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*** TWIAGC is looking for a new volunteer facilitator *** Please contact *[email protected] <[email protected]>* for details *This Week [January 4 - 12, 2025] 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=bac4455f7c&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 01.10.2025 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=76ae1086ec&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 01.13.2025 Onion City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fde7d1af74&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 01.15.2025 Light Field <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a9be697164&e=857b71a9cb> 01.24.2025 Fugue State <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6c5feb9378&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 01.26.2025 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c390c41d44&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 01.31.2025 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d4a5552d99&e=857b71a9cb> (Fourth Deadline) 02.05.2025 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b8ae5dfe7&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.15.2025 VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2297c2f6d3&e=857b71a9cb> 02.21.2025 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=24ab13ebad&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.01.2025 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68c2396834&e=857b71a9cb> 03.15.2025 ARTErra Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=552eda2199&e=857b71a9cb> 03.23.2025 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=63353349fa&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2025 FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=95b49058ae&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2025 Magmart Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc3a1360cf&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17428cb1f8&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Roger Beebe On Tour <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7f05088a76&e=857b71a9cb> [January 2-29, KY, TN, AR, OK, NM, AZ, CA, OR, WA, BC] - EC: Hugo / Jacobs / Levitt / Maas <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6abe252fc3&e=857b71a9cb> [January 4, New York, New York] - EC: Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7da2e4ac58&e=857b71a9cb> [January 4, New York, New York] - EC: Lawrence Jordan <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e13dbc9d87&e=857b71a9cb> [January 5, New York, New York] - IN SITU : Chantal Partamian, thisquietarmy & Guillaume Vallée <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=021482b2a8&e=857b71a9cb> [January 9, Montréal, QC, Canada] - EC: Kubelka / Lye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8574c27e62&e=857b71a9cb> [January 9, New York, New York] - EC: George & Mike Kuchar <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f120ed4cf0&e=857b71a9cb> [January 10, New York, New York] - EC: George Landow, Aka Owen Land <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6bb3a7ecec&e=857b71a9cb> [January 10, New York, New York] - EC: Léger & Murphy / Picabia & Clair / Man Ray & Duchamp <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7ee0744025&e=857b71a9cb> [January 11, New York, New York] - EC: Christopher Maclaine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f8351b55e6&e=857b71a9cb> [January 12, New York, New York] - EC: Walden (Diaries, Notes, And Sketches) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c1b3acd0a8&e=857b71a9cb> [January 12, New York, New York] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f6df3565b9&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f486a5f9be&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2025* *January 2 - 29* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Roger Beebe on Tour <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ff1d66894&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, locations vary, see below *Roger Beebe on Tour* FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS Jan 02: Speed Museum (Louisville, KY) Jan 09: COOP Gallery (Nashville, TN) Jan 10: Ugly Art Co. (Memphis, TN) Jan 11: AR School for Science, Math, & the Arts (Hot Springs) Jan 12: Resonator (Norman, OK) Jan 14: No Name Cinema (Santa Fe, NM) Jan 15: Guild Cinema (Albuquerque, NM) Jan 16: Interference Series (Flagstaff, AZ) Jan 18: Whammy! Analog (Los Angeles, CA) Jan 21: Shapeshifters (Oakland, CA) Jan 22: Varsity Theater (Ashland, OR) Jan 24: Decay (Olympia, WA) Jan 26: Emily Carr--Integrated Motion Studio (Vancouver, BC) Jan 28: Mini Mart City Park (Seattle, WA) Jan 29: Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) *SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d77e8a8c48&e=857b71a9cb> 6:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: HUGO / JACOBS / LEVITT / MAAS* Ian Hugo *BELLS OF ATLANTIS* (1952, 10 min, 16mm. Preserved by the Library of Congress through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation.) A film poem, based on Anaïs Nin’s HOUSE OF INCEST, narrated by and featuring Nin. “[*BELLS OF ATLANTIS* was] inspired by the prologue to my HOUSE OF INCEST and the line: ‘I remember my first birth in water.’ The film evoked the watery depths of the lost continent of Atlantis. It is a lyrical journey into prenatal memories, the theme of birth and rebirth from the sea.” –Anaïs Nin Ken Jacobs *LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS* (1959-63, 18 min, 16mm. With Jack Smith.) “Material was cut in as it came out of the camera, embarrassing moments intact. 100’ rolls timed well with music on old 78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy was our achievement, as well as breaking out of step.” –Ken Jacobs Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee *IN THE STREET* (1952, 12 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) “Informality is indeed the crucial and virtually definitive quality of *IN THE STREET*; it is even the guiding principle and vision. […] This is the extreme realization of a classic ‘naturalistic’ genre, the German ‘street film,’ where the street was imaged as the arena of the everyday and random, the channel in which the ‘stream of life’ conveniently became microcosmic.” –Ken Kelman, THE ESSENTIAL CINEMA Willard Maas *GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY* (1943, 7 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology with support from The National Film Preservation Foundation.) “The terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered, mysterious continent.” –Willard Maas 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=05190dbafe&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON* by Ken Jacobs, 1969, 115 min, 16mm, b&w/color, silent “Original 1905 film shot and probably directed by G.W. ‘Billy’ Bitzer, rescued via a paper print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress. It is most reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with a new movie, almost as a side effect, coming into being.” –Ken Jacobs *SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b2b7d94f9&e=857b71a9cb> 5:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: LAWRENCE JORDAN* *DUO CONCERTANTES* (1962-64, 6 min, 16mm, b&w) *HAMFAT ASAR* (1965, 13 min, 16mm, b&w) *GYMNOPEDIES* (1968, 6 min, 16mm) *THE OLD HOUSE, PASSING* (1966, 45 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE* (1968, 9 min, 35mm) “With a taste for nostalgic romanticism…Jordan creates a magical universe of work using old steel engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit into the subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as a prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner self.” –Jackie Leger Total running time: ca. 85 min *THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* la lumière collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8371b3be6b&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm (EST), 7080 rue Alexandra, #506, Montreal, QC, Canada *IN SITU : Chantal Partamian, thisquietarmy & Guillaume Vallée* Proposed by la Lumière collective, IN SITU is a series that focuses on unique audiovisual works and live sound performances by local artists passionate about cinematic material, experimental moving images and sound art. This third IN SITU season is curated by Emma Roufs. *The tree *| Chantal Partamian | 2021 | Super 8 to digital | 02 mins 28 Super 8mm and 16mm footage and expired cartridges found and shot in Quebec reflect on words written in Beirut to create a melancholic postcard between both worlds. *Sandjak *| Chantal Partamian | 2021 | digital | 09 mins In 1939, following an agreement signed by France, the Alexandretta Sandjak in Syria was annexed to Turkey. Thousands of Armenians, including my grandmother, fled Alexandretta for Aleppo or Beirut. In the fall of 1939, a small number moved inland to an already established “quarantine” zone near Burj Hammoud, which at the time was farmland. The camp takes the name of their homeland, Sandjak. Navigating three types of images, shot in three different periods, the film explores the poetics of haunting through compositions of images that attempt to create an entanglement between the past and the present. An intimate but detached voice, a little stoic even, speaking of countless losses. The repeated affirmation of belonging to a place that is no longer. It is an exercise in the dismantlement of the Sanjak camp space. The haunting of the present by absences. The fragmentation of history and memory. The experience in the margins and the historical anachronism of a people evolving in temporal landscapes. *Solace* | Chantal Partamian | 2021 | Super 8 to digital | 01 min Footage shot in 2015 When the Beirut explosion occurred, my first thought was that of relief that my grandmother had passed a year and some before. The best hours to sit outside among her plants and flowers were those of sunsets. How does one mourn when they are grateful for the occurrence of some deaths as salvation? How does one mourn when in separation, we separate the ones we love the end of their world? *grandma Piano* | Guillaume Vallée | 2019 | Super 8 to digital | 5 mins This experimental autobiographical film, in which features the filmmaker's family, questions the emotion of the faded moment through audiovisual memory. The artist reappropriates on Super8 film the last moments of Hélène Lamoureux, her recently deceased grandmother. The memory image crystallizes a frozen chaos around the inanimate body. *are you haunted, daddy? (about anxiety)* | Guillaume Vallée | 2020 | Super 8 to digital | 2 mins 07 A depiction of various anxious states of mind during isolation. Fragmented anxiety and existential thinking. Hand-processed Super8 reversal and black & white film. Based on an interesting discussion with my son about the possibility of being haunted. *Binge* | Chantal Partamian | 2016 | Media mix | 40 secs Bipolar disorder is characterized by its sudden manic surge. It is now 3 am A collage of found footage and stop motion. *they rise, these sponge fortresses* | Guillaume Vallée | 2022 | 35mm to digital | 07 mins 12 The cameraless animated short “they rise, these sponge fortresses” is made from a 35 mm trailer of the feature film “Water Lilies” (2007) by Céline Sciamma. Experimental filmmaker Guillaume Vallée explores and questions his sensory memory as a teenager, partially lost. This process of resuscitating buried experiences and forgotten memories is carried by the materiality of 35 mm film, the nature of the images filmed and the interventions of the filmmaker painting and scratching the film emulsion directly. In this reverse journey, the memory-images, the affects reveal their plasticity, their imperfections, their chaos, their sensuality and their significance. The soundtrack is by Stephanie Castonguay and the texts by author Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay. *Traces* | Chantal Partamian | 2022 | Super 8 and analog glitch to digital | 08 mins 45 This experimental essay is based on the discovery of a reel of pornographic film amid the rubble of Beirut during the 1980s, at the height of the Lebanese civil war. The ecstatic faces of two women having sex emerge from the debris, in contrast with the masked faces of soldiers. These men with phallic weapons glitch and fade through various visual effects. Toxic masculinity becomes white nothingness, while the actresses emerge from the dust and take on more and more color. This found footage film, with its cyclical soundtrack, invites us to question how we look at film and at history, which is still passed on today through the intermediary of “important events” and “great men”. (SCV) *One Day I'm Gone* | Chantal Partamian | 2020 | Super 8 to digital | 2 mins 40 What started as experimentation using the “One day I'm gone” track by Kid Fourteen ended up being its official video. Super 8 of 80s porn re-edited scratched bleached and queered *Mr. Jean-Claude* | Guillaume Vallée | 2021 | 16mm to digital | 07 mins 51 Jean-Claude Van Damme is back, and this time it's personal. Seventy-two photograms constructed from a 35mm trailer of JCVD's opus The Quest (1996). Re-examining conceptions of masculinity by deconstructing some of the images I watched repeatedly as a child LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE BY THISQUIETARMY (ERIC QUACH) | 20 to 30 mins *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0de95a8815&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: KUBELKA / LYE* Peter Kubelka *MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN* (1955, 16 min, 35mm, Made in collaboration with Ferry Radax.) *ADEBAR* (1957, 1 min, 35mm) *SCHWECHATER* (1958, 1 min, 16mm) *ARNULF RAINER* (1960, 7 min, 35mm) *OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE* (1966, 12 min, 16mm) “Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world’s greatest filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above all else…etcetera.” –Stan Brakhage Len Lye *TUSALAVA* (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent) *RHYTHM* (1957, 1 min, 16mm) *FREE RADICALS* (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm) A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of ‘scratch’ or ‘direct’ filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film’s surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms. Total running time: ca. 60 min *FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b3a853efa6&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR* All films in this program have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. *PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF* 1961, 14 min, 8mm-to-16mm “It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy.” –George Kuchar *TOOTSIES IN AUTUMN* 1963, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm A cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. *LUST FOR ECSTASY: A DRAMA OF OBSESSIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF SENSATIONALISM* 1963, 52 min, 8mm-to-16mm “*LUST FOR ECSTASY* is my most ambitious attempt since my last film…. I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I arrived on the set I ripped them up and let my emotional whims make chopped meat out of the performances and the story…. Yes, *LUST FOR ECSTASY* is my subconscious, my own naked lusts that sweep across the screen in 8mm and color with full fidelity sound.” –G.K. Total running time: ca. 85 min. [*LUST FOR ECSTASY* is not part of the Essential Cinema collection, but is included here as a special bonus.] *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d73f0d956b&e=857b71a9cb> 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND* “The unique contribution of Land’s work lies in the fusion of intellectual reason and, significantly, the humor that distances it from the supposedly ‘boring’ world of avant-garde film. Having explored the basic properties of the celluloid strip itself in early works such as *FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR…*, his attention turned to the spectator in a series of ‘literal’ films that question the illusionary nature of cinema through the use of word play and visual ambiguity. His work often parodies experimental film itself by mimicking his contemporaries and mocking the solemn approach of film theorists and scholars.” –Mark Webber, TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND *FLEMING FALOON* (1963, 6 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR EDGE LETTERING, SPROCKET HOLES, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC.* (1965-66, 5 min, 16mm, silent) *DIPLOTERATOLOGY* (1967/78, 7 min, 16mm, silent) *THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER* (1968, 9 min, 16mm) *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY* (1969, 5 min, 16mm) *REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION* (1970, 5 min, 16mm) *WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?* (1972, 13 min, 16mm) *THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT* (1973, 6 min, 16mm) *A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA* (1974, 11.5 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH…*, *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY*, and *FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR…* have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Total running time: ca. 70 min *SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e12ffc7efc&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: LÉGER & MURPHY / PICABIA & CLAIR / MAN RAY & DUCHAMP* Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy *BALLET MÉCANIQUE* (1924, 19 min, 35mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) “The two fundamental works of the graphic cinema from the 1920s made without animation were Fernand Léger’s *BALLET MÉCANIQUE* and Marcel Duchamp’s *ANEMIC CINEMA*. By extending a metaphor from several of his paintings into film, Léger compared a universe of human actions and everyday objects to the functions of a machine.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM René Clair & Francis Picabia *ENTR’ACTE* (1924, 22 min, 35mm) One of the indisputable masterpieces of Dada cinema, *ENTR’ACTE* was created, as its title suggests, to function as a diversion in between the two acts of Francis Picabia and Erik Satie’s avant-garde ballet RELÂCHE. Man Ray *LE RETOUR À LA RAISON* (1923, 2 min, 16mm, silent) *ÉTOILE DE MER* (1927, 13 min, 16mm, silent) *EMAK BAKIA* (1927, 18 min, 35mm, silent) “All the films I have made have been improvisations. I did not write scenarios. It was automatic cinema. I worked alone. My intention was to set in motion the compositions I made in photography. As for the camera, I use it to capture something I do not want to paint. But I am not interested in producing ‘beautiful photography’ for the cinema.” –Man Ray, “All the Films I Have Made” (1965) Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray *ANEMIC CINEMA* (1926, 7 min, 35mm, silent) “Duchamp alternates head-on views of his illusion-producing roto-reliefs with similarly turned discs of words, elaborate French puns printed spirally, creating a fluctuation of illusory depth within a very narrow spectrum (from the slightly convex or slightly concave illusions) to the flat readings. In this, his only film, Duchamp typically crystallized the significance of the graphic film.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 85 min *SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=98de17018c&e=857b71a9cb> 4:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE* “The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield, California. These films, along with Ron Rice’s, are clearly the most significant work to come out of the beat period.” –J.J. Murphy All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD* (1957, 14 min, 16mm) *BEAT* (1958, 6 min, 16mm) *SCOTCH HOP* (1959, 5.5 min, 16mm) *THE END* (1953, 35 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 65 min. [*THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD*, *BEAT*, and *SCOTCH HOP* are not part of the Essential Cinema collection, but they are included here as a special bonus.] *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15ff9b13c2&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: WALDEN (DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES)* by Jonas Mekas, 1968-69, 180 min, 16mm “Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it’s a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don’t get it at all.” –Jonas Mekas *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=643dbf0ff0&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=c85a296abb&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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