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Inheritance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4b6f919e37&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=12fca6566f&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=e46b103018&e=857b71a9cb> [October 5-January 28, 2024, Brooklyn, NY] - Skip Norman: Here And There <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b002463b8&e=857b71a9cb> [January 19-24, New York, NY] - Peggy Ahwesh Presents Or119 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0facf4df19&e=857b71a9cb> [January 25, Rochester, NY] - Sightings: The Cosmic Rays Traveling Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dd1d5ca91e&e=857b71a9cb> [January 26, Santa Fe, NM] - Unsettling Landscape: Experimental Films by SE Asian Women Filmmakers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c98efb299b&e=857b71a9cb> [January 27, Los Angeles, CA] - Tom Palazzolo's Short Takes | 50 Years of Chicago Filmmakers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=98e0691522&e=857b71a9cb> [January 27, Chicago, IL] - Orphans At Moma: Sixteen Tons—Working With 16mm <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ba5ea9337&e=857b71a9cb> [January 27, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aeb513ffe0&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6bf4d63fbd&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE JANUARY 20, 2024* *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=2c40b8e52b&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=b8c664e134&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=a02c69cff4&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *January 19 - 24* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=62d3e6af43&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *SKIP NORMAN: HERE AND THERE* American filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer, visual anthropologist, and educator Skip Norman (aka Wilbert Reuben Norman Jr.) was born in Baltimore. In 1966 – following five years in Germany and Denmark, where he developed an interest in acting and directing alongside his studies dedicated to the German language and literature – he was accepted into the inaugural cohort of students at Berlin’s DFFB Film School. While there he befriended and worked alongside a group of artists and activists interested in the revolutionary potential of film, including Harun Farocki, Holger Meins, Helke Sander, and Gerd Conradt. In addition to collaborating as cinematographer and assistant director on several of his classmates’ works, Norman authored a remarkable but little-seen body of documentary, experimental, and essay films in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Building upon and contributing to the incendiary work of his peers decrying the US war in Vietnam, he produced a number of equally urgent films about his experience as a Black man in both West Germany and in his home country. Upon his subsequent return to the United States, he continued to collaborate with notable filmmakers like Haile Gerima while further pursuing his interest in photography, both as an artistic practice and as the subject of his doctoral studies, before eventually teaching the craft in Cyprus. While there have been selected presentations of Norman’s films in Germany in recent years, his work remains less known abroad. Featuring premieres of new restorations and newly produced subtitles, “Skip Norman: Here and There” is the first U.S. retrospective to explore Norman’s multifaceted, international career, bringing his practice as a filmmaker in dialogue with his work as a cinematographer and bridging his time on both sides of the Atlantic. “Skip Norman: Here and There” has been guest-curated by Jesse Cumming, who wrote the series description above, as well as the individual program descriptions. The series is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. Special thanks to Hanife Aliefendioglu; Mirra Bank; Jesse Cumming; Greg de Cuir Jr.; Ismail Gökçe; Karina Griffith; Anke Hahn & Masha Matzke (Deutsche Kinemathek); Alexis Norman; Volker Pantenburg (Harun Farocki Institut); Joanna Raczynska; Josh Siegel (MoMA); Sara Stevenson (German Film Office); and Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe. A selection of the newly restored films will be presented at The Museum of Modern Art on Thursday, January 18, as part of “To Save and Project: The 20th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation”; for more info visit: https://www.moma.org/calendar/film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=79837cf8d1&e=857b71a9cb> In addition, on Saturday, January 20, the German Film Office will host a free public program entitled “Skip Norman in Relation” at the Goethe-Institut New York, organized and presented by Greg de Cuir Jr, the co-founder and artistic director of Kinopravda Institute (Belgrade, Serbia). Select screenings of Norman’s films will be complemented by talks from a panel of experts dealing with key themes that connect Norman’s work with a wider aesthetic and cultural context. For more info visit: https://www.germanfilmoffice.us <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=364f47c4f1&e=857b71a9cb> Upcoming Screenings SKIP NORMAN PROGRAM 1: THE DFFB YEARS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d14abbea4&e=857b71a9cb> January 19 at 7:30 PM January 22 at 7:30 PM SKIP NORMAN PROGRAM 2: 1 BERLIN-HARLEM <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a03f9c53ff&e=857b71a9cb> January 20 at 7:30 PM SKIP NORMAN PROGRAM 3: COLLABORATIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1bbf435e08&e=857b71a9cb> January 21 at 4:00 PM SKIP NORMAN PROGRAM 4: PERFORMANCES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b14143210d&e=857b71a9cb> January 21 at 6:15 PM SKIP NORMAN PROGRAM 5: THE INDEPENDENT YEARS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=627fef8a25&e=857b71a9cb> January 21 at 8:00 PM January 24 at 7:30 PM SKIP NORMAN PROGRAM 6: WILMINGTON 10 — U.S.A. 10,000 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9105af91fb&e=857b71a9cb> January 23 at 7:30 PM *THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2024* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Visual Studies Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4d2e002c7e&e=857b71a9cb> 7 pm EST, 31 Prince St, Rochester, NY Event URL: https://www.twitch.tv/visualstudiesworkshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93f9e2ef24&e=857b71a9cb> *PEGGY AHWESH PRESENTS OR119* Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Resident and experimental film and video artist Peggy Ahwesh will present her recent collaboration with filmmaker Jacqueline Goss, *OR119*: a theoretical musical based on the ideas of radical psychologist Wilhelm Reich. As Freud’s favorite student, Reich centered his study on the intersections of psychoanalysis and Marxism. Reich’s work advocates for a re-imagining of family structure and gender roles, sexual liberation for younger people and the working poor, and a deep understanding of the effect of fascisms on the body. *OR119* includes quotations by Reich set to songs and imaginary conversations between Reich and a number of contemporary feminist thinkers. This event includes a film screening and discussion with Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery, filmmaker and longtime collaborator and one of the stars of the film. VSW Curator Tara Nelson will host the post-screening discussion. *FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b6d426f736&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *SIGHTINGS: THE COSMIC RAYS TRAVELING PROGRAM* Featuring short films by Alina Taalman, Nicolas Gebbe, Courtney Stephens, Wenhua Shi, Wiame Haddad, Camila Moreiras, Joshua Solondz, Kelly Sears, Merete Mueller, Pere Ginard. The Cosmic Rays Experimental Film Festival is an annual celebration of non-commercial short films, live-cinema, and new media projects. Cosmic Rays celebrates work that extends the artistic possibilities of cinema and new media technologies; that explores the lyrical and poetic dimensions of media; that speaks with a personal voice; that challenges audience expectations of cinema form and content; that arises from a diversity of life experiences, identities, and communities; and that questions conventional models of production, exhibition, and distribution. *SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Film Forum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cf0f1b9f4e&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024 *UNSETTLING LANDSCAPE: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS BY SOUTHEAST ASIAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS* Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Los Angeles Filmforum Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. Q&A via video with filmmakers and UCLA Associate Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice. Showcasing a collection of recent experimental works by Southeast Asian women filmmakers, Unsettling Landscape focuses on short films and videos that critically engage with questions of land, landscape and the myriad forms of mediation that have been used to capture their image. Like painting and the diorama, the camera has been a tool of colonial authority, historical narrative, and scientific knowledge production, laying the groundwork for unfettered development projects and extractive capitalism. Capturing an image of land through mediation can be an act of complicity, binding it and rendering it legible as scenery, property and territory. Reflexively engaging with such practices of mediation, these works suggest that the moving image also allows space for refusal. Unearthing the deep time of tectonic shifts and Animist belief systems, unraveling statist development narratives and unlearning colonial ways of knowing, these films unsettle the complex relations between lens and land, offering new possibilities for spatial transformation on screen. Program curated by Associate Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice, UCLA Cinema and Media Studies. Special thanks to our community partners: Cinema Sala, Echo Park Film Collective, Liyang Network, Los Angeles Filmforum, Visual Communications, Women Under the Influence. *To Pick a Flower* Philippines, 2021, DCP, color, 17 min. Director: Shireen Seno. *Landscape Series No. 1* Vietnam, 2013, DCP, color, 5 min. Director: Nguyễn Trinh Thi. *Fiksi* Indonesia, 2016, DCP, color, 12 min. Director: Otty Widasari. *The Harbor (Tepian Laut Utara)* Indonesia, 2010, DCP, color, 18 min. Director: Akumassa. *A Million Years* Cambodia, 2018, DCP, color, 21 min. Director: Danech San. *It’s Raining Frogs Outside (Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol)* Philippines, 2021, DCP, color, 14 min. Director: Maria Estela Paiso. *Lemongrass Girl* Thailand, 2021, DCP, color, 17 min. Director: Pom Bunsermvicha. *The Line* Thailand, 2020, DCP, color, 17 min. Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Chicago Filmmakers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a3b7035f57&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00PM CST, 1326 W Hollywood Avenue, Chicago IL 60660 *TOM PALAZZOLO'S SHORT TAKES | IN-PERSON (1/27) | 50 YEARS OF CHICAGO FILMMAKERS* Presented as part of Chicago Filmmakers’ special series of 50th Anniversary retrospective programming. This program takes us from some of Palazzolo's earliest experimental and documentary films including *O* (1967), *The Tattoed Lady of Riverview* (1968), and *Campaign* (1968) to later shorts like *Rita on the Ropes* (2002) and *Hey Girls* (1990), a funny "instructional" film made in collaboration with his SAIC film students and featuring Chicago filmmaker and cartoonist Heather McAdams. Filmed during the early days of Chicago's Pride Parade, *Gay for a Day *(1976) is a wonderful time capsule, while It's *This Way at Deel Ford* (1980) is a hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the filming of a car dealership commercial. Filmmaker Tom Palazzolo in person! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Museum of Modern Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=06daf03a11&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm ET, MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2 The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2, MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY *ORPHANS AT MOMA: SIXTEEN TONS—WORKING WITH 16MM* Introduced by Tanya Goldman, Kimberly Tarr, Chon Noriega, Bill Brand, Elena Rossi-Snook, Larry Gottheim, and Dan Streible. Our collaboration with the NYU Orphan Film Symposium continues with an eclectic mix of newly preserved films, programmed by Orphan Film Symposium director Dan Streible in celebration of the centenary of the 16mm film gauge. 16mm was the longtime workhorse for documentary, student, independent, and experimental films, and while tons of prints survive, few get saved and projected in this small-gauge format. These new 16mm prints represent seven decades of filmmaking. The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced *Tall Tales*, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White, Burl Ives, and Will Geer. In *Whitesburg Epic* (1971), Kentucky high school students interview locals about unemployment in their small coal-mining town. Their nascent group became the Appalshop film workshop, which still thrives and is now heroically recovering from a flood that inundated its archive of thousands of films. Artist Bill Brand’s career as a filmmaker and founder of BB Optics, a New York–based lab specializing in the preservation of experimental cinema, is represented with the work of three artists as well as himself: Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s *Cowboy and “Indian” Film* (1957–58), along with examples of Ortiz’s “ritual destruction” of 16mm prints, which spurred a new form of performance art in the 1950s, presented in celebration of his 90th year; Larry Gottheim’s multilayered *Your Television Traveler* (1991/2024), a film that remained unfinished until this new restoration; Roberta Cantow’s *If This Ain’t Heaven* (1983), which intimately documents the solitary life of one “Mr. G”; and Brand’s own *Susie’s Ghost* (2011), a meditation on personal loss through images, shot with aging 16mm film stock, of a rapidly changing neighborhood. *Tall Tales*. 1941. USA. Directed by William Watts, Willard Van Dyke. *Whitesburg Epic*. 1971. USA. Directed by Appalachian Film Workshop. Preserved by Appalshop Archive. *Golf*. 1957. USA. Directed by Raphael Montañez Ortiz. *Cowboy and “Indian” Film*. 1957–58. USA. Directed by Ortiz. *Newsreel*. 1958. USA. Directed by Ortiz. All Ortiz films preserved by UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center with UCLA Film & Television Archive. *Your Television Traveler*. 1991/2023. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim, Preserved by SUNY Binghamton Foundation. World premiere. *Susie’s Ghost*. 2011. USA. Directed by Bill Brand in collaboration with Ruthie Marantz. Preserved by Bill Brand. *If This Ain’t Heaven*. 1983. USA. Directed by Roberta Cantow. Preserved by the New York Public Library. World premiere. Program approx. 120 min. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2af7fd9dff&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *THE LONG CONVERSATION* THE LONG CONVERSATION with Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber is on indefinite hold. 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