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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=87ec29ab9a&e=857b71a9cb> 02.20.2023 VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f16977128f&e=857b71a9cb> 02.22.2023 PACT Zollverein Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dfb4415006&e=857b71a9cb> 02.24.2023 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b405cd4d35&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.26.2023 Moviate Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1d6d32fff3&e=857b71a9cb> 02.28.2023 Live Soundtrack <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4f4ca61ad7&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Birds) 02.28.2023 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6c0e12c703&e=857b71a9cb> 02.28.2023 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e2f306a4b5&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 02.28.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d7209218f8&e=857b71a9cb> (3rd Deadline) 03.01.2023 EXIS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b609b36f07&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Prismatic Ground <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=32637fa582&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=07690e78e3&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cadba6e7fb&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Found Footage Magazine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dababf4ca9&e=857b71a9cb> 03.03.2023 Festival de Cannes <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e8282fde59&e=857b71a9cb> 03.10.2023 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=949fe5dfbf&e=857b71a9cb> 03.10.2023 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ff1b05527&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 03.11.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d50e439e48&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.17.2023 New Orleans Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2671299152&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=fc86a37829&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b9a1e6491b&e=857b71a9cb> 04.01.2023 Crescent City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=746586a802&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 04.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a36aa66fc0&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=8c4ceadaf6&e=857b71a9cb> 04.07.2023 Buffalo Int’l 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<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=04d752dea9&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=ef2cdf24ed&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Split Screen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fe5853b97a&e=857b71a9cb> [January 27-February 25, Victoria, BC, Canada] - Maria Lassnig <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=557280c450&e=857b71a9cb> [February 17-20, New York, NY] - Incredibly Strange Music <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e1b4b4986a&e=857b71a9cb> [February 18, San Francisco, CA] - The Fragmentations Only Mean … <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b46aaec55e&e=857b71a9cb> [February 19, Los Angeles, CA] - Alternative Cinema: Selected Works By Anna Kipervaser <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a1d807d9c&e=857b71a9cb> [February 21, Hamilton, NY] - EC: Kenneth Anger <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=90c32c1a2d&e=857b71a9cb> [February 21-22, New York, NY] - Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown: Moving Or Being Moved <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0cf21b3476&e=857b71a9cb> [February 23, Cambridge, MA] - Connectivity Through Cinema: the Mono No Aware Film Community <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5268479f9a&e=857b71a9cb> [February 23, Rochester, NY] - Jean-Luc Godard / Mona Hatoum / Mohanad Yaqubi <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d48e8a91c6&e=857b71a9cb> [February 23, New York, NY] - Exhalations: Films By Kalpana Subramanian <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=16a99953d9&e=857b71a9cb> [February 24, Buffalo, NY] - Sonic Celluloid <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d645971d97&e=857b71a9cb> [February 24, Chicago, IL] - Radical Archaeologies: Films By Greta Snider <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de3a856077&e=857b71a9cb> [February 24, Columbus, OH] - George Kuchar: 8mm Weather Diaries <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e1579cdfba&e=857b71a9cb> [February 24, San Francisco, CA] - Found Footage & Collage Films <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9246288966&e=857b71a9cb> [February 24, Santa Fe, NM] - Dominic Angerame: A Complete Retrospective: Program 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f4c059ee0e&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25, Oakland, CA] - Psycho-Geo: San Franciskino <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=482d216380&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25, San Francisco, CA] - EC: Bruce Baillie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05b7584763&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25-26, New York, NY] - Simon Payne In Person <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d4ca4b4e43&e=857b71a9cb> [February 26, Brussels, Belgium] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75411a74ce&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=32322d77c4&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE FEBRUARY 18, 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=b812eec8a7&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=1a0a409348&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 17 - 20* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=437e354286&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=59211a8a58&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=250115c8ef&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=18b9aa4839&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=9e73c20520&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=896b0fd794&e=857b71a9cb> February 18 at 7:30 PM February 20 at 7:00 PM *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5926f8501a&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC* SCOTT STARK + EZ LISTENING + ANOMALIE𝄞 Our Spring season erupts with an astonishing album launch by our *avant garde* neighbor Scott Stark! The Tall Boy pops up with a tune some 4 times over the course of our outre acoustic cavalcade, threading us through an hour of bizarre 20th C jaw-droppers, towards the BBC's marvelous Mancini homage. Never seen in the US, this is a sophisticated essay that takes “elevator music” seriously, and affords the balm needed after the brain damage wreaked by our favorite musical freaks: Bobby Breen, Ricky Ricardo, Frankie Valli, Spike Jones, Louis Prima, Tex Ritter, Eddie Peabody, Harry Partch, Harpo Marx, Guitar Wolf, Lee Carrot-Top Anderson, Michael Tilson Thomas, and so many more of Scott's alter egos. PLUS, in the flesh: Jeremy Rourke, Mark Street, and Kathleen Tyner, the latter in fact coupling with Stark for an all-vinyl—mostly 45s and 78s—Gear Wax DJ delirium, lifting us into a lyrical limbo that spins out from the ridiculous to the sublime. *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=991e7cbf85&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. *TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Colgate University <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=30acaa330b&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm ET, Little Hall, Golden Auditorium 105, Colgate University, 13 Oak Dr, Hamilton, NY *Alternative Cinema: Selected Works by Anna Kipervaser* 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. This screening features a series of Anna’s works. *When It Is Still* | 2018 | 16mm | silent | 00:10:00 | 18fps *With The Tide, with the tide* | 2022 | 16mm | sound | 00:02:49 | 24fps *Terrain Ahead* | 2021 | 16mm + digital | sound | 00:20:17 | projects digitally *No Garden Beyond* | 2019 | 16mm | sound | 00:11:03 | projects digitally *How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather* | 2019 | 16mm | silent | 00:07:30 | 24fps This series is made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. *___________________________________________________________________* *February 21 - 22* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=58984552db&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET both nights, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: KENNETH ANGER* “Scandal, evil, violence, and Fascism, like Hollywood, are centers of fascination for Anger, and his films are the fields in which the dialectic of that fascination is played and fought.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM “All of [Anger’s] films have been evocations or invocations, attempting to conjure primal forces which, once visually released, are designed to have the effect of ‘casting a spell’ on the audience. […] Not a surrealist who puts blind faith in his own dream images and trusts his dreams to convey an ‘uncommon unconscious,’ Anger works predominantly in archetypal symbol. As the magus, he is the juggler of these symbols, just as in the Tarot, where the Magician is represented by the Juggler and is given the attribution of Mercury, the messenger.” –Carel Rowe, FILM QUARTERLY --- Program 1: February 21, 7:30pm --- *FIREWORKS* (1947, 15 min, 16mm-to-35mm, b&w. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.) *PUCE MOMENT* (1949-70, 6 min, 16mm) *RABBIT’S MOON* (1950-70, 15 min, 35mm. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.) *EAUX D’ARTIFICE* (1953, 13 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 55 min. --- Program 2: February 22, 7:30pm --- *SCORPIO RISING* (1963, 30 min, 16mm) *KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS* (1965, 3 min, 16mm) *INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME* (1954-66, 38 min, 16mm) *INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER* (1969, 12 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 90 min. “Anger’s myths address mass-erotic-consciousness through a barrage of notorious symbols. These often war with one another in Reichian power-trips of rape, will-power, fascism, and revolution. ‘I find ridiculous the idea of anyone being the leader,’ Anger has said. Pentagrams war with swastikas in *INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER*. Brando tortures Christ in *SCORPIO*, Shiva asserts absolute power over his guests in *PLEASURE DOME*. Historical heroes are reduced to pop-idols and history is demythified by comic book codes. ‘When earths collide, gods die.’” –Carel Rowe, FILM QUARTERLY *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* RPM + The Brattle <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e6fe4fde8&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA *Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown: Moving or Being Moved* RPM Festival & Brattle theatre Co-present a program of experimental short films by dynamic artist-filmmaker duo Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown. They have been making experimental films, documentaries and essay films and performing live electronic improvise for over two decades. Sabine Gruffat explores different methods to generate content and images, from laser cutting/etching on 35mm film strips to 3D animation. Bill Brown is known for his nomadic filmmaking and transporting us to various destinations. Seven shorts in this program titled *Moving or Being Moved*, highlight their praxis in recent 10 years. *A Return to the Return to Reason* | 2014, 3 minutes , 35mm to HD | by Sabine Gruffat *Framelines* | 2017,10:14 minutes | by Sabine Gruffat *Take It Down* | 2018, 12:30 minutes | by Sabine Gruffat *Moving or Being Moved* | 2020, 11 minutes | by Sabine Gruffat *XCTRY* | 2018, 6:18 minutes | by Bill Brown *Life On The Mississippi* | 2018, 28:13 minutes| by Bill Brown *Amarillo Ramp* | 2017, 24:10 minutes | by Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown Post Screening Q&A with Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown & Brittany Gravely *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visual Studies Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c697e32fba&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY *Connectivity through Cinema: the MONO NO AWARE Film Community* Mono No Aware is a non-profit organization and film positive community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Mono No Aware (MNA) presents screenings, organizes affordable analogue filmmaking workshops, facilitates equipment rentals, and hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary artists and international filmmakers whose work incorporates Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm or altered light projections as part of a live performance or installation. This screening will be presented by members of the MNA film community, including the MNA founder Steve Cossmann, and will feature a selection of recent films made in the MNA workshop. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=50ae8e8304&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *JEAN-LUC GODARD / MONA HATOUM / MOHANAD YAQUBI* Proceeds from this screening will go toward Medical Aid for Palestinians. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Ed Halter (critic, curator, and co-founder of Light Industry). For more info about Artists Against Apartheid, Shasha Movies, and Bidoun, visit https://artistsagainstapartheiduk.com/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=562180d027&e=857b71a9cb>, https://shashamovies.com/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7598d0f718&e=857b71a9cb>, and https://www.bidoun.org/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b81883f07&e=857b71a9cb> Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and Anne-Marie Miéville *HERE AND ELSEWHERE / ICI ET AILLEURS* 1976, 53 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In French with English subtitles. Commissioned by the Arab League to produce a film on the Palestinian Revolution, Godard and Gorin found their plans upended by Black September. Godard, now working with Miéville, transformed the original footage into a scathing self-critique, juxtaposing the lives of a French and a Palestinian family. “*ICI ET AILLEURS* is perhaps the most complex of all [the Dziga Vertov Group films], a stunning reflection on the Palestinian resistance, on the political dimensions of sound and image, and on the failure of European radicalism after 1968. […] *ICI ET AILLEURS* is one of the greatest of all political films, achieving an extraordinary formal density with its layered images, sounds, and histories, as well as a political lucidity that remains all too relevant today.” –Erik Ulman, SENSES OF CINEMA Mona Hatoum *MEASURING DISTANCE* 1988, 16 min, digital Reading aloud from letters sent by her mother in Beirut, Hatoum creates a visual montage reflecting her feelings of separation and isolation from her Palestinian family. The personal and political are inextricably bound in a narrative that explores personal and family identity against a backdrop of traumatic social rupture, exile and displacement. Mohanad Yaqubi *OFF FRAME (aka REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY)* 2016, 65 min, digital A meditation on the Palestinian people's struggle to produce an image and self-representation on their own terms in the 1960s and 1970s, with the establishment of the Palestine Film Unit as part of the PLO. Unearthing films stored in archives across the world, the film begins with popular representations of modern Palestine and traces the works of militant filmmakers in reclaiming image and narrative through revolutionary and militant cinema. In resurrecting a forgotten memory of struggle, *OFF FRAME* reanimates what is within the frame, but also weaves a critical reflection by looking for what is outside it, or what is off frame. Total running time: ca. 140 min. *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Squeaky Wheel <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1f515d3dbf&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Journey's End Refugee Services @ 2495 Main Street, Suite 530, Buffalo, NY Event URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhalations-films-by-kalpana-subramanian-tickets-532349931977 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68ff25a7c4&e=857b71a9cb> *Exhalations: Films by Kalpana Subramanian* This solo screening by the celebrated film and media practitioner brings together work made from 2002 to the present day. For over 20 years, Kalpana Subramanian has created a remarkable body of work spanning films, media art, children’s books, scholarship, and curatorial work. Her recent work is invested in a cinema of breath: a framework for radical cinema grounded in intersectional-feminist and decolonial thought, alternative approaches to embodiment, and what Achille Mbembe calls “the universal right to breathe.” This solo screening by the celebrated film and media practitioner brings together recent and older short films from 2002 to the present day, including the entirety of her *Light Mediated* series. The filmmaker will be present for a Q&A following the screening. This online and event will take place in the theater of Journey's End Refugee Services, located at the 5th floor of Tri-Main Center. Please note that the online screening will only have the films, not the Q&A with the artist. The online films will be available for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive extended access for 72 hours. Please note that some of the films contain flickering imagery. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Elastic Arts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d393af2ce8&e=857b71a9cb> Doors at 8pm CT, 3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago, IL *Sonic Celluloid* Northwestern University’s WNUR present *Sonic Celluloid*, a collaboration between musicians and visual artists. The event will feature all-nite visuals by CINEPLOSION, a live visual experience combining celluloid film with analog video synthesis, mutating and adapting in real-time to the direction and style of the sound and energy of the room. CINEPLOSION is navigated by Dan Anderson, an experimental film/video maker based in Hot Spring National Park, Arkansas. Music guests lean heavily into punk, industrial, and ‘cold’ electronic music with Cleveland’s Disintegration and Chicago’s Blood Club, Bussy Kween Power Trip, and Mukqs. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Wexner Center for the Arts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f8b4e11b69&e=857b71a9cb> 4:30pm ET, Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH *Radical Archaeologies: Films by Greta Snider* Greta Snider and Mark Toscano, Senior Film Preservationist, Academy Film Archive in person Greta Snider has made films since discovering the form at Antioch College before she moved to San Francisco and joined the thriving experimental film scene and where she continues to live and work today. From her earliest films, Snider has utilized a combination of original and archival material to create deeply personal, experimental work that continually pushes the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking. The films in Radical Archaeologies, all from earlier in her career, find Snider turning her lens on the San Francisco punk scene, gay men’s attitudes about the female body, toxic waste, the AIDS crisis, artifacts from her father’s life, and more. A conversation between Snider and Mark Toscano, who restored the films in the program, follows the program. (16mm, 71 mins.) *Hardcore Home Movie* (1989) 5m *Blood Story* (1990) 3.5m *Our Gay Brothers* (1993) 9m *Futility* (1989) 8.5m *Quarry Movie* (1999) 10m *Portland* (1996) 12m *Flight* (1996) 5m *No-Zone* (1993) 18m All films are 16mm. All films are restored by the Academy Film Archive with the exception of No-Zone which is a new print from the Academy Film Archive. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8a0ee60b30&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, 4 Star Theater, 2200 Clement Street San Francisco, CA, 94121 *George Kuchar: 8mm Weather Diaries* *1980 Seven* (1987) by George Kuchar; video, color, sound, 28 minutes, exhibition file from Video Data Bank *Weather Diary 2* (1987) by George Kuchar; video, color, sound, 28 minutes, exhibition file from Video Data Bank San Francisco Cinematheque is thrilled to collaborate with San Francisco’s 4 Star Theater in the inaugural screening in its Variable Density series, a monthly screening series of experimental film. The Variable Density series opens with two 1987 8mm video diaries by the great San Francisco film/video artist George Kuchar! …Exhibiting the rawness of video verite and the theatricality of fiction, [George Kuchar’s] self-narrated tapes record close-up observations of the personal routines and social interactions of Kuchar’s daily life. Infused with humor and melancholy, these documents of the banal and intimate details of the everyday are punctuated with Kuchar’s conversations, wry monologues, introspective musings and muttered asides. […] With an eccentric presence that pervades these “home videos,” Kuchar veers from the scatological to the sublime in his close-up forays into the kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms of friends and family across the country. These remarkable video journals often resonate with an unexpected poetry. For example, [the] *Weather Diaries*, in which Kuchar observes weather and food from dreary motel rooms in Oklahoma, reveals alienation and loneliness in the rural American landscape. (Electronic Arts Intermix) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc1acc79f4&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *Found Footage & Collage Films* Sixteen experimental short films created 1965-2017 that provide a vivid account of creative processes used in the recycling of images in experimental moving image art. Found Footage filmmakers hold a significant place within the canon of the experimental and avant-garde filmmaking oeuvre. Creative film artists have employed previously filmed footage obtained from various sources, and originating from other film genres – including home movies, newsreels, educational films, scientific studies, industrial films, and fiction films – to fashion their own distinctive visions of cinematographic texture and textual meaning. These range from explorations of the materiality of the celluloid film stock, studies of time and motion, power and gender representation, construction of geographical travel diaries, deconstruction of political messaging, and emotional states of being. *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eded69ff4a&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Dominic Angerame: A Complete Retrospective (Program 2, The City Symphony Series)* This is the second in a series of monthly screenings comprising a complete retrospective of the work of Dominic Angerame. Since 1968 Angerame has produced more than 30 films on 16mm and several newer works in digital format. Some of these films have never had a public screening. Many of Angerame’s films show San Francisco, the city he has lived and worked in since 1979, and its varying cityscape as it looks and changes over time. He has also created short comedies, short-form documentaries and many diary films. Angerame has taught film in many schools and universities in the Bay Area as well as at the University of Nevada, Reno. He was Executive Director of Canyon Cinema from 1980-2012. For this second program we will present the five original films of the highly-acclaimed City Symphony series, made between 1984-1997, projected in their original 16mm film format, including: *Continuum* (1984) with live guitar by Kevin Barnard, *Deconstruction Sight *(1990), *Premonition* (1995), *In the Course of Human Events* (1995) and *Line of Fire* (1996). TRT: 75 mins. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2c14aeeef8&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *PSYCHO-GEO: SAN FRANCISKINO* BUCHANAN's 16th ST. POETS + SPOTO's TL + WOOD/WNP's CLIFF HOUSE + Evermore secret histories and critical insights about our DAMN fair City!..here's a dozen smart shorts and slide-shows--all pathos, no bathos! Showcased is Anthony Buchanan's LIVE-NARRATED(!) 16mm(!) 'zine film' *Memory is Resistance*, a hand-held half-hour of the Mission's ground zero, at the legendary poetry readings at 16th St. BART, including precious footage of street artist Ronnie Goodman (RIP). ALSO: SFAI *grad emeritus* Ben Wood enlightens us to another crucial cultural intervention on the very western edge of our peninsula: his year long-residency at Cliff Moving Pictures, turning the abandoned Cliff House into a pop-up museum! Teamed with Wood, Nicole Meldahl (in person) of the Western Neighborhoods Project has sourced a treasure trove of visual records, from tin-types to digi-vids, that serially illuminate the 6 House windows, with a special focus on Sutro Baths, Playland, and the Kelly's Cove surfers! PLUS Alex Spoto in the flesh for an overdue celebration of his energized Tenderloin center of tenant history and art-making. AND Steve McQueen's *Bullitt* promo, our fave Gay Riots reel, and a NorCal Tsunami scare-film that delivers the *schadenfreude*! Free postcards. *___________________________________________________________________* *February 25 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=44e855e2c3&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: BRUCE BAILLIE* --- February 25, 7pm --- *MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX* (1963-64, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) *QUIXOTE* (1964-65, 45 minutes, 16mm) “In *MASS* and *QUIXOTE* [Baillie] subtly blends glimpses of the heroic personae with despairing reflections on violence and ecological disaster. […] Despite his sophistication, Baillie remains an innocent; the whole of his cinema exhibits an alternation between two irreconcilable themes: the sheer beauty of the phenomenal world (few films are as graceful to the eye as his, few are as sure of their colors) and the utter despair of forgotten men. It is in QUIXOTE alone that these two themes emerge into a dialectical form, an antithesis of grace and disgrace.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 70 min. --- February 26, 7:15pm --- *QUICK BILLY* 1971, 56 min, 16mm “The essential experience of transformation, between Life and Death, death and birth, or rebirth. In four reels, the first three adapted from the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The fourth reel is in the form of a black and white one-reeler Western, summarizing the material of the first three reels, which are color and abstract.” –Bruce Baillie Followed by: *QUICK BILLY: SIX ROLLS; 14/41/43/46/47/52* (1968-69, 16 min, 16mm) Six uncut camera rolls to be shown with *QUICK BILLY*. The ‘rolls’ took the form of a correspondence, or theater, between their author and Stan Brakhage, in the winter of 1968-69. Total running time: ca. 75 min. *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cinema Parenthèse <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5e622f2661&e=857b71a9cb> 19.00 CET, iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages Koolmijnenkaai, 1080 Brussels, Belgium *Simon Payne in person* Simon Payne has been making abstract cinema for over twenty years. His videos are predominantly orientated around bold graphic forms and highly structured sequences that produce unexpected colour combinations and conflicting planes. Sometimes there are contingent elements in his work, which correspond with incidental indications of the artist’s hand. The systems that underpin his videos involve the entirety of the screen and every edge. Their effects spill out of the screen, to illuminate the cinema in remarkable ways. He will show and discuss a selection of nine works made between 1998 and 2018. *EDGES: WAVES* 2018, video, b/w, sound, 6'00 *MAY* 1998, video, color, sound, 1’45 *MONITOR* 2002, video, color, silent, 4’00 *NEW RATIO* 2007, color, sound, 1’40 *IRIS OUT* 2008, video, color, sound, 10’00 *CUT OUT* 2013, video, color, sound, 3’33 *YES NO* 2021, video, b/w, silent, 1’00 *NOT AND OR* 2014, video, b/w and color, silent, 18’00 *EDGES: LADDERS* 2018, video, b/w, sound, 4’00 *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c3e39bdd70&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=2033ca2c6d&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=82875286cd&e=857b71a9cb> . 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