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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=7f0d737745&e=857b71a9cb> *THANK YOU!!!* / / / * --- * \ \ \ *This Week [April 20 - 28, 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=6fae1aee4e&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 04.27.2024 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=97add111f0&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 04.30.2024 Cindependent Film Festival – NEW Experimental Section <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42976ab99b&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 04.30.2024 WNDX Festival of Moving Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4d7f813e2b&e=857b71a9cb> 04.30.2024 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8862531aac&e=857b71a9cb> (Seventh Deadline) 05.01.2024 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1e75938c6c&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.03.2024 Locarno Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f75d147dfd&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=dfc5a18399&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.10.2024 aDifferent Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7fcf9e4a29&e=857b71a9cb> 05.17.2024 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8017595ba4&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.18.2024 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=420ec7e8ff&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.30.2024 Analogica <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4dbb900188&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 05.31.2024 25FPS Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b76fa761f&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9ec75099aa&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=24bb554746&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2024 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4f4b2dae2d&e=857b71a9cb> 06.15.2024 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9eb863a3da&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.28.2024 Duluth Superior Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12b8b6a80f&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15cbfcc47d&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Margaret Tait / Luke Fowler <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a64a15dd73&e=857b71a9cb> [April 14-27, New York, NY] - Ron Vawter's ‘Roy Cohn/Jack Smith’ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d4948afc0&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=5b118fc3e2&e=857b71a9cb> [April 20, Berkeley, CA] - Psycho-Geography2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0623c06c59&e=857b71a9cb> [April 20, San Francisco, CA] - Resonance Spiral <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=06381847e1&e=857b71a9cb> [April 21, Berkeley, CA] - Takashi Makino (Japan) In Toronto <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=daa1a8b1e5&e=857b71a9cb> [April 22, Toronto, ON, Canada] - Spell Reel <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=04cf998bf9&e=857b71a9cb> [April 23, Berkeley, CA] - Millennium Film Journal No. 79 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cb3e29d4d2&e=857b71a9cb> [April 23, New York, NY] - Craig Baldwin (In Person!) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=91bf190a21&e=857b71a9cb> [April 23, Santa Fe, NM] - Walking Archives: Thoughts On Mangroves, Schools, Round Houses, And Weaving <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=84794ff4f9&e=857b71a9cb> [April 24, Berkeley, CA] - EC: Sidney Peterson <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=14437ffa1c&e=857b71a9cb> [April 24, New York, NY] - Bill Morrison Special Exhibition <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=217d4dd8c8&e=857b71a9cb> [April 24-28, Seoul, South Korea] - Prism, Beyond Cinema, Busan Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d395017b8d&e=857b71a9cb> [April 25-30, Busan, South Korea] - Shinkichi Tajiri <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=431706a586&e=857b71a9cb> [April 25, New York, NY] - Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83eceb7061&e=857b71a9cb> [April 26-28, Oklahoma City, OK] - RE-MIX SATIRIX <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=363d705121&e=857b71a9cb> [April 27, San Francisco, CA] - EC: O’Neill / Richter / Sharits <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ca049e663d&e=857b71a9cb> [April 28, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11f8663097&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2468376c68&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024* *April 14 - 27* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a34ed3486e&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=b3f502dfbc&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=f7be655749&e=857b71a9cb> April 15 at 7:00 PM MARGARET TAIT PGM 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc0e1d05e4&e=857b71a9cb> April 27 at 5:30 PM MARGARET TAIT PGM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9993b7edbe&e=857b71a9cb> April 27 at 7:30 PM *___________________________________________________________________* *April 19 - 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cacfb3ef82&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=43dcf49b35&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=d624ab05c5&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=f7c2a0de3d&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=b0e9baf5f7&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=3bf619beef&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=71149fd3dd&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. *MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* PIX FILM Collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=911a95f1d6&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, PIX FILM Gallery, 1411 Dufferin St Unit C, Toronto, ON *Takashi Makino (Japan) In Toronto* Presented by PIX FILM Collective in Collaboration with OKla.quebec and The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto ( LIFT ). Screening and 16mm Film + Digital Performance by Takashi Makino, considered to be one of the most influential Japanese moving-image artists of his generation. *Microcosmos* / 2021 / stereo / digital / 4:3 / 12min / a non-narrative experimental documentary film that records 100 collages produced by Makino in 2021 in chronological order. 30-minute Film+Digital Performance - *Space Noise 3D* *Memento Stella* / 2018 / Digital / 60min / an original phrase I coined to remind me to “remember the stars” and “never forget that we too reside among the stars.” – Takashi Makino *TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=60036d5621&e=857b71a9cb> 7PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *Spell Reel* Filipa César, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, 2017, 96min, digital Portuguese artist Filipa César’s *Spell Reel* is “the result of a multifaceted research and digitization project that she initiated in 2011 with Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes. Having studied film in Cuba, the two began using the camera to observe the fight for independence [from Portugal] in Guinea-Bissau (1963–74). After the decaying visual and audio material was digitized in Berlin, the filmmakers travelled with a mobile cinema to the places where the footage had originally been shot and showed it to audiences for the first time, adding their own commentary. . . . *Spell Reel* watches an archive at work to produce the present” (Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Arsenal—Institute for Film and Video). *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b0835d299&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 79* This program consists of recent short films covered in Millennium Film Journal No. 79. Descriptive texts below are excerpted from the issue. The Millennium Film Workshop gratefully acknowledges support for the Millennium Film Journal by the following individuals and organizations: Deborah and Dan Duane; Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation; Anonymous donors; and New York State Council on the Arts. If you’d like to support the publication of the Millennium Film Journal with a tax deductible gift, please access https://millenniumfilmjournal.com/donations/donation-form <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=308e78a3b1&e=857b71a9cb> Takeshi Murata & Christopher Rutledge *LARRY* U.S., 2023, 4 min, digital “To the rhythm of blaring electronic beats, the titular CGI canine emerges. Larry sheds skins, liquifies like molten volcanic lava, swims, multiplies, frays at the edges, solidifies into plastic, becomes a 3D model, and finally adopts the form of other animals before dissolving into a Lynda Benglis-like pour of digital goo.” –Rachel Valinsky Steve Reinke *SUNDOWN* Canada, 2023, 8 min, digital “Drawing out a constellation of memories, observations, and more philosophical reflections on the ways that art processes inevitable death, Reinke ponders the strange feeling of seeing a retrospective of his own work installed in Vienna – retrospective, is, after all, one way of calling narrative to a close.” –Rachel Valinsky Wayne Koestenbaum *STIGMA PUDDING* U.S., 2023, 6 min, digital “Over the last five years, Wayne’s made more than 200 short films, but *STIGMA PUDDING* is the first which combines original painting with digital video. Now that he’s at last put felt-tip to film-stock, he’s created something more opulent and vivid, remarkable for ‘the increasing vibrance of the color’ and ‘the peculiarity and individuation of the marks.’” –Nick Gamso Kevin Jerome Everson *BOYD V. DENTON* U.S., 2023, 3 min, digital “BOYD V. DENTON is titled after the court case mandating the closure of the prison in 1990. Here black and white visual imagery abstracts the prison into flickering mosaics while grainy walkie-talkie audio emits banalities.” –Rachel Hutcheson Kevin Jerome Everson *AIR FORCE TWO* U.S., 2023, 5 min, digital “Everson uses erratic handheld camerawork to inspect prison cells used for the corresponding Hollywood film. The frantic pacing and jostling of the image contrasts with the deadpan voiceover reading the screenplay of the earlier film’s Moscow prison break scene.” –Rachel Hutcheson Aria Dean *ABATTOIR, U.S.A.!* U.S., 2023, 11 min, digital “A bright orange light pulsates expressionistically against a black background, abrupt and shocking. Then the play of light stops, and we are again ‘outside,’ in a harsh institutional light, as a door swings open, and the camera enters and pivots around a sterile room. There are no bodies in this space. There is only the surface of unctuous red fluid that covers the floor as a bloody remnant of an enduring past.” –Vera Dika Suneil Sanzgiri *AT HOME BUT NOT AT HOME* U.S., 2019, 11 min, digital “The imbrication of past and present in Sanzgiri’s films addresses the retrospective urgency of haunting… In the realm of technical imaging, remembering becomes an act of imagination, a process of world-building.” –Ally Luo Kathryn Ramey *FALL U.S.*, 2006, 5 min, 35mm “When a heterosexual dude makes a film about his kids, that is very political. When a woman makes a film that engages with the act of being a parent, it’s often seen as less significant. That shows how political it is because even now, motherhood is a terrible double bind. When I was expecting my first child, I was told by more than one female filmmaker, ‘Forget it, you’re done, you’ll never make a film again.’” –Kathryn Ramey, in dialogue with Sarah Keller & Yangqiao Lu Vincent Grenier *TABULA RASA* Canada, 1993-2004, 8 min, digital “This is such loaded material, heavily marked by time and social place, the architecture evoking prison and damage, and yet as elegantly constructed as shifting Japanese shoji panels. It is the voices of instructor and student, heard off screen, that pierce like a dagger and reverberate throughout the space ideas about power and reality.” –Joanna Kiernan Marie Menken *ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER* U.S., 1958-61, 5 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “Made with Anger’s (literal) support, the film consists of controlled hand-held camera moves that follow repetitive patterns of ornamental ceramics and other geometric surfaces in the Alhambra’s Islamic architecture. The restraint of the music matches the film’s erotic visual rhythms without overdetermining or dominating.” –Grahame Weinbren Total running time: ca. 70 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1210b0e7ed&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *CRAIG BALDWIN (in person!)* expanded cinema performance *11th Dimension* (Craig Baldwin, 2024, dual-16mm, 3-D, 30 min) mid-length historical acid western *¡O No Coronado!* (Craig Baldwin, 1992, 16mm, 40 min) and a pre-show of 16mm shorts from Other Cinema's film archive *Baldwin's Anomolies!* filmmaker in attendance from San Francisco! 3D glasses provided! book launch event! presented on film! *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71b7b31e8f&e=857b71a9cb> 7PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 *Walking Archives: Thoughts on Mangroves, Schools, Round Houses, and Weaving* Many of Filipa César’s films begin as research projects done in collaboration with others; they often include people’s memories, which collaborator Sónia Vaz Borges has called “walking archives.” *Mangrove School* draws on Borges’s research into the Guinea-Bissau militants’ effort to decolonize minds by creating schools during the liberation war. The poetic film is concerned with both the mangrove’s unique alluvial ecosystem and the re-creation of a school amidst the watery trees, where teachers expose the current generation to their time in the schools. In *Round, Square*, a conversation over tea ponders the value of traditional versus contemporary house designs. According to César, *Quantum Creole*, which grew out of the Looming Creole program, is “an experimental documentary film collectively researching creolization and addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.” It opens with a Guinea-Bissau song about what children want to know and proposes, “youth, don’t believe in the white’s lies” and “in the weaves lies our value.” The film itself is a tapestry of imaging techniques, songs, fables, and performances, including subversive takes on the origins of Guinea-Bissau’s traditional *pano di pinti* fabric, links between computer programming and weaving, and contemporary globalization projects as a form of recolonization. *Mangrove School*, Sónia Vaz Borges, Filipa César, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, 2022, 35min, digital *Round, Square (Redonda, quadrada)*, Filipa César, Suleimane Biai, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, 2014, 6min, digital *Quantum Creole*, Filipa César, France, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, 2020, 40min, digital *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d0f3248810&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: SIDNEY PETERSON* *THE POTTED PSALM* and *THE PETRIFIED DOG* have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. *MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR* and *THE LEAD SHOES* have been preserved by Anthology with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. *THE POTTED PSALM* (1946, 19 min, 16mm) *THE PETRIFIED DOG* (1948, 19 min, 16mm) *MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR* (1949, 21 min, 16mm) *THE LEAD SHOES* (1949, 17 min, 16mm) “These images are meant to play not on our rational senses, but on the infinite universe of ambiguity within us.” –Sidney Peterson “Sidney Peterson’s work and sensibility are those of a native American surrealist. Many of his films chronicle the picaresque adventures of a wacky protagonist and use disjunctive editing strategies to construct new time and space relations…. But perhaps their best-known feature is the use of distorted, funhouse mirror-images, which he created by shooting with an anamorphic lens. […] In his films, he investigates extreme states of consciousness, and the primary tool of his epistemology of irrationalism is the photographic image distorted and transformed to register the impact of those states.” –R. Bruce Elder, IMAGE AND IDENTITY Total running time: ca. 80 min *___________________________________________________________________* *April 24 - 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Seoul Art Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3464505310&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see website, all times UTC+9, 22 Jeongdong, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea *BILL MORRISON SPECIAL EXHIBITION* As part of the monthly experimental film series FrameWorks, Bill Morrison will be in South Korea to introduce *Dawson City Frozen Time *(April 24) along with a retrospective of his films at the Seoul Art Cinema April 24-28, 2024. Frameworks was started in 2022 as an initiative of Pip Chodorov and film programmers Seonguk Kim and Sukyun Kim. Bill Morrison, who utilizes the found footage technique of excavating, restoring, cutting and pasting old and worn-out film and (re)editing it cinematically, is one of the most important auteurs of our time. Bill Morrison, who began his career in visual art and animation, was fascinated by the corrosion and decomposition of old nitrate film and the incredible visual effects created by the layering of chemical compounds in old archival images. Since 1990, he has been creating an experimental film focusing on the physical properties of the film medium. I've been working on it. Bill Morrison's film, which uses archival footage, reveals the formative and poetic characteristics of images contained in deteriorated film. He shows that celluloid film, like our bodies, is a fragile and ephemeral medium and can deteriorate in countless ways. Bill Morrison's 'Archive Film' places us in front of the slow and fleeting traces of time inherent in film. His archaeological work explores the history and memory contained in analog film and the impact that corroded film images have on our senses. Bill Morrison's films are also known for combining rare archival footage with contemporary music. *Decasia* (2002) with Michael Gordon, *Miner's Hymn* (2011) with Johann Johansson, *The Flood* (2013) with guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, and Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Collaborations with top musicians such as , Kronos Quartet and Alex Somers are another key element of his work. In this special exhibition, a total of 15 films will be screened, including long and short films such as his representative works *Dawson City: Frozen Time* (2016) and *Decasia* (2002). In addition, on April 24th (Wednesday), director Bill Morrison will visit Seoul Art Cinema to have a conversation with the audience, and on the 27th (Saturday), critic Youngbin Kwak will conduct a cinetalk. *THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024* *April 25 - 30* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Busan International Short Film Festival BISFF <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4ebb079453&e=857b71a9cb> 11am - 10pm KST (UTC+9), Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea *Prism, Beyond Cinema, Busan short film festival* Combining the theme of cinema and reality with the guest country of Italy, this year’s Prism program focuses on found footage, the practice of recycling old images to make new meanings. Experimental cinema in Italy has often used found footage and reanimated photographs as a starting point to make personal, poetic or political statements. *Prism 1, The Cinema of Reality,* demonstrates how the medium of film can represent the world around us. These four films create striking visual impressions of the real world, manipulating reality through techniques of the camera or in post-production, creating altogether new realities. Bill Morrison, *Vigneti*, 1996 Roberto Nanni, *Lontano Ancora*, 1983-2008 Giovanni Puggioni, *Quattro Staggioni*, 1999 Gianni Castagnoli, *La nott'e'l giorno*, 1976 *Prism 2, The Reality of Cinema*, shows the medium for what it really is, not a window into the world but as a strip of celluloid projected onto a flat screen. These five films use found footage as a starting point, allowing these images to tell different stories, or even to completely break down the cinematic illusion. Bill Morrison, *The Film of Her*, 1996 Alberto Grifi & Gianfranco Baruchello, *La Verifica Incerta*, 1964 Paolo Gioli, *L'Operatore Perforato*, 1979 Siegfried Fruhauf, *Exposed*, 2001 Hangjun Lee & Sandy Ding, *Window of the World Part 1: Hairstyle Colidascope*, 2019 (world premiere) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ecb1ff36c7&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *SHINKICHI TAJIRI* This program shines a spotlight on artist Shinkichi Tajiri, who is best known for his sculptural work, but who also made a number of fascinating films. Born in Los Angeles to first-generation Japanese immigrants, Tajiri enlisted in the army to escape imprisonment in the Japanese concentration camps that the U.S. government created during the war. Moving to Paris in 1948, he was based there for most of the next decade, a period in which he studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine and painter (and filmmaker) Fernand Léger, collaborated with the CoBrA group of artists, and co-founded Galerie Huit. Tajiri’s first film, *VIPERS* (1955), which he intended to evoke the experience of taking psychoactive drugs, was awarded the Golden Lion for ‘Best Use of Film Language’ at the Cannes Film Festival. For this program, we’ll be presenting four of Tajiri’s short films, as well as Johan van der Keuken’s 1962 film portrait of Tajiri and Carmen D’Avino’s 1950 documentary *VERNISSAGE OF AMERICAN ARTISTS*, which provides glimpses of Tajiri and several other American artists in Paris at the time. All the films in this program, with the exception of *VERNISSAGE OF AMERICAN ARTISTS*, are screened courtesy of the Eye Filmmuseum. Shinkichi Tajiri *THE VIPERS* 1955, 9.5 min, 16mm. Co-cinematography by Baird Bryant. Shinkichi Tajiri *MAD NEST* 1955, 4.5 min, 16mm Shinkichi Tajiri *FERDI* 1955, 12 min, 16mm-to-digital Shinkichi Tajiri *BICYCLES* 1960, 5 min, 16mm-to-digital Johan van der Keuken *TAJIRI* 1962, 12 min, 16mm-to-digital Carmen D’Avino *VERNISSAGE OF AMERICAN ARTISTS* 1950, 18 min, 16mm-to-digital Total running time: ca. 65 min *FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024* *April 26 - 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc498f5776&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma *Wide Open Experimental Film Festival* WOEFF 2024 will screen five programs of short experimental films from around the world, including films by Tomonari Nishikawa, Lori Felker, Mark Street, Crystal Z Campbell, Gregg Biermann, Sasha Waters, and many more. Admission to all programs is free. April 26 6pm, Program 1: Something Else 8pm, Program 2: New Light April 27 6pm, Program 3: Losing Sight 8pm, Program 4: Altered Consciousness April 28 1pm, Program 5: What Next *SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bbab49f765&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *RE-MIX SATIRIX* SODA JERK: *HELLO DANKNESS* + CULT JAMS The two Australian siblings--and long-time OC comrades--who make up Soda Jerk are arguably thee finest remix makers on the planet, and now they have scored a huge international cinema hit with this jaw-dropping found-footage fable taking the form of a suburban stoner musical! Through genius editing strokes, mischievous rotoscoping, and masterful VFX wizardry, they have managed to concoct a multi-award-winning (Berlinale!) ”compilation narrative” that is in fact stitched together from almost a thousand Hollywood movie samples, mostly from the miserable milieu leading up to and during the Trump presidency. Their seamless, insanely clever montage conjures up a critical--and comic!--psychotropic spectacle that follows an American neighborhood as consensus reality disintegrates into conspiracy, culture wars, and zombie revolution. Opening the evening is a set of provocative shorts by Vicki Bennett, Animal Charm, and The Simpsons that similarly satirize US values and mythologies. *SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2380f7aea4&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: O’NEILL / RICHTER / SHARITS* Pat O’Neill *SAUGUS SERIES* 1974, 19 min, 16mm This series is actually seven short films, united by a common soundtrack. Each is an evolving “still life” made up of meticulously assembled but spatially contradictory elements. “*SAUGUS SERIES* exhibits the possibilities of the optical printer with considerable self-confidence and élan. The colors are deeply saturated; radically incompatible spaces are meticulously pieced together; moving images are layered in front of each other or masked within ‘negative’ spaces outlined by the absence of an object; a multiplicity of textures and densities and the dynamics of particles in turmoil enliven the imagery.” –P. Adams Sitney, MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL Hans Richter *RHYTHMUS 21* 1921, 3 min, 35mm, silent “Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary is elemental geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of contrasting opposites.” –Standish Lawder Hans Richter *TWO PENNY MAGIC / ZWEIGROSCHENZAUBER* 1929, 2 min, 16mm Produced as a commercial for a German illustrated magazine, this film is an experiment with visual rhymes. Hans Richter *EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING TURNS / ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH* 1929, 9 min, 16mm “Richter’s unique and fascinating view of magic and cruelty in a carnival side-show.” –Cecile Starr Paul Sharits *N:O:T:H:I:N:G* 1968, 36 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.“Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani Buddhas/a journey toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu Wisdom)/space and motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color energy create virtual shape/in negative time, growth is inverse decay.” –Paul Sharits Paul Sharits *T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G* 1969, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on the soundtrack/an uncutting and unscratching mandala.” –Paul Sharits Total running time: ca. 85 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=07283e895e&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=5a432b182a&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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