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Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1e8659a492&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d4748be433&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Afterimage: Counter Cinema, Radical Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6d5ceb8181&e=857b71a9cb> [March 4-17, New York, NY] - Breathscapes <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cd78cf8454&e=857b71a9cb> [March 16, Boston, MA] - Sisters' Pictures <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d14c9921ff&e=857b71a9cb> [March 16, San Francisco, CA] - Connectivity Through Cinema Presents: Picture Enlarged To Show Detail <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c7f3d74d11&e=857b71a9cb> [March 17, Brooklyn, NY] - Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b578a49feb&e=857b71a9cb> [March 21, Berkeley, CA] - A Common Sequence <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d507c647b6&e=857b71a9cb> [March 22-24, New York, NY] - This Room Is Nothing Without You - Experimental And Expanded Animation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=44a353c91d&e=857b71a9cb> [March 23, Oakland, CA] - Best of Fest Feast <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9334c17d5f&e=857b71a9cb> [March 23, San Francisco, CA] - EC: Kubelka / Lye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b6af39ced&e=857b71a9cb> [March 24, New York, NY] - Luther Price: New Utopia And Light Fracture, Remembering Luther Price I <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=abdb023632&e=857b71a9cb> [March 24, San Francisco, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42699952fe&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=60990efd1a&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE MARCH 16, 2024* *March 4 - 17* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d13bc7901e&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *AFTERIMAGE: COUNTER CINEMA, RADICAL CINEMA* “This series of screenings celebrates the publication by The Visible Press of “The Afterimage Reader”, a selection of editorials, essays, interviews, and filmmakers’ statements from the British film journal Afterimage, which was published irregularly between 1970 and 1987. Afterimage was founded on the principle of an on-going commitment to avant-garde cinema, to radical cinema, to ‘new’ cinema understood both aesthetically and politically. Afterimage emphasized the importance of the writings of filmmakers themselves. Over 13 issues, alongside critical essays by important critics such as Noël Burch, B. Ruby Rich, and Regina Cornwell, it published manifestoes, scripts, theoretical texts, polemical essays from filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, Glauber Rocha, Julio García Espinosa, Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey, Malcolm Le Grice, Yvonne Rainer, Raúl Ruiz, Stephen Dwoskin, Jan Švankmajer, and many others, as well as by important precursors for a radical cinema like Dziga Vertov and Jean Epstein. Special issues were devoted to Michael Snow and to Derek Jarman. Each publication was effectively a special issue around a theme or filmmaker. Presenting this series at Anthology Film Archives offers the opportunity to acknowledge how indebted Afterimage was to Film Culture magazine. It was a model for us of a partisan publication that came to be deeply committed to the promotion and representation of the New American Cinema and its rich avant-garde manifestations of the 1960s and 1970s. Afterimage similarly prided itself on its design. So just as important was our admiration of the handsome issues of Film Culture designed by Fluxus founder George Maciunas. As a consequence of this influence every issue of Afterimage had a distinctive and different design with title pages and full-bleed images. If the first six issues circled around the ‘two avant-gardes’ and debates in cinema theory, later issues continued the commitment to new, radical cinema but also considered ‘neglected’ works and figures, like *BORDERLINE* in the past and – at the time of publication – Raúl Ruiz. Toward the end of Afterimage’s run, new editorial energies steered us in the direction of ‘troublesome cases’: first a festschrift on Derek Jarman, then our final issue featuring the Quay Brothers, Švankmajer, Bokanowski, and other visionary animators.” –Simon Field “The Afterimage Reader” will be available at Anthology for a discounted price during the series. For more details on this and other books from The Visible Press, visit www.thevisiblepress.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=76747705c9&e=857b71a9cb> “Afterimage: Counter Cinema, Radical Cinema” is curated by Simon Field and Mark Webber with Jed Rapfogel. Special thanks to Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive). Simon Field and Mark Webber will be here in person to introduce selected screenings! Thanks as well to Bret Berg (AGFA); Hanan Coumal (LUX); Jack Durwood (Paramount); Matthieu Grimault (Cinémathèque française); ISKRA; Brett Kashmere & Seth Mitter (Canyon Cinema); James Mackay; Laura Mulvey; Beth Rennie (George Eastman Museum); Elena Rossi-Snook (NYPL); Emily Russo (Zeitgeist Films); Valeria Sarmiento; Katie Trainor & James Layton (MoMA); Pedro Lijeron Vargas (Fundación Grupo Ukamau); George Watson (BFI); Todd Wiener & Steven Hill (UCLA Film & Television Archive); and Klaus Wyborny. *Upcoming Screenings* AFTERIMAGE NO. 1, PGM 1: BRITISH SOUNDS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0c155a772d&e=857b71a9cb> March 4 at 7:00 PM March 15 at 7:00 PM March 17 at 5:30 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 1, PGM 2: THE BIG FLAME <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0493be8a97&e=857b71a9cb> March 4 at 9:00 PM March 15 at 8:30 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 2: MARE'S TAIL <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2d4140318a&e=857b71a9cb> March 5 at 7:00 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 3: BLOOD OF THE CONDOR <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8444053968&e=857b71a9cb> March 6 at 7:00 PM March 11 at 6:45 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 4: FOR A NEW CINEMA: HOLLIS FRAMPTON / PAUL SHARITS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3cf1f36b7e&e=857b71a9cb> March 7 at 7:00 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 5: SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=06d533be88&e=857b71a9cb> March 7 at 9:00 PM March 11 at 8:45 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 6: PENTHESILEA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d9a68080c&e=857b71a9cb> March 8 at 6:30 PM March 12 at 7:30 PM March 16 at 8:30 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 7: KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ddafd6bdf&e=857b71a9cb> March 8 at 9:15 PM March 13 at 6:45 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 8/9, PGM 1: THE BIRTH OF A NATION (Klaus Wyborny) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7030a61925&e=857b71a9cb> March 9 at 4:00 PM March 16 at 6:45 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 8/9, PGM 2: PERSPECTIVE CORRECTION <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f6f09922ce&e=857b71a9cb> March 9 at 6:00 PM March 17 at 7:15 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 10: THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b8e1a2edf4&e=857b71a9cb> March 9 at 8:30 PM March 13 at 9:00 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 11: SIGHTING SNOW <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d00c4103be&e=857b71a9cb> March 10 at 4:00 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 12: IMAGINING OCTOBER + BORDERLINE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4bf26a3f3d&e=857b71a9cb> March 10 at 6:00 PM March 14 at 9:00 PM AFTERIMAGE NO. 13: THE ANGEL <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2d2db9a21b&e=857b71a9cb> March 10 at 8:30 PM March 14 at 7:00 PM *SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Revolutions Per Minute Festival* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0813ed599d&e=857b71a9cb> 9 pm ET, Harvard Fas CAMLab Lower Auditorium 485 Broadway Cambridge MA 02138 *BREATHSCAPES* Thirteen experimental works that take us on a journey into landscapes of ‘cinematic breath.’ Piercing through layers of cinematic materiality and consciousness, the films in this program explore the embodied and affective materialities of the medium. Remediating the world through memory, absence, loss, rapture, longing, they collectively evoke a 'breathful' poetics of cinema. This program, curated by Kalpana Subramanian features works by Sandeep Ashwath, Louise Bourque, Crystal Z Campbell, Erin Espelie, Ja’tovia Gary, Janie Geiser, Anna Kipervaser, Lynn Marie Kirby, Kim Munro, Peter Rose, Lei Lei + Thomas Sauvin and Erica Sheu. Sponsored by RPM Festival, Harvard FAS CAMLab, Art and Art History Department & Cinema Studies Program at UMB, SCMS ExFM SIG (Society for Cinema and Media Studies). *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Other Cinema* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f921983664&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *SISTERS' PICTURES* HUGHES + GRUFFAT + SACHS/WATERS/GUEVARA-FLANAGAN + Utterly inspiring are the creative responses by US women artists--both individually and collectively-- to last year's deplorable dismantling of Roe Vs. Wade. Now, the opening half of our annual SisPix show is proud enough to boast a diverse selection of resonant pieces from contemporary female makers on a variety of women's issues, tho we're equally honored to dedicate the evening's latter half to the initial group screening of the Abortion Clinic Film Collective's righteous howls of rage! So, in the first 40 mins. of (mostly) new work we'll be treated to Salise Hughes' *Big Daddy Learns a Lesson (Essay)*, Sabine Gruffat's *Moving or Being Moved*, Christina Ibarra's *Dirty Laundry*, Kate Novack's *Hysterical Girl*, and more! Then our second block sets out to amplify the angry voices and visions of of a newly developing network of fierce feminists producing protest pieces to rally our will to resist the retrograde forces raiding our hard-won rights. Among that cadre is Lynne Sachs, Sasha Freyer Waters, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Ray Rea, Doan Hoang Curtis, Kelly Gallagher, and Courtney Stephens! $10-100 fund-raiser for the Ntl. Network of Abortion Funds non-profit. Celebrate Women's History Month! *SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *MONO NO AWARE* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f392426cbc&e=857b71a9cb> 7 PM EST, 72 Rockwell Place, Brooklyn, New York *CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS: PICTURE ENLARGED TO SHOW DETAIL A PROGRAM OF WORKS ON FILM BY BRUNO DELGADO RAMO * IN PERSON** Picture Enlarged To Show Detail consists of several works on film by Bruno Delgado Ramo plus two site-specific cinema-based performances which ushers in the event itself, pointing out the body dimension of film presentation. *Expectation In the Air* continues this reflection playing with the required conditions for projection to show up. *Practicaje/Frame Lift* and *Unabridged Maneuver* take up in-camera editing as a form of on-site investigation into several harbouring areas conceived as technical spaces while examining the double sense of manoeuvre as the material operations carried out with one’s hands and the procedures on board when approaching a harbour. Bruno Delgado Ramo is a filmmaker and artist-researcher who explores site-specific features and incorporates them into his films and screening arrangements. He devises his work as research grounded in material and experimental practice of cinema means, leading to films, installations, live proposals and text matter. His work has been internationally presented at film festivals and art spaces. The CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA series will present the work of artists, film-makers and curators who are traveling or presenting special interactive programs in-person. Our hope is to engage the community by showing work with a focus on post-screening discussion. This series is made possible by support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). *THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Pacific Film Archive* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9dd1ae1b23&e=857b71a9cb> 7PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *KUXA KANEMA: THE BIRTH OF CINEMA* After five hundred years of Portuguese colonial rule, Mozambique was one of the last African countries to gain independence. President Samora Machel’s first cultural act was to establish the National Institute of Cinema, which produced weekly newsreels—Kuxa Kanema—for and about the people. Mobile cinema units reminiscent of Aleksandr Medvedkin’s cine-trains, traveled around the country to engage people with what it means to be free in an independent nation. When filmmaker Margarida Cardoso visited the institute, it was already in ruins, but she discovered newsreel footage in an abandoned building. Interviews with filmmakers who were involved with the institute—including Licínio Azevedo, Jose Cardoso, and Ruy Guerra—and sequences from the newsreels bear witness to the birth of Mozambique’s cinema in concert with the birth of the nation. *Kuxa Kanema: O nascimento do cinema*, Margarida Cardoso, Mozambique, Portugal, 2003, 52 minutes - preceded by - *Conakry*, Filipa César, Grada Kilomba, Diana McCarty, Germany, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, 2013, 11 minutes *Nossa terra*, Mario Marret, Guinea-Bissau, 1966, 35 minutes *FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024* *March 22 - 24* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=843444ecc9&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET each night, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *A COMMON SEQUENCE* by Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser, 2023, 78 min, DCP SPECIAL SCREENINGS! FILMMAKERS IN PERSON! In the wake of our February survey of Mary Helena Clark’s short films, we’re delighted to follow up by showcasing the 2023 feature-length collaboration between Clark and Mike Gibisser. *A COMMON SEQUENCE* examines shifts of life and labor through a critically-endangered salamander and plant patents in the apple industry. Weaving the stories of Dominican nuns running a conservation lab, a group of fishermen attempting to live off of a depleting lake, engineers developing AI-driven harvesting machines, and an indigenous biomedical researcher resisting the commodification of human DNA, the film becomes a meditation on the shifting border between the natural and unnatural world, and the dynamics of power at play. “Within the human struggle to live and work, and with the materials for survival available for exploitation, seemingly foreign worlds are intertwined in the modern battlefield of patents, ownership, and colonialism. Delving into labor and science practices, *A COMMON SEQUENCE* examines who gets to work with the essentials of life – saving animals from extinction, researching medicine, harvesting food, coding the genome – in our modern world controlled by data. Clark and Gibisser take us to the areas and people involved in these physical and political worlds with an intuitive visual style, letting the audience experience each location’s atmosphere. Take the achoque salamander, which can regenerate limbs and even its heart, the intellectual property rights for apple trees, and the commodification of human DNA. The film eloquently guides us through the philosophy of what is ‘common’ to everyone in nature and the complicated pursuits of owning materials of the planet and even our bodies, whether for conservation or for sale.” –Mike Plante *SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Shapeshifters Cinema* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e25d37c2be&e=857b71a9cb> 6-9pm PT, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *THIS ROOM IS NOTHING WITHOUT YOU - EXPERIMENTAL AND EXPANDED ANIMATION* *This Room is Nothing Without You* is a program of experimental and expanded animation works by Bay Area artists Meghana Bisineer, Lydia Greer, Kathleen Quillian & Jeremy Rourke that was originally going to be presented as part of Bay Area Now 9 cinema programming. In light of YBCA's response to the eight BAN9 artists' *Love Letter to Gaza* protest action on February 15, 2024, the collective has withdrawn from participating in YBCA's programming and have instead decided to share the work and conversations at Shapeshifters Cinema with proceeds going towards humanitarian aid in Gaza. The artists have also chosen to include short animations by Yasmeen Abedifard and Ola Abdel Latif Barakat whose works both resonate with their own and that also speak to critical issues of the day. The program will conclude with a conversation between the artists and curators Kathleen Maguire and Gina Basso. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Other Cinema* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=45981ef69b&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *BEST OF FEST FEAST* COSMIC RAY SIGHTINGS: SEARS + SOLONDZ + STEPHENS + We're psyched to collaborate with our sister microcinema project on the Other side of the country, Cosmic Rays, which has established a much-need node of experimental-film exhibition in the Chapel Hill, NC area! Bill Brown, Sabine Gruffat, and John Winn not only curate their cutting-edge Festival of new regional--and international--art-films, but are now also circulating must-see tours of the very Best of their Fest! And that's what's streaking across our screen tonight: Kelly Sears' speculative animation *Phase II*, Joshua Solond*z*' tapestry of shredded celluloid *NE Corridor*, Courtney Stephens' mother's wail for reproductive rights *Lesser Choices*, Wenhua Sh*i*'s social-media weave *Because the Sky Is Blue*, Nicolas Gebbe's claustrophobic *Lockdown Dreamscape*, Waime Haddad's suspended-time *Hors Titres*, Camila Moreiras' post-plutonium poem *Sine Dies*, Alina Taalman*'*s strange dream *Pre-Arranged Signal*, Merette Mueller's prison experiment *Blue Room*, and Pere Ginard's underwater inventory *Sightings*. PLUS some local cine-spices sprinkled on top of this special movable feast! *SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *Anthology Film Archives* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=57b9c55d2e&e=857b71a9cb> 5:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: KUBELKA / LYE* Peter Kubelka *MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN* (1955, 16 min, 35mm, Made in collaboration with Ferry Radax.) *ADEBAR* (1957, 1 min, 35mm) *SCHWECHATER* (1958, 1 min, 16mm) *ARNULF RAINER* (1960, 7 min, 35mm) *OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE* (1966, 12 min, 16mm) “Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world’s greatest filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above all else…etcetera.” –Stan Brakhage Len Lye *TUSALAVA* (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent) *RHYTHM* (1957, 1 min, 16mm) *FREE RADICALS* (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm) A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of ‘scratch’ or ‘direct’ filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film’s surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms. Total running time: ca. 60 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* *San Francisco Cinematheque* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=33d45b8a1c&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, CounterPulse, 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA *LUTHER PRICE: NEW UTOPIA AND LIGHT FRACTURE, REMEMBERING LUTHER PRICE I* Presented in association with CounterPulse, Tara Merenda Nelson in person In celebration of Visual Studies Workshop’s publication of *Luther Price: New Utopia and Light Fracture*, Cinematheque is thrilled to welcome VSW’s Tara Merenda Nelson to present the slide work of Luther Price. A related program: *Remembering Luther Price II: Two Films by Tom Rhoads* will screen at Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland on Thursday, March 28. Luther Price (1962–2020) was a filmmaker known for deeply personal and aggressively visceral film work. His early Super-8 films (some made as pre-Luther identity Tom Rhoads), including *Jellyfish Sandwich*, *Sodom*, *Green* and *Warm Broth*, enacted primal domestic psychodramas and/or probed the psychosexual extremes of physical experience while later 16mm found footage and hand-painted film work was equally overwhelming in its obsessive physicality. In the last decade of his life, Price created breathtaking collages on 35mm slides, combining the techniques he had mastered in his film works to culminate in single frame compositions—“rotted slides, slides of hair and dust, slides of dead ants, slides made from old strips of film, slides filled with colored sugar*” Virtually unseen locally, Price’s stunning work with slides is documented in Visual Studies Workshop’s *Luther Price: New Utopia and Light Fracture*, a 2023 publication featuring copious images derived from the depths of Price’s 35mm collages as well as intimate email correspondence from Price to VSW editor Tate Shaw 2017–18 and an essay by Ed Halter of Light Industry, Brooklyn. In celebration of this publication, Cinematheque is thrilled to present two sets of Price’s double-projected slides — *New Utopia* and *Light Fracture* (both 2017) and to welcome Visual Studies Workshop’s Tara Merenda Nelson to speak on the publication, the slides and on Price. Two Super-8 films by Price — *Clown* (1990–2002) and the infamous *Sodom* (1989) — will also screen. *quotation from Ed Halter: *Yesterday Once More*, published in *Luther Price: New Utopia and Light Fracture*. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9ce4f1b86a&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=c4c0dccdfb&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *Artists' Moving Image Works* 6x6 project is an online artists' community that serves as a platform for disseminating artists' moving image works, and to create an ever-growing network among peers. There are now more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works available to view on the website. ------------------------------ *Let us know about your alternative film/video event!* Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aea2cd82f0&e=857b71a9cb> . 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