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*This Week [July 8 - 16, 2023] in Avant Garde Cinema*




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08.11.2023 Slamdance Film Festival
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09.01.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival
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This week's programs (summary):

   - Refresh
   
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[March
   2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO]
   - Inheritance
   
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[June
   22, 2023-Feb 2024, New York, NY]
   - A Dweller On Two Planets: Ayoung Kim, Yin-Ju Chen, Sow Yee Au, Su Yu
   Hsin
   
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[Jun29-Jul29,
   New York, NY]
   - Short Films For Short Nights
   
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[July
   7-9, New York, NY]
   - EC: Walden (Diaries, Notes, And Sketches)
   
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[July
   8, New York, NY]
   - EC: Christopher Maclaine
   
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[July
   8, New York, NY]
   - EC: Georges Méliès, Program 1+2
   
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[July
   9, New York, NY]
   - EC: Georges Méliès, Program 3
   
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[July
   10, New York, NY]
   - EC: Marie Menken
   
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[July
   10, New York, NY]
   - EC: Sidney Peterson
   
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[July
   13, New York, NY]
   - Sputnik At Sixty-Six
   
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[July
   15, Hillsborough, NC]
   - Celluloid Showcase
   
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[July
   15, Santa Fe, NM]
   - Next Her Heart: Films By Anna Kipervaser (All On 16mm Film)
   
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[July
   16, Los Angeles, CA]
   - The Long Conversation
   
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   - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
   
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*STARTING BEFORE JULY 8, 2023*

*March 2022 - Spring 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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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.

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*June 22, 2023 - February 2024*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Whitney Museum of American Art
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*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.

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*June 29 - July 29*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Microscope Gallery
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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.

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*July 7 - 9*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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*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
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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

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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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
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5pm + 7pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM 1+2*

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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.

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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.

*MONDAY, JULY 10, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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6:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #3*
All films in this program are b&w and silent.

*EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS / ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES* (1903, 3 min, 16mm)
*THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE PUITS FANTASTIQUE* (1903, 3 min, 16mm)
*TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA MANCHE* (1907, 25 min, 35mm)
*THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT* (1903, 3 min, 16mm)
*THE DOCTOR’S SECRET / HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE* (1909, 11 min, 35mm)
*SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN OU LES MESAVENTURES D’UN
BUVEUR* (1909,
5 min, 35mm)

Total running time: ca. 55 min

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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8:15pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: MARIE MENKEN*
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

*GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN* (1957, 5 min, 16mm)
*ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER* (1961, 4 min, 16mm)
*EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR* (1961, 4 min, 16mm, silent)
*NOTEBOOK* (1962-63, 10 min, 16mm, silent)
*GO! GO! GO!* (1962-64, 12 min, 16mm, silent)
*ANDY WARHOL* (1965, 17 min, 16mm)
*LIGHTS* (1964-66, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, silent)

“Marie Menken pioneered the radical transformation of the handheld, somatic
camera into a formal matrix that would underpin an entire work in the films
she made between 1945 and 1965. […] The extraordinary cinematic style that
I have been calling Menken’s somatic camera has been her most influential
gift to the American avant-garde cinema. It is an embodiment of the
Emersonian invention of a pictorial air, the spiritual emancipation
automatically brought about by ‘certain mechanical changes, a small
alteration in our local position.’ It is also analogous to the equally
Emersonian somatic theory of poesis Charles Olson was developing at nearly
the same time: his emphasis on breath and proprioception corresponds to
Menken’s identification of the camera with her body in motion and her
cultivation of the respiratory and nervous agitation of the handheld camera
even in its quietest moments.” –P. Adams Sitney, EYES UPSIDE DOWN

Total running time: ca. 65 min.

*THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: SIDNEY PETERSON*
*THE POTTED PSALM* and THE PETRIFIED DOG have been preserved by Anthology
Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film
Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. *MR.
FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR* and *THE LEAD SHOES* have been preserved by
Anthology with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

*THE POTTED PSALM* (1946, 19 min, 16mm)
*THE PETRIFIED DOG* (1948, 19 min, 16mm)
*MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR* (1949, 21 min, 16mm)
*THE LEAD SHOES* (1949, 17 min, 16mm)

“These images are meant to play not on our rational senses, but on the
infinite universe of ambiguity within us.” –Sidney Peterson

“Sidney Peterson’s work and sensibility are those of a native American
surrealist. Many of his films chronicle the picaresque adventures of a
wacky protagonist and use disjunctive editing strategies to construct new
time and space relations…. But perhaps their best-known feature is the use
of distorted, funhouse mirror-images, which he created by shooting with an
anamorphic lens. […] In his films, he investigates extreme states of
consciousness, and the primary tool of his epistemology of irrationalism is
the photographic image distorted and transformed to register the impact of
those states.” –R. Bruce Elder, IMAGE AND IDENTITY

Total running time: ca. 80 min.

*SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2023*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/667158327517
8:45pm ET,
Movies in the Woods, 611 Lawrence Rd, Hillsborough, NC 27278
*Sputnik at Sixty-Six*
Sixty-six years ago the first satellite orbited the earth and sent the
world into a frenzy. SPUTNIK AT SIXTY-SIX is an archival film program with
clips from documentaries and television programs. These various bits of
cinematic flotsam and jetsam are combined to make a unique show about the
Cold War space race. Our view of the universe began to change in 1957, and
it all started with a beeping metal sphere not much bigger than a
basketball, the first "artificial moon."

*Movies in the Woods* is a bring-your-own-chair outdoor screening at my
house. This is the first year of this series, which is similar to the *Movies
in the Park* series I (Tom Whiteside) presented in Durham Central Park from
2009 to 2018. (As a matter of fact this program used to be called SPUTNIK
AT SIXTY - you figure it out.) Shows are presented in 16mm film. Tickets
are $15 per car - bring as many people as you can fit. No buses, please!

There is plenty of room for people but parking is limited (25 cars) so
advance tickets are required. Please plan to arrive between 7:45 and 8:30
so you can park your car and find your way to your spot before it gets
dark. Feel free to bring snacks and beverages but do clean up after
yourself. Plan to carpool and bring lots of friends. The show starts at
8:45.

Remember - BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR so you don't have to sit on the ground and
ARRIVE ON TIME (early!) so you can park and find your way to your spot
before it gets dark.

We do have some extra chairs so if you don't have one let me know a couple
of days in advance and I'll save one for you.

Some of the parking is in the woods. We have parking attendants who will
assist you. Please be careful and follow their directions. Make sure you
have a flashlight so you can get back to your car after the show. No
refunds - if this program is rained out it will be rescheduled, and your
ticket for the rained-out show can be used at any future *Movies in the
Woods* program.

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
No Name Cinema
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7pm MST,
No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM
*CELLULOID SHOWCASE*
An eclectic night of rare films all presented on the 16mm film format,
which was released by Eastman Kodak 100 years ago in 1923! The night's
program will feature (but not be limited to) *Castro Street* (1966) by
Bruce Baillie, *Un Chien Andalou* (1929) by Luis Buñuel & Salvador
Dalí, *Street
of Crocodiles* (1986) by the Quay Brothers, Will Hindle's 1969 documentary
film poem *Billabong*, a montage of title cards from B Westerns,
industrial/educational shorts, and a "perfect" silent found footage film of
a cop repeatedly shooting a shotgun from a car window.

*SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2023*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Whammy!
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7:30pm PT,
Whammy! 2514 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA (Entrance in rear off Rampart!)
*Next Her Heart: Films by Anna Kipervaser (All on 16mm film)*
Curated by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu.

Amongst the attributes of art filmmaking, there is a kind of practice that
does not belong to completed narrative or traditional documentary or to
absolute abstraction. Anna Kipervaser’s artistic creations sometimes seem
to be poems, wandering in an inner monologue, trying to find a way to get
along with nature or to talk to animals. For this special event, Anna
Kipervaser will bring six films to Whammy!, all produced on 16mm film and
screened on 16mm film. For the post-screening Q&A, we will chat with Anna
about her diverse artistic practice.

Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a
range of topics including human and animal bodies, ethnicity, religion,
colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her practice is informed by a
commitment to formal experimentation, DIY and alternative processes across
experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and
video. Anna’s work screens at festivals, in classrooms, galleries, museums,
microcinemas, basements, and schoolhouses! Anna is also a painter,
printmaker, educator, curator of exhibitions, programmer of screenings.
‍‍
*And By The Night* (2017, 9:44, Silent, 18fps, 16mm, United States)
*When It Is Still* (2018, 10:08, Silent, 18fps, 16mm, United States)
*How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather* (2019, 7:28, Silent, 24fps,
16mm, United States)
*With The Tide, with the tide* (2022, 2:48, Sound, 24fps, 16mm, United
States)
*Next Her Heart* (2023, 11:54, Sound, 24fps, 16mm, United Arab Emirates)
*Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий // Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy* (2023,
4:24, Sound, 24fps, 16mm, Ukraine / United States)
Runtime: 50 minutes + Q&A

*ONGOING*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Riverwest Radio
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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!!!

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Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
6x6 Project
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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.









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