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Short Films for Short Nights <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a448b87c82&e=857b71a9cb> [June 28-30, New York, NY] - EC: Warhol / Watson & Webber / Whitney <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2931d32b52&e=857b71a9cb> [June 29, New York, NY] - Festival of (In)Appropriation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=45565605eb&e=857b71a9cb> [June 29, New York, NY] - EC: Kenneth Anger Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be0f1ae00e&e=857b71a9cb> [July 2, New York, NY] - احکام نگاه (The Commandments of Looking): The Work of Maryam Tafakory <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=45f18dad90&e=857b71a9cb> [July 5, Los Angeles, CA] - EC: Bruce Baillie Pgm 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6114a4b2be&e=857b71a9cb> [July 6, New York, NY] - Mono No Aware Community Screening Programs - Summer 2024 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b7bb67f7eb&e=857b71a9cb> [July 7, New York, NY] - EC: Quick Billy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=970386c176&e=857b71a9cb> [July 7, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29f08e1a69&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3a0ccedbdb&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2024* *June 28 - 30* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The Metropolitan Museum of Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f22fd43325&e=857b71a9cb> 6/28 @ 7pm ET, 6/29 @ 7pm ET, 6/30 @ 2pm ET 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY *Short Films for Short Nights* A program of film screenings with live music. With the advent of cinema came new ways of experiencing and representing modern life. Join The Met’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for a three-part series featuring dozens of experimental short films made between 1909 and 1969 that collectively delve into the creative process. "Program One, Images," explores two-dimensional surfaces through films that have been incised, painted, tinted, cut, or collaged; "Program Two, Objects," features films about sculpture and inanimate figures; and "Program Three, Collections," considers art and objects in museums, galleries, archives, and studios to think about the sites of culture cinematically. --- Program One: Images - Friday, June 28, 2024, 7pm ET --- Modern artists invented new forms of image-making, from photography, to papier-collé, to gestural painting, and these techniques influenced cinema in turn. This program explores images and their surfaces through films that have been incised, painted, tinted, cut, or collaged. It also includes films that create after-images in the retina, treating the eye itself as a surface for composition. Live music by Cecilia Lopez *Free Radicals* (1958), Len Lye, sound, 4 min. 58 sec. *Voyage à la planète Jupiter* (1909), Segundo de Chómon, silent, 8 min. 10 sec. *Form Phases #4* (1954), Robert Breer, sound, 5 min. *Mothlight* (1963), Stan Brakhage, 16mm, silent, 3 min. 25 sec. *Little Dog for Roger* (1967), Malcolm Le Grice, 1967, silent, 13 min. *A Visit to Picasso* (1950), Excerpt from Paul Haesaerts, sound, 4 min. 43 sec. *Cineblatz* (1967), Jeff Keen, sound, 2 min. *Glen Falls Sequence* (1937–46), Douglas Crockwell, silent, 8 min. *Les Astronautes* (1959), Walerian Borowczyk and Chris Marker, sound, 12 min. 39 sec. *Cinderella* (1922), Lotte Reininger, silent, 13 min. --- Program Two: Objects - Saturday, June 29, 2024, 7pm ET --- In the hands of modern artists, sculpture was loosed from its pedestal and freed from representing the human form. Filmmakers captured sculptors at work but also experimented with object-making themselves via animation. Mannequins and dolls became subjects of fascination, as directors tried to grapple with the enigmatic and disconcerting nature of inanimate figures. This program includes films that depict or contain volumetric forms. Live music by Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara *Sort of a commercial for an icebag* (1969), Michael Hugo, sound, 14 min. *Visual Variations on Noguchi *(1945-46), Marie Menken, sound, 4 min. *The Pottery Maker *(1926), Robert Flaherty, silent, 8 min. *Light of the Darkness* (1952), Dušan Marek, silent, 7 min. 4 sec. *Works of Calder* (1950), Herbert Matter, sound, 19 min. 43 sec. *The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart* (1947), Fernand Leger, sound, 4 min. (Excerpt from Dreams That Money Can Buy, Hans Richter) *Le sculpteur moderne* (1908), Segundo de Chómon, silent, 6 min. 22 sec. *Jack’s Dream* (1938), Joseph Cornell, sound, 4 min. *Angel *(1957), Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, silent, 3 min. --- Program Three: Collections - Sunday, June 30, 2024, 2pm ET --- In the 1870s, modern art entered the museum. Filmmakers turned their lenses on these spaces, as well as on galleries, archives, collections, and studios to think about these sites of culture cinematically. This program looks at collections of art and objects, from the atelier to the cabinet of curiosity, and from library to museum. Live music by Matthew Shipp *Historia Naturae* (1967), Jan Svankmajer, sound, 8 min. 38 sec. *The Gorgon’s Head* (1925), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, silent, 16 min. *All the Memories of the World* (1957), Alain Resnais, sound, 20 min. *George Dumpson’s Place* (1965), Ed Emshwiller, 16mm, sound, 7 min. 52 sec. *Old Battersea House *(1961), Ken Russell, sound, 17 min. *The White Rose* (1965), Bruce Conner, silent, 7 min. Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served *SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0c85c3648b&e=857b71a9cb> 5:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: WARHOL / WATSON & WEBBER / WHITNEY* Andy Warhol *EAT* (1963, 35 min, 16mm, silent) “A portrait of artist Robert Indiana, EAT is one of the classics of Warhol’s minimalist cinema. As Indiana slowly eats one mushroom, the action is rendered mysterious by Warhol’s decision to assemble the rolls out of order, so the mushroom appears to magically renew itself from time to time.” –Callie Angell James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber *FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER* (1928, 13 min, 16mm, silent) “Filmed in a Rochester, New York, carriage house, this expressionist film is the earliest live-action dramatic film made by a collaboration of poets and artists in the United States. Watson devised the optical effects that distinguish the film, while Webber provided its visual design, based upon medieval frescoes.” –Robert A. Haller John & James Whitney *FILM EXERCISES 1-5* (1943-45, 18 min, 16mm) “The visual images in these films were created by shining light through flexible masks, so that the camera was filming direct light rather than light reflected from drawings. The results seem like dazzling neon apparitions, that were as novel and shocking as the accompanying soundtrack.” –William Moritz James Whitney *LAPIS* (1963-66, 10 min, 16mm) “The most elaborate example of a mandala in cinema. It utilizes a field of tiny dots, symmetrically organized in hundreds of very fine concentric rings, to generate slowly changing intricate patterns…. Both structurally and visually LAPIS conforms to the circular form of the mandala; its elaborate movements belie a fundamental stasis.” –P. Adams Sitney Total running time: ca. 80 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9abaa946ee&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION* Founded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a preeminent international showcase for experimental, found-media film and video. Every year, the Festival attracts artists working across an astonishing array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of collage, machinima, re-mix, détournement, mash-up, and more. The raw material for their work derives from the abundant new sources of audiovisual media to have surfaced in recent decades, from official state and commercial archives to vernacular collections, home movie repositories, and digital databases of every stripe. By exploiting and refashioning these pre-existing materials, such creations generate novel juxtapositions and recombinations, often producing ideas and meanings that were unintended or unimagined by the original makers. These remarkable works, in other words, are “inappropriate” in the profoundest sense of the term. Sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, the Festival of (In)appropriation strives to evince the remarkable range, sophistication, and critical impact of this vital aesthetic practice. The 2023 edition – Festival #13 – is curated by Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Proctor, and Adam Sekuler. Cheryl Gelover & Tom Murray *TULIPOMANIA: YOU HAD TO BE THERE* (U.S., 2022, 4 min, digital) Sophia Haboush *HEADSPACE* (U.S., 2023, 5 min, digital) Luis Carlos Rodriguez *COLLAGE 42* (Spain, 2022, 2.5 min, digital) Bill Morrison *HER VIOLET KISS* (U.S., 2021, 5 min, digital) Krista Leigh Steinke *TIMESCRAPS: FILM THREADS AND SPROCKET HOLES* (U.S., 2023, 8 min, digital) Jean-Pierre Marchant *DATE NIGHT* (Canada, 2023, 1.5 min, digital) Michael Lyons *QUEEN OF DOTS* (Japan, 2020, 2 min, digital) Grzegorz Kielawski & Alexander Bayer *MOTOR* (Austria, 2023, 18 min, digital) Christopher Harris *DREAMS UNDER CONFINEMENT* (U.S., 2020, 2.5 min, digital) Jean-Pierre Marchant *ANOTHER SET OF JAWS* (Canada, 2023, 1 min, digital) Anna Malina Zemlianski *OilMoonNight* (Germany, 2022, 5.5 min, digital) Yasaman Baghban *HOME* (Iran, 2020, 3 min, digital) Jean-Pierre Marchant *A HEATED EXCHANGE* (Canada, 2023, 1 min, digital) Federica Foglia *SKYSCRAPER FILM* (Italy, 2023, 8 min, digital) MilleFeuille *CUPID’S FEVER* (Canada, 2021, 16 min, digital) Eugenia Bakurin *LONG TIME NO TECHNO* (Germany, 2022, 4 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 90 min *TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=18c7807855&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: KENNETH ANGER PROGRAM* *FIREWORKS* 1947, 15 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation. *RABBIT’S MOON* 1950-70, 15 min, 35mm. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation. *EAUX D’ARTIFICE* 1953, 13 min, 16mm *SCORPIO RISING* 1963, 30 min, 16mm *KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS* 1965, 3 min, 16mm “Scandal, evil, violence, and Fascism, like Hollywood, are centers of fascination for Anger, and his films are the fields in which the dialectic of that fascination is played and fought.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM “All of [Anger’s] films have been evocations or invocations, attempting to conjure primal forces which, once visually released, are designed to have the effect of ‘casting a spell’ on the audience. […] Not a surrealist who puts blind faith in his own dream images and trusts his dreams to convey an ‘uncommon unconscious,’ Anger works predominantly in archetypal symbol. As the magus, he is the juggler of these symbols, just as in the Tarot, where the Magician is represented by the Juggler and is given the attribution of Mercury, the messenger.” –Carel Rowe, FILM QUARTERLY Total running time: ca. 80 min *FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Academy Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=740b733ec0&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 *احکام نگاه ahkam-e negah (The Commandments of Looking): The Work of Maryam Tafakory* Maryam Tafakory radically recontextualizes film, poetry, and archival sound and image to create a vital dialogue with post-Revolution Iranian cinema. Creating and illuminating layers of meaning through digital collage, her video essays and live performances provide a prismatic lens through which to view Iranian cinema and storytelling, without centering a Western gaze. The work is made for the people who recognize its cultural artifacts, but remains an accessible invitation across time and media for all who venture to look. The first dedicated Los Angeles screening of Tafakory’s work, this program features several short films, including *Mast-del (مست دل)* which premiered at Cannes in 2023, as well as a rare live performance piece, for which there can be no recording or other documentation. The ephemeral quality of this work makes it the most poignant expression of Tafakory’s engagement with the seen and unseen, the taboo, the abstracted, and the veiled. Programmed and note by Farihah Zaman in partnership with Museum of the Moving Image as part of the ongoing series Infinite Beauty: Muslim and MENASA Identity Onscreen. *Irani Bag (کیف ایرانی)* 2020. 7 min. Iran/UK/Singapore. Color. English. Digital. *Nazarbazi (نظربازی)* 2022. 19 min. Iran/UK. Color. Farsi, English. Digital. *Mast-del (مست دل)* 2023. 17 min. Iran. Color. Farsi, English. Digital. *CodeNames (اسم رمز)* with live performance. 2021/ongoing. 23 min (excerpt). Color. Farsi, English. Digital. Total program runtime: 64 min Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation *SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3cfa636d13&e=857b71a9cb> 5pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: BRUCE BAILLIE PGM 1* *MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX* (1963-64, 20 minutes, 16mm) *QUIXOTE* (1964-65, 45 minutes, 16mm) “In *MASS* and *QUIXOTE* [Baillie] subtly blends glimpses of the heroic personae with despairing reflections on violence and ecological disaster. […] Despite his sophistication, Baillie remains an innocent; the whole of his cinema exhibits an alternation between two irreconcilable themes: the sheer beauty of the phenomenal world (few films are as graceful to the eye as his, few are as sure of their colors) and the utter despair of forgotten men. It is in QUIXOTE alone that these two themes emerge into a dialectical form, an antithesis of grace and disgrace.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 70 min *SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3f2e23ce34&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAMS - SUMMER 2024* Featuring the world premiere of films made locally with the support of MONO in Summer 2024. These programs 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=edb2445da5&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b1d4120835&e=857b71a9cb> 4:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: QUICK BILLY* *CASTRO STREET* 1966, 10 min, 16mm *ALL MY LIFE* 1966, 3 min, 16mm *VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS* 1968, 10 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “In [Baillie’s late 1960s films], the eye of the film-maker quiets his mind with images of reconciliation; the dialectics of cinematic thought become calm in the filming of the privileged moment of reconciliation.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM *QUICK BILLY* 1971, 56 min, 16mm “The essential experience of transformation, between Life and Death, death and birth, or rebirth. In four reels, the first three adapted from the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The fourth reel is in the form of a black and white one-reeler Western, summarizing the material of the first three reels, which are color and abstract.” –Bruce Baillie Total running time: ca. 85 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=80db33b52a&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=35aa3e08e3&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. There are now more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works available to view on the website. ------------------------------ *Let us know about your alternative film/video event!* Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=774e0b6edc&e=857b71a9cb> . 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