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*This Week [October 7 - 15, 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=0cfd6ffc45&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) 10.15.2023 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f636962da7&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=8a5fc0c051&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=86667f3bc8&e=857b71a9cb> (First Deadline) 11.01.2023 Alchemy Film and Moving Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e9cf7ccca&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2023 Experiments in Cinema <https://www.experimentsincinema.org/> 11.06.2023 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=197c02b0ba&e=857b71a9cb> 11.10.2023 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7970208361&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.30.2023 Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=858bd8cf74&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1a77459329&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 12.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f4dafe70a7&e=857b71a9cb> 01.07.2024 Gravitational Lensing <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1a8e4c8963&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1d016f640&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=50fd1a14fb&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=cd26ee6471&e=857b71a9cb> [June 22, 2023-Feb 2024, New York, NY] - Alternative Visions <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=09d43e95e9&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6-November 15, Berkeley, CA] - Stan Brakhage Programs <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c4ef5fca86&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1-8, New York, NY] - Fragments of A Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8820f8665&e=857b71a9cb> [October 4-January 28, 2024, New York, NY] - Ephraim Asili Song For My Mother <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b47a6b0a3f&e=857b71a9cb> [October 5-January 28, 2024, Brooklyn, NY] - 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=1bd56f06ec&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=f1646d52f3&e=857b71a9cb> [October 7, San Francisco, CA] - The Mission Project <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4f6a5366dd&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=ca26e63894&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=7c79184e37&e=857b71a9cb> [October 8, Washington, DC] - Festival of (In)Appropriation 2023 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a481590e54&e=857b71a9cb> [October 11, Berkeley, CA] - Fantasmagoria: A Night of Ghostly Magic Lanterns <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5b7f547025&e=857b71a9cb> [October 12, Brooklyn, NY] - Hail Lucifer! Remembering Kenneth Anger <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d0f9cc951&e=857b71a9cb> [October 12, San Francisco, CA] - Underground Art-Stars <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=689b448a8f&e=857b71a9cb> [October 14, San Francisco, CA] - A Synesthete's Atlas: Eric Theise And Trē Seguritan Abalos <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=16fe2a5808&e=857b71a9cb> [October 14, Pittsburgh, PA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ddfd77afc6&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=583f8ae72e&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE OCTOBER 7, 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=63c6fbde4f&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=1ac0539a01&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *October 1 - 8* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=08632b0a3f&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 *___________________________________________________________________* *October 4 - January 28, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Whitney Museum of American Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=79ea5f7eaf&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 5 - January 28, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Amant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=977dc98dd4&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, visit website Amant, Géza, 306 Maujer, Brooklyn, NY *Ephraim Asili Song for My Mother* Working across mediums, Ephraim Asili weaves together fragments of popular culture and personal narrative to tell stories that situate individuals and the ideas that inform them within broader historical contexts. In *Song for My Mother* (2023), a new three-channel film installation, Ephraim takes inspiration from his own story and charts a process of ancestral awakening that arose out of a period of tremendous personal loss. By layering gathered footage from across various sites, including unscripted interviews and performances arising from chance encounters with members of the BCU community, with archival materials and other cultural iconography, the installation functions as a historical journey that crosses and connects space and time to the past, present and future. By relocating the personal within a wider context of what Ephraim calls “Black radical collectivity,” *Song for My Mother* establishes a dialogue with his first feature film *The Inheritance* (2020), a semi-fictional documentary that follows the inner workings of a Black Marxist commune in Philadelphia. Working in tandem, both films explore the nature of the collective, from the interpersonal to the institutional, within the Black American experience and its importance in establishing and maintaining safe spaces for Black people to think outside of the constant reminders of a racist society. *Song for My Mother* is part of Rituals of Speaking, a film-led series that explores how artists represent the voices of others through collective storytelling. *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=bd1361bafe&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=0ebd6d1a14&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=3aae458fc7&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=0c9a321853&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=f01b059207&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://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fa6ba93f1b&e=857b71a9cb> https://tangentuniverses.bandcamp.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a4b3454976&e=857b71a9cb> *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4a011c6ea3&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 PM PT, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA *Festival of (In)appropriation 2023* Founded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is an international showcase for experimental found media, film, and video. Every year, the festival attracts artists working across an astonishing array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of collage, remix, détournement, mash-up, and more. The raw material for these works derives from the abundant new sources of audiovisual media to have surfaced in recent decades, from official state and commercial archives to vernacular collections, home movie repositories, and digital databases of every stripe. By exploiting and refashioning these preexisting materials, the creations generate novel juxtapositions and recombinations, often producing ideas and meanings that were unintended or unimagined by the original makers. These remarkable works, in other words, are “inappropriate” in the profoundest sense of the term. *Tulipomania: You Had to Be There*, Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray, United States, 2022 *Headspace*, Sophia Haboush, United States, 2023 *Collage 42*, Luis Carlos Rodriguez, Spain, 2022 *Her Violet Kiss*, Bill Morrison, United States, 2021 *Time Scraps: Film Threads and Sprocket Holes*, Krista Leigh Steinke, United States, 2023 *Date Night*, Jean-Pierre Marchant, Canada, 2023 *Queen of Dots*, Michael Lyons, Japan, 2020 *Motor*, Grzegorz Kielawski, Alexander Bayer, Austria, 2023 *Dreams Under Confinement*, Christopher Harris, United States, 2020 *Another Set of Jaws*, Jean-Pierre Marchant, Canada, 2023 *OilMoonNight*, Anna Malina Zemlianski, Germany, 2022 *Home*, Yasaman Baghban, Iran, 2020 *A Heated Exchange*, Jean-Pierre Marchant, Canada, 2023 *Skyscraper Film*, Federica Foglia, Italy, 2023 *Cupid’s Fever*, MilleFeuille, Canada, 2021 *Long Time No Techno*, Eugenia Bakurin, Germany, 2022 *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Morbid Anatomy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4effc234dc&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Church of the Ascension, 127 Kent St, Brooklyn, NY *Fantasmagoria: A Night of Ghostly Magic Lanterns* Join us at the beautiful Church of the Ascension as we conjure the spirits of pre-cinema, with a unique performance of Dawn Elliot and Joel Schlemowitz’s Phantasmagoria. Our evening will start with short lecture on the historical roots of Fantasmagoria, followed by the short film *Phantasmagories: The Dark Side of the Light* by Ronni Thomas, introduced by the director himself. The short film presents the work of scholar Mervyn Heard exploring the Phantasmagoria shows of the 18th century, performances that utilized the new Magic Lantern technology to create moving ghost shows that invoked fear and panic in spectators. Next, we’ll turn out all the lights and travel to 18th century Paris with Elliot and Schlemowitz’s Phantasmagoria, an eerie and entertaining magic lantern show using hand-painted glass slides, inspired by the original Fantasmagorie of Etienne-Gaspard Robertson. It is an unearthly experience of projected imagery and arcane-yet-innovative visual effects. Magic lanternists Dawn Elliott and Joel Schlemowitz have constructed—and perform with—a “fantascope” magic lantern projector on wheels, using wooden track and rear projection screen to make the image grow and shrink in size, along with hand-painted glass slides, opaque “megascope” projections, and live theatrical sound effects, to resurrect the singular experience of the Fantasmagorie. The Phantasmagoria’s repertoire includes a visit to a haunted graveyard, the damnation of St. Bruno, The Death of Lord Littleton, the tale of St. Dennis and the Devil, and an invocation of the Devil at a Witches’ Sabbath. The show includes a glimpse behind the curtain to reveal the workings of phantasmagoria’s inventions and techniques. Elliott and Schlemowitz’s Phantasmagoria has received the Dick Balzer Performance Award from the Magic Lantern Society UK. More info at https://www.magiclanternexhibition.com/phantasmagoria <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=915d0af47f&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8e40588983&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, CounterPulse, 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA *HAIL LUCIFER! REMEMBERING KENNETH ANGER* This program is presented at CounterPulse as part of CounterPulse Festival 2023 "Lucifer is the angel of light, a sunbeam […] the patron saint of movies, the light behind the lens." — Kenneth Anger* The cinema of filmmaker Kenneth Anger (1927–2023) is the cinema of ritual, incantation and magic. Deeply influenced by the spectacle and glamor of classical Hollywood cinema, the playfully profound conjurial cinema of George Méliès and the esoteric occultism of Aleister Crowley, Anger’s oeuvre manifests a darkly shimmering cinematic netherworld populated by New Age deities and fetishistic avatars of 20th Century pop. Wildly kinetic, exploding with delirious color and ecstatic subversions of popular music, Anger’s work is generally considered to be one of the avant-garde progenitors of the music video and to this day remains perennially popular and influential while maintaining a focused, even disturbing undercurrent of dark mysticism, eroticism and danger. This memorial screening includes five selections from Anger’s legendary Magick Lantern Cycle (1947–1980), a complex series of films exploring themes of transformation, adornment, personal alchemy and arcane ritual in the context of mid-20th Century American youth culture. Screening to include *Scorpio Rising*, Anger’s 1963 motorboy masterpiece of religious idolatry and leather fetishism; Scorpio’s lesser-known hot rod companion piece *Kustom Kar Kommandos* (1965); *Invocation of My Demon Brother* (1969), a dark embodiment of 1960s nihilism featuring Charles Manson-ite Bobby Beausoleil and a electro-noise soundtrack by Mick Jagger; the astonishingly assertive queer teenage fever dream *Fireworks* (1947); and the moonstruck commedia dell’arte-inspired *Rabbit’s Moon* (1950/1972). (Steve Polta) At the heart of his practice was the fundamental, mind-expanding power of the film medium, a power absent in the genres of mainstream cinema practices. Anger considered cinematographic projection a psychosocial ritual capable of unleashing physical and emotional energies. The artist saw film as nothing less than a spiritual medium, a conveyer of spectacular alchemy that transforms the viewer. (Sprüth Magers Gallery) *Kenneth Anger interviewed by Roland Baker: “The Trials Of Lucifer”, published October 28, 1976 in the SoHo Weekly News. Content Note: A lifelong occultist, Kenneth Anger’s filmmaking explores the intersections of ritual, esoteric spirituality, violence, sexuality and pop culture. As such, some films on this program feature imagery and symbolism which might be disturbing to some viewers. *Fireworks* (1947); 16mm, b&w, sound, 15 minutes *Rabbit’s Moon* (1950/1972); 16mm, color, sound 16 minutes *Kustom Kar Kommandos* (1965); 16mm, color, sound, 4 minutes *Invocation of My Demon Brother* (1969); 16mm, color, sound, 11 minutes *Scorpio Rising* (1963); 16mm, color, sound, 29 minutes TRT 75 minutes *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6877857c4a&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *UNDERGROUND ART-STARS* MARIE LOSIER:FELIX + KUCHARs:WENDEL SAMSON + Outrageous, energized, and oh so campy, Marie Losier's loving portraits of world- famous artists and performers have long delivered deliciously on the international festival circuit, but now we're specially blessed with her spunky esprit IN PERSON, as she's just arrived in town for her 6-week Residents shoot. In the first iteration of OC's ELECTRONICA TRIFECTA, tonight she'll share her newest bouillabaisse about OC fave Felix Kubin, a genius German musical prankster profiled in all his glorious goofiness! AND Marie is joined onstage by none Other than Mike Kuchar, not only the subject of her *Bird Bath, and Beyond*, but also the inspired cine artiste behind the ever more relevant sexual-identity puzzler *The Secret of Wendel Samson*, starring Red Grooms! AND dearly departed Kuchar twin George remains present in our hearts and minds via Marie's momento mori *Electrocute your Stars*. Free Bud Lites to support their trans stance! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pittsburgh Sound + Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ac3702e546&e=857b71a9cb> Doors 7:30p, Show 8p ET, Creative Coffee & Supply, 309 Smithfield St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Trē Seguritan Abalos* Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with Trē Seguritan Abalos improvising soundscapes with flutes, samples, and looping electronics. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. A sonic wash of winds. Orphaned labels and free-floating symbology. Elusive melodic lines. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Rhythmic textures. 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. 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. NACIS, the North American Cartographic Information Society, brings its annual meeting to the Sheraton/Station Square from 11-14 October 2023. Dovetailing lecture and performance, Theise will speak in the meeting's session, Outside the Neatline: Maps in Any Medium on Thursday, 12 October at 4p, and perform with Trē Seguritan Abalos at Creative Coffee & Supply on Saturday, 14 October at 8p. Nothing can surpass an audience made up of cartographers plus enthusiasts of expanded cinema, avant garde music, and experimental typography. https://erictheise.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c19ecd9bf9&e=857b71a9cb> https://www.theresaabalos.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=796c03cda7&e=857b71a9cb> *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=06ccd6e36b&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=d2f398a13e&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=174ff303ec&e=857b71a9cb> . 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