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*This Week [July 20 - 28, 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=8166f2d924&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 07.20.2024 Archivio Aperto <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b7dd729cea&e=857b71a9cb> 07.24.2024 Celluloidra Revolverrel Hungarian Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5f2b53b0b8&e=857b71a9cb> 07.28.2024 Cindependent Film Festival – NEW Experimental Section <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c7c626ac1e&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 07.28.2024 Strangloscope Experimental International Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eed776af2f&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 07.31.2024 Viennale International Film Festival Vienna <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=420514e0eb&e=857b71a9cb> 08.12.2024 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=df6065f0ea&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 08.30.2024 Light Matter Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9863504d89&e=857b71a9cb> 08.31.2024 Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6555ea0ceb&e=857b71a9cb> 09.06.2024 Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cd27cbd433&e=857b71a9cb> (Final Deadline) 09.06.2024 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=556fa2fc4d&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 09.09.2024 Punto de Vista Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2843b37c72&e=857b71a9cb> 10.01.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=36bf51a73b&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2024 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9ad06abea2&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bb2dfeb37b&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - EC: Stan Brakhage Programs <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=917f96101d&e=857b71a9cb> [July 12-24, New York, NY] - Luminous Alchemy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e13d2736e&e=857b71a9cb> [July 20-21, Seattle, WA] - WIPTB? Presents: St. Francis Hears A Noise <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db05fa71a1&e=857b71a9cb> [July 24, Los Angeles, CA] - Landscape Suicide <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=36cbdafeaf&e=857b71a9cb> [July 24 & Aug 2, New York, NY] - 12 New Films By Dominic Angerame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d816e8db7c&e=857b71a9cb> [July 27, San Francisco, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9070fc0afd&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c94586fbae&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024**July 12 - 24* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ee9a951798&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: Stan Brakhage Programs* --- PROGRAM 1 - Friday, July 12 - 8:45pm ET --- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *DESISTFILM* (1954, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) *REFLECTIONS ON BLACK* (1955, 12 min, 16mm, b&w, sound. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *THE WONDER RING* (1955, 4 min, 16mm) *FLESH OF MORNING* (1956, 25 min, 16mm, b&w) *LOVING* (1956, 4 min, 16mm) *DAYBREAK AND WHITEYE* (1957, 8 min, 16mm) *WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING* (1959, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) Films made during the early, “psychodramatic” period of one of modern cinema’s greatest innovators, including two of his early experiments with sound. Total running time: ca. 75 min. --- PROGRAM 2 - Saturday, July 13 - 6:15pm ET --- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT* (1958, 40 min, 16mm) *CAT’S CRADLE* (1959, 6 min, 16mm) *SIRIUS REMEMBERED* (1959, 12 min, 16mm) *THIGH LINE LYRE TRIANGULAR* (1961, 9 min, 16mm) *MOTHLIGHT* (1963, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *BLUE MOSES* (1963, 11 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) With *ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT*, Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the “closed-eye vision” period. This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a camera, *MOTHLIGHT*, and one of Brakhage’s few sound (and ‘acted’) films, *BLUE MOSES*. Total running time: ca. 85 min. --- PROGRAM 3 - Saturday, July 13 - 8:30pm ET --- *SONGS 1-14* 1964-65, ca. 53 min, 8mm-to-16mm, silent “*SONG 1*: Portrait of a lady. *SONGS 2 & 3*: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering. *SONG 4*: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. *SONG 5*: A childbirth song. *SONG 6*: The painted veil via moth-death. *SONG 7*: San Francisco. *SONG 8*: Sea creatures. *SONG 9*: Wedding source and substance. *SONG 10*: Sitting around. *SONG 11*: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches. *SONG 12*: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. *SONG 13*: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. *SONG 14*: Molds, paints and crystals.” –Stan Brakhage --- PROGRAM 4 - Sunday, July 14 - 6:30pm ET --- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *PASHT* 1965, 5 min, 16mm *FIRE OF WATERS* 1965, 10 min, 16mm, sound *THE HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN AND THE MOTH* 1968, 19 min, 16mm *THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA* 1970, 29 min, 16mm *SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL* 1970, 7 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives Total running time: ca. 75 min. --- PROGRAM 5 - Sunday, July 14 - 8:30pm ET --- All films are silent. *MY MOUNTAIN: SONG 27* 1968, 25 min, 8mm-to-16mm *MY MOUNTAIN: SONG 27: PART 2: RIVERS* 1969, 33 min, 8mm-to-16mm *SONGS 28-29* 1966/86, 21 min, 8mm-to-16mm “*MY MOUNTAIN: SONG 27*: A study of Arapahoe Peak in all the seasons of two years’ photography…the clouds and weathers that shape its place in landscape – much of the photography a-frame-at-a-time. *SONG 27: PART 2: RIVERS*: A series of eight films intended to echo the themes of *MY MOUNTAIN: SONG 27*. *SONG 28*: Scenes as texture. SONG 29: A portrait of the artist’s mother.” –Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 85 min. --- PROGRAM 6 - Saturday, July 20 - 5:30pm ET --- *THE ART OF VISION* 1961-65, 261 min, 16mm, silent “Includes the complete *DOG STAR MAN* and a full extension of the singularly visible themes of it. Inspired by that period of music in which the word ‘symphonia’ was created and by the thought that the term, as then, was created to name the overlap and enmeshing of suites, this film presents the visual symphony that *DOG STAR MAN* can be seen as and also all the suites of which it is composed. But as it is a film, and a work of music, the above suggests only one of the possible approaches to it. For instance, as ‘cinematographer,’ at source, means ‘writer of movement,’ certain poetic analogies might serve as well. The form is conditioned by the works of art which have inspired *DOG STAR MAN*, its growth of form by the physiology and experiences (including experiences of art) of the man who made it. Finally, it must be seen for what it is.” –Stan Brakhage --- PROGRAM 7 - Sunday, July 21 - 6:15pm ET --- *THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER* 1970, 35 min, 16mm *SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW* 1971, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE* 1972, 10 min, 16mm Total running time: ca. 55 min. --- PROGRAM 8 - Sunday, July 21 - 8pm ET --- *THE TEXT OF LIGHT* 1974, 67 min, 16mm, silent Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “All that is, is light.” –Johannes Scotus Erigena “[Brakhage shot] *THE TEXT OF LIGHT* in (through) a large crystal ashtray. This magnificent film – a slow montage of iridescent splays of light and shifting landscapes of sheer color, which acknowledges debts to Turner and American Romantic landscape painters as well as to James Davis, the pioneer film-maker of light projections – is the culmination of Brakhage’s exploration of anamorphosis.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM --- PROGRAM 9 - Wednesday, July 24 - 7pm ET --- *THE PITTSBURGH TRILOGY* Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *EYES* (1970, 36 min, 16mm, silent) “After wishing for years to be given the opportunity of filming some of the more ‘mystical’ occupations of our Times – some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into ‘bogeymen’... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: – I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.” –Stan Brakhage *DEUS EX* (1971, 34 min, 16mm, silent) “I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making *DEUS EX* in West Penn. Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by the memory of one incident in an emergency room of San Francisco’s Mission District: while waiting for medical help, I had held myself together by reading an April-May 1965 issue of ‘Poetry Magazine’: and the following lines from Charles Olson’s ‘Cole’s Island’ had especially centered the experience, ‘touchstone’ of *DEUS EX*, for me: Charles begins the poem with the statement ‘I met Death –’ And then: ‘He didn’t bother me, or say anything. Which is / not surprising, a person might not, in the circumstances; / or at most a nod or something. Or they would. But they wouldn’t, / or you wouldn’t think to either, / it was Death. And / He certainly was, the moment I saw him.’” –Stan Brakhage *THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN EYES* (1971, 32 min, 16mm, silent) “Brakhage, entering, with his camera, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes.” –Hollis Frampton Total running time: ca. 105 min. *SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024**July 20 - 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* PARACME <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=153d1b786d&e=857b71a9cb> various times PT, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th St, Seattle, WA *LUMINOUS ALCHEMY* the films of Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky, presented by PARACME [with related selections from Margaret Rorison, Sophie Michael, Christopher Harris, Paul Clipson and Maïa Cybelle Carpenter] For more than six decades, Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler have created extraordinary works which evoke entrancement and fascination. Shortly after they met—at a mid-1960s New York screening of Dorsky's *INGREEN*—their lives became inexorably intwined. They relocated together from the opposite coast to the Bay Area in the early-1970s (where they have lived and worked ever-after). Their distinctive filmmaking practices proceeded independently, yet in parallel, with intermittent screenings of their own shorts and others within their respective homes for themselves and, less frequently, a handful of assorted friends. LUMINOUS ALCHEMY, in essence and intention, is inspired by those intimate occasions. For the uninitiated, the films of Hiler and Dorsky are miniature masterworks of cinematic transmutation, summoning ideal avenues for deep-viewing. Each short, generally twenty minutes or less in duration, is a visual expedition through collocated scenes of intuitive interconnection. The filmmakers both exhibit their work devoid of a soundtrack and at a speed slightly out-of-step with perception, decelerated to eighteen frames-per-second. Therein, their films propose far more than mere representation, constructing a collage of intumescent imagery that transcends the limitations of our perceivable world. Their transcendent work becomes a temporary gateway into an illusory realm. While their films are often exhibited in individual programs dedicated to either one or the other, this quasi-retrospective intermingles the works of Dorsky and Hiler into five concise programs, each with an interrelated faux-prologue by Sophie Michael (Program I), Margaret Rorison (II), Christopher Harris (III), Maïa Cybelle Carpenter (IV) and Paul Clipson (V). Twenty-five films in all! Many screening in Seattle for the first—and potentially only—time and nearly all (with one or two exceptions) unavailable online! Each exhibited on the format of its creation: 16mm. [presented in absolute gratitude for the persuasive enthusiasm and generous support of longtime NWFF member Glenn Fox and with genuine appreciation to the associated filmmakers and the illustrious Canyon Cinema Foundation] I Saturday, 20-July, 2:00pm PT *THE WATERSHOW EXTRAVAGANZA* (2016) | Sophie Michael | 10min *O DEATH* (2023) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 5.5min. *INGREEN* (1964) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 12min. *A FALL TRIP HOME* (1964) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 11min. *SUMMERWIND *(1965) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 14min. *WORDS OF MERCURY *(2011) | Jerome Hiler | 25min. II Saturday, 20-July, 4:30pm PT *VINDMØLLER* (2014) | Margaret Rorison | 3min. *IN THE STONE HOUSE* (1967-1970 / 2012) | Jerome Hiler | 35min. *17 REASONS WHY* (1987) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 19min. *SONG AND SOLITUDE* (2006) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 21min. III Saturday, 20-July, 7:00pm PT *28.IV.81 (BEDOUIN SPARK) *(2009) | Christopher Harris | 3min. *BAGATELLE I *(2016) | Jerome Hiler | 16min. *HOURS FOR JEROME I* (1966-70/82) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 21min. *HOURS FOR JEROME II* (1966-70/82) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 24min. *BAGATELLE II* (2016) | Jerome Hiler | 16min. IV Sunday, 21-July, noon PT *SANS TITRE* (2001) | Maïa Cybelle Carpenter | 8min. *ARIEL* (1983) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 16min. *CARACOLE (FOR CECILIA)* (2019) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 4min. *TRISTE* (1996) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 18.5min *NEW SHORES* (1971-87) | Jerome Hiler | 35min. V Sunday, 21-July, 2:30pm PT *SPHINX ON THE SEINE* (2009) | Paul Clipson | 7.5min. *RULING STAR* (2019) | Jerome Hiler | 22min. *EMBER DAYS* (2021) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 10.5min. *MARGINALIA *(2016) | Jerome Hiler | 23min. *INTERVAL* (2021) | Nathaniel Dorsky | 12.5min. *WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* WHAMMY! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f2837287f&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, WHAMMY! Analog Media, 2514 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA (Entrance in rear off Rampart!) *WIPTB? Presents: ST. FRANCIS HEARS A NOISE* As part of the What's In Pandora's Box? summer screening series happening all summer long at Whammy! we are presenting rarely screened feature films from directors showcased in the show's 10 episode series. *ST. FRANCIS HEARS A NOISE*, dir. Jimmy Schaus, 2018, United States, digital projection, 85 min A psychotronic, picaresque science fiction romp about a sound recordist whose special microphone picks up messages from beyond. Some of these sounds are stolen by a sinister underground production network to unlock latent psychic energy from the young actors they routinely exploit. Francis, the titular protagonist, sets off on a journey to investigate and retrieve his precious sounds, only to uncover a vast network of control in which he may already be enmeshed. *___________________________________________________________________* *July 24 & August 2* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2b1b80dac7&e=857b71a9cb> July 24 @ 9pm ET & Aug 2 @ 6:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *LANDSCAPE SUICIDE* by James Benning, 1986, 92 min, 16mm “Delving into two murder cases – Bernadette Protti’s seemingly unmotivated stabbing murder of another teenage girl in a California suburb in 1984, and Ed Gein’s even more gratuitous mass slayings and mutilations in rural Wisconsin in the late 50s – Benning uses actors to re-create part of the killers’ court testimonies and juxtaposes them with the commonplace settings where these crimes took place. Boldly eschewing the specious psychological rhetoric that usually accompanies accounts of such crimes, he creates an open forum for the spectator to contemplate the mysterious vacancy of these people and these places, and their relationships to each other.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER “The film script is taken verbatim from trial transcripts and recorded police interviews. The performances by Rhonda Bell, who plays Bernadette Protti, and Elion Sacker, who is Ed Gein, feel somehow more devastating and ‘genuine’ than watching the ‘real’ trials might have been. As I revisited *LANDSCAPE SUICIDE* last year, it began to seem as if the official testimonies of these two real people were somehow the copy and Benning’s re-creation, his actors, the original.” –Rachel Kushner, ARTFORUM Preceded by: Beth B & Scott *B LETTERS TO DAD* (1979, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) A meditation on authority that superimposes the specter of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form – like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer. Total running time: ca. 110 min *SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* SF Public Library Presidio Branch <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=368c8f094d&e=857b71a9cb> 2pm PT, 3170 Sacremento St, San Francisco, CA *12 New Films by Dominic Angerame* *Luminae* 2023 3 minutes *Aeon* 2024 12 minutes *War Zone* 2024 7 minutes *San Francisco Art Institute ( A Ghost Story)* 9 minute 2024 *Film Diary #1—Robert Fulton III* 2024 2 minutes *Film Diary #2—No Nothing Cinema* 2024 4 minute *Film Diary #3—In Memory of Kurt Kren* 2024 3 minutes *Film Diary #4—Cemetery* 2024 3 minutes *Film Diary #5—Last Temptation of Christ* 2024 4 minutes *Film Diary #6—1984 Democratic Convention* 2024 5 minutes *Film Diary #7—Psalm Sunday* 2024 5 minutes *Film Diary #8 —Papa John Creach* 2024 3 minutes *Film Diary #9—Water Fall* 2024 3 minutes *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2f6a294d1c&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=8261087224&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=681b89312c&e=857b71a9cb> . 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