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*This Week [August 12 - 20, 2023] in Avant Garde Cinema* To receive the weekly listing directly via email rather than through Frameworks, just hit Subscribe <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=091193278b&e=857b71a9cb> . *DEADLINES APPROACHING* **** Enter upcoming calls for entry here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e31947ee6d&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* Ongoing Films for Ukrainian Border Crossings <[email protected]?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%0a?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%20?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes> (No Dialogue + PG) 08.15.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b7fe5d3ce1&e=857b71a9cb> (9th Deadline) 08.23.2023 Kinoskop – Analog Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d5380300ab&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 08.31.2023 Alchemy Film and Moving Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cbce12b12e&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 09.01.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=254b8086ee&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 09.03.2023 PRISME #6 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9823a128d9&e=857b71a9cb> 09.06.2023 Punto de Vista <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3637e6603d&e=857b71a9cb> 09.08.2023 Light Matter Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b5abd9b32f&e=857b71a9cb> 09.08.2023 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=913367c7d0&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 09.08.2023 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9c9e5cfa9c&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.05.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/festival/submission/#c3164> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2023 Experiments in Cinema <https://www.experimentsincinema.org/> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d0a37f2744&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3c1874c48b&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Inheritance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=72e6ba6203&e=857b71a9cb> [June 22, 2023-Feb 2024, New York, NY] - Chicago Seen Volume 16 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4b2e9a7b09&e=857b71a9cb> [August 12, Chicago, IL] - Portraiture And Short visual Diaries <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc6dfbc571&e=857b71a9cb> [August 13, Washington, DC] - EC: No President <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=415e2856c9&e=857b71a9cb> [August 15, New York, NY] - EC: Carriage Trade <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=64ece3dc83&e=857b71a9cb> [August 15, New York, NY] - Harry Smith "American Magus" <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=92f8088424&e=857b71a9cb> [August 16, San Francisco, CA] - Five Films By Bruce Baillie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42843b43d1&e=857b71a9cb> [August 16, San Francisco, CA] - Cinema of William Burroughs <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e26bb02eeb&e=857b71a9cb> [August 16, San Francisco, CA] - The Early Films of Alice Guy Blanche And Others <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8a7856c5f5&e=857b71a9cb> [August 16, San Francisco, CA] - Off The Wall @ 725 Ponce—Launch! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=47febc23f1&e=857b71a9cb> [August 18, Atlanta, GA] - Lilan Yang: Nowhere Near <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c0b91e114a&e=857b71a9cb> [August 18-26, Cambridge, MA] - ...Like Clockwork (Time Ba$Ed) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=10507c32fc&e=857b71a9cb> [August 19, Chicago, IL] - The Wyvernwood Chronicles: Part 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7bf72b447e&e=857b71a9cb> [August 19, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=781811f1ea&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aca8b53591&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE AUGUST 12, 2023* *March 2022 - Summer 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Denver Museum of Nature & Science <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=72f7264bc9&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=c50b077db0&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, AUGUST 12, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Chicago Filmmakers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=40d8150b77&e=857b71a9cb> 7PM Central, 1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660 *CHICAGO SEEN VOLUME 16 | IN-PERSON (8/12)* We are thrilled to present another edition of our local film series Chicago Seen (formerly known as Spirit of Chicago). Chicago Filmmakers invites free submissions all year round from Chicago-based filmmakers and/or films about Chicago. Volume 16 features work by Aidan Karstadt, Andrew Paul Davis, M. Woods, George Ellzey Jr., Jejoon Park, Jesse Rothenberg & Zo Zosak, Josh Weissbach, Juli Del Prete, and Nick Schoenbrodt. Following the screening, the Chicago Seen programming team will moderate a conversation with the filmmakers in attendance. Chicago Seen programming team: Sofia Migaly, Jacob Shevitz, Bella Miller, Mariam Atallah, and McGuire Price. Lead programmer: Grace K. Schuler. *HAVING A NICE DAY* (Dir. Jesse Rothenberg & Zo Zosak) 2023 Becca and Tom's nice day at the park is interrupted when a golf ball lands in their hummus. Mark emerges from the woods looking for his ball with his evil boss Jordan on his tail. Jordan insists Mark hit the ball out of the hummus but what no one knows is that Tom has hidden an engagement ring in the dip and will do anything to preserve his big day. *CAROLINE* (Dir. Juli Del Prete) 2022 A young actress's audition for a major movie takes an unexpected turn. *BOSOM* (Dir. George Ellzey Jr.) 2023 When estranged sisters Jade & Amber attend their mother's funeral, long-held resentments and painful secrets come out into the open. *“AS ONE SOWS SO SHALL HE REAP”* (Dir. Jejoon Park) 2023 What happens when you plant meat in a pot? *TO ALL THOSE* (Dir. Josh Weissbach) 2020 A city symphony in miniature, dedicated to anyone who has gotten lost in thought while stuck on the midwinter train. to all that unfolds in those private reveries. *EATEN* (Dir. Andrew Paul Davis) 2023 Music Video for Andrew Paul Davis' 2023 song, "Eaten." *ONE NIGHT ON DOVER ST.* (Dir. Aidan Karstadt) 2022 A young tenant must fend off his neat freak of a Neighbor. *MELENCOLIA 1: THE END OF THE ALPHABET* (Dir. M. Woods) 2023 A sadness rolls over me as I gaze into the entrails of this pandora's box and my shadow cranks a lost appendage for the sake of ontological tangents and bewitched spaces. I want you to witness The Hallucinatory Zone of Neo-Liberal death hounds and lost gazes that expand and contract time. I was nothing, so nothing was lost. *OOPS! I’VE BEEN DRIVEN MUNDANE* (Dir. Nick Schoenbrodt) 2023 Morkie, an aging stop-motion animator, lives a passive, hermetic life in the isolated garage she rents from her botanist great-aunt Mildred. But her quiet routine is thrown into chaos when Mildred tasks her with caring for the surrealistic flora of her personal collection. As more and more of these plants are delivered, with increasingly elaborate instructions for care, this minor inconvenience becomes a constant regimen that devours Morkie’s waking life and drives her to the brink of madness. *SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* National Gallery of Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ab94f4a33e&e=857b71a9cb> 2pm ET, National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium, 4th St and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC *Portraiture and Short Visual Diaries* This selection of 10 short film prints on loan from Canyon Cinema and Pacific Film Archive celebrates the mobile nature of the 16mm camera, and the limitations of its mechanism that allow for true experimentation and play. Curated and projected by Margaret Rorison. *New York Near Sleep for Saskia* (Peter Hutton, 1972, 16mm, 10 minutes) *Ciao Bella* (Betzy Bromberg, 1978, 16mm, 13 minutes) *Elixir* (Amy Halpern, 2012, 16mm, 7 minutes) *Elasticity* (Chick Strand, 1976, 16mm, 25 minutes) *Sacred Heart of Jesus* (Freude, 1965, 16mm, 6 minutes) *Flight* (Greta Snider, 1996, 16mm, 5 minutes) *Piensa En Mí* (Alexandra Cuesta, 2009, 16mm, 15 minutes) *Goat* (Paige Taul, 2021, 16mm to digital, 3 minutes) *The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo* (Margaret Tait, 1955, 16mm, 7 minutes) *Les Tournesols* (Rose Lowder, 1982, 16mm, 3 minutes) Total running time approximately 95 minutes. Part of the Summer of 16mm: Celebrating 100 Years of Film series *TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=563b9f62ed&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: NO PRESIDENT* by Jack Smith, 1967-70, 45 min, 16mm. Restored print courtesy of the Gladstone Gallery *NO PRESIDENT* was Jack Smith’s third feature film. In this version, restored by filmmaker Jerry Tartaglia, the scenes alternate between elaborate tableaux shot at Smith’s Greene Street loft with found footage of former presidential candidate Wendell Willkie. The film features underground stars, including Tally Brown, Jerry Sims, Irving Rosenthal, Donna Kerness, Mario Montez, and Charles Henri Ford. “The last of Jack Smith’s 16mm features – austerely black and white, more an exercise in sensibility than craft – evolved out of his November 1967 program, Horror and Fantasy at Midnight. Like Ken Jacobs’s *STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH*, Horror and Fantasy at Midnight would mix original material with found footage including newsreel footage of the 1940 Republican Convention that nominated Wendell Willkie to run for president. By late March 1968, Horror and Fantasy had coalesced into Kidnapping and Auctioning of Wendell Willkie (sic) by the Love Bandit – an all black-and-white presentation starring writer Irving Rosenthal as the infant Wendell abducted by a mustachioed pirate and sold on the block of a slave market. In early January 1969, the movie had its theatrical premiere as *NO PRESIDENT*. For musical accompaniment Smith played records and also used the soundtracks of the found material, albeit slowed down for being projected at silent speed. The surviving version *NO PRESIDENT* alternates scenes shot in the Plaster Foundation with found footage – including a Lowell Thomas travelogue of Sumatra, a clip, apparently from the late 1940s, of an unidentified couple singing ‘A Sunday Kind of Love’, and newsreel footage of candidate Willkie addressing the future Farmers of America. […] Parker Tyler would hail *NO PRESIDENT* as ‘an even more daring exploitation of the themes in *FLAMING CREATURES*, and the Selection Committee for the newly established Anthology Film Archives voted to include both in its canon of essential cinema.” –J. Hoberman *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5dfc22b858&e=857b71a9cb> 8:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: CARRIAGE TRADE* by Warren Sonbert, 1973 version, 61 min, 16mm “With *CARRIAGE TRADE*, Sonbert began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s; he particularly disliked the ‘knee-jerk’ reaction produced by Eisensteinian montage. In both lectures and writings about his own style of editing, Sonbert described *CARRIAGE TRADE* as ‘a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.’ This approach, according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer multi-faceted readings of the connections between shots through the spectator’s assimilation of ‘the changing relations of the movement of objects, the gestures of figures, familiar worldwide icons, rituals and reactions, rhythm, spacing, and density of images.” –Jon Gartenberg [PLEASE NOTE: *Due to a print traffic issue, we've been forced to reschedule the screening that was originally scheduled for Sat, Aug 12 at 5:30. The new screening will take place on Tues, Aug 15 at 8:30. We apologize for any inconvenience!*] *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Renegade Cinema (aka Films with Friends, Those Guys) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b51f89703c&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00PM PST, Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA *Harry Smith "American Magus"* A rare showing of *American Magus, a Modern Alchemist* an interview and documentary of Avant Garde Icon Harry Smith by Paola Igliori, plus *Early Abstractions* by Harry Smith *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Renegade Cinema (aka Films with Friends, Those Guys) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f3e1408a7c&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PST, Savoy Tivoli 1434 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA *Five Films by Bruce Baillie* Renegade Cinema presents Five Films By Bruce Baillie: *Tung* *Castro Street* *Valentin Des Sierra* *Mass for the Dakota Sioux* *All My Life* *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Renegade Cinema (aka Films with Friends, Those Guys) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12f328e12a&e=857b71a9cb> 8PM PST, The Fall Out Gallery, 50-A Bannam Place, San Francisco, CA *Cinema of William Burroughs* Presenting the cinematic world of William Burroughs including *Towers Open Fire* *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Renegade Cinema (aka Films with Friends, Those Guys) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c726448505&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PST, The Petit Paris Cafe, 513 Broadway, San Francisco, CA *The Early Films of Alice Guy Blanche and others* Early Gaumont films of Alice Guy Blanche, first female motion picture director and others from Gaumont 1897-1912 *FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Off The Wall @ 725 Ponce <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d3275f03d9&e=857b71a9cb> 9pm-10pm EST, 725 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA *Off The Wall @ 725 Ponce—launch!* Announcing the launch of Off The Wall @ 725 Ponce—the largest movie screen in the Southeast, illuminating the Atlanta Beltline with film and video art from around the world. FREE and open to the public. Curated by Gregory Zinman, in partnership with Cousins Properties. Programming kicks off Friday, 8/18 at 9pm, with gorgeous digital loops by Alyson Denny and the premiere of *LET LIGHT PERPETUAL* (2023) by Micah and Whitney Stansell. Initial programming for Off The Wall will run Fridays and Saturdays, 9-10pm on August 18+19, August 25+26, and September 1+2. Every evening will feature a different digital loop by Alyson Denny and a screening of Micah and Whitney Stansell's *LET LIGHT PERPETUAL*. Bring a camping chair or a blanket, or just sit on the grass, and we'll see you on the Beltline! *___________________________________________________________________* *August 18 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Gallery 263 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a81d1a4eb7&e=857b71a9cb> Opens on Aug 18, 6-8pm EST, screening on Aug 26, doors at 7:30pm EST, 263 Pearl St, Cambridge, MA 02139 *Lilan Yang: Nowhere Near* >From Aug 20-26, Lilan Yang's debut solo exhibition, *Nowhere Near*, takes center stage, presenting a curated selection of photographs and experimental film installations that delve into the essence of memory and its dissolution. Yang's pseudo-films defy traditional filmmaking norms by employing a unique non-chemical method to create 16mm and 35mm films. This pioneering approach melds analog and digital realms, utilizing inkjet/laser printing and laser cutting techniques. The exhibition chronicles Yang's introspective solo journeys through the Pacific Northwest, the Atlantic Coastline, and a poignant voyage to the American West. It stands as both a visual narrative and a meditation on perception — contemplates on ways of seeing and not seeing. Moreover, it delves into an experimental juxtaposition between film and memory, exploring how film's natural and mechanical degradations as an archival medium mirrors the gradual erosion of memories over time. To mark the exhibition’s closing on Aug 26, an exclusive film screening in the original 16mm format is also slated. A rare opportunity to view many of Yang’s unedited, shot-on-camera short films in the evocative Kodak Black & White Reversal. Additionally, Yang's MFA thesis film, *Everything Comes Full Circle*, crafted during her introspective hiatus, will also be featured with a new score by London-based composer Julian Tran. After a two-year sojourn, this exhibition heralds Yang's much-anticipated return to Boston, unveiling her new works to the public for the very first time. *SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Chicago Filmmakers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=82eee3b014&e=857b71a9cb> 7PM Central, 1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660 *...LIKE CLOCKWORK (Time Ba$ed) | IN-PERSON (8/19)* Our podcast, …Like Clockwork, curates conversations between Chicago filmmakers, programmers, curators, and multi-disciplinary artists and colleagues from around the world. This is a chance to see some of the incredible work made by our guests, followed by a unique live conversation featuring all of our local filmmakers. Programmed by M. Woods (host of …Like Clockwork) and the Chicago Filmmakers programming intern team! With a live post-screening discussion moderated by …Like Clockwork guest and former Chicago Filmmakers programming intern, Grace K. Schuler. Featuring the work of previous …Like Clockwork guests Paige Taul, Fernando Saldivia Yañez, Lynne Sachs, Sonnie Wooden, Jason Halprin, Edgar Jorge-Baralt, Ji Stribling, Daniel Watkins & Christina Santa Cruz (CHESTNUT), Michael Mersereau, and M. Woods. *GOAT* (Dir. Paige Taul) 2021 About a girl and her j’s. A meditation on the politics of style, collectivity, and personal taste. 2’ *THE ROOTS WEAVER* (Dir. Fernando Saldivia Yañez) 2021 A poetic observation of the indigenous Yaghan art of grass-weaving. 10’ *OPACITY* (Dir. Michael Mersereau) 2022 An invitation from one stranger to another to open up about their very first car. A sighting of a witch and a chair to sit in. Opacity is a short video honoring the cryptic and restrained, using obscure symbolism, narrative distance, and an unresolved journey into a hallucinogenic netherworld. Explores semi-biographical events blended with an atmospheric narrative in otherworldly landscapes. 5’ *VENTANA* (Dir. Edgar Jorge-Baralt) 2021 A retrieved picture of a window elicits memories and the impulse to recreate a lost site. By this same window, an eight year old child feels the cold air on his face and imagines the future. Filmed in Los Angeles during the late summer of 2020 as COVID-19 cases were surging and residents were advised to stay home. The act of shooting became a way to travel back and forth, if not in space, then time. 10’ *COVID DIARIES - An Excerpt* (Dir. Jason Halprin) 2020 - ongoing A collection of instagram shards, contemporaneous archives of media and waste. From the filmmaker: “Starting in March 2020, I began a social media project in response to the CoVid-19 pandemic. Observations and reflection, but also a sleeping City Symphony for the Montréal neighborhood where I spent lockdown. Meant to be an intervention into the scroll, these diary entries have now been edited into a second draft of personal history.” 6’ *GODSPEED* (Dir. Sonnie Wooden) 2021 A poetic video-jazz diary of nostalgia for home, the resonance of artistic practice. Documenting the shared and specifically Chicago experience of interactions with family and friends from the perspective of coming home and reacquainting with routes of travel. 14’ *CONFESSIONAL* (Dir. Michael Mersereau) 2022 A short video about a child's first seizure and descent into a technicolor hell scape of prophetic visions and faceless creatures. An absurdist experimental horror piece, its atmospheric storytelling insinuates a post coup suburban paradise and a journey into the underworld. 5’ *MOCKINGBIRD [A MUSIC VIDEO FOR CHESTNUT]* (Dir. M. Woods | Music by Chestnut - Christina Santa Cruz & Daniel Watkins) 2021 Chestnut (also known as the multidisciplinary artistic duo Christina Santa Cruz & Daniel Watkins), revels in waves of harmonic noise and nostalgia for an empty place that feels familiar. The titular song from the album Mockingbird, the music video is a trip through “The Numb Spiral”, from the archives of M. Woods’ Disassociative Productions, documenting a Southwestern Hellscape gospel revival. 6’ *A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES* (Dir. Lynne Sachs | Made with & for Barbara Hammer) 2020 In 1998 lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer took part in a one-month residency at a Cape Cod dune shack without running water or electricity, where she shot film, recorded sound and kept a journal. In 2018 she gave all of this material to Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with it. 14’ TOTAL RUNNING TIME: Approximately 75’ w/ an additional post-screening event *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b0903c46c7&e=857b71a9cb> 2pm PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *The Wyvernwood Chronicles: Part 2* In person: filmmakers Diego Robles & Bertha Aguilar, Wyvernwood resident Gumaro Oviedo Flores, and programmer Jorge Ravelo Filmforum continues local filmmaker Diego Robles' series The Wyvernwood Chronicles: Part 2, an eclectic collection of short films ranging from resident-made PSA’s (Public Service Announcements), to meditative experimental documentary pieces, to youth workshop animations. 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. The films begin to be made around the beginning of the Great Recession, as LA Co-Media (Los Angeles Collective Media) collaborated with Comite de la Esperanza & neighborhood residents from Wyvernwood to make documentary videos, spread awareness, lead youth workshops and aid in the preservation of their housing and the archiving of their histories. The films made from LA Co-Media range from being didactic, to being calls-to-action, to also being playful and meditative cinematic forms. To complement these films, the documentary short *GUMARO*, made from cut material of Robles’ feature film *Wyvernwood: The Garden City*, follows resident Gumaro Oviedo Flores in one of his Los Angeles Quinceñera videography jobs, showing the relationship between representation and a coming-of-age ritual. Part 2 focuses on an even broader and more horizontal approach to representation, where the films aren’t simply made about community but are birthed from within community building efforts. The screening will be followed by a Q&A panel with a number of the filmmakers and residents of Wyvernwood. Program (~70 minutes) *Que Hermoso es Wyvernwood *(2010) by Gumaro Oviedo Flores - 1 min *Doña Carmen* (working title) (2015) by Manuel Huerta - 5 min *Cut-Out Animation made by Wyvernwood Children* (working title) (2013) by Bertha Alicia Aguilar Garcia - 4 min *Nosotros Somos Wyvernwood* (2009/2010) by El Comité de la Esperanza, LA Co-Media, Gumaro Oviedo Flores - 10 min *Wyvernwood* (made around 2009/2010) by El Comité de la Esperanza, LA Co-Media, Gumaro Oviedo Flores - 3 min *Yo Soy Wyvernwood/Yo Soy Comité de la Esperanza* (made around 2009/2010) by Gumaro Oviedo Flores - 30 sec *Short video made of still photographs and napkins from Comité member Doña Avangelina*, (2013) by Diego Robles - 4 min *Nuestros Videos Culturales para la Preservación de Wyvernwood *( 2009/2010) by Erasto Arena, El Comité de la Esperanza, LA Co-Media & Diego Robles - 4 min *El Futuro Wyvernwood* (2009/2010) by Abraham Osuna, LA Co-Media, Comité de la Esperanza/Wyvernwood Resident’s Ricardo Mojica & Salvador Vergara - 3 min *GUMARO* (2021) by Diego Robles - 36 min And other films to be announced *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bf1de496ea&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *THE LONG CONVERSATION* THE LONG CONVERSATION with Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber is on indefinite hold. 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