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Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d6ee15c0e7&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Inheritance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=859379d788&e=857b71a9cb> [June 22, 2023-Feb 2024, New York, NY] - EC: Lawrence Jordan <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78a1e088cc&e=857b71a9cb> [June 24, New York, NY] - Fracto Get-Together <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8e4ff95254&e=857b71a9cb> [June 24, Berlin, Germany] - Our, Us, Enough: Films On Labor, Love And Intimacy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e6809e8a61&e=857b71a9cb> [June 24, Seattle, WA] - A Bigger Splash <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a20c75920f&e=857b71a9cb> [June 25, Los Angeles, CA] - Pelle Lowe <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=287b059e3c&e=857b71a9cb> [June 29, New York, NY] - A Dweller On Two Planets: Ayoung Kim, Yin-Ju Chen, Sow Yee Au, Su Yu Hsin <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f0bf3d8e08&e=857b71a9cb> [Jun29-Jul29, New York, NY] - Essential Pittsburgh: Tentatively, A Convenience <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1e78c03ee1&e=857b71a9cb> [June 30, Homestead, PA] - EC: Kubelka / Lye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d2d9d38880&e=857b71a9cb> [June 30, New York, NY] - John Torres: People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=670443d5df&e=857b71a9cb> [June 30, Los Angeles, CA] - John Torres: Poet of Philippine Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74873f6063&e=857b71a9cb> [July 2, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93a5a920a8&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7c86f2ab93&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE JUNE 24, 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=28e4ecf8c6&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *June 22, 2023 - February 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Whitney Museum of American Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=573fbea9a3&e=857b71a9cb> 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY *Inheritance* Inheritance traces the profound impacts of legacy and the past across familial, historical, and aesthetic lines. Featuring new acquisitions and rarely-seen works from the Whitney collection by forty-three leading artists, the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs, and time-based media installations from the 1970s to today. This diverse array of works consider what has been passed on and how it may shift, change, or live again. Drawing inspiration from Ephraim Asili’s 2020 film of the same title, Inheritance reflects on multiple meanings of the word, whether celebratory or painful, from one era, person, or idea to the next. The exhibition takes a layered approach to storytelling by interweaving narrative with documentary and personal experiences with historical and generational events. A group of works examining the cycle from birth to death opens the exhibition, while other galleries take up different kinds of lineages, such as how artists borrow from and remake art history or unspool legacies of racialized violence and their recurrences. The poet Rio Cortez speaks of being “framed by our future knowing”—even as we sit in this moment, we slide backward and forward in time, between our foremothers and the descendants we will never know. Rather than passively accepting our current state, the artists whose work is on view here ask: How did we get here, as individuals and as a society, and where are we going? Artists featured in this exhibition include Ephraim Asili, Sadie Barnette, Kevin Beasley, Diedrick Brackens, Beverly Buchanan, Widline Cadet, Andrea Carlson, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Ralston Crawford, Mary Beth Edelson, John Edmonds, Kevin Jerome Everson, Chitra Ganesh, Todd Gray, Wade Guyton, David Hartt, Emily Jacir, Wakeah Jhane, Mary Kelly, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Maggie Lee, Sherrie Levine, Dindga McCannon, Ana Mendieta, Thaddeus Mosley, Lorraine O’Grady, Kambui Olujimi, John Outterbridge, Pat Phillips, Faith Ringgold, Sophie Rivera, Carissa Rodriguez, Cameron Rowland, Sturtevant, Hank Willis Thomas, Clarissa Tossin, Kara Walker, Joan Wallace, Carrie Mae Weems, WangShui, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto. This exhibition is organized by Rujeko Hockley, Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. *SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5a3c7e4c2&e=857b71a9cb> 5:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: LAWRENCE JORDAN* *DUO CONCERTANTES* (1962-64, 6 min, 16mm, b&w) *HAMFAT ASAR* (1965, 13 min, 16mm, b&w) *GYMNOPEDIES* (1968, 6 min, 16mm) *THE OLD HOUSE, PASSING* (1966, 45 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE* (1968, 9 min, 35mm) “With a taste for nostalgic romanticism…Jordan creates a magical universe of work using old steel engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit into the subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as a prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner self.” –Jackie Leger Total running time: ca. 85 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Fracto e.V. <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d5c1b61a2&e=857b71a9cb> 17:00 - 24:00 GMT +2 ACUD Kunsthaus, Veteranenstraße 21, Berlin Mitte, Berlin, Germany *Fracto get-together* Fracto is thrilled to host a get-together and an all analog screening on JUNE 24 at ACUD Kunsthaus in collaboration with Labor Neunzehn and Conversas Berlin. In connection with our crowdfunding campaign, we are showcasing a number of activities to remind you what Fracto Experimental Film Encounter is about and how much it means to us. We are inviting all filmmakers, habitué, and friends to join us for a breezy evening event with film screenings, talks, music, and refreshments open-air. --- 17:00 Opening --- In the backyard, we will have an independent publishing stand that will show and explore the imaginary border between visual art, moving image, science, experimental music. A selection of books and printed objects curated by Labor Neunzehn. --- 18:00 Conversas Berlin --- Conversas will be hosting its 54th meet-up presenting three guest speakers. Conversas is a series of informal meetings made so that we can get to know and discuss projects and interests. It has been around since 2016 and we have organised more than 50 events so far. --- 20:00 Refreshments --- --- 21:00 SPINNING MARVEL --- Fracto presents an all analog screening curated by Giuseppe Boccassini. A program on classic found footage film focusing on the essential quality of seeing. An experience that places the viewer on the threshold between the vertiginous disposition to film perceived as an act of exteriority, nonhuman attraction, autonomous force, and the intellectual wonder in observing its mechanism. Al Razutis *LUMIERE'S TRAIN VISUAL ESSAYS N°1 *Canada, 1979, 7' 30, 16mm, sound David Rimmer *BRICOLAGE *Canada, 1985, 10' 00, 16mm, sound Malcolm Le Grice* BERLIN HORSE *UK, 1970, 9' 00, 16mm, sound Chris Gallagher *MIRAGE* Canada, 1983, 7' 00, 16mm, sound David Rimmer *VARIATIONS ON A CELLOPHANE WRAPPER *Canada, 1970, 8' 00, 16mm, sound --- 22:00 Afterparty with music and drinks --- You will also have the chance to donate directly to our crowdfunding initiative to fund the 7th edition of Fracto Experimental Film Encounter taking place in November 2023. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Interbay Cinema Society <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be6ffe609c&e=857b71a9cb> 8 pm PT, 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA *Our, Us, Enough: Films on Labor, Love and Intimacy* In celebration of and in solidarity with Pride Weekend in Seattle, Interbay Cinema Society commissioned Carleen Maur to curate a program of experimental works on film that speak to LGBTQ+ experiences. All works will be screened on 16mm film. Co-sponsored by Northwest Film Forum. *Dyketactics *(Barbara Hammer, 4 min, on 16mm) A popular lesbian “commercial,” 110 images of sensual touching montages in A, B, C, D rolls of “kinaesthetic” editing. “The images are varied and very quickly presented in the early part of the film, introducing the characters, if you will. The second half of the film slows down measurably and all of a sudden I found myself holding my breath as I watched the images of love-making sensually and artistically captured.” – Elizabeth Lay, Plexus *Solitary Acts #5 *(Nazlı Dinçel, 2015, 5 min, on 16mm) The filmmaker films themselves practice kissing with a mirror. They recall teenage memories of overconsumption, confusing oral fixations (kissing and eating). They end up eating the carrot they are masturbating with, and they feel a sense of cannibalism. The components of the background of the scene are broken down and filmed in extreme closeups. These wave and play with one another; when text over-consumes the image, it transforms into the backdrop fabric where the filmmaker physically attaches the film together with fishing line. *RUN! - MYTHOGRAPHY #1 *(Malic Amalya, 2020, 10 min, on 16mm with optical sound) Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, RUN! examines the ways that the ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation. *Lesbian Farmer *(Carleen Maur, 2020, 2 min, on 16mm) A brief meditation on coyotes, strained relationships and conservative talk radio. *The House These Words Built *(Gabby Follett Sumney in collaboration with Jessica Sumney, 2018, 3 min, on 16mm) To my wife: All the poetry and time apart was really worth it for this life together. *Range *(Bill Basquin, 2005, 8 min, on 16mm) Against a visual tapestry of rural horizons, agricultural machinery, and newborn lambs, a father discusses with his transgender son his relationship with the land, animals, and labor that make up his farm. *Pride™ *(Hogan Seidel, 2019, 5 min, on 16mm) An experimental documentary about the changing environment surrounding LGBTQIA+ Pride festivals. *Encounters I May or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin *(Mariah Garnett, 14 min, on 16mm) [...] deals primarily with monumentality, narcissism, and the ways in which our heroes are embedded into our identities and manifested through the body. Through a variety of gestures, the pervasiveness of this practice is highlighted alongside its ultimate, inevitable failure. The viewer moves through various stages of anxiety, idolization, and actual touchdown with ’70s gay sex icon Peter Berlin himself, capturing both the apparent and the hidden. The film guides the viewer through the process of making contact with a figure who exists only in his own photographs. The film culminates in an interview with Peter Berlin in his apartment, describing a moment of exchange that crosses lines of gender and generation, a moment where the identities of the two filmmakers briefly coalesce *SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=461195195e&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *A Bigger Splash* 50th Anniversary, 4K restoration of this creative portrait of David Hockney at the end of his relationship with Peter Schlesinger, Hockney’s resulting artistic paralysis, and his making of “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” LA Filmforum and Other Aspects come together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jack Hazan's creative docufiction and artist film, *A Bigger Splash*. As summer weather finally comes on, we revisit the creation of one of David Hockney's legendary California poolside works alongside the agonizing breakup with boyfriend (and LA native) Peter Schlesinger, the muse and subject of some of Hockney’s best-known works. “That Hockney’s arguable self-indulgence eventually led to the creation of a landmark of 20th century modern art is not given much weight here either, as the film is a contemporary portrait of the artist. What the movie, with its combinations of staged conversations and encounters and intimate documentary glimpses, is finally about is how a certain artist has to work. Hockney doesn’t theorize or make grand pronouncements or whine about how lonely he is. He marks time until something within him moves, and he’s compelled to paint. Martin Scorsese has praised this film, and given that he sometimes used to say, “If I could explain the impetus behind my films in words, I wouldn’t have to make the film” (or words to that effect), it’s easy to see why. Hockney gets his feelings out, justifies them to himself, through painting. And it’s revealing that the film is framed by scenes staged very late in the process of making the film, in which Hockney is seen to have pretty much all but forgotten Schlesinger.” – Glenn Kenny, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-bigger-splash-2019 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=79249bb25d&e=857b71a9cb> Pre-pandemic in 2019, a lovely restoration of *A Bigger Splash* had a limited theatrical run. We situate it here in its proper season, one night only, 50 years to the month of its opening scene in June, 1973 in an undisclosed (and fictional) "Geneva resort". Note that this screening is restricted to age 21+ guests, as it contains explicit sexual scenes. Writer Melissa Anderson best describes the film in Artforum as: "...effulgently yet casually gay, replete with cocks in various stages of tumescence and alabaster butts contrasting starkly with otherwise sun-kissed flesh. Recently reissued in a coruscating 4K restoration, it is also beautiful to behold." This is the first entry in an occasional summer film series at 2220 we're calling "The Summer of Bummer", revisiting some artist and arthouse cinema released exactly fifty years ago, in another year of national and global malaise not unlike today: 1973. Hard times were had, good films were made! Come see our bummer crop as we grow and harvest it over the summer months. Age 21+ (bar open, mature themes) “In essence, the movie, shot over a period of several years, is a mosaic in which a flurry of episodic shards revolve around Hockney. A moon-faced dandy in owlish spectacles, the artist is shown attending fashion events, including the Alternative Miss World contest; mourning the end of his relationship with the artist Peter Schlesinger; and kvetching to the curator Henry Geldzahler, a friend and sometime subject, who tells him, “You are the painter of Southern California now.” – J. Hoberman, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/movies/david-hockney-a-bigger-splash.html <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=488f764c65&e=857b71a9cb> *THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e7ddac2f73&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *PELLE LOWE* This summer we showcase the work of filmmaker Pelle Lowe, who was an important member of the filmmaking community that emerged in Boston in the late 1970s and 80s – fed by the many artists who taught at or visited the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) – and that was particularly notable as a locus of 8mm and Super-8 cinema. Lowe taught at MassArt from 1990-97, and was active as a filmmaker and performance artist throughout that period, often in collaboration with Saul Levine. Her work was featured in the now-legendary 1998-99 exhibition and publication “Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films,” which was jointly organized by the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Cinematheque. In more recent years, however, her films have fallen into obscurity, a situation that Peggy Ahwesh and Bard College have been attempting to remedy, through preservations of her 1992 masterpiece, *EARTHLY POSSESSIONS*, as well as the later *SMOKE* (1995), both of which have been blown up to 16mm. *EARTHLY POSSESSIONS* 1992, 23 min, Super-8mm-to-16mm. Preserved by Bard College with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. “An exploration of the eroticism of grief, loosely derived from ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite,’ and moving around the texts of three love poems. The title plays on what we think we possess and who, or what, possesses us: the so-called natural world, in this case, and our social/sexual identities. […] I wanted to make something that worked with the emotional logic of a dream or nightmare. The film cycles and recycles on itself, searching for closure. To fall apart, to come unglued in deep sorrow, is to be in a strangely charged state – possessed, as if by a demon lover.” –Pelle Lowe “Lowe’s risky and purely dazzling *EARTHLY POSSESSIONS* is more like possession than mere recreation. […] Gradually, one element is constructed (identity), as another is shattered into its parts (the novel). Here in the face of death, meaning is splintered, not absent.” –Manohla Dargis, VILLAGE VOICE *SMOKE* 1995, 26 min, Super-8mm-to-16mm. Preserved by Bard College with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. “In *SMOKE*, seductively beautiful cloud formations turn out to be toxic factory emissions, while a series of intertitles with personal questions from employment applications locate the personal notion of individuality within the impersonal geography of the corporate sphere.” –FLICKER “I was looking for work when I began SMOKE, and subject to more than the usual daily invasions of privacy. The more menial the job, the more lengthy and demeaning the interrogation. No news that contemporary capital relations require the obliteration of identity and one’s sense of place in the world. Something’s changed. Something’s horribly familiar.” –Pelle Lowe *READY-MADE* 1992, 4 min, Super-8mm, silent. Made in collaboration with Saul Levine. “A film made by Pelle Lowe and myself, READY-MADE is a single work in itself, and also exists as part of a series of works that Pelle and I made reflecting on Manet’s painting ‘Olympia,’ including its reception, its relationship to painting, sex work, imperialism, the Paris Commune, sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, etc.” –Saul Levine Total running time: ca. 60 min. *___________________________________________________________________* *June 29 - July 29* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=82b861bdcb&e=857b71a9cb> 12:00-6:00pm ET, 525 W 29th St, 2nd floor, New York, NY, 10001 *A Dweller on Two Planets: Ayoung Kim, Yin-Ju Chen, Sow Yee Au, Su Yu Hsin* Microscope is very pleased to present this group exhibition curated by Alice, Nien-pu Ko featuring new and recent works in single- and multi-channel video and video installation by four East Asian and Southeast Asian woman artists: Ayoung Kim, Yin-Ju Chen, Sow Yee Au, and Su Yu Hsin. >From Alice, Nien-pu Ko: Inspired by the early science fiction novel, '*A Dweller on Two Planets*,' by Frederick Spencer Olive, this exhibition suggests some possibilities for cultural engagement today. This story of time-traveling consciousness, revealed by an Eastern spirit, depicts imaginary submerged ancient civilizations that have developed futuristic technology and scientific discoveries, including holograph-like art works and interplanetary cohabitation. This fictional story discloses a vision of human existence in the future, where the co-existence between East and West extends into outer space. Taking these speculations as a starting point, this exhibition links four media artists based in Asia. Together, their recent works explore cultural interference, remixing historical events and colonial legacy in order to develop an alternative narrative that suggests a mode of planetary thinking with regards to immigration, futurism, and nature. *FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pittsburgh Sound + Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3e5a2579f9&e=857b71a9cb> 8 PM WT, 229 E 9th Ave, Homestead, PA *Essential Pittsburgh: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE* A sprocket scientist who has worked in too many mediums to enumerate here, but he is currently the self-proclaimed most prolific moviemaker in the history of the medium, having made 718 movies and counting. tENT’s discipline in keeping so active in making for over 50 years is a testament to his complete devotion to mad scientism. His singular style, which can clumsily be described as circulating near experimental and documentary film forms at times, will be best appreciated a few hundred years from now. But in the here and now (2023), tENT will join us for an unforgettable performance of his 16mm work, presented on 16mm, for the first time in nearly 20 years. Accessibility note: The street-level entrance to the screening space has a two inch lip at the door, which we'll be very glad to assist with. Stairs are not required. Details and contact info will be emailed to registrants. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8294029764&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: KUBELKA / LYE* Peter Kubelka *MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN* (1955, 16 min, 35mm, Made in collaboration with Ferry Radax.) *ADEBAR* (1957, 1 min, 35mm) *SCHWECHATER* (1958, 1 min, 16mm) *ARNULF RAINER* (1960, 7 min, 35mm) *OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE* (1966, 12 min, 16mm) “Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world’s greatest filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above all else…etcetera.” –Stan Brakhage Len Lye *TUSALAVA* (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent) *RHYTHM* (1957, 1 min, 16mm) *FREE RADICALS* (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm) A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of ‘scratch’ or ‘direct’ filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film’s surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms. Total running time: ca. 60 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de3bed3956&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, Whammy! Analog, 2514 Sunset Blvd Rear Los Angeles, CA 90026 *John Torres: US Premiere of People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose* Filmforum has commissioned five artists to make new work, generously funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, and over the next year will be presenting the premieres of the works, including discussions with the artists. We are delighted to welcome John Torres from the Philippines for two public screenings, one at Whammy! Analog on June 30, and one at 2220 Arts on Sunday July 2. The screening at Whammy! is the US premiere of his latest feature film: *People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose*. The screening at 2220 Arts will include the newly commissioned film and additional shorts. “John Torres is the poet of Philippine cinema. A poet with his own rules and ways of working.” -International Film Festival Rotterdam "...Torres is not only one of the best Filipino directors of his generation, but also one of the (already fulfilled) promises of contemporary cinema." -Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM *People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose* is a self-reflexive slow fever dream of a film that lies close to documentary but also seems like a new form. Connecting with actor Liz Alindogan and some twenty rolls of film she had from an unfinished film by Filipino director Celso Advento Castillo, Torres edited and created a new soundtrack, re-uniting the original cast members to provide commentary while watching the film decades later. The original work, shot in the 1980s, while Oliver Stone’s “Platoon” was also filming nearby in the Philippines and the People Power movement was forming that would lead to the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos, followed a desperate group of Vietnamese attempting to escape on a boat bound for the Philippines during the Vietnam War, but with some lurid erotic moments and splashes of violence. The edited work identifies the heart of that film as an expression of existential angst of a never-ending journey, but overlaid with beautiful film decay and with editorial comment of the gossip and politics of the film’s creation. *People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose* 2016, color, sound, digital, 89 minutes, US premiere! In the country of his birth, Celso Advento Castillo (1943-2012) is lauded as ‘the Saviour of Filipino cinema’. His oeuvre of more than 60 films is highly original and extremely diverse. He has made thrillers, action and horror films, and in the 1970s also put ‘bomba films’ on the map: erotic drama in which he was able to also tell stories – often with a moral. In the 1980s, he worked on a feature film with the then 19-year-old actress Liz Alindogan, the sexy promise of the moment. Unfortunately, financial and logistics problems meant the film was never completed. More than 30 years later, John Torres used 20 recovered film rolls from this project to make a new film. Mixed with found footage and with a new overdub, this is a making-of film with a mysterious twist. A homage to the master, but also to the power of cinematic imagination. - International Film Festival Rotterdam https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2017/films/people-power-bombshell-the-diary-of-vietnam-rose <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f0e3f61b9&e=857b71a9cb> *SUNDAY, JULY 2, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cb99a39efd&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *John Torres: Poet of Philippine Cinema* Filmforum has commissioned five artists to make new work, generously funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, and over the next year will be presenting the premieres of the works, including discussions with the artists. We are delighted to welcome John Torres from the Philippines for two public screenings, one at Whammy! Analog on June 30, and one at 2220 Arts on Sunday July 2. The screening at 2220 Arts will include the newly commissioned film, *Room in a crowd*, a recent short, and a work-in-progress. John Torres is an independent filmmaker, musician and writer. He has made more than a dozen short films and five features. His work fictionalizes and reworks personal and found documentations of love, family relations, and memory in relation to current events, hearsays, myth, and folklore. He teaches at the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University and conducts filmmaking workshops and co-organizes artist talks and screenings in Los Otros, a Manila-based space, film lab, and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. A special focus of his works has been shown at the Viennale, Seoul, Cosquín, and Bangkok. *We still have to close our eyes *2019, color, sound, 13 mins Repurposed documentary footage captured from the sets of various Filipino productions (including the likes of Lav Diaz and Erik Matti) into an eerie, elliptical sci-fi narrative about human avatars controlled by apps. *Room in a crowd *2023, digital, color, sound, 45 minutes, World Premiere! A diaristic exploration of time, loss, and sound that roams during the pandemic. The sound of a late night car ride saying goodbye to a friend, recorded as the filmmaker prepares to move to Berlin with his family, forms the foundation of this personal documentary. From the faint sound of a daycare Zoom class in Manila to the rhythm of a windshield wiper during heavy rain to the hypnotic tone of a car engine on idle as the filmmaker waits for the friend to come in, we are transported to spaces that evoke a dream-like yet continuing diary of the past tumultuous years. Composed of a collage of recorded moments across locked-down spaces, it gathers Zoom recordings with a four-year-old daughter, student video submissions in production classes through the pandemic, and dashcam footage of an ambushed newsman, juxtaposed with commercial stock footage to explore how personal emotions may still resonate in neutral compositions. These were edited only after the move to Berlin months after. And across this collage, diegetic and non-diegetic relations between sound and image shift to explore how distance is felt to evoke memory and longing. Reflections emerge on years as parent, filmmaker, and a grieving son, always striving to capture time through these different cycles. *Half-film *Work-in-progress, 42 mins Sci-fi version of We still have to close our eyes, where humans in an island are being used as avatars for a mobile driving app by a mysterious voice that controls their bodies. The filmmaking process has started, and the film ends midway as police investigates a road accident involving one of the remote avatars, taking us on a journey to identify the voice that controls bodies of several citizens. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5c5da9c25d&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=ebd5397c5e&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=9f9ef2a496&e=857b71a9cb> . 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