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Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3c08ac37d4&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=1f759846a8&e=857b71a9cb> [March 17-June 4, Oxford, UK] - Iván Zulueta <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b378e73407&e=857b71a9cb> [May 29 - June 5, New York, NY] - The Early Film Work of Harry Smith <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d2e8541b76&e=857b71a9cb> [June 4, Santa Fe, NM] - Film Poems: Amplifying Mysteries <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eeb6c065e2&e=857b71a9cb> [June 10, Los Angeles, CA] - The Wyvernwood Chronicles: Part 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d4ab7b9788&e=857b71a9cb> [June 11, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=34c625afdd&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12d446782d&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE JUNE 3, 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=0ef507b919&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=40e7214b38&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *May 29 - June 5* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be4777cb93&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *IVÁN ZULUETA* Iván Zulueta (1943-2009) is one of Spain’s most acclaimed experimental filmmakers. While his international stature has gradually risen in recent years, this has been almost entirely due to his 1979 film, *ARREBATO (RAPTURE)* – one of the two features he directed, *ARREBATO* is a powerful and uncanny story about drug and film addiction that has deservedly entered the pantheon of global cult cinema. However, the attention paid to this major work has overshadowed the rest of Zulueta’s career, which is barely known abroad. An upper-class Catholic boy from San Sebastián, Zulueta (born Juan Ricardo Miguel Zulueta Vergarajauregui, since Iván was not an option due to its communist echoes in Francoist Spain) was a visual artist of immeasurable creativity and talent. His cinephilia was fed from an early stage, especially after his father, Antonio de Zulueta, became the director of the San Sebastian International Film Festival from 1957-60. From 1960-63, Iván studied art and décor at the Centro Español de Nuevas Profesiones and, in 1964, he took painting lessons at the Art Students League in New York. His first contact with American culture – especially during such a repressed period in Spanish society – had an immeasurable impact, not only on Iván himself but on his generation of friends and filmmakers who were eager to connect with international pop culture, avant-garde aesthetics, and socio-political concerns removed from those of the dictatorship in Spain. Upon his return to Spain in 1964, Iván enrolled in the national film school and began a career as a filmmaker, but also as a draftsman, illustrator (he designed numerous posters, including those for some of Pedro Almodóvar’s early films), television producer, decorator, actor, and photographer. Though his “official” filmography would comprise only two feature films, two short episodes for TV series, and a TV program, his passion for the moving image and his rich oeuvre as a Polaroid artist, graphic designer, and maker of Super-8mm and 16mm experimental films has exerted a profound influence on generations of artists. This retrospective is the most comprehensive ever presented on Iván Zulueta. Propelled by Filmoteca Española’s acquisition of Zulueta’s archive in 2020-21, the series encompasses six programs of newly-discovered Super-8mm materials, which have been digitized in 4K. The other five programs survey Zulueta’s career as a film director, bringing together the two student films he made in the mid-1960s, his first feature (an unlikely attempt at directing a musical), *UN, DOS, TRES, AL ESCONDITE INGLÉS* (1970), the radical and innovative short films that followed throughout the 1970s, and his masterpiece, *ARREBATO* (1979). Seen in concert with the 80-plus rolls of film that have been retrieved by Filmoteca Española, these programs constitute a more diverse, vital, and complex image of this indisputable figure in the genealogy of Spanish experimental film culture. This retrospective is guest-curated by Miguel Fernández Labayen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) (who wrote the introduction and, unless otherwise noted, program descriptions), and has been organized in collaboration with the Filmoteca Española. It is presented with generous support from the Cultural Department of the Consulate General of Spain. The “Unseen Zulueta” programs have been curated by Miguel Fernández Labayen and Josetxo Cerdán (Filmoteca Española, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). Special thanks to Miguel Fernández Labayen; Josetxo Cerdán; Virginia López Montenegro; Rodrigo Carlon (Consulate General of Spain, New York); Elena Antón, Domingo Guerrero Borrull, and Noelia Sastre (Filmoteca Española); Victoria Bernal (EGEDA); Andrés Duque; Frank Jaffe (Altered Innocence); and Augusto M. Torres. Upcoming Screenings ZULUETA: IVÁN Z <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bb10396722&e=857b71a9cb> June 3 at 6:45 PM + June 4 at 9:00 PM ZULUETA: 1970s EXPERIMENTS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7511caaa0c&e=857b71a9cb> June 3 at 9:15 PM ZULUETA: FIRST FILMS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2eb2337f71&e=857b71a9cb> June 4 at 4:00 PM Iván Zulueta ARREBATO / RAPTURE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=050e08e259&e=857b71a9cb> June 4 at 6:15 PM Iván Zulueta & José Luis Borau UN, DOS, TRES, AL ESCONDITE INGLÉS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2c86aa0628&e=857b71a9cb> June 5 at 7:15 PM *SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a52bc6aeab&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *The early film work of HARRY SMITH* A full night of Harry Smith's hand painted abstractions, animations, superimpositions and Untitled Seminole Patchwork films - featuring live free-improv musical accompaniment by a quintet of New Mexico / West Texas sound artists! Harry Everett Smith (1923-1991) was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde. As a polymath, he's credited variously as an ethnomusicologist, artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, hoarder, student of anthropology, and a Neo-Gnostic bishop. This screening was organized with the Harry Smith Archives in conjunction with a series of events happening across the world in celebration of Harry Smith's centennial - including Smith's first ever solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum! Live musical accompaniment by: Luna Galassini: dulcimer, metal, microphones; Abigail Smith: percussion, flute; Gretchen Korsmo: clarinet; Andrew Weathers: lap steel; Justin Rhody: violin, trumpet, guita *SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Whammy! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6973231ecf&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Whammy!, 2514 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA (Entrance in rear off Rampart!) *Film Poems: Amplifying Mysteries* A momentary poem made from inner objects, a dream crawling out of a house deep in the forest, and countless insect lights coming up from the ground, this program floats and sinks in luminous mysteries. These mysteries will only be revealed quietly when a beam of light from the projector hits the screen in the dark. A film, a poem, a writer, a secret. (c.h.l.) These pieces hold a certain enigmatic quality, captivating us with abstract imagery that shimmers with seductive glamor. Their opaque and ambiguous nature prompts us to contemplate the meaning behind their intricacies. (S.Y.) Poetry Reading: *collaged sonnets* by Julia Sáenz Lorduy Screening: *A Throwing Forth* Xiao Zhang (2023, 6:04, Color, Sound, 16mm > digital) *let me tell you a secret* Yanbin Zhao (2023, 4:31, B/W, Sound, 16mm > digital) *Rosha* Sujin Lee ( 2022, 04:27, B/W, Silent, 16mm > digital) *and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy)* Charlotte Pryce (2023, 13:00, Color, Sound, 16mm, S8mm, magic lantern slides > digital) *La Notte Salva (The Saved Night)* Giuseppe Boccassini (2019, 11:53, Color-B/W, Sound, Found footage and 16mm > Mini DV) *echoed silence* Jangwook Lee (1998, 8:00, Color, Silent,16mm > digital) *With The Tide, with the tide* Anna Kipervaser (2022, 3:00, Color, Sound, 16mm) digital and film projection, runtime 65 min, curated by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu & Seokyoung Yang, poster design by Jaemin Lee *SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0d3555d1e1&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *The Wyvernwood Chronicles: Part 1* Filmforum welcomes local filmmaker Diego Robles with two of the films he has made with the residents of the Wyvernwood Garden Apartment Complex in East Los Angeles. The Wyvernwood Chronicles is a series of short films and one feature-length film that engage in provoking both agency and patience. The films center around a group of residents and community homes located just east of the Los Angeles River, in Boyle Heights between the years 2007-2015, where many attempts by the city to displace the residents were challenged by its residents. *If We Are Wyvernwood* (2011, color, sound, 7:31) acts as a plea to those outside of the community to save their neighborhood, *Wyvernwood: The Garden City* (2019, color, sound 69:45) acts as a self-contained reflection on passing time with a living community in their everyday lives, blossoming into a profound rumination about what it means to participate in and be part of a community. Robles quietly but firmly asks the viewer if they can “show up” to the discomfort of the colloquial, creating a portal into the very real experiences of people in Los Angeles living outside of the culture of individualism. This is the first screening in a two-part series of films about Wyvernwood. The second screening will feature a collection of shorts from Diego and other collaborators, with a focus on members within the Wyvernwood Community. Guests: Diego Robles, Filmmaker and Roberto Mojica, Resident of Wyvernwood and member of Comité de la Esperanza This program is supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fa0208b1ee&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=44a94c127f&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=b2d1cdf252&e=857b71a9cb> . 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