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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de4fee1844&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, 2023, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=50aa092b90&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Soda Jerk: the Time That Remains <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d4260a0aa6&e=857b71a9cb> [January 6 - February 6, online] - THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ecd1b4a59d&e=857b71a9cb> [January 9-30, online] - Alexander Hammid <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=284a13be7e&e=857b71a9cb> [January 20-29, New York, NY] - Geographies of Solitude <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=834f41b2f9&e=857b71a9cb> [January 25-31, New York, NY] - Andy Warhol As Seen By Nelson Henricks <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cbd145d199&e=857b71a9cb> [January 26-28, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Split Screen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0fc9d6b1f9&e=857b71a9cb> [January 27-February 25, Victoria, BC, Canada] - Marie-Pierre Bonniol <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6988439fc9&e=857b71a9cb> [January 28, Boston, MA] - Small Notes On Small Gestures: a selection of Contemp S8 Films from Brazil <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c15fde0d1e&e=857b71a9cb> [January 29, Tokyo, Japan] - Wavelength: A Tribute To Michael Snow <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5ea6fdf316&e=857b71a9cb> [February 2, Rochester, NY] - Films From Iran For Iran <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c2f9c7acf0&e=857b71a9cb> [February 3-8, New York, NY] - From Inside of Here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=18251fc391&e=857b71a9cb> [February 5, San Francisco, CA] - Passing Into Shadow: Films By Anna Kipervaser <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b60e2fe6b&e=857b71a9cb> [February 5, Granville, OH] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cef69bc498&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c799b22a06&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE JANUARY 28, 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=936161f0b9&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=fae80fd789&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=c9992f3567&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=d305ffcc33&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=5cc9fb8007&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=635dd5f125&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *January 9 - 30* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e652944451&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/thousandsuns-cinema/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=92922f1ed9&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *January 20 - 29* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b977736b9&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *ALEXANDER HAMMID* Alexander Hammid (born Alexandr Hackenschmied in Linz, Austria-Hungary, in 1907 and raised in Prague) is best known in avant-garde cinema circles for his collaborations with his then-partner Maya Deren, and above all for his role in making *MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON* (1943), which remains one of the most extraordinary and influential films in the history of American filmmaking. Hammid’s career, however, extends far beyond his partnership with Deren, and is in fact an astonishingly wide-ranging and accomplished body of work, spanning nearly half a century and touching on almost every genre and category of film imaginable. This retrospective explores every chapter in his rich and constantly morphing career: the pioneering experimental films he made in Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the U.S. during the war; his collaborations with Deren; his work making political documentaries with the filmmaker Herbert Kline in the early years of WWII; the propagandistic films commissioned by the United States Office of War Information; the sponsored films about social behavior made for Affiliated Film Producers; his numerous collaborations with artists, dancers, and musicians; and the films that emerged from his partnership in the 1960s-70s with Francis Thompson, which were produced for the 1964 New York World’s Fair, the 1967 Montreal Expo, and for the inauguration of the National Air and Space Museum (1976’s T*O FLY!*, for which the pair helped develop the new IMAX 70mm film format). The series features several works preserved in Anthology’s collection, including a brand-new 16mm print of *THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A CAT* (1944). “Because [Hammid’s vision] is a wonderful combination of formalist and humanist tendencies, it gives his work a terrible lyricism. He is incapable of sentimentality because of his terrific sense of form; and he is incapable of formalism because of a profoundly childlike love of things and tenderness. Consequently you get a terrifically high pitch of lyricism in its most out-of-the-world form…like the best of the fairy-tales, or like an unaccompanied improvisation on a flute. I speak of him because he never speaks much, having an almost purely visual mind.” –Maya Deren, letter to Herbert Passin, 1943 Special thanks to Julia Hammid; Carmel Curtis (Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive); Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks); Tina Harvey, Paul Gordon & Douglas Smalley (Library and Archives Canada); Martina Kudlácek; Giovanna Pugliese (NYPL); Jeffrey Schissler (SC Johnson); Katie Trainor (MoMA); Gerald Weber (Sixpack); and Todd Wiener & Steven Hill (UCLA Film & Television Archive). Upcoming Screenings EARLY SHORT FILMS: ALEXANDER HAMMID <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f2de8a0f4&e=857b71a9cb> January 20 at 7:00 PM January 25 at 7:00 PM January 28 at 9:00 PM Herbert Kline, Alexander Hammid & Hans Burger CRISIS: A FILM OF “THE NAZI WAY” <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f7df59f9fe&e=857b71a9cb> January 21 at 5:00 PM January 26 at 6:30 PM Herbert Kline LIGHTS OUT IN EUROPE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc8a7d1d43&e=857b71a9cb> January 21 at 7:15 PM January 25 at 9:00 PM Herbert Kline & Alexander Hammid THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=faa26662d7&e=857b71a9cb> January 21 at 9:00 PM January 28 at 7:00 PM Martina Kudláček AIMLESS WALK – ALEXANDER HAMMID <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9e5201ad55&e=857b71a9cb> January 22 at 4:45 PM January 29 at 8:30 PM OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION: ALEXANDER HAMMID <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cbf7354da2&e=857b71a9cb> January 22 at 6:30 PM January 28 at 4:45 PM AFFILIATED FILM PRODUCERS: ALEXANDER HAMMID <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=966d049192&e=857b71a9cb> January 22 at 8:30 PM January 29 at 4:00 PM THE ARTS: ALEXANDER HAMMID <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be7edcb4b5&e=857b71a9cb> January 23 at 7:00 PM January 26 at 8:45 PM Gian Carlo Menotti THE MEDIUM <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8377b1dcf2&e=857b71a9cb> January 23 at 9:00 PM January 29 at 6:00 PM TO THE FAIR: HAMMID & THOMPSON <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b0dc9254f&e=857b71a9cb> January 24 at 7:30 PM January 27 at 7:00 PM *___________________________________________________________________* *January 25 - 31* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f2a2f75746&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET each night, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE* by Jacquelyn Mills 2022, 103 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Distributed by Cinema Guild. “For the last 40 years, environmentalist and naturalist Zoe Lucas has been living on Sable Island, a slender strip of land off the coast of Nova Scotia, cataloguing its flora and fauna, as well as the growing amounts of waste that wash up on its shores. Director Jacqueline Mills travels there to follow Lucas in her everyday routine, as she wanders the island, observes plants and insects, checks in on seals and wild horses, removes globules of plastic from the sand. They record everything, one with paper and pen, the other via 16mm film; everything here leaves a trace. Mills enters into a relationship with the island too, burying film stock among living roots or attaching microphones to the wooden frame of an abandoned building, helping this place make sounds and images of its own, as ravishing and resonant as all the others. So many things can be gleaned from one small island: the gentle daily grind of science, the concurrent isolation and interconnectedness of any space in the world, the accumulated matter and meaning of a life’s work and a vast ecosystem, the need to make the workings of any documentary visible. A film that never tries to hide what it is: the blissfully organic result of an encounter.” –James Lattimer, VIENNALE “*GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE* shows us that conversations between artists and scientists are uniquely poised to reveal the truths of the so-called natural and human worlds, and that documentary methods can preserve the wonder of a little-seen, though not entirely untouched, place.” –Esmé Hogeveen, BOMB MAGAZINE *___________________________________________________________________* *January 26 - 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cinémathèque québécoise <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=459b53576a&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, Cinémathèque québécoise, 335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montreal, QC *Andy Warhol as seen by Nelson Henricks* As part of his exhibition at the MAC, artist Nelson Henricks has designed a program of Andy Warhol film screenings in three parts which will be presented at the Cinémathèque québécoise on January 26, 27 and 28 . The screenings will be preceded by a presentation by Nelson Henricks and Ara Osterweil, professor in the Department of English at McGill University, and followed by a period of discussion with the public. ---Thursday January 26 @ 6:30pm ET--- *Outer & Inner Space* , 33 mins *Velvet Underground in Boston* , 33 mins ---Friday January 27 @ 8:30pm ET--- *Haircut* , 24 mins *Kiss* , 54 min ---Saturday January 28 @ 6:30pm ET--- *Mario Banana #2* , 4 min *The Velvet Underground & Nico* , 67 min *___________________________________________________________________* *January 27 - February 25* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Deluge Contemporary Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f8109e9132&e=857b71a9cb> Wed/Fri/Sat noon to 4pm PT, Thurs 1 to 5pm PT., Deluge Contemporary Art, 636 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, Canada *Split Screen* Leslie Bauer Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Todd Lambeth Kate Shults OPENING FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 @ 7PM Split Screen is an experiment in encouraging language and conversation between 2D (in this case painting) and media artworks while expanding experiential possibilities for viewers. Less a situation of work coexisting alongside other work in aid of a specific set of ideas, appositions or overarching theme, the exhibition loosely harnesses syncopations—visual, audial, kinetic—to imagine a larger composition within which infinite possibilities for comprehension exist and from which infinite numbers of questions arise, much like abstraction itself. In Leslie Bauer’s *Fahren 7* velocity deforms our understanding of static objects, effecting surfaces into recondite dynamic shapes. “Traffic, as something very essential and characteristic of a particular time, is presented as a pattern of order and a perceptible form of structuring space and time. Locomotion makes a holistic view impossible. In the state of movement, speed and distance determine the perception of the landscape traversed. The road network itself is a pattern, a space-rastering construct, which in turn offers a reservoir of patterns, images and narratives." Gwendolyn Audrey Foster’s film *Dada Ship* wrests itself away from the homogeneity of the historical movement to set sail for other, queerer shores employing disrupted stereoscopy and collaged détournement of archival imagery. In his paintings, Todd Lambeth has long been interested in optically challenging unfixed areas of interest by flipping figure and ground. Like the moving image artists in Split Screen, Lambeth understands the actions of fracturing, splicing and splitting in order to animate lacunae between seeing and recognition, between “this” and “that.” Kate Shults has created a video portrait of a disaster—2017’s Hurricane Irma—from the precarious safety of her home in inland Central Florida. Through anticipation, impact and aftermath, *Irma* explores the fragility of digital images and landscapes while deftly challenging the politics of looking. While the artists in Split Screen engage with varying approaches and concerns, they often utilize similar techniques and processes—layering, montage, chroma shifting and hybrid analog/digital workflows—to enrich the vocabulary of contemporary abstraction across disparate media. *SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* RPM Festival & Non-Event <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f983c28f5e&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA *Marie-Pierre Bonniol* RPM Festival & Non-Event Co-present a program of experimental short films by the filmmaker Marie-Pierre Bonniol. These seven short films are all related to music, with soundtracks by musicians such as Pierre Bastien, Gamelan Voices, and Stine Janvin. The longest of these films is *Wasser* (2021, 22'35), a powerful abstract essay on water and its transformation into energy, features a soundtrack by Andreas O. Hirsch, Raymonde, Khaki Blazer, Richard Pinhas, and The Dead Mauriacs. Obsessed by the idea of Imaginary music, Marcel Duchamp’s idea of the “bachelor machine,” and the power of mysteries, Marie-Pierre Bonniol's films – all recorded on her smartphone – have been presented at Cafe OTO in London, ZKM in Karlsruhe, the National Library of Argentina, Anthology Film Archive in New York, the Alchemy Arts & Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival. The screenings will be followed by a discussion with the director Marie-Pierre Bonniol. *** Please note that some parts of the programme are not adapted to people with PSE (Photosensitive epilepsy).*** *Quiet motors* | 2017, 1’24 | Music by Pierre Bastien *Babylone* | 2018, 1’13 | Music by Kraus *Three motors* | 2018, 1’55 | Sound recording by Ève Couturier and Jean-Jacques Palix *Transports* | 2018, 15’50 | Music by Pierre Bastien, Narassa, Gamelan Voices, Lawrence, mix by Waltraud Blischke. *Volatile* | 2019, 9’47 | Music by Stine Janvin *Korridor* | 2020, 1’16 | Music by Marie-Pierre Bonniol and Walter Duncan (co-director) *Wasser* | 2021, 22'35 | Music by Andreas O. Hirsch, Khaki Blazer, Raymonde, Richard Pinhas, The Dead Mauriacs This program is co-presented with the Goethe-Institut Boston and Non-Event Please note, everyone is required to wear a CDC-approved mask during all indoor public events at the Goethe-Institut Boston, except when actively eating or drinking. Post Screening Q&A Marie-Pierre Bonniol & Wenhua Shi *SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Image Forum - Japan <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=01fcd47921&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm, 2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tóquio2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tóquio *SMALL NOTES ON SMALL GESTURES A selection of contemporary Super 8 films from Brazil* In a world where the Big Gestures (with a capital B and G) like going to space are celebrated in Big Media, can a small gesture like collecting insect corpses serve as a point of displacement? This selection of films, made by artist-filmmakers (with lowercase a-f) from various corners of Brazil, offers fragmented time-spaces to celebrate small gestures in situ. A ritual call to ancestry, nature-culture appropriated/excavated from the skull of Mother Earth, a gesture of an artist to relate to filmic support, ephemeral reincarnation of humans and non-humans. The majority of the works, if not all, were revealed and revived by the artists own hands without institutional support. All the films of the program will be projected in their original format: super 8 film. They are unique copies due to their nature and the presence of a projectionist is a crucial part of the experience. The program was possible thanks to a reliable network of artists who gave it to their only children. Super 8 was, and continues to be, the perfect format for artists who are not committed to the commercial circuit. Unlike the larger calibers such as the 16 mm and the 35 mm, this small format was not due to censorship during the military dictatorship due to its amateur character (the lowercase letters). It is pertinent to reflect on the artistic production in super 8 in Brazil in the present day, but also with the tenebrous presence of the Grandes Medios y Potencias del Capital. *Revém Natura* - Ж - 7’ -s8 double-projection - silent - 2013 *A Film is a Battleground* - Nikolas Candido - 5' - s8 single-projection - digital sound - 2022 *Dedentro* - Mateus Rosa - 3’ - s8 single projection - digital sound - 2018 *Visita ao Museu / Visit to the museum* - Lígia Teixeira & Francisco Benvenuto - 4’ - s8 single projection - digital sound -2021 *Véu II / Veil II* - Rodrigo Faustini - 3’ - BW s8 single projection - digital sound - 2022 *Ressucita-me / Resurrect Me* - Coletivo Atos da Mooca - 6’ - s8 single projection - digital sound - 2017 *Metamorphosis of Narcissus or an Onion On the Head* - Duo Strangloscope & Ángel Rueda - 4’ - s8 double-projection -silent - 2016 *Confined Flux* - Helder Martinovsky - 3’ - s8 single projection - digital sound - 2022 *Ode to Young People* - Natália Poli - 3’ - s8 single projection- digital sound - 2022 *ANTFILM* - Tetsuya Maruyama - 2’ - s8 single projection - magnetic sound on film- 2021 *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visual Studies Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d9a2bf91e&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY *Wavelength: A Tribute to Michael Snow* On Thursday, January 5th, artist Michael Snow died at the age of 94. Snow was a prolific book artist, painter, musician, filmmaker, and sculptor, whose works expanded beyond formal traditions to challenge the expectations of audiences and inspire generations of artists. On Thursday February 2nd, VSW will pay tribute to Snow with a free screening of his 1967 structuralist masterpiece, *Wavelength*, preceded by a live “reading” of Snow’s iconic 1975 artist book, *Cover to Cover*. Both *Wavelength* and *Cover to Cover* are part of the VSW Collections. *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2023* *February 3 - 8* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9458600e2f&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN* 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 has spurred a new women-led revolution across the country: with women, schoolgirls, and their allies mobilizing 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 including members of the Kurdish, Bahaiee, and Baluch communities; every day, we read news of another execution following a sham trial. Through this program, 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. It aims to provide a corrective to the opportunism of big western art institutions, whose interest lies almost exclusively in the fetishization of certain symbols of Iranian society, which have themselves been molded by the Islamic Republic – institutions that foreground only those artists who reflect and reinforce this western gaze. Organized and presented in collaboration with Another Gaze <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39e4c53ac3&e=857b71a9cb>, a journal of film and feminisms, and the journal’s streaming project Another Screen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ca5b2db995&e=857b71a9cb> . UPCOMING SCREENINGS FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN - PROGRAM 1: INTER-GENERATIONAL TRANSMISSIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e7ed06ebf0&e=857b71a9cb> February 3 at 7:30 PM February 5 at 5:00 PM FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN - PROGRAM 2: BETWEEN WOMEN <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=73ad737ef0&e=857b71a9cb> February 4 at 5:00 PM February 6 at 7:00 PM FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN - PROGRAM 3: TRANSLATIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b779c4c4dd&e=857b71a9cb> February 4 at 8:00 PM February 7 at 7:00 PM FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN - PROGRAM 4: IN THE STREETS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=20acb5c1a6&e=857b71a9cb> February 5 at 8:00 PM February 8 at 7:00 PM *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Roxie Theater <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ef03cbfc11&e=857b71a9cb> 1:00pm (Pacific Time), Roxie Theater 3125 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 *From Inside of Here* Filmmaker Bill Basquin IN PERSON for a Q&A moderated by Greta Snider after the screening. *From Inside of Here* is a meditation on vulnerability and interconnection through the lens of an ecosystem and through the body of the filmmaker. The place itself is a character in the film, as are the filmmaker’s methods. The film is composed of multiple digital and analog formats: 16mm film, HD video, infrared stills, inter-titles, and sound recordings. Basquin structured the filming of *From Inside of Here* around a series of camping trips to the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, which is the site for the reintroduction of the endangered Mexican Grey Wolf. The species was brought very close to extinction by the US Biological Survey in the early 1900s. The US Biological Survey is a direct predecessor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is the agency now responsible for re-establishing the species. World Premiere. Co-presented by Canyon Cinema. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Denison University <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a241189c31&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Cinema House - Room 104, Denison University, 118 N. Mulberry St, Granville, OH *Passing Into Shadow: Films by Anna Kipervaser* An evening of short 16mm and digital works by Anna Kipervaser, including her newest film *With The Tide, with the tide*. Filmmaker in person. Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her practice is informed by a commitment to formal experimentation, DIY and alternative processes across experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and video. Anna’s work screens at festivals, in classrooms, galleries, museums, microcinemas, basements, and schoolhouses! Anna is also a painter, printmaker, educator, curator of exhibitions, programmer of screenings. The screenings will be followed by a discussion with Anna Kipervaser. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a21ed16013&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=dfae32493c&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=cb575d0de8&e=857b71a9cb> . 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