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Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=48a4df67f1&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 02.20.2023 SIGHT/GEIST <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=55e73ff509&e=857b71a9cb> 02.20.2023 VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a3331d029b&e=857b71a9cb> 02.22.2023 PACT Zollverein Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=af5c152636&e=857b71a9cb> 02.24.2023 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=520cebe6c9&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.26.2023 Moviate Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e79554a383&e=857b71a9cb> 02.28.2023 Live Soundtrack <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=10858d7f78&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Birds) 02.28.2023 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5ec25b29e8&e=857b71a9cb> 02.28.2023 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=068ce76995&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 02.28.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a69550bd34&e=857b71a9cb> (3rd Deadline) 03.01.2023 EXIS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5366dd5172&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9519ae71ae&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=748e1926b4&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Found Footage Magazine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7c406b4b63&e=857b71a9cb> 03.10.2023 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1b51d54a6&e=857b71a9cb> 03.10.2023 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=89b913d804&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 03.11.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b6fcb7af0&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.17.2023 New Orleans Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b190286a10&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.23.2023 Reeling The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ee0344b3f&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ddca5150c8&e=857b71a9cb> 04.01.2023 Crescent City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ff839bd936&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 04.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b59667dc5&e=857b71a9cb> (90 second ultra shorts) 04.02.2023 VSW Project Space Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12e2c0c32e&e=857b71a9cb> 04.07.2023 Buffalo Int’l Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=660e4fcbed&e=857b71a9cb> 04.09.2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2819964243&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 04.30.2023 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7951f01b1a&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 06.01.2023 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=27883bfe73&e=857b71a9cb> 07.10.2023 Affective Intermediality International Conference <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5db4a035c0&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8bd7b6cbda&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f11bfb21e0&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Split Screen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5275d6a54&e=857b71a9cb> [January 27-February 25, Victoria, BC, Canada] - The Ever-Expanding Cinema of Ernie Gehr <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3eac6d7cd5&e=857b71a9cb> [February 10-11, Cambridge, MA] - Yes: Miatta Kawinzi / Africanus Okokon, Screening <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=730961cda3&e=857b71a9cb> [February 13, New York, NY] - Film Portraits By Luke Fowler <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b68b01e50b&e=857b71a9cb> [February 14, Paris, France] - Michael Snow (1928-2023) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3a5d0c4fdf&e=857b71a9cb> [February 14-16, New York, NY] - The World Is the Medium: Courtney Stephens’ Terra Femme <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15589870c0&e=857b71a9cb> [February 15, San Francisco, CA] - Street Poems: the Films of Mark Street <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=51df28f3b7&e=857b71a9cb> [February 17, Oakland, CA] - Visiting Writer: Mark Alice Durant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1f4266724&e=857b71a9cb> [February 17, Columbus, OH] - Maria Lassnig <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b792af65b0&e=857b71a9cb> [February 17-20, New York, NY] - The Fragmentations Only Mean … <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=55f057da47&e=857b71a9cb> [February 19, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d3301f7ac8&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6362e4e2e7&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE FEBRUARY 11, 2023* *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=2443fa0012&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *January 27 - February 25* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Deluge Contemporary Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=646109233c&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *February 10 - 11* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Harvard Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=712583ff11&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA *The Ever-Expanding Cinema of Ernie Gehr* This two-program showcase of Ernie Gehr’s filmmaking over the past ten years begins with a pair of dazzling films, both works from longer series, which underscore the dialogue, active across his oeuvre, between Modernist Art and cinema. *Sensations of Light 7* uses flicker effect to create an intensely animated return to a variation of sorts of Albers’ famous *Homage to a Square, *now using variable speeds and rhythms to generate a rich series of effects and aftereffects that ignite the screen. Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman and Bridget Riley, among others, are recalled in the mesmerizing linear abstractions of *Auto-Collider XX*, part of a long series made using footage shot while driving through the streets of San Francisco. The other films in the program together give special emphasis to the urban focus of Gehr’s recent work. While *Construction Sight* uses slow motion and a low-fi soundtrack recalling his earlier *Reverberation *to observe uncanny patterns of movement and mirroring, *Back in the Park* observes the parallel world of shadows on a sun-drenched Manhattan day. It was on a certain *Sunday in Paris* that Gehr, meanwhile, filmed one of his most delightfully adventurous films using careful “cuts” to render the image into a fascinating turnstile of displaced perspective. Among the most beautiful and poignant of Gehr’s city films are three—*Delirium, The Weather Report* and *Flying Over Brooklyn*—that were made within steps from his Caroll Gardens home since the coming of COVID. Quiet works of resilience, the films affirm Gehr’s incredible resourcefulness as well as his understanding of vision itself as a creative and transformative art. – *Haden Guest*The Harvard Film Archive is extremely happy and proud to welcome back Ernie Gehr for two evenings of recent films and conversations. --- Friday, February 10th, Program One, 7pm --- *Sensations of Light 7*, 2016, digital video, color, silent, 8 min. *Auto-Collider XX*, 2014, digital video, color, 11 min. *Undertow*, 2019, digital video, color, 15 min. *Delirium*, 2020, digital video, color and b&w, 15 min. *The Weather Report*, 2022, digital video, color, silent, 9 min. --- Saturday, February 11th, Program Two, 7pm --- *Sunday in Paris*, 2016, digital video, color, 17 min. *Construction Sight*, 2019, digital video, color, 36 min. *Back in the Park*, 2019, digital video, color, 11 min. *Flying Over Brooklyn*, 2020, digital video, color, 5 min. *MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e448b677a3&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 pm ET, 525 W 29th St, 2nd Floor, New York *YES: Miatta Kawinzi / Africanus Okokon, screening* The first 2023 edition of Microscope's emerging series YES with a screening of works by Miatta Kawinzi and Africanus Okokon. The roughly 60-minute program of works by Kawinzi and Okokon address colonial histories and the African diaspora, from the looting of artifacts to the eradication of languages, as well as the sense of uprooting and fragmentation caused by forced displacement. The artists also share an interest in analog technologies such as 16mm film, cassette tapes, and synthesizers, as well as in the spoken or sung word, which is often altered or reprocessed to become part of their soundtracks. Miatta Kawinzi and Africanus Okokon will be available for a Q&A following the screening. *TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Light Cone / Luminor Hôtel de Ville* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11d89981cd&e=857b71a9cb> 8:30PM (GMT+1), Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 rue du Temple, Paris, France *FILM PORTRAITS BY LUKE FOWLER* In the filmmaker’s presence Luke Fowler is an artist, filmmaker and musician from Glasgow whose films experiment with the conventions of biographical and documentary cinema. This cross section of 16mm short films from the last 12 years consists of impressionistic portraits of various people, some of whom are directly present in the filmmaker’s personal life (his mother, his neighbors), while others are completely absent but nonetheless important to him (the disco music producer Patrick Cowley, or Paul Cézanne). Proceeding in a fragmented and elliptical manner, Fowler composes his portraits from the material traces (photographs, documents, sound recordings) left by these people in the places they inhabit and subtle studies of their surrounding environments. His work of careful listening and observation brings to the surface forgotten or marginalized histories from various fields, such as radical pedagogy, experimental music, social activism, and queer culture. Since sound is at the heart of his artistic practice, as a conclusion to the screening Luke Fowler will present Warren Sonbert’s silent film *Divided Loyalties* (1978) accompanied by a sound composition created by Fowler in collaboration with Richard McMaster. We wish to thank the Estate of Warren Sonbert for their generous authorization. *ANNA, Tenement Films* by Luke FOWLER / 2009 / 16mm / color / sound / 3' 00 *HELEN, Tenement Films* by Luke FOWLER / 2009 / 16mm / color / sound / 3' 00 *DAVID, Tenement Films* by Luke FOWLER / 2009 / 16mm / color / sound / 3' 00 *LESTER, Tenement Films* by Luke FOWLER / 2009 / 16mm / color / sound / 3' 00 *FOR CHRISTIAN* by Luke FOWLER / 2016 / 16mm / color / sound / 6' 45 *MUM'S CARDS* by Luke FOWLER / 2018 / 16mm / color / sound / 9' 00 *FOR DAN* by Luke FOWLER / 2021 / 16mm / color / sound / 12' 28 *CÉZANNE* by Luke FOWLER / 2019 / 16mm / color / sound / 6' 36 *PATRICK* by Luke FOWLER / 2020 / DCP / color / sound / 21' 00 *DIVIDED LOYALTIES* by Warren SONBERT / 1978 / 16mm / color / silent / 22' 00 *___________________________________________________________________* *February 14 - 16* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b5ec6cab9&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MICHAEL SNOW (1928-2023)* Experimental cinema – and indeed, 20th and 21st-century art and culture as a whole – lost one of its indisputable giants in January, with the passing of the incomparable Michael Snow. It’s no exaggeration to say that Snow’s body of moving-image work represents one of the great achievements in the history of the art form – films such as *WAVELENGTH*, *(BACK AND FORTH)*, and *LA RÉGION CENTRALE* have become widely acknowledged classics, but every one of his films amply demonstrates his formal brilliance, searching intelligence, and commitment to interrogating and exploring ideas about the image, language, and ontology. That his aesthetic innovation and intellectual depth are wedded to a disarmingly playful and inspired sense of humor guarantees that his work will remain forever resonant and alive. As extraordinary as Snow’s films and videos are, his importance extends far beyond the moving image: he made equally accomplished work in the realms of music, photography, writing, the artist book, and more. The extent of his legacy is immeasurable, and his loss is unfathomable. Snow and the great Hollis Frampton collaborated repeatedly, and shared an inimitable way with words. Unsurprisingly, when it comes to accounting for Snow’s importance, Frampton may have put it best: “All that survives entire of an epoch is its typical art form. For instance: painting (in all its enormity) comes to us intact from the New Stone Age. Film is surely the typical art of our time, whatever time that is. If the Lumières are Lascaux, then we are, now, in the Early Historical Period of film. It is a time of invention. One of little more than a dozen living inventors of film art is Michael Snow. His work has already modified our perception of past film. Seen or unseen, it will affect the making & understanding of film in the future. This is an astonishing situation. It is like knowing the name and address of the man who carved the Sphinx.” –Hollis Frampton Anthology hosted a full retrospective of Snow’s work in December 2021, which featured the premiere of our restoration of *(BACK AND FORTH)* (1969). To pay tribute to him following his passing, we offer screenings of his “camera movement” trilogy, which arguably represents the core of his achievement in the cinema. Special thanks to Peggy Gale and Mani Mazinani. Robert Gardner *SCREENING ROOM: MICHAEL SNOW <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dd95cb2f68&e=857b71a9cb>* February 14 at 7:00 PM Michael Snow *WAVELENGTH <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5732515f7a&e=857b71a9cb>* February 15 at 6:45 PM Michael Snow *<---> (BACK AND FORTH) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e1eb660eb7&e=857b71a9cb>* February 15 at 8:45 PM Michael Snow *LA RÉGION CENTRALE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b304c8050&e=857b71a9cb>* February 16 at 7:00 PM *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7d6ced9fda&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, GRAY AREA / GRAND THEATER, 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA *The World is the Medium: Courtney Stephens’ Terra Femme* Courtney Stephens in person. The personal cinema of Courtney Stephens is a space of introspective feminism, poetic rumination and the tentative habitation of peripheral landscapes. A subtle tour-de-force of archival research and vernacular exoticism, Stephens’ *Terra Femme* is compiled entirely from non-professional/amateur footage travel shot by women in the early–mid-twentieth century, fleeting fragments of private lives. Resisting an urge to classify and canonize, Stephens’ drifting montage manifests as an exquisitely curated evocation of hidden histories and stories untold. Presented with live narration by Stephens (and set to a sublime score by Sarah Davachi), the experience of *Terra Femme* is that of a protocinematic travel lecture and a live cinema essay, in which the artist’s reflections on personal mortality and creative interiority interweave with considerations of the freedoms found in isolation, the privileges of travel and as well the relationship of travel (and amateur filmmaking) to legacies of colonialism and empire. The live performance of *Terra Femme* will be preceded by an additional surprise video by Stephens—not to be missed! (Steve Polta) One thing these films [used in *Terra Femme*] encode is a profound absence: the general absence of women in the film archive and the larger absence of female figures in the historical record. They also explore the attempt to concretize one’s own experience through the act of making cinema, while also acknowledging the other forms of power that gave these women access to film cameras in the first place. At once a film about longing for past worlds through cinematic excavation, this force flows in both directions: as women from the past convey themselves into the present through the power of their gaze. (Courtney Stephens) *Terra Femme* is about the labor and love involved in creating and collecting images, both expanding the boundaries of women’s cinema to include the fragment and the lost reel and modeling a mode of reading that analyses the rush of world-making and hints of self-inscription at stake in women’s filmmaking. (Shilyh Warren: Another Gaze) *RELATED*: *Loss Angles: about dead projects*. An online companion to *Terra Femme*, Courtney Stephens’ *Loss Angles* is drawn from formative experiences and contemplations informing *Terra Femme*, chronicling travels, observations and inner explorations while speculating on the relationship between intention and abandoned projects to completed works. View *Loss Angles* at https://www.sfcinematheque.org/video-programs/loss-angles/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=619d3c4cc1&e=857b71a9cb> *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3abba16970&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Street Poems: The Films of Mark Street* For this program NY-based filmmaker Mark Street will present five films rooted in the tradition of street photography, as well as one short made from 35mm educational film strips. The films wander from city to city and corner to corner pondering ephemeral visual moments, revealing diaristic musings on the pandemic and surveying human connection in a time of cultural and political change. As a group they are a testament to the ethos of always carrying a camera even when you don’t know exactly why. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Wexner Center for the Arts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=689b579573&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH *Visiting Writer: Mark Alice Durant* Durant will read from his book *Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera* (2022), followed by screenings of Deren’s *A Study in Choreography for Camera* (1945, DCP, 3 mins) and *Ritual in Transfigured Time* (1946, DCP), 15 mins). A signing follows the event in the Wexner Lobby. "A vibrant cultural history of one of art's most exciting era's, Mark Alice Durant’s *Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera* is a feast of life and art." - Lynne Tillman “Every artist should read this.” – Paul Chan One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, the Ukrainian-born Maya Deren was a pioneering choreographer, dancer, writer and photographer. Even though she completed only six short experimental films in her brief life, she left an indelible mark on the history of the cinema, and her *Meshes of the Afternoon* (1943) continues to inspire artists to this day. Based on years of research, interviews with some of Deren’s closest collaborators, and generously illustrated with film stills and photographs, Mark Alice Durant’s *Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera* (2022, Saint Lucey Books) is a vivid and accessible portrait exploring the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of this visionary and charismatic artist. Regarded by many as the patron saint of 20th century experimental film, Deren also collaborated with numerous mid-century cultural luminaries across disciplines including Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Anaïs Nin, and Katherine Dunham. *___________________________________________________________________* *February 17 - 20* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=23357bcfa2&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MARIA LASSNIG* Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) is internationally recognized as one of the foremost painters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her importance within the Austrian and European art world can hardly be exaggerated, thanks to her role in helping to introduce the various forms of Informalism (a movement parallel to American Abstract Expressionism) into Austria; her membership in the seminal group, Hundsgruppe, alongside artists such as Arnulf Rainer, Ernst Fuchs, and others; and above all to her singular preoccupation with self-portraiture and the body, which led to the development of her artistic theory of “body awareness”. Following her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Lassnig relocated first to Paris and then to NYC, where she lived from 1968-80. Her years in New York were of profound importance to her life and career: energized by the city, she produced a flood of paintings and drawings, as well as studying animation at the School of Visual Arts and joining the nascent group Women/Artist/Filmmakers, Inc. Lassnig remains far better known for her paintings, drawings, and prints. But the films she produced – mainly during her sojourn in the U.S. – represent a vitally important part, not only of her own body of work, but of experimental filmmaking in the 1970s in general. After decades of neglect, these films are coming back into the limelight, thanks primarily to the efforts of her former students Mara Mattuschka and Hans Werner Poschauko, and to the support of institutions including sixpackfilm, the Austrian Film Museum, and others. And this newfound attention extends beyond the nine (“canonical”) films that Lassnig completed and exhibited during her lifetime (eight of them filmed in NYC, as well as the later work, *THE BALLAD OF MARIA LASSNIG*, from 1992). Following her death in 2014, Mattuschka and Poschauko unearthed a treasure trove of films that Lassnig had never fully completed or shown, and that had languished unseen in her apartment. These works have now been completed by Mattuschka and Poschauko according to the instructions she left behind, and newly restored, a process fully documented by the new book, “Maria Lassnig: Film Works” (2021). To celebrate Lassnig’s moving-image work, the restoration of her films, and the publication of “*Maria Lassnig: Film Works*”, Anthology is proud to host three programs devoted to both her “canonical” films and the newly completed “non-canonical” works that have expanded and enriched our understanding of her cinema. “For Lassnig, film was by no means just a pastime or an excursion into low or popular culture. Like other 20th century artists, she embraced film as a unique means of expression. As the artist herself put it, while it is only ever the final layer of a painting, that is, the ‘finished’ image, that remains, film allows the unfolding of time itself to be depicted, frame by frame, film image by film image. Yet Lassnig’s film work is hardly just ‘painting in time’…. Her work reflects her engagement with the medium, its history, and its narrative techniques, ranging from Hollywood cinema via American independent film and animation all the way to television. And in aesthetic terms too, Lassnig rejects any sort of orthodoxy. […] We believe it is Lassnig’s bold interdisciplinarity with which she devoted herself to film and the possibilities of new (feminist) artistic production that explains the considerable response to her oeuvre. What one can now discover and explore is an entirely corporeal, tactile, personal cinema which equally bears witness to the social and political struggles of the time at which it was made.” –Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein, Peter Pakesch, and Hans Werner Poschauko, MARIA LASSNIG: FILM WORKS For more info about the book, “*Maria Lassnig: Film Works*” (FilmmuseumSynemaPublications), visit: https://www.filmmuseum.at/en/shop/shop_detail?shop_produkte_id=1605235818901 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=41bad72e32&e=857b71a9cb> For more info about the related DVD visit: https://sixpackfilm.com/en/indexedition/release/51/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5a6440785a&e=857b71a9cb> Presented in collaboration with the Maria Lassnig Foundation and sixpackfilm, with generous support from the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Special thanks to Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger & Melina Tsiamos (ACFNY); Hans Werner Poschauko (Maria Lassnig Foundation); and Dietmar Schwärzler, Gerald Weber, and Isabella Reicher (sixpackfilm). All the “canonical” films (16mm) are provided by sixpackfilm; all the “non-canonical” films (which will be presented digitally) have been preserved and restored by the Maria Lassnig Foundation in collaboration with the Austrian Film Museum. MARIA LASSNIG PROGRAM 1: ANIMATIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=419f15d5b7&e=857b71a9cb> February 17 at 8:00 PM February 19 at 5:15 PM MARIA LASSNIG PROGRAM 2: PORTRAITS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8190bc7ed5&e=857b71a9cb> February 18 at 5:15 PM February 19 at 7:30 PM MARIA LASSNIG PROGRAM 3: PERFORMANCE / ART / CULTURE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=280bacb60a&e=857b71a9cb> February 18 at 7:30 PM February 20 at 7:00 PM *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=348e9ec18c&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *The Fragmentations Only Mean …* 72min, 2021, DCP. A documentary by Jesse Lerner and Sara Harris *The Fragmentations Only Mean …* is an audiovisual landscape of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum, located in the California high desert. In 1986 Noah Purifoy (1917- 2004) retired from his position of many years on the California Arts Council and moved to a remote desert site north of Joshua Tree National Park, where, over the last eighteen years of his life, he created an ambitious series of over a hundred assemblage sculptures which sprawl over acres of the harsh, arid land, and address issues of North American history, race relations, social justice, contemporary philosophy, and human interactions with and impact upon the environment. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3c6dd1527c&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=60bd59d7c0&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=994adfe8d5&e=857b71a9cb> . 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