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*This Week [November 18 - 26, 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=bfbae3c694&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) 11.24.2023 Crescent City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f6aae92362&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.30.2023 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b73a615701&e=857b71a9cb> (Second Deadline) 11.30.2023 Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e99f74704e&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9a202927e1&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.30.2023 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f864d1898f&e=857b71a9cb> 12.01.2023 ICDOCS - Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7e5aeecbdf&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 12.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=352f9b40b2&e=857b71a9cb> 01.07.2024 Gravitational Lensing <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ed05f9e22&e=857b71a9cb> 01.12.2024 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=384ddba5af&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 01.15.2023 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=73ca1c4775&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cee1f9a05e&e=857b71a9cb> 03.30.2024 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=149234bfd4&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c30752b101&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=46a44fbd55&e=857b71a9cb> [June 22, 2023-Feb 2024, 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=f50aa3e71a&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=a2621fcbc6&e=857b71a9cb> [October 5-January 28, 2024, Brooklyn, NY] - Ventriloquist Puppets <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1bca269ea3&e=857b71a9cb> [November 18, San Francisco, CA] - Home And Away: Documentary & Avant-Garde Films of Barbara Meter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0778243468&e=857b71a9cb> [November 19-23, New York, NY] - Frequency In Movement <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=79fe1d54ec&e=857b71a9cb> [November 20, Barcelona, Spain] - Fracto Experimental Film Encounter - 7th Edition <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29fd92fa75&e=857b71a9cb> [November 23-26, Berlin, Germany] - SF PSYCHO-GEO3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4a5a5fea62&e=857b71a9cb> [November 25, San Francisco, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=965b1ddca5&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=874137e7d0&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE NOVEMBER 18, 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=46beccd818&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *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=cb161f2956&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=0f7fa5a3dc&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 17 - 19* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Camera Obscura <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2f73063625&e=857b71a9cb> noon - 10:00pm PT, Hotel Petaluma [205 Kentucky Street], Petaluma, CA *CAMERA OBSCURA | Ninth Annual Report* The reconvened *Camera Obscura Film Society*, under the coordinated co-direction of Amanda Salazar and Jonathan Marlow, will present its *Ninth Annual Report *over a trio of days from 17-19 November in Petaluma, California, fifty kilometers (or roughly thirty miles) from the Golden Gate Bridge, a reasonably scenic drive from all points throughout the Bay Area! Over the course of an exceptional weekend, "unusual, antique and experimental films" will screen at a pop-up cinema constructed inside the grand ballroom of the historic Hotel Petaluma. Numerous programs of longer-works-paired-with-shorter-works will be presented along with filmmaker Q&As and related events at a handful of nearby locations within walking-distance of the hotel. The original Camera Obscura Film Society was founded in 1957 by Lawrence Jordan and Bruce Conner (along with a handful of others) in the years following the conclusion of Frank Stauffacher's legendary "Art in Cinema" series at SFMOMA. COFS' eclectic programs continued at occasional intervals until the organization ceased to exist shortly thereafter. The reconstituted Camera Obscura has unexpectedly existed for considerably longer than its original incarnation! As in prior Reports, the complete program of screenings and events will only be announced a day or two prior to opening night! We are unable to reveal the specific selections until that time except to note that there will be films by G. Anthony Svatek, Deborah Stratman, Aleksandr Ptushko, Karen Merchant, Yui Kiyohara, Liz Keim, Shambhavi Kaul, Hong Sang-soo, Jerome Hiler, Michael Gitlin, Lori Felker, Nathaniel Dorsky, Bryan Boyce and many others! *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=caabb37b4e&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *VENTRILOQUIST PUPPETS* ROSS LIPMAN's VANISHING GODS + CAMLIN's LIVE VENTRILOQUISM + Back after last season's brilliant Samuel Beckett essay, LA-based archivist/artist Ross Lipman graces our gallery with a pair of premieres—new think-pieces that cut beneath the gloss and dross of commercial cinema to analyze the deeper human psychology that drives the work in the first place. In his 70-min. *Vanishing Gods *meta-commentary, played out through marvelous puppets and countless film clips, a hypnotized dummy manages to recover his memory—in fact the cultural history of ventriloquism itself, from the prophetic tradition to the modern horror film...a strange house-of-mirrors journey into our collective unconscious. Opening is not only Lipman's *Cropping of the Spectacle*--a deconstruction of the birth and continued ideological power of television via the 1954 anti-Communist McCarthy Hearings broadcasts--but also April Camlin's live ventriloquist act, *Glucuous*!! PLUS assorted film clips of magicians, marionettes, and puppet-performances. *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023* *November 19 - 23* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=afc292b482&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00PM ET, 525 W. 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/barbara-meter-home-and-away/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d309b279bb&e=857b71a9cb> *Home and Away: The Documentary & Avant-garde Films of Barbara Meter* In Person & Online. A rare screening of films by Dutch filmmaker Barbara Meter — a central figure of the experimental film scene in the Netherlands starting from the 1970s and co-founder of the influential avant-garde film venue “Electric Cinema” in Amsterdam — curated by Robin Roblee-Strauss. All films in the 55-minute long program will be screened in their original format (this applies solely to the in person event, of course). >From the curator: “Home and Away features one biographical documentary and four short avant-garde films by filmmaker, Barbara Meter. As one of the first women to study at the Netherlands Film Academy in the 1960s and co-founder of Amsterdam’s “Electric Cinema,” a bastion of avant-garde film and ideas in the 1970s, Barbara has been a pioneer in the production and promotion of experimental filmmaking in the Netherlands. In a 1971 interview, Barbara describes her work as “pure films,” conveying “thoughts and feelings by pure movement, a pure image that may flicker or be blurred, and by intervening in the process of developing and printing the film.” Through her innovative use of optical printing methods, she seamlessly massages, and reworks found sounds and images: combining them with her personal archive. She remolds these documents into distinct, deeply personal sense worlds ..." Roblee-Strauss will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening. Advance In Person tickets: https://microscopegallery.ticketleap.com/home-and-away-the-documentary-and-avant-garde-films-of-barbara-/dates/Nov-19-2023_at_0700PM Online tickets and access become available at 6:30pm ET through Nov. 12 11:O0PM PT *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* convent de sant agusti <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c1292c26bc&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm, Civic Center Convent of Sant Agustí Comerç, 36 T: 932 565 000 *Frequency in Movement* Frequencies in Movement is a multidisciplinary performance that works with image, sound and butô. The proposal is based on the sounds of objects, field recordings, and music by Hiroko Komiya (JP), and Chris H. Lynn (USA); Lynn's Super 8 film recordings; and the representation of Butô by Marlène Jöbstl (FR/AT), and Atsushi Takenouchi (JP). *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2023* *November 23 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Fracto e.V. <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e2ff180aa5&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 - 24:00 +1 GMT ACUD KINO, Berlin, Veteranenstraße 21, Berlin Mitte, Germany *FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter - 7th edition* *FOUR PROGRAMS* 1/ STUDY OF AN ISLAND *THU 23 9PM ACUD KINO* 2/ CARTOGRAPHY OF LITTLENESS *FRI 24 8PM ACUD KINO* 3/ LIMINAL SPACE * FRI 24 10PM ACUD KINO* 4/ SUBTERRAIN OBLIVIONS *SAT 25 9:30PM ACUD KINO* . *INCLUDING WORK BY* Alexandre Larose, Anna Marziano, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy, Emmanuel Piton, Eve Heller, Ewelina Rosinska, Frédérique Menant, Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado, James Edmonds, Justin Jinsoo Kim, Lewis Klahr, Manika Taanila, Michael Lyons, Milena Gierke, Raquel Vermunt, Shiho Kano, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Wenhua Shi . *FOCUS MILENA GIERKE* PART I *SAT 25 7PM ACUD KINO* PART II *SUN 26 8:30PM ACUD KINO* . *WORKSHOP* GIERKE IN CONVERSATION WITH ROSSIN *SAT25 4PM ACUD STUDIO* -- Visit our website <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74097d673c&e=857b71a9cb> to view the entire program. *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3ad4ebb9bc&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *SF PSYCHO-GEO3* SHERMAN/BARTEN: TOTAL MOBILE HOME David Sherman and Rebecca Barten return to OC to unspool underground histories of their DIY exhibition space, Total Mobile Home microCINEMA, and the extraordinary experimental cinema culture that exploded in the 90’s Bay Area. They enact a live cine-essay, mapping a moment in underground film, that began in an illegal basement space, using scavenged technologies, to cultivate intimate connections of makers and audiences. Tis an action-packed journey through the TMH archives of events, including a cine-performance by Luther Price (*Clown 2*), salons with Bruce Baillie and with Sidney Peterson, and George Kuchar's video portrait *Cellar Sinema.* ALSO premiering the TMH Oral History Project, a compilation of annotated interviews with Jeffrey Skoller, Steve Anker, Brian Frye, Steve Polta, Irina Leimbacher, Mark Street, and Timoleon Wilkins, plus pieces by TMH participants, including Harun Farocki’s *Parallel II*, Emily Richardson’s *The Futurist*, Lynne Sachs’ *Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor**, *Scott Stark’s *Degrees of Limitation**, *David Sherman’s *Roman Chariot*, and Rebecca Barten’s *Angelpuke*. JUST ADDED: the debut of David’s collage-essay on early video art, including considerations of Smithson’s *Spiral Jetty*. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8aecfaba61&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=705c487c63&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. 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