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*** TWIAGC is looking for a new volunteer facilitator *** Please contact *[email protected] <[email protected]>* for details *This Week [March 1 - 9, 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=b88e45ec12&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 03.03.2025 The Wexner Center’s Ohio Shorts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=53bd2ec67e&e=857b71a9cb> 03.12.2025 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2db241d4f0&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.15.2025 ARTErra Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2a18fd4453&e=857b71a9cb> 03.16.2025 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17f46a89a2&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.19.2025 NeuroVisions Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=47cb7102a3&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.21.2025 Experimental Film Festival Process <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f08026ed7&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.23.2025 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9faf79266b&e=857b71a9cb> 03.24.2025 Fugue State <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b4a03ad986&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.30.2025 Brazier International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=af338fc494&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.31.2025 FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=57c1321e3e&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2025 Magmart Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ddcf6b0d9&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2025 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ed6bc29009&e=857b71a9cb> (Sixth Deadline) 03.31.2025 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=484173d7e6&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 04.01.2025 Mimesis Documentary Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b06a25868d&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 04.01.2025 FILMADRID <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=803c875493&e=857b71a9cb> 04.30.2025 WNDX Festival of Moving Image <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9e3e4621e3&e=857b71a9cb> 05.31.2025 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9280217cb0&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2025 Enauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6c1a3ee71c&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=357ae3b28c&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Maya Deren. A cadence of images <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=da21b505db&e=857b71a9cb> [February 27-September 7, Barcelona, Spain] - Brakhage Symposium <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7915f685b5&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1-2, Boulder, CO] - Let's Go To France <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d3e11b8590&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1, Hillsborough, NC] - EC: Sidney Peterson <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d453014bb&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1, New York, NY] - X~Peri~Mental Animation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=df1cd4402e&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1, San Francisco, CA] - Seeing The Big Picture Series: Stephanie Barber <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d1b8a76c88&e=857b71a9cb> [March 3, Princeton, NJ] - Shapeshifters + Do-Over @ The Exploratorium <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4981654991&e=857b71a9cb> [March 6, San Francisco, CA] - Experimentations 11: Our Heavenly Bodies (Rescheduled) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9a13ef4890&e=857b71a9cb> [March 7, Los Angeles, CA] - the short films of Rankin Renwick <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=53de1e25e4&e=857b71a9cb> [March 7, Santa Fe, NM] - Matías Piñeiro Selects <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=31a162afc3&e=857b71a9cb> [March 7-15, New York, NY] - VINYL RITES1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=424a019738&e=857b71a9cb> [March 8, San Francisco, CA] - Brazilian Immigrant Cinema, Volume 1: Los Angeles <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=26b7c7064d&e=857b71a9cb> [March 8, Seattle, WA] - Experimentations 13: Natural History in Exp & Artist Animation (Rescheduled) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d4c92e8b3&e=857b71a9cb> [March 9, Los Angeles, CA] - Then<·>Now: Taiwan Experimental Film and Video Arts, Part 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3f7c8ac952&e=857b71a9cb> [March 9, Los Angeles, CA] - Karel Doing: Ruins And Resilience Expanded <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dbc7a6d719&e=857b71a9cb> [March 9, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fa0a286867&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c10fbb606&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2025* *February 27 - September 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=762b557d96&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, The Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món, Montcada Venue, Carrer de Montcada, 12 - 14, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain *Maya Deren. A cadence of images* Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 7 pm GMT+1 Sundays and public holidays, 10 am to 8 pm GMT+1 Closed on Mondays (except public holidays) The Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món presents this temporary exhibition about Maya Deren and her works. Defined as a filmmaker, writer, poet, dancer and ethnologist/anthropologist (she travelled to Haiti between 1947 and 1955), Maya Deren is essentially one of the most important avant-garde filmmakers and a key figure in twentieth-century experimental cinema. The many ways in which Deren has been labelled allow us to navigate her work and subtly allude to the perspective, signs, movements, dances and symbols that make her work unique and deeply interlinked. Her filmography is not extensive (six completed projects and several unfinished ones) and her work —experimental, speculative, intuitive, poetic, symbolic, visual and seemingly incomplete— consists of various interwoven fragments that are simply persistent, repetitive tendencies, albeit meaningful enough to eventually form a coherent whole. One image becomes another, just as one concept becomes another, threaded together by the camera or the written word. A constant unfolding of images and texts. Undoubtedly an inexhaustible cadence. The exhibition does not follow a chronological order, nor has a biographical structure. The exposition’s itinerary brings all these elements together and invites visitors to engage with a ‘poetic’, enveloping and profoundly visual arrangement which induces choreographic movement and leads to the final space: the one devoted to her project on Haiti. The exhibition runs through her six finished films, as well as some of her unfinished projects, some of which are displayed in audiovisual format and others through a selection of stills. Written text comes to the fore in the final space, which is organised as an ‘archive’. It displays a sequence of images and texts, as well as a cadence of voices which accompany Deren’s: the voices of Alejo Carpentier or Edwidge Danticat. Catalogue The exhibition comes with a book containing a text written by the curator and three essays on Haiti by the lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona David Martínez Fiol, the writer Edwidge Danticat and the professor of folklore and comparative literature at the University of Abuja, Nigeria, Gboyega Kolawole. It concludes with an extensive biography of Deren. Inside the book is a fold-out with a selection of stills from Deren’s films, designed to be opened and displayed as an object, forming the shape of a star. This visual and textual interplay captures the essence of both the exhibition and the filmmaker’s work. *SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2025* *March 1 - 2* Venue type: *Live, physical event* CU Boulder <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=99fc64793c&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, Atlas 100, CU Boulder, 1125 18th Street, Boulder, CO *Brakhage Symposium* This year's symposium explores dialogues of passage and new forms of travel– geographical, cultural, internal, and imagined. We're excited to feature an outstanding lineup of talented filmmakers, including Mike Hoolboom, Shambhavi Kaul, and Lei Lei. In addition, we are honored to present a special screening of films by Lillian Schwartz, a pioneer of computer-generated art. Kristen Gallerneaux of the Henry Ford and writer Rebekah Rutkoff will introduce this program. --- Saturday, March 1 --- 10:30am MT: Stan Brakhage Film Program, on 16mm film! 12:30pm MT: Shambhavi Kaul Film Program 2:30pm MT: Mike Hoolboom Film Program 4:45pm MT: Lei Lei Film Program --- Sunday, March 2 --- 1pm MT: Lillian Schwartz Film Program, introduced by Kristen Gallerneaux & Rebekah Rutkoff 2:45pm MT: Group Screening featuring the work of Mike Hoolboom, Shambhavi Kaul, and Lei Lei 4:15pm MT: Moderated Discussion Panel *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Durham Cinematheque @ Eno House <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bb79dfbb14&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 903 Eno Street, Hillsborough, NC *LET'S GO TO FRANCE* Eno House Movie Nights presents another trip to Yurrup and this time it’s France. Clips and bits from travelogues and educational films, plus a short bistro comedy (*Le plat du jour*, d. Georges Spicas, 1972) and the charming locavore documentary *Food for Paris Markets* from 1949. See how they make cheese and champagne! This program includes a look behind the scenes of the wax museum at Musee Grevin. Plenty of marionettes, plenty of art, and a few of the more technical elements of motorcycle training for the gendarmerie – you won’t want to miss this show. This series is curated by Tom Whiteside from films in the collection of Durham Cinematheque. Appropriate for all ages. BYOB. Doors open at 7:00, come early and bring your friends. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1dcaa63dcd&e=857b71a9cb> 5:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: SIDNEY PETERSON* *THE POTTED PSALM* and *THE PETRIFIED DOG* have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. *MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR* and *THE LEAD SHOES* have been preserved by Anthology with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. *THE POTTED PSALM* (1946, 19 min, 16mm) *THE PETRIFIED DOG* (1948, 19 min, 16mm) *MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR* (1949, 21 min, 16mm) *THE LEAD SHOES* (1949, 17 min, 16mm) “These images are meant to play not on our rational senses, but on the infinite universe of ambiguity within us.” –Sidney Peterson “Sidney Peterson’s work and sensibility are those of a native American surrealist. Many of his films chronicle the picaresque adventures of a wacky protagonist and use disjunctive editing strategies to construct new time and space relations…. But perhaps their best-known feature is the use of distorted, funhouse mirror-images, which he created by shooting with an anamorphic lens. […] In his films, he investigates extreme states of consciousness, and the primary tool of his epistemology of irrationalism is the photographic image distorted and transformed to register the impact of those states.” –R. Bruce Elder, IMAGE AND IDENTITY 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=d19ac2875e&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *X~peri~MENTAL ANIMATION* ROURKE's LIVE PERFORMANCE + COLBURN + *WHOA!* Yes, Other Cinema/ATA is getting back on its feet, and we are super excited to present our season-opener: For our expanded animation show we've compiled an extraordinary selection of pixilated treats from across film history (starting in 1912), a half-dozen of them from exploding Mission art-star Jeremy Rourke!..here in person to musically perform his irresistible stories! Besides the world premiere account of his recent cross-country bike ride, *Your Sky Will Be in Bloom*, he's unspooling 4 other hand-made works, including an homage to Helen Hill. Setting the stage for his fresh cine-poems is a half-hour opening set of similarly personal works: Len Lye, Mary Ellen Bute, Phillip Stapp, Jordan Belson, and Martha Colburn's new *Rats, for Suzanne Vega*! PLUS good ol' Gilbert with his homemade Shapeshifters beer! *MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Princeton College <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=437b1db9bf&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ *Seeing the Big Picture Series: Stephanie Barber* This film screening series organized by Professor Christopher Harris features 16mm analog films by internationally celebrated experimental filmmakers working at the forefront of artists’ films in a variety of idiosyncratic forms, using handmade methods, and unconventional materials. This series also includes *Learning to Be Human*, a special program showcasing rare 16mm educational films from the late ‘60s and early ’70s on loan from the Harvard Film Archive. Presented in conjunction with Harris’ spring Film Seminar course. Each screening is followed by a conversation with the artist. Each screening event begins at 8pm ET. The screenings are free and open to the public on the following dates: Feb. 3 — Jodie Mack Feb. 10 — Mary Helena Clark Feb. 17 — Melissa Friedling and Lana Lin Feb. 24 — Kathryn Ramey March 3 — Stephanie Barber March 17 — Jennifer Reeves March 31 — Rhayne Vermette April 7 — Sara Sowell April 14 —Brittany Gravely of the Harvard Film Archive presents Learning to Be Human *THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters @ The Exploratorium <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=746fb49038&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm & 9pm PT, Bechtel Gallery 3, Exploratorium, Pier 15, (Embarcadero at Green Street), San Francisco, CA *Shapeshifters + Do-Over @ The Exploratorium* A collaborative, kinetic, multi-dimensional audiovisual reverie of improvised music and cinema. Presented by Oakland’s Shapeshifters Cinema, the Do-Over Music series pairs musicians with artists to create an improvised experience with sound and visuals. With music from Evelyn Davis (keyboards), Jon Arkin (drums/electronics), Marissa Deitz (cello), Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), and Jordan Glenn (drums), accompanying Ellie Vanderlip, Kathleen Quillian, and Gilbert Guerrero, who will conjure a dynamic, abstract projection collage made from handmade 16mm film loops, 35mm slides, and lumia. *FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b24fd2d803&e=857b71a9cb> 7 PM PST, Brain Dead Studios, 611 N. Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA *Experimentations 11: Our Heavenly Bodies (Rescheduled)* Three silent films from the 1920s demonstrate the state-of-the-art of the time. Two educational films from 1920, *If We Lived on the Moon* by Max Fleischer, later of Betty Boop and Superman cartoon fame, and* Tides and the Moon* show basic illustrative educational films of the time. By the time of *Our Heavenly Bodies*, released in 1925, the cinematic possibilities had advanced greatly. Partly a summary of what was known about the solar system, and partly a sci-fi journey on a ship to those planets, *Our Heavenly Bodies* was a tremendous success in its time. This is one of two programs that consider the question of indexicality in astronomical imagery and visions of space. Indexicality is the idea that traces of the physical world are present in images - photographic or cinematic; questioning it allows viewers to consider how we see and derive meaning from images. Curated by Jane de Almeida, Jheanelle Brown, Adam Hyman. Special thanks to Fleischer Toons & Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored: Mauricio Alvarado, Claire Fleischer, Thad Komorowski, Jane Reid; Munich Film Museum: Stephanie Hausmann, Stefan Drößler. Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film is LA 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 includes 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. See more at www.filmforumexperimentations.org <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c7e0b01035&e=857b71a9cb> 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. Major support for Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film is provided by the Getty Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a3ed760f5a&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *the short films of RANKIN RENWICK* Over more than forty years, Rankin Renwick has produced a collection of films, videos, and installations that hang together as comfortably as hobos around a rail side fire. It's an oeuvre of misfits. The narrative voice bounces from first-person memoir to straight documentary to outright appropriation. It's an oeuvre of opportunism. Renwick’s work often springs from deeply divergent impulses and understandings of beauty; sometimes elegant, often discomfiting, but always penetrating. While their films can be received as equally mystifying and assaultive on first encounter, deeper viewings reveal a resounding theme to be the artist's own consistent affection for experience, for others, and for life. filmmaker in attendance from Portland Oregon, post-screening Q&A Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, Renwick's iconoclastic work embodies their interest in landscape and transformation, and the relationships that exist between bodies, landscapes, and borders. As an artist who often self-distributes their work, their screening history reads as a worldwide roadmap of independent cinema. Renwick's work has been exhibited in hundreds of venues internationally, both institutional and underground, including The Museum of Modern Art, Light Industry, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Basel, Oberhausen, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Centre Pompidou, Bread and Puppet Theater and True/False Film Festival, among many others. *___________________________________________________________________* *March 7 - 15* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ad3e45ab0b&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below (all times in ET), 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MATÍAS PIÑEIRO SELECTS* In conjunction with the week-long premiere run of *YOU BURN ME* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9ce8332824&e=857b71a9cb>, Matías Piñeiro has guest-curated a selection of works that influenced the making of the new film, or reflect the form, technique, or themes of *YOU BURN ME*. Special thanks to Matías Piñeiro; Edward McCarry & Qing Jin (The Cinema Guild); Brian Belovarac (Janus Films); Christophe Clavert (BELVA Film); Jason Jackowski (Universal Pictures); Mariano Llinas; Marine Pariente (Marian Goodman Gallery); Jacob Perlin (The Film Desk); Studio Tacita Dean; and Gaël Teicher (La Traverse). Upcoming Screenings Michelangelo Antonioni *LE AMICHE* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e432aef7a0&e=857b71a9cb> March 7 at 9:00 PM March 12 at 9:00 PM March 15 at 4:15 PM Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub *FROM THE CLOUD TO THE RESISTANCE* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4610242f1a&e=857b71a9cb> March 8 at 4:30 PM March 15 at 6:45 PM Jean-Daniel Pollet *MÉDITERRANÉE + BASSAE* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=297823f95c&e=857b71a9cb> March 8 at 9:00 PM Dorothy Arzner *HONOR AMONG LOVERS* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c22a12f2b2&e=857b71a9cb> March 9 at 5:00 PM March 13 at 9:00 PM *MICHAEL HAMBURGER* + *ZORNS LEMMA* (DCP) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f28619686d&e=857b71a9cb> March 9 at 9:00 PM Matías Piñeiro *THE STOLEN MAN* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f5f0911671&e=857b71a9cb> March 10 at 9:00 PM March 15 at 9:15 PM Mariano Llinas *CLORINDO TESTA* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=702a61bba5&e=857b71a9cb> March 11 at 9:00 PM *SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e506f9c031&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *VINYL RITES1* CHRIS WILCHA IN PERSON with *FLIPSIDE* + Here's the NorCal feature premiere *Flipside* from a true indy maker who finally broke out of the LA regime to tell his (our) story--that of neighborhood record-stores and the sub-cultural magick that surrounded them. Wilcha's tragicomic tale of returning to the New Jersey bastion of dangerous music and weirdness—where he worked as a youth before tearing off west for CalArts--reveals a sorry-ass storefront that has fallen into decay and behind the times. His quest to re-capture the special sensibilities of the 70s and 80s eventually expands into an quasi-autobiographical evocation of other unfinished personal obsessions from that same formative period. Ultimately evolving into project-based encounters with later pals Judd Apatow and Ira Cohen, these true stories cohere into a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices made carving out a creative life on the margins of Hollywood. Plus Russ Forster's Califone turntablism. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Interbay Cinema Society <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=595bcc1340&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm PST, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA *Brazilian Immigrant Cinema: Volume 1 Los Angeles* Filmmakers Chica Barbosa, João Vieira, and Syl Sutton in attendance. Brazilian-born, West Coast-based filmmakers João Vieira (collaborating with US-born director Syl Sutton) and Chica Barbosa (collaborating with Brazilian based director Fernanda Pessoa) will show their films, *Os Angelinos* and *Swing and Sway* on Saturday, March 8th at Northwest Film Forum. Sponsored by Interbay Cinema Society, this timely program, Cinema Imigrante Brasileiro, has been structured as a fundraiser for immigrant rights advocacy. Brazilian Immigrant Cinema is a series that showcases contemporary Brazilian filmmakers who live and work in the diaspora. The framework is to approach cinema through the immigrant perspective by embracing accents, neologisms, and code-switches. For its inaugural volume, we present two films that build their narrative through letters coming from one city in the United States: Los Angeles. In *Os Angelinos*, LA is the recipient of the collective open-letter, while in *Swing and Sway* the Californian metropolis converses with São Paulo in a filmic mail exchange between co-directors. Together, both films pair multilingual stories in dialogue with each other, ultimately inviting audiences to experience various cinematic languages in the same film program. Doors open at 6; filmmakers will introduce their work and talk about their process; the screenings begin at 6:30 pm. *SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* LA Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74af6b11f9&e=857b71a9cb> 1pm PT, 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057 *Experimentations 13: Natural History in Experimental and Artist Animation (Rescheduled)* Curated by Lilly Husbands. The program will be followed by a Zoom panel with curator Lilly Husbands and filmmakers Derek Jenkins, Anna Sigrithur, Joel Penner, and Alisi Telengut It is impossible to overestimate the influence of scientific knowledge on artists’ investigations of the world, and nowhere is this influence more apparent than in contemporary moving image artists’ responses to the climate crisis. In the context of mass extinction and global climate change, the science of ecology underlies key issues currently facing humanity, and, thus, ecological considerations are understandably pervasive in contemporary moving image artworks. This program presents a selection of works that engage with aspects of ecology in the form of natural history, understood in the way that ecologist and conservation biologist Tom Fleischner (2021: 17) defines it: as “a practice of intentional, focused attentiveness and receptivity to the more-than-human world” that “creates a forum for interaction with Others, encouraging compassion and respect, helping us rediscover passion for the world and each other.” *Athyrium filix-femina* (Kelly Egan, Canada, 2016, 35mm transferred to digital, color, sound, 4:19) *Not (A) Part* (Vicky Smith, UK, 2019, 16mm transferred to digital, color/b&w, sound, 6:00) *While Darwin Sleeps* (Paul Bush, UK, 2004, 35mm transferred to digital, color, sound, 4:52) *Herbaria x Pelicula: Field Notes* (Derek Jenkins, Canada, 2021, 16mm, color, 11:01) *Sila, Silap Inua, Silla* (Alisi Telengut, Canada, 2020, digital, color, sound, 2:39) *Somnium Lapidum* (Emily Pelstring, Canada, 2016, 16mm to digital, color, sound, 3:19) *Chemical Somnia* (Scott Portingale, Canada, 2022, digital, color, sound, 3:47) *Critically Extant* (Sofia Crespo, 2022, digital, color, sound, 9:00) *Lattice* (Maria Constanza Ferreira, 2017, digital, color, sound, 2:41) *Wrought* (Anna Sigrithur & Joel Penner, Canada, 2022, digital, color, sound, 22:24) *Becoming* (Jan van Ijken, Netherlands, 2018, digital, sound, color, 6:14) *Spring* (Jamie Scott, USA, 2017, digital, color, sound, 4:09) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* LA Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2309399d23&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057 *Then<·>Now: Taiwan Experimental Film and Video Arts, Part 2* Multiple US and Los Angeles premieres! Zoom Q&A after the screening with Yen-Chao LIN, Chun-Hui Tony Wu, and Tzu-An Wu. Moderated by programmer Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu. Interpreter: Kaizhou Allegro Yang Consistent with the first part of the series, Part 2 in our series focuses on "events": events in history, events outside of history, the moments when events are recorded, and the moments when events are screened, watched, and discussed. Communicating these events is like retelling history in a non-linear way. Some of the stories here are closely related to Taiwan, such as the life fragments of Kinmen soldiers in *03:04* by Ting-Fu Huang, while others revolve around the artist’s personal reflections, on migration, memory, and the symbiotic moments of life and cinema. Around 1960, Taiwanese artists were inspired by the exchange of avant-garde cultures from around the world and began to develop a concept of modern experimental art. Many works created at that time had a profound impact on Taiwan's subsequent art culture. The achievements in modern experimental poetry, experimental theater, surrealism, and documentary photography are still important today, laying a solid foundation for Taiwanese avant-garde art. Taiwan has a complicated history and a difficult geographical location. After World War II, in 1945, Japan ended its 50-year colonial rule over Taiwan. In 1949, the Chinese Civil War ended, and Chiang Kai-shek took his troops to Taiwan and began the Kuomintang (KMT)’s political rule. After 1990, Taiwan began the process of democratization and has been implementing the rotation of the ruling party up to the present day. In this wave of political changes, the most neglected are the indigenous people of Taiwan, and many stories about them have been left behind in the torrent of history. Geographically located between China and Japan, many Taiwanese people chose to study in the West or encouraged their children to study in the West during the economic take-off era (1960s-1980s, known as the Taiwan Economic Miracle). After returning to Taiwan, this generation of students injected many new elements into Taiwan's modern art and academic research, especially in the areas of literature, painting, film, dance, and music. Experimental films in Taiwan started around 1960 or even earlier. Many people found a connection with Dadaism or Surrealism, which opened a ray of hope for young students who had been oppressed by political history for a long time. They were full of disgust for war. They had also hoped to rebel against traditional aesthetics, breaking the traditions of China and Japan, and embracing modern art practices from across the world. With the continuous breakthroughs in photographic technology, coupled with the accessibility of equipment, many young Taiwanese artists have also joined the ranks of experimental filmmakers in recent years. In form or in the application of language, the artists unreservedly or inevitably reflected the complexity of Taiwan's historical situation: marginality, obscurity, and multiple identities. Common techniques used in their works of art include allusion, symbolism, metaphor, and metonymy. It should be noted here that Taiwan experienced a period of White Terror (1949-1991) that lasted for more than 30 years when language use was relatively unsmooth or unfree (the Taiwanese people were forced to switch from Japanese, used during the colonial period, to Chinese). Today, freedom of daily language in Taiwan has been greatly improved, and it frequently interweaves Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English, thus giving rise to a kind of decolonization, defamiliarization, or entanglement. As with many places around the world, experimental films have always been in a relatively marginal position. Compared with narrative films and traditional documentaries, experimental films are often ignored, misunderstood, or not understood. Therefore, these experimental film directors have few resources in Taiwan, and it is not unheard of that there are even no resources at all. During my curatorial research, I found that many early works were lost or not properly preserved. A large part of the reason is that these works have rarely had the opportunity to be screened since they were created, and only a very small number of works have received the attention of the government or academic research. This ongoing research project, *Then<·>Now: Taiwan Experimental Film and Video Arts*, serves as a prelude, and its purpose is to allow these marginal experimental films to continue to be screened, viewed, and discussed, so that they can have the opportunity to circulate and be properly preserved. The exhibition of Part One last November gave us hope. The 16mm print of Van Gogh's Ear that we screened is the only existing copy. After the screening, it aroused enthusiastic response and attention. Many people told us how precious it was to be able to see the film and then initiated efforts to preserve it. Fortunately, Van Gogh's Ear received the Lightpress digital preservation grant from the Interbay Cinema Society in Seattle, so the film, which is currently experiencing deterioration (it already has vinegar syndrome), will at least not face the misfortune of being completely lost. Thank you to everyone who helped make this mission possible! This is a unique opportunity for us to screen these works together. Many of the works have never been shown in the United States, or at least this is their West Coast or Los Angeles premiere. This event is made possible with the support of generous organizations including the Taiwanese United Fund (TUF) and the Taiwanese American Professionals-LA (TAP-LA). I would like to express special thanks to George Yin at TAP-LA and Chair of the Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation, Adam Hyman of Los Angeles Filmforum for their generous assistance, advice, and help, and finally, to Michael Pisaro-Liu for his generous support in many ways. Program notes by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu. *03:04* by Ting-Fu HUANG, 2000, 16:00, Color, Sound, 16>35mm transferred to digital. US Premiere! *Yi-Ren (the person of whom I think) 伊人* by Tzu-An WU, 2015, 13:45, Color, Sound, S8mm transferred to digital. Los Angeles Premiere! *Noah, Noah 諾亞諾亞* (screening in 16mm) by Chun-Hui WU, 2003, 20:00, Color/B&W, Sound, S8mm/R8mm/16mm. US Premiere! *Cotton Sugar* (screening in 16mm) by Tsen-Chu HSU, 2009, 3:20, Color, Silent, 16mm. Los Angeles Premiere! *The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay* by Yen-Chao LIN, 2018, 10:57, Color, Sound, S8mm transferred to digital. California Premiere! *Tomorrowland 明日樂園* by Goang-Ming YUAN, 2018, 4:46, Color, Sound, Installation to single-channel video. US Premiere! Total Runtime: 70 minutes *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=394876346a&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00pm ET, 525 West 29th Street, New York, NY *Karel Doing: Ruins and Resilience Expanded* Live expanded cinema & double projection works. All works on 16mm film. In Person Only. UK-based artist and filmmaker Karel Doing joins us for a rare NYC evening of expanded cinema performance. Doing developed the camera-less process phytography, which utilizes plants and their chemicals to generate images on film by placing them in contact with the photosensitive side of the filmstrip. Since 1990, Doing has completed over 40 films as well as expanded cinema performances and installations. And, his latest book, “Ruins and Resilience: The Longevity of Experimental Film,” was published by Goldsmiths Press last year. The program includes a special, double projection version of his work *Phytography*, focusing on his longstanding practice of marrying the natural and cinematic worlds and processes, and in which “selected leaves, petals and stems have imprinted their own images on the film’s emulsion.” His black and white series in 5 parts *Palindromes* groups together films that appear the same when watched forwards and backwards, alternating sequences that play with top-bottom, positive-negative, and back-forth, through the use of mirrors, animation and double exposures. Set to field recordings from a tropical rainforest, the performance *Pattern/Chaos* is a “negotiation between the unpredictability of organic processes and the regularity of frames, optics and motors.” Manually handled kinetic and optical objects augment the 16mm film projection, consisting of seemingly abstract images resulting from the interaction of film with salt, moss, and grass, among others. Karel Doing will be available post-screening for a Q&A with the audience. Advance Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/398d82ba *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8069d8325&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=aff1827568&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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