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*This Week [May 6 - 14, 2023] in Avant Garde Cinema* To receive the weekly listing directly via email rather than through Frameworks, just hit Subscribe <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=091193278b&e=857b71a9cb> . *DEADLINES APPROACHING* **** Enter upcoming calls for entry here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a0da3a94c2&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* Ongoing Films for Ukrainian Border Crossings <[email protected]?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%0a?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%20?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes> (No Dialogue + PG) 05.07.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ca12aba23b&e=857b71a9cb> (6th Deadline) 05.08.2023 FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS ET EXPÉRIMENTAUX DE PARIS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=662c2bcd65&e=857b71a9cb> 05.12.2023 Buffalo Int’l Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5de9d76fea&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.12.2023 New Orleans Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9819346b6d&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.14.2023 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e232f7fc91&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.19.2023 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=165645f05f&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.31.2023 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cdb9a1cb24&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2023 ANALOGICA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e10cd54680&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.31.2023 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=633ef73883&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 05.31.2023 25FPS Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74c7af01a3&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2023 Reeling The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bee5a42140&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 06.01.2023 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17ddd0ea8c&e=857b71a9cb> 06.15.2023 Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d6599ccd40&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.30.2023 Antimatter [media art] <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=64cc1ea7ea&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 06.30.2023 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ed090cf07&e=857b71a9cb> (rough cuts + pre world premiere) 06.30.2023 ULTRAcinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=761e3c8fff&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 07.10.2023 Affective Intermediality International Conference <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=23204e7838&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc70bb26ff&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=98cae90263&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=713934ca73&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=2e90bdbd97&e=857b71a9cb> [April 29-May 6, online] - Prismatic Ground <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9329793b2c&e=857b71a9cb> [May 3-7, New York, NY] - Untitled <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0d59446a0b&e=857b71a9cb> [May 6 + May 18, New York, NY] - A Complete Retrospective, Program 4: It's A R(Eel) A(Nswer) P(Rints)! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8a84b9a984&e=857b71a9cb> [May 6, Oakland, CA] - Good Puppets <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=616a16731d&e=857b71a9cb> [May 6, San Francisco, CA] - Spotlight On Alee Peoples <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c105ef6ad7&e=857b71a9cb> [May 6, San Francisco, CA] - Mono No Aware Community Screening Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e2fed664ec&e=857b71a9cb> [May 7, New York, NY] - Moving Focus - Live Soundtracks For Underground Short Films <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2c36233450&e=857b71a9cb> [May 7, Linz, Austria] - Films By Sheri Wills - Artist In Person <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=55fb230fc1&e=857b71a9cb> [May 8, New York, NY] - VISIONS: Isiah Medina <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ede2b846c0&e=857b71a9cb> [May 10, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Festival of (In)Appropriation Remixed 2023 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4a355604bc&e=857b71a9cb> [May 10, Paris, France] - Derek Jenkins: &Now Artist-In-Residence: Artist Talk <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dce1815a0c&e=857b71a9cb> [May 11, Hamilton, ON, Canada] - Contact: Intervals – Sophie Clements, Tim Parkinson, Simon Payne <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ff0c742d1&e=857b71a9cb> [May 11, London, UK] - Stitching The Future With Clues <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f2dfa0ef95&e=857b71a9cb> [May 11, San Francisco, CA] - Man With A Movie Camera, With Live Score By Montopolis <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=51e1a31697&e=857b71a9cb> [May 12, Los Angeles, CA] - Open Screen V.3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=92da07f7b8&e=857b71a9cb> [May 12, Santa Fe, NM] - Jon Behrens's Seattle: A City In Four Parts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7bfff41517&e=857b71a9cb> [May 12, Seattle, WA] - *O*PTR*O*NICA3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d5cfe4e80b&e=857b71a9cb> [May 13, San Francisco, CA] - Colección Privada: The Super-8 And 16mm Scene In Spain <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3992f80d19&e=857b71a9cb> [May 13-14, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=56bf152016&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ce4029045&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE MAY 6, 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=c33740a76b&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=8f8647a442&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 29 - May 6* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Re:Voir <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=03fa54730f&e=857b71a9cb> 12pm, Event URL: ReVoir Online (app store <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ef4b491352&e=857b71a9cb> / google play <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0baa060bc3&e=857b71a9cb> ) *NEW FILMS ON RE:VOIR ONLINE* Every week we add four new films to the Re:Voir Online database and streaming platform. New films this week: *Don’t Move* - Studio Eén, Marc Geerards (1996, 7 mins.) *Departure on Arrival* - Studio Eén, Barbara Meter (1996, 22 mins.) *Parkautomaat* - Stuio Eén, Francien van Everdingen (1996, 4 mins.) *Le Château de Pointilly* - Adolpho Arrietta (1972, 39 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. *___________________________________________________________________* *May 3 - 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Prismatic Ground <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=04d39270d6&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, visit website, various locations in NYC *Prismatic Ground* Prismatic Ground, an annual festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film and co-presented by Screen Slate, will hold its third edition May 3-7, 2023, in-person across the Museum of the Moving Image, Maysles Documentary Center, BAM Cinematheque, DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, Light Industry, and Anthology Film Archives. For the complete festival program and schedule visit: prismaticground.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ea48e2178&e=857b71a9cb> . Opening Night will feature the hometown premiere of sibling duo Soda Jerk’s *Hello Dankness*. Comprised entirely of hundreds of film samples, *Hello Dankness* bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021 and the mythologies and lore that took root around it, exemplifying the festival’s commitment to politically and aesthetically abrasive new forms. The full lineup of roughly sixty films features recent work by dozens of artists including Naomi Uman, Lawrence Lek, Jim Finn, Miryam Charles, Tsai Ming-Liang, Collectif Faire-Part and Kimi Takesue; plus new restorations of essential work by Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Julius-Amédée Laou, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Maike Höhne and Bill Brand; and films screened in tribute to late filmmakers Michael Snow, Takahiko Iimura, and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa. At least one out of every six selections will be projected on 16mm or 35mm film, including Gaëlle Rouard’s *Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright* and the Closing Night presentation of Alexandre Larose’s *scènes de ménage*. A small selection of films will be available to stream for free, worldwide during the festival dates, alongside work by the recipient of this year’s Ground Glass Award (TBA). A selection of short films from the first two editions of Prismatic Ground can currently be streamed on the Criterion Channel by subscribers in the US. *SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023* *May 6 + May 18* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b1172e2019&e=857b71a9cb> May 6 @ 3:15pm & May 18 @ 7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *UNTITLED* by Kathy Acker & Alan Sondheim, 1974, 55 min, video “This black-and-white video [often referred to as *BLUE TAPE*, though that title was applied only later] depicts a sexually explicit, emotionally charged, and psychologically fraught encounter between a twenty-six-year-old Acker and a thirty-one-year-old Sondheim that took place over the course of a 48-hour period in Sondheim’s NYC loft. [It] opens with a close-up shot of Acker as she recounts her initial meeting with Sondheim several weeks prior and the subsequent unfolding of events leading to the making of the work, including her practice of ‘memory experiments,’ intended to ‘break through memory to desire.’ With the camera framed tightly on Acker, Sondheim reads aloud a text she sent to him in advance of their second meeting in which she ascribes to him the role of her father, whom she never met. The text, and Sondheim’s out-of-view recitation, set the stage for the exchange (of ideas, of roles, of pleasure and its lack, of fluids) we bear witness to over the next 55 minutes.” –JOAN Followed by: *UNTITLED (TAPE 2)* by Kathy Acker & Alan Sondheim, 1974, 33 min, video The day after recording the video piece that has come to be known as *BLUE TAPE* (but which was never intended to have a title), Sondheim and Acker made a second, related tape. Commenting on and structured after the first, it similarly documents a charged intellectual and sexual encounter but with Sondheim and Acker’s roles reversed. This tape had never been screened in the U.S. until we showed it at Anthology as part of our Wilhelm Reich-themed film series this past March! Total running time: ca. 95 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bc88e4e19b&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th Street, Oakland, CA *A Complete Retrospective, Program 4: It's a R(eel) A(nswer) P(rints)!* This is the fourth and final screening of the 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 final screening we finish at the start, with 11 of his earliest films dating back to 1968 including A *Ticket Home* (1982), *Freedom's Skyway* (1980), *SFAI* (1980), *A Film* (1979), *Neptunian Space Angel* (1977), *El Train Film* (1976), *Scratches, Inc.* (1975), *Delaware Park* (1969-73), *Demonstration* (1968-74), *Putzo* (1972) and *10x17* (1971). We will also be showing 8 short, diary films—all of which have never been publicly screened before, including *At the Robert Fulton Estate, Newtown Ct., Palm Sunday, Democratic Convention, No Nothing Cinema, Bruce Conner playing piano, Erotica, Last Temptation of Christ, Susan’s portrait of Dominic* and *Havana Diary*. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e7e794ef7&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *GOOD PUPPETS* GREER/FACING WEST's THE ENDLESS END + REINIGER + BICKFORD + Following up on their first major museum exhibition at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Lydia Greer's shadow ensemble brings its “performative installation” up to big-City SF, for us locals to get a look! In their immersive environment, shadow puppets play with hand-made silhouettes, rear-screen projection, and a multi-dimensional soundscape. Here whole species live and die over the span of a half-hour of looping overlays. This marvelous sculptural environment situates *homo sapiens* as animals within a larger system, with humans as the primary predator. Supporting Greer's shadow theater is *The Art of Lotte Reiniger*, certainly one of her primary inspirations. ALSO: An opening cast call of hand-made mannequins, including clips from DeeDee Halleck's doc on the Bread and Puppet outdoor pageant, the premiere of Max Mueller's uncanny *Strange Bedfellows*, a harrowing 10-min. excerpt from Bruce Bickford's *Prometheus's Garden*, and the Mission's own David Cox with his crafty *Puppenhead*. The luv-fest is festooned with delightful glimpses of German, Hungarian and Slovakian puppetry. *___________________________________________________________________* *May 6 + May 7 * Venue type: *Live, physical event* Roxie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=51295d26b2&e=857b71a9cb> May 6 @ 4pm PT, May 7 @ 1pm PT, Roxie, 3125 16th Street, San Francisco, CA *Spotlight on Alee Peoples* Co-presented by Film on Film Foundation, Canyon Cinema and SF Cinematheque. We welcome Peoples up from Los Angeles to present her complete body of 16mm films along with selections from the Canyon Cinema collection. Alee’s films are brim-ful of bold gestures, pointedly orchestrating performances and camera movements, views and edits, sound and image. What are her films about–planes, balloons, friends, traffic, pop music, the signs and billboards of LA? Sure, these are among the recurring environmental and cultural threads from which she weaves her cinematic scherzi. Most importantly, she is always playing, and she takes it seriously. *Them Oracles* (2012) 7 min *Three Peonies* by Stephanie Barber (2017) 3 min *Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies* (2015) 9 min *Spotlight On A Brick Wall* by Peoples and Mike Stoltz (2016) 8 min *Untitled* (double 8mm) (2014) 4 min *If You Can’t See My Mirrors, I Can’t See You* (2016) 12 min *Mutiny* by Abigail Child (1983) 11 min *Decoy* (2018) 11 min *Standing Forward Full* (2020) 6 min All films on 16mm. Q&A follows. *SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=597409a521&e=857b71a9cb> 12pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAM* Featuring the world premiere of films made locally with the support of MONO in March and April 2023. These programs will include films made through the educational initiatives of MONO NO AWARE, a cinema-arts nonprofit organization and film positive community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience. Established in 2007 and based in downtown Brooklyn, MONO NO AWARE presents monthly artist-in-person screenings, facilitates equipment rentals, operates a film distribution initiative, maintains wet & dry lab facilities, and hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary artists and international filmmakers whose work incorporates Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or altered light projections. For more info visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=748e6ec47a&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* afo architekturforum oö <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ea73826726&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm GMT +2, afo architekturforum oö, Herbert-Bayer-Platz 1 A-4020 Linz, Austria *MOVING FOCUS - Live Soundtracks for Underground Short Films* Second event of the MUSIK IM RAUM series 2023, 'Blurred Borders', in cooperation with KINO PLEME / Belgrade: Marko Milićević (zither & electronics, curator) Petra Wurz (recorders) Werner Puntigam (trombone & conch shell) Karen Schlimp (waterphone, canoe piano) Klaus Hollinetz (Electronics) Georg Wilbertz (drums & percussion) 'Live Soundtrack' is a monthly audio-visual event series that has been taking place in Belgrade since 2014 with a focus on film and music, excitingly programmed with experimental ingredients of analog cinema and animation. Musicians from different genres, from electronics and ambient to electro-acoustic sound art and free-tonal improvisation, contribute highly individual soundtracks to short films live on stage and in this way support independent and underground filmmaking. In 2023, curator and organizer Marko Milićević - himself a filmmaker, musician and music journalist from Serbia - is now on tour with it in Europe and, in cooperation with musicians from MUSIK IM RAUM, is presenting an exclusive version in Linz entitled 'Moving Focus'. Films from the following artists will be set to music live on this evening in a wide variety of instrumental constellations: *Lightmare* by Josh Drake *Parts* by Michael Lyons *Vacationland* by Alexander Bickford *Luminae* by Dominic Angerame *Press Bound to Connect* by Alexander Fingudt *To All Those* by Jesse Johnson / Ben Balcom / Josh Weissbach *Parenthesis* by Vasilios Papaioannu *In Search of Mount Analogue* by Leonardo Pirondi *The Fabricated Wild* by Nick Twardus *Bookanima* by Shon Kim *LDN 51.5072N 0.1276W* by Wen Pey Lim *Catalyst* by Kent Tate *lat.copiare* by Claudia Ungersback *Hortus Conclusus* by Anna Kipervaser With the kind support of Linz-Kultur, Kulturland OÖ, the Federal Chancellery and afo architekturforum oö *MONDAY, MAY 8, 2023* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=88dcb73163&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/films-by-sheri-wills/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9bec345b4f&e=857b71a9cb> *Films by Sheri Wills - Artist in person In-Person and Online* Microscope is very pleased to present a screening of films and videos by New York-based artist and filmmaker Sheri Wills. The event will be accessible online as well, with a live streaming of the introduction and Q&A from the gallery. The program of short 16mm films and videos — some of which were shot on Super 8mm — features nine works spanning more than 20 years and includes Wills’ most recent work *SEAM* completed in 2021. In Wills’ work, subtle abstractions flow gently across the screen at varying paces, morphing seamlessly and at times dissolving into each other, as though each image were developed and revealed while being projected. These shifting compositions often covering the full color spectrum, are created through camera-less exposure techniques stemming from the tradition of photogram photography. “For the past twenty years, I have been making photogram films, by laying objects on unexposed film and flashing it with light. I am primarily interested in the relationship between the directness of the object – the trace it leaves on film – and the resulting image, which is barely recognizable. These works speak to a conflation of memory and the present, the physicality of the object and its seemingly abstract imprint. Light is physical material, while the play of light and shadows creates an illusion of reality – you can pass your hand right through it.” — Sheri Wills Far from cold formal investigations, Wills’ films relate to the human experience, activating and triggering the senses in calibrated ways. Flickering yet disinterested in testing the limits of anyone’s perception, they organically offer themselves to be fully embraced by our eyes, through surprisingly fulfilling climaxes. Soundtracks are often sourced from obsolete recording technologies such as wax cylinder phonographs or audiotape answering machines, conveying a sense of materiality in sound, as well. Breaking from abstraction is her 2004 video *Riderless*, an enthralling reflection on transience using Sylvia Plath’s poem “Elm” as both thematic inspiration and visual material. “Just as peripheral vision is essential to survival, it is by paying attention to the gaps, the margins, and the in-between personal moments that we might gain a fuller understanding of others and of our relationship to what lies outside our immediate perception.” — Sheri Wills Wills will be available for a Q&A following the screening. *WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=311f9db0e9&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm & 9pm ET, La lumière collective 7080, rue Alexandra, #506, Montréal [QC] *VISIONS: ISIAH MEDINA* VISIONS, in collaboration with Main Film and Everyday Ago, presents a double programme by ISIAH MEDINA. Filmmaker in attendance. Isiah Medina (b. 1991) currently lives in Toronto and makes films with his company Quantity Cinema. His features include *88:88* (2015), *Inventing the Future *(2020), and *Night is Limpid *(2022). Programme 1: 7pm *CARTE BLANCHE: TOWARDS A TRADITION OF QUANTITY* A selection of shorts by Isiah Medina Programme 2: 9pm *INVENTING THE FUTURE* by Isiah Medina, 98 min, 2020 Take back control over our future and foster the ambition for a world more modern than capitalism. Demand full automation, demand a reduced work week, demand universal basic income, destroy the work ethic. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Garage Mu <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b274d0d71d&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm CEST, Garage Mu, 45 rue Léon, Paris, France *Festival of (In)appropriation remixed 2023* For the very first time since its creation, the Festival of (In)appropriation is coming to Paris and will take over the Garage MU on May 10th for an evening of experimental screenings. Created in 2009 in Los Angeles, this festival celebrates works that 'inappropriately' redeploy existing films, videos, soundtracks and other media. In the form of collages, clips, compilations, remixes and détournements, these works of found footage give new life to fictional films and state archives, family tapes and propaganda images, videos gleaned from YouTube or educational films from the turn of the century. The programme of eleven short films offers a panorama of works selected from the last twelve editions and notably features works by Raquel Schefer, Gregg Biermann, TT Takemoto, Jennifer Proctor and the Soda Jerk collective. The films were selected by Charlie Hewison and Marie-Pierre Burquier (co-curator of the last edition). • Gerard Freixes Ribera, *Alone* (2008, Spain, 3:00) • Gregg Biermann, *Magic Mirror Maze* (2012, US, 5:00) • Caroline Koebel, *REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ALBEDO EFFECT *(2008, US, 8:00) • Kelly Sears, *Voice on the Line* (2009, US, 7:00) • Raquel Schefer, *Avó/Muidumbe* (2010, Portugal, 11:00) • Clint Enns and Darryl Nepinak, *I FOR NDN* (2011, Canada, 1:34) • Ken Paul Rosenthal, *In Light, In!* (2013, US, 12:00) • TT Takemoto, *Looking for Jiro* (2011, US, 6:00) • Guli Silberstein, *Cut Out *(2014, Israel/Palestine, 4:20) • Jennifer Proctor, *Am I Pretty?* (2018, US, 10:00) • Soda Jerk, *The Was* (2016, Australia, 14:00) The call for films for the thirteenth edition of the festival is currently open until June 1st. *THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Factory Media Centre <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=98cf133c45&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Factory Media Centre, 1-366 Victoria Avenue, North Hamilton, ON, Canada *DEREK JENKINS: &NOW ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Artist Talk* &NOW Artist-in-Residence Derek Jenkins is a motion picture photographer whose practice is handmade, personal, and documentary, with an interest in the reciprocal relationships between tools, materials, and ways of knowing. His new multichannel project uses a single roll of film shot in 2016 to consider form, reproduction, and desire. *Train-ing: An Exaggeration* will be a technological analysis of the short film work *Train-ing* (2016) as the filmmaker subjects the images to various, entangled, and exaggerated methods of format migration and auto-critical reflection. Open Studio: May 8-12 Artist Talk: May 11 @ 7pm *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Iklectik <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c9fe8e07ad&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 GMT+1, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG, London, England, UK *CONTACT: INTERVALS – SOPHIE CLEMENTS, TIM PARKINSON, SIMON PAYNE* A programme of new and recent experimental single-screen and expanded video works by Sophie Clements and Simon Payne, alongside new music by the composer Tim Parkinson, performed by the GBSR Duo. Sophie Clements’ work is characterised by an attempt to capture elusive moments involving objects affected by gravity, changing light conditions, wind and rain. Carefully composed framings and highly edited sequences reveal chance arrangements. Simon Payne’s abstract video works are predominantly orientated around bold graphic forms and structured patterns that produce unexpected colour combinations and conflicting planes. The systems that underpin his videos involve the entirety of the screen and every edge. Tim Parkinson’s music exhibits a collage approach, often juxtaposing the sounds of found objects, various kinds of musical material, or snippets of speech: ‘What I want is a large and unforeseen diversity of pitches and intervals – randomness, patterns, shapes’. *Edges: Waves*,Simon Payne (2018, 6 mins) *Untitled 2021a*(for piano), Tim Parkinson, performed by Siwan Rhys *On Letting Things Be (An Exercise)*, Sophie Clements (2020, 2 mins) *Vice Versa Et Cetera*, Simon Payne (2010, 10mins) *Sea/Frame *(work in progress), Sophie Clements, with live sound by James Woodrow (12 mins) – Interval *There, After*,Sophie Clements (2011, 5 mins) *Intervals,*Simon Payne (2023, 10 min, two-screen) *Snow/Face* (work in progress),Sophie Clements,withsound by Romain Arnette (8 mins, two-screen) *Project 9000*(for piano, percussion and audio track), Tim Parkinson, performed by GBSR Duo *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Exploratorium <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=86c1a90d09&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 p.m. PT, Kanbar Forum, Pier 15, San Francisco, CA *Stitching the Future With Clues* by Allison Leigh Holt @oillyoowen. An expanded cinema, neurodivergent-futurist manifesto, using audio and visual feedback and animated diagrams beamed through a system of water lenses. Looking at neurodivergence as a way of knowing, through a cybernetic frame, it combines animated diagrams, video and audio feedback processes, and expanded media techniques, drawing from Holt’s article "THE CONVERSATION: Feedback Structures, Ways of Knowing, and Neurodivergence" (PUBLIC Journal #59: Interspecies Communication) to consider feedback systems as a medium for understanding the sensing, processing, and exchanging of information happening not just in human minds and brains, but within and between all scales of intelligent life. With text, animation, performance, and editing by Allison Leigh Holt; video synthesis by Kit Young @videoactive_avocado; and sound by electronic musician Amma Ateria @amma_ateria, this film explores the post-humanist sense-making of neurodivergence: differently-attuned to temporal, psychic, and environmental embodied experience. Live camera: Paul Helzer @paulhelzer. Shot @shapeshifterscinema at the height of lockdown and commissioned by @fordfoundationgallery. A post-screening dialogue will take place between artist Allison Leigh Holt, neuroscientist Clifford Saron, PhD. *FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b9d7ecc4c6&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm PT, Secret Movie Club, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA *Man with a Movie Camera, with live score by Montopolis* Presented by Secret Movie Club and Los Angeles Filmforum A national tour of arthouse cinemas this spring will partner music group Montopolis with relief organization The Bird of Light Ukraine to raise awareness of the refugee crisis in Ukraine. Montopolis will perform a live score to *Man with a Movie Camera*, a 1929 silent film depicting life in the cities of Odesa and Kyiv, Ukraine. One of the most influential documentaries ever made, the film recently placed 8th on the 2022 Sight and Sound Greatest films of all time poll. The live score by Montopolis has been called "stunning and transcendent" by the Austin Chronicle. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ce9d934c9d&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MT, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *OPEN SCREEN v.3* NNC's third bi-annual Open Screen event! A showcase of local artists working in experimental, documentary, animation and personal filmmaking / moving image art. including short works by: raoul vehill, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Lane Kneedler, adrian ennis, Ati Maier, Holly Adams, Teresa Finley, Charles Smith, David Ashmore, kelechi agwuncha, Laine Wentworth, Ben Pawlowski, HIGH DESERT BROADCAST SERVICE (Tony and Amy Calzaretta), Desmond Hayes, Kaidin Jarjusey, Dusty Deen, Alonso Indacochea, and Nat Olmo. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Interbay Cinema Society <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9f51bfc777&e=857b71a9cb> 7 PM PT, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA *Jon Behrens's Seattle: A City in Four Parts* A celebration of the Seattle-based filmmaker on what would have been his 59th birthday. Jon Behrens (1964-2022) was a tireless documentarian of the Seattle scene and its iconic landscape. For almost forty years, Behrens created experimental films that ranged from Super 8 visual recordings of the early punk and grunge scenes, to documents of a vanishing Seattle (perhaps his most famous film, *The Last Ten Minutes of Existence*, captures the last moments before the Kingdome implosion), to celebrating the ongoing beauty and mystery of our local landscape in double-exposed, optically printed, hand-painted, sculptural films. Behrens died suddenly last year at the age of 58, leaving behind a vast body of works on film, including many that have rarely or never been seen. Curated by Caryn Cline, executive director of the Interbay Cinema Society, which Behrens founded, this program will include both 16mm and digital prints of previously released and unreleased films. Part 1 *Minute Movie #4* | 2013 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 1 min *Girl and a Bike* | 1995 | 16mm | b&w/sound | 15 min *Proustian Neuroses* | 1999 | 16mm to digital | tinted b&w/sound | 5 min *The Gits* | n.d. | 16mm to digital | color/silent | 3 min Part 2 *Minute Movie #7* | 2013 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 1 min *Reflections* | 1992 | 16mm | tinted b&w/sound | 12 min *The Movement of Light at Night *| 1996 | 16mm | color/sound | 7 min | made with Steve Creson Part 3 *Minute Movie #8* | 2013 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 1 min *Cinematic Abstractions* | 2002 | 16mm | color/sound | 6 min | made with Ryan K. Adams *The Six Arms* | 2005 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 2 min *A City in Four Parts* | 2016 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 6 min Part 4 *Driving Down to Alpha Cine One Last Time in the Rain in One Minute* | 2013 | 16mm to digital | b&w/sound | 1 min *Revolve* | 2014 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 8 min *⚠️ Sensory advisory: This film has a strong flickering/strobing effect that could affect photosensitive viewers* *A Winter’s Song* | 2019 | 16mm to digital | b&w/sound | 3 min *Kerry Park* | 2021 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 3 min | made with Dominique Tranchina Additional Film TBA *SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=06f2c482ca&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *OPTRONICA3* BECKER + 99 HOOKER + RE-MIXERS Our third iteration of the season's Optronicas is more about video/performance and re-mixing, with a couple of the country's heaviest hitters. Local hero Tommy Becker has finally readied his long-form *Elective ART* performance, an energized video song-cycle about Tommy's experiences as a high school Art teacher. AND the second half is anchored by the nationally touring 99 Hooker, who reveals his new *h9sh*, another crowning achievement by way of quick-cutting live-laptop action. Between the two titans is an *assemblage* of classic video cut-ups: Animal Charm, EBN, Rodney Ascher, Vicki Bennett/PLU, and Davy Force/Gerald Casale in their breaking music video. PLUS Soda_Jerk, both old and new! Come early for Russ Forster on sidewalk theremin! *___________________________________________________________________* *May 13 - 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0a76e511f2&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *COLECCIÓN PRIVADA: THE SUPER-8 AND 16MM SCENE IN SPAIN* In the last fifteen years, Spanish cities have seen the flourishing of heterogeneous communities devoted to maintaining analog film culture. Through material exchange, mutual influence, informal screenings, and friendship, three generations of filmmakers intermingle in Madrid, Barcelona, and San Sebastian in an extraordinary moment for Spanish poetic cinema. These programs survey the output of 23 filmmakers who continue to work in 16mm and Super-8, cultivating a cinema in tension with the quotidian in a drive to capture or conjure experience. The series will also encompass an expanded cinema program which will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image; for more details visit: https://movingimage.us/event/coleccion-privada/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f299e707e4&e=857b71a9cb> This series is presented with generous support from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, the Orphan Film Symposium, and the Cultural Department of the Consulate General of Spain. A reception is provided courtesy of Bodegas Williams & Humbert. The screenings will be presented in person by guest-curators Francisco Algarín Navarro and Carlos Saldaña, from Revista Lumière. All prints courtesy of the filmmakers. --- May 13 @ 7:30pm ET - COLECCIÓN PRIVADA: PROGRAM 1: FREE VERSE --- With filmmakers Juan Bufill, Blanca García, and Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas in person. Daily life, travel diaries, representation of self, portraiture, and subjective perception are threads that run through this first program on recent Spanish lyrical cinema, covering an array of genres and editing strategies. While featuring some experiments with montage, most filmmakers explore in-camera editing in unique ways, ranging from an improvisatory connection with a specific time and place to intricate versifications of the real. All films are screened in their original analog formats and most are presented in their reversal originals for this rare occasion, including five world premieres and eight North American premieres. Pablo Marín *DENKBILDER* (2013, 5 min, Super-8mm) Ana Pfaff *POMELL DE FLORS ESPIRITUALS* (2011, 3 min, Super-8mm) Leonor Serrano Rivas *OIR FORMAS* (2022, 10 min, 16mm) Elena Duque *COLECCIÓN PRIVADA* (2020, 13 min, Super-8mm) Juan Bufill *VILLA DIONISIA* (2003-19, 5 min, Super-8mm) Gadea Burgaz *¡BU! (CON ADMIRACIÓN)* (2023, 15 min, Super-8mm) Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas *AKIKONOMU* (2019, 3 min, Super-8mm) Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas *CHUBUSANGAKU* (2019, 3 min, Super-8mm) Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas *MURASAKI* (2019, 3 min, Super-8mm) Blanca García *IPSAE (ABI)* (2021, 3 min, Super-8mm) Blanca García *IPSAE (GUILLERMINA)* (2021, 3 min, Super-8mm) Blanca García *IPSAE (MARIA)* (2021, 3 min, Super-8mm) Blanca García *IPSAE (ANDREA)* (2021, 3 min, Super-8mm) Yonay Boix *#005* (2020, 3 min, Super-8mm) Yonay Boix *#006* (2021, 3 min, Super-8mm) Yonay Boix & Ariadna Onofri *#007* (2021, 3 min, Super-8mm) Claudio Sodi *SUEÑOS PARA EVA – PARTE 1* (2022, 22 min, 16mm) Elena Duque *MAR DE CORAL* (2021, 11 min, Super-8mm) Total running time: ca. 115 min. --- May 14 @ 7:30pm ET - COLECCIÓN PRIVADA: PROGRAM 2: SPECIES OF SPACES --- With filmmakers Valentina Alvarado Matos and Juan Bufill in person. This second program on recent Spanish lyrical cinema showcases filmmakers who work with visual concepts, preconceived camera devices, and objectual mise-en-scène. Based on body gestures, transformations of matter, philosophical writings, landscape, architecture, and the “maneuverable” possibilities of the camera, these works offer a heterogeneous take on modern explorations in analog film. All the films in this program are screened in their original formats (including a 16mm double-projection). Most are presented in their reversal originals for this rare occasion, including five world premieres and five North American premieres. María Pipla *MANY EYES, MANY CENTERS, MOVING* (2022, 3 min, 16mm) Valentina Alvarado Matos *PROPIEDADES DE UNA ESFERA PARALELA* (2020, 17 min, 16mm double-projection) Céline Latil *LX VISAGES* (2022, 3 min, 16mm) Laura Moreno *MONTE ULÍA* (2023, 3 min, 16mm) Álvaro Feldman *DIORAMA* (2022, 3 min, Super-8mm) Aldara Pagán *MARCAS* (2020, 10 min, Super-8mm) Laura Ibáñez López *CORPÚSCULOS* (2022, 2 min, 16mm) Albert Triviño *NIÀGARA* (2008, 3 min, Super-8mm) Albert Triviño *BOMBOLLES* (Vanitas Sílvia) (2009, 3 min, Super-8mm) Bruno Delgado Ramo *SPINOZA/ONGODIST* (2021, 11 min, Super-8mm) Alba Sauleda *L’AUTORRETRAT REFILMAT* (IV) (2015, 3 min, Super-8mm) Deneb Martos & Pablo Useros *WHITE SCREEN* (FOR AMY HALPERN) (2022, 5 min, 16mm) Bruno Delgado Ramo *UNABRIDGED MANEUVER* (2022, 17 min, 16mm) Juan Bufill *ARQUITECTURA 3. PUENTE* (2004, 5 min, Super-8mm) Total running time: ca. 95 min. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=161e0a6725&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=161c630c0b&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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