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Please check out details & donate at https://gofund.me/6dbcb337 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d6a6d9dcab&e=857b71a9cb> and help spread the word! / / / * --- * \ \ \ *This Week [February 24 - March 3, 2024] 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=9a952f0136&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 02.25.2024 VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1f5ffb0eee&e=857b71a9cb> 02.29.2024 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc5e3ec214&e=857b71a9cb> (Fifth Deadline) 02.29.2024 Crossroads Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15e16aa956&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 02.29.2024 I-Park Artist-in-Residence Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b3c07439b3&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2024 Festival de Cannes <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1287b2b117&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2024 Analogica <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=670c6636f3&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.01.2024 Crescent City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=682bb80ee8&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 03.01.2024 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=52a2f3cdc0&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.03.2024 Film Farm <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=526fddb2ee&e=857b71a9cb> 03.10.2024 Mimesis Doc Fest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=01e818ff5f&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.15.2024 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=14fd1f838d&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.15.2024 Found Footage Magazine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=271927e782&e=857b71a9cb> 03.25.2024 Oak Cliff Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=723ccd6372&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.30.2024 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c95670efca&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.30.2024 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=074b32950a&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.31.2024 Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8769a302a4&e=857b71a9cb> 04.01.2024 The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d420a82b07&e=857b71a9cb> 04.05.2024 VSW Project Space Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6a6a4d40de&e=857b71a9cb> 04.18.2024 Locarno Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6aa5301e82&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.17.2024 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c6b955c43c&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.31.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=283b866c8f&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 06.01.2024 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9858a137db&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f72eb57984&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Mono No Aware In Residency @ Whammy! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ad393588f&e=857b71a9cb> [February 23 - March 3, Los Angeles, CA] - EC: Jerome Hill <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9294eef3ff&e=857b71a9cb> [February 24, New York, NY] - Figures Minus Facts: The Films of Mary Helena Clark <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b6d7bd4c60&e=857b71a9cb> [February 24-25, New York, NY] - EC: Hugo / Jacobs / Levitt / Maas <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e6bbc4624&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25, New York, NY] - EC: Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ddc2b5be85&e=857b71a9cb> [February 28, New York, NY] - Wilmington 10—U.S.A. 10,000 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d0bcc68e4&e=857b71a9cb> [February 29, Berkeley, CA] - New Films By Nathaniel Dorsky <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1b66c770be&e=857b71a9cb> [February 29, San Francisco, CA] - EC: Jennings / Kirsanoff <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4619fb7f6c&e=857b71a9cb> [February 29, New York, NY] - EC: Lawrence Jordan <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9844aafc8f&e=857b71a9cb> [February 29, New York, NY] - Ken Jacobs – From Orchard Street To The Museum of Modern Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fa074b5894&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1-3, New York, NY] - Strange Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e028bbc5c&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1, Boone, NC] - Light Matter Film Festival Traveling Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c66fff764e&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1, Santa Fe, NM] - 48 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bc1dbbebb0&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2, Berkeley, CA] - Gravitational Lensing - Prequel Screening & Fundraiser <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d2a8dc3417&e=857b71a9cb> [March 3, Oakland, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6e742a1bc5&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e1d718521e&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE FEBRUARY 24, 2024* *February 23 - March 3* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Whammy!* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=748b58c58a&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, Whammy! 2514 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA (Entrance in rear off Rampart!) *MONO NO AWARE IN RESIDENCY @ WHAMMY!* This is a collaboration between Mono No Aware and Whammy! and T.A.P.E. and the 818 Darkroom. *FRI * February 23rd *Presentation on MONO NO AWARE & Screening program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=21d2250595&e=857b71a9cb> 7 PM Meet & Greet, 8 PM : Conversation with Founder / Director of MONO Steve Cossman and 16mm projections of commissioned works. *SAT * SUN * February 24-25th * Two-Day intensive Intro to 16MM color filmmaking on Bolex Camera <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=490410d92a&e=857b71a9cb> 12 - 6 PM An introduction to the Bolex Camera and a traditional Film to Film workflow ending with a projectable color print & scan! *SAT * February 24th* Projection Basics for 16MM Tabletop models <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=96769605cc&e=857b71a9cb> 7 - 10 PM Learn to set up, load, operate and maintain an EIKI tabletop projector for standard and expanded cinema projections. *SUN * February 25th* Macro Cinematography on 16MM film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8ef1add1f&e=857b71a9cb> 7 - 10 PM Learn to calculate proper exposure compensation and to measure focal distances in order to film in extreme close-up on film! *MON * February 26th* Motion Picture Film as Still Film for Photography <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5ae2a71ce6&e=857b71a9cb> 7 - 10 PM Learn how to spool down motion picture film short ends and identify film stock properties, then upcycle them into still film canisters! *TUES * February 27th* Color Photograms on 16mm color print stock <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d6f872725a&e=857b71a9cb> 7 - 10 PM Learn to paint with light on motion picture film, develop the film by hand and project. Includes 100 of 16mm film to take home! *WED * February 28th* Test It Yourself ! T.I.Y. Super 8mm camera workshop and hand processing B&W film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b8e320ecba&e=857b71a9cb> 7 - 10 PM - Bring a new or used camera to test. We'll cover all functions of the camera, how to clean and fix minor issues, then film a test roll, develop & project! *THURS * February 29th* Desktop Cinema : Print digital images directly onto 16MM film from your home printer <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=102999d874&e=857b71a9cb> 7 - 10 PM - Download, learn and use software that allows for multiple techniques printing large image patterns and videos directly onto film. *FRI * March 1st* BYOB/W - Non-toxic developing workshop & Community mixer <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1de384162&e=857b71a9cb> 7 - 10 PM - Learn to mix a non-toxic developer using beer and coffee then develop ANY format still or moving image black and white film ! *SAT * March 2nd* The complete 16MM film to film workflow for B/W film; titles, camera, developing, contact printing & projection <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=da926079bd&e=857b71a9cb> 11 AM - 8 PM - This is a one day intensive designed to carefully illustrate how one can create, duplicate, archive and exhibit on 16mm film at home. *SUN * March 3rd* Moving Image Phytograms on 16MM film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=22a575e62f&e=857b71a9cb> 11 AM - 3 PM - Forage for plant life then learn the technique of rendering detailed chemical traces of plants directly on photographic emulsion. *SUN * March 3rd* FREE COMMUNITY SCREENING PARTY @ WHAMMY! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e6576e3dda&e=857b71a9cb> 7 PM Screening Premiere of ALL the films made through the residency this week. Bring friends and family out to celebrate these new 16mm films. *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e51c4d4e88&e=857b71a9cb> 5pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: JEROME HILL* These 35mm prints are the result of a preservation project undertaken by the Museum of Modern Art. *DEATH IN THE FORENOON* (1934/66, 2 min, 35mm) *CANARIES* (1969, 4 min, 35mm) *FILM PORTRAIT* (1971, 81 min, 35mm) “*FILM PORTRAIT* is an autobiography in the sense that it deals explicitly with Jerome’s most personal life’s relationship to film. It draws on film clips taken in his childhood and his whole childhood involvement in art and life. It comes closest to any kind of filmic answer to Proust. […] *FILM PORTRAIT* is, I believe, the only direct autobiography we have in film. There is Jonas Mekas’s *WALDEN*, which is diary but not autobiography in a strict sense. We have Cocteau’s *BLOOD OF A POET*, *ORPHEUS*, and *TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS*. One could say that this last is autobiographical, but it is also allusive and poetic; whereas Jerome’s *FILM PORTRAIT* is a very straight attempt to present autobiography on film. Of course, subsequently, James Broughton’s *TESTAMENT* and my own *SINCERITY & DUPLICITY* series of autobiographical films were very much inspired by Jerome’s *FILM PORTRAIT* as well as by Jonas’s *WALDEN*. […] Jerome Hill’s films are great because they are poised on wit and achieve a balance – a gentle, intentional, particularly American balance.” –Stan Brakhage, FILM AT WIT’S END Total running time: ca. 90 min *___________________________________________________________________* *February 24 - 25* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=753b5309ee&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *FIGURES MINUS FACTS: THE FILMS OF MARY HELENA CLARK* In conjunction with her upcoming exhibition at Bridget Donahue Gallery, we host filmmaker Mary Helena Clark for two programs, one featuring a selection of her 16mm and digital works, and the other – selected by Clark – pairing three of her films with thematically related works by Michael Snow, Rosemarie Trockel, and Charlotte Prodger. Clark’s films are constructed – sometimes from found materials, but mostly from Clark’s own footage – in ways that privilege atmosphere, intuitive connections, evocative collisions, or striking juxtapositions, rather than conventional narrative or documentary logic. Though each film has its own visual and aural texture and set of motifs, they are unmistakably the work of a single – and singular – artist, in part because of their highly refined sensitivity to the relationship between sound and image, and above all because of their profoundly hypnotic quality. In Clark’s body of work, “hypnotic” is more than a metaphorically descriptive term. The effect is sometimes achieved indirectly (thanks to the films’ carefully designed and precise soundtracks, or the meditative rhythms of the editing and pacing) and sometimes more explicitly (as a result of her play with direct address to the viewer, her straddling of the line between representation and abstraction, or, in *AND THE SUN FLOWERS*, by devoting the soundtrack to a guided-meditation tape). But one way or the other, Clark’s films induce a response that is uncannily suggestive of hypnosis, drawing the viewer into a paradoxical combination of a dreamlike state and a hyper-sensitivity to sound and image. Under the spell she casts, the world seems charged with mystery, replete with strange, hidden signals or messages – whether embedded in wallpaper, in jet trails, in the behavior of pedestrians, in the slow tilting of a horizon line. Her images (and sounds) are pregnant with a meaning that remains just out of reach, even as the films impart a conviction that, on a subconscious level, that meaning has been made legible. For more info about Clark’s exhibition at Bridget Donahue Gallery, which will be on view from January 25-March 21, 2024, visit: https://www.bridgetdonahue.nyc/exhibitions/mary-helena-clark/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d01080341&e=857b71a9cb> In March we’ll present screenings of *A COMMON SEQUENCE*, a new feature film co-directed by Clark and Mike Gibisser. Stay tuned for more details. --- MARY HELENA CLARK PGM 1 - February 24 at 7:30PM <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d1dda0f420&e=857b71a9cb> --- *AND THE SUN FLOWERS* 2008, 5 min, digital “Within this wallpaper: a floral forest of hidden depth and concealment, the hues and fragrance of another era. Surface decoration holds permeable planes, inner passages. There emerges a hypnotic empyrean flower, a solar fossil, a speaking anemone, of paper, of human muscle, of unknown origin, delivering an unreasonable message of rare tranquility.” –Mark McElhatten *SOUND OVER WATER* 2009, 6 min, 16mm “I wanted to shift the interpretation of a single image – a flock of birds – through fluctuating abstraction. By re-photographing and hand processing the images, the read changes. It’s ambiguously figurative – schools of fish, crashing waves, light on water – and then ends with the series of photographs acting as document, accentuating the gap between actual and perceptual.” –Mary Helena Clark *BY FOOT-CANDLE LIGHT* 2011, 9 min, digital “In the dream we call cinema there is no either, no or. We move from cave to forest to theater and back again, certain only that we are elsewhere, at least until the reel runs out. Here is objective truth, or ‘hypnosis’ by another name.” –Ben Russell *THE PLANT* 2012, 8 min, 16mm-to-digital A spy film, built on the bad geometry of point-of-view shots. *ORPHEUS (OUTTAKES)* 2012, 6 min, 16mm “Using footage from Cocteau’s *ORPHÉE*, Clark optically prints an interstitial space where the ghosts of cinema lurk beyond and within the frames.” –Andrea Picard *THE DRAGON IS THE FRAME* 2014, 14 min, 16mm An experimental detective film made in remembrance: keeping a diary, footnotes of film history, and the puzzle of depression. *FIGURE MINUS FACT* 2020, 13 min, digital “Night, like mourning, remakes space through absence: forms at the threshold of perception heighten sound and touch. When someone dies there is a pull towards the concrete and tangible, but disbelief creates a world of unreliable objects. *FIGURE MINUS FACT* draws and redraws coordinates between spaces, senses, and objects, groping in the dark, desiring to see something that’s not there. Spaces become evidentiary yet deceptive in a subjectless portrait of loss.” –Mary Helena Clark Total running time: ca. 65 min. --- MARY HELENA CLARK PGM 2 - February 25 at 7:30PM <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=633532ce7b&e=857b71a9cb> --- This program features works – both by Clark and by others – that relate to ideas in Clark’s exhibition at Bridget Donahue Gallery. Michael Snow *PUCCINI CONSERVATO* 2008, 10 min, digital “Commissioned to honor Puccini’s 150th birthday, the lighthearted *PUCCINI CONSERVATO* – which observes Snow’s stereo while a track from La Bohème plays – takes a subtle, good-natured jab at recorded music. (When opera is canned, where do you look?)” –Chris Kennedy Mary Helena Clark *THE GLASS NOTE* 2018, 9 min, digital A collage of sound, image, and text explore cinema’s inherent ventriloquism. Across surface and form, the video reflects on voice, embodiment, and fetish through the commingling of sound and image. Rosemarie Trockel *EGG TRYING TO GET WARM* 1994, 4 min, video “...features an egg spinning on a hot plate – Trockel’s sly commentary on the sexist social assumptions implicit in the domestic setting.” –Diane Solway Mary Helena Clark *UNTITLED* 2024, 8 min, digital This work-in-progress is premised as an examination of disgust. Charlotte Prodger *PASSING AS A GREAT GREY OWL* 2017, 6 min, digital Found footage of a female biologist mimicking the call of the male Great Grey Owl is counterposed with video of the legs of women as they urinate in various wildernesses. The collision of these activities in landscape points towards an exuberant queer territoriality. Mary Helena Clark *EXHIBITION* 2022, 19 min, digital The film moves through gallery rooms and archives, compounding multiple biographies into a single imaginary subject. A woman marries the Berlin Wall, stabs a Velásquez painting as an act of protest and longing, declares herself a doorknob, and plumbs the erotics of the Klein bottle. Using citation, appropriation, and museological forms of display, the film is a meditation on the assertion and refusal of subjecthood. Total running time: ca. 60 min *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ce18707fd&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: HUGO / JACOBS / LEVITT / MAAS* Ian Hugo *BELLS OF ATLANTIS* (1952, 10 min, 16mm. Preserved by the Library of Congress through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation.) A film poem, based on Anaïs Nin’s *HOUSE OF INCEST*, narrated by and featuring Nin. “...inspired by the prologue to my *HOUSE OF INCEST* and the line: ‘I remember my first birth in water.’ The film evoked the watery depths of the lost continent of Atlantis. It is a lyrical journey into prenatal memories, the theme of birth and rebirth from the sea.” –Anaïs Nin Ken Jacobs *LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS* (1959-63, 18 min, 16mm. With Jack Smith.) “Material was cut in as it came out of the camera, embarrassing moments intact. 100’ rolls timed well with music on old 78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy was our achievement, as well as breaking out of step.” –Ken Jacobs Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee *IN THE STREET* (1952, 12 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) “Informality is indeed the crucial and virtually definitive quality of *IN THE STREET*; it is even the guiding principle and vision. […] This is the extreme realization of a classic ‘naturalistic’ genre, the German ‘street film,’ where the street was imaged as the arena of the everyday and random, the channel in which the ‘stream of life’ conveniently became microcosmic.” –Ken Kelman, THE ESSENTIAL CINEMA Willard Maas *GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY* (1943, 7 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology with support from The National Film Preservation Foundation.) “The terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered, mysterious continent.” –Willard Maas Total running time: ca. 55 min. *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8328219f46&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON* by Ken Jacobs, 1969, 115 min, 16mm, b&w/color, silent “Original 1905 film shot and probably directed by G.W. ‘Billy’ Bitzer, rescued via a paper print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress. It is most reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with a new movie, almost as a side effect, coming into being.” –Ken Jacobs *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Pacific Film Archive* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=960ef29517&e=857b71a9cb> 7PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *WILMINGTON 10—U.S.A. 10,000* Haile Gerima, Color, DCP, 120min, 1979 While living in Washington, DC, Skip Norman made the acquaintance of legendary Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima, eventually leading to his role as cinematographer on Gerima’s feature documentary *Wilmington 10—U.S.A. 10,000*. Centered on the wrongful 1972 imprisonment of nine men and one woman from the North Carolina city—then still incarcerated on trumped-up charges of arson and conspiracy—the film traces both the background of the accusations and the groundswell of national and international support calling for the release of the accused. Boldly nonlinear in its assemblage and expansive in scope, the film connects the prisoners’ plight with the 1898 Wilmington Massacre, an unfinished civil rights movement, and contemporary liberation movements stretching from Chile to South Africa, interweaving interviews with members of the jailed group and fellow political prisoner Assata Shakur with an intergenerational symphony of voices from Wilmington locals—giving notable space to reflections of the community’s Black women. As with several of Norman’s own projects, the result is cumulative, choruslike, and vivid, effortlessly locating intimate details within a macro understanding and critique of racist systems and structures. --Jesse Cumming *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *SFMOMA* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d1903cfb9&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30 PST, Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA *NEW FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY (Private Screening)* Hosted by Steve Anker, Mark Wilson, Linda Scobie, and Zach Iannazzi *Place d’Or*, 10min, 2023, 18fps, silent *Caracole for Izcali*, 18min, 2023, 18fps, silent *Dialogues*, 18min, 2022, 18fps, silent *Interval*, 13min, 2021, 18fps, silent *O Death*, 5min, 2023, 18fps, silent IMPORTANT – PLEASE PLAN TO ARRIVE BEFORE 6pm. Doors open at 5:30 and at 6pm the doors will close, although an attendant will remain just a few minutes longer to usher you in during the brief introductions. Once the program begins, late arriving guests will only be able to enter the theater and take their seats between films. To access the Wattis Theater, enter the museum on 3rd street. The doors to the theater are located towards the back left of the museum’s atrium, on the ground floor. This screening is not a museum event and no ticket is required to enter the atrium or theater. Please do not trouble any museum staff with questions about the screening, they will not have any information and won’t be able answer. If you would like to extend invitations to friends, we encourage this. Please send them a copy of this text or the link to the FB event, including all the above information. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b7aa298ed0&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: JENNINGS / KIRSANOFF* Humphrey Jennings, *LISTEN TO BRITAIN* (1941, 19 min, 35mm, b&w) Jennings’s film is a masterpiece of sound mixing; it creates an audio landscape of Britain during the war, with images both accompanying and conflicting with the multitude of sounds. Dimitri Kirsanoff, *MÉNILMONTANT* (1924-25, 38 min, 35mm, b&w, silent) “[T]o a remarkable degree, *MÉNILMONTANT* seems an autonomous creation, as sophisticated and demanding as any narrative film of the silent period, without obvious imitators. Although Richard Abel has astutely called attention to aspects the film shares with Abel Gance’s *LA ROUE* (1923) and Leon Moussinac’s *LE BRASIER ARDENT* (1923)…and with Jean Epstein’s *COEUR FIDELE* (1923) …any comparison of the film as a whole with those admirable works would have to underline the intensity, uniqueness, and exceptional rigor of Kirsanoff’s achievement.” –P. Adams Sitney, THE CINEMA OF POETRY Total running time: ca. 60 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=37f8ead6b4&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: LAWRENCE JORDAN* *DUO CONCERTANTES* (1962-64, 6 min, 16mm, b&w) *HAMFAT ASAR* (1965, 13 min, 16mm, b&w) *GYMNOPEDIES* (1968, 6 min, 16mm) *THE OLD HOUSE, PASSING* (1966, 45 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE* (1968, 9 min, 35mm) “With a taste for nostalgic romanticism…Jordan creates a magical universe of work using old steel engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit into the subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as a prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner self.” –Jackie Leger Total running time: ca. 85 min *FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024* *March 1 - 3* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8726dfa6eb&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET each night, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *KEN JACOBS – FROM ORCHARD STREET TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART* Fred Riedel, 2023, 98 min, DCP Film Trailer here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4f23d60751&e=857b71a9cb> Ken Jacobs is one of the titans of American experimental cinema, whose ever-expanding body of work encompasses everything from anarchic underground short films made in collaboration with Jack Smith and others beginning in the late 1950s, the structuralist landmark *TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON* (1969), and the epic, politically impassioned assemblage *STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH* (1956-2004), to his Nervous System and Nervous Magic Lantern live cinema performances and his numerous experiments with different forms of 3D image making. The enormity of Jacobs’s artistic accomplishment, the freedom with which he’s explored new technologies, new forms, and new ideas, and the degree of influence he’s exerted on other artists are such that it’s hard to believe he’s never been the subject of a feature-length documentary film portrait until now. Happily, Fred Riedel has righted that wrong with the completion of *KEN JACOBS – FROM ORCHARD STREET TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART*, which comprises a sort of illustrated guided tour through Jacobs’s life and work. Combining an extended and sometimes disarmingly personal interview with Ken and his partner in life and art, Flo Jacobs, with copious excerpts from his astonishingly multi-faceted body of moving-image work, Riedel’s film demonstrates not only Jacobs’s creative accomplishments but also his restless intelligence, his inimitable personality, and his unheralded verbal genius. “This is the third film in a series I’ve made exploring the creative process in a purposefully low-key manner that permits me an unusual degree of one-on-one intimacy with my subject over a long period of time. I have known Ken Jacobs since I was a student of his in the 1970s. I later distributed several of his films and curated screenings and collections in NY (at P.S.1, the Bleecker Street Cinema, NYPL, etc.) which included his work. It was primarily his films, especially *TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON* (1969), that changed my view of cinema and led me back to his art again and again. At an outdoor screening Ken presented at MoMA during the pandemic I was struck by the sudden realization that I needed to make this film.” –Fred Riedel Plus: Ken Jacobs *DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE* 2023, 8.5 min, digital Total running time: ca. 110 min. Director Fred Riedel will be here in person for all three screenings, and will be joined by Ken Jacobs on Sat, Mar 2 *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Toy Sheep microcinema* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a2b0a4e74c&e=857b71a9cb> 8:30 Eastern, Appalachian Theater, 559 West King St, Boone, NC *STRANGE ARCHIVES* Durham Cinematheque presents STRANGE ARCHIVES, featuring *Interviewed*."Formed around six anonymous interviews filmed in Salt Lake City in December of 1960, *Interviewed* is not a documentary, but an archival extrapolation created by film maker Tom Whiteside and audio artist Khristian Weeks. Each interview is one continuous take, presented uncut, with supplementary material added to create breathing room for the viewer. This 62 minute film will be preceded by two shorts from the Durham Cinematheque collection. Admission is free, donations accepted. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *No Name Cinema* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a8267404e&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *LIGHT MATTER FILM FESTIVAL TRAVELING PROGRAM* Tucked away in the village of Alfred in rural western New York, the experimental film and media arts festival Light Matter has become “a major East Coast showcase for experimental film and video” in three short years. Spurred by a desire to bring together the often disconnected worlds of Film and Media Arts, curator James Hansen constructs thoughtful, eccentric programs that seek to create conversation between individual works, showcasing both emerging and established artists.... In 2024, Light Matter is taking its show on the road, with stops in Santa Fe, NYC and Chicago. Spanning a host of mediums, medias, and styles, “this festival regards experimental media less as a genre and more as an open question, a form whose identity flickers into being at the moment when light hits the screen.” This traveling program is for any film lover with a sense of adventure, a tolerance for flicker, and an open mind. Featuring short films and videos by Eduardo Gutierrez (Peru), Laura Kraning (USA), Jude Abu Zaineh (Canada/Palestine), Simon Payne (UK), Valentin Sismann (France), Michael Lyons (Japan), Tina Sulc Resnik (Slovenia), Lorelei d’Andriole (USA), Teri Carson (Mexico), Joanna & Mark Byrne (UK), Esperanza Collado (Spain), Abinadi Meza (USA/Mexico), Bridget Coderc (UK), and Linnea Nugent (USA) Curator James Hansen in attendance from NY + post-screening Q&A! *SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Pacific Film Archive* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=26af3c93d6&e=857b71a9cb> 4PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *48* Susana de Sousa Dias, B&W, DCP, 93min, 2009, Portuguese with English subtitles Susana de Sousa Dias’s remarkable, hypnotic film is composed of photographs from the archive of the Portuguese army, taken upon the arrest of political prisoners during the forty-eight years of dictatorial regime in Portugal and its colonies (1926–74). As prisoners stare out at us, we hear their reflections on their time in prison, recorded by de Sousa Dias decades after the Carnation Revolution, and are invited to contemplate what a photograph reveals and what it conceals. A sequence featuring testimony of Mozambican anticolonial resistance fighters, accompanied by slowed army footage shot in Guinea-Bissau, acknowledges what is missing from the archives. Sousa Dias reflected, “I came to realize that there is a reason for the colonial wars having been a kind of taboo in Portugal for the first three decades after the Revolution: The people who had been in Africa fighting in the colonies were the very same people who carried out the revolution.” *SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Shapeshifters Cinema* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c606e8a3d8&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *GRAVITATIONAL LENSING - PREQUEL SCREENING & FUNDRAISER* March is Women's History month! And we are kicking off this month's programming with a stellar screening of films made over the past 50 years that speak to a spectrum of women's issues including mother-child relationships, mental health and self-determination. This very special screening will include the films *Schmeerguntz* (1965) by Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley, *Anything You Want to Be* (1971) by Liane Brandon, *Women and Children at Large* (1973) by Freude, *Killing Time* (1979) by Fronza Woods, *Artificial Paradise* (1986) by Chick Strand, *Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron* (1992) by Cauleen Smith, *Noa, Noa* (2006) by Lynne Sachs, *Our Voices in Reverse *(2013) by Nadia Shihab, *The Way Light Keeps its Shadow* (working title/WIP) by Vanessa Woods, and *Edge of Alchemy* (2017) by Stacey Steers. We will also have a raffle for prizes including DVDs, books, handmade art and more! All proceeds from the event will go towards supporting the forthcoming series *Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues*, that we will be launching at Shapeshifters beginning in April. Many thanks to the filmmakers and to Canyon Cinema, Pacific Film Archive and Women Make Movies for loaning films for this event! *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9e3fed3845&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=152cb0268d&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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