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Atlas Variations: The Moving-Image Work of Charles Atlas <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8ae14788f&e=857b71a9cb> [May 8-June 27, New York, NY] - Cult of Conspiracy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e4a1b4c1dd&e=857b71a9cb> [May 11, San Francisco, CA] - VISIONS: Simon Payne & Andrew Vallance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6fedccdcd5&e=857b71a9cb> [May 13-14, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Yes: Derek Jenkins / Sara Sowell In Person & Online <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bf5119d1e0&e=857b71a9cb> [May 13-16, New York, NY] - The Secret Life of…Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e50ede03a5&e=857b71a9cb> [May 14, New York, NY] - Available Space: So Dreamy, So Sinister: Animation By Suzan Pitt <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6c12af4773&e=857b71a9cb> [May 16, Los Angeles, CA] - New American Experimental Film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e3690913ff&e=857b71a9cb> [May 16, New York, NY] - Avant-Barb(ie) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=146540f147&e=857b71a9cb> [May 16, San Francisco, CA] - Illuminated Hours: Three Evenings With Nathaniel Dorsky And Jerome Hiler <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a6853a843c&e=857b71a9cb> [May 17-19, New York, NY] - Archive Fever <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5fdc723544&e=857b71a9cb> [May 18, San Francisco, CA] - Courtney Stephens <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11872a13c0&e=857b71a9cb> [May 18, Santa Fe, NM] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=defd395bda&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12ddf0726d&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024* *May 8 - June 27* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=02f7c36223&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *ATLAS VARIATIONS: THE MOVING-IMAGE WORK OF CHARLES ATLAS* FILMMAKER IN PERSON! Charles Atlas will be here in person for most if not all of the screenings! Anthology is overjoyed to present a major survey – throughout May and June – of the moving-image work of the one-and-only Charles Atlas. An exceptionally prolific, protean, and inventive artist, Atlas has collaborated for the past fifty years with an extraordinary array of choreographers, dancers, musicians, actors, and performance artists, and has himself occupied a crucial role at the intersection of the worlds of art, film, video, performance, dance, and installation. During the course of his career, he has pioneered the medium of videodance, documented the nightlife and performance scenes of New York City throughout the past several decades, and created some of the most inspired works of installation art in recent memory. Arguably no other single figure has contributed as substantially to so many of the most advanced and important currents in American culture since the 1970s, both as a chronicler, collaborator, and creator. Atlas’s films and videos have taken so many forms and involved so many collaborations that his moving-image career can only be conveyed through a large-scale series. Indeed, even this 10-program survey represents a partial retrospective: since Anthology focused on Atlas’s seminal collaborations with Merce Cunningham (with whom he collaborated on numerous films beginning in 1975) during our Cunningham centennial screenings in 2019, we’ve chosen to focus on Atlas’s other collaborations and solo works here. Encompassing some of his best-known works (including *THE LEGEND OF LEIGH BOWERY*, *HAIL THE NEW PURITAN*, *SUPERHONEY*, and so on), as well as more rarely-screened pieces such as the various *“MARTHA” TAPES*, his early films *MAYONNAISE*, *#1* (1972) and *NEVADA* (1974), his ad campaign for Calvin Klein, and his stereoscopic film *TESSERACT 3D* (2017), this survey demonstrates the embarrassment of riches contained within Atlas’s dizzyingly inventive and ever-morphing body of work. “Collaboration is a major aspect of Atlas’s expansive practice. He has collaborated with important figures from the worlds of dance, art, performance, music and theater, including Michael Clark, Merce Cunningham, Leigh Bowery, John Kelly, Marina Abramovic, Anohni, Yvonne Rainer, Fennesz, New Humans (Mika Tajima and Howie Chen), Karole Armitage and Bill Irwin. For Atlas, the theatricality of dance and performance is a point of inquiry into artifice, fiction and reality. After first working in film, Atlas was a pioneer of videodance, collaborating on performance works created specifically for the two-dimensional space, intimate scale and temporality of video. His groundbreaking early works…evolved from a unique collaboration with Merce Cunningham, for whose dance company he was filmmaker-in-residence from 1975 to 1983. Since then, Atlas has worked on numerous international productions for television with choreographers, artists and musicians. In these extravagantly stylized ‘documentary fictions,’ Atlas manifests his fascination with what he terms ‘narrative, psychology, dance and flights of fantasy.’ Typified by a provocative, postmodern performance sensibility and an ironic urban insouciance, Atlas’s works transform performances into vivid time capsules of contemporary culture.” –ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX Co-organized and co-presented by Electronic Arts Intermix; special thanks to Rebecca Cleman & Karl McCool. Unless otherwise noted, all the individual film descriptions are from the Electronic Arts Intermix catalogue. Upcoming Screenings CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ae033fe02&e=857b71a9cb> May 8 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2a2e1c9a1c&e=857b71a9cb> May 16 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=675edf28d1&e=857b71a9cb> May 22 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5529ef55ad&e=857b71a9cb> May 25 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=af0da9caf4&e=857b71a9cb> May 30 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 6 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ed9c9bbde4&e=857b71a9cb> June 5 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 7 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ec746e80f&e=857b71a9cb> June 11 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 8 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7f58ab7565&e=857b71a9cb> June 15 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 9 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=431941121e&e=857b71a9cb> June 19 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 10 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=716da755eb&e=857b71a9cb> June 27 at 7:15 PM *SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2491167db2&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *CULT OF CONSPIRACY* THE NET: THE UNABOMBER, LSD, AND THE INTERNET + By popular demand, from a City eviscerated by the pernicious effects of Big Tech, here's a cult movie about cult thinking! Lutz Dammbeck's break-out stunner was considered dangerously paranoid when first released some 20 years ago, and, despite its absence from DVD and streaming platforms, it has never since ceased to feverishly incite anti-authoritarian skepticism from an international underground of dissidents, dropouts, crackpots, and trolls. True to its title, *The Net *excels at the hyperlink-style essay format in which pulling the threads of seemingly disparate modern phenomena—electronic art, technology, armed conflict—reveals a single tight-knit system. As Dammbeck becomes evermore fascinated with Ted Kaczynski, he digs deeper into his Neo-Luddite ideology and victims in academia and technology. His search brings him into contact with figures including Stewart Brand, editor of the self-sufficiency countercultural publication *Whole Earth Catalog*, and art/literary agent John Brockman, who draws connections between Norbert Wiener’s *Cybernetics* and avant-garde figures including John Cage, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik. Gradually the narration begins to pull in Dammbeck’s own correspondence with the incarcerated Kaczynski. “*The Net* is not merely a diagram of the lines and nodes that form a secret history of the 20th Century, but an unsettling examination of the morality of the architects of contemporary society” (*Screen Slate*). OPENING the evening: Short tangles of related conspiracy knots: a clip from Craig Baldwin's *Tribulation 99*, the whole trembling 9 mins. of Rodney Ascher's legendary *S from Hell*, and a very rare peek at Dammbeck's follow-up, the never released *Overgames**, *partially shot right here at ATA! *MONDAY, MAY 13, 2024* *May 13 - 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ca4d6c4a9&e=857b71a9cb> 6:00pm ET each night, Cinémathèque québécoise - 335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montréal, QC H2X 1K1 *VISIONS: SIMON PAYNE & ANDREW VALLANCE* --- 13.05.2024 | Cinémathèque québécoise | 18h00 | FILM TALKS [Programme 1] --- 📽 *Candle Neil* | Henderson | 2018 | 16 mm | 3 mins 📽 *Arm, Flexion, Extension* | Bea Haut | 2011 | 16 mm | 3 mins 📽 *Inflated (double) struggle* | Jenny Baines | 2018 | 16 mm | 3 mins 📽 *Babbler, Fairy and Thrush* | Karel Doing | 2022 | 16 mm | 4 mins 📽 *It Matters What* | Francisca Duran | 2019 | 16 mm/numérique | 9 mins 📽 *Four Diamonds* | Ute Aurand | 2016 | 16 mm | 5 mins 📽 *Dark Garden* | Nick Collins | 2011 | 16 mm | 9 mins 📽 *Five Films by Helga Fanderl* | Helga Fanderl | 2011-2012 | Super 8 vers 16 mm | 10 mins 📽 *Gasometers 3* | Nick Hamlyn | 2015 | 16 mm | 13 mins 📽 *Night-line* | Andrew Vallance | 2023 | numérique | 9 mins Projection 16mm et numérique | En présence de Simon Payne et Andrew Vallance | Présenté en collaboration avec la Cinémathèque québécoise --- 14.05.2024 | Cinémathèque québécoise | 18h00 | FILM TALKS [Programme 2] --- 📽 *Leaving and Arriving* | Lynn Loo | 2017 | 16 mm vers numérique | 1 min 📽 *Animal Studies* | Guy Sherwin | 1998-2023 | numérique | 9 mins 📽 *Strontium* | Malcolm Le Grice | 2021 | numérique | 9 mins 📽 *Oxygen* | Chris Welsby | 2021 | numérique | 12 mins 📽 *Not (a) part *| Vicky Smith | 2020 | 16 mm | 6 mins 📽 *Cornish and Faroese Knitting Patterns* | Jennifer Nightingale | 2016-2017 | 16 mm | 3 mins 📽 *Clippy* | Alia Syed | 2016 | 16 mm vers numérique | 3 mins 📽 *The Oblique* | Jayne Parker | 2018 | numérique | 11 mins 📽* Intervals* | Simon Payne | 2023 | numérique | 10 mins 📽 *Available Light* | William Raban | 2016 | numérique | 9 mins 📽 *A State of Grace* | John Smith | 2019 | numérique | 3 mins Projection 16 mm et numérique | En présence de Simon Payne et Andrew Vallance | Présenté en collaboration avec la Cinémathèque québécoise *___________________________________________________________________* *May 13 - 16* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1a0357b3f&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30PM ET, 525 W. 25th Street, 2nd Floor Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/yes-derek-jenkins-sara-sowell/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4628fb338c&e=857b71a9cb> *YES: Derek Jenkins / Sara Sowell In Person & Online* *In person on May 13 only. Online available starting at 7pm ET on May 13 through 11pm PT May 16 at the link above. *Microscope welcomes Derek Jenkins and Sara Sowell, who are respectively based in Hamilton, Ontario, and Milwaukee, WI, for a screening of both of their works as part of our emerging series YES. The 8 short works in the program, including several NY premieres, were made between 2016 and 2023 and were primarily filmed on 16mm film, with others shot on Super 8mm and video. The works will be screened on site in their original formats. In works often borne out of the interaction of 16mm film with the endless digital TV stream, and utilizing DYI experimental methods, Sowell offers sociological and ecological critiques such as on the culture of and standards proposed by America’s Next Top Model and the environmental impact of private jet personal transportation, or that created by the celluloid film her works are made with. Jenkins’ personal and playful filmmaking — often resulting from unconventional film processes or ideas used to source sound — in these works formulates odes to obsolete newsprint machinery, a large Canadian herbarium, and everyday family moments, finding meaning and opportunity for social activism even in an unmown flower field. Jenkins and Sowell will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening, which will also be open to the online audience. *RHYTHM AS A GIRL *By Sara Sowell, single-channel video, color, sound, 2020, 12min *The Girl Who Is *By Sara Sowell, 16mm film, B&W, sound, 2021, 6min *Color Negative *By Sara Sowell, 16mm film, color, sound, 2023, 6min *Reference Material *By Sara Sowell, 16mm film, B&W, 2023, 3min *This is how I print *By Derek Jenkins, 16mm film, B&W, silent, 2019, 3min *Herbaria x Pelicula: Field Portfolio *By Derek Jenkins, 16mm film, color and B&W, silent, 2021, 11min *The Shouting Flower *By Derek Jenkins, 16mm film, color, sound, 2018, 12min *When we reached the top of the stairs, Ruby asked me, “Is this a new world? Baba, is this a new world?” *By Derek Jenkins, Super 8mm on digital, color, silent, 2016, 3min TRT: 56min *TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1e565f80c4&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *THE SECRET LIFE OF…ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES* We continue our longstanding tradition of presenting “The Secret Life of…Anthology Film Archives”, a recurring opportunity to take a peek at the teeming hive of creativity hiding behind the scenes at Anthology, thanks to the film- and video-making efforts of AFA’s staff, friends, fellow-travelers, and devotees. *THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Academy Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b4de709ead&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 *Available Space: So Dreamy, So Sinister: Animation by Suzan Pitt* Though her artmaking practice began with painting, the American visual artist Suzan Pitt (1943–2019) quickly became frustrated by the medium as she felt it left her images in “a state of arrested movement.” Pitt pivoted to animation in 1968 to create the first of her surreal, exuberant, hand-made animated shorts, and found that through hand-drawn, stop-motion, and multiplane animation, she “could imagine and dramatize their stories” beyond the static canvas. Inspired by Fleischer cartoons, surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, underground comics, and the lush natural world, Pitt’s visual poetry was never confined to one mode of expression: throughout her life, she continued painting, developed stage designs for two operas in Germany, created murals, and decorated one-of-a-kind coats with distinct iconography. As a gesture toward new objects on display in our Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation gallery, including cels and background paintings from the Suzan Pitt Estate, this program highlights her celebrated film *Asparagus*, preceded by works from throughout her career. Programmed and note by K.J. Relth-Miller. All films directed by Suzan Pitt. Total program runtime: 76 min. *Pinball* 2013. 7 min. USA. Color. Digital. Restored by the Academy Film Archive. *Jefferson Circus Songs* 1975. 19 min. USA. Color. Digital. Restored by the Academy Film Archive. *Crocus* 1971. 7 min. USA. Color. 16mm. Restored by the Academy Film Archive. *Joy Street* 1995. 24 min. USA. Color. 35mm. Restored by the Academy Film Archive. *Asparagus* 1979. 19 min. USA. Color. 35mm. Restored by the Academy Film Archive. Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. Explore our current quarterly print Film Calendar and browse the archive. Theater accessibility accommodations available upon request. Learn more about our accessibility initiatives. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fd257730ad&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm EST, Anthology Film Archives, Maya Deren Theater, 32 Second Ave., corner of East 2nd St., NY, NY *New American Experimental Film* The Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) presents 8 selected experimental shorts from the festival’s 2024 touring collection - a showcase of cutting-edge films from accomplished and emerging experimental filmmakers. The eight featured films include *Flora* by John Hawk, Agua Dulce, CA; *A World in the Evening* by Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino, Boulder, CO; *Reversal* by Diane Nerwen, Brooklyn, NY; *Flutz* by Ryan McCown, Brooklyn, NY; *Fleshwork* by Lydia Cornett, Brooklyn, NY; *Island* by Jack Cronin, Canton, MI; *Our Bodies Like Dams* by Sarah Finn, Brooklyn, NY; and *Mirror Mirror Double Vision* by Johannes DeYoung and Natalie Westbrook, Pittsburgh, PA. Q&A with featured filmmakers, curator Nicole Pometti, programmer Rolando Nieves, and festival director Jane Steuerwald will follow the screening. Seating is limited, and advance tickets are highly recommended. Ticketing through EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-edison-film-festival-presents-new-american-experimental-film-tickets-887635570887 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=02c013bfb3&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* SF Cinematheque + Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6017111546&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, The Lab, 2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 *Avant-Barb(ie)* Microscope Gallery Curators Elle Burchill & Andrea Monti and filmmaker Lucretia Knapp in person For tonight’s screening, Cinematheque is thrilled to welcome Microscope’s founders Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti to present Avant-Barb(ie). Curated in response to and dialog with Greta Gerwig’s *Barbie* (2023), Avant-Barb(ie) features 14 film/video works—spanning nearly 60 years—which address the perpetually renewing cultural impact of the iconic doll, works which interrogate, subvert and/or dismantle associated cultural stereotypes while presenting discourse on sexuality, gender and American culture at large, even while considering the act of playing with dolls as an enjoyable, social or empathic tool. Avant-Barb(ie) also asks: “Will Gerwig’s movie spur further Barbie-related investigations, or will it be more of a deterrent, for film and video art of the future?” *Shut Up Barbie* (1974) by Vincent Grenier; 16mm, 13 minutes *Barbie Dream House* (2018) by Susan Kouguell; digital video, 5 minutes *I’ve Never Had an Asian Barbie* (2020) by Jessy Jiao; digital video, 2 minutes *Meryl Fuckin Streep* (2017) by Ava Bogle; digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes *Barbiemageddon* (2023) by Penumbra Carter; digital video, 55 seconds *Invasion* (2021) by Penumbra Carter; digital video, 35 seconds *Out and about with Barbie* (2021) by Penumbra Carter; digital video, 48 seconds *Big Gurl* (2006) by Lauren Kelley; digital video, 7 minutes *Barbie’s Audition* (1995) by Joe Gibbons; pixelvision video screened as digital video, 9 minutes *Erotica* (1989) by Lucretia Knapp; VHS screened as digital video, 3 minutes *Sally Cheesey Raffelyell* (1992) by Lucretia Knapp; Hi-8 video screened as digital video, 5 minutes *PRISM Break Barbie* (2013) by Addie Wagenknecht; digital video, 1 minute *Hello Barbie: The First Dispatch* (2020) by Faith Holland; digital video, 8 minutes *Black Moses Barbie* (Harriet Tubman Commercial) (2011) by Pierre Bennu; digital video, 1 minute *Burka Barbie* (2014) by Narcissister; digital video, 5 minutes *23 Barbiepuppen kippen um (23 Barbie Dolls Tip Over)* (1988) by Dagie Brundert & Gesine Jochems, Super-8mm screened as digital video, 3 minutes *FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024* *May 17 - 19* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d3bfe69cef&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *ILLUMINATED HOURS: THREE EVENINGS WITH NATHANIEL DORSKY AND JEROME HILER* In conjunction with a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art devoted to the work of both Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, Anthology will welcome the two filmmakers back to the Maya Deren theater – where we’ve presented several memorable programs of their work over the years – for a weekend of rare screenings encompassing Hiler’s 1995 film *GLADLY GIVEN*, two of Dorsky’s most inspiring works (*VARIATIONS* and *AUGUST AND AFTER*), and very special projections of Dorsky’s intimate Kodachrome originals and dailies. These are unique personal prints and spliced camera reversal footage from 1995 through 2006, some of it unedited (the *KODACHROME DAILIES*) or revisited more than a decade later. Travelogues, portraits of friends, a document of Stan Brakhage a month before his death, and a montage of eleven years of footage – these are unassuming, heartfelt films originally intended for the privacy of the filmmakers’ apartment rather than a public cinema. The blissful warmth of the original Kodachrome stock and Dorsky and Hiler’s delicately precise editing combine to make this an unmissable event! These screenings coincide with the American release of “Illuminated Hours. The Early Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler”, a publication that brings together texts and images on each filmmaker’s life and work from childhood to the early 2000s, telling the story of half a century of self-discovery and personal and artistic relationships. The book’s editors, Francisco Algarín Navarro and Carlos Saldaña, have guest-curated both this series and the one taking place at the Museum of Modern Art. “Illuminated Hours” is presented with generous support from NYU KJCC, NYU’s Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, and the Consulate General of Spain in New York. Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler will be here in person for all three screenings! The Museum of Modern Art’s film series, “Illuminated Hours: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler”, will take place from May 9-16; for more info visit: https://www.moma.org/calendar/film Dorsky’s work will also be showcased at Peter Blum Gallery (176 Grand St, New York), which will present the exhibition “Arboretum Cycle” from May 1-18. The exhibition features the Arboretum portfolio, which extracts intimate moments of observation from his ARBORETUM CYCLE films, shot between February and December of 2017. For more info visit: https://www.peterblumgallery.com/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cf71e53883&e=857b71a9cb> NATHANIEL DORSKY & JEROME HILER, PROG. 1 - SOLD OUT! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ec1b2f5088&e=857b71a9cb> May 17 at 7:00 PM NATHANIEL DORSKY & JEROME HILER, PROG. 2: FIVE KODACHROME ORIGINALS, PART 1 - SOLD OUT! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b043cfbe86&e=857b71a9cb> May 18 at 7:30 PM NATHANIEL DORSKY & JEROME HILER, PROG. 3: FIVE KODACHROME ORIGINALS, PART 2 - SOLD OUT! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83777d4190&e=857b71a9cb> May 19 at 7:30 PM *SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b93547566&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *ARCHIVE FEVER* BILL MORRISON's INCIDENT + CALONICO/ELSHEIMER's SUDDEN BIRTH + Bill Morrison, thee Archival Film Artiste of our moment, happens to be a beloved friend of the Other Cinema family, and tonight he's sharing thee West Coast premiere of his masterful half-hour re-working of rather recent and problematic Chicago Police body-cam footage...with Bill's personal video intro shot in the *Cursed Collector Cave* right under our floor! Co-billed is Scott Calonico/Skip Elsheimer's (A/V Geeks) incredible educational-film de-construction *Everything You Always Wanted to Know* *about Sudden Birth*. Port Costa's Ian Saroka kicks in a hefty excerpt about his discovery of a hidden Slovenian Film Archive, *Greetings from Free Forests*, while media magician Caspar Stracke's *Zuse Strip* anchors an amazing set of four media-archeological anomalies that also boasts IBM's '53 mainframe promo *Piercing the Unknown* and Walter Cronkite's mid-60s internet prototypes. Our curiosity also leads us to the famous lost-and-found S8 reel shot on the Altamont stage, a disco-fuelled Oscar Mayer weiner industrial, and Justin Rhody's massively collaborative *Potemkin* exquisite corpse! PLUS a Bruce Conner rarity, Standish Lawder's legendary *Dangling Participle**,* and free cookies!! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=96a4431ed8&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *COURTNEY STEPHENS* *Terra Femme* (hour long live archival film performance) "...an essay film comprised of amateur travelogues filmed by women in the 1920s-1950s. The piece weaves between geographical essay, personal inquiry, and historical speculation, examining these films as both private documents and accidental ethnographies. The films present a new type of traveler: no longer a male seeker of conquests, she might be a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, or a widow on a cruise to the North Pole. Representing the world through women’s eyes, the films raise questions about female representation in the archive, the role of amateurism in early non-fiction filmmaking, and the politics of the Western gaze. At once a film about longing for past worlds through cinematic excavation, this force flows in both directions: as women from the past search for self-making in the act of looking." -LightDox with opening short (filmed in New Mexico) *Ida Western Exile* (2014, color and b/w, sound, 9 min) "Using the framework of O’Keeffe’s iconic sojourn to Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, where she lived alone in the latter part of her life and created desert-inspired masterworks, Stephens explores what this sort of elective isolation might look like for a woman living in today’s world of information overload.... Familiar images of O’Keeffe on the ranch are accompanied by an anonymous woman’s tightly-wound phone calls with customer service representatives from places like Expedia and Starkist as she plans a trip alone out west, wondering about everything from mercury levels in tuna to weapons she’ll need for self-defense.... Ghost Ranch was itself the site of several late Westerns, including Silverado and Cowboys vs. Aliens. Here, the American West’s reputation for masculine adventure and reinvention is re-envisioned through Stephens’s eyes as space for female exploration and escape. There’s a tension, however, between this pull toward oblivion, and the knowledge of the inherent risk involved in traveling alone as a woman. These phone calls reveal one woman’s conflicting hopes and fears as she prepares to embark on a journey. It’s unclear whether it’s real, or simply a fantasy of finding one’s own agency in the vast expanses of unfamiliar territory." -Le Cinema Club *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=460e32ca07&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=3f1cf573e4&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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