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*This Week [October 19 - 27, 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=9bf5ab0917&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 10.31.2024 MONO NO AWARE Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b0dde9f71&e=857b71a9cb> 10.31.2024 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db464fd53a&e=857b71a9cb> (First Deadline) 11.01.2024 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e71d060d82&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.01.2024 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3088f3c299&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=22b2bfa472&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 11.01.2024 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f411e0400e&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.01.2024 Portland Panorama <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b0da5914bc&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.08.2024 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5fd84829b0&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.15.2024 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=453e399591&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2024 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=49e5dc339a&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2024 Strangloscope Experimental International Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db9e0ff557&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 01.26.2025 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=da958d413b&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.31.2025 FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8a15976f3a&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=77ae391532&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - A Synesthete's Atlas <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=486734b9be&e=857b71a9cb> [October 19, Amsterdam, NL] - Lucifer Rising & Inauguration of The Pleasure Dome <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=514095bfb1&e=857b71a9cb> [October 19, Cambridge, MA] - Landscape Cinema, Pgm 4 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d6af3cdfc8&e=857b71a9cb> [October 19, New York, NY] - OPTRONICA1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=374b1e9c02&e=857b71a9cb> [October 19, San Francisco, CA] - VISIONS : 23.10.24 : Lisa Truttmann <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=802d2190f0&e=857b71a9cb> [October 23, Montreal, QC, Canada] - Lives of Performers (Yvonne Rainer In Person!) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=076a60e739&e=857b71a9cb> [October 23, New York, NY] - The Gloria of Your Imagination <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=76a415863c&e=857b71a9cb> [October 23, New York, NY] - Energies: A Moving Image Convening <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ee6626cf30&e=857b71a9cb> [October 24, New York, NY] - Stephanie Barber: You Light Up My Life <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0f54aab2f9&e=857b71a9cb> [October 24, San Francisco, CA] - Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Program 4: Metaphysics & Magic <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f949bcc095&e=857b71a9cb> [October 25, Oakland, CA] - Image Within Another: Short Films By Lisa Truttmann <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=acd18ed7e7&e=857b71a9cb> [October 25, Toronto, ON, Canada] - Almost Everyone Is Ready: The Cinema of Stephanie Barber <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1a138c3d05&e=857b71a9cb> [October 26, Portland, OR] - OPTRONICA2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c529812e5b&e=857b71a9cb> [October 26, San Francisco, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=89d4bb2f92&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e9913c289e&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* De Bouwput <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e3dcbbcc9d&e=857b71a9cb> Doors: 7:30p, Show: 8:00p Central European Summer Time, Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74, Amsterdam, Netherlands *A Synesthete's Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Edward Schocker* Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in collaboration with Edward Schocker's alternately tuned instruments and made/found objects. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Orphaned labels. Free-floating symbology. Redlined reverberations with redefined sonic roadmaps. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches from crowdsourced data. *The performance will last 45 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers.* Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and realtime performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and 60's light shows, occasionally injecting letterform experiments inspired by visual poetry, as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography. https://erictheise.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39f11e7103&e=857b71a9cb> Edward Schocker is a composer and performer who creates music with made and found materials and alternate tuning systems. He studied at Mills College, where he worked with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and independently with Lou Harrison. During his time at Mills he co-founded Thingamajigs, a Bay Area arts and education organization devoted to alternate methods of creating sound and art. His works have been performed at the Berkeley Art Museum, Stanford Lively Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sacred and Profane Chamber Choir, Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra, and International House in Tokyo. As a performer, he has presented work at festivals around the world, including Internationales Klangkunstfest in Berlin, Soundwave ((6)), San Francisco International Arts Festival and Culture Station Seoul 284 in South Korea. https://www.edwardschocker.com <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ea4ae8b64&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a0637604d7&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *LANDSCAPE CINEMA, PGM 4* Ja’Tovia Gary *GIVERNY 1 (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE)* 2017, 6 min, digital Shot on location in Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, France, this collage examines the precarious nature of Black women’s bodily integrity, the ethics of care as resistance work, and how class position shapes the contours of violence. Set against the backdrop of the West’s continued global imperialist campaigns and its historical artistic canon, the film features a mélange of HD video, archival footage, and analog animation to assert an oppositional gaze in the re-telling of modern history. Hito Steyerl *ABSTRACT* 2012, 7 min, DCP A reflection on the political economy of the shot/countershot structure, *ABSTRACT* juxtaposes the Berlin lair of Lockheed Martin (manufacturer of assault weapons sold by the German government to the Turkish Army) with images of the bombed-out cave where Andrea Wolf, Steyerl’s friend and member of the PKK, was killed in 1998. Doplgenger *RECORD OF A LANDSCAPE WITHOUT PREHISTORY / SNIMAK PEJZAŽA BEZ PREDISTORIJE* 2020, 14 min, digital An epistolary structural film inspired by the poetry of the surrealist and communist revolutionary Oskar Davičo. Set in a children’s health resort on the Adriatic coast, it generates a futuristic self-consciousness of a once-lively socialist landscape, about the desolate historical ruin it will have become. Basma Alsharif *DEEP SLEEP* 2014, 13 min, digital This film interrelates locations in Malta, Athens, and Gaza, using auto-hypnosis as a method of land-scaping. A journey, recorded on Super-8mm film, to the ruins of ancient civilizations embedded in modern civilization in ruins, to a site ruined beyond evidence of civilization. An invitation to move from the corporeal self to the cinema space in a collective act of bi-location that transcends the limits of geographical borders and plays with the fallibility of memory. Eduardo Williams *COULD SEE A PUMA / PUDE VER UN PUMA* 2011, 18 min, 16mm-to-digital An accident sends a group of young boys on a journey from the high roofs of their neighborhood, passing through its destruction, to the deepest part of the Earth. Yuxuan Ethan Wu *WILL YOU SEE THIS* 2024, 11 min, digital The filmmaker gave his friend a camera. Through intimate exchanges of voice recordings, she started to encounter herself behind the viewfinder. Communication begins and ends with images of landscapes. Shadows on the wall anticipate their projection. Total running time: ca. 75 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Harvard Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a270244f4&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm EST, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA *Lucifer Rising & Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome* *Lucifer Rising*, Directed by Kenneth Anger, US, 1972/81, 16mm, color, 30 min. Filmed in a London studio and at sacred sites in Egypt, France, Germany and England, *Lucifer Rising* was one of Anger’s most elaborate productions. Its assorted cast includes Scottish director Donald Cammell; Marianne Faithfull; and, briefly, Jimmy Page and Mick Jagger’s brother Chris as ancient gods engaged in occult ritual. Based on the teachings of Aleister Crowley, including his interpretation of Lucifer as a bringer of light, Anger’s film remains starkly beautiful and mesmerizing with startling edits, featuring an otherworldly score composed in prison by Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil. *Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome*, Directed by Kenneth Anger, US, 1954/1966, 16mm, color, 38 min. Steeped in the mythology of Aleister Crowley, art nouveau–era decadence and Hollywood artifice, Anger’s astonishing masterpiece unleashes a constellation of imagined gods choreographed by the filmmaker and inspired by one of the bohemian “Come as Your Madness” costume galas hosted by surrealist painter Renate Druks. *Inauguration* was filmed in the luxurious abode of silent film actor and reclusive impresario Samson De Brier, who plays many of the self-fashioned deities and demons alongside fellow artists Anaïs Nin, Curtis Harrington, Marjorie Cameron and Druks, among others. The film was reworked several times by Anger, once as a dazzling three-screen version which he then condensed to the “Sacred Mushroom Edition” (seen here) by brilliantly using superimposition to create complex mandala-like images in an ecstatic Babylonian descent. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=352195a07b&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery - 992 Valencia ST, San Francisco, CA *OPTRONICA1* 3RD HAND COLLECTIVE + TRIGILIO + SCOBIE + BARTEN + A special feature of every OC calendar, our Live A/V shows proudly showcase a particularly West Coast cine-practice: Motion Picture pieces PLUS Sound tracks, respectively, performed in situ and in real-time conversation! Headlining this first of a program-pair is the much-loved Frisco ensemble Third Hand, a multi-tasking multi-media crew organized around, in this case, J Lee’s truly marvelous Rear-Projection stagings—here in *Operation Theater* they explore the living mechanics of the human body, as probed by electronic sensors. Jetting up from San Diego is ex-SF hero-artist Mike Trigilio, who’s taking a break from his UCSD duties to debut his dazzling digi-animations, both as single-channel abstractions and as in-the-moment video-synthesizer performances. Our beatnik homegirl Linda Scobie also dives in to demonstrate what she’s been up to with her water-color painting on found 35mm slides, tonight in collaboration with audio-artists Country Dolls. AND Rebecca Barten graces us with her presence and the world premiere of her *Amelia*--yes, on that amazing aviatrix. ATA janitor Craig Baldwin sweeps into the mix his stereoscopic twin-projection *Double Helix*, after a playful *potpourri* of optical tricks punctuate the pre-show reception! *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=adde8ace5d&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm EST, la lumière collective [7080, rue Alexandra, #506, Montréal, QC, H2S 3J5] *VISIONS : 23.10.24 : LISA TRUTTMANN* [Filmmaker present | Projection HD] +++ “Sometimes my film is labeled as a documentary because that makes it easier to show it at film festivals. Essay film is often still looked at as a documentary that is more free, poetic, made from a subjective point of view. For me, however, essay film is a very important genre. It was essential as a form for the whole concept of the film, that literally reflects back upon its content.” –Lisa Truttmann *ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN* | Lisa Truttmann | 2013 *|* digital *|* 4 mins 13 *CRITTERS CHORUS, CYCLE 1* | Lisa Truttmann | 2022 | digital | 13 mins 31 *THE COURSER* | Lisa Truttmann | 2018 | digital | 12 mins 7 *BABASH* | Lisa Truttmann in collaboration with Behrouz Rae | 2014 | digital | 9 mins 9 *6500* | Lisa Truttmann | 2015 | digital | 8 mins 45 *TABULA RASA* | Lisa Truttmann in collaboration with Elizabeth M. Webb | 2015 | digital | 7 mins 25 *MEMORABILIAN (EXCAVATE)* | Lisa Truttmann | 2021 | digital | 3 mins 30 *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3dc64969b7&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *LIVES OF PERFORMERS (Yvonne Rainer in person!)* by Yvonne Rainer, 1972, 90 min, 16mm-to-DCP *SPECIAL EVENT! YVONNE RAINER IN PERSON!* Yvonne Rainer’s first feature film, *LIVES OF PERFORMERS* (1972) marked her departure from the world of dance, which she had been a major part of redefining over the previous decade. Rainer would go on to make seven features over the next three decades, before returning to dance in the early 2000s. The film depicts a love triangle whose narrative is spliced with scenes from a dance rehearsal, loose audio, still photography, and conversations between Rainer and her performers. The film exemplifies a technique she identified as “radical juxtapositions” (taking a cue from Susan Sontag) and would continue to use throughout her film career. In her funny and fragmentary assemblage, Rainer both deconstructs tropes of melodramatic filmmaking and portrays what goes on behind the scenes in contemporary dance. The feature film will be paired with a short excerpt of Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing ‘Valda’s Solo’ – originally performed in *LIVES OF PERFORMERS*. The clip comes from a performance of “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan” (2000), a choreography by Rainer following her return to dance. The screening will be introduced by Marko Gluhaich, associate editor of frieze magazine, and will be followed by a conversation between Yvonne Rainer and curator Charles Aubin. frieze magazine’s October issue features an essay written by Aubin celebrating Rainer’s second choreographic career in a special section devoted to dance. Co-hosted by frieze magazine. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* individual filmmaker @ Science New Wave Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db9d067933&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Cinema Village 22 East 12th street, New York, 10003 *The Gloria of Your Imagination* Writing, Direct-on-film, Editing, Sound Design by Jennifer Reeves, 97 minutes, Dual-Projection: Digital 2K sound and silent 16mm (site-specific configuration) In 1964 Gloria, a 30-year-old divorced single mother, was filmed in psychotherapy sessions with three imminent psychologists. Reeves recuts and remixes the original footage with superimposed home movies, newsreels, propaganda and educational films of the time into a kaleidoscopic montage that lays bare the unspoken threads of influence in Gloria’s struggle. *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=310ed2467c&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *ENERGIES: A MOVING IMAGE CONVENING* On the occasion of “Energies” at Swiss Institute, this film program reflects on the exhibition’s concern with addressing ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political arrangements attached to energy past and present. Presenting a diversity of aesthetic approaches and historical positions, the films explore the politics of energy production in various global contexts and consider community organizing responses to socially inequitable, extractivist infrastructures. “Energies” is on view at Swiss Institute (38 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003) from September 11, 2024 to January 5, 2025. For more info visit: https://www.swissinstitute.net/ “Energies: A Moving Image Convening” is made possible in part through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Rosa Barba *THEY SHINE* (2007, 4 min, 35mm) Nina Canell & Robin Watkins *ENERGY BUDGET* (2024, 8 min, digital) Oleksiy Radynski *LANDSLIDE* (2016, 29 min, digital) Monira Al Qadiri *CRUDE EYE* (2022, 10 min, digital) Carolina Caycedo *A GENTE RIO (WE RIVER)* (2016, 29 min, digital) Allora & Calzadilla *THE NIGHT WE BECAME PEOPLE AGAIN* (2017, 15 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 100 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f3e9fe3537&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 pm PDT, THE LAB, 2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 *Stephanie Barber: You Light Up My Life* Stephanie Barber In Person I absolutely think about the audience when writing and scheming a piece of work. I think about what I can do to them. What I can poke or press, and I have epic and heartbreaking imaginings of what they will do to me in turn. This awareness of an actual and yet, not actual audience is, for me, the most profound element of art production and the most precise metaphor for existential terror. (Stephanie Barber interviewed by Joanna Raczynska, 2018; published by INCITE Journal of Experimental Media) Working now for three decades, prolific filmmaker and language artist Stephanie Barber has developed a vastly intricate body of work—encompassing film, video, performance, poetry and music—of a nearly unprecedented scope and range. Tending toward the miniature, Barber’s disciplined, hermetic and haiku-like work fuses freeform formalism with inventive explorations of language, narrativity and presence, pleasurably perplexing viewer/participants with conundra of creative wordplay and digressive philosophy while probing the porous boundaries between performativity, sincerity, intellect and emotional affect. Barber appears this evening in person to present a career-spanning cumulus of ten works 1997–2023 ranging from ‘90s era optically-printed films to recent poetic video essays and sculptural works including long-unseen classics and recent favorites. (Steve Polta) for a long time i moved with the awareness of one so alone that such aloneness, the pure spectacular nature of such splendid aloneness, must be accompanied by a viewer. a listener. a reader. when and where this reception would occur has yet to be understood but it became clear that documents must be created. documents of attempts at communication. documents of failed communication. communication, reliant as it is on exchange, is so silent when leaving a body alone. more than silent it is not. not a thing, not a sound, not a sight until seen. heard. so it is you that makes my art. you with all the sad and so funny jokes. you with all the ludic tragedy of death rushing towards us unmetered. you with soul and mind carved ready. you with words shifty, right and loyal. thank you. (Stephanie Barber) *little present for my friend columbus the explorer* (1999) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 4 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema *HEALING* (2012) by Stephanie Barber; digital video, b&w, sound, 12 minutes, exhibition file from the maker *Another Horizon* (2020) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 9 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema *flower, the boy, the librarian* (1997) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 4 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema *Catalog* (2005) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 11 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema *shipfilm* (1998) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 3 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema *letters, notes* (1997) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 7 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema *3 Peonies* (2017) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 3 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema *The Enlightenment *(2023) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 13 minutes, exhibition file from the maker *Oh My Homeland* (2019) by Stephanie Barber; 16mm, color, sound, 4 minutes, print from Canyon Cinema *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7462f08968&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Program 4: Metaphysics & Magic* Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues is a curated series dedicated to exploring the visions, voices, concerns and lineage of women, non-binary, genderqueer and trans filmmakers through public film screenings, workshops, conversations and presentations. Using both poetic and critical lenses, the films in this program examine the different ways we use symbolism, ritual and mythology as tools for engaging with the unknown in the attempt to understand the mysteries that surround us. Program 4: Metaphysics & Magic includes: *Pwdre Ser the rot of stars* (2018, 16mm shown on DV) by Charlotte Pryce, *Them Oracles* (2012, 16mm film) by Alee Peoples, *Onikuma* (2016, DV) by Alessia Lupo Cecchet, *Flor Serpiente* (2014, 16mm film) by Rosario Sotelo, *Emmett Street: A Video Poem* (2021, Super-8 shown on DV) by Krista Leigh Steinke, *Somewhere Between Right and Wrong There is a Garden* (2023, DV) by Yin-Ju Chen, *Tectum Argenti* (2022, 16mm film shown on DV) by Joanna Byrne, *EPOS (Chapter 5) *(2022, DV) Lovage Sharrock, *Moon Moth Bed* (2023, DV) by Virginia L. Montgomery, *Golden Dragon Temple* (2013, DV) by Lingyun Zheng, *Cycladic Thermometer* (2023, 16mm film shown on DV) by Kate Dollenmeyer, *Smudge Series: Indabaabasaan, Soda Lake and Boozhoo Jiibayag* (2013, 16mm film) by Eve-Lauryn LaFountain and *...These Blazeing Starrs!* by Deborah Stratman (2011, 16mm film). *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* PIX FILM Collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e89253920d&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, PIX FILM Gallery 1411 Dufferin Street Unit C, Toronto, ON, Canada *Image Within Another: Short Films by Lisa Truttmann* Lisa Truttman in person from Vienna *Golden Boys*, 4:09 min, 2009 *Anything Can Happen*, 4:13 min, 2013 *Water Fields*, 3:31 min, 2013 *Babash*, in collaboration with Behrouz Raie, 9:09 min, 2014 *6500*, 8:45 min, 2015 *The Courser*, 12:07 min, 2018 *Characters*, 16 min, 2020 *Critters Chorus, Cycle 1*, 13:31 min, 2022 *Memorabilien (Excavate)*, excerpt, 3:30 min, 2021 Total Running Time: 74:55 min. Lisa Truttmann (born 1983) is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. In her artistic practice, she combines documentary, essayistic, and poetic methods to investigate the sociologies and ecologies of landscapes and architectures. She is interested in relationships between human and non-human agents as well as in their spaces of interaction. Truttmann understands her subjective view as an approximation and considers her artistic process as an attempt to playfully comprehend complex systems. Associatively she intertwines collected material in image, sound and text as well as objects in installations and rhythmic montages. Oscillating between cinema and exhibition space, her works always reflect the language of their medium. Lisa Truttmann studied Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts, where she made her first essayistic feature film Tarpaulins (2017). Truttmann currently works on her second feature film.Her films and installations have been shown internationally at film festivals and exhibitions, including Edinburgh IFF, CPH:DOX Copenhagen, New York FF, Images Festival Toronto, Ann Arbor FF, Bertha DocHouse London, Alianza Francesa Buenos Aires, Viennale, Diagonale, Kunsthalle Wien, KHM Wien, MAK Wien, and Kunstsammlung NRW. She received numerous awards and scholarships, such as the Kunsthalle Wien Prize, the Fulbright Scholarship, the Austrian State Scholarship of the Federal Ministry BMKÖS, the Advancement Award of the City of Vienna, and the Recognition Award for Media Art of the State of Lower Austria. Lisa Truttmann has been teaching in the field of artistic moving images since 2017, including at the University of Arts Linz and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She has been a member of the Golden Pixel Cooperative since 2018. *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event* at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5cac41da8d&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PDT, PICA Annex, 15 NE Hancock Street, Portland, OR 97212 *Cinema Project presents: Almost Everyone Is Ready: The Cinema of Stephanie Barber* Stephanie Barber In Person Stephanie Barber makes films and videos in which verbal communication often takes top billing, but they could also be watched for their elegant imagery alone. She is continually drawing our focus, with the intense work of her art, to the tenderest spots mostly out of reach. In *Another Horizon*, a voodoo priest and priestess speak of death, while behind their voices, a 36-foot scrolling collage of earth and sky slowly unwinds, with a razor-scratched line connecting or separating them. Barber writes, “the horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place where these two elements come together. A metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence. A place where the corporeal and spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart.” For her project *jhana and the rats of james olds*, Barber made 31 films in as many days in a museum gallery that was open to visitors. She says, "I am thinking about the emphasis given to product over production, or display over creation. The piece is a video screening and an installation and a performance—a spiritual obeisance, an athletic braggadocio, a consideration of marxist theories of production (with the assembly line so lovingly lit.) It is a funny game for me to play, an exercise in concentration, discipline and focus, an extension of my everyday.“ “Looking back on the resurgence of experimental cinema at the turn of the millennium, it’s clear that one of the most significant artists to emerge from that moment was Stephanie Barber…” (Light Industry). *letters, notes* 1997, 16mm, 7 mins *Another Horizon *2020, 16mm, 9 mins *3 peonies* 2017, 16mm, 3 mins *Catalog* 2005, 16mm, 11 mins *Total Power, dead dead dead* 2005, 16mm, 3 mins *shipfilm* 1998, 16mm, 4 mins *Palace of Pope* 2018, HD 12 min *dwarfs the sea*, 2007, DV, 5min *SOME ANIMALS *2011, digital, 2.30 min *DEGAS *2011, digital, 1 min *FOR W.G. SEBALD (TRAVEL WITHOUT TRAVEL)* 2011, digital, 4.5 min *oh my homeland*, 2019, 16mm, 4 mins Stephanie Barber is a writer and artist who has created a poetic, conceptual, and philosophical body of work in a variety of media, often literary/visual hybrids that dissolve boundaries between narrative, essay, and dialectic. Her work considers the basic philosophical questions of human and non-human existence (its morbidity, profundity, and banality) with play and humor. Barber’s films and videos have screened nationally and internationally in solo and group shows at MOMA, NY; The Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center, MN; MOCA Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for Art, OH, among other galleries, museums, and festivals. Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films can be found at Canyon Cinema. Publishing Genius Press published her books Night Moves and these here separated... in 2013 and 2010 respectively. CTRL+P published a collection of her haiku, Status Update Vol. 1 in 2019 and her full-length play Trial in the Woods was published by Plays Inverse in 2021 with a second pressing in 2022. Barber is currently Department Head of Film and Digital Cinema at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA. She is also a resident artist at The Mt. Royal MFA for Interdisciplinary Art at MICA in Baltimore, MD, and a teaching artist for The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and Image Text Ithaca. James Glisson at Artforum wrote, "...the films of Stephanie Barber engage universal themes—time, death, memory, forgetting, frustration." and Ed Halter at Afterall Online wrote, "Barber...approaches cinema as a philosophical toy, intimately small, in which the play itself generates both pleasure and insight." *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9892f3c132&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery - 992 Valencia ST, San Francisco, CA *OPTRONICA2* Spelletich + 99 Hooker + Daniel + Our second live-cinema screening is shaped by its proximity to Election Day, so that Kal Spelletich can more effectively conjure his curse on candidate D.Trump and his Nazi posse! ProPublica hero-reporter AC Thompson and sound artist Mansur Nurullah aid Kal’s *American Aria* live remix of never-seen Jan. 6th footage, towards an energized condemnation of the QAnon election-deniers. Co-billed is that nationally-touring video-poet 99 Hooker, a welcome member of the OC family and an electronic artiste whose work approaches stream-of-thought image-generation. AND also here is none other than Bill Daniel, with one of his 16mm double-projection collabs with local musicians. Tommy Becker, too, makes the scene, with the world premiere of his *Stars Bright on a Blue Field*, while long-time ATA fave Mike Kavanagh brings in his desperately needed critique of AI. PLUS Russ Forster on Banjo, Pussy Riot, Indecline, Vic Berger, and a hilarious battery of anti-Trump punches. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9613b7c389&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=6b57a43660&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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