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*This Week [August 3 - 11, 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=b6eab23150&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 08.04.2024 Cindependent Film Festival – NEW Experimental Section <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9396610c6c&e=857b71a9cb> (Final Deadline) 08.12.2024 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=10f62bc38a&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 08.18.2024 Strangloscope Experimental International Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fe8dcbf96a&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 08.30.2024 Light Matter Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=939fe02091&e=857b71a9cb> 08.31.2024 Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cec849e7b1&e=857b71a9cb> 09.02.2024 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b3377af11d&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 09.06.2024 Thomas Edison Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b8a1e975aa&e=857b71a9cb> (Final Deadline) 09.06.2024 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=02411128e2&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 09.09.2024 Punto de Vista Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a8a985f724&e=857b71a9cb> 10.01.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=97e6c78ab0&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2024 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aef65f5842&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.31.2024 MONO NO AWARE Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5b67c99e5a&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=843abb87d9&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - The Experimental Films of Dick Higgins <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9edb7828d3&e=857b71a9cb> [August 2-4, New York, NY] - Connectivity Through Cinema Presents: Split Ends & Other Stories - Lauren Oliver <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5fc02120ae&e=857b71a9cb> [August 3, Brooklyn, NY] - EC: James Broughton, PGM 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0efdcde359&e=857b71a9cb> [August 3, New York, NY] - EC: James Broughton, PGM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=48066946bd&e=857b71a9cb> [August 4, New York, NY] - EC: Robert Breer PGM <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ef026ea911&e=857b71a9cb> [August 7, New York, NY] - When Puppets Go Bad <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bf8fb69ec3&e=857b71a9cb> [August 9, New York, NY] - Mono No Aware Community Screening Programs - Summer 2024 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c76196e7c7&e=857b71a9cb> [August 11, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a973244345&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b465a26438&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2024* *August 2 - 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b506456c4&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET each night, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *THE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF DICK HIGGINS* Artist, publisher, and Fluxus co-founder Dick Higgins (1938-98) began experimenting with film while in college at Yale University, when he briefly joined a summer stock playhouse and served as the cameraman for a pornographic venture. After moving to New York City in the late 1950s, Higgins attended composer John Cage’s course in experimental composition at the New School and co-founded the New York Audio-Visual Group, which staged multimedia productions at venues in Downtown New York. Alongside artist Al Hansen, Higgins embarked on his first cinematic experiments, utilizing projectors, lights, and electrical circuits. The pair’s endeavors highlighted their shared love for risk and an element of danger. Throughout the 1960s and early ’70s, Higgins created a dozen experimental movies, most of which have only recently been rediscovered and digitized. A selection of these virtually unknown works will be presented at Anthology. With the exception of *THE FLAMING CITY* (1961-62), which was occasionally screened in New York and Europe during the 1960s, the other films in the program have not been shown in over fifty years. The last recorded screening of a Higgins film program in New York dates back to November 1969, when the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque presented his works as part of their “Avant Garde Tuesdays” series at the Jewish Museum. The series has been guest-programmed by Alice Centamore and Lauren Fulton, with support from the Dick Higgins Estate. Lauren Fulton is a researcher and curator based in Lawrence, Kansas. She is an art history PhD candidate at SUNY Stony Brook where she just completed her dissertation on Higgins, which in part examines his work in film. Alice Centamore is an art historian and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. She co-curated a show on Dick Higgins’s publishing house, Something Else Press, at the Reina Sofïa Museum, Madrid, in which his films were featured. Special thanks to Hannah Higgins & Jessica Higgins (Estate of Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press) and Emily Cushman (MoMA). Upcoming Screenings THE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF DICK HIGGINS, PROG. 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bac4f5c3e6&e=857b71a9cb> August 2 at 7:30 PM THE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF DICK HIGGINS, PROG. 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1b6096a376&e=857b71a9cb> August 3 at 7:30 PM THE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF DICK HIGGINS, PROG. 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=024e071c70&e=857b71a9cb> August 4 at 7:30 PM *SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ba5ce57349&e=857b71a9cb> 5:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: JAMES BROUGHTON, PGM 1* *THE PLEASURE GARDEN* 1953, 38 min, 35mm *THE BED* 1968, 19 min, 16mm *NUPTIAE* 1969, 14 min, 16mm “Broughton was and is a poet, sometimes a dramatist. Yet whatever the mode, his style is remarkably consistent: urbane and witty with the persona of the naïve, or the simpleton, or the child. Like the poems, the films record the basic rites of passage, the search for love, the primal relationships, with ironic insight: there are parents who are children, a rube who’s really the artist, a loony wise man.” –P. Adams Sitney Total running time: ca. 75 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MONO NO AWARE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=667cd4607b&e=857b71a9cb> 7PM ET CPR - 361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn NY *CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA: SPLIT ENDS AND OTHER STORIES - Lauren Oliver in person* PROGRAM: *PRIÈRE DE TOUCHER (PLEASE TOUCH)* / ( 3 min, 2018, 16mm) *STEPPING INTO THE FRAME* (10 min, 2022, 16MM Triple Projection Performance) *SPLIT ENDS* (3 min, 2024, 16MM with live narration by the artist) Total running time: 16 minutes Lauren Oliver (b. 1992, Forest Hills, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist working in Brooklyn, New York. Experimenting with photography, performance, and film making, Oliver's creative practice is deeply rooted in both the technical and metaphoric significance of light in analog image making. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Purchase. Her photographs have been featured on i-D, Buzzfeed, F-stop Magazine, and The Luupe. Her first monograph, “Temple of the Self,” published by Monolith Editions in 2020, is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2024, she published her second book, "Puntas Abiertas," with Matarile Ediciones. In addition to her artistic practice, Lauren teaches analog photography and film making at the International Center of Photography, Gowanus Community Darkroom, and Mono no Aware. In September 2024, she will start her graduate studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology. MONO NO AWARE SCREENING SERIES: The CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA series will present the work of artists, film-makers and curators who are traveling or presenting special interactive programs in-person. Our hope is to engage the community by showing work with a focus on post-screening discussion. This series is made possible by support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) *SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a2b16e93f4&e=857b71a9cb> 5:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: JAMES BROUGHTON, PGM 2* *THE GOLDEN POSITIONS* 1970, 32 min, 16mm “A lovely, poetic, humorous, and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting, and lying down.” –John Wasserman, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE *DREAMWOOD* 1972, 45 min, 16mm “A modern day spiritual odyssey in which a man is mysteriously compelled to leave his home and embark on a voyage to a strange, magical island. On the island he faces the most improbable and intense experiences of his life, ranging from total humiliation to a deep sense of oneness with the force of life. Heroic in concept, subtle in execution, *DREAMWOOD* is a beautiful film by a true master of the medium.” –David Bienstock *HIGH KUKUS* 1974, 3 min, 16mm “A High Kuku is, of course, a cuckoo haiku. In inventing this form Broughton has concocted zany verses which are ‘high’ in the sense that they are often metaphysical and are keenly aware of the metacomedy of things.” –Alan Watts Total running time: ca. 85 min. *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=315fb9b0c8&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: ROBERT BREER PGM* With the exception of *MOTION PICTURES NO. 1*, *PAT’S BIRTHDAY*, *BREATHING*, and *GULLS AND BUOYS*, all of the films in this program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. *FORM PHASES I* (1952, 2 min, 16mm) *FORM PHASES II* (1953, 2 min, 16mm) *RECREATION* (1956, 1.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) *MOTION PICTURES NO. 1* (1956, 4.5 min, 16mm, silent) *JAMESTOWN BALOOS* (1957, 6 min, 16mm-to-35mm) *EYEWASH* (1959, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm) *BLAZES* (1961, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm) *PAT’S BIRTHDAY* (1962, 13 min, 16mm, b&w) *BREATHING* (1963, 5 min, 35mm, b&w) *FIST FIGHT* (1964, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm) *66* (1966, 5.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) *69* (1969, 4.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) *70* (1970, 5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) *GULLS AND BUOYS* (1972, 8 min, 16mm) *FUJI* (1974, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm) “Roughly speaking [Breer’s] works belong to that category of films generally called ‘abstract’ (though his are also highly ‘concrete’), but differ from everything else that has been done along these lines in one basic respect: Breer is undoubtedly the first filmmaker to have brought to his medium the full heritage of modern painting and the sum of sophisticated experimentation that it represents.” – Noël Burch, FILM QUARTERLY Total running time: ca. 85 min. *FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=03385004ca&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *WHEN PUPPETS GO BAD* Anthology welcomes back Skip Elsheimer, the mastermind behind the invaluable A/V Geeks Film Archive, who will be here to present a program drawn from his strange and wonderful 16mm print collection. “Join the A/V Geeks as we step into a world of whimsical wonder and downright unsettling puppetry at our live 16mm film night! Prepare to be mesmerized by a lineup of puppets so outrageously “bad” they’re unforgettable. Our special selection includes: *PARENTS: WHO NEEDS THEM?*: Watch in awe as a magical puppet embarks on a fantastical journey, turning a little boy invisible to teach him a heartwarming lesson in gratitude; *LUNCHROOM MANNERS*: Experience the chaos and hilarity as a mischievous puppet turns a simple lunch into an uproarious spectacle, reminding us all of the importance of good manners; *WHAT TADOO?*: Dive into a riveting cautionary tale, where children learn the crucial lesson of stranger danger through the captivating antics of our puppet characters. And more! Don’t miss this extraordinary night where bad puppets come to life, weaving stories that entertain, educate, and creep the bejeezus out of us.” –A/V GEEKS *SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e6ec438e1&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=e82889550c&e=857b71a9cb> *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8523501f13&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=220c57c1b1&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=92d17ebb94&e=857b71a9cb> . 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