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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d336337dd8&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, 2023, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d438dc2245&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - 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=5e152e9524&e=857b71a9cb> [Dec 8-Jan 21, New York, NY] - Soda Jerk: the Time That Remains <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d39b057c9d&e=857b71a9cb> [January 6 - February 6, online] - Coloring Outside the Lines: Celebrate the Art That Is Life Shellie Fleming <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=26d4936dce&e=857b71a9cb> [January 7, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Hand Made: Recent Films By Dicky Bahto <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=23e44e78da&e=857b71a9cb> [January 8, Los Angeles, CA] - THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=41b0968009&e=857b71a9cb> [January 9, online] - In Situ: Nayla Dabaji, Kim Kielhofner & Lyndsie Alguire <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f634cab6cb&e=857b71a9cb> [January 11, Montreal, QC, Canada] - EC: Paul Sharits <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d15e8d462f&e=857b71a9cb> [January 11, New York, NY] - VISIONS: Soda Jerk <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d45424aa0d&e=857b71a9cb> [January 12, Montreal, QC, Canada] - EC: Harry Smith <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=482e9a667c&e=857b71a9cb> [January 12, New York, NY] - EC: Harry Smith's Film No. 12 (Heaven and Earth Magic) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b7c21b514&e=857b71a9cb> [January 12, New York, NY] - EC: Ron Rice / Jack Smith <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=62b2200443&e=857b71a9cb> [January 13, New York, NY] - Extended Nature: Feel Like A Plant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2a7a943000&e=857b71a9cb> [January 14, Paris, France] - Sound & Cinema Performances By K/S/R + Wind Tide <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=30f9173955&e=857b71a9cb> [January 14, Santa Fe, NM] - SPACE//SPACE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6bbcda480b&e=857b71a9cb> [January 15, New York, NY] - Stan Brakhage On 8mm + 35mm <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cd5aeb79cb&e=857b71a9cb> [January 15, New York, NY] - Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=999ca5d15a&e=857b71a9cb> [January 15, online] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e7c400d940&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=018799466e&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE JANUARY 7, 2023* *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=4db6c3d93e&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=43655e7fd0&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 - Spring 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Denver Museum of Nature & Science <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1f60a0bbe6&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 8 - January 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e99ea243c7&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *January 6 - February 6* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=946acbf932&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://visionsmtl.com/2023/soda-jerk-2/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=34ba2718d3&e=857b71a9cb> *SODA JERK: The Time That Remains* 2012 | digital | 12 mins Dear J, After you left the house this afternoon — we had both so much and so little to say to each other, as if the objects around us contained our words and we had to unlock them one by one, the way jewelery boxes of thought ready to bring forth their miniature dancer—I was seized with a sudden melancholy (for lack of a better word to describe the calm nervous breakdown that gripped me). The prospect of seeing you again terrified me. Because after all that we have shared, made shine, passionately sabotaged, in short, after all that we have lived leaning against each other, and here we are catapulted out of ourselves and yet perhaps more than ever in- inside of us, something was said in me without formulating it clearly that we would inevitably miss this reunion imposed by others. Did I just want to see you again? You must have grimaced when M. proposed this meeting to you. The prospect of seeing you again terrified me, I was just telling you, and this manifested itself in the dreams of the previous night, dreams during which frayed images formed an atmosphere where you were going, alternately shimmering and shimmering. Who were you, who was I, these images asked, who were we to each other, to each other, what was the distance that was intrinsically part of our relationship, this intimacy- there, this detestation of love, this hinge, this fold through which we articulated ourselves on both sides of closed doors and our broken lives at the work of appearing without common measure? So you were there and not quite there. You were beautiful and then I watched you being beautiful and you yourself watching me, only I was elsewhere than within beauty, elsewhere than beautiful yes, that I knew, from the now familiar sensation of my more more porous and to the ever-surprised vision of my own weathered face, no longer belonging to myself and yet welcoming all the strata of this I no longer am and then am by the desiring force of oblivion. And the dream, made of an image of a ball, of a marvelous dress, of curly hair falling in a cascade, image of you archaic and new, image of a waltz by Chopin, of a sea evoking the density of a psalm, conveyed a traversed and traversing duration, an idea of you and of me. From my dream emanated the affinity emerging from the vitality of our antagonism, I cannot tell you exactly how, since they were only old images projected by the mind which sleeps and fears the next day, but yes the affinity and split were expressed in the same way, like a wavering, a given meaning, the indifference of the setting sun. In the morning, I got up as if accomplished in a train station. After all these years, you would soon be here, as we began our disappearance and this disappearance became the new surface, the new support of our being. I was about to welcome you into this detachment, into this impalpable transit where I felt you, still erotic and hot with anger, I was about to see you and say hello to you ironically. You were there, in front of me, with your make-up that fools no one, your buried beauty, your sulky lips but worked at the same time by a subtle smile with an impossible to define spring. We disdainfully drank tea with these people who framed us and this pan of fatalism hanging on your blink, hanging on the closing of your incredibly long eyelids behind which I knew you knew all the material of our battles against the world. This afternoon, you were once again this other against whom I sought headlong to define myself and impose an image, this creature to swallow, to engulf like food. We pretty much said the things they expected, those barking dogs. And that was suddenly all. The door, with its people, your presence, its uproar, has closed. You were well and truly gone this time. And I immediately noticed a flicker, at the source of the intranquility that makes me take paper and pencil. I write to you as to myself, to this other that I have become, similar to what you have always been in the hollow of my angular heart and who lives a little through your own memories whose exact content I do not know, but within which I know I exist. I am writing to you through various accents, through the ages that we have had, alone and together, and from this station from where I would like to wish you good continuation, good disappearance, dear... wish you a beautiful death like sea, a beautiful death like your eyebrows. Friendships, B. *SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* la lumière collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c4ca966efe&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, la lumiere collective, 7080 Alexandra Street, #506, Montreal, QC *Coloring outside the lines: celebrate the art that is life, with Shellie Fleming* Filmmaker and artist Shellie Fleming has moved hundreds of people with her works that reflect her intelligence and great generosity. Following her death in December 2012, Shellie bequeathed us not only an impressive legacy of films, books, photographs, street art and installations, but she also influenced a generation of young artists who knew how to flourish. thanks to his advice. To celebrate Shellie's life and influence, as well as to mark 10 years since her death, we present a program that brings together four of her most important films. They are deeply personal works, charged with a quiet intensity and sensual beauty, both attentive and incisive, like Shellie herself: *Left-Handed Memories* (1989), *Private Property (public domain)* (1991), *Devotio Moderna* (1993) and *Life/Expectancy* (1999). Being a private person by nature, the four films of the filmmaker have rarely been presented to the general public. Her works consist of a form of teaching – and she will have taught until the end of her days. The films will be accompanied by works and short dedications made for Shellie by her friends and her students from all over the world. Together, we warmly welcome you to this very special event in order to start the year 2023 in the image of Shellie. *Left-Handed Memories* | 1989 | 15 mins *Private Property (public domain)* | 1991 | 12 mins *Devotio Moderna* | 1993 | 10 mins *Life/Expectancy* | 1999 | 30 mins *SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ecc566b34&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *HAND MADE: Recent Films by Dicky Bahto* Artist, curator, and educator Dicky Bahto is not only widely known for his extensive practice in photography, film, installation, performance, and his numerous collaborations with luminaries of experimental music, but also as an educator and curator who has inspired and influenced many years of students and audiences alike with his profound appreciation and passion for the time-based arts and beyond. His varied and complex engagement with moving image and photographic media is steeped in a deeply felt humanity and empathy, manifesting through his inspired photographic eye and frequently direct interaction with and appreciation of the material vitality of film and cinema. His films achieve heightened emotional states of great intimacy and poetry, often channeling the uniquely aleatory qualities of film to carry a sensuality and spirituality hovering in the space between loving depiction and vaporous abstraction. Filmforum is thrilled to showcase the work of its longtime friend and periodic collaborator, as we present a program of recent work by Dicky Bahto, including pieces made in collaboration with musicians Sarah Davachi and Raum (Liz Harris + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma). The evening will conclude with a new expanded cinema collaboration with Tashi Wada. PROGRAM: *Alas, Departing* (2022) music by Sarah Davachi, 7.5 minutes *Tout par compas suy composés* (2022) silent, 10m * six pages from a diary* (2021) sound, 13.5 minutes *Sunlight crying* (2022) music by Raum, 7.5 minutes *A play in black & white (for baba)* (2022) shown as silent, 17.5 minutes The program concludes with a new expanded cinema collaboration with Tashi Wada total TRT approx 75min. Notes and program by Mark Toscano. Thanks to Dicky Bahto and Tashi Wada. *MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2023* *January 9 - 30* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6bd2ca934d&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/thousandsuns-cinema/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f37169f4d4&e=857b71a9cb> *THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA* 60+ FILMS BY INDIGENOUS ARTISTS FROM TURTLE ISLAND AND AROUND THE WORLD, PRESENTED WITH COUSIN COLLECTIVE THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA animates aspects of Media City Film Festival’s long-storied program history online. Featuring selections from hundreds of artists showcased by MCFF over its twenty-five year history, THOUSANDSUNS presents short and feature-length films, previous MCFF commissions, fellowship screenings, retrospectives, and other cinematic endeavours connected with our activities since 1994. Moving image artworks exhibited in THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA will screen for a limited time. Conceived as a working space, THOUSANDSUNS will also function as an ever-growing online index, cataloguing artists operating in avant-garde film circles internationally. As MCFF works to migrate its immense history of previously screened filmmakers online, new artists will also be invited to exhibit their work. *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* la lumière collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=99d999f48e&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5 *IN SITU: Nayla Dabaji, Kim Kielhofner & Lyndsie Alguire* Proposed by la lumière collective, IN SITU is a series that focuses on unique audiovisual works and live sound performances by local artists passionate about cinematic material, experimental moving images and sound art. Films selected by the curator Nicole Gingras. *Boomerang* | Nayla Dabaji | 2019 | video | 6 mins 52 secs A seaside stroll brings back the memory of a conversation with a friend, at dawn, in the mountains. Images and events come back to me, delayed and trapped behind the screen of a news broadcast. *Migrer le musée* | Nayla Dabaji | 2021 | HD | 14 mins A stroll/reverie in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts becomes a pretext for reflection on a nameless new era. An artist is asleep at her desk, surrounded by her tools. Birds, drawings, landscapes and artworks from the museum’s collection migrate through stories, close and afar, in an attempt to reconcile her with her senses. A video piece created during the artist residency Empreintes at the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal in 2020; a residency organized and supported by the Museum and by the Conseil des arts de Montréal. LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE BY LYNDSIE ALGUIRE | 20 mins *Madonna Swimming* | Kim Kielhofner | 2007 | HD | 2 mins 39 secs Madonna Swimming is a video work created from footage of Madonna’s music videos, Madonna is a cultural figure of excess, her iconography appropriated from a saturated visual culture. This video collects the leaking Madonna, her images of sexuality and religion, and ultimately presents a more ambiguous product. *Rehearsal *| Kim Kielhofner | 2013 | HD | 2 mins 36 secs Collected from the interviews of Meryl Streep, Rehearsal is an act of remembering and performance. *Anna *| Kim Kielhofner | 2017 | HD | 5 mins 17 secs Anna presents a layered narrative through archival images and re-enactments. + A SURPRISE FILM BY KIM KIELHOFNER *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1cad87906c&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: Paul Sharits* *S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED* 1968-70, 41 min, 16mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives. “Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really recognized.” –Michael Snow *COLOR SOUND FRAMES* 1974, 26 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “A film in which Sharits sums up his researches in the area of film strip (in opposition to the individual frames). The film strips move horizontally and vertically; two strips move simultaneously in opposite directions; variations in color; action of sprocket-holes. Very methodically and scientifically he covers the area. […] *COLOR SOUND FRAMES* advances one area of cinema or one area of researches in cinema (call it art if you wish) to a new climax, to a new peak: his exploration is so total, so perfect.” –Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE Total running time: ca. 70 min. *THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=82b06e3660&e=857b71a9cb> 7 pm ET, 7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5 *VISIONS: SODA JERK* VISIONS, in collaboration with Fabrique Monde and Film POP, presents *TERROR NULLIUS* by Soda Jerk. *TERROR_NULLIUS *| 2018 | digital | coulor | sound | 54 mins Part political satire, eco-horror and road movie, *TERROR NULLIUS* is a political revenge fable constructed entirely from samples pirated from the Australian cinema cannon. Binding together a documentary impulse with speculative fictions, Soda Jerk’s feature remix offers an incendiary un-writing of Australian national mythologies.The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee detention, flesh-eating sheep are recast as anti-colonial insurgents and the women of Australian cinema go vigilante on Mel Gibson. Funded by the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission in 2016, *TERROR NULLIUS* was disowned by the organisation just days prior to the film’s premiere in 2018. Offended by its politics, the Ian Potter’s Board of Trustees described the work as “a very controversial piece of art” and “unAustralian”. The Guardian named the “dizzyingly ambitious satirical work” one of the best Australian films of the decade. BIOGRAPHY: Soda Jerk is an artist duo who make sample-based experimental films with a rogue documentary impulse. They are fundamentally interested in the politics of images; how they circulate, whom they benefit and how they can be undone. Formed in Sydney in 2002, they’ve been based in New York since 2012. They were founders of the Australian chapter of the anti-copyright initiative Missionary Church of Kopimism and have collaborated on projects with the cyberfeminist art collective VNX Matrix and electronic music group The Avalanches. Soda Jerk’s new feature *Hello Dankness* (2022) is a suburban stoner musical that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021. It follows their controversial political revenge fable *TERROR NULLIUS* (2018) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=67fc1081a0&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: HARRY SMITH* *FILM NOS. 1-5, 7, 10 (EARLY ABSTRACTIONS)* (ca. 1946-57, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.) *FILM NO. 11 (MIRROR ANIMATIONS)* (ca. 1957, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *FILM NO. 14 (LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS)* (1964, 28 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.) “My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: – batiked animations made directly on film between 1939 and 1946; optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950; semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of 1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works, works that will forever abide – they made me gray.” –Harry Smith 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=38b6a82192&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: Harry Smith's FILM NO. 12 (HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC)* ca. 1957-62, 66 min, 16mm, b&w Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Cineric, Inc. “*NO. 12* can be seen as one moment – certainly the most elaborately crafted moment – of the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith’s life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema. Its elaborately constructed soundtrack in which the sounds of various figures are systematically displaced onto other images reflects Smith’s abiding concern with auditory effects.” –P. Adams Sitney *FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a9983e7dd3&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: RON RICE / JACK SMITH* *SCOTCH TAPE *Jack Smith (1962, 3 min, 16mm) A junkyard musical. *FLAMING CREATURES *Jack Smith (1963, 45 min, 16mm, b&w) “[Smith] graced the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of all previous filmmakers.” –FILM CULTURE *CHUMLUM* Ron Rice (1964, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. With Jack Smith, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez, Joel Markman, Frances Francine, Guy Henson, Barry Titus, Zelda Nelson, Gerard Malanga, Barbara Rubin, and Frances Stillman. Music by Angus MacLise. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.) “A hallucinatory micro-epic filmed during lulls in the production of Smith’s *NORMAL LOVE* and one of the great ‘heroic doses’ of ’60s underground cinema, a movie so sumptuously and serenely psychedelic it appears to have been printed entirely on gauze.” –Chuck Stephens, CINEMA SCOPE Total running time: ca. 75 min *SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Lightcone <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2462dbca37&e=857b71a9cb> 3pm GMT+1, National Museum of Natural History, Auditorium of the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution - 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris, France *EXTENDED NATURE: FEEL LIKE A PLANT* While our time is marked by the extent of human actions on the rest of the living (the Anthropocene), filmmakers engage in ecological practices that lead to a decentering of the privilege attributed to humans. Experimental filmmakers work to broaden our view of nature and their films gradually realize non-human perceptions: an "animal seeing", from the knowing gaze of a pet cat to the multifaceted eye of a bee, a " vegetal smell", from the photosynthesis of the dandelion to the delicacy of a Mimosa pudica. These experimental films, whose production requires ingenuity and poetry, invite you to discover new perceptual senses in animals or plants, to marvel, to reconnect with other forms of life while participating in philosophical and scientific research. contemporary on these issues. The production methods of these films are the terrain of a political ecology thanks to artisanal alternatives to productivism, groupings in eco-responsible collectives and an exploration of processes on film support such as “phytography” or “eco-development”. This cycle accompanies the publication of the collective work *Expanded Nature - Ecologies of Experimental Cinema* under the direction of Elio Della Noce and Lucas Murari at Light Cone Editions. FEEL LIKE A PLANT In the presence of Elio Della Noce and Emmanuel Lefrant. For this third and final session, the gaze leaves the animal world for a while to turn to the sentience of plants. From the seed, the petiole, the petals and the leaves, how do the filmmakers disseminate this “plant intelligence” which is embodied in a variety of perceptual senses? For this, experimental cinema offers surprising correspondences between the biochemical processes of plants and the technical processes of film on silver support. From the photosynthesis of a leaf to the "phytogram" that prints it negative on celluloid, from "herbarium collages" to the techniques of in-camera animation of "cinematic bouquets", from "photograms" of petals with photosynthetic properties which preside over the perception of their color. *GESTURES TOWARD PLANT VISION* by Sarah ABBOTT / 2021 / HD / color / sound / 10' 09 *FLOWERS #1* by Alexander GRANGER & Philip HOFFMAN / 2022 / HD / color / silent / 3' 06 *GRAND PARK-PHOTOSYNTHESIS* by Robbie LAND / 2017 / HD / color / silent / 7' 00 *PHSYCHÈ TROPHIKÈ* by Bruno VARELA / 2020 / HD / b&w / sound / 2' 15 *PURKYNE'S DUSK* by Helena GOUVEIA MONTEIRO / 2020-2021 / HD / color-b&w / silent / 9' 09 *THE PUDIC RELATION BETWEEN MACHINE AND PLANT* by Pedro NEVES MARQUEZ / 2016 / HD / color / sound / 2' 30 *LICHEN* by Lisa JACKSON / 2019 / HD / color / sound / 12' 00 *BOTANICOLLAGE ON FRISCO BAY* by Caryn CLINE / 2017 / HD / color / sound / 3' 46 *THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS* by Stan BRAKHAGE / 1981 / 16mm / color / silent / 1' 50 *GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN* by Marie MENKEN / 1957 / 16mm / color / sound / 4' 00 *TRACK MOSS BYPASS* by Miles MCKANE / 1987 / 16mm / color / silent / 7' 00 *LES POPPIES* by Rose LOWDER / 2000 / 16mm / color / silent / 2' 30 *A PERFECT STORM* by Karel DOING / 2022 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / 3' 00 Free admission within the limit of available places (reservations recommended <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=812e110821&e=857b71a9cb>). Doors open: 2:45 p.m *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=50e51304e1&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *Sound & Cinema performances by K/S/R + Wind Tide* All new works for hand painted & found footage 16mm projections with live improvised sound - along with the premiere of a collaborative handmade 16mm film created through the mail by all 5 performers using dirt & food. Release show for the new K/S/R + Wind Tide split cassette! And a winter clothing drive for the local harm reduction shelter (bring winter clothing to donate) $5 - $15 suggested donation Free Popcorn, books + VHS BYO snacks + drinks *SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9b34d83d08&e=857b71a9cb> 1:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *SPACE//SPACE* by Alex Harvey & Banana Bag & Bodice 2022, 72 min, digital SPECIAL SCREENING! FILMMAKERS IN PERSON! It’s been ten years since Banana Bag & Bodice’s beloved experimental production *SPACE//SPACE* made waves in the New York theater scene (“*WAITING FOR GODOT* in space”, raved the New York Times). Now the married performance artist duo who created that infamous work are squeezed into the first wave of pandemic lockdown: alone in their attic, they rehash their claustrophobic container tale of two brothers stuck in a space capsule – but this time performing for a bank of empty seats. The play, and their relationship with their eight-year-old son, Zoom-schooling in the house below, merge into a semi-permeable dream about marriage, parenting, performance, and the elasticity of time in the age of Coronavirus. *SPACE//SPACE* is a hybrid cinematic collaboration between writer/director Alex Harvey and Banana Bag & Bodice (aka Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe). A hall of narrative mirrors that keeps revealing and then hiding its subjects behind continually crumbling fourth walls, the film ponders the nature of relationships in isolation and the ways in which families perform for each other – and fail to perform for each other. Ultimately a grief cry made by artists and lovers, *SPACE//SPACE* laments an era where aliveness and physical connection are endangered species. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17608820ed&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *STAN BRAKHAGE ON 8MM + 35MM* To celebrate the publication of a new book on the films of Stan Brakhage by esteemed scholar Fred Camper – and on the occasion of a visit to NYC from Camper himself – we present a very special program focusing on the relatively rare instances in Brakhage’s filmography in which he departed from the 16mm film gauge. The program will feature a selection of works drawn from his 8mm SONG cycle, as well as all the 35mm Brakhage films that are currently in circulation, with all films screening on their intended formats. To be released on January 14 – which marks the 90th anniversary of Brakhage’s birth – “Seeking Brakhage” (2023, Eyewash Books) encompasses five decades worth of Camper’s writing on the filmmaker, and features an introduction by P. Adams Sitney. For more info visit: www.eyewashbooks.com/camper “Truth to materials’ is a statement that, though less fashionable today, I still think informs some of the best art. The artist, it argues, should use media in ways that acknowledge their natures. Brakhage’s films are replete with momentary illusions, but the emphasis is on ‘momentary’; they do not seek to lose the viewer in substitute worlds, as his ‘worlds’ are constantly changing. It is natural, too, that his films vary according to the materials with which they are made, the acknowledgement of which reflects a fundamental honesty. “The majority of Brakhage’s work was created on 16mm film. But he also worked with three types of 8mm: standard 8mm, Super-8, and also briefly in Polavision, a short-lived format which used a unique type of 8mm film instantly processed in its cartridges. Additionally, he hand-painted on 35mm film (as well as 70mm, reduced to 35mm in printing). This program presents a selection of his standard 8mm SONGS, as well as all of his 35mm films (with the exception of two that are not currently available on 35mm). “The differences between the two gauges, particularly when the films are shown in their original formats, is vast. Brakhage used the size of 35mm to create hand-painted images with a detail not possible in the smaller formats, as in *INTERPOLATIONS* for instance, which offers forest-like densities in which the viewer can feel lost. He used 8mm more as a highly developed sketch book, in which often lush yet fragile illusions momentarily coalesce out of evanescent imagery, yet with thought-provoking moments that, among other things, may refer in varied and complex ways to their own making.” –Fred Camper We’ll also take advantage of Camper’s presence in NYC to highlight the little-known but fascinating 16mm films he made himself, all of which have been newly restored (only on 16mm) by the Chicago Film Society. All the films in this program are silent. 8mm: *SONG 1* 1964, 4 min, 8mm *SONG 2* 1964, 2 min, 8mm *SONG 3* 1964, 3 min, 8mm *SONG 6* 1964, 2 min, 8mm *SONG 7* 1964, 2.5 min, 8mm *SONG 13* 1965, 3 min, 8mm *SONG 21* 1965, 5 min, 8mm *SONG 22* 1965, 3 min, 8mm 35mm: *EYE MYTH* 1967, 9 sec, 35mm *THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS* 1981, 1.5 min, 35mm *NIGHTMUSIC* 1986, 30 sec, 35mm *THE DANTE QUARTET* 1987, 6 min, 35mm *RAGE NET* 1988, 1 min, 35mm *INTERPOLATIONS 1-5* 1992, 12 min, 35mm *NIGHT MULCH* 2001, 2 min, 35mm *VERY* 2001, 4 min, 35mm *CHINESE SERIES* 2003, 2.5 min, 35mm Total running time (with pauses and discussion): ca. 105 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0cd0dc609b&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=5d7e1353b6&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=9fa5f6d896&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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