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*This Week [June 8 - 16, 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=4c0da0f8fd&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 06.15.2024 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fb3cf8adc5&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 06.15.2024 MESA Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=df2837da74&e=857b71a9cb> 06.21.2024 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5fa9785ca&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 06.24.2024 Sharjah Film Platform Short Film Production Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=67eae09f1b&e=857b71a9cb> 06.28.2024 Duluth Superior Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d878169d00&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 06.30.2024 Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=848c913190&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 07.07.2024 Strangloscope Experimental International Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9e7e15fef3&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 07.08.2024 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5a8c58cc2&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=facd4676ab&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 07.15.2024 UCROSS Residency Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f2e435f96d&e=857b71a9cb> 07.31.2024 Viennale International Film Festival Vienna <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=645204e951&e=857b71a9cb> 09.09.2024 Punto de Vista Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4502107e3d&e=857b71a9cb> 10.01.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1729b897c9&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d1448d68cc&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=16cb9fedb3&e=857b71a9cb> [May 8-June 27, New York, NY] - Symposium XP <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8125741bec&e=857b71a9cb> [May 30-June 16, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Video Rituals <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=935b0ceecd&e=857b71a9cb> [June 8, Brooklyn, NY] - EC: Harry Smith (2 Pgms) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0d3c5d0fc8&e=857b71a9cb> [June 8, New York, NY] - Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Pgm 1 - Body As Film/Film As Body <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6d9361aa5a&e=857b71a9cb> [June 8, Oakland, CA] - EC: Ron Rice / Jack Smith <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e531332cb0&e=857b71a9cb> [June 9, New York, NY] - New Work By Dominic Angerame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=84544c1140&e=857b71a9cb> [June 9, New York, NY] - EC: Michael Snow (2 Pgms) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75766d4912&e=857b71a9cb> [June 12, New York, NY] - Studio 8 Film Festival - Opening Night Shorts Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05eb56be8d&e=857b71a9cb> [June 14, Oakland, CA] - Women/Men/Animals Film & video Works By Valie Export <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e0da010ab&e=857b71a9cb> [June 16, San Francisco, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e5edb12819&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39bab74a50&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 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=e357a215e0&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=68ea3176e7&e=857b71a9cb> May 8 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8a5a337b42&e=857b71a9cb> May 16 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9e13202245&e=857b71a9cb> May 22 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e8d480a7af&e=857b71a9cb> May 25 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 5 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2088cba7a4&e=857b71a9cb> May 30 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 6 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0051bc7a4a&e=857b71a9cb> June 5 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 7 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fded9fbb74&e=857b71a9cb> June 11 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 8 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b6ee81d09a&e=857b71a9cb> June 15 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 9 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f3bee39f16&e=857b71a9cb> June 19 at 7:30 PM CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 10 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1a59b76ac&e=857b71a9cb> June 27 at 7:15 PM *___________________________________________________________________* *May 30 - June 16* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cinémathèque québécoise <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=af599646c1&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. *SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bd3073fb7c&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm EDT, 167 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn New York 11237 *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. Program includes: *Blue Transcendence* (2022, 9 minutes, Erica Schreiner) Blue Transcendence is 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. Blue Transcendence was filmed by Erica Schreiner on her VHS camera in her apartment. …… *Dirt* (2024, 79 minutes, David Finkelstein, world premiere) Dirt is 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.…… *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=df66a1be04&e=857b71a9cb> 6:15pm ET, 8pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: HARRY SMITH (2 pgms)* --- 6:15pm - HARRY SMITH - PROGRAM 1 --- *FILM NOS. 1-5, 7, 10 (EARLY ABSTRACTIONS)* (ca. 1946-57, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.) *FILM NO. 11 (MIRROR ANIMATIONS)* (ca. 1957, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *FILM NO. 14 (LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS)* (1964, 28 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.) “My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: – batiked animations made directly on film between 1939 and 1946; optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950; semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of 1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works, works that will forever abide – they made me gray.” –Harry Smith Total running time: ca. 60 min --- 8pm - HARRY SMITH - PROGRAM 2 --- *FILM NO. 12 (HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC)* (ca. 1957-62, 66 min, 16mm, b&w) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Cineric, Inc. “*NO. 12* can be seen as one moment – certainly the most elaborately crafted moment – of the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith’s life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema. Its elaborately constructed soundtrack in which the sounds of various figures are systematically displaced onto other images reflects Smith’s abiding concern with auditory effects.” –P. Adams Sitney *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=943db3aa32&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Program 1 - "Body as Film/Film as Body"* Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues is a new series curated and organized by Amy Reid and Kathleen Quillian with the help of an international advisory board. The series is dedicated to exploring the visions, voices, concerns and lineage of women, non-binary, genderqueer and trans filmmakers through public film screenings, workshops, conversations and presentations. The first program, "Body as Film/Film as Body" will feature films that explore the connections between media and the human form. Tactile and visceral, these works push and expand the possibilities of working with celluloid and digital media to create both meaning and artifact, finding parallels between the moving image and feminist subjectivity. *DKK* (2020, 16mm to DV) by Deborah Garfinkle *Je Ne Sais Plus* (2012, 16mm to DV) by Kristin Reeves *Close the Lid Gently* (2013, DV) by Ariana Gerstein *Cosmetic Emergency* (2005, 35mm to DV) by Martha Colburn *Wayward Emulsions* (2018, 16mm to DV) by TT Takemoto *Flesh to Spirit* (2019, DV) by Alima Lee *Sanctus* (1990, 16mm) by Barbara Hammer *Riverbody* (1970, 16mm) by Alice Anne Parker *Lumen* (2019, S8 to DV) by Sarah Seené *Loretta* (2003, 16mm) by Jeanne Liotta *Traces On My Body* (2023, 16mm to DV) by Yue Hua *tape erotics comma sexy tender* (2023, DV) by sailer dinucci-radley *On the Other Side of* (2024, DV) by Mia Felic *True Story of Edges: Chapter 2* (2022, DV) by Jessica Wimbley *Light Work Mood Disorder* (double projection 16mm film + sound) by Jennifer Reeves *SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=236108e5d5&e=857b71a9cb> 4:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: RON RICE / JACK SMITH* Jack Smith *SCOTCH TAPE* (1962, 3 min, 16mm) A junkyard musical. Jack Smith *FLAMING CREATURES* 1963, 45 min, 16mm, b&w “[Smith] graced the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of all previous filmmakers.” –FILM CULTURE Ron Rice *CHUMLUM* (1964, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. With Jack Smith, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez, Joel Markman, Frances Francine, Guy Henson, Barry Titus, Zelda Nelson, Gerard Malanga, Barbara Rubin, and Frances Stillman. Music by Angus MacLise. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.) “A hallucinatory micro-epic filmed during lulls in the production of Smith’s *NORMAL LOVE* and one of the great ‘heroic doses’ of ’60s underground cinema, a movie so sumptuously and serenely psychedelic it appears to have been printed entirely on gauze.” –Chuck Stephens, CINEMA SCOPE Total running time: ca. 75 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f071488a9e&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *NEW WORK BY DOMINIC ANGERAME* An integral part of the Bay Area avant-garde film scene since the 1970s, Dominic Angerame has directed more than 35 films (and counting) over the course of his career, and has also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, University of California, Berkeley, New College of San Francisco, Osher Life Long Learning Center, and the University of Nevada at Reno, as well as the Academy of Art University. From 1980-2012, he was the Executive Director of Canyon Cinema, where he played an invaluable role in helping to distribute, promote, and preserve experimental cinema. Thanks to his role at Canyon, Anthology has had a longstanding relationship with Angerame, and in 2019, as part of our Infrastructure on Film series, we hosted screenings of his own work, in particular his multi-part film *CITY SYMPHONY* (1987-95). We’re pleased to welcome Dominic back now, with a program devoted entirely to works made in the five years since he last visited. The program includes a continuation of his *CITY SYMPHONY* series *(REVELATIONS)*, as well as a number of his *FILM DIARIES*, and other filmic portraits and visual meditations. *REVELATIONS* (2019, 22 min, digital) *PROMETHEUS* (2023, 3 min, digital) *WAR ZONE* (2024, 7 min, digital) *SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE (A GHOST STORY)* (2024, 9 min, digital) *LUMINAE* (2023, 3 min, digital) *AEON* (2024, 12 min, digital) *FLASHBACKS* (2022, 5 min, digital) *KHOROSHO* (2023, 4 min, digital) *FILM DIARY #1—ROBERT FULTON III* (2024, 2 min, digital) *FILM DIARY #2—NO NOTHING CINEMA* (2024, 4 min, digital) *FILM DIARY #7—PSALM SUNDAY* (2024, 5 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 80 min *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=531214c143&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 8:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: MICHAEL SNOW (2 Pgms)* --- 7pm - MICHAEL SNOW - PROGRAM 1 --- *WAVELENGTH* (1967, 45 min, 16mm) “...without precedent in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of cinema: the relationships between illusion and fact, space and time, subject and object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy modern painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a ‘triumph of contemplative cinema’.” –Gene Youngblood, L.A. FREE PRESS --- 8:30pm - MICHAEL SNOW - PROGRAM 2 --- *(BACK AND FORTH)* (1969, 50 min, 16mm-to-35mm) Restored by Anthology Film Archives with funding provided by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Film Foundation. Special thanks to Dan DeVincent, Simon Lund, and Adam Wangerin (Cineric, Inc.). “This neat, finely tuned, hypersensitive film examines the outside and inside of a banal prefab classroom, stares at an asymmetrical space so undistinguished that it’s hard to believe the whole movie is confined to it, and has this neckjerking camera gimmick which hits a wooden stop arm at each end of its swing. Basically it’s a perpetual motion film which ingeniously builds a sculptural effect by insisting on time-motion to the point where the camera’s swinging arcs and white wall field assume the hardness, the dimensions of a concrete beam. “In such a hard, drilling work, the wooden clap sounds are a terrific invention, and, as much as any single element, create the sculpture. Seeming to thrust the image outward off the screen, these clap effects are timed like a metronome, sometimes occurring with torrential frequency.” –Manny Farber, ARTFORUM, 1970 *FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fe8b50b2d1&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *STUDIO 8 Film Festival - Opening Night Shorts Program* The STUDIO 8 Film Festival is a 3-day event organized by the SF Artists Alumni Association to showcase the work of filmmakers who honed their craft while students at the legendary (and now-closed) San Francisco Art Institute. The opening night program features short films by Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag, Deborah Fort, Dean Snider, Kerry Laitala, Minoosh Zomorodinia, Dimitra Skandali, Liz Miller Kovacs, Lynne Sachs, Mark Street, Yin-Ju Chen, Dicky Bahto, Tommy Becker, Anne McGuire and Malic Amalya. *SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eea4b6d46a&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, CounterPulse, 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA *Women/Men/Animals Film & Video Works by Valie Export* My artistic work centres on the human body as medium of information, as signal bearer of meaning and communication. I occupy myself with the pictorial representation of mental states, with the sensations of the body when it loses its identity, when the ego gnaws its way through the scraps of skin, when steel casings straighten the joints and the worn-out identity is nailed with steel pins to modern mythomania… I try to shape the social structures (power current) and standards (mutilations) of life into a metanoia of pictures. (Valie Export, 1980) Artist Valie Export (b. Linz, Austria, 1940) is known for a body of film, video, performance and installation work focusing on the embodied position of the female artist situated in the contemporary patriarchal dystopia. Emerging from the same post-war context of generational reckoning that spawned Viennese Aktionism, Export’s work eschews the Aktionists’ self-abusing quests for catharsis, creating instead intimately mediated performances, that, while just as confrontational and assertively body-based, present darker critiques of media and representation while exploring the politics of eroticism and presenting subtly bitter attacks on bourgeois consumption and relations. On the occasion of the digitization of Export’s complete works by sixpackfilm, Cinematheque is proud to present this selection of films, videos and performance documentations by Valie Export. (Steve Polta) SCREENING: *Selbstportrait mit Kopf (Self-Portrait with Head)* (1966–1967) by Valie Export; 16mm screened as digital video, b&w, 4 minutes. *Body Tape* (1970) by Valie Export; video, b&w, 4 minutes. *Mann & Frau & Animal (Man & Woman & Animal)* (1970–1973) by Valie Export; 16mm screened as digital video, b&w, 8 minutes. *Hauchtext (Breath Text: Love Poem)* (1970-1973) by Valie Export; video, 2 minutes. *Facing a Family* (1971) by Valie Export; video, 5 minutes. *Remote… Remote…* (1973) by Valie Export; 16mm screened as digital video, color, 10 minutes. *Hyberbulie* (1973) by Valie Export; video, 7 minutes. *Syntagma* (1984) by Valie Export; 16mm screened as digital video, color, b&w, 20 minutes. *Die Zweiheit der Natur (The Duality of Nature)* (1986) by Valie Export; video, 2 minutes. All exhibition files from sixpackfilm *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=edcedddb30&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=aeb7381e0d&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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