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Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e97868ea6a&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Inheritance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=84c6bbd77f&e=857b71a9cb> [June 22, 2023-Feb 2024, 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=ee6ad7f92a&e=857b71a9cb> [Jun29-Jul29, New York, NY] - John Torres: Poet of Philippine Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1cf1efa2e4&e=857b71a9cb> [July 2, Los Angeles, CA] - EC: George & Mike Kuchar <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=580071da8c&e=857b71a9cb> [July 5, New York, NY] - EC: George Landow, AKA Owen Land <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d04aaecc3d&e=857b71a9cb> [July 5, New York, NY] - EC: Léger & Murphy / Picabia & Clair / Man Ray & Duchamp <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c3c5b99ba2&e=857b71a9cb> [July 7, New York, NY] - EC: Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3a4f843a01&e=857b71a9cb> [July 7, New York, NY] - Short Films For Short Nights <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ad19fad797&e=857b71a9cb> [July 7-9, New York, NY] - EC: Walden (Diaries, Notes, And Sketches) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=99593d7426&e=857b71a9cb> [July 8, New York, NY] - EC: Christopher Maclaine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cfdf36bf42&e=857b71a9cb> [July 8, New York, NY] - EC: Georges Méliès, Program 1+2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d2f2015165&e=857b71a9cb> [July 9, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e760ab384f&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e8bcb4d83&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE JULY 1, 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=49dd2f0702&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=6497419036&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *June 29 - July 29* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=439a52fbd6&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. *SUNDAY, JULY 2, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e3f9cdc7c&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. *WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=045bbec17c&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR* All films in this program have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. *I WAS A TEENAGE RUMPOT* 1960, 10 min, 8mm-to-16mm George and Mike here stumbled upon something big: their names were Arline, Edie, and Harry. A documentary about people like you and me, people with a zest for life. *PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF* 1961, 14 min, 8mm-to-16mm “It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy.” –George Kuchar *A WOMAN DISTRESSED* 1962, 12 min, 8mm-to-16mm Pre-dating *SHOCK CORRIDOR*, the Kuchars bring us this tantalizing tale of the inner workings of a very, very insane asylum. *TOOTSIES IN AUTUMN* 1963, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm A cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. [*I WAS A TEENAGE RUMPOT* and *A WOMAN DISTRESSED* are not part of the Essential Cinema collection, but are included here as a special bonus.] Total running time: ca. 55 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d611e84476&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND* “The unique contribution of Land’s work lies in the fusion of intellectual reason and, significantly, the humor that distances it from the supposedly ‘boring’ world of avant-garde film. Having explored the basic properties of the celluloid strip itself in early works such as *FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR…*, his attention turned to the spectator in a series of ‘literal’ films that question the illusionary nature of cinema through the use of word play and visual ambiguity. His work often parodies experimental film itself by mimicking his contemporaries and mocking the solemn approach of film theorists and scholars.” –Mark Webber, TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND *FLEMING FALOON* (1963, 6 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR EDGE LETTERING, SPROCKET HOLES, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC.* (1965-66, 5 min, 16mm, silent) *DIPLOTERATOLOGY* (1967/78, 7 min, 16mm, silent) *THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER* (1968, 9 min, 16mm) *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY* (1969, 5 min, 16mm) *REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION* (1970, 5 min, 16mm) *WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?* (1972, 13 min, 16mm) *THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT* (1973, 6 min, 16mm) *A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA* (1974, 11.5 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH…*, *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY*, and *FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR…* have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Total running time: ca. 70 min. *FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a831748cfc&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: LÉGER & MURPHY / PICABIA & CLAIR / MAN RAY & DUCHAMP* Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy *BALLET MÉCANIQUE* (1924, 19 min, 35mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) “The two fundamental works of the graphic cinema from the 1920s made without animation were Fernand Léger’s *BALLET MÉCANIQUE* and Marcel Duchamp’s *ANEMIC CINEMA*. By extending a metaphor from several of his paintings into film, Léger compared a universe of human actions and everyday objects to the functions of a machine.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM René Clair & Francis Picabia *ENTR’ACTE* (1924, 22 min, 35mm) One of the indisputable masterpieces of Dada cinema, *ENTR’ACTE* was created, as its title suggests, to function as a diversion in between the two acts of Francis Picabia and Erik Satie’s avant-garde ballet RELÂCHE. Man Ray *LE RETOUR À LA RAISON* (1923, 2 min, 16mm, silent) *ÉTOILE DE MER* (1927, 13 min, 16mm, silent) *EMAK BAKIA* (1927, 18 min, 35mm, silent) “All the films I have made have been improvisations. I did not write scenarios. It was automatic cinema. I worked alone. My intention was to set in motion the compositions I made in photography. As for the camera, I use it to capture something I do not want to paint. But I am not interested in producing ‘beautiful photography’ for the cinema.” –Man Ray, “All the Films I Have Made” (1965) Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray *ANEMIC CINEMA* (1926, 7 min, 35mm, silent) “Duchamp alternates head-on views of his illusion-producing roto-reliefs with similarly turned discs of words, elaborate French puns printed spirally, creating a fluctuation of illusory depth within a very narrow spectrum (from the slightly convex or slightly concave illusions) to the flat readings. In this, his only film, Duchamp typically crystallized the significance of the graphic film.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 85 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=534d9461e7&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA* by Jonas Mekas 1971-72, 82 min, 16mm-to-35mm Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. “The film consists of four parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania. The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter Kubelka, [Hermann] Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with home, memory, and culture.” –Jonas Mekas *___________________________________________________________________* *July 7 - 9* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The Metropolitan Museum of Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=967626c036&e=857b71a9cb> see below for times, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY *Short films for Short nights* A program of film screenings with live music to accompany silent films. *Sunlight filtered through trees into abstract patterns ... A mechanical man sputtering to life ... The rumble of a subway train ...* With the advent of cinema came new ways of experiencing and representing modern life. Join The Met’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for a three-part film series featuring dozens of short films made between 1896 and 1959 that collectively explore themes of modernity through cinema and film technologies. --- Program One: Perceptions Friday, July 7, 2023, 7 pm ET --- Live music by Brandon Lopez Opening remarks from actor, producer, and director Paul Dano and actor, producer, and writer Zoe Kazan. Modern artists harnessed new ideas about optical perception, agitating the picture plane and upending conventional forms of representation. Cinema technology also brought new ways of seeing: Two-dimensional drawings sprang to life through early animations, three-dimensional and stereoscopic films allowed viewers to experience moving images in "natural vision," and manipulations of the camera lens tricked the eyes. *L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat *(1896), Auguste and Louis Lumiére, black and white, silent, 1 min., 30 sec. *Koko's Earth Control *(1928), Fleischer Bros., silent, 6 min. *Fantasmagorie* (1908), Emile Cohl, black and white, silent, 2 min. *The Infernal Cauldron* (1903), Georges Méliès, color, silent, 2 min. *Around Is Around* (1951), Norman McLaren, color, sound, 10 min. *Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque* (1929), Germaine Dulac, black and white, silent, 7 min. *Color Rhapsodie* (1948), Mary Ellen Bute, sound, 6 min. *Brumes d'automne* (1928), Dimitri Kirsanoff, black and white, original soundtrack by Paul Devred, 12 min. *Séance* (1959), Jordan Belson, sound, 3 min. *Rain* (1929), Mannus Franken and Joris Ivens, black and white, sound, 15 min. *The Wonder Ring* (1955), Stan Brakhage, silent, 5 min. --- Program Two: Bodies Saturday, July 8, 2023, 7 pm ET --- Live music by Matana Roberts Just as modern artists reconfigured and reimagined the moving body, cinema compelled spectators to establish a new relationship with their own bodies as viewers confronted by a filmic screen and by actors mediated through the camera lens. Filmmaking techniques like cropping and montage abstracted human forms, making the familiar strange, while the enhanced vision made possible by cinema technologies found reflection in the superhuman content of early films, which often featured bodies supplanted by (or turned into) robots. *The Automatic Motorist *(1911), W. R. Booth, black and white, silent, 6 min. *A Study in Choreography for Camera *(1945), Maya Deren, black and white, silent, 2 min. *The Skeleton Dance – Silly Symphonies* (1929), Walt Disney, black and white, sound, 5 min. *The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra* (1928), Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapić, silent, 15 min. *An Extraordinary Dislocation (*1901), Georges Méliès, black and white, silent, 2 min. *Dance Chromatic* (1959), Ed Emshwiller, color, sound, 7 min. *Filmstudie *(1926), Hans Richter, black and white, silent, 4 min. *Laughing Gas* (1907), Edwin S. Porter, black and white, silent, 8 min., 30 sec. *L’opéra-Mouffe* (1958), Agnès Varda, black and white, sound, 17 min. --- Program Three: Systems Sunday, July 9, 2023, 2 pm ET --- Live music by Lea Bertucci and Ben Vida The early twentieth century saw advancements in nearly every aspect of industrial society, from urban planning and the growth of cities to the development of telecommunications systems. At the same time, scientific innovations allowed microcosmic glimpses of the natural world, opening new ways of apprehending organic life. Such shifts in scale generated both shock and wonder as modern artists grappled with methods for depicting rapidly changing structures. *Inflation* (1928), Hans Richter, black and white, silent, 3 min. *A Bronx Morning *(1931), Jay Leyda, black and white, silent, 15 min. *Mechanical Principles* (1930), Ralph Steiner, black and white, silent, 10 min. *Peas and Cues* (1930), British Instructional Films, black and white, sound, 9 min. *To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly *(1909), Percy Smith, black and white, silent, 1 min. *N or NW* (1938), Len Lye, black and white, sound, 7 min. *One Week* (1920), Buster Keaton, black and white, silent, 25 min. Masks are strongly recommended. Free with Museum admission; advance registration is recommended. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served. Running order of films may be subject to change. *SATURDAY, JULY 8, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bea4f5b654&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: WALDEN (DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES)* by Jonas Mekas 1968-69, 180 min, 16mm “Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it’s a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don’t get it at all.” –Jonas Mekas *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=30304b49ea&e=857b71a9cb> 7:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE* “The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield, California. These films, along with Ron Rice’s, are clearly the most significant work to come out of the beat period.” –J.J. Murphy All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD* (1957, 14 min, 16mm) *BEAT* (1958, 6 min, 16mm) *SCOTCH HOP* (1959, 5.5 min, 16mm) *THE END* (1953, 35 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 65 min. [*THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD*, *BEAT*, and *SCOTCH HOP* are not part of the Essential Cinema collection, but they are included here as a special bonus.] *SUNDAY, JULY 9, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2945290b6e&e=857b71a9cb> 5pm + 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM 1+2* --- PROGRAM 1 @ 5pm --- <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a122236450&e=857b71a9cb> All films in this program are b&w and silent. *THE CONJUROR / L’ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE* (1899, 1 min, 35mm) *TRIP TO THE MOON / VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE* (1902, 12 min, 35mm) *THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS* (1905, 21 min, 35mm) *MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU DIABLE* (1906, 18 min, 35mm) *DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L’HUILE* (1907, 5 min, 35mm) Magician, master of special effects, Méliès broke with the realistic (Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). “All early filmmakers were fascinated at first with the camera’s possibilities for tricks and illusionism. In fact, many were magicians before becoming filmmakers. But it was Georges Méliès, the French magician, producer of spectacles, actor, artist, and poet, who had the imagination and enthusiasm to fully exploit its marvels. His films are spectacles that amaze and delight. He created fantastic visions – all of them curious, some of them comic.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Total running time: ca. 60 min. --- PROGRAM 2 @ 7pm --- <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bbb01bafcd&e=857b71a9cb> The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent. *A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE* (1909, 8 min, 35mm) *THE CASCADE OF FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU* (1904, 3 min, 35mm) *VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE VOYAGE À TRAVERS L’IMPOSSIBLE* (1904, 20 min, 35mm) *THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA FÉE CARABOSSE* (1906, 13 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 50 min. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ffcf4b759&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=3f8035e8ec&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=5a6ca6855e&e=857b71a9cb> . 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