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Lynn <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cdcb57914d&e=857b71a9cb> [August 22 - September 14, Berlin, Germany] - R(A/U)Pture 3 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9521c9bcbe&e=857b71a9cb> [August 29 - 30, Genk, Belgium] - Crossroads 2025 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e21b2db4ac&e=857b71a9cb> [August 29 - 31, San Francisco, CA] - Celluloidra Revolverrel // Experimental Film Festival – Season 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=163b34b452&e=857b71a9cb> [August 29 - 31, Esztergom, Hungary] - Open Screening <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b93950338&e=857b71a9cb> [August 30, Brooklyn, NY] - Animation Brüt: Pegbar Curious <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=70ffd8034a&e=857b71a9cb> [September 5, Oakland, CA] - Elevation Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00500a6ee3&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6 - 7, Cornwall, UK] - EC: Maya Deren <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=275267ccfb&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6, New York, NY] - Archive Fever <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d2ef1b1eb7&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6, San Francisco, CA] - Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 1) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3c63543dd4&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6, Los Angeles, CA] - Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 2) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c592bb68da&e=857b71a9cb> [September 7, Los Angeles, CA] - Both Sides Now 10: video Works From The Uk And Hong Kong <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71db200412&e=857b71a9cb> [September 7, Portland, OR] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2025* *August 22 - September 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Switchboard Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de09c38ae6&e=857b71a9cb> 18:00 (UTC), Heidelberger Straße 37, 12059 Berlin, Germany *Chris H. Lynn* Chris H. Lynn's digital work will be exhibited at the Swithcboard Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Chris H. Lynn is a filmmaker and sound artist from the United States. His digital images and Super 8 films explore the subtle rhythms of movement, light, and sound in urban and rural landscapes that vary from the Eastern shores of Maryland, U.S. to Nanjing, China. His work has been shown at the Librairie Avant-Garde, Nanjing, China, UNZALAB in Milan, Italy, American Film Institute (AFI) in Silver Spring, Md, BFI Southbank, UK Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano Habana, Cuba, Goethe Institut, Washington D.C., The Anthology Film Archives, NYC, Heritage Film Festival, MD, and a variety of venues internationally. His work was featured in the book Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination by Robert Robertson. Since 2021, he has collaborated with Japanese sound artist Hiroko Komiya on sound projects and audiovisual live performances with dancers ( Vienna, Austria 2022, Warsaw, Poland, 2023, Barcelona, Spain, 2023, Mexico, Mexico City 2024, Hong Kong, Athens, Greece, Kumano, Japan). He currently hosts the monthly radio program Beyond Encounters on Camp Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d21419869e&e=857b71a9cb> His sound works have been published on Impulsive Habitat, Verz Imprint, Green Field Recordings, Kandala Records, Plus Timbre and Echomusic and have appeared on radio programs worldwide.Chris curated the Experimental Film Program Urban/Rural Landscapes for the Utopia Film Festival in Greenbelt, Maryland from 2005 until 2015. He also curated the 2010 Takoma Park/Silver Spring Experimental Film Festival. *___________________________________________________________________* *August 29 - 30* Venue type: *Live, physical event* R(a/u)pture <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7679e5952c&e=857b71a9cb> see below for locations and schedule (GMT +2) Schachtboklaan 11, 3600 Genk, Belgium *R(a/u)pture 3* During the final weekend of the summer holidays, *R(a/u)pture 3* presents a unique film and music programme at the Winterslag mining ridge. In collaboration with Jester, the collective will showcase seven films on original formats – including one with a live soundtrack – alongside a complementary programme featuring exhibitions, a lecture, and a silent film screening. --- Friday 29 August - Grass field at Jester (Schachtboklaan 11, Genk) --- 19:00 - Campsite opens 20:15 - Doors 20:30 - Short film programme *The One Close to the Sea *Wout Biesmans, BE, 2023, 8’, HD, colour, sound *Landscape (for Manon) *Peter Hutton, US, 1987, 12’, 16mm, b/w, live soundtrack by Niels Geybels (Sequences) *L'ombre de Remouchamps *Wout Biesmans, BE, 2018, 9’, HD, colour, VO: FR, ST: EN *Before My Eyes* Mani Kaul, IN, 1989, 23’, HD, colour, sound *L’image d’une grotte *Wout Biesmans, BE, 2019, 7', HD, colour, sound, VO: FR, ST: EN *Am Meer *Ute Aurand, DE, 3’, 1998, 16mm, colour, sound *Eventide *Sharon Lockhart, US, 30’, 2022, HD, colour, sound --- Saturday 30 August - various locations --- 09:00 - Breakfast for camping guests 10:00 - Guided tour of *It Will Come From Below* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4398f51456&e=857b71a9cb> with assistant curator Karel Op 't Eynde in Jester (Schachtboklaan 11, Genk) 10:45 - Silent film screening *Gag à Genk* (family Cape, 1956, 23’, HD, z/w)) in Cinema Victoria (Vennestraat 114, Genk) 12:15 - Lunch at the Emile Van Dorenmuseum (Henri Decleenestraat 11, Genk) 13:00 - Guided tour of Er zweeft daar... <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3530922819&e=857b71a9cb> with curator Kristof Reulens in Emile Van Dorenmuseum (Henri Decleenestraat 11, Genk) 13:30 - Lecture by Christophe Van Eecke in the museum garden (Henri Decleenestraat 11, Genk) 14:00 - Presentation of *Am I Waves or Am I See *(short film in production) by Karolien Chromiak in the garage 14:30 - Free visit and after talk *___________________________________________________________________* *August 29 - 31* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Cinematheque <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1cf61e4137&e=857b71a9cb> see link above for schedule Gray Area / Grand Theater 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 *CROSSROADS 2025* CROSSROADS 2025 is the sixteenth manifestation of Cinematheque’s annual film festival. CROSSROADS 2025 features 47 works of film, video and performance by 47 artists representing 19 countries and territories presented in 8 curated programs. Weaving through this year’s lineup are alchemical and environmental evocations of utopian and dystopian realities; ruminations on the impermanence inherent in existence; transnational, transgenerational and even trans-species relations and expressions of vulnerability, resilience and political resistance culled from the world’s rotting image bank. CROSSROADS opening night features a sound/image performance by legendary Portland sound artist Daniel Menche and filmmaker Karl Lemieux projectionist for Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Cinematheque is proud to announce that, of these 47 featured artists, 16 are receiving their CROSSROADS debut this year. Saif Alsaegh • Lin Htet Aung • Sarah Ballard • Dianna Barrie • Alice Bommer • Stefano Canapa • Heehyun Choi • Karel Doing • Tori DotNet • Sam Drake • Zachary Epcar • Kevin Jerome Everson • Janie Geiser • Pere Ginard • Sidney Gordon • Jerome Hiler • Ken Jacobs • Derek Jenkins • Karl Lemieux • Lucie Leszez • Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu • Jodie Mack • J.M. Martínez • Lindsay McIntyre • Daniel Menche • Tomonari Nishikawa • Antoni Orlof • Kyujae Park • Miranda Pennell • Adam Piron • Nicole Remy • Craig Scheihing • Linda Izcali Scobie • Erica Sheu • Cauleen Smith • Greta Snider • Scott Stark • Malena Szlam • Sofia Theodore-Pierce • Richard Tuohy • Malaz Usta • Guillaume Vallée • Friedl vom Gröller • Sophie Watzlawick • Micah Weber • Karen Yasinsky • Antoinette Zwirchmayr Festival passes and individual program tickets here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d5e544c8f8&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* *August 29 - 31* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Celluloidra Revolverrel 2025 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d5c35ebf2d&e=857b71a9cb> see below for schedule (GMT+2), Kaleidoszkóp Ház, Esztergom, Pázmány Péter u. 7, 2500 Hungary *Celluloidra Revolverrel // Experimental Film Festival – SEASON 2* Once again, in the left atrium of the Earth’s heart chakra, Hungary’s first international experimental film festival takes place for its second season! Prepare yourselves for hours upon hours of increasingly strange films, lectures, performances, installations, and other obscure moving image events — all projected in a former Turkish torture chamber! Register to attend the festival here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f6a64b081&e=857b71a9cb> The experimental film event, held between August 29–31, 2025, returns with an even richer program this year! /FRIDAY/ 12:00-13:00: ARRIVAL, OPENING SPEECH 13:00-14:30: - Gábor Gelencsér: Pre-avant-garde student and BBS experimental films - György Durst: The Freedom to Mistake - Botond I- Tobai: The Materiality of the Moving Image through Haneke’s Use of Medium 14:30-15:30: I. CONTEMPORARY SCREENING. CHEMICAL, OR BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL PROCESS-BASED, OR THEMED EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA 15:30-17:00: - Tamás Vida: First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Art - Mihály gHorváth: Amateur Film as a Historical Precursor of Experimental Filmmaking - Ervin Török: Archival Speeds – Péter Forgács and Jan Šikl (and Esfir Shub) 17:00-18:00: II. CONTEMPORARY SCREENING, TRANSMEDIAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM, VIDEO ART AND COMPUTER ART 18:00-19:00: DINNER BREAK 19:00–21:00: PLENARY ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION Péter Forgács & Jan Šikl: The Memory Archive of Central and Eastern Europe Plenary Screening: Jan Šikl: Soukromé století – Nízký let (Private Century – A Low Level Flight, 2006, 52’) Péter Forgács: Márai: Füveskönyv (Book of Thoughts, 1998, 30’) 21:00-22:00: FILMCONCERT blance the vidiot: allegory of a cave 22:00– : III. OPEN-AIR SCREENING ABSOLUTE FILM, POEM FILMS AND EXPANDED FILM INSTALLATIONS Electronics: Stilnox & Heilig, b2b, vktr /SATURDAY/ 10:00-12:00: Jona Tóth: DESTROY, CREATE WORKSHOP 12:00-13:00: LUNCHBREAK 13:00-14:30: - Zsolt K. Horváth: A HORSE TO A MAN, A MAN TO A HORSE - Representations of work in Centaur - András Keskeny: INFERMENTAL AS A FORUM FOR EXPERIMENTAL FILM RESEARCH? - THE PROGRAM OF GÁBOR BÓDY AND THE FOUNDERS OF THE MAGAZINE - Zalán-György Ilyés: The Role of Mimetic Ability in Benjamin’s Theory of Montage 14:30-15:30: IV. CONTEMPORARY SCREENING, FOUND FOOTAGE 15:30-17:00: - Balázs Kovács: Algodeco - algorithmic image generator - Róbert Fekete: Postpunk Autonomy - The industrial music culture and the underground film - Ádám Hőgye: Verticality – Horizontality: Maya Deren’s System in a Broader Theoretical Context and in Sofia Coppola’s Cinematic Language 17:00-18:00 V. CONTEMPORARY SCREENING, DIRECT EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA 18:00-19:00: DINNER BREAK 19:00-21:00: PLENARY PERFORMANCE SERIES - Tamara András & Dorka Csoboth: Family Reunion Multiplayer 45’ - Z. Márió Nemez & Péter Lichter: PROCESSION OF THE DEAD HAND Plenary Screening: Péter Licther: The Grey Machine (2025, 65’05’’) 21:00-22:00: FILMCONCERT Plenary Screening: Igor & Ivan Buharov: Rudderless (2010, 50’) Live Jazz: El Kanász 22:00-: VI. OPENAIR SCREENING, ABSOLUTE FILM, FILMPOEMS, AND EXPANDED FILM INSTALLATIONS Elektronics: mödödmöd & Eszelős meszelős, Adam Krasz, Obwigszhy, Aikatherina, marvin gay /SUNDAY/ 13:00-15:30: DRUKKER-EXPERIMENTAL LAB WORKSHOP --- Registration opening soon! Don’t miss out! --- 15:30- Tearful goodbye *SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b35fb0e4f0&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (EST), 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY *OPEN SCREENING* A monthly free-to-screen showcase of short works by anyone with no barrier to submission. To submit, email [email protected] *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8a0231d76c&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Animation Brüt: Pegbar Curious* Animation Brüt is a rejection of conventional storytelling and image making. It embraces the gestural, the fervent, and the fevered dreamers of sequential imagery. Animation has limits, Animation Brüt embraces them and licks the wrapping for more flavor. Featuring CGI lacerations, hammered steel stop motion, and queer yearnings fuzzed out on magnetic tape. Curated by Sam Gurry, Animation Brüt is a night of experimental animation, presenting films by artists working inside and out of the traditional animation paradigm but all seeking to break down its boundaries. Drawing from a legacy of queer underground film and DIY animation, this program showcases artists who've always worked outside the lines, getting wild, wet, or, honestly, a little weird with it. Films about coming out, coming of age, and coming a lot (hell yeah brother). From cardboard puppets to rotoscoped runways to libidinal scribbles barely holding it together, Pegbar Curious is a celebration of movement as confession, feelings in excess, and that good, good weird, weird animation. Featuring work by Zhong Xian, Miz Reyes, Gaby Escovar, Kohana Wilson, David Delafuente, Mallbat, Laura Collins, and more. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2025* *September 6 - 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Maker Heights <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e8fd55d34a&e=857b71a9cb> see above link for times + locations, *Elevation Film Festival* Elevation Film Festival is a celebration of experimental film and artists’ moving image from around the world. In our second edition, we'll be screening over 55 films, installations and expanded cinema performances from 14 countries over one weekend, including a dedicated programme for filmmakers based in Cornwall and Devon. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5978b9e6d9&e=857b71a9cb> 3:45PM (EST), 32 2nd Ave, New York, NY *EC: MAYA DEREN* All films in this program have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON *(1943, 14 min, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959.) *AT LAND *(1944, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander Hammid.) *A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA *(1945, 3 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty.) *RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME *(1946, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook.) “*MESHES* is, one might say, almost expressionist; it externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external one. *AT LAND* has little to do with the inner world of the protagonist, it externalizes the hidden dynamics of the external world, and here the drama results from the activity of the external world. It is as if I had moved from a concern with the life of a fish, to a concern with the sea which accounts for the character of the fish and its life. And* RITUAL* pulls back even further, to a point of view from which the external world itself is but an element in an entire structure and scheme of metamorphosis: the sea itself changes because of the larger changes of the earth. *RITUAL* is about the nature and process of change.” –Maya Deren Total running time: ca. 55 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=171abac180&e=857b71a9cb> 8PM PST, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 *ARCHIVE FEVER* BALDWIN's 222 BOOK-LAUNCH/AUCTION + 16MM ANOMALIES Well hello!! OC is back, jes' shaking with the excitement of a case of Archive Fever...a wide-eyed, full-bodied embrace of our own kind of Cultural Anthropology, a sub-pop group-grok of both outsider cinema and street-savvy fashion!! Yes, BOTH the astonishing surprises in secret 16mm industrial-film collections, AND the marvelous milieux opened and at hand in the instance of an actual public auction of vintage Tees!! Craig Baldwin's limited-edition *222 T-SHIRTS*– in this, his fourth book's inaugural launch--serves as a irresistible invitation to a cinemascopic display of thee most curious clothing artifacts...on tables, on the walls, and on live models!..scheduled so that the bidding plays as prologue to a delirious evening of gobsmackin' celluloid core-samples. The two lineages— both from the cotton plant!--here understood as precious traces of particular sensibilities oh-so-at-risk of disappearing forever into the black hole of forgotten cultural history. Come in to browse for free for the afternoon's silent auction; we'll deliver the garments to the winners at our 8PM showtime. Titles include: A 1953 tribute to the rescue of *Treasures in a Garbage Can* (the veritable theme of tonight's event!)...IBM's mid-50s proto-techno-utopian *Piercing the Unknown*...a '56 personal-travelog on a Carnivalesque Caribbean cargo cult, in Kodachrome...an early-70s Christian rant on ''cults”, with Eldridge Cleaver(!)...a mid-70s Oscar Mayer *Wienermobile* ride into a funk-fueled factory overflowing with fatty cow flesh...a '68 educational-TV explication of human sexual intercourse...a late-70s Mormon fantasia of Jesus Christ preaching amongst the Mayan pyramids... an early-80s human-potential confessional on celebrity bed-wetting...a mid-70s doomed-date/tsunami-apocalypse cautionary...and of course mid-century trailers, TV commercials, and Russ Forster on the Califone! PLUS free books, films, albums, cassettes, even laserdiscs...and open bar! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Academy Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1953fbec70&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 *Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 1)* Guest programmed by Madison Brookshire, explores a poetic vision of the world through the sensuous work of Vincent Grenier. Brookshire writes: Artist, programmer, and professor Vincent Grenier was a mentor and friend to many, including myself. He was beloved by both students and peers, and, for those of us lucky enough to experience them, his sensuous experimental films and videos have had a deep and lasting impact. Over his fifty-year career, Grenier created a body of work unlike any other in contemporary experimental cinema. Utilizing many approaches, his 16mm films and videos move fluidly between modes of abstraction and documentary, sound and silence, spectral superimposition and stark clarity. He often uses the frame in a painterly way. Whether deftly layering images, as... in *Time’s Wake* (1978) and *Watercolor (Fall Creek)* (2013), or creating documentary portraits such as *Out in the Garden* (1991), his use of space and emphasis on the everyday recall both Mondrian and Muqi. While many of his best-known works are silent, his use of sound is sensitive and complex as well, deepening and extending the visual field to reveal the world around the frame. There is a delicacy to his work, as well as an openness that is profound. In the end, I believe it presents us with a poetic vision of the world, at once formal and deeply felt, whose beauty is not superfluous, but vital. Programmed and note by Madison Brookshire. All films directed by Vincent Grenier. *Light Shaft* 1975. 7 min. USA. Black-and-White. Silent. 16mm. *Time’s Wake* 1978. 14 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. *Out in the Garden* 1991. 15 min. USA. Color. Sound. 16mm. *Waiting Room* 2012. 9 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital. *Watercolor (Fall Creek)* 2013. 12 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital. *Pending* 2016. 9 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital. *Commute* 2018. 6 min. USA. Color. Sound, Silent. Digital. *Wishbone* 2021. 1 min. USA. Color. Silent. Digital Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=10505d64a8&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA *Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 2)* Curated by Madison Brookshire. Artist, programmer, and professor Vincent Grenier was a mentor and friend to many, including myself. He was beloved by both students and peers, and, for those of us lucky enough to experience them, his sensuous experimental films and videos have had a deep and lasting impact. Over his fifty-year career, Grenier created a body of work unlike any other in contemporary experimental cinema. Utilizing many approaches, his 16mm films and videos move fluidly between modes of abstraction and documentary, sound and silence, spectral superimposition and stark clarity. In many of Vincent Grenier’s films, there is a distinct rhythm. A thing appears, flashes, disappears, then returns for a long time. It is not the same as foreshadowing, exactly; it is more like a stutter or a stammer. It happens again and again, across time, in different periods, in films as well as videos, in silent abstractions and documentary portraits alike. You can see it in *Tabula Rasa* (2004) and in *You* (1990): a stop-start. It’s as though the image first has to haunt the screen before it can inhabit it, has to flicker before it runs. Deleuze says of Proust that he has a way of writing that makes language stammer. Likewise, I think Grenier makes time stammer. And in that interruption, that break, is an irruption. There is time in that time, in those layers. And these films are always deeply layered. Grenier divides up the screen, always flat (but deeper still for its flatness), in a painterly way, like a composition by Mondrian or Muqi. And, as with these painters, while some of Grenier’s works may at first appear austere, with time and attention, they give. That is, they reveal themselves to be giving. This is true in the works where he so deftly, fluidly uses superimposition (again, like *You* and *Tabula Rasa*), but it’s true in *Back View* (2011) as well. The frame is complex, almost cubist, even when it is direct, clear, without any superimposition. It is magic: a transformation. Something ordinary first becomes strange and then opens. If there is any formalism here, it is never for itself, but always for this transformation. *Closer Outside* (1981) shows me this, and of course *Intérieur Interiors (to A.K.)* (1978), which cannot be surpassed, only entered. With its incredible grain, there is so much movement, even in stillness, so much sound, even in silence. Every frame is rich with differentiated movements—not just contrasting, but differentiated (a difference in potential, as Deleuze says). When Grenier does use sound, it is as delicate and considered as his framing. Whether the image is abstract or empty of people, which it often is, the sound, always concrete, creates a world. The sound transforms the film, transforms the frame. As above, the frame is already deep, layered, even when it is flat, but the sound reveals everything around it. It creates / reveals a whole world inside / outside the frame. In over twenty films, Grenier created many such worlds, though never by the same approach, not exactly. You almost wouldn’t think it is all the work of a single filmmaker. Across his work, certain familiarities or themes emerge—like water, for instance, ever present; there is a river running through these films, a river made of film, of images—but most especially there is a rhythm that is all Grenier’s, unlike any other that I know. A thing appears, flashes, disappears, then returns. Like a stutter, or a stammer. There is time inside of time—and these films are nothing if not multiple. —Madison Brookshire Vincent Grenier (1948–2023) was born in Quebec City, Canada and lived largely in the United States. In the early 1970’s, he began making films in San Francisco where he worked as the programmer for Canyon Cinema. After moving to New York City, he was a frequent contributor to both the Montreal and New York art scenes of the 1970’s and 1980’s and was a programmer with the Collective for Living Cinema. Grenier made over two dozen films and videos during his life. His work has earned numerous awards; screened internationally at major museums, showcases, and festivals; and has been the subject of multiple retrospectives. In 2010, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, in 2019, the Stan Brakhage Vision Award. He lived in Ithaca, NY and taught generations of students at nearby Binghamton University. *Closer Outside*, 1981, 16mm, color, silent (24fps), 9min *You*, 1990, 16mm, color, sound, 12min *Surface Tension #2*, 1995, 16mm, color, sound, 5min *Tabula Rasa*, 2004, digital, color, sound, 7min *Straight Lines*, 2009, digital, color, silent, 5min *Backview*, 2011, digital, color, sound 17min TRT 70 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Boathouse Microcinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c0a53c2150&e=857b71a9cb> 8:00PM (PT), 822 N River St. Portland, OR 97227 *Both Sides Now 10: Video Works from the UK and Hong Kong* Curated and produced by videoclub (UK) and Dr. Isaac Leung (HK), Both Sides Now 10 presents a dynamic compilation of artists’ film and video works from the UK and Hong Kong. This milestone 10th edition reflects on a decade of creative and cultural exchange, showcasing works that explore identity, heritage, queerness, speculative futures, and digital storytelling. With bold aesthetics and experimental approaches, the program captures the diversity and complexity of our times, while remaining accessible, thought-provoking, and visually compelling. From poetic reflections on digital identity to insightful examinations of power and national symbolism, Both Sides Now 10 offers audiences the opportunity to experience a rich spectrum of moving image practices. Joseph Chen,* Copy is Right!*, 2016, 3:27 Choi Sai Ho, *The 1960s For Me*, 2015, 5:23 Jake Elwes, *Zizi & Me – Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)*, 2020, 4:55 Linda Chiu-han Lai, *Doors Medley*, 2014, 7:00 Lawrence Lek, *Play Station*, 2017, 7:50 Rachel Maclean, *The Lion and the Unicorn*, 2012, 12:00 Ellen Pau, *Diversion*, 1990, 5:30 Heather Phillipson, *Splashy Phasings*, 2013, 2:39 Marianna Simnett, *The Udder*, 2014, 15:30 Angela Su, *The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers*, 2017, 14:35 TRT. 78 mins Both Sides Now 10 is an international program of events, with an exhibition at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley, CA), and screenings in the UK, USA and Hong Kong. Supported by Arts Council England. For more information about the program, artists and films: videoclub.org.uk <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=95e6570298&e=857b71a9cb> *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15b885544e&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=3e19b17df0&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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