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*This Week [September 30 - October 8, 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=feba8af613&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) 09.30.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=50ed66deae&e=857b71a9cb> (9th Deadline) 10.01.2023 Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3337241328&e=857b71a9cb> 10.01.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a81ffc91ff&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.02.2023 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f9b87b23d7&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=b1889cc99f&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=9d918b07ec&e=857b71a9cb> (2022-23 Student Films ONLY) 10.31.2023 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=10aea1aa5a&e=857b71a9cb> (First Deadline) 11.01.2023 Alchemy Film and Moving Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8157410c3&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=8cddbe0338&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.30.2023 Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=85fc839d4d&e=857b71a9cb> 12.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2cb8a2d83d&e=857b71a9cb> 01.07.2024 Gravitational Lensing <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=648447d30d&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83b96e0f23&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Inheritance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=67bd2aefcb&e=857b71a9cb> [June 22, 2023-Feb 2024, New York, NY] - Alternative Visions <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ee500f003d&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6-November 15, Berkeley, CA] - SF PSYCHO-GEO2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=459166e296&e=857b71a9cb> [September 30, San Francisco, CA] - Stan Brakhage Programs <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2f0824916d&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1-8, New York, NY] - A Synesthete's Atlas + Some 3d Color/Light/Motion Experiments <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5fcd6b23b0&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1, Portland, ME] - A Synesthete's Atlas: Performing Cartography <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3120e2d82d&e=857b71a9cb> [October 2, Gorham, ME] - "Avant Barb(ie)" Group Screening of 16mm, Animations, and Video Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5db7ddb73&e=857b71a9cb> [October 2, New York, NY] - The Digital Landscapes of Vincent Grenier [October 3, Durham, NC] - Fragments of A Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c3aef75b8&e=857b71a9cb> [October 4-January 28, 2024, New York, NY] - From Inside of Here - Filmmaker In Person <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3603a1c0e2&e=857b71a9cb> [October 4-5, Seattle, WA] - VISIONS: Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour & Ryan Ferko <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68027ec77c&e=857b71a9cb> [October 5, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Bobby Zankel's Wonderful Sound, Upholstery & Veronica Mercedes Jurkiewicz/Carlos Santiago/Matt Engle/Eric Theise <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=996e32721c&e=857b71a9cb> [October 7, Philadelphia, PA] - The Soul of Cinema, Films By Dominic Angerame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=412f540a56&e=857b71a9cb> [October 7, San Francisco, CA] - The Mission Project <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1fb590d7f6&e=857b71a9cb> [October 7, San Francisco, CA] - Invasive Plants: A 16mm Collective Film By Le Ratoire <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c444b30181&e=857b71a9cb> [October 8, New York, NY] - A Synesthete's Atlas: Eric Theise, Jim Ryan, Darien Baiza / Tangent Universes <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=062da310ca&e=857b71a9cb> [October 8, Washington, DC] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74c3ff3648&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1fa9501f87&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SEPTEMBER 30, 2023* *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=1db7c52e0f&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=0046cb7f0f&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. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6fb9527866&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *SF PSYCHO-GEO2* ROURKE's SUTRO FLOWER TOWER + IVY/JOSH's UNDERCOMMONS + Our second Focus on Locus boasts a first half exclusively about our own Bay Area! Jeremy Rourke debuts an animation/music/performance hybrid on the history of Adolph Sutro and his eponymous *Tower*, and he also drops a dollop of knowledge 'bout the history of our very own ATA Gallery! ALSO Ivy McClelland (via video) and Josh Harper are both on board for a guided tour of the compilation tape anchoring their recent Adobe Books *UnderCommons* exhibition, of essential NorCal counter-culture. PLUS *People's Park* (Anthony Buchanan), *Folsom St. Fair* (James Hong), *Berkeley Mudflats *(Chris Marker), *Oakland Cemetery* (Kevin Deal?), *Bay Area Billboard Art *(David Heintz), and, yes, the *Bullitt* trailer (Steve McQueen). AND THEN: The second, “Exterior” part of the program promises the premiere of Karl (Godspeed You Black Emperor) Lemieux' uncanny *Quiet Zone*, ex-SF Andy Moore's expansive *Valley Fever*, Jeff Doyle's sublime *Window*, and Jake Parker Scott's fluid *Monterey Aquarium*. *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2023* *October 1 - 8* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1eb96179da&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *Stan Brakhage Programs* --- Oct 1 @ 5:45pm ET - EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 4 --- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT* (1958, 40 min, 16mm) *CAT’S CRADLE* (1959, 6 min, 16mm) *SIRIUS REMEMBERED* (1959, 12 min, 16mm) *THIGH LINE LYRE TRIANGULAR* (1961, 9 min, 16mm) *MOTHLIGHT* (1963, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *BLUE MOSES* (1963, 11 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) With *ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT*, Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the “closed-eye vision” period. This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a camera, *MOTHLIGHT*, and one of Brakhage’s few sound (and ‘acted’) films, *BLUE MOSES*. Total running time: ca. 85 min. --- Oct 1 @ 8pm ET - EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 5 --- All films are silent. *THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA* (1970, 29 min, 16mm) *THE MACHINE OF EDEN* (1970, 11 min, 16mm) *SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL* (1970, 7 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *ANGELS’* (1971, 2 min, 16mm) *DOOR* (1971, 4 min, 16mm) *WESTERN HISTORY* (1971, 8 min, 16mm) *THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM* (1971, 8 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 75 min. --- Oct 3 @ 6:45pm ET - EC: *DOG STAR MAN* --- 1961-64, 74 min, 16mm, silent “*DOG STAR MAN* elaborates in mythic, almost systematic terms, the worldview of [Brakhage’s] lyrical films. More than any other work of the American avant-garde film, it stations itself within the rhetoric of Romanticism, describing the birth of consciousness, the cycle of the seasons, man’s struggle with nature, and sexual balance in the visual evocation of a fallen titan bearing the cosmic name of the Dog Star Man.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM “The film breathes and is an organic and surging thing…it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in every variation of color.” –Michael McClure --- Oct 3 @ 8:45pm ET - EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 3 --- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *THE DEAD* (1960, 11 min, 16mm) *PASHT* (1965, 5 min, 16mm) *THREE FILMS: BLUEWHITE, BLOOD’S TONE, VEIN* (1965, 10 min, 16mm) *FIRE OF WATERS* (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) *THE HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN AND THE MOTH* (1968, 19 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min. --- Oct 4 @ 7pm ET - EC: Stan Brakhage *SONGS 1-14* --- 1964-65, ca. 53 min, 8mm-to-16mm, silent “*SONG 1*: Portrait of a lady. *SONGS 2 & 3*: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering. *SONG 4*: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. *SONG 5*: A childbirth song. *SONG 6*: The painted veil via moth-death. *SONG 7*: San Francisco. *SONG 8*: Sea creatures. *SONG 9*: Wedding source and substance. *SONG 10*: Sitting around. *SONG 11*: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches. *SONG 12*: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. *SONG 13*: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. *SONG 14*: Molds, paints and crystals.” –Stan Brakhage --- Oct 4 @ 8:45pm ET - EC: Stan Brakhage *SONGS 15-22* --- 1965-66, ca. 75 min, 8mm-to-16mm, silent “*SONG 15*: FIFTEEN SONG TRAITS: A series of individual portraits of friends and family – Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Ed Dorn, Jonas Mekas, others. *SONG 16*: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy. *SONGS 17 & 18*: The movie house cathedral and a singular room. *SONGS 19 & 20*: Women dancing and a light. *SONGS 21 & 22*: Two views of closed-eye vision.” –Stan Brakhage --- Oct 5 @ 7:30pm ET - EC: *23RD PSALM BRANCH* --- 1966, 95 min, 8mm-to-16mm “The furthest that Brakhage came in extending the language of 8mm cinema was his editing of *23RD PSALM BRANCH*... the phenomenal and painstaking craftsmanship of this film reflects the intensity of the obsession with which its theme grasped his mind. In 1966, out of confusion about the Vietnam War and the American reaction to it, Brakhage began to meditate on the nature of war... the fruit of his studies and thoughts was the longest and most important of the songs... it is an apocalypse of imagination.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM. --- Oct 6 @ 7:30pm ET - EC: Stan Brakhage *SONGS 24-29* --- *SONGS 24-26* (1967/85, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm) *MY MOUNTAIN: SONG 27* (1968, 25 min, 8mm-to-16mm) *MY MOUNTAIN: SONG 27: PART 2: RIVERS* (1969, 33 min, 8mm-to-16mm) *SONGS 28-29* (1966/86, 21 min, 8mm-to-16mm) “*SONGS 24 & 25*: A naked boy and flute song; a being about nature. *SONG 26*: a ‘conversation piece’ – a vis-à-visual, inspired by the (e)motional properties of talk: drone, bird-like twitterings, statement terror & bombast. *SONG 28*: Scenes as texture. *SONG 29*: A portrait of the artist’s mother.” –Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 100 min. --- Oct 7 @ 5:30pm ET - EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 10 --- *THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER* 1970, 35 min, 16mm *SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW* 1971, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE* 1972, 10 min, 16mm *THE WOLD-SHADOW* 1972, 3 min, 16mm *THE RIDDLE OF LUMEN* 1972, 14 min, 16mm *SINCERITY: REEL NO. 1* 1973, 27 min, 16mm Total running time: ca. 95 min. --- Oct 7 @ 8pm ET - EC: *THE TEXT OF LIGHT* --- 1974, 67 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “All that is, is light.” –Johannes Scotus Erigena “[Brakhage shot] *THE TEXT OF LIGHT* in (through) a large crystal ashtray. This magnificent film – a slow montage of iridescent splays of light and shifting landscapes of sheer color, which acknowledges debts to Turner and American Romantic landscape painters as well as to James Davis, the pioneer film-maker of light projections – is the culmination of Brakhage’s exploration of anamorphosis.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM --- Oct 8 @ 5:30pm - EC: *THE ART OF VISION* --- 1961-65, 261 min, 16mm, silent “Includes the complete *DOG STAR MAN* and a full extension of the singularly visible themes of it. Inspired by that period of music in which the word ‘symphonia’ was created and by the thought that the term, as then, was created to name the overlap and enmeshing of suites, this film presents the visual symphony that *DOG STAR MAN* can be seen as and also all the suites of which it is composed. But as it is a film, and a work of music, the above suggests only one of the possible approaches to it. For instance, as ‘cinematographer,’ at source, means ‘writer of movement,’ certain poetic analogies might serve as well. The form is conditioned by the works of art which have inspired *DOG STAR MAN*, its growth of form by the physiology and experiences (including experiences of art) of the man who made it. Finally, it must be seen for what it is.” –Stan Brakhage *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The Apohadion Theater <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=24a019d2cc&e=857b71a9cb> 7p doors, 7:30p event ET; 107 Hanover St, Portland, ME *A Synesthete's Atlas + Some 3D Color/Light/Motion Experiments* Cartographic Improvisations between Eric Theise and The Asthmatic Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with The Asthmatic (Sigrid Harmon), a one-woman band and sound collage artist. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Orphaned labels. Free-floating symbology. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches from crowdsourced data. This performance will last 50 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers. The evening opens with Some 3D Color/Light/Motion Experiments by Kerry Laitala >From candy apple light emissions to a whimsical tribute to an eye-popping burlesque, these moving image works tickle the retinas with their playful approach to discovery, exploring chromatic reveries through contrasting colors, pulsating light, and depth perception. Expanded structures create light trails in space, and recombine to seduce the senses. Chromadepth glasses will be lent to guests at the screening. Titles include *Nine Lives Measured in Mercury*, in Chromadepth 3D video, 2013. Soundtrack by Neal Johnson. *Afterimage: A Flicker of Life*, film/video hybrid in Chromadepth, 12 minutes, 2010. Soundtrack: collaboration between Wobbly and K. Laitala. *Orbit*, 16mm, 9 minutes, 2006. Hand-made soundtrack. https://erictheise.com https://linktr.ee/theasthmatic http://www.kerrylaitala.com *MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* University of Southern Maine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5b24dba0d&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30-8p ET, Russell Hall Theatre, 24 University Way, Gorham, ME *A Synesthete's Atlas: Performing Cartography* Since April 2022 Eric Theise has been manipulating projected digital maps in collaboration with improvising musicians in Europe and the United States. Constraining his project to use only web mapping technologies, A Synesthete's Atlas is his unique approach to expanded cinema, drawing strategies from experimental film & animation, the Light and Space movement, 1960s light shows, and visual poetry. Although he flippantly calls it "map jockeying", as the tools – and his skills in using them – evolve, the possibilities for expression continue to expand and surprise. This evening begins with a presentation about Carto-OSC, an assemblage of open source libraries, data, and protocols, plus 1000+ lines of creatively-coded JavaScript that integrates it all into a touch-surface control panel. Theise will discuss his motivations, his use of the Open Sound Control protocol to drive the manipulations, and offer aesthetic observations. Theise will be joined by The Asthmatic (Sigrid Harmon) for an abbreviated performance and extended Q & A. The performance will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers. This event is sponsored by the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, and the Department of Theatre at the University of Southern Maine. https://erictheise.com https://linktr.ee/theasthmatic *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=53bbf2e1d9&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/avant-barbie/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8fceb07bc4&e=857b71a9cb> *"Avant Barb(ie)" group screening of 16mm, animations, and video works* Works by Pierre Bennu, Ava Bogle, Penumbra Carter, Joe Gibbons, Vincent Grenier, Faith Holland, Jessy Jiao, Lauren Kelley, Lucretia Knapp, Susan Kouguell, Narcissister, and Addie Wagenknecht. In person & online screening. “Avant-Barb(ie)” acknowledges the many Barbie movies made before the release of the billion-dollar-grossing “Barbie” on July 21, 2023 — and in addition to the well-known “Superstar” by Todd Haynes, which is not included here — as this single doll has a long, consistent history of providing inspiration for artists to make work, in many cases that break with or mark a turning point in their practice. Using a Barbie doll as herself or in the role of a main character, the works in the program interrogate, subvert, or dismantle the stereotypes surrounding the doll, women, sex, gender roles, as well as offer wide commentary on American society and culture, even while considering the act of playing with dolls as an enjoyable, social or empathic tool. *Access and tickets for online available starting at 7PM day of show at link above and viewable for 72 hours.* *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Experimental Film Society* 7pm ET, Duke University, Classroom Building, Screening Room 103, Durham, NC *The Digital Landscapes of Vincent Grenier* The Duke Experimental Film Society will be screening a collection of films by Vincent Grenier: *Color Study* (2000, 4:30) *Les Chaises* (2008, 8:40) *Burning Bush* (2010, 9:20) *Travelogue* (2010, 8:00) *Intersection* (2012-2015, 7:00) *Watercolor* (2013, 12:37) *Commute* (2018, 6:00) *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2023* *10/4 through 1/28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Whitney Museum of American Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=277cee34bd&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY *Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith* Member Previews, Sept 28–Oct 2 Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024 Harry Smith (1923–1991), was a painter, filmmaker, folklorist, musicologist, and collector as well as a radical nonconformist whose work defies categorization. Although his creative output includes paintings, films, poetry, music, and sound recordings, it also consists of extensive collections of overlooked yet revealing objects, such as string figures and found paper airplanes. His best-known work, a compilation of recordings from the 1920s and 1930s titled the *Anthology of American Folk Music*, achieved cultlike status among many musicians and listeners since it was first published in 1952. *Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith* puts the artist's life on display alongside his art and collections. It follows him from an isolated Depression-era childhood in the Pacific Northwest—a time when he was immersed in ecstatic religious philosophies and Native American ceremony—to his bohemian youth of marijuana, peyote, and intellectualism in postwar Berkeley, California. The exhibition also traces his path through the milieus of bebop and experimental cinema in San Francisco to his decades in New York, where he was an essential part of the city's avant-garde fringe. Keenly attuned to changing technology, Smith embraced innovation and used whatever was new and of the moment. At the same time, his lifelong interest in abstract art, ancient traditions, metaphysics, spiritualism, folk art, and world music came to the fore even as he devised ingenious ways of collecting sounds and creating films. These concerns make Smith's work feel increasingly prescient as collecting and sharing come into view as creative acts that are necessary for drawing meaning from the glut of images and juxtaposition of cultures we encounter every day. *___________________________________________________________________* *October 4 - 5* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Northwest Film Forum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9db7e12c1a&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm (PDT), 1515 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122 *From Inside of Here - Filmmaker in person* Bill Basquin, US, 2020, 1h 23m *From Inside of Here* is a feature-length film meditation on vulnerability and interconnection through the lens of an ecosystem and through the body of the filmmaker. The film unfolds slowly and is trusting of its audience, using multiple digital and analog formats (16mm film, HD video, infrared stills, inter-titles, and sound recordings) to construct meaning as much from what isn't said as what is. Basquin structured the filming of *From Inside of Here* around a series of camping trips to the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, which is the site for the reintroduction of the endangered Mexican Grey Wolf. *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00e0bb0ead&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm & 9pm ET, La lumière collective 7080, rue Alexandra, #506, Montréal [QC], Canada *VISIONS: PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR, FARAZ ANOUSHAHPOUR & RYAN FERKO* VISIONS, in collaboration with Main film, presents a double programme with Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour & Ryan Ferko at la lumière collective! 16mm & digital projection | artists in attendance | @ la lumière collectiveProjection numérique | En présence des artistes | @ la lumière collective 19H00 | The films of PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR, FARAZ ANOUSHAHPOUR & RYAN FERKO 21H00 | SERPENT RIVER A programme of shorts curated by PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR, FARAZ ANOUSHAHPOUR & RYAN FERKO [With films by : Sandra Lahire & Wesli Day] *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Fire Museum Presents at The Perch <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d79042e3e1&e=857b71a9cb> 8p ET, 2321 Emerald St, Philadelphia, PA *Bobby Zankel’s Wonderful Sound, Upholstery & Veronica Mercedes Jurkiewicz/Carlos Santiago/Matt Engle/Eric Theise : A Benefit for Fire Museum Presents* A benefit concert for Fire Museum Presents - give what you can. No one turned away for lack of funds. Bobby Zankel began playing music at an early age, soon favoring the alto saxophone. After studying at the University of Wisconsin, he attended Berklee College Of Music, then went on to attain a BA degree from Empire State College (State University of New York). In the early 70s, he attracted favorable attention during a spell with Cecil Taylor’s Unit Core Ensemble. Concurrently, Zankel’s reputation spread within the adventurous New York loft scene owing to performances with Ray Anderson, Sunny Murray, William Parker and others. From 1975, Zankel became resident in Philadelphia where he raised his family meanwhile becoming a respected and in-demand sideman with many artists, notably those associated with the city’s thriving jazz scene. Groups he was with in these years, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, include the Hank Mobley -Sonny Gillete Quintet, Jymmie Merritt’s Forerunners, Odean Pope’s Saxophone Choir, and Ruth Naomi Floyd. He continued to work with Taylor, including visiting Europe. As a performer, Zankel delivers intricate virtuoso bop playing with an intensely emotional core. Zankel was also continuing with his studies, now with Dennis Sandole, becoming a skilled and significant composer. As leader and sideman he has appeared at numerous festivals. His compositions have been performed by Lester Bowie, Coles, Marilyn Crispell, Pope, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and others. Performing with Bobby in Wonderful Sound are Nazir Ebo (drums) and Sumi Tonooka (piano). Upholstery creates original works for stage, film, and stereos. The ensemble draws on a wide range of musical influences - from Portishead to Talking Heads, cabaret to post-punk - while striving to create music that is visceral and thought-provoking. Veronica Mercedes Pazymiño Jurkiewicz is an instrumentalist, vocalist, educator, and curator based in Philadelphia. She is drawn to sound involving the intersection of experimental, improvisational, and traditional practice; has a passion for creating and realizing diverse types of artistic programs and communal art experiences; and is an active member of the avant-garde music scene in Philadelphia. A versatile musician, Veronica shape-shifts as both a violinist and violist as well as between many different genres and languages within music. As the violist of the Bismuth String Quartet, Veronica is actively curating and programming collaborative, multi-disciplinary projects as well as performing new/experimental music. Carlos Santiago was born and raised in Philadelphia and was educated at The Hartt School of Music and Temple University. Approaching music from multiple standpoints, Carlos has relished performing in a wide variety of musical settings and styles such as the multi - disciplinary Bismuth String Quartet, the complex mathematical compositions of the rock band Normal Love, soloing with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, playing Tango, Salsa, and Afro-Caribbean jazz with Sonic Liberation Front, or Roma jazz with BeauDjango. Past teachers include John Blake, Diane Monroe, Yusef Lateef, Adolf Sandole, Louis Lanza, and Nicholas Mann. Sharing the unity of all of these types of music is the driving force behind his passion for sonic exploration. Matt Engle grew up in the Philadelphia area and has been an active member of the creative and improvised music scene for over 20 years. He has contributed to many varying musical situations and has previously performed with Dan Blacksberg, Bobby Zankel, Sonic Liberation Front, Shot By Shot, Jarrett Gilgore, Dave Liebman, Marshall Allen, Jaimie Branch, Elliot Levin, Anthony Pirog, Raymond King, David Middleton, Muhammad Ali, Oliver Lake, Tim Berne, Thurman Barker, and Brandon Seabrook among many others. Eric Theise: Real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps, in collaboration with local musicians or other time-based artists. Evenings of street grids, rivers, islands, and curiosities from the built environment. Saturated colors. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology. Raffle prizes donated by Fireball Printing, Random Tea Room, Martha, Great Circles, Philadelphia Record Exchange, Brickbat Books, Lot 49 Books, Pom Pom Philly and more tba! accessibility: two steps from street to venue. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Roxie Theater <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3aa35c144d&e=857b71a9cb> 1:30PM PT, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA *The Soul of Cinema, films by Dominic Angerame* With live music by Kevin Barnard *Continuum* (1986), 17min *The Soul of Thing*s (2018), 14min *Revelations* (2018), 22min *Prometheus* (2021), 4min *Flashbacks* (2021), 5min *Have Another Espresso* (2020), 3min *Khorosho* (2022), 4min *Luminae* (2022), 4min *War Zone* (tba, Work in Progress), 6min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e740659cd3&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *THE MISSION PROJECT* SHAPING SAN FRANCISCO's 25th B-DAY BASH! OC is overjoyed to host the 25th Birthday celebration of our stalwart Mission District cohort Shaping SF! We’ve been privileged to witness the birth and continued growth of this enlightened Psycho-Geographic org, and tonight we're collaborating on a program that is in fact ON our shared neighborhood! Amidst the cake, snacks and drinks, the much-beloved Vero Majano steps forward with a slate of of films and videos that serve as compelling testimonies to the wrenching changes in the 'hood over the past half-century, starting with Ray Balberan’s little-seen Blame It on the Reds. PLUS Vero’s own I Reminisce, Al Hernandez' That Mission Rising, a chapter from the film based on Michelle Tea's Valencia, Viva 16, and A Young Girl’s Poem. We round out the evening with Sabrina Alonso’s Mischief at 16th and Florida. Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott are also in the house to reflect on a quarter-century of their indispensable research, writings, and guided tours. *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3a8fc2d92e&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 pm ET, 525 W 29th St, 2nd Floor, 10001, New York, NY *Invasive Plants: A 16mm collective film by Le Ratoire* NYC premiere of the 16mm film *Invasive Plants* by Le Ratoire, a filmmaking collective composed of members from two film labs based in France, namely: Katherine Bauer, Joyce Lainé, and Loïc Verdillon, from Atelier MTK in Grenoble, and Léa Lanoë, and Pierre Borel from Labo L’argent in Marseille. Described by the collective as “a canoe odyssey down the Hudson River,” *Invasive Plants* is a 16mm film shot over the course of three weeks – between August 28 and September 18, 2023 – by the artists as they travel from Troy to New York City on the Hudson River and live alongside it. The images they collect on film — of animals, people, vegetation, industrial and natural landscapes, etc. — are developed at night using the invasive plants they encounter and the river’s water to process the film. Le Ratoire, a name that in French hints at both the words “lab” and “failure,” is a group of artists coming together with the proposition of making a movie from start to finish almost as a single act, as a joint organism, often with any materials they have at their disposal, and in extremely little time. About their methodology for filmmaking the artists explain: “each film is defined by a particular set of parameters; both technical and, especially, situational.” The screening includes four additional hand-processed 16mm films for both single and double projection, completed between 2019 and 2022 by the collective. The five artists will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Rhizome DC <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0eb5ba9713&e=857b71a9cb> Doors: 7p, Show: 7:30p ET, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC *A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise, Jim Ryan, and Darien Baiza / Tangent Universes* Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with Darien Baiza, drums, and Jim Ryan, winds and small percussion. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Driving beats. Orphaned labels and free-floating symbology. Auditory roundabouts and redirections. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches in crowdsourced data. This performance will last approximately 50 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers. Opening set by Tangent Universes. Since its Lisbon premiere in April 2022, Eric Theise has performed *A Synesthete's Atlas* in collaboration with local musical improvisors in dozens of East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain cities. He combines visual strategies from experimental film & animation, the Light and Space movement, 1960's light shows, and visual poetry with open source software and open data to create digital maps that behave in ways never anticipated by their developers. Theise's performances have been described as anti-cinema, post-cinema, and pre-cinema, as well as truly radical cartography. Theise's East Coast tour will begin in Portland, Maine, and continue south and west, intersecting with the North American Cartographic Information Society's annual meeting in Pittsburgh and the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial in Baltimore. Just prior to his Rhizome DC appearance, which will reunite him with Jim Ryan and Darien Baiza, he'll perform in a benefit for Philadelphia's Fire Museum Presents. He takes great pleasure in performing for an audience made up of cartographers plus enthusiasts of expanded cinema, avant garde music, and experimental typography. https://erictheise.com https://tangentuniverses.bandcamp.com *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bea5a7f20e&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=9ad0a4ea81&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=a9aacf6d40&e=857b71a9cb> . 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