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This GoFundMe campaign will run through May 10, 2024 Please spread the word and donate at https://gofund.me/6dbcb337 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b43bfcd4f4&e=857b71a9cb> *THANK YOU!!!* / / / * --- * \ \ \ *This Week [April 13 - 21, 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=e6d3f619c5&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 04.15.2024 WNDX Festival of Moving Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=613b625e62&e=857b71a9cb> 04.17.2024 Oak Cliff Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f86536a5eb&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 04.18.2024 Locarno Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12350f2cf0&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 04.27.2024 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dbb08a41f2&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 04.30.2024 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=90247e4b72&e=857b71a9cb> (Seventh Deadline) 05.01.2024 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f70651d7b8&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.05.2024 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0501496801&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.10.2024 aDifferent Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ce14c5950b&e=857b71a9cb> 05.17.2024 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e9e165e27f&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.18.2024 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9524640ccf&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.30.2024 Analogica <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ed2fbb3279&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 05.31.2024 25FPS Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b9a6e5fb72&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e5f58fa16b&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 05.31.2024 Interbay Cinema Society (ICS) Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=332dc8a894&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2024 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bbd16ae1e3&e=857b71a9cb> 06.15.2024 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=156162bb6a&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.28.2024 Duluth Superior Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5636b9464d&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c7d7440d01&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - EC: Georges Méliès: Programs 1-3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3028c16e68&e=857b71a9cb> [April 13-14, New York, NY] - SF Psycho-Geography1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=51986e73b3&e=857b71a9cb> [April 13, San Francisco, CA] - Vitalina Varela <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7f76d6b54d&e=857b71a9cb> [April 14, Berkeley, CA] - Mono No Aware Community Screening Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db7fec477f&e=857b71a9cb> [April 14, New York, NY] - Margaret Tait / Luke Fowler <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c2e4b7f8c0&e=857b71a9cb> [April 14-27, New York, NY] - Mueda, Memory And Massacre <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=daa0852c46&e=857b71a9cb> [April 17, Berkeley, CA] - Ron Vawter's ‘Roy Cohn/Jack Smith’ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=37eae19359&e=857b71a9cb> [April 19-21, New York, NY] - Agnès Varda Shorts, Program 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=933642254e&e=857b71a9cb> [April 20, Berkeley, CA] - Psycho-Geography2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=103dfddda2&e=857b71a9cb> [April 20, San Francisco, CA] - Resonance Spiral <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=25ce5a7e86&e=857b71a9cb> [April 21, Berkeley, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2cec44f38e&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39c3c953b1&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2024* *April 13 - 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a7199afa79&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS: Programs 1-3* --- EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS: Programs 1 - April 13 @ 5:45pm ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b65aa8fd73&e=857b71a9cb> --- All films in this program are b&w and silent. *THE CONJUROR / L’ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE* (1899, 1 min, 35mm) *TRIP TO THE MOON / VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE* (1902, 12 min, 35mm) *THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS* (1905, 21 min, 35mm) *MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU DIABLE* (1906, 18 min, 35mm) *DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L’HUILE* (1907, 5 min, 35mm) Magician, master of special effects, Méliès broke with the realistic (Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). “All early filmmakers were fascinated at first with the camera’s possibilities for tricks and illusionism. In fact, many were magicians before becoming filmmakers. But it was Georges Méliès, the French magician, producer of spectacles, actor, artist, and poet, who had the imagination and enthusiasm to fully exploit its marvels. His films are spectacles that amaze and delight. He created fantastic visions – all of them curious, some of them comic.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Total running time: ca. 60 min --- EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS: Programs 2 - April 14 @ 4:15pm ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a5dd8d6969&e=857b71a9cb> --- The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent. *A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE* (1909, 8 min, 35mm) *THE CASCADE OF FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU* (1904, 3 min, 35mm) *VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE VOYAGE À TRAVERS L’IMPOSSIBLE* (1904, 20 min, 35mm) *THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA FÉE CARABOSSE* (1906, 13 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 50 min --- EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS: Programs 3 - April 14 @ 5:45pm ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=801293ca24&e=857b71a9cb> --- All films in this program are b&w and silent. *EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS / ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE PUITS FANTASTIQUE* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA MANCHE* (1907, 25 min, 35mm) *THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *THE DOCTOR’S SECRET / HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE* (1909, 11 min, 35mm) *SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN OU LES MESAVENTURES D’UN BUVEUR* (1909, 5 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 55 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=903031ca94&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *SF PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY1* DANIEL + PLOTNICK + GREEN/BRUNO + The first of two Psycho-Geo shows sports a sterling roster of amazing SF makers, both young and old(er). In-person are Danny Plotnick, Dana Smith, Russ Forster, and Bill Daniel...all sho' nuff art-gods walking among us! The opening half is mostly about turn-of-the-(new)-century action with a massive Mission School presence, from prodigal son Daniel's *Quake* *Scam*, to Margaret Kilgallen and Twist taggin' train cars, to Rigo throwing up SOMA billboards, and to Angerame's *SFAI* (RIP)--where many of us on this program met. Russ Forster's banjo-busking and William Wiley's billboard-art (*Void—*now at SFO) open the evening, and the first half is closed by Sam Green/Christian Bruno's *Pie Fight '69* reconstruction, just 11 days before its subject, the SF Int. Film Fest, initiates its next iteration! The second half is hand-picked from a parade of Frisco decades, from the '76 Market Street memento mori *Stolen Movie* (Baldwin), to the '85 49ers Super Bowl, to the 90s *Meet the Realtors* (Whispered Media), to the Aughts' *Lombard Luchadores* (Gorrell), to the 20-teens' *Mission* *Miracle Mile* (Smith), to the 2023 *Elevator to Stardom* (Plotnick). Come early for Waymo burnings, free postcards, and Gilbert's Shapeshifters beer, AND Bill Daniel's West Coast launch of his new *Mostly True* zine! *SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=33d7f58786&e=857b71a9cb> 4PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *VITALINA VARELA* by Pedro Costa, Portugal, 2019, 124min, DCP Vitalina Varela travels to Lisbon from Cape Verde, only to find out that her husband, from whom she has been separated for decades, was buried three days prior. Based on her own story, Varela’s emotionally potent performance delves into the grief that both drives her and haunts her. In what might be Pedro Costa’s most visually stunning work, the “society of Black Cape Verdean immigrants whom Costa films is presented as a world apart . . . enshrouded in an endless night at the margins of Portuguese society. Pushed into homelessness, forced into a cycle of crime and incarceration, relegated to substandard housing, the residents of Cova de Moura inhabit a perpetual realm of furtive darkness that offers them the cover in which to survive outside the gaze of hostile authority and the menacing chill of official indifference. . . . These immigrants [which include longtime collaborator Ventura] endure an apathy of inner colonialism, in which the hostility that they face and the exclusion in which they live has seeped into their bones and turned their energies self-consuming and self-exhausting” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). Winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno, along with the Best Actress prize for Varela. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=abccfa0f75&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAM* Featuring the world premiere of films made locally with the support of MONO in Spring 2024. This program will include films made through the educational initiatives of MONO NO AWARE, a cinema-arts nonprofit organization and film positive community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience. Established in 2007 and based in downtown Brooklyn, MONO NO AWARE presents monthly artist-in-person screenings, facilitates equipment rentals, operates a film distribution initiative, maintains wet & dry lab facilities, and hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary artists and international filmmakers whose work incorporates Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or altered light projections. For more info visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a936373d5b&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* *April 14 - 27* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b08be8f60d&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MARGARET TAIT / LUKE FOWLER* *BEING IN A PLACE – A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT* finds one of Scotland’s preeminent contemporary experimental filmmakers, Luke Fowler (whose extensive body of work includes the film cycle *A GRAMMAR FOR LISTENING*, *ALL DIVIDED SELVES*, and *ELECTRO-PYTHAGORAS*, among many others) paying tribute to one of the most illustrious of his Scottish forebears, the great Margaret Tait, whose work is still not sufficiently celebrated here in the U.S. Tait’s path to the cinema was an unusual one: her initial training was in medicine, and she practiced both abroad with the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWII and back in the UK in the late 1940s. But she had also, in the immediate postwar period, studied at the Centro Sperimentale film school in Rome. And eventually, in the early 1950s, she began making her own films, which span or combine short-form documentary, family portraiture, impressionistic experimental filmmaking, and animation. Her unconventional path – as well as her parallel identity as a writer of poetry and short stories – is reflected in her cinema, which is distinctly noncommercial, personal, and lyrical. Her body of work is also proudly local: making more than thirty films during her lifetime, Tait focused intently on the landscapes, people, and stories of Scotland, and in particular of the Orkney islands, where she was born. On the occasion of a visit to NYC from Luke Fowler in April, we’ll be screening his invaluable portrait film, *BEING IN A PLACE*, as well as a program of his own recent short films. Later in the month, we’ll host the filmmaker Ute Aurand, who introduced Tait’s work to audiences in Germany in the mid-1990s, and visited the artist herself in Orkney before her death. Following on from her presentations at the Harvard Film Archive in mid-April, Aurand will present two programs of Tait’s work here at Anthology. Very special thanks to Ute Aurand and Luke Fowler; and to Haden Guest & Alexandra Vasile (Harvard Film Archive); Hanan Coumal (LUX); Angelika Ramlow (Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst); and Calum Sutherland (The Modern Institute). Upcoming Screenings RECENT SHORT FILMS BY LUKE FOWLER <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74bc5710ae&e=857b71a9cb> April 14 at 7:30 PM Luke Fowler BEING IN A PLACE – A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=570aee8eee&e=857b71a9cb> April 15 at 7:00 PM MARGARET TAIT PGM 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=69c05cf68f&e=857b71a9cb> April 27 at 5:30 PM MARGARET TAIT PGM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5a4e0a5f25&e=857b71a9cb> April 27 at 7:30 PM *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=883d0536f4&e=857b71a9cb> 7PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *Mueda, Memory and Massacre* *Mueda: Memória e massacre*, Ruy Guerra, Mozambique, 1979, B&W, DCP, 75 mins After independence was declared, Ruy Guerra returned to Mozambique from Brazil—where he had been a key figure in the Cinema Novo movement—and helped establish the National Film Institute. His depiction of a reenactment of the 1960 Mueda massacre, which triggered the war of independence, was the first feature-length film of Mozambican cinema. Hundreds of people were killed when Portuguese troops fired on peaceful demonstrators protesting the arrest of two exiles. Locals, including survivors who also offer testimony, participate in this regularly staged political theater, playing both the victims and the oppressors. preceded by *Nhinguitimo*, Licínio Azevedo, Mozambique, 2021, B&W, Digital, 23 mins Tensions over dispossession of rural land unfold in this fictional reconstruction, as a farmworker rebels against colonizers. *Makwayela*, Jacques d’Arthuys, Jean Rouch, France, Mozambique, 1977, Color, 35mm, 18 mins Workers sing and dance as a form of protest in the only film record of the training workshops Jean Rouch and a team of filmmakers held at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. *FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024* *April 19 - 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5a729ebbce&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *RON VAWTER’S ‘ROY COHN/JACK SMITH’* Anthology Film Archives and Electronic Arts Intermix honor the legacy of Ron Vawter, a leading presence in downtown theater, as well as film and video, from the start of his career in the mid-1970s until his premature death from AIDS-related causes 30 years ago, in April 1994. Born into a military family (his father was a Green Beret and his mother was a WAVE during World War II), Vawter was given enlistment papers for his 17th birthday. Eventually, the Vietnam War-era enlistee discovered LSD and, later, avant-garde theater. Quitting the military, Vawter joined The Performance Group, the downtown theater troupe founded by Richard Schechner, from which The Wooster Group emerged. A founding member of the Wooster Group, Vawter, together with Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Kate Valk, and others, under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, would create some of the most indelible pieces in the legendary experimental theater group’s repertoire. In addition, Vawter performed in theater pieces by Richard Foreman, Mabou Mines, and Jeff Weiss. Although devoted to theater, Vawter also delivered memorable performances as a character actor in film and television, appearing in groundbreaking feature films by Michael Almereyda, Lizzie Borden, Shu Lea Cheang, Jonathan Demme, Tom DiCillo, Bette Gordon, Tom Kalin, Michael Oblowitz, Peter Sellars, and Stephen Soderbergh – including *BORN IN FLAMES*, *SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE*, *THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS*, and *SWOON*. He collaborated on many short works as well, with artists and independent film- and video-makers such as Joan Jonas, Ken Kobland, Mark Rappaport, Leslie Thornton, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto. Vawter may be best remembered for his innovative and renowned two-part solo performance piece *ROY COHN/JACK SMITH*, in which he, as a gay man living with AIDS, portrayed two very different queer men, both of whom had recently died due to the virus. In the first part, written by Gary Indiana, Vawter brilliantly embodied the sleazy right wing lawyer Roy Cohn, a chief architect of McCarthyism and later mentor to Donald Trump. The second part saw Vawter uncannily recreate a 1981 performance by underground artist Jack Smith, *WHAT’S UNDERGROUND ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS?* Directed by Greg Mehrten and created with Clay Shirky and Marianne Weems, Vawter’s groundbreaking *ROY COHN/JACK SMITH* would become one of the defining artistic achievements of the 1990s. These screenings at Anthology offer three different entry points into Vawter’s masterwork. Gea Kalthegener and Douglas Ferguson’s documentary portrait *FREE FALL* follows Vawter backstage during what would be one of his final performances of *ROY COHN/JACK SMITH*. Video documentation of a 1992 performance of *ROY COHN/JACK SMITH* captures the legendary piece as it was first seen by audiences. Finally, Jill Godmilow’s 1994 film version re-edits and re-invents Vawter’s theater performance for the cinema. Newly digitized, *FREE FALL* will screen for the first time in nearly 20 years, while Godmilow’s film version of *ROY COHN/JACK SMITH* will screen in a new preservation from the Academy Film Archive. This tribute to Ron Vawter is co-presented with Electronic Arts Intermix, which will host a free screening of Vawter’s collaborations with artists in video. To see Ron Vawter in work by The Wooster Group, please visit www.thewoostergroup.org. Special thanks to Douglas Ferguson; Jill Godmilow; Clay Hapaz (The Wooster Group); Greg Mehrten; Sandra Schulberg (IndieCollect); and Mark Toscano & Edda Manriquez (Academy Film Archive). *Upcoming Screenings* Gea Kalthegener & Douglas Ferguson FREE FALL <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f14032eb71&e=857b71a9cb> April 19 at 7:30 PM ROY COHN/JACK SMITH (Live Stage Recording) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5ae51000a3&e=857b71a9cb> April 20 at 5:30 PM April 21 at 8:00 PM Jill Godmilow ROY COHN/JACK SMITH <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c2035e6272&e=857b71a9cb> April 20 at 8:00 PM April 21 at 5:30 PM *SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0da94d1f80&e=857b71a9cb> 4:30PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *Agnès Varda Shorts, Program 2* Agnès Varda’s daughter, Rosalie Varda, helped with the posthumous completion of a very precious film her mother made with the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini at the time of the 1966 New York Film Festival. A snapshot of Bay Area hippiedom in full flower, *Uncle Yanco* is a portrait of Varda’s relative, Sausalito artist Jean Varda (to whom the filmmaker was introduced by former PFA curator and film producer Tom Luddy). The film’s images are as vibrant as Yanco’s paintings and the man himself. An important document of a different facet of Bay Area culture, *Black Panthers* depicts rallies in Oakland demanding Huey Newton’s release from prison and features activists, including Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver, and Newton. *La réponse de femmes* is a feminist “ciné-tract,” a series of frontal tableaux in response to the question, What does it mean to be a woman? In *Plaisir d’amour en Iran*, filmed in Isfahan, Iran, Varda considers the relationship between eros and architecture, sacred and profane. For *Ulysse* she interviews the subjects of a photograph she took nearly three decades earlier. And with *Les dites cariatides*, Varda contemplates the sculpted women who support doorways and lintels along the streets of Paris, invoking Charles Baudelaire’s “dream of stone.” *Tribute to Zgougou* is a lovely example of the highly personal and intimate films Varda made through the years. *Agnès Varda—Pier Paolo Pasolini—New York—1967*, Agnès Varda, France, 2022, Color, DCP, 4min *Uncle Yanco (Oncle Yanco)*, Agnès Varda, United States, 1967, Color, DCP, 20min *Black Panthers*, Agnès Varda, United States, 1968, Color, DCP, 30min *La réponse de femmes (Women’s Answer)*, Agnès Varda, France, 1975, Color, DCP, 8min *Plaisir d’amour en Iran, Agnès Varda*, France, 1976, Color, DCP, 6min *Ulysse*, Agnès Varda, France, 1983, B&W, DCP, 22min *Les dites cariatides*, Agnès Varda, France, 1984, Color, DCP, 12min *Tribute to Zgougou*, Agnès Varda, France, 2002, Color, Digital, 2min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d21102699&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY2* DAVID COX: TRAUM EUROPA + LASLEY + RHODY/SMITH + The second half of our Neo-Geo double-header is all about the world-at-LARGE, with a dozen expansive cine-essays, ranging from the Sri Lanka civil war to Texas-toasted digital dystopias. Mission maestro David Cox anchors the evening with his exploded-tabletop live-triagrammed *Traum Europa**,* an enacted micro/meta-history of Europe's shifting relations of Nation and Identity. Closer to home, tho still Great Plains-otherworldly, Justin Rhody and Abby Smith are here in person, back from from Santa Fe with their tableaux vivant poem *Interior Frontier**.* Their New Mexico comrade Ben Kujawski's also here in the flesh, with his sublimely soulful *Empty House**,* and Valencia/Clarion Alley veteran Julie Murray shares her Chicago souvenir *Haversine*. Sarah Lasley, whose 3-D animation, *Welcome to the Enclave*, clues us to our future virtual-realities, while Rajee Samarasinghe's *Strangers* reminds us of the utter human-scale poignancy of lived moments in the Indian sub-continent*.* PLUS Ann Deborah Levy's *Rain Painting**,* sky-tram dollies into the Alps, Canadian oil-wastelands, and more. *SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b9f9f91bf4&e=857b71a9cb> 5PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *Resonance Spiral* by Filipa César, Marinho de Pina, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, Germany, 2023, Color, Digital, 92min Centrifugal movement was an expression once used to describe the tactical and situated beginnings of an anticolonial armed struggle. In a flow of gestures and recurrences, a building is collectively imagined and constructed in the traditional community of the militant filmmaker Sana na N’Hada. Intertwining the local dreams and cine-kins’ visions, *Resonance Spiral* traverses moments at the newly manufactured community space in Malafo. Old plans for a videoteque are revisited and materialize a mediateca. The women from the Satna Fai association listen to forgotten voices and rest from millennia of abuse. An informal sewing workshop, an experimental garden, a bibliotera, and a preschool take up space. Adolescents voice a circle and sound self-built instruments. At the well a discussion is staged about mud medicine. Cine-kins undermine their agencies and distrust neo-liberal slogans. Hope-hearted, seeking to flip verticalities into horizon lines, the collective slides through what lies ahead. Onshore. Abotcha. Na tchon. Humus, humans, humbled, humiliated by humanity. -Filipa César preceded by *Mined Soil*, Filipa César, Germany, Portugal, 2012–14, Color, Digital, 34min A film essay/performance on the “memory of the soil,” which explores Amílcar Cabral’s time working as an agronomist and subversive political activist. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=270a82cd4a&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=c7e7cad385&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=316a8fc286&e=857b71a9cb> . 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