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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=9aefdae89b&e=857b71a9cb> *THANK YOU!!!* / / / * --- * \ \ \ *This Week [April 27 - May 5, 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=12c5969895&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=8ed382248e&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=069eac6509&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 04.30.2024 WNDX Festival of Moving Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=757b3dfa78&e=857b71a9cb> 04.30.2024 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=846bed02c8&e=857b71a9cb> (Seventh Deadline) 05.01.2024 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=64305e24e7&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.03.2024 Locarno Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aa3153871e&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=b343ac2e63&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.10.2024 aDifferent Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fa7838995e&e=857b71a9cb> 05.15.2024 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c986840064&e=857b71a9cb> 05.17.2024 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00aa74898d&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.18.2024 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=214fb665c3&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 05.30.2024 Analogica <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=faf3e6b4b6&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 05.30.2024 Cairo Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b8aab9c495&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2024 25FPS Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cbe3a2e331&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dbf71f8f1f&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=e80cd41463&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2024 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eb614b9897&e=857b71a9cb> 06.15.2024 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f02c0f00a&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.28.2024 Duluth Superior Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3ffb603113&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 06.30.2024 Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d977901168&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=44d9c7bccb&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=061a3d0f28&e=857b71a9cb> [April 14-27, New York, NY] - Bill Morrison Special Exhibition <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0470d83917&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=cc8688d8a5&e=857b71a9cb> [April 25-30, Busan, South Korea] - Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=72f2e57833&e=857b71a9cb> [April 26-28, Oklahoma City, OK] - RE-MIX SATIRIX <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=511c8c6a7f&e=857b71a9cb> [April 27, San Francisco, CA] - EC: O’Neill / Richter / Sharits <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0478ec511f&e=857b71a9cb> [April 28, New York, NY] - Seeing The City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7b332765b0&e=857b71a9cb> [May 3-7, New York, NY] - Video Rituals <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e0c516dcfa&e=857b71a9cb> [May 4, Brooklyn, NY] - Free Palestine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e5530fbaf9&e=857b71a9cb> [May 4, San Francisco, CA] - Jordan Belson / Erik Davis <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8fe58ec0ea&e=857b71a9cb> [May 5, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=481eb87dc5&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=09117f5e64&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2024* *April 14 - 27* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d88473827&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=fb7e1c4f33&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=d6ffc375d0&e=857b71a9cb> April 15 at 7:00 PM MARGARET TAIT PGM 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cb881b5ae5&e=857b71a9cb> April 27 at 5:30 PM MARGARET TAIT PGM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ebc2ec5365&e=857b71a9cb> April 27 at 7:30 PM *___________________________________________________________________* *April 24 - 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Seoul Art Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5c04c0cca7&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *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=5114ad2e9d&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) *___________________________________________________________________* *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=2533e7a5e9&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=327e67002b&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=2588ed050d&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 *FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2024* *May 3 - 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Film at Lincoln Center <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ec5c7d7533&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, visit website, Film at Lincoln Center - Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 144 W 65th St, New York, NY *Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York* Film at Lincoln Center and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative present “Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative Collection and Beyond,” to be presented at FLC from May 3–7. The series will feature a selection of films from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative catalog and elsewhere that paint a unique portrait of the city, with many presented on 16mm. An iconic, oftentimes cliched, cinematic setting for hundreds of films, New York has regularly played a starring role in the history of cinema. Narrative films set in New York City are almost a subgenre unto themselves and have received copious attention. Less well explored are visions of the city anchored in exploration, experimentation, and subversive political commitment. This set of programs offers a diverse and engaging introduction to some of the scores of films in The Film-Makers’ Cooperative’s collection (and beyond) that explore the city. From the lyrical evocations of the anonymity of the crowd and mass transit, and a clutch of visionary works examining the built environment, to sets of films exploring housing, the lurking shadow of ever-encroaching gentrification, and works on specific areas of the city, this selection gives an alternative vision of one of the most filmed and photographed metropolises on earth. Organized by Tom Day and Dan Sullivan. Tom Day would like to thank the entire Film-Makers’ Cooperative team, especially interns Haley Aaskow, Chris Stoddard, and Lucy Talbot Allen *SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=40b7adcb54&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm EDT, 167 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY *Video Rituals* A program of new work by Erica Schreiner and David Finkelstein, including Schreiner’s short Blue Transcendence (2022) and the world premiere of Finkelstein’s feature Dirt. A series of video rituals, designed to connect us to ancient networks and gateways to hidden knowledge, these films celebrate video technology for its magickal potential. The program is 90 minutes and will be followed by a discussion with the artists. *Blue Transcendence *(2022, 9 minutes, Erica Schreiner). A montage of blue butterflies, a performance in blue, and time lapse of a candle burning during a magical spell. The narration guides the audience through a psychedelic experience, reflecting on real friendships and the importance of being silly. Filmed by Erica Schreiner on her VHS camera in her apartment. *Dirt* (2024, 79 minutes, David Finkelstein, world premiere). An extended poetic meditation on the American relation to the soil, and the energies buried within it. Notions of “dirtiness” and “cleanliness” are re-examined. Centuries of history, of conquering and re-conquering, lie beneath our feet, and the return of the vanquished is inevitable. There has also always been an alternative possibility, within the American landscape, inspired by indigenous culture, of a more peaceful relationship with the soil, the resting place of our ancestors. A collage of poetic imagery, music, and invocatory language, the film follows two men in a series of esoteric experiments. Their words take us to unexpected landscapes, populated by revengeful toasters, flying fiddles, an unusual game of tennis, and a mountaintop crowned with an electric guitar. A postmodern video opera, *Dirt* bathes the viewer in music, language, and visual spectacle. ERICA SCHREINER is an experimental video and performance artist. Based in New York City, she shoots on VHS, while performing before the camera. Erica creates allegorical, ethereal video art that combines feminine and anarchistic themes, ritual and sensuality. Manipulating existing objects, or building sets to perform in and film, Erica creates surreal, intimate worlds on VHS video, employing her clearly defined style. Schreiner has completed more than 100 performative video art pieces, including two feature films and several music videos. In 2021, Erica received a New York City Artist Corps Grant for her second feature film, *The Special People*. DAVID FINKELSTEIN is a Guggenheim Fellow in film/video. His video work has been featured in numerous film festivals around the world and has won awards at 28 of them. In 2013, he was an invited artist at the Traverse Vidéo Festival in Toulouse, France. His two feature films premiered at New Filmmakers in New York. He has had solo screenings of his films in Bilbao, London, Porto, New York, Chicago, Portland, Austin, North Carolina, Minnesota, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. His work has been funded by The Fund for Creative Communities, The Field, Movement Research, Meet the Composer, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BACA, and other sources. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71567ac466&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *FREE PALESTINE* MALAS' THE DREAM + SALLOUM + SABA + In collaboration with black hole cinematheque and from the river to the sea collective, we present an evening of films in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for liberation. Curated and introduced by our righteous East Bay ally Tooth, tonight's program is built around Mohammad Malas' 1987 film, *The Dream (Al-Manam)*, which centers around interviews with Palestinians living in forced exile among the refugee camps of Lebanon in the early years of the civil war and just prior to the massacres of Sabra and Shatila. The film uniquely focuses on the role that dreams play in the daily existence and struggles of the inhabitants of the camps. The first half of the night's program-- featuring Jayce Salloum's 2003 film *untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends*, and Mary Jirmanus Saba's brand new film *Mahdi Amel: The Colonial Mode of Production--*hopes to resonate further on *Al-Manam*'s dialectical relationship between the multivalent concept of dreams (both as oneiric visions and ideological ambitions) and the lived realities of those subjected to the generational and ongoing trauma of displacement, war, genocide, and cultural erasure, and their steadfast resistance in the face of it all. Benefit for Palestine Children's Relief Fund. *SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e9d96babd5&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *JORDAN BELSON / ERIK DAVIS* In conjunction with the third solo exhibition of the pioneering experimental filmmaker and artist Jordan Belson, at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, Erik Davis will present and discuss Belson’s films. Noted author of “Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information”, Erik Davis is one of our foremost scholars of esoteric mysticism. He lives in San Francisco and writes extensively about West Coast Post-War culture. He will be presenting a program of rare 16mm prints from public and private collections, and will discuss the filmmaker and his work. For more info about the exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, visit: https://matthewmarks.com/ Titles will include: *WORLD* (1970, 7 min, 16mm) *MEDITATION* (1971, 6 min, 16mm) *CHAKRA* (1972, 8 min, 16mm) *LIGHT* (1973, 8 min, 16mm) *CYCLES* (1974, 10 min, 16mm. Made in collaboration with Stephen Beck.) *MUSIC OF THE SPHERES* (1977, 10 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cd32587740&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *THE LONG CONVERSATION* THE LONG CONVERSATION with Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber is on indefinite hold. 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