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*This Week [November 4 - 12, 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=e0feca080f&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) 11.05.2023 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=270bf335c8&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 11.05.2023 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=473f4b9261&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.06.2023 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aecf154ea2&e=857b71a9cb> 11.08.2023 Alchemy Film and Moving Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=238c974dac&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.10.2023 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83e66036fd&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.15.2023 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bb0c3bf748&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.24.2023 Crescent City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b13b12f0de&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.30.2023 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=94670b6cdd&e=857b71a9cb> (Second Deadline) 11.30.2023 Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d88a931c69&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6db9a78ed0&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.30.2023 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=28a3b9b494&e=857b71a9cb> 12.01.2023 ICDOCS - Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=90d622ee65&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 12.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=efbfd344b8&e=857b71a9cb> 01.07.2024 Gravitational Lensing <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d8a3b4ed8&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1475530162&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ee546c3aaa&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=8631e2a2a6&e=857b71a9cb> [June 22, 2023-Feb 2024, New York, NY] - Alternative Visions <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7c2a76d676&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6-November 15, Berkeley, CA] - Fragments of A Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=122231bd77&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=1c0251ca77&e=857b71a9cb> [October 5-January 28, 2024, Brooklyn, NY] - Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=65ce8db7ca&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1-4, Seattle, WA] - EC: Buñuel / Dalí <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0114595c6e&e=857b71a9cb> [November 4, New York, NY] - EC: L’âge D’or <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f98caf438a&e=857b71a9cb> [November 4+14, New York, NY] - Resisting Paradise <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6a2483c436&e=857b71a9cb> [November 4, New York, NY] - Fragments For A Future <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ed075809d&e=857b71a9cb> [November 4, San Francisco, CA] - EC: Los Olvidados <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=44f60f9edf&e=857b71a9cb> [November 5+14, New York, NY] - Lauren Kelley: True Falsettos, In Person & Online Screening <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ae3758083&e=857b71a9cb> [November 6-9, New York, NY + online] - “Lost And Found, You Still Remain There”: A Phil Solomon Retrospective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e9ebbda726&e=857b71a9cb> [November 7-9, New York, NY] - Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aeda612a38&e=857b71a9cb> [November 7-11, Detroit, MI, US & Windsor, ON, Canada] - What Was A Memory? What Was A Dream?: Experimental Films <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dea4b3c669&e=857b71a9cb> [November 8, Berkeley, CA] - Salon Hannes Schüpbach Film And Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ee72bea11&e=857b71a9cb> [November 8, New York, NY] - Hannes Schüpbach <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83633015fb&e=857b71a9cb> [November 11, New York, NY] - Doors of Perception <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=36acd7dfc4&e=857b71a9cb> [November 11, San Francisco, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6dbd31f8fb&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f0408b870a&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE NOVEMBER 4, 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=41e2a87caf&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=2877cd0eb3&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 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=ea1c44d470&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=c7a8012d42&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 1 - 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Interbay Cinema Society <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fd4d415fc3&e=857b71a9cb> 4:30 PT, 1515 12h Avenue, Seattle, WA 98112 *Engauge Experimental Film Festival* Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film, the 6th Engauge Experimental Film Festival celebrates sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film, presenting seven programs of shorts and one feature over the course of four nights at NWFF’s cinema in Capitol Hill. All work featured in the festival originates on film stock. The festival features a solo show by San Francisco-based filmmaker Greta Snider, and Lori Goldston and friends’ live score for a 16mm print of Anacortes-born, Beat Generation filmmaker Harry Smith’s feature *Heaven and Earth Magic*. *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=009d772a91&e=857b71a9cb> 3:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: BUÑUEL / DALÍ* Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí *UN CHIEN ANDALOU* (1928, 22 min, 35mm, b&w) Twenty-two minutes of pure, scandalous dream-imagery, a stream of images from which anything that could be given a rational meaning was rigorously excluded. It remains the unsurpassed masterpiece of the surrealist cinema. Luis Buñuel *LAND WITHOUT BREAD / LAS HURDES: TIERRA SIN PAN* (1932, 28 min, 35mm, b&w. With English narration.) “A documentary describing, matter-of-factly, a region of Spain so ravaged by epidemic poverty that there our worst fantasies find their objective correlative.” –Raymond Durgnat Total running time: ca. 55 min. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 4 + 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2847fe488d&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: L’ÂGE D’OR* Nov 4 @ 5:30pm ET + Nov 14 @ 6:30pm ET *L’ÂGE D’OR* by Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, In French with English subtitles, 1930, 73 min, 35mm, b&w “The story is a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy.” – Luis Buñuel *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=35d6e60ff4&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *RESISTING PARADISE* In collaboration with Company Gallery, Shasha Movies and Anthology present a special screening of Barbara Hammer’s *RESISTING PARADISE* and Nour Ouayda’s *ONE SEA, 10 SEAS*. By contextualizing Ouayda’s film within the formally rigorous praxis of Barbara Hammer, we initiate a discussion on image production and protest, and the political aesthetics of video today. Founded by Róisín Tapponi in 2020, Shasha Movies is the independent streaming service and distributor for South-West Asian and North African (SWANA) film and video. To watch our films and further work by Ouyada, please visit: shashamovies.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=36536daca5&e=857b71a9cb> / @shashamovies <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ca25aa9ff&e=857b71a9cb> Nour Ouayda, *ONE SEA, 10 SEAS / عشرة بحور وبحر واحد* 2019, 42 min, digital. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. There are all in all eight tapes dating from 2014 to 2018, each containing footage of the Mediterranean Sea, more precisely a small section of the coast around Beirut. Three women examine the recorded images and sounds, looking for traces of what they call “apparitions”. Barbara Hammer, *RESISTING PARADISE* 2003, 80 min, 16mm-to-digital. With thanks to Company Gallery and the Barbara Hammer Estate for providing exhibition copy. “Renowned documentarian and filmmaker Barbara Hammer has crafted an eloquent and richly layered examination of the artist’s and individual’s role in times of conflict. *RESISTING PARADISE* focuses on Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard’s artistic work in the south of France during World War II, while also examining the work of Matisse’s family and others in the French Resistance Movement.” –Maria-Christina Villaseñor, GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Total running time: ca. 125 min. This screening will be introduced by Róisín Tapponi and filmmaker Brydie O’Connor. O'Connor's film *LOVE, BARBARA* (2022) is a short documentary about the iconic legacy of Barbara Hammer, through the lens and love of her partner of over 30 years, Florrie Burke. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c6e904c8d4&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *FRAGMENTS FOR A FUTURE* ZOE BELOFF: AGEE + CHAPLIN + BRECHT Zoe Beloff IN PERSON!: A trilogy of works reimagining the unrealized Hollywood projects of three radical 20th Century artists. In 1930, Sergei Eisenstein pitched a science-fiction film *Glass House* to Paramount Pictures, its theme is the architecture of surveillance. Eleven years later, Bertolt Brecht arrived in Los Angeles, where he wrote notes for a film *A Model Family in a Model Home*, inspired by a Life Magazine article about a farm family who win a week’s stay in a model home at the Ohio State Fair. In 1947 writer and film critic James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero, Charlie Chaplin. Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Agee imagined New York destroyed. In the ruins, Chaplin’s Little Tramp builds a shack in Central Park. Agee's was a thought experiment about how one might start again in the aftermath of disaster, to go beyond capitalism in the face of our modern technological world. Together, these films portray an alternative history of what might have happened had these figures manned the dream factory for a shift. *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2023* *November 5 + 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ebcd08c94&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: LOS OLVIDADOS* November 5 @ 4pm ET, November 14 @ 8:30pm ET *LOS OLVIDADOS (THE FORGOTTEN ONES)* by Luis Buñuel, In Spanish with English subtitles, 1950, 88 min, 35mm, b&w “Buñuel shows the sad condition of the poor without embellishing them, because if there is one thing Buñuel hates it is that artificial sweetness imparted to all the poor which we so frequently see in the traditional film. If, as usually happens in motion pictures, the moral principals approved by conventional society are carefully observed by members of the poorest classes…then these principals have some universal validity. However, Buñuel is concerned with exposing the opposite.” –Emilio Garcia Riera, FILM CULTURE “[*LOS OLVIDADOS*] lashes the mind like a red-hot iron and leaves one’s conscience no opportunity to rest.” –André Bazin *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2023* *November 6 - 9* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4d69d3850c&e=857b71a9cb> Nov 6 @ 7:30pm ET, 525 W. 29th Street, 2nd Floor Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/lauren-kelley-true-falsettos/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=77535f5a3a&e=857b71a9cb> *Lauren Kelley: True Falsettos, In Person & Online screening* Artist in Person Nov 6. Lauren Kelley’s short works on the program, and made between 2006-2021, encapsulate stories — at times poetic, other essayistic, contemplative, or humorous — from everyday characters with often starkly divergent aspirations, problems, and lifestyles. Within these works, all of which are under seven minutes in length, Kelley distills what in other hands would require a feature-length movie plot into painstakingly crafted, stop-motion animations. “My process is a solo initiative that involves writing the scripts, crafting sets, storyboards, and costumes. I record my own sound and control lighting. I shoot, edit, and develop these narratives one photographic frame at a time.” — LK The use of dolls as the raw material of Kelley’s art and video making is partially inspired, among others, by the activist groups “The Yes Men” and the Barbie Liberation Organization (BLO), and by Kenneth and Mamie Phipps Clark’s 1940s “doll test” studies on children and their perceptions of race. With exacting attention to detail, Kelley believably transfers us from the human scale and immerses us into a doll-sized one. These worlds — constructed and shot by Kelley — with their witty and deceptively simple narratives may tell us more about real life than even the most candid documentaries. And yet, her works are not about recounting a story of an actual event: her fake world feels real as she offers no simple morals or resolutions. Lauren Kelley is an interdisciplinary artist who employs a wry wit when commenting on matters of innocence, race, and girlhood. At the core of her practice is a series of short, stop-motion animated videos that combine claymation with her brown, plastic dolls. Stylistically evocative of children’s television programs of her youth, Kelley stages absurd, jittery, and sometimes endearing narratives. These low-tech scenarios occur in her Technicolor dioramas; a plush backdrop in contrast to the flaccid tales of a discontented cast of ingénues. For Kelley, dolls are a vehicle for navigating the space between luxuries and necessities; sweet and unsavory sentiments; Black and non-black worlds. Currently she is developing a body of work inspired by mid-century American history and the grotesque charm of Todd Haynes’ 1987 cult classic, “Superstar:The Karen Carpenter Story.” Online tickets will be available at the link above starting from 7pm ET on the day of the in-person show. *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2023* *November 7 - 9* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cfdb84f7d2&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, N *“LOST AND FOUND, YOU STILL REMAIN THERE”: A PHIL SOLOMON RETROSPECTIVE* Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1952-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre, as he explored and exploited material idiosyncrasies of his sources – whether chemically altering the emulsion of Hollywood films and personal home movies or détourning the digital gaming universe of Grand Theft Auto. In his analog days, Solomon described himself as an inverse archeologist, throwing “Schmutz” on cultural artifacts to de-familiarize the imagery, creating works that walk a fine line between abstraction and figuration, unfolding an interior emotional vocabulary seamlessly married to meticulously constellated worlds of sound. –Eve Heller The Phil Solomon Project is very happy to present this retrospective, in the form of three programs, including newly released works and a previously unreleased film. The series has been curated by Mark McElhatten. Eve Heller will be here in person to present the programs. Very special thanks to Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive). Eve Heller initiated the founding of the Phil Solomon Project together with Mark McElhatten in the wake of Phil’s passing in 2019. The PSP is dedicated to sustaining the preservation, distribution, screening, exhibition, and publication of Phil Solomon’s artwork and thought. --- PHIL SOLOMON, PROGRAM 1 - November 7 at 7:30PM ET --- <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8eae491bd1&e=857b71a9cb> “And from each branch sounds a voice to warn us into silence and waiting” *NOCTURNE* (1980/89, 10 min, 16mm, silent) *WHAT’S OUT TONIGHT IS LOST* (1983, 8 min, 16mm, silent) *THE SECRET GARDEN* (1988, 18 min, 16mm, silent) *REMAINS TO BE SEEN* (1989/94, 17.5 min, 16mm) *TWILIGHT PSALM II: WALKING DISTANCE* (1999, 23min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 min. --- PHIL SOLOMON, PROGRAM 2 - November 8 at 7:30PM ET --- <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d826dfa29a&e=857b71a9cb> “leave it all on earth I tell you this from across the blackened vine, The night has no need for stars. Nowhere asks for you.” *CROSSROAD* (2005, 5 min, digital. Made with Mark LaPore.) *IN MEMORIAM (MARK LAPORE 1952-2005): REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT* (2007, 11 min, digital); *LAST DAYS IN A LONELY PLACE* (2007, 20 min, digital); *STILL RAINING STILL DREAMING* (2008, 12 min, digital) *TWILIGHT PSALM IV: VALLEY OF THE SHADOW* (2013, 5 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 60 min. --- PHIL SOLOMON, PROGRAM 3 - November 9 at 7:30PM ET --- <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=122d7f9a1d&e=857b71a9cb> “The nothing that is not there and the nothing that is” *YES, I SAID YES, I WILL, YES* (1999, 3 min, 16mm) *THE EXQUISITE HOUR* (1989/94, 14 min, 16mm) *THE SNOWMAN* (1995, 8 min, 16mm) *THE EMBLAZONED APPARITIONS* (2013, 6 min, digital) *TWILIGHT PSALM III: NIGHT OF THE MEEK* (2002, 23 min, 16mm) *THE SUMMIT* (1980s, 16 min, Super-8mm-to-digital) Total running time: ca. 75 min. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 7 - 11* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=16b0c4c9ca&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, locations vary, see below *Media City Film Festival* Media City Film Festival (MCFF), Windsor-Detroit’s internationally acclaimed festival of film and digital art, launches its dazzling 26th edition with a return to in-person presentations. MCFF is ecstatic to present an exceptional, rare, and bountiful offering of over 70 films made by some of cinema’s most extraordinary practitioners. Many of the works will be screened in their original formats including Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, and digital. MCFF 2023 ARTISTS: ★ Simone Leigh ★ Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich ★ Ja’Tovia Gary ★ Harry Smith ★ Michael Snow ★ Narcisa Hirsch ★ Sharon Lockhart ★ Maryam Tafakory ★ Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet ★ Sarah Maldoror ★ Sky Hopinka ★ Nour Ouayda ★ Rose Lowder ★ Kevin Jerome Everson ★ Tetsuya Maruyama ★ Robert Beavers ★ Nathaniel Dorsky ★ dream hampton ★ Tomonari Nishikawa ★ Skip Norman ★ Ana Vaz ★ Miryam Charles ★ Mary Helena Clark ★ Ayanna Dozier ★ Ute Aurand ★ Colectivo Los Ingrávidos ★ Hadassah GreenSky ★ Ben Russell ★ Jeannette Ehlers ★ Helga Fanderl ★ Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado ★ Pablo Mazzolo ★ Ben Rivers & Céline Condorelli ★ Adam Piron ★ Sam Drake ★ Deborah Stratman ★ Rouzbeh Akhbari & Felix Kalmenson ★ Fox Maxy ★ Paul Sharits ★ Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) ★ Siegfried Fruhauf ★ Morgan Quaintance ★ Forough Farrokhzad ★ Simon Liu ★ Mike Stoltz ★ Abigail Child ★ Alexandre Larose ★ Luke Fowler ★ Daïchi Saïto ★ Amy Halpern ★ Nik Liguori ★ Michele Goulette ★ Julia Yezbick ★ Derek Jenkins ★ Alana Bartol & Bryce Krynski ★ Adam Sekuler ★ Calla Moya ★ Ed Janzen ★ and more! *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d15a59d0e0&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 PM PT, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA *What Was a Memory? What Was a Dream?: Experimental Films* The films in this program include a diary film, portrayals and testimonies of family and friends, and recognition of those who have passed. Anna Kipervaser records her grandparents with some cherished objects. Al Wong cuts into a photo in a myriad of ways in a meditation on a family member he never met. Nadia Shihab’s *Echolocation* begins with overlapping photos of her grandmother’s living room in Baghdad and ends by revealing her own artistic process. Super 8 home movies accompany Courtney Stephens’s mother recounting her illegal abortion in 1969. Sky Hopinka listens to a fifty-year-old recording of his grandmother and interviews his mother in his tribute to his ancestors. During the COVID-19 lockdown, John Gianvito follows the unfolding pandemic online and nature’s cycles outside his back door. Keisha Rae Witherspoon documents three participants in Miami’s T Ball, who make T-shirts and outfits to honor their dead. *Paper Sister*, Al Wong, 5min, United States, 2023 *Echolocation*, Nadia Shihab, 9min, United States, 2021 *Lesser Choices*, Courtney Stephens, 8min, Mexico, United States, 2022 *Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий / Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy*, Anna Kipervaser, 5min, Ukraine, United States, 2023 *Kicking the Clouds*, Sky Hopinka, 16min, United States, 2021 *The Grave’s Sky*, John Gianvito, 19min, United States, 2023 *T*, Keisha Rae Witherspoon, 14min, United States, 2019 *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Douglas Dunn Studio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=87627e3cde&e=857b71a9cb> Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm ET, 541 Broadway. 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10012 *SALON HANNES SCHÜPBACH FILM AND CONVERSATION* Douglas Dunn invites artist Hannes Schüpbach to screen his film *Essais* (2020, 43’), with choreographed shots of dancer Kira Blazek Ziaii – a Douglas Dunn + Dancers member 2008 to 2014 – in an exchange of gestures with artists Stephen Watts, Éléonore Bernard, Heba-Raphaëlle Meffre, Flurin Cuonz, Marco Baschera and Jiajia Zhang. In the fleeting space of the film they all engage in some kind of self-experiment. Douglas Dunn and Hannes Schüpbach in conversation about movement that starts within us – in dance, poetry, fashion, music and language. How singular are our gestures? Where do transitions between individuals come into play? Where does a shared cultural space come into being? Followed by a video of Kira Blazek performing at the DD Salon in 2014, drinks, and a newly published book, *Essais*, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2023. A limited number of books will be on sale for a special price of $25 Screening takes place at Douglas Dunn Studio in Soho Beverages served, Elevator access. This is a FREE event! Please RSVP on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/douglas-dunn-presents-hannes-schupbach-film-and-conversation-tickets-726339239217?aff=oddtdtcreator <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5f92516bd9&e=857b71a9cb> www.douglasdunndance.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=acd926e60e&e=857b71a9cb> *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c574eb6157&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *HANNES SCHÜPBACH* For this special event, we welcome Swiss artist and experimental filmmaker Hannes Schüpbach, on the occasion of the publication of the new book, “Hannes Schüpbach: Essais. Conversations and Film Images” (Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023). Born in Winterthur in 1965 and educated in Zurich and Basel, Schüpbach began his career in the early 1990s by creating spatial installations and serial paintings that, in their exploration of perception through movement, had a strongly cinematographic flavor. Since turning more definitely to 16mm filmmaking in 1999, he has completed eleven films, many of which deal explicitly with artistic processes, including *ERZÄHLUNG* (2007), *L’ATELIER* (2007), *CONTOUR* (2011), and *INSTANTS* (2012). In recent years Schüpbach has produced several books that radically expand his art projects into published dialogues. His new book centers on his most recent film, *ESSAIS* (2020), featuring conversations with his collaborators that revolve around the concept of “the movement that starts within us” in dance, poetry, fashion, music, and language. How singular are our gestures? Where do transitions between individuals come into play? Where does a common cultural space come into being? In both book and film – whose shared title references Montaigne’s “Essais”, in which he contemplates existence on the basis of his own observations and reflections – Schüpbach addresses a pivotal aspect of artistic work. This special event will encompass screenings of both *ESSAIS* and the earlier film *INSTANTS*, a reading, and a conversation with the artist. *INSTANTS*, 2012, 16 min, 16mm, silent “Instants arrive and take place for us and in us. Like the girl appearing in a gust, as a goddess of winds, whose movements settle into a gesture, a suite of still images. Between the instants relations unfold, the evident as well as the invented. The hand that halts in writing sentence after sentence implies a loop, a stepping back. There, what has been felt takes form. The jolts, abrasions, and stops in the arrival of images make up this body of instants from which language flows.” –Hannes Schüpbach *ESSAIS*, 2020, 43 min, 16mm, silent The dancer Kira Blazek explores new movements, her dance passionately broadening into a bodily reflection about the possible. Her shifting ventures in dance dialogue with the six further personalities the film introduces, all of them engaged in some form of self-experiment. Stephen Watts, Éléonore Bernard, Heba-Raphaëlle Meffre, Flurin Cuonz, Marco Baschera, and Jiajia Zhang are artists and researchers, filmed in London, Bern, Antwerp, Zurich, and St. Gallen. It is gestures and postures that define them. They exist alongside one another in a fictional exchange where the other extends their own form. In Schüpbach’s film, the images are unlocked from linear time via black transitions, resulting in a hypnotic flow. Its temporality marks a recollection: the repetition of what has once been seen, in a rhythm linked to recapitulation and speech. Total running time (with reading + conversation): ca. 90 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=47a8768528&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *DOORS OF PERCEPTION* JORDAN BELSON RETRO + PAD/BOB's VISIONARY 3-D An eye-popper, both hyper-abstract and hyper-real! Tonight's O*ptr*o*nica2* promises a mini-retro of newly restored 16mm masterworks by none other Jordan Belson, thee North Beach visionary who opened up new dimensions of cinematic experience in both his legendary Vortex light shows in GGP's Planetarium and in his psychedelic single-channel film works. Introduced by local Belson scholar Lumia, we see four pristine prints from his late 60s/early 70s peak: *Phenomena*, *Momentum*, *Meditation*, and *Chakra. *Lumia segues between the pieces with biographical background, 35mm slides, recorded audio, and a video visit by Anthology Film Archives' John Klacsmann aiding curator Raymond Foye in his inspired preservation project. Sharing top billing are the utterly astounding stereoscopic projections of Pad McLaughlin and Bob Bloomberg, much-loved OC superstars, arguablythe leading purveyors of 3-D magick in all of NorCal. They mobilize a matrix of brilliant projectors, radiant screens, and audio playback to conjure up their own set of impossible worlds: A pair of new collaborations, Hall/Jameson's *One Night in Hell*, OK Go/Pilobolus Dance Company's *All is Not Lost*, Santiago Caicedo's *Moving Still*,* et alia**. * *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ba07ca1ea2&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=543cbd52a2&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=4f26a1b436&e=857b71a9cb> . 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