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*This Week [May 25 - June 2, 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=8b528afcb1&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 05.30.2024 Analogica <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=40b56f1c04&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 05.30.2024 Cairo Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b1c36f9632&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2024 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b00fd5116&e=857b71a9cb> (Seventh Deadline) 05.31.2024 25FPS Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=03c6cae2a7&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d99990b809&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=615bf9d3ac&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2024 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7ede6056cf&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2024 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ccd9f5fb7&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.15.2024 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6cf7435e28&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.21.2024 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fbf30196ac&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 06.28.2024 Duluth Superior Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f080e25ba&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 06.30.2024 Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cea4935773&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 07.14.2024 Cindependent Film Festival – NEW Experimental Section <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3ae72f9d5a&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=11e33ec8d2&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Atlas Variations: The Moving-Image Work of Charles Atlas <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5eb0fe863c&e=857b71a9cb> [May 8-June 27, New York, NY] - Avant To Live <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6daf02815c&e=857b71a9cb> [May 25, San Francisco, CA] - Mono No Aware Community Screening Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c0e135bb03&e=857b71a9cb> [May 26, New York, NY] - Stan Brakhage's Passage Through: A Ritual <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c13a4f9de0&e=857b71a9cb> [May 26, San Francisco, CA] - EC: Ruttmann / Stauffacher <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5a98bd5040&e=857b71a9cb> [May 29, New York, NY] - Symposium XP <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f4745b9a6a&e=857b71a9cb> [May 30-June 16, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Windowed Worlds: The Films of Barry Gerson <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0f6593799c&e=857b71a9cb> [May 31-June 3, New York, NY] - EC: Paul Sharits <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5c1840044c&e=857b71a9cb> [June 2, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0a81190867&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=935e33dfb1&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, MAY 25, 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=b95467c771&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=2a1718750e&e=857b71a9cb> May 8 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d01fe57d72&e=857b71a9cb> May 16 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5579ee718&e=857b71a9cb> May 22 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1efcc93c1e&e=857b71a9cb> May 25 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c908afb234&e=857b71a9cb> May 30 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 6 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d896b06348&e=857b71a9cb> June 5 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 7 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93a6e1a34d&e=857b71a9cb> June 11 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 8 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=36c4837eb6&e=857b71a9cb> June 15 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 9 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ad1a326da&e=857b71a9cb> June 19 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 10 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71475c660a&e=857b71a9cb> June 27 at 7:15 PM *SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=259caca4cb&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *AVANT TO LIVE* JEANNE FINLEY's RED BOAT CROSSING + BARON's NEAREST NEIGHBOR + NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Our seasonal mini-fest of innovation in film form, this Spring's NEW night boasts a healthy crop of contemporary visions, each program-half anchored by the NorCal theatrical debut of a major essay from our State's most esteemed women makers...both in person! Yes, SF's Jeanne Finley and LA's Rebecca Baron are both in the house to introduce their sublimely smart cine-meditations—Finley's 40-min. *Red Boat Crossing* on her mother's European experience in WWII, and Baron's 20-min. *Nearest Neighbor*--a collab with Cal Arts' Doug Goodwin--on human communication with both birds and computers. Baron/Goodwin's provocative thought-experiment is showcased in the opening half-- they self-consciously exploit AI agency to generate novel image/sound relations, comparing and contrasting communication with animals to that with machines, and so affording new understandings of language acquisition in both Nature and Technology. And in the program's finale, Finley takes her camera back to France's southern coast, to the precise location of the Allied landing and where her mother, 65 years earlier, had served on a Red Cross ship, tending to the War wounded--the resulting footage later layered with memorabilia discovered in a long-lost family trunk, Captain's logs, letters, phone calls, and archival footage--all weaving a rich tapestry of memory, history, and heroism. ALSO: The in-the-flesh return of Canadian whiz-kid Jake Scott with his 15-min. live expanded-cinema piece *On Leadership*, TT Takemoto's lovely *Lion in the Wind*, Alex Miller's *Denis Anatomy*, and new shorts from Bryan Boyce, Yuyan Wang, and Others TBA! Free pencils. *SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db49d168d8&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAM* Featuring the world premiere of films made locally with the support of MONO in Spring/Summer 2024. This program will include films made through the educational initiatives of MONO NO AWARE, a cinema-arts nonprofit organization and film positive community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience. Established in 2007 and based in downtown Brooklyn, MONO NO AWARE presents monthly artist-in-person screenings, facilitates equipment rentals, operates a film distribution initiative, maintains wet & dry lab facilities, and hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary artists and international filmmakers whose work incorporates Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or altered light projections. For more info visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=38f42245a9&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=48f87e319e&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, COUNTERPULSE, 80 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 *Stan Brakhage’s Passage Through: A Ritual* presented by John Powers Created over fifty years of ceaseless activity, filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s body of nearly 400 films is notable for its dazzling kineticism, expressive camerawork and rich use of optical and painterly abstraction and for its emphasis on direct, primal and pre-linguistic vision as direct conduit to the nervous system and as the conveyor of experience and meaning. In this radical centering of vision, Brakhage promoted a general aesthetics of cinematic silence and the abstraction of experience through the attenuation of the auditory. Considering his work to be expressive of “moving visual thinking” Brakhage was, of course, deeply influenced by music and the experience of sound. It is not surprising then that his rare forays into sound filmmaking have resulted in films which are among the most unique sound/image works in the history of the medium. An anomalous entry in Brakhage’s oeuvre, *Passage Through: A Ritual* (1990) pairs Fluxus composer Philip Corner’s long form solo piano piece *Through the Mysterious Barricade: Lumen* (after F. Couperin)—itself composed in response to Brakhage’s *The Riddle of Lumen* (1972)—to a pointilist stream of image bursts (Brakhage: “the most exacting editing process ever”) punctuating an experience of cinematic darkness. Engaging rhythmically with Corner’s rejoinder, Brakhage’s *Passage Through…* presents contrapuntal dialog with the obsessions with sound/image synchrony of Sharits and Kubelka and the minimal and temporarily spacialized cinema of Markopoulos while—most crucially—creating space for the reflective experience of memory, anticipation and perceptual surprise. This evening’s program—which will also include Brakhage’s *The Riddle of Lumen* (1972) and *Ephemeral Solidity* (1993)—will be introduced by John Powers, author of “Moving through stasis in Stan Brakhage’s Passage Through: A Ritual,” published 2019 in Screen, vol. 60, Issue 3. PROGRAM *The Riddle of Lumen* (1972) by Stan Brakhage; 16mm, color, silent, 14 minutes. Print from Canyon Cinema *Ephemeral Solidity* (1993) by Stan Brakhage; 16mm, color, silent, 4 minutes. Print from Canyon Cinema *Passage Through: A Ritual* (1990) by Stan Brakhage; 16mm, color, sound, 50 minutes. Print from Canyon Cinema The making of *Passage Through…* was unlike that of any other film in Brakhage’s career. The film began with [composer Philip] Corner, who performed this rendition of *Through the Mysterious Barricade* as part of a general series of improvisations called Withinstascys, continuing efforts to create a “daily personal spiritual practice with music.” Corner was inspired by *The Riddle of Lumen* (1972), an earlier film that Brakhage had always hoped would, in the manner of a riddle, engender a creative response affirming that another artist recognized the mysteries of the film and himself paid homage with another enigma. Brakhage pinned this hope on filmmaker Hollis Frampton, but Frampton never fashioned an explicit artistic response. Consequently Brakhage was eager to reciprocate by making a film using Corner’s piece in the spirit of an anagogic exchange. In his few statements on the film, Brakhage followed Corner’s lead and suggested a spiritual reading: “I think it’s a film about the dark night of the soul with moments of Illumination that are intrinsic to my present, where I am now. In that sense, the film is very cathartic.” (John Powers: “Moving through stasis in Stan Brakhage’s Passage Through: A Ritual,” published 2019 in Screen, vol. 60, Issue 3. *WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39cb62e9e3&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: RUTTMANN / STAUFFACHER* Karl Freund, Carl Mayer & Walter Ruttmann *BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY / BERLIN, DIE SYMPHONIE DER GROSSTADT* 1927, 65 min, 35mm-to-DCP, silent. 16mm collection print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Ruttmann and company’s seminal, groundbreaking film is a valentine to the ‘new’ Berlin of the late 1920s. Beginning at dawn and ending after midnight, it shows Berliners hard at work by day and possessed by the city’s thriving nightlife. Essentially a feature-length montage, the film was heavily influenced by Soviet documentary experiments like Dziga Vertov’s *KINO-PRAVDA* and was itself very influential in fostering the ‘city symphony’ genre and other documentary hybrid styles to come. Frank Stauffacher *SAUSALITO* (1948, 10 min, 16mm) “His love for a place in which he lived (Sausalito) and his poetic sensitiveness, to interpret here and there the ordinary in extraordinary scenes, changed the ‘quasi-documentary’ character of the film and made it a poetic essay, a model and new form for ‘city’ films.” –Hans Richter, FILM CULTURE Total running time: ca. 80 min *THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2024* *May 30 - June 16* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cinémathèque québécoise <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9f3d7be35f&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, Cinémathèque québécoise, 335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montreal, QC, Canada *Symposium XP* For this latest edition of the experimental film symposium, we offer a retrospective of a major American filmmaker (Henry Hills, in attendance), provide updates on current female production, accompany director Christian Lapointe in his first experience with radical cinema, host musician Sam Shalabi, and present two forgotten classics, one of which is a newly restored version that we have just completed. --- Rétrospective Henry Hills 1 - Thurs May 30 - 6pm ET --- A prolific experimental filmmaker, living between New York and Vienna (Austria), Henry Hills won the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and his works are held in the permanent collection of the MOMA. Among his best-known films are several collaborations with musician John Zorn and his group Naked City. The two-part program of his works presented at the Symposium XP provides an overview of his work spanning over forty years. This short film program is composed of *George* (1976, 16 mm), *Porter Springs 3* (1977, 16 mm), *Kino Da!* (1981, 16 mm), *Radio Adios* (1982, 16 mm), *Little Lieutenant* (1994, 16 mm), SSS (1988, 16 mm), *Electricity* (2007, num.), *Social Skills* (2021, num.) and *The Tree* (2018, num.) Filmmaker in attendance --- 20 ans de Double Négatif 1 - Thurs May 30 - 8pm ET --- Since the mid-2000s, Double Négatif has brought together a substantial portion of creative talents involved in the experimental film scene of Montreal and the province of Quebec. A number of landmark works have benefited from increased collaboration between filmmakers, from the sharing of equipment to the establishment of a shared aesthetic spirit. The desire to highlight the specificity of film produced and shown on analog media is an essential feature. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, we're showing a few key films. *Mouvement de lumière* Karl Lemieux, *Las Mujeres de Pinochet (Pinochet’s Women)* Eduardo Menz, *Sans chemin (L’Ocelle Mare)* Charles-André Coderre, *Ghosts and Gravel Roads* Mike Rollo, *Dans les cieux et sur la terre* Erin Weisgerber, *Altiplano* Malena Szlam, *Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis* Daïchi Saïto. --- Head in Flames - Fri May 31 - 6pm ET --- Followed by a conversation with filmmaker Christian Lapointe, and Lance Olsen, author of the *Head in Flames* book In 2004, while pedaling on his bike, filmmaker Theo van Gogh, the great-nephew of the famous Dutch painter, was killed in a cold blood street in Amsterdam by Mohammed Bouyeri. The murderer attacked him in retaliation for the film Submission that he directed, written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In 2009, the American author Lance Olsen wrote a book (*Head in Flames*) featuring three voices: the murderer, the director and the painter Vincent Van Gogh, in an oratorio connecting these three figures. The author shows the painter just before his suicide and the other two characters at the time of the murder. The writer uses quotations from the three men to put into perspective the culture of violence that all intolerance generates. Using a deepfake device, Christian Lapointe gives substance to Olsen's score and "resurrects" the protagonists in an experimental film in which he embodies these highly divisive historical figures himself. --- Diary of an occupation: films and images shot in Palestine (1920-2024) - Fri May 31 --- Live musical performance by Sam Shalabi featuring archive footage from the 'Katsakh' collection shot in Palestine, South Lebanon and Jordan (1920-2011), 30min *Scenes From the Occupation in Gaza*, Mustapha Abu Ali, 1973, 12min *Gaza Diary*, Taysir Batniji, 2001, 5min *Offing*, Oraib Toukan, 2021, 29min *Mehdi Amel in Gaza, On The Colonial Mode of Production*, Mary Jirmanus Saba, 2024, 14min --- Rétrospective Henry Hills 2 - Sat June 1 - 6pm ET --- A prolific experimental filmmaker, living between New York and Vienna (Austria), Henry Hills won the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and his works are held in the permanent collection of the MOMA. Among his best-known films are several collaborations with musician John Zorn and his group Naked City. The two-part program of his works presented at the Symposium XP provides an overview of his work spanning over forty years. This short film program is composed of *Money* (1985, 35 mm), *Goa Lawah* (1990-91, 16 mm), *Failed States* (2008, num.), *arcana* (2011, num.) and *The Falls* (2019, num.) --- Abijévis + Panorama au féminin - Sat June 1 - 8pm ET --- On a snowy Abitibi road, a subjective camera shares the nighttime journey of a driver returning from La Sarre. In the storm and blowing snow, strange territories and curious phantasmagorias born out of memories take shape. New restoration - The restoration of this film is part of the implementation of a measure in Quebec's Digital Cultural Plan. *Kisses*, Betty Ferguson, 1976, 55min --- 20 ans de Double Négatif 2 - Sun June 16 --- Since the mid-2000s, Double Négatif has brought together a substantial portion of creative talents involved in the experimental film scene of Montreal and the province of Quebec. A number of landmark works have benefited from increased collaboration between filmmakers, from the sharing of equipment to the establishment of a shared aesthetic spirit. The desire to highlight the specificity of film produced and shown on analog media is an essential feature. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, we're showing a few key films. *La noirceur souterraine des racines* Charles-André Coderre, *Unearthed* Karl Lemieux, *All-Around Junior Male* Lindsay McIntyre, *lunar almanac* Malena Szlam, *Traces* Erin Weisgerber, *Perceptual Subjectivity* Philippe Leonard, *P.O.P.* Eduardo Menz, *lacuna* Shannon Harris, *Engram of Returning* Daïchi Saïto. *FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2024* *May 31 - June 3* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a552fe8a53&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *WINDOWED WORLDS: THE FILMS OF BARRY GERSON* *Gerson will be in person for all four programs!* “I see myself more like a poet, but using film images. I like my work to be felt, to make you feel that you can almost touch it. Film is an ethereal thing, images float out in space, and I don’t concern myself too much with practical aspects. […] To me, the dream world knows everything. The dream world is the real world, and it is wise.” –Barry Gerson An artist, filmmaker, poet, and composer, Barry Gerson’s body of work encompasses 16mm and digital moving-image works, paintings with photographic elements, sculpture, as well as performance (as an actor and a performer of throat music). He uses the formal qualities of film in the service of visual poetry, creating moving-image works that reflect his lyrical exploration of the nature of existence. Though Gerson’s early films were screened alongside the major avant-garde filmmakers during the 1960s-70s, written about in the pages of Film Culture and other journals, and included in the distribution catalogues of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Canyon Cinema, and Castelli/Sonnabend Videotapes and Films, they have been more rarely screened in recent years. Though reminiscent in some ways of contemporaneous films by Stan Brakhage, Ernie Gehr, Larry Gottheim, and others, his films are ultimately highly distinctive, evincing a particularly sustained focus, on the one hand, on exploring the formal properties of the filmic image – the extent to which the “window” of the frame transforms and organizes the observed world into an interrelationship of shapes, lines, and qualities of light – and on the other hand, on using photography to draw out the spiritual or “magical” dimensions of his environment. Following a two-decade hiatus from filmmaking, brought on by the rising costs of celluloid and a tendency by some to group his work with that of structuralists, Gerson revisited the medium in 2002. He soon turned to digital media, and since 2008 has steadily produced works in that format. To celebrate Gerson’s gifting of his films to Anthology, and the publication of his new book, “Elixir of Light: Intuition, LED Lights and Healing Oneself Through the Super Brain”, we’re thrilled to present the first sustained focus on his moving-image oeuvre for many years, with four programs devoted to his 16mm works from 1961-82, and a fifth program showcasing a selection of his more recent digital works. “[Gerson’s fascination with light and framing allows him to build cubistic scenarios of lines and blocks of color, as displayed in the paintings of Mark Rothko, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and in Edward Hopper’s ‘Room by the Sea’ (1951). Gerson’s camera movements are never the result of apparatus technology. It is the filmmaker who moves, who approaches the world, feels and sees, transforms, reframes, and changes perspectives, creating new realities and paracinematic sculptures. […] The vibrant energy of the objects, sustained in time as ultimate force, exults us and moves us through space smoothly. The eyes are not merely witnessing – stimulated by the lack of objectivity, our vision readjusts preconceived impressions regarding shape, color, timing, and texture. Displacement here, as in life, is an opportunity for change and improvement.” –Mónica Savirón, LUMIÈRE “Over the…years I have worked in various mediums, each having informed the other in a symbiotic relationship of images and ideas. My overriding concern has involved an ongoing investigation to illuminate the spiritual in the physical world – to make it perceptible, palpable. Since all matter in the Universe pulsates rhythmically, it is therefore, in constant motion. My films/videos become an activated metaphor to elucidate this phenomenon. I attempt to create psychically charged images that are in a constant state of flux – structured formally but with a poetic intent. Through the use of slow movements and small changes the images become felt, eliciting an almost tactile response.” –Barry Gerson “Barry Gerson emerged in the late ’60s with a series of short films, each exploring a slightly different aspect of seeing. Each little film was centered around a limited, restricted theme, very rigorously structured and executed. As he progressed, his concerns grew in subtlety and complexity. […] His forms are varied, his style is clear and sure, his techniques are complex, his content is magic. These works are among the most interesting in the current American cinema.” –Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE Special thanks to Barry Gerson and Paul Smart. Unless otherwise noted, all film descriptions are by Barry Gerson. For more info about “Elixir of Light: Intuition, LED Lights and Healing Oneself Through the Super Brain” (Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY) – a memoir of the artist’s explorations with color LED therapy lights to heal the various maladies that accompany aging, combined with a reiteration of his theories regarding the energy powers of light and intuition, featuring a foreword by former Whitney Museum and Smithsonian curator John Hanhardt and an introductory essay by French neurologist Pierre LeMarquis – visit: https://stationhill.org/ Upcoming Screenings BARRY GERSON, PROG. 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f5f2dafa8&e=857b71a9cb> May 31 at 7:30 PM BARRY GERSON, PROG. 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=983d43519b&e=857b71a9cb> June 1 at 5:45 PM BARRY GERSON, PROG. 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d1ce4d6418&e=857b71a9cb> June 1 at 7:45 PM BARRY GERSON, PROG. 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fcc5cdc3c0&e=857b71a9cb> June 2 at 7:00 PM BARRY GERSON, PROG. 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=667494311f&e=857b71a9cb> June 3 at 7:30 PM *SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cfaeef389d&e=857b71a9cb> 5pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: PAUL SHARITS* *S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED *1968-70, 41 min, 16mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives. “Yes, *S:S:S:S:S:S* is beautiful. The successive scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really recognized.” –Michael Snow *COLOR SOUND FRAMES *1974, 26 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “A film in which Sharits sums up his researches in the area of film strip (in opposition to the individual frames). The film strips move horizontally and vertically; two strips move simultaneously in opposite directions; variations in color; action of sprocket-holes. Very methodically and scientifically he covers the area. […] *COLOR SOUND FRAMES* advances one area of cinema or one area of researches in cinema (call it art if you wish) to a new climax, to a new peak: his exploration is so total, so perfect.” –Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE Total running time: ca. 70 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f101818979&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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