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*This Week [September 28 - October 6, 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=6770ca4aac&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 10.01.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=af2a0cd54c&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2024 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=196038f587&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.01.2024 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f29c3b4bf&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 10.01.2024 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cbb695e6c4&e=857b71a9cb> (Final Deadline) 10.12.2024 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=048cf299e5&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 10.12.2024 Little Scuzzy Film Fest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ad2512f485&e=857b71a9cb> 10.13.2024 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e44d88fc5f&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 10.31.2024 MONO NO AWARE Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fd6ba5e907&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2024 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a24caa12b3&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2024 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db5efeb621&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.08.2024 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c446cdf87a&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.15.2024 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6e0103edad&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2024 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c41d5466ca&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2024 Strangloscope Experimental International Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29f3adb446&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e031b9b35d&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Body Prop by M Woods w/Coin Celleil at Peripheries 2024 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5eb981d243&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13-29, Chicago, IL] - PSYCHO-GEO: SF <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dabd7a0e91&e=857b71a9cb> [September 28, San Francisco, CA] - When It Was Blue - Dual-Projection 16mm Film By Jennifer Reeves <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b5615b348d&e=857b71a9cb> [September 29, Oakland, CA] - Create & Present <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d5e85a698&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1, Toronto, ON, Canada] - EC: Maya Deren <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=387bff52a0&e=857b71a9cb> [October 3, New York, NY] - EC: Cavalcanti / Crockwell <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ab210cb71b&e=857b71a9cb> [October 3, New York, NY] - Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues Pgm 3: Self-Constructions <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=33e948d299&e=857b71a9cb> [October 4, Oakland, CA] - PSYCHO-GEO: US <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6dbf605898&e=857b71a9cb> [October 5, San Francisco, CA] - Kill Yr Landlords Short Film Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=84b3a51d74&e=857b71a9cb> [October 5+8, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=512c972ff8&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1974b04ea&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2024* *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=549faf1e57&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 28, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fbd593bc96&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery - 992 Valencia ST, San Francisco, CA *PSYCHO-GEO: SF* HOWZE on SCOTT WILLIAMS + KPR + WILEY + The first of three *Focus-on-Locus* shows in fact addresses our own situation here in the Bay Area, with a special section devoted to dear departed Scott Williams, long-time denizen of 20th St. in the Inner Mission. One of the greatest stencil artists of our times, Scott passed away in June, leaving behind a true Mission School legacy of obsessively worked paintings--in books, on buildings, in frames, and on the streets. Russell (*Stencil Nation)* Howze situates Scott's *oeuvre *within the energized NorCal art-scene of the last half-century, sharing clips from Nick Gorski's *Spray Paint* and Carla Leshne's *Carmanic Convergence*. ALSO Arlin Golden is in the house with his hilarious *Backyard*, to anchor a set of short docs on our Fair City: the Fillingers' *Interchange* , Attell's *Fun House*, and Oakland's *Down to Earth*, on sustainable collective living. AND speaking of utopian projects in the East Bay, tonight's real revelation is a 10-min. prime cut from a larger W-i-P by consummate film artist Ken Paul Rosenthal. PLUS Emeryville MudFlats, William Wiley's billboard art, and free postcards! *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b5808592d3&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *When It Was Blue - Dual-projection 16mm film by Jennifer Reeves* This double-projection 16mm film rejoices the splendor of seasons, landscapes and wildlife as we traverse past land and ocean. An elaborate montage connects diverse ecosystems spanning from the northeastern USA, to Iceland, Canada's Pacific coast, New Zealand, and Central America. Reeves hand-painted the 16mm film, creating impressionistic textures and colors that mimic the qualities of land, water and trees, and fuse with the photographic imagery. A frenetic, delighted and mournful visual journey ensues through decades and seasons, as if trying to "capture" as much of the natural world as possible before it disappears. The accompanying score, an emotive and haunting composition by Skúli Sverrisson, brings the internal human experience to this breathtaking vast world away from home. *When It Was Blue *(2008) by NY-based filmmaker Jennifer Reeves is an ode to nature and 16mm film as they rapidly vanish. *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* PIX FILM Collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=69eaf69132&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm ET, PIX FILM Gallery, 1411 Dufferin St Unit C, Toronto, ON *CREATE & PRESENT* Discovering Futuristic Tools for Animating - Artist Talk | Workshop by Nick Fox-Gieg - Join us at PIX FILM Gallery on Tuesday Octobre 01, 2024 from 6:30 -9-30pm Nick Fox-Gieg will immerse us and guide us through experiments in drawing with XR and independent forms of presentations in Augmented Reality. In this beginner-friendly workshop for visual artists with no prior coding experience, we'll learn how to create a single-serving XR website for phones and tablets. We'll be using the collaborative coding platform Glitch, the open source A-Frame library, and basic HTML to take our own 3D artwork and place it at a location in the real world. (We encourage participants to bring their own computer) *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dab19aaf95&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: MAYA DEREN* All films in this program have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON *(1943, 14 min, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959.) *AT LAND *(1944, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander Hammid.) *A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA *(1945, 3 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty.) *RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME *(1946, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook.) “*MESHES* is, one might say, almost expressionist; it externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external one. *AT LAND* has little to do with the inner world of the protagonist, it externalizes the hidden dynamics of the external world, and here the drama results from the activity of the external world. It is as if I had moved from a concern with the life of a fish, to a concern with the sea which accounts for the character of the fish and its life. And *RITUAL* pulls back even further, to a point of view from which the external world itself is but an element in an entire structure and scheme of metamorphosis: the sea itself changes because of the larger changes of the earth. *RITUAL* is about the nature and process of change.” –Maya Deren Total running time: ca. 55 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ec25765ea4&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: CAVALCANTI / CROCKWELL* Alberto Cavalcanti *RIEN QUE LES HEURES / NOTHING BUT THE HOURS *1926, 52 min, 35mm One of the very first “city symphonies,” this film interweaves documentary, experimental, and narrative elements that together provide vivid images of Paris in the mid-1920s. The Brazilian-born Cavalcanti was at the time a central figure of the French avant-garde, but his fascinating career would later find him making pioneering documentaries for John Grierson’s GPO Film Unit in the UK in the 1930s, dramas, noirs, and musicals for Ealing Studios throughout the 1940s, and finally a wide array of films in Brazil, East Germany, France, and Israel in the years before his death in 1982. Douglass Crockwell *GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE* (1946, 8 min, 16mm) Douglass Crockwell *THE LONG BODIES* (1947, 6 min, 16mm) Both films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on various layers with plastic paint, adding at times and removing at times, and to a certain extent these early attempts were successful.” –Douglass Crockwell Total running time: ca. 70 min *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=86728d27c6&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th Street, Oakland, CA *Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues PGM 3: Self-Constructions* Pushing against dominant representations, the films in this program explore ways that the concept of self is constructed by internal desires and motivations. Playful, subversive, and intimate, these works invite viewers along to share in the struggles and complexities of both forming and representing oneself on one's own terms. --- PGM 3: Self-Constructions --- *Back Inside Herself* (1983, 16mm film shown on DV) by S. Pearl Sharp, *5 Things I know for Sure* (2020, DV) by Sydney Canty, *JOY* (2023, DV) by Julieta Tetelbaum, *Mi Coro* (2022, DV) by Moréna Espiritual, *Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron* by Cauleen Smith (1992, 16mm film), *Girl Power* (1992, Pixelvision shown on DV) by Sadie Benning, *leafmold* (2023, DV) by Benja Thompson, *Shapeshifter with a Heavenly Secret* (2021, VHS/Beta shown on DV) by Denisse Griselda Reyes, *Linda/Les and Annie* (1989, SV shown in DV) by Annie Sprinkle, Johnny Armstrong and Albert Jaccoma. Learn more about the Gravitational Lensing series at https://shapeshifterscinema.com/gravlens/index.html <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=69df9ed772&e=857b71a9cb> *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=756984284d&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery - 992 Valencia ST, San Francisco, CA *PSYCHO-GEO: US* SHERMAN + NERBURN + CAPLAN + Our second *Program on Place* claims a field-of-view as far and wide as Planet Pluto, boasts eight premieres, and features four of the makers in person! Cal Poly's Lana Caplan pops in with a book- launch and a new movie on SoCal beach *milieux,* before Catherine Finsness debuts her enlightening doc on *Eclipse Chasers* (with Kelly Sears' classic *Maximum Umbra* as complement). Arlin Golden contextualizes his provocative *Balloon Boy**,* and David Sherman sends in *DiElectric Drift*, his filmic record of a pilgrimage to Robert Smithson's *Spiral Jetty**.* Peggy Nelson shares *Manhatta II*, on the covid-period “abstraction” of NYC streets, while Diane Nerwen's *Boom* shows us the same de-populated city, but from a penthouse perspective. PLUS Nik Nerburn's Minnesota doll-house psycho-drama, *If A Man Wanted to Disappear*, Travis Wilkerson's aforementioned *Pluto Declaration*, and a sublime 16mm circle around Richard Attenborough's beautiful *Baobob**.* Free postcards! *___________________________________________________________________* *October 5 + 8* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=58bfddda44&e=857b71a9cb> 10/5 @ 4:30pm ET + 10/8 @ 6:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *KILL YR LANDLORDS SHORT FILM PROGRAM* Three San Francisco legends, eviction hovering over each, in resignation, desperation, organization. Eviction is the reason for the removal of Bay-area artist Jay DeFeo’s one-ton, mattress-sized painting “The White Rose,” filmed by Bruce Conner; it’s the reason that might motivate one of the characters in Christopher Maclaine’s *THE END* to kill his landlord; and the reason for the fight documented and contextualized by Curtis Choy’s *THE FALL OF THE I-HOTEL*. From another angle, all three films are about the indignity of not having a place, literal or metaphorical, in the world, that can’t be taken from you. Bruce Conner *THE WHITE ROSE* 1967, 7 min, 35mm Curtis Choy *THE FALL OF THE I-HOTEL* 1983, 59 min, 16mm-to-digital Christopher Maclaine *THE END* 1953, 35 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Total running time: ca. 105 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=64805ec4d7&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=ddb87aa437&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *Artists' Moving Image Works* 6x6 project is an online artists' community that serves as a platform for disseminating artists' moving image works, and to create an ever-growing network among peers. 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