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*This Week [September 14 - 22, 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=e7f84aba76&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 09.16.2024 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=63b77ef98d&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 09.20.2024 21st accordi @ DISACCORDI <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=305d7aeea4&e=857b71a9cb> 10.01.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f817f75458&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2024 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6c42cb9658&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.01.2024 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c6e31ece65&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.01.2024 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ab38c2cbf0&e=857b71a9cb> (Final Deadline) 10.31.2024 MONO NO AWARE Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2c8859ad4d&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2024 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (Regular Deadline) 11.08.2024 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=599bcc71fc&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.15.2024 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=286f711b32&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2024 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e9f60cd03&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2024 Strangloscope Experimental International Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f9055bf7b1&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75f39a4a17&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Nothing Is Perfect And Everything Is Perfect <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=713094f638&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13-14, Atlanta, GA] - Body Prop by M Woods w/Coin Celleil at Peripheries 2024 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7fb9080fd6&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13-29, Chicago, IL] - EC: Joseph Cornell <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cb15683c67&e=857b71a9cb> [September 14, New York, NY] - Earth, Air, Fire, Water <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5b45d2b924&e=857b71a9cb> [September 14, San Francisco, CA] - Experimentations: Imag(In)Ing Knowledge In Film PGM 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc2ac9299c&e=857b71a9cb> [September 15, Los Angeles, CA] - Experimentations: Imag(In)Ing Knowledge In Film, PGM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9f6a4ddade&e=857b71a9cb> [September 15, Los Angeles, CA] - EC: Conner / Conrad <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=682c995a27&e=857b71a9cb> [September 15, New York, NY] - Of Memory And Association: The Films of Philip Hoffman <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=76b195da74&e=857b71a9cb> [September 17, Vancouver, BC, Canada] - 16mm Dada/Surreal Cinema of Hans Richer, Dimitri Kirshoff <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=98d631a67d&e=857b71a9cb> [September 18, San Francisco, CA] - Rick Prelinger Presents <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ed84840017&e=857b71a9cb> [September 18, San Francisco, CA] - Experimentations: Imag(In)Ing Knowledge In Film PGM 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0c681f6e2c&e=857b71a9cb> [September 19, Los Angeles, CA] - Connectivity Through Cinema Presents: The Films of Derrick Schultz <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b162ec5575&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, Brooklyn, NY] - Decoys: The Films of Alee Peoples <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e6a4504177&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, New York, NY] - Speaking In Camouflage: Christopher Harris <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c060a9e7ce&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, New York, NY] - A Salon With Philip Hoffman <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2981ef841f&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, San Francisco, CA] - Made by Hand: Phil Hoffman's Film Farm 30th Anniversary <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c54fe2a5ff&e=857b71a9cb> [September 21, San Francisco, CA] - Bricks Laid By Hand: The Films of Christopher Harris <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=202952aba2&e=857b71a9cb> [September 21-27, New York, NY] - Phil Hoffman Shorts: of Memory & Association <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=60726b92d8&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22, Oakland, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6b1253c198&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78c8e193d8&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2024* *September 13 - 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Off the Wall <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8fa6291cf4&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET both nights, Off the Wall, 725 Ponce de Leon Ave NE on the Atlanta Beltline, Atlanta, GA *Nothing is perfect and everything is perfect* This program takes its name from novelist, activist, and Georgia native Alice Walker’s quote, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” The all star lineup of film and video artists includes work by Kate Balsley, Cecelia Condit, Ufuoma Essi, Jodie Mack, Rachel Parish, Sabrina Ratté, Deanna Sirlin, Cauleen Smith, Deborah Stratman, Malena Szlam, Masha Vlasova, Jennifer West. This program takes these words to heart, contorting and bending to explore stunning visions of nature by contemporary women artists. Addressing the human impact on our world and exploring environmental beauty in equal measure, these films take viewers from psychedelic South American landscapes to cosmos-spanning ecocriticism, and from the earliest photographic techniques to meditations on today’s AI and digital technologies. Themes of care, dissent, critique, awe, and self-preservation all dovetail in this kaleidoscopic collection of cinematic perspectives questioning what it means to see and hear the “natural” world today. Off the Wall is the largest movie screen in the Southeast, illuminating Atlanta's Beltline Trail with film and video art from around the world. Curated by Gregory Zinman. IG + X: @offthewall725 *___________________________________________________________________* *September 13 - 29* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Peripheries Experimental Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=13055c8990&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30PM CT, Sweet Void Cinema, 3036 W Chicago Ave 1W, Chicago IL, 60622 *BODY PROP by M Woods w/ COIN CELLEIL at Peripheries 2024 | Hosted at Sweet Void* Sweet Void Cinema will be screening a radical double feature with the cult omnibus film *COIN CELLEIL* opening for the world premiere of M. Woods' 3rd feature film *BODY PROP*. 6:30PM - *COIN CELLEIL* by Various Artists (2023), an omnibus remake of Chris Marker's *Sans Soleil*. It was originally shared as a series of reels on the instagram account @coincellpro7 Follow @coincelhoe 8:30PM - *BODY PROP* by M. Woods (2024) 75’, an avant-garde essay film and attack against the ontology of white imperialism. Made of mostly hand-processed super 8mm film, 16mm, and archival video. The piece, in five movements, takes on the subject of the Body as a prop, as a body politic, as a simulation, and as a necropolitical expense, creating a “Cadaver Decomposition Island” of discarded scraps of Super 8 and archival material to reveal the shadow of US nihilism within the advanced stage of hyperreality. Combining original manifestoes (in the style of Situationism) with excerpts of Jean Baudrillard’s *A System of Objects*, Sartre’s *Being and Nothingness* and other treatises on phenomenological existentialism, Biblical passages from Genesis and Ecclesiastes, impeachment transcripts, *Beloved* by Toni Morrison, the speeches of Malcolm X, YouTube news archives, and dozens of other texts in conversation in a tumult of signs, oscillating in a trance between attempting to situate within and disassociate from the Body Prop. The cinema itself is a Body Prop - simultaneously full and devoid of feeling and senses. Featuring an original score composed of Hip-Hop beats and soundscapes created by director M Woods. Select movements from *Body Prop* have been screened internationally including at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, VideoEx, Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Athens International Film and Video Festival. WARNING: *Body Prop* contains accounts and representations of racism, violence, sex, and nudity. Parts of this work are based on actual events. Some parts contain fast edits and strobing imagery and that may negatively impact those viewers with epilepsy and other light-sensitive disorders. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=187bcf3099&e=857b71a9cb> 3:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: JOSEPH CORNELL* Unless otherwise noted, all the films in this program are silent. With the exception of *GNIR REDNOW*, all films have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *ROSE HOBART* (ca. 1936/68, 20 min, 16mm, sound) *CENTURIES OF JUNE* (1955, 10 min, 16mm. Photographed by Stan Brakhage.) *THE AVIARY* (1954, 11 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.) *GNIR REDNOW* (1955, 5 min, 16mm. Photographed by Stan Brakhage.) *NYMPHLIGHT* (1957, 8 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.) *A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS* (1957/65, 17 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt; completed by Lawrence Jordan.) *ANGEL* (1957, 3 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.) “[*ROSE HOBART*] is a breathtaking example of the potential for surrealistic imagery within a conventional Hollywood film once it is liberated from its narrative causality. […] In Cornell’s later films – both those photographed by Rudy Burckhardt, Stan Brakhage, and Larry Jordan and the collage films which Jordan completed – Joseph Cornell describes the marginal area where the conscious and the unconscious meet. These are films which affirm a sustained present moment in which a quality of reminiscence is implicated.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 80 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=46fccb70f1&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER* KORNELIA's INTERAKTIVE ECO-KINO! Exquisitely curated by that canny Polish critic—now almost a regular figure in the Bay Area film family that she’s chosen to adopt—here’s a living, breathing, oh-so-fresh program of small-gauge moving-image artworks that specifically focus on the Natural World. Selecting titles of tangible sensory power that provide a boldly physical, almost immersive viewing experience, Ms. Boczkowska--in a triumphant return from last season’s *Road Movie* tour–now promises a panoply of new pieces from world-renown masters such as Laura Kraning, Julie Murray, Tomonari Nishikawa, Emily Richardson, and Melissa Faivre, mixed in with our own in-the-flesh local heroes Dominic Angerame, Scott Stark, and Toney Merritt (world premiere)! Thematically organized within elemental sub-sets, the unprecedented accessing of contemporary international artists brings very many previously unseen perspectives to a community voraciously hungry for a revelatory visual poetics of the environment. *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* LA Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5ac786b7cf&e=857b71a9cb> 3pm PT, 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057 *Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film PGM 1: Feminist Film Experiments with Science* Curated by Jennifer Lynn Peterson *Pwdre Ser, the rot of stars*, by Charlotte Pryce, 2018, 16mm film to digital, sound, 7min *The Jollies*, by Rachel Mayeri, 2016, digital, color, sound, 12min *We Rule*, by Catherine Chalmers, 2014, digital, color, sound, 4min *Wolf Release*, by Bill Basquin, 2018, digital, color, sound, 10min *Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty*, by Jodie Mack, 2019, 16mm, color, silent, 7min *...These Blazeing Starrs!*, by Deborah Stratman, 2011, 16mm, color, sound, 14min *the air we breathe*, by Christina Battle, 2023, digital, color, sound, 9min *How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather*, by Anna Kipervaser, 2019, digtal, color, silent, 8min *in ocula oculorum*, by Anna Kipervaser, 2021, digital, color, sound, 12min *Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons*, by Jodie Mack, 2021, 16mm, color, silent, 5min This screening presents a sample of contemporary experimental films that explore science from feminist perspectives. To the extent that one can generalize about feminist experimental film, we might say it is known for its critique of gender, sexuality, and representations of the body. But in the past quarter-century, feminist experimental filmmaking has been transformed by new contexts, new ideas, and new points of departure. Rather than a unitary singular subject, much recent experimental film is more interested in hybrids, networks, collectivities, and blurred boundaries. Not only has the status of the personal shifted, but a new set of generational concerns has emerged such as intersectionality, trans and nonbinary gender identities, decolonization, environmentalism, and human-nonhuman entanglements, to name just a few. In many recent experimental films we can detect a skepticism about personal self-expression, replaced by an ambitious critical interrogation of the act of representation and knowledge-making itself, often deployed with strategies of convolution or play. This shift marks as a turn away from the singular, fixed, psychological self of modernity and a turn toward the manifold, fluid, material self of the Anthropocene. Some of the films in this screening play with the tradition of the natural history film, visualizing the life cycles of animals and plants using microscopy, time lapse, and other forms of cinema-specific manipulation. Other films explore the limits of cinema’s ability to represent natural phenomena, displaying affinities with scientific observation but diverging from science in their goals. Some of these filmmakers use “laboratory” methods, balancing the rigors of artmaking against the repetitive and sometimes wild practices of experimentation. Many of these films visualize subjects in the natural sciences such as biology, zoology, botany, or geology. Questioning scientific objectivity, deconstructing traditions of scientific visualization, and deploying an array of cinematic techniques, these feminist artists demonstrate experimental film’s ongoing, provocative engagement with science. Screening followed by a panel: *Thinking about Scientific Imagery in Experimental Films* with Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Charlotte Pryce, Rachel Mayeri, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, moderated by Jheanelle Brown. 4:45 – 6:00pm. Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film is Filmforum’s expansive film series and upcoming publication that investigates the ways that experimental and scientific films produce and question the visualization of the world. Combining artist films utilizing scientific imagery, science and natural history films, and films of indigenous and traditional knowledge, the series examines how science, nature, and technology films shape our understanding of humans, nature, gender, knowledge, and progress. The multi-venue public screening series presents analog and digital time-based media incorporating diverse scientific and experimental film traditions from across the globe. The series will include eighteen screenings between September 2024 and February 2025, with films and digital works from 1874 to today from around the world, multiple guests, panels and wonderful collaborations that will reveal the possibilities and circumstances of cinema in this realm. Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit: pst.art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=686bf004db&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* LA Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7cd1dffa4e&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057 *Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film PGM 2: Rethinking Bodies, Rethinking Gender: Biology’s Expansive Otherworlds* Curated by Jheanelle Brown *Our Body is a Planet*, by Léonie Hampton, 2022, digital, color, sound, 11min *Yummy Body Truck*, by Noam Youngrak Son, 2021, digital, color, sound, 7min *How Old Are You? How Old Were You? 入世*, by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, 2017, 16mm, color, sound, 16min *The Posthuman Hospital*, by Junha Kim, 2023, 5min *Mother is a Woman*, by Jes Fan, 2018, 4min *Xenophoria*, by Jes Fan, 2018-2020, 7min *Autodidact*, by Jeamin Cha, 2014, South Korea, HD digital, color, sound, 9min *Bodies and Places are Contiguous*, by Maria Fernandez Pello, 2021, 10min Bodies in flight, bodies in stasis. Our bodies are bound by both the current reality and aspirational future of science, but expand even further in the search for an otherwise. This program takes as its jumping-off point questions, experiments, and memories of the body, wrestling with history, memory, gender, social institutions. Junha Kim and Noam Youngrak Son approach deconstructions of humanism and socially-encoded bodies with whimsy and sardonic humor. Léonie Hampton, Maria Fernandez Pello, and Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu hone in on the atmospheric intimacy of human bodies and the memories they hold. Jeamin Cha and Jes Fan present the expansive potential of scientific practices that inform race, history, violence, and personhood. Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film is Filmforum’s expansive film series and upcoming publication that investigates the ways that experimental and scientific films produce and question the visualization of the world. Combining artist films utilizing scientific imagery, science and natural history films, and films of indigenous and traditional knowledge, the series examines how science, nature, and technology films shape our understanding of humans, nature, gender, knowledge, and progress. The multi-venue public screening series presents analog and digital time-based media incorporating diverse scientific and experimental film traditions from across the globe. The series will include eighteen screenings between September 2024 and February 2025, with films and digital works from 1874 to today from around the world, multiple guests, panels and wonderful collaborations that will reveal the possibilities and circumstances of cinema in this realm. Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit: pst.art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ea6aab437e&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3c22bf5d13&e=857b71a9cb> 4pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: CONNER / CONRAD* Bruce Conner *A MOVIE* (1958, 12 min, 16mm) *COSMIC RAY* (1961, 4 min, 16mm) *REPORT* (1965, 13 min, 16mm) “Conner stands as a kind of twentieth century Peter Breughel. For like the great Flemish master he distorts the visible world in order to penetrate a reality of being rather than appearances; his vision is cosmic in breadth; he deals with some of the most provocative issues, both artistic and otherwise, of his time; and finally, with an evocative ambiguity and painful irony he touches something which we sometimes call the human experience.” –Carl I. Belz, FILM CULTURE *COSMIC RAY* and *REPORT* have been preserved by Anthology through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program funded by The Film Foundation. Tony Conrad *THE FLICKER* (1966, 30 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology with funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.) “*THE FLICKER* is a tremendous harnessing of the raw power, the elemental material of the cinematic medium – light itself – to transport the spectator slowly at first, hardly perceptibly, then accelerating, through a non-objective non-abstract world of sheer energy. Time becomes the compelling pulse of white into black and back, space becomes the unbounded expansion and contraction of force; the screen becomes a new sun, the audience its creatures.” –Ken Kelman Total running time: ca. 65 min *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Simon Fraser University <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=01ef599232&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm PDT, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, BC, Canada *Of Memory and Association: THE FILMS OF PHILIP HOFFMAN* Philip Hoffman, Canada's pre-eminent diary filmmaker and founder of the analog summer Film Farm Retreat, will be making a rare visit to Vancouver to screen his films along with a special live performance with Toronto-based poet Gerry Shikatani. Hoffman will be in attendance for the event, and a discussion with filmmaker Terra Long will follow the screening. *Chimera* (15 min., orig s8 to 16mm optical printed to HDV, Sd., 1995) *By The Time We Got To Expo* (9 min., orig S8/16mm to HDV, Sd., 2015. With Eva Kolcze) *Kokoro is for Heart* (7 min., orig 16mm optical printed, Sd., 1999. With Gerry Shikatani) *endings* (9:30 min., orig 16mm, Sil.&Sd., 2024. With Isiah Medina) *Flowers #3 (Kissed by the Sun)* (10 min., orig 35mm photogram to HDV, Sil., 2024) *Deep 1* (15 min, orig 16mm flower processed (hyacinth & lichen), Sd & Sil., 2023) *Please be advised: Strobe Lighting effects will be present in some of these films.* The SCA acknowledges the occupied and unceded Traditional Coast Salish Lands including the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations. *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Renegard Cinema (aka Films with Friends) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4a2bf046b9&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm PT, Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA *16mm DADA/SURREAL CINEMA OF HANS RICHER, DIMITRI KIRSHOFF* 16 mm of many short films of Hans Richter from 1921-1927: *Rhythmus 21* 16mm (1921) *Rhythmus 23* 16mm (1923) *Symphony Diagonale* - with Viking Eggling 16mm (1924) *Filmstudie* 16mm (1926) *Inflation* 16mm (1928) *Race Symphony* 16mm (1928) *Ghosts Before Breakfast *16mm (1929) *Menilmontant* by Dimitri Kersanoff 16mm (1926) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Renegard Cinema (aka Films with Friends) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d11a5c9c9b&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30PM PT, Savoy Tivoli, 1434 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA *Rick Prelinger Presents* Rick Prelinger Presents “San Francisco Lost Landscapes: Found Home Movies" *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* LA Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e36a5239c2&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Eagle Theatre at Vidiots, 4884 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041 *Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film PGM 3: Between Land and Sky, Accounting for the In-Between* Curated by Jane de Almeida and Jheanelle Brown. *Solar Eclipse*, by Nevil Maskelyne, 1900, digital version, b&w, silent, 1 min *Brilliant Noise*, by Semiconductor, 2006, digital, b&w, sound, 5:47 *Nostalgia for the Light*, by Patricio Guzmán, 2010, digital, color, sound, 90 min. This program takes Césaire and Wynter’s call for a science of the word as a point of reference. Chile’s Atacama Desert is a natural environment where the heat of the sun keeps human remains intact (such as those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973). Astronomers also flock to the food of the mountains to study space while the surviving relatives of the disappeared search for their bodies nearby. Guzman, a stalwart and champion of third cinema, the anti-capitalist, socialist cinema movement of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, uses the Atacama Desert as a stand-in for the expanse of the human condition, undergirded by the scientific wonder that the desert propagates. His feature film *Nostalgia for the Light* will be preceded by *Solar Eclipse*, the first known moving image captured of space as a way to orient the audience towards the wonders of our solar system before challenging the way it is romanticized in popular media and *Brilliant Noise*, a granular and intimate look at the Sun. Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film is Filmforum’s expansive film series and upcoming publication that investigates the ways that experimental and scientific films produce and question the visualization of the world. Combining artist films utilizing scientific imagery, science and natural history films, and films of indigenous and traditional knowledge, the series examines how science, nature, and technology films shape our understanding of humans, nature, gender, knowledge, and progress. The multi-venue public screening series presents analog and digital time-based media incorporating diverse scientific and experimental film traditions from across the globe. The series will include eighteen screenings between September 2024 and February 2025, with films and digital works from 1874 to today from around the world, multiple guests, panels and wonderful collaborations that will reveal the possibilities and circumstances of cinema in this realm. Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit: pst.art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00ae4e8d28&e=857b71a9cb> *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MONO NO AWARE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9a71a48e34&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 33 FLATBUSH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY *CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS: THE FILMS OF DERRICK SCHULTZ* *Derrick Schultz in person!* Modern Technology is a collection of films by Derrick Schultz exploring the blurred boundaries between "modern" technologies (machine learning, algorithmic systems, printers and scanners) with "old" technologies (photochemical and light sensitive film and materials). In contrast to the tribalism of filmmaking today, Modern Technology celebrates the strengths and weaknesses of these tools, and questions why we define technology as old or new. *Fright Night (Scream Scenes Day 24)* (2022, 2min, digital) *Cellular Reconstruction* (2023, 2min, 16mm) *Floral Zombification via Attention Node Networks* (2024, 5min, digital) *• *(2024, 10min, 16mm) *Electro Static Black Sun* (2024, 4min, digital) *Selfie Song (Mono JK Edit)* (2023, 2min, 16mm) *Selfie Song (Mixed Reality Edit)* (2024, 6min, digital) *Barkelona* (2024, 2min, 16mm) *B.K.S.O.M.* (2022–2024, 10min, digital) TRT: 45 minutes Derrick Schultz is a post-AI artist and filmmaker. His practice encompasses media art, computational and photochemical filmmaking, and generative art. His work draws a connection between technologies of the past with technologies of the future, using it to critically assess modern culture and its lineage. His work has been shown at workshops such as CVPR and NeurIPS and for clients such as the New York Times, HP, and The New Yorker. In addition to his art practice, Derrick teaches generative media courses at NYU’s ITP, Aprender, and private courses and workshops for individuals and companies. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and two cats. 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). LIMITED ATTENDANCE TO 30 - MASKS AVAILABLE *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Whitney Museum of American Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=43794eeea6&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Floor 3, Theater, Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014 *Speaking in Camouflage: Christopher Harris* As part of *Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing*, this film program organized by guest curator Greg de Cuir Jr. explores a body of work by Christopher Harris, one of the most important Black film artists to emerge since the year 2000. Harris’s work expresses a fidelity to the materiality of analog film and a structuring concern for Black peoples and culture, while functioning under the influence of free jazz and other avant-garde musical forms. This program features the global premiere of two new films, *b/w* and *Speaking in Tongues: Take One*, as well as the premiere of a newly restored print of Harris’s early masterwork *still/here* . The screening will be followed by a conversation between Christopher Harris; editor, writer, and curator Dessane Lopez Cassell; and Michael B. Gillespie, Associate Professor in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Conversation participants are subject to change. *b/w*, 2023, 16mm film, black-and-white, silent; 3 min. *Speaking in Tongues: Take One*, 2024. 16mm film to digital, black-and-white, sound; 15 min. *still/here*, 2000–1. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 60 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7f0682e1b2&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *DECOYS: THE FILMS OF ALEE PEOPLES* FILMMAKER IN PERSON! Over the last fifteen years, Alee Peoples has developed a varied artistic practice that involves screen-printing, sewing, sculpture, and film. The diversity of her interests and concerns, and her investment in the handmade, are unmistakably reflected in her Super-8 and 16mm works, which are some of the most distinctive and striking experimental films in recent memory. Her moving-image work incongruously combines a conceptually rigorous concern with the interplay of language and image, signal and sound, with a distinctly West Coast, pop-influenced sense of humor and range of references. On one level, her films are united by their near-constant play with displacements and disjunctions. Her works are full of “decoys” (to quote one of her films, of things “pretending to be something else”): objects becoming confused with symbols, letters doubling as physical objects, abstractions blurring into the figurative and vice versa, lip-synced recordings, mechanical figures that become human, and so on. And yet all this categorical slippage and semiotic play is fused with a series of vibrant and inspired conceits: an exploration of grief via reenacted passages from THE *NEVERENDING STORY*, a slapstick pas de deux involving a standup comic and a spotlight, the definitive filmic study of the motorized sign-waving mannequin, etc. The result is a group of films that are as inventive and unpredictable as they are formally and thematically rich. “Peoples is a beacon of understatement, her films welcoming the wackiest elements (skydancers, mall fountains, noisemakers) only to mute them to the point of bone-dry comedy. She can make cypress trees dance in the sky, produce a perfectly sculpted shot of a railroad crossing sign coming down in front of a mediocre town mural, and still bulldoze through a canyon with a pair of red and blue punch-balloons. All the clichés of Greater L.A. are putty in Alee Peoples’s hands.” –Michael Sicinski *THEM ORACLES* (2012, 7.5 min, 16mm) A skeptic investigation of what an oracle can be and what it would sound like. Human desire and blind faith allow, and maybe even will, these mystic soothsayers to exist. *NON-STOP BEAUTIFUL LADIES* (2015, 9 min, 16mm) A Los Angeles street film starring empty signs, radio from passing cars, and human sign spinners, some with a pulse and some without. *SPOTLIGHT ON A BRICK WALL* (2016, 8 min, 16mm. Made in collaboration with Mike Stoltz.) A performance film that navigates expectations of both the audience and the makers. A series of false starts. Dub treatment on the laugh track. *CROWNING GLORY* (2008, 5 min, Super-8mm-to-digital) Highlighting parallel feelings of pride and ownership versus skepticism and rebellion. A collection of American symbols that adorn the head, this film resuscitates them with psychic-punk aesthetics. *DECOY* (2017, 10.5 min, 16mm) The film sees bridges and walls as binary opposites and relates them to impostors in this world. Humans strive for accuracy. You don’t always get what you wish for. *STANDING FORWARD FULL* (2020, 5.5 min, 16mm) A helter skelter is an amusement ride with a spiral slide built around a tower. Like this film, an exorcism attempt of an unrequited desire, it’s either moving too fast or at a complete standstill. Disorienting but exciting. *HEY SWEET PEA* (2023, 11 min, 16mm) Parental aging and an existential wave collide together in funny ways. *HEY SWEET PEA* borrows scenes from the 1984 children’s sci-fi movie *THE NEVERENDING STORY* to process our collective grief. TRT: 60 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Canyon Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e1da97bbce&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, 16 Sherman Street, San Francisco, CA *A Salon with Philip Hoffman* Philip Hoffman in person! Kicking off a whirlwind weekend of Bay Area events, Canyon Cinema is pleased to welcome Canadian film experimentalist and longtime artist member Philip Hoffman to 16 Sherman for a screening of his 2019 feature, *vulture*. The film follows winged and four-legged animals, both wild and domestic, as they traverse the frame marked by a hand-made practice. Like all of Hoffman’s recent work, *vulture* makes use of several processing methods, including flower/plant hand-processing and decay. Minute inter-species exchanges surface throughout the film, which received the Kodak Cinematic Award at the 2019 Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Fugas International Jury Prize for Best Film Award at Documenta Madrid in 2020, and the Environmental Certificate for Eco-Sensitivity, at Docpoint in Helsinki in 2020. *vulture* is preceded by two films made at the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm), which takes place annually on Hoffman’s farm in rural Ontario: *Sans Titre* by former Canyon Cinema Director Maïa Cybelle Carpenter and *Into the Wild* by Austrian filmmaker Markus Maicher. As always, this Canyon Cinema Salon event is free and open to the public, with refreshments served beginning at 7pm and the doors closed for the start of the show at 7:30. Please note that well-fitting masks (N95 or KN95) are strongly encouraged, and that the theater’s seating capacity is extremely limited. An informal conversation with the filmmaker will follow the screening. *Sans Titre* (Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, 2001, 8 minutes, 16mm) *Into the Wild* (Markus Maicher, 2020, 4 minutes, digital file) *vulture* (Philip Hoffman, 2019, 57 minutes, digital file) TRT: 70 minutes A film artist of memory and association, Philip Hoffman has long been recognized as Canada’s pre-eminent diary filmmaker. He apprenticed in Europe with Peter Greenaway in 1985, where he made ?O,Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film) (1985), which was nominated for a Canadian Genie Award. On passing through/torn formations (1988), Stan Brakhage recognized how “Hoffman’s editing throughout is true to thought process, tracks visual theme as the mind tracks shape, makes melody of noise and words as the mind recalls sound.” Hoffman has been honored with more than 25 retrospectives of his work. Among them was the centrepiece series at the 2001 Images Festival in Toronto, coupled with the launch of a book titled Landscape with Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman, comprising some 25 essays by academics and artists. In 2002, he received the Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Gus Van Sant Award from the Ann Arbor Film Festival for What These Ashes Wanted, a diaristic meditation on loss and grief. In 2009, he premiered his feature-length experimental documentary, All Fall Down, at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film is a reflection on childhood, property, ecology, and love. Hoffman completed three works in 2014: Slaughterhouse (based on his installation for LandSlide, at the Markham Museum) and Aged, which won awards at the Black Maria Festival in New Jersey and Onion City Film Festival in Chicago, respectively. In 2016, Docpoint Documentary Film Festival in Helsinki mounted an “Introspective,” gathering together five programs of Hoffman’s works, along with works of students and artists he was involved with during the 1990’s in Finland. In 2016, Hoffman received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Since 1994, Hoffman has been the artistic director of the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm), a 1-week workshop in artisanal filmmaking in Mount Forest, Ontario. In 2019 Film Farm celebrated its 25th anniversary with screenings and a gallery installation at TIFF Bell Lightbox, in Toronto. In 2024 the workshop is celebrating its 30th Anniversary with screenings at CamLab in Boston, the S8 Festival in A Coruña, Spain, and Other Cinema in San Francisco. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7b022b5a37&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery - 992 Valencia ST, San Francisco, CA *MADE BY HAND* Phil Hoffman's Film Farm 30th Anniversary Rightfully praised as the godfather of hand-processing workshops, Hoffman has always stood as a lightning-rod of hope and creative agency through the 30 years of his summer retreats in Ontario, Canada. He finally blesses the Bay Area with three visits this week, with this OC program offering the best opportunity to revel at the most extraordinary 16mm exemplars from his three decades of enlightened instruction on photochemical experimentation. AND along with Phil himself, we have five of his graduates here in the flesh, each with their respective work: Alfonso Alvarez (*Down on the Farm*), Brett Kashmere (*Ghosts of Empire*), Deirdre Logue (*Scratches*), Rob Butterworth (*Chicken Farm*), and Annapurna Kumar (*Something to Treasure*)--a veritable 30-year reunion right here in San Fran*!* ALSO screening are Helen Hills’ *Your New Pig Is Down the Road**, *David Gatten’s *Hardwood Process*, Jennifer Reeves’ *We Are Going Home*, Nazli Dincel’s *How to Make a Film*, Clint Enns’ *A Day in the Shint*, Maia Cybelle Carpenter’s *T**he Shape of the Gaze*, Karel Doing’s *Dandelion*, Chris Chong’s *Minus*, Janet Cole’s *Gathering*, Francisca Duran’s *It Matters What*, and Adrian Kahgee’s *Everything Is Right Here*. PLUS Gilbert with Shapeshifters Beer! *___________________________________________________________________* *September 21 - 27* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=07299e3867&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *BRICKS LAID BY HAND: THE FILMS OF CHRISTOPHER HARRIS* FILMMAKER IN PERSON! Anthology is honored to present the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to the award-winning film artist Christopher Harris. Showcasing his uncompromising oeuvre – including films on 16mm, new restorations, and works that are premiering shortly beforehand at the Whitney Biennial 2024 – the retrospective demonstrates that Harris has created a succinct yet standout body of work over the past 25 years. Harris is in a rare class of Black film artists who came of age at a shared moment and are now at the forefront of moving images in the 21st century. This includes such resounding names as Kevin Jerome Everson, Arthur Jafa, and Cauleen Smith, among others. Harris is the consummate slow chef among this cohort, with each work prepared on a precise and measured schedule, served up deftly on select occasions. With ten films and one moving image installation to his credit since the year 2000, Harris’s productivity is reserved – but if you know, you know: the oeuvre is sublime. Now, newly-minted as a full professor at Princeton University, his impact and influence are poised to spread exponentially. After more than two decades of dedicated activity in film, one gets the feeling that he is just getting started. Consider this tribute then not an act of looking back, but rather a forecast of the superlative things to come. Organized by Greg de Cuir Jr., co-founder + artistic director of Kinopravda Institute in Belgrade, and curator of film programs for the Whitney Biennial 2024. For more info about the screening taking place at the Whitney Biennial on Friday, September 20, visit: https://whitney.org/events/speaking-in-camouflage-harris <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7d105e878c&e=857b71a9cb> Upcoming Screenings CHRISTOPHER HARRIS: SHORT FILM PROGRAM 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a6db3d994e&e=857b71a9cb> September 21 at 6PM Christopher Harris *still/here* (16mm) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d6f7f44fe9&e=857b71a9cb> September 21 at 8PM September 22 at 6PM CHRISTOPHER HARRIS: SHORT FILM PROGRAM 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=25dbc77ae8&e=857b71a9cb> September 22 at 8PM Christopher Harris *still/here* (DCP) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c2ce3360f4&e=857b71a9cb> September 23-27 at 7:15PM & 9PM *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=97dae82d8f&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Phil Hoffman Shorts: Of Memory & Association* Canadian filmmaker Phil Hoffman (proprietor of the famed Film Farm) will be joining us to share a program of short films that reflect a mix of formal experiments and collaborations spanning his 45 year film practice. The program includes mid-career works which experiment with techniques of fragmentation through shooting, editing and photo-chemical processes, as well as more recent works, where the worlds of plants and animals work in tangent with film chemistry to create unique, process-based documents of natural ecosystems. *Kokoro is for Heart *(1999, 16mm shown in DV) *Chimera* (1995, S8/16mm shown in DV) *By the Time We Got to Expo* (2015, S8/16mm shown in DV) *endings *(2024, 16mm shown in DV) *Flowers #3 (Kissed by the Sun) *(2024, 35mm shown in DV) *Deep 1* (16mm/35mm shown in DV) RELATED WORKSHOP: Phil will also be leading the *Botanical Conversations Workshop* earlier in the day on phyto and photo-gram making. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9bc8f16e08&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=a7d638f83f&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=3288786216&e=857b71a9cb> . 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