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*This Week [September 16 - 24, 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=2b873dbd68&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) 09.29.2023 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ad677451ce&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 09.30.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2859b38b9f&e=857b71a9cb> (9th Deadline) 10.01.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bab20019f7&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.02.2023 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=31475f74ed&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.05.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/festival/submission/#c3164> (Early Deadline) 10.15.2023 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7d38dbaac8&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.15.2023 Little Scuzzy Film Fest <[email protected]> 10.17.2023 Student Experimental Film Festival Binghamton <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=442394bac4&e=857b71a9cb> (2022-23 Student Films ONLY) 11.01.2023 Alchemy Film and Moving Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e7a88e7630&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2023 Experiments in Cinema <https://www.experimentsincinema.org/> 11.10.2023 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d1cc18839&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.30.2023 Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7b3c8ccc71&e=857b71a9cb> 12.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=efc3da1a2b&e=857b71a9cb> 01.07.2024 Gravitational Lensing <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=20148c0c5f&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d392b2a93e&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=73f65898b9&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Inheritance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f74de39a4a&e=857b71a9cb> [June 22, 2023-Feb 2024, New York, NY] - Alternative Visions <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=27022ddc2b&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6-November 15, Berkeley, CA] - The Film Foundation: Preserving The Avant-Garde <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0aa56fe044&e=857b71a9cb> [September 18, San Francisco, CA] - EC: Warhol / Watson & Webber / Whitney <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0a31b46991&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, New York, NY] - Honoring Kenneth Anger <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a30370bae5&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, San Francisco, CA] - 16mm Madness <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=840a68e1a3&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, San Francisco, CA] - VISIONS: Ben Balcom <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=985827ddf2&e=857b71a9cb> [September 21, Montreal, QC, Canada] - On Film Presents: Tom Gunning <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2da74cd024&e=857b71a9cb> [September 21, Rochester, NY] - Avant 2023 – Line Describing A Cone <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11bf5645df&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22-23, Kristinehamn & Karlstad, Sweden] - The Tawdry Visions of George And Mike Kuchar <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=32c1a99a15&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22, Los Angeles, CA] - An Evening With Bill Brand <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00ff4d1bcb&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22, New York, NY] - The Short Films of Simon Liu <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1e1abb08e&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22, Santa Fe, NM] - EC: Kenneth Anger, Program 1 + 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aa59131639&e=857b71a9cb> [September 23, New York, NY] - EC: Bruce Baillie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d3276b9db0&e=857b71a9cb> [September 24, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=721500bc33&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1716d8e6ca&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SEPTEMBER 16, 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=cdb326c6f3&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=006384463a&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *September 6 - November 15* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d16fabc92e&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 PM PST 2155 Center Street, Berkeley CA, 94720 *Alternative Visions* We open our annual showcase of historical and current experimental film with Luis Buñuel’s Surrealist classics, *L’age d’or* and *Un Chien Andalou*. Further historical explorations include a guest-curated program of local ninety-year-old filmmaker Paul Fillinger’s one-of-a-kind educational films, which he refers to as experiential cinema. Leeroy K. Y. Kang presents a selection of queer Asian experimental video, from Bruce and Norman Yonemoto to Patty Chang. There are a number of opportunities to see and hear guest artists: Ernie Gehr travels from New York with four recent city films, Peggy Ahwesh and Jacqueline Goss screen their “theoretical musical about scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich,” Canadian Lindsay McIntyre discusses a selection of her films exploring her Inuit and settler ancestry, and local filmmaker Jerome Hiler presents four programs of his work. The series includes two programs of recent films drawing on varied sources, including Super 8mm, glass slides and negatives, photographs, audio recordings, ray-o-grams, and artificial intelligence, with guest artists in person. We also pay tribute to longtime cocurator of Alternative Visions Jeffrey Skoller, who has retired after teaching in the Film & Media Department at UC Berkeley since 2005; Jaimie Baron, this year’s cocurator, presents her annual Festival of (In)appropriation. *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b8dbdba755&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, 4 Star Theater, 2200 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA *The Film Foundation: Preserving the Avant-Garde* Presented by the San Francisco Cinematheque in association with 4 Star Theater and the National Film Preservation Foundation. This program will be introduced by Jeff Lambert, Executive Director of the National Film Preservation Foundation. In association with Scorsese: More than a Gangster, presented at the 4 Star Theater September 2–24, San Francisco Cinematheque celebrates the work and legacy of The Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation Foundation. Founded in 1990 by Martin Scorsese to address the urgent need for film preservation, The Film Foundation is dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history by supporting the preservation work of film archives and has served as a vital force in the guardianship and conservation of international film culture—in its thirty-three years of existence, the Film Foundation has contributed to the preservation of nearly 1,000 works of world cinema. In 2003, the Foundation partnered with the San Francisco-based National Film Preservation Foundation to create the Avant Garde Masters grant program, which has preserved 214 works of avant-garde cinema by 83 artists, from canonized classics to obscurities and rediscoveries. On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Avant Garde Masters program, San Francisco Cinematheque celebrates this legacy with an eclectic mix of works preserved under this program. Screening will be introduced by Jeff Lambert, Executive Director of the National Film Preservation Foundation. *Remembrance: A Portrait Study* (1967) by Edward Owens; 16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 6 minutes, exhibition file from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative. *Orange* (1970) by Karen Johnson; 16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 3 minutes. *Ophelia/The Cat Lady* (1969) by Tom Chomont; 16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 3 minutes, exhibition file from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative. *Prefaces* (1981) by Abigail Child; 16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 10 minutes, exhibition file from Video Data Bank. *Psychosynthesis* (1975) by Barbara Hammer; 16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 8 minutes, exhibition file from Electronic Arts Intermix. *FF* (1986) by Julie Murray; Super-8mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 10 minutes, exhibition file from Canyon Cinema. *Note to Pati* (1969) by Saul Levinel; 8mm screened as digital video, color, silent, 8 minutes, exhibition file from the maker. *Nocturne* (1998) by Peggy Ahwesh; 16mm screened as digital video, b&w, sound, 28 minutes. All films in this program were preserved through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7ba89bf109&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: WARHOL / WATSON & WEBBER / WHITNEY* Andy Warhol *EAT* (1963, 35 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) “A portrait of artist Robert Indiana, *EAT* is one of the classics of Warhol’s minimalist cinema. As Indiana slowly eats one mushroom, the action is rendered mysterious by Warhol’s decision to assemble the rolls out of order, so the mushroom appears to magically renew itself from time to time.” –Callie Angell James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber *FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER* (1928, 13 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) “Filmed in a Rochester, New York, carriage house, this expressionist film is the earliest live-action dramatic film made by a collaboration of poets and artists in the United States. Watson devised the optical effects that distinguish the film, while Webber provided its visual design, based upon medieval frescoes.” –Robert A. Haller John & James Whitney *FILM EXERCISES 1-5* (1943-45, 18 min, 16mm) “The visual images in these films were created by shining light through flexible masks, so that the camera was filming direct light rather than light reflected from drawings. The results seem like dazzling neon apparitions, that were as novel and shocking as the accompanying soundtrack.” –William Moritz James Whitney *LAPIS* (1963-66, 10 min, 16mm) “The most elaborate example of a mandala in cinema. It utilizes a field of tiny dots, symmetrically organized in hundreds of very fine concentric rings, to generate slowly changing intricate patterns…. Both structurally and visually *LAPIS* conforms to the circular form of the mandala; its elaborate movements belie a fundamental stasis.” –P. Adams Sitney Total running time: ca. 80 min. *___________________________________________________________________* 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=0d49f8d2e2&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00PM PST, Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA *Honoring Kenneth Anger* *Mouse Heaven*, *Scorpio Rising*, *Lucifer Rising*, *The Man We Want to Hang* *___________________________________________________________________* 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=ef03f87ae4&e=857b71a9cb> 8:30pm PT, Church Key, 1402 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA *16mm Madness* *Menilmontant* by Dimitri Kirsanov *Voyeuristic Tendencies* by Dominic Angerame *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc5d9a73fe&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm & 9pm ET, La lumière collective 7080, rue Alexandra, #506, Montréal [QC] *VISIONS: BEN BALCOM* In collaboration with Tënk, VISIONS presents a double programme with BEN BALCOM at la lumière collective! 16mm projection & digital | artist in attendance | @ la lumière collective doors:18h30 --- 19H00 | IN PRAISE OF LOST FUTURES --- This program gathers together recent short films by Ben Balcom that are particularly oriented towards landscape and place. It represents a collection of filmic speculations that trace utopian longing in the dust of the ordinary. *CEOL (RUINSONG)* | 2014 | 16mm | 5 mins *SPECULATIONS* | 2016 | 16mm to digital | 16 mins *GARDEN CITY BEAUTIFUL* | 2019 | 16mm to digital | 12 mins *NEWS FROM NOWHERE* | 2020 | 16mm to digital | 8 mins *LOOKING BACKWARD* | 2022 | 16mm to digital | 10 mins *GROWING UP ABSURD* | 2022 | 16mm to digital | 15 mins *SILENT WITNESS *| 2023 | 16mm to digital | 3 mins --- 21H00 | FICTIVE CERTAINTIES --- A programme of short films proposed by BEN BALCOM *UNTITLED (LIGHT) *Julie Murray | 2002 | 16mm | 5 mins *THE PLANT* Mary Helena Clark | 2012 |16mm vers numérique | 8 mins *A FIELD GUIDE TO THE FERNS* Basma Alsharif | 2015 | 16mm vers numérique | 6 mins *BITTER WITH A SHY TASTE OF SWEETNESS *Saif Alsaegh | 2019 | numérique | 9 mins *APPLE GROWN IN A WIND TUNNEL* Steven Matheson | 2000 | vidéo | 26 mins *PEGGY AND FRED IN KANSAS* Leslie Thornton | 1987 | video | 11 mins *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visual Studies Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=417a4690e5&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY *On Film Presents: Tom Gunning* A film screening and lecture by internationally renowned film scholar Tom Gunning, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Gunning has chosen a canonical program of 16mm films from the VSW and University of Rochester collections, and will provide historical and critical contexts for the program in his lecture. The program, titled Perfect Films, includes works by Bruce Baille, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Ernst Lubitsch. This event is co-sponsored by On Film, a student-run screening project at the University of Rochester. *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023* *September 22 - 23* Venue type: *Live, physical event* AVANT <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0ef9143857&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, Kristinehamn Art Museum and Karlstad, Cinema Arena, Sweden *AVANT 2023 – Line Describing a Cone* The 2023 edition of AVANT celebrates that it is 50 years since Anthony McCall’s groundbreaking Line Describing a Cone had its world premiere in Sweden. AVANT opens at Kristinehamn Art Museum with a screening of *Line Describing a Cone* and another of McCall’s so-called solid light films, *Conical Solid*. These two films on 16 mm are followed up with the digital revisits, *Line Describing a Cone 2.0* and *Doubling Back*. The opening night concludes with an artist talk between Anthony McCall, Greg Pope and Martin Grennberger. The program continues the following day in Karlstad at cinema Arenan with five short films, presenting McCall’s early performance work. These are followed by a live performance, by filmmaker Greg Pope and musician/sound artist Lasse Marhaug, *Film Describing a Screen*, made for a 35 mm projector. In the afternoon there will be a programme of the international network SPECTRAL in collaboration with Expanding North – films and live performances for 16 mm projectors by Gaëlle Rouard and a performance by Olivier Perriquet. AVANT has been organized since 2002 and the 18th edition is a collaboration between Kristinehamn Art Museum, SPECTRAL/Baltic Analog Lab, Expanding North Region Värmland and Stockholm University. AVANT2023 is sponsored by Karlstad Municipality, Region Värmland, Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Kristinehamn Art Museum, Creative Europe and Nordic Culture Point. --- Friday September 22 @ Kristinehamn Art Museum --- 18.30 GMT+2 Opening with Anthony McCall *Line Describing a Cone* (1973), 30’, 16 mm *Line Describing a Cone 2.0* (2010), 36’, digital *Conical Solid* (1974) 10’, 16 mm *Doubling Back* (2003l) 30’, digital (Total duration of the program is about 88 min.) Artist talk with Greg Pope, Martin Grennberger and Anthony McCall. --- Saturday September 23 @ Karlstad, Cinema Arenan --- 10.00 GMT+2 Anthony McCall: Performance works *Landscape for White Squares* (1972), 2’ *Earth Work* (1972), 2’ *Landscape for Fire* (1972), 7’ *Circulation Figures* (1972/2011), 2’ *Five-Minute Drawing* (1974/2008), 2’ extract 10.30 GMT+2 Greg Pope & Lasse Marhaug *Film Describing a Screen* (2023), 90’ Live Performance with 35 mm projector 12.30 GMT+2 Lunch 14.00 GMT+2 Gaëlle Rouard *Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright* (2022), 70’, 16 mm 15.30 GMT+2 Gaëlle Rouard Expanded *Unter* (2011), 20’, 16 mm *M …H* (2016), 36’, 16 mm 17.00 GMT+2 Olivier Perriquet *Cut noise* (2023). Live performance, 40’ *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Academy Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c44a4c736a&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 *The Tawdry Visions of George and Mike Kuchar* Special guest: Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Mike Kuchar. “George and Mike Kuchar’s films were my first inspiration… these were the pivotal films of my youth, bigger influences than Warhol, Kenneth Anger, even The Wizard of Oz. Here were directors I could idolize—complete crackpots without an ounce of pretension, outsiders to even ‘underground’ sensibilities who made exactly the films they wanted to make without any money, starring their friends.” – John Waters “The Kuchar brothers gave me the self-confidence to believe in my own tawdry vision.” – John Waters Twins George and Mike Kuchar were born in 1942, growing up in a working-class Bronx neighborhood where their frequent moviegoing represented a cathartic escape into a world of hyperbolic fantasy that felt totally alien in contrast to their daily surroundings. They began to make their own 8mm films as teenagers (first collaboratively, and soon after individually), producing numerous ambitious and elaborately designed mini-epics in eye-popping Kodachrome before Jonas Mekas and other New York experimental film denizens finally caught up with them in the mid-1960s. These films (and the hundreds more that followed) ooze with massive inspiration and creativity—not to mention infectious, often uproarious humor—and manage miraculously to be utterly earnest without naïveté and brilliantly satirical without a whiff of irony. Programmed and note by Academy Film Archive Senior Film Preservationist Mark Toscano. Total program runtime: 94 min. *Born of the Wind* DIRECTED BY: Mike Kuchar. 1962. 23 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. *A Town Called Tempest* DIRECTED BY: George Kuchar. 1963. 33 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. *The Craven Sluck* DIRECTED BY: Mike Kuchar. 1967. 23 min. USA. B&W. English. 16mm. Print courtesy of Anthology Film Archives. *Hold Me While I’m Naked* DIRECTED BY: George Kuchar. 1966. 15 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Print courtesy of Anthology Film Archives. Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. Theater accessibility accommodations available upon request. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Maysles Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d87ee9e96e&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY *An Evening with Bill Brand* Multi-media artist Bill Brand’s masterfully complex and recently restored 16mm film *Coalfields* (1984) weaves documentary content into a kinetic abstract visual poem about black lung disease, landscape and a struggle for worker’s rights in West Virginia. The film features the commissioned poetry of Kimiko Hahn and music of Earl Howard. Brand will show *Coalfields* along with other more recent films and give a brief presentation that connects his moving image work to his paintings and drawings while tracing his journey with analog and digital mediums from the 1970’s to the present. He will explain the optical printing techniques he innovated for *Coalfields* and discuss ideas that inform his unique visual language. Bill Brand is known for his public artwork *Masstransiscope*, an animated mural in the New York City subway on the Q and B line in Brooklyn. He is also a widely respected film preservationist and educator. His artwork is represented in Paris by Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre and in Brooklyn by Court Tree Collective. *Coalfields* (1984) 16mm, 38 minutes West Virginia industrial landscapes are collaged on an optical printer through a series of jagged shapes that transform the photographed scenes into a semi-abstract kinetic field. Woven into the fabric of the film is the story of Fred Carter, a retired coal miner and black lung activist who was framed by the Federal Government in its effort to undercut the black lung movement and to stop his bid for president of the United Mine Workers Association. His story is told through fragments of documentary interviews and by a poet whose narrative forms a counter theme within the film. The film’s thematic content and formal visualizations sit in precarious balance. Poem by Kimiko Hahn, Music by Earl Howard. *Susie’s Ghost* (2011) 16mm, 7 minutes About the mystery of the marks we make and leave behind. The “Susie” in the title refers to a deceased sibling but the "ghost" refers more generally to lingering feelings of loss. The cinematography and performance both express a tentative presence and diffuse sense of disappearance. Is she looking for something? Is she really there? The film was shot with aging 16mm film in filmmaker’s downtown Manhattan neighborhood, just before construction mania obliterated the last traces of the manufacturing district he’d moved into years earlier. Made in collaboration with Ruthie Marantz. *August Garden* (2019) Digital, 4 1/2 minutes Made for a Turtle exhibition organized in Paris by Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre. Turtle is a series of pop-up exhibitions conceptualized by the late artist Michael H. Shamberg who wished to create an ongoing, inclusive mobile sanctuary for artists. The Turtle name was inspired by a turtle sanctuary that emerged between two warring zones in the Middle East. *August Garden* forms a placid zone from colliding layers and views, celebrating the late summer sanctuary of the garden adjacent to filmmaker’s home in Queens, New York. *Ornithology 6* (2021) Digital, 8 1/2 minutes This is the latest in a series of short digital video works extending the visual idiom that Brand developed with analog film and optical printing in the 1970s and 80s. *Ornithology 6* is part of an ongoing series of painting, drawing and moving image works inspired by daily walks taken by the artist in his Jackson Heights, Queens neighborhood. The video is made for continuous loop presentation. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=394f78c79e&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *the short films of SIMON LIU* Simon Liu is a film artist who seeks to build a lyrical catalogue of the rapidly evolving psychogeography of his place of origin in Hong Kong through alternative documentary forms, abstract diary films, multi-channel video installations and 16mm projection performances. Liu’s work has been presented at film festivals and museums globally. The M+ Museum and MoMA recently acquired Liu’s Quadruple 16mm Projection Highview, along with other recent works, for their Permanent Collections. Liu is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a teacher at the Cooper Union School of Art, and a member of Negativeland; an artist-run film lab in Brooklyn. Liu is currently editing his first feature film. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7b82808790&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30pm ET + 8pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: KENNETH ANGER, PROGRAM 1 + 2* “Scandal, evil, violence, and Fascism, like Hollywood, are centers of fascination for Anger, and his films are the fields in which the dialectic of that fascination is played and fought.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM “All of [Anger’s] films have been evocations or invocations, attempting to conjure primal forces which, once visually released, are designed to have the effect of ‘casting a spell’ on the audience. […] Not a surrealist who puts blind faith in his own dream images and trusts his dreams to convey an ‘uncommon unconscious,’ Anger works predominantly in archetypal symbol. As the magus, he is the juggler of these symbols, just as in the Tarot, where the Magician is represented by the Juggler and is given the attribution of Mercury, the messenger.” –Carel Rowe, FILM QUARTERLY --- Program 1 @ 5:30pm ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75af1080a0&e=857b71a9cb> --- *FIREWORKS* (1947, 15 min, 16mm-to-35mm, b&w. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.) *PUCE MOMENT* (1949-70, 6 min, 16mm) *RABBIT’S MOON* (1950-70, 15 min, 35mm. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.) *EAUX D’ARTIFICE* (1953, 13 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 55 min. --- Program 2 @ 8pm ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be5b612d9a&e=857b71a9cb> --- *SCORPIO RISING* (1963, 30 min, 16mm) *KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS* (1965, 3 min, 16mm) *INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME* (1954-66, 38 min, 16mm) *INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER* (1969, 12 min, 16mm) “Anger’s myths address mass-erotic-consciousness through a barrage of notorious symbols. These often war with one another in Reichian power-trips of rape, will-power, fascism, and revolution. ‘I find ridiculous the idea of anyone being the leader,’ Anger has said. Pentagrams war with swastikas in *INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER*. Brando tortures Christ in *SCORPIO*, Shiva asserts absolute power over his guests in *PLEASURE DOME*. Historical heroes are reduced to pop-idols and history is demythified by comic book codes. ‘When earths collide, gods die.’” –Carel Rowe, FILM QUARTERLY Total running time: ca. 90 min *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b8e9fac638&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: BRUCE BAILLIE* *MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX* (1963-64, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) *QUIXOTE* (1964-65, 45 minutes, 16mm) “In *MASS* and *QUIXOTE* [Baillie] subtly blends glimpses of the heroic personae with despairing reflections on violence and ecological disaster. […] Despite his sophistication, Baillie remains an innocent; the whole of his cinema exhibits an alternation between two irreconcilable themes: the sheer beauty of the phenomenal world (few films are as graceful to the eye as his, few are as sure of their colors) and the utter despair of forgotten men. It is in *QUIXOTE* alone that these two themes emerge into a dialectical form, an antithesis of grace and disgrace.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 70 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=810bc87681&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=d7064b01c2&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=f875fcd3f9&e=857b71a9cb> . 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> . *Copyright © 2020 Flicker, All rights reserved.* Longtime recipient of This Week in Avant Garde Cinema
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