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LA Filmforum: Orlando, My Political Biography <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b029abb15d&e=857b71a9cb> [February 4, Los Angeles, CA] - Free Live Stream Tutorials <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1dc9b88f22&e=857b71a9cb> [February 5-8, online] - SLUDGE Film Screening I <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6b19154851&e=857b71a9cb> [February 8, Rochester, NY] - VLX5: VASTLAB Travels To Chicago Filmmakers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f80ec7e28b&e=857b71a9cb> [February 9, Chicago, IL] - Film Diary III: Coldest Winter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fe7fc21e84&e=857b71a9cb> [February 9, Santa Fe, NM] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=927c995814&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=20b500471f&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *2220 Arts + Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8294090bed&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *LA FILMFORUM: ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY* 2023 | France | French w/ English Subtitles | 99 minutes Filmforum joins with Semiotext(e) and LA OLA to host a screening of one of the most highly acclaimed films of 2023, *Orlando: My Political Biography*, by Paul B. Preciado. Unusually for us, even though the film did play for a couple of weeks at Laemmle Theaters, it may have escaped the attention of many interested parties. Its unique use of performance, costume, declamatory statement, language, personal revelation, and exploration of identity and trans-ness places it somewhere between the films of Straub & Huillet, Godard, and Sally Potter’s more conventionally theatrical Orlando. In person introduction by Jennifer Doyle, Professor of English at UC Riverside "Few movies this year have lived in my head as long and as happily as *Orlando: My Political Biography*, which I’ve been thinking about since I first saw it in September. Written and directed by the Spanish-born philosopher and activist Paul B. Preciado — a trans man making his feature directing debut — the movie is, at its simplest, an essayistic documentary about transgender and nonbinary identity that draws inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography.” Yet trying to squeeze “My Political Biography” into a tidy categorical box is fundamentally at odds with Preciado’s expansive project, which is at once an argument, a confession, a celebration and a road map. "It’s also a sharp, witty low-budget experimental work of great political and personal conviction, one that breathes life into Woolf’s novel about a 16-year-old boy in Elizabethan England who, after centuries of trippy adventures, enigmatically ends up as a 36-year-old woman in 1928, the year the novel was published. Woolf dedicated the book to her lover Vita Sackville-West, whose son Nigel Nicolson described it as “the longest and most charming love letter in literature,” one in which Woolf weaves Vita “in and out of the centuries, tosses her from one sex to the other, plays with her, dresses her in furs, lace and emeralds.” - Manohla Dargis, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/movies/orlando-my-political-biography-review.html “I didn’t want to make a film about “being trans” but rather a trans and non-binary film." “The challenge of making a trans film is to undo the normative differences not only between a feature film and a documentary film, fiction and a biography, politics and poetry, theory and practice, but also between the traditional ways of representing femininity and masculinity, between what being and not-being-trans means in a binary society. A non-binary films works according to what we could call with Gilles Deleuze, “a logic of multiplicities'', “a theory and practice of relations, of “the AND”, which at every levels tries to question the classifications based on the strict binary delineation of “either-or”. To give you an example, I didn’t want to choose between narrating my biography and telling a larger trans political history, or between Virginia Woolf’s language and the way of speaking of contemporary Orlandos, or between an adaptation of a novel and a documentary with “real” people. As a result the film is neither one nor the other, but a becoming-other.” – Paul B. Preciado, from an interview with Michael Joshua Rowin *MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2024* *February 5 - 8* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* *Mono No Aware* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15f761d063&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, Event URL: https://www.instagram.com/mononoawarefilm/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=292d86a6fd&e=857b71a9cb> *FREE LIVE STREAM TUTORIALS* Join the MONO NO AWARE community online from anywhere in the world at 8 PM EST US for a free tutorial every day next week. Dial in for free OR *make a small donation to receive lab services and film materials* through the post office. MON FEB 5TH - Develop motion picture film as still photos ECN-II <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5039d287ec&e=857b71a9cb> ! 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ALL SESSIONS STREAM FOR FREE THROUGH INSTAGRAM. https://www.instagram.com/mononoawarefilm *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Visual Studies Workshop* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=37c6bcbd40&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY *SLUDGE FILM SCREENING I* The VSW Film Archive contains over 5000 16mm films primarily originating from public and university libraries. VSW values this rare chunk of media and cultural history on behalf of the artists and researchers who find useful information and source material within. 16mm film of the 20th century both reflected and influenced American cultural life, with many films produced to homogenize educational standards and national viewpoints, for better and worse. Film archives are left to reckon with this cultural heritage, confronting a varied field of broadcast values that, in 2024, feel strange and distant, yet foundational and familiar. SLUDGE takes its name from an extrasensory TikTok fad of simultaneously showing two or more unrelated videos on one screen – an extreme example of the evolution of our attention spans. By looking at films from the past in this exaggerated approach to media consumption, the educational, documentary, propaganda, and animated films of the 1940s-80s become rich texts for re-interpretation. The SLUDGE Film series offers an evening’s experiment of mashed up titles and topics from VSW’s 16mm collection, making new meaning from old formats and playing with our new tempos of media consumption. This series is curated and projected by Mary Lewandowski, VSW’s Curatorial & Research Associate. *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Chicago Filmmakers* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3bd8740bbf&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30PM CST, 1326 W Hollywood Avenue, Chicago IL 60660 *VLX5: VASTLAB TRAVELS TO CHICAGO FILMMAKERS* VLX5 is the fifth season of VASTLAB's annual showcase of Experimental short Film including an action packed program with local Chicago Artist Amanda Van Valkenburg in person for Q&A as well as local Chicago Musicians & Sound Artists LIVEscoring VLX5 short films. *7pm VLX5 - Theatrical Program Part 1* Aitor Irulegi - *Kusikozu* Sharon Mooney - *I’m sorry I’m late* Sarah Lasley - *Welcome to the Enclave* Teri Carson - *Monolith* *7:40pm - A Conversation with artist Amanda VanValkenburg* (Followed by a brief intermission) *8:30PM Centerpiece Program featuring a live score with H Anton Riehl* Camila Dron - *La próxima te acompaño (next time i’ll join you)* Tracy Miller-Robbins - *bleu passé* Vasco Diogo - *Anima # 3* Vincent DeZutti - *Brackish* Amanda VanValkenburg - *Expansion* *9PM - Theatrical Program Part 2* Hodan Youssouf - *Poésie de mains* Susanne Layla Petersen - *Echoes* Adam E. Stone -* form* Ihab Mardini - *Soapaboyo : Soap Film 3* Caroline Rumley - *Absolut* Brian Alexander - *Waking Field* Charlie Marois -* Horizons* Tommy Becker - *The Mirror Neuron (poetry mix)* Josh Weissbach - *a landscape to be invented* Stephanie Barber - *The Enlightenment* Full event running time, approximately 3 hours 10 mins. Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema In-person screenings are held at Chicago Filmmakers’ Firehouse Cinema located at 1326 W. Hollywood Ave in the Edgewater neighborhood. Please be sure to arrive 15 minutes prior to showtime and be ready to present your order confirmation number for admission. Chicago Filmmakers does not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to make a donation. Please email coop [at] chicagofilmmakers.org to inquire about free admission. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *No Name Cinema* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7d4f95eff0&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *FILM DIARY III: COLDEST WINTER* A selection of Diary Films, Personal Documentaries, and Home Movies from the annual NYC-based festival of experimental non-fiction films (Film Diary NYC) that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker and the world they encounter. This year’s lineup is composed of work from every continent except Antarctica, from a diverse and intergenerational group of emerging and established filmmakers. The program being presented at No Name Cinema features short films and videos by Dana Dawud (Palestine), Gloria Chung (USA), Jiem L'Hostis (France), Yasaman Baghban (Iran), Ben Kujawski (USA), Mark Street (USA), and Nande Walters (USA). Other locations that traveling programs will be screened at this year include Argentina, Germany, London, Pakistan, Iran, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Winnipeg, and Australia! *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1a3d32e575&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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