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Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b809ecc45&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Natural Magic: Experiments In Photography <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1dea14038d&e=857b71a9cb> [March 17-June 4, Oxford, UK] - New Films On Re:Voir Online <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9eb0d97bfc&e=857b71a9cb> [April 15-22, online] - Flamingo Film Festival X (2023) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8aa60556dd&e=857b71a9cb> [April 22, Ft. Lauderdale, FL] - War Refugees <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29f8157829&e=857b71a9cb> [April 22, San Francisco, CA] - Disrupted By The Hand: Nazli Dinçel Program 1 & 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dbeb1a0986&e=857b71a9cb> [April 22, New York, NY] - Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5ea42234a8&e=857b71a9cb> [April 22 & 28, New York, NY] - Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f13ec08ce3&e=857b71a9cb> [April 22, New York, NY] - The Margins of Dream Language: Contemp Korean Female Experimental Filmmakers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68b1bb59f9&e=857b71a9cb> [April 23, LA, CA] - Prism: Experimental Films <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b0a0aea855&e=857b71a9cb> [April 25-May 1, Busan, South Korea] - Purple Riot: In Dialogue With Filmmaker Kelly Gallagher <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6072670259&e=857b71a9cb> [April 27, Rochester, NY] - Bad Puppets <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=281874f0c9&e=857b71a9cb> [April 29, San Francisco, CA] - Snow In Springtime: A Michael Snow Tribute In Three Films, Including Wavelength <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=51cccd31a3&e=857b71a9cb> [April 30, LA, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db1c4ed8e6&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8959d02870&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE APRIL 22, 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=39ffcc2b2b&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *March 17 - June 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Bodleian Library <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d6fb84d33b&e=857b71a9cb> Mo - Sa 10am-5pm, Su 11am-4pm GMT, Transept, Weston Library, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Broad St, Oxford, UK *Natural Magic: Experiments in Photography* Photography was invented by a network of chemical experimenters. Little by little, they discovered the photosensitive properties of precious metals and learned to capture images from life on a chemical emulsion of silver nitrate, or iron, or gold, or ground up vegetables. Today’s digital photography feels a long way from the experiments of the nineteenth century, but an intrepid society of alchemists is reviving the processes of the past and creating new approaches to darkroom photography. *Natural Magic* features work by Megan Ringrose, Nettie Edwards, Karel Doing, Andrés Pardo, and Garry Fabian Miller – artists who have spent a lifetime exploring the chemical potentials of photography. *___________________________________________________________________* *April 15 - 22* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Re:Voir <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9298e9a154&e=857b71a9cb> 12pm, Event URL: http://re-voir.com/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ae45326e07&e=857b71a9cb> *NEW FILMS ON RE:VOIR ONLINE* Every week we add four new films to the Re:Voir Online streaming platform. * New films this week: - Vivian Ostrovsky: *Wherever Was Never There* (2009, 6 mins.) - Peter Rose: *Omen* (2001, 10.5 mins.) - Peter Rose: *Babel* (1987, 17 mins.) - Peter Rose: *Spirit Matters* (1984, 6 mins) * The ReVoir Online app is free to download and free for the first 30 days, free to watch clips and trailers. Subscription 8€/month to watch all films. Currently over 500 films available. *SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Flamingo Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ce37c90267&e=857b71a9cb> 10 AM (ET), Florida Atlantic University, 111 East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL *Flamingo Film Festival X (2023)* The Flamingo Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting international short films produced by student filmmakers. For the past nine installments, this event, held in sunny South Florida, has honored outstanding dramatic, documentary, experimental, music video, and animated projects created by students while enrolled in a college, university, or other post-secondary institution. It's the goal of the festival to encourage student creativity and recognize achievements in film and video. This year’s in-person event is scheduled to start at 10 AM (ET), Saturday, April 22, 2023, at FAU's MetroLab in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Parking is available around the campus. The event is FREE to attend and open to the public. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=53770b1353&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *WAR REFUGEES* THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING + SACHS' ALL ELSE FAILED A book release evening that focuses on the victims of war and those who struggle to provide humanitarian care. Dana Sachs is an old neighbor of ours, who has published some half-dozen books, and we are honored that we can launch this brand new one with her in person! Her brief reading/Q&A is followed by Elabdi/Graversen's *Ghosts of Moria*, a finely made doc on a burnt down Syrian refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Though the hour-plus anchor of the show is the Bay Area debut of Bianca Stigter's *Three Minutes*, an utterly astonishing filmic achievement---almost a materialistic approach to the medium that stretches out the duration of a single 100' roll of 16mm to a wide and deep history, tracing back very many individual human stories. A whole world is revealed through interviews, narration, music, and jaw-dropping post-production---an entire milieu that was surely no more within a year of the 1938 filming. Steve McQueen and Helena Bonham Carter were among the principals who oversaw the “deconstruction” of this home movie, shot by a Polish-American tourist visiting relatives in East Europe, just before hostilities broke out. Some 3000 of the town's inhabitants were Jewish, and only six survived the War. $8-100, benefiting Dana's *Humanity Now*. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=259bed9e91&e=857b71a9cb> see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *DISRUPTED BY THE HAND: NAZLI DINÇEL PROGRAM 1 & 2* --- Program 1 - 3:45pm ET --- “Disrupted by the Hand: Program 1” is a deep dive into the hypnotic filmic disruptions of Nazlı Dinçel. *BETWEEN RELATING AND USE* uses laser-engraved on-screen text to question the internal ethnographic desire to look inward, while *THE SHAPE OF SURFACE* disembodies limbs amid the historic ruins of Aphrodite’s city. What is revealed and not revealed are probed via intimacy and patriarchy (*HER SILENT SEAMING*) and equally exposed in *UNTITLED*. *INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE A FILM* is exactly what you think it is, plus farming. The second program of Dinçel’s work weaves together their three *SOLITARY ACTS* (which each explore the masturbatory impulse and the relationship of genital to hand), with *HANDS:OXES*, a gestural, textural embrace of song and skin, and *LEAFLESS*, a treatise on body and landscape and the landscape of a body. Concluding the program, *INABILITY* demonstrates that bodies, like materials, will inevitably fail us. Following both programs, Nazlı Dinçel will be joined in conversation by curator Angelo Madsen Minax! *BETWEEN RELATING AND USE* 2018, 9 min, 16mm *SHAPE OF SURFACE* 2017, 9 min, 16mm *HER SILENT SEAMING* 2014, 11 min, 16mm *UNTITLED* 2016, 12 min, digital *INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE A FILM* 2018, 13 min, 16mm Total running time: ca. 60 min (plus Q&A). --- Program 2 - 6:30pm ET --- *SOLITARY ACTS 4* 2015, 8 min, 16mm *HANDS:OXES* 2017, 1 min, 16mm *SOLITARY ACTS 5* 2015, 6 min, 16mm *LEAFLESS* 2011, 8 min, 16mm *SOLITARY ACTS 6* 2015, 11 min,16mm *INABILITY* 2016, 4 min, 16mm, silent Total running time: ca. 45 min (plus Q&A). *___________________________________________________________________* *April 22 & 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bd1fb3f353&e=857b71a9cb> April 22 @ 7pm ET, April 28 @ 9:15pm 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE* by William Greaves, 1968, 75 min, 35mm In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid, the pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. A couple enacts a breakup scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4319121d45&e=857b71a9cb> 9pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 2½* by William Greaves, 2005, 99 min, digital The “sequel” to *SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM* sees *TAKE ONE* actors Audrey Henningham and Shannon Baker reunited in a more personal, metatheatrical exploration of the effects of the passage of time on technology, the artistic process, and relationships – real and fabricated. *SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc236f7cd9&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm PT, 2220 W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057 *The Margins of Dream Language: Contemporary Korean Female Experimental Filmmakers* When image and language are paired together, written and spoken words can reposition the image’s hierarchical role and create an opportunity for a new point of view. In this program, Korean female filmmakers use text itself as a material—either directly burned into the film or inserted as voice over—to push cinema towards a radical location or realm, engaging with an expansive legacy of colonial power dynamics. With the understanding that translated language with subtitles always creates a gap, this series welcomes and engages with it as an act of defiance, insisting on opacity and being unexplainable. The selected films are in subtle unity as they repurpose the dominant language and reclaim it to propel the discourse on diasporic identity. Yet each filmmaker also asks audiences to recognize her unique directionality and experiences consciously. These films have either directly or loosely emerged from themes of Korean female identity, but they also propose divergent responses to militarism, homogeneity, patriarchy, immigration issues, etc. Eventually, they invite audiences to build bridges between poetic dream, politics, and the decolonial gaze. This screening, curated by Seokyoung Yang, includes works by Eugene Mayu Kim, Heehyun Choi, Woojin Kim, Onyou Oh, and Boyoon Choi, an essay by Jae Min Lee. It will be followed by a conversation between curator Seokyoung Yang and writer Jae Min Lee. *Rei, Daddy, Liberty* By Eugene Mayu Kim, 2021, HD, 15 min. *This Isn’t What It Appears* By Heehyun Choi, 2022, Super 8 to HD, 19 min. *Korean Dictation Test You Will Have to Answer Questions You Hear *By Woojin Kim, 2019, Single Channel Video, 7 min. *Whispers in the Water* By Onyou Oh, 2020, 16mm to digital, 9 min. *How to Be an Expressive Artist* By Boyoon Choi, 2021, HD, 26 min. *TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2023* *April 25 - May 1* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Busan International Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b7983edca&e=857b71a9cb> seven days of screenings, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea *Prism: experimental films* Prism 1: *The End* by Christopher Maclaine, 1953 *(nostalgia)* by Hollis Frampton, 1971 Prism 2: *Field* by Arc, 2023 *Vestibule (in three episodes)* by Ken Kobland, 1978 *Running Shadow* by Robert Fulton, 1972 *Infinite Column* by Arc, 2023 Live performances on dual 16mm projectors by Tooth. *FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visual Studies Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4d732c23af&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY *Purple Riot: In Dialogue with Filmmaker Kelly Gallagher* Experimental filmmaker and animator Kelly Gallagher will present a program of her own films along with excerpts from the VSW early video collection that embody themes of solidarity, family, activism and love. *SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=556a7f4903&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *BAD PUPPETS* CHILD's *ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES* + KAVANAGH's *WE'VE BEEN WARNED* This first of two Puppet Shows—this one foregrounding the Scary—sees the SF premiere of Abigail Child's *Origin of the Species*, her masterful hour-plus exploration of both new tech/engineering developments and of radically new understandings of the relations between humans and machines...that are apparently our equals, and soon to be our superiors. Abby's cinematic genius is realized in exquisite doc coverage—especially of the new Japanese initiatives. Opening the evening is a much-needed push-back from OC ally Mike Kavanagh, *A Short History of Robots and AI in Cinema*, that presses the case for regulatory action to keep the genie back in the bottle. This 40-minute chronology includes scores of riveting clips, from *Metropolis* to* Colossus: The Forbin Project*, and beyond, teasing out the critical distinctions between “generative” and “sentient”. Enhancing the two anchors are Keith Sanborn on Jeremy Bentham, Peter Freund on HAL 9000, Mark Shephard's *Sentient City*, and David Cox' “real-world” noggin'-choppin' heli-drone! *SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=10cd12b407&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, 2220 beverly blvd, Los Angeles, CA *Snow in Springtime: A Michael Snow Tribute in three films, including Wavelength* Presented by Los Angeles Filmforum and Mezzanine When Michael Snow passed away on January 5 at the age of 94, the world lost a tremendous artist, who worked with rigor and humor in film, music, photography, sculpture, and more. His classic film *Wavelength* hasn’t played in Los Angeles for several years, so we are bringing it with two other short films, *Standard Time *(1967) and *See You Later *(1990) all screening on 16mm. An accomplished cross-disciplinary artist even before he came to cinema, Michael Snow was perhaps best known for his highly influential avant-garde films, which remain as brazenly conceptual as they are perceptual. After moving to New York City with his wife Joyce Wieland in the 1960s, the two were exposed to the burgeoning New American Cinema movement, where Snow became part of an emerging tradition of medium-specific and highly formalist approach to avant-garde cinema—often described as “structuralism”—and made a series of groundbreaking films that are still among the most widely discussed and debated in the American avant-garde. The act of watching Snow’s work is perhaps best described by P. Adams Sitney, who calls it the “discovery of a simple situation permeated by a rich field of philosophical implications, which duration elaborates." Yet Snow’s work also contains “a persistent undercurrent of humour that can range from dryly witty to pure slapstick (Chris Kennedy)." "Mr. Snow was a prolific and playful artist, as well as a polymath of extraordinary versatility. “I am not a professional,” he declared in a statement written for a group show catalog in 1967. “My paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter, music by a filmmaker, paintings by a sculptor, sculpture by a filmmaker, films by a musician, music by a sculptor.” And, he added, “Sometimes they all work together.” -- J. Hoberman, New York Times, 2023-01-06 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/arts/michael-snow-dead.html <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=920f66c228&e=857b71a9cb> 16mm prints courtesy of Canyon Cinema. Special thanks to Chloe Reyes and Seth Mitter (Canyon Cinema). Masks are still required at Filmforum shows - N95 or KN95. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7110cc7895&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=2bc8c0f5fe&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *Artists' Moving Image Works* 6x6 project is an online artists' community that serves as a platform for disseminating artists' moving image works, and to create an ever-growing network among peers. 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