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*This Week [September 13 - 21, 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=92bed51911&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 09.15.2025 Punto de Vista Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ed86e93240&e=857b71a9cb> 09.15.2025 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2b6625ddca&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 09.17.2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7f03471776&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 09.30.2025 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5fb998478b&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 09.30.2025 Pollen: Video Spells <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=76b6a86d2d&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2025 PRISME #8 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b201752e40&e=857b71a9cb> 10.15.2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7cd6563071&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.01.2025 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=54b0d90496&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2025 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c1d37d7f7&e=857b71a9cb> 11.07.2025 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=04c469f9f7&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.16.2025 Cosmic Rays <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e7f43d7e62&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=87eb3d80c3&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f37a3e8aa&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Chris H. Lynn <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1fe66bf633&e=857b71a9cb> [August 22 - September 14, Berlin, Germany] - Budva Video Art Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a077d23dd3&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13, Budva, Montenegro] - Tomonari Nishikawa PGM 1 + 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8cd720dccf&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13-14, New York, NY] - Kino Critters <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8a1ed263c0&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13, San Francisco, CA] - Coral & Florida-Structuralism: New Works By Matt Town <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cf49895001&e=857b71a9cb> [September 14, Los Angeles, CA] - You Don’T Know Me <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e3a1ffbe26&e=857b71a9cb> [September 14, Ridgewood, NY] - June Leaf, Pgm 1: Jem Cohen + Panel <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=94ae58eb55&e=857b71a9cb> [September 15, New York, NY] - Walk Right In <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05f7763688&e=857b71a9cb> [September 18, Ann Arbor, MI] - In Our Sleep <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dd0eec4df3&e=857b71a9cb> [September 18, London, England, UK] - 'the Occult Harry Smith' book release <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b1fe44e2a&e=857b71a9cb> [September 18, New York, NY] - Sputnik And The Space Race <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d8b70513a7&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, Hillsborough, NC] - The Freedom To Control <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be9a8be55f&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, Milan, Italia] - Erica Schreiner: A Girl In Her World <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6bfe2426f7&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, New York, NY] - Palestine Action <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=919b31dd6b&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, San Francisco, CA] - Focus On: Stefanie Weberhofer <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=12a0663931&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, Vienna, Austria] - Gibson + Recoder: Projection Performance for Single & Dual 16mm Film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d097f3a27b&e=857b71a9cb> [September 21, Los Angeles, CA] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025* *August 22 - September 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Switchboard Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0d3a11e42c&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=dedfc0ef09&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. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Budva Video Art Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f92ef2a36&e=857b71a9cb> 21:00 (CEST), Cultural Center Auditoria - Budva, Montenegro *Budva Video Art Festival* The first Budva Video Art Festival's theme is contemporary nomadism and a glimpse into a new reality. Films chosen for selection have in common a certain sense of wandering, artistic pilgrimage. Works showcased at the first edition are in search of a certain cinematic language and common ground in times of crises. An attempt to observe and describe the rapidly changing context we are placed in as artists and spectators. Evgeny Granilshchikov *Artist’s Film*, 2025, 29 min. Like one of the characters in a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, the character in the film is an artist who wanders through the empty village and listens to voice messages sent by his friend, a well-known journalist from The New York Times. From these monologues, we learn that both of them left their country and are now living in exile in different parts of the world. They don't know if they will ever come to see each. Vladilen Vierny *Exil*, 2013, 16 min. A young African migrant's first couple of hours on a European beach. Stanislav Dorochenkov *Iliazd*, 2023, 91 min. It occurred to me that the cruellest thing that the film inflicted on us was immortality. In October 2021, in Saint-Petersburg, the city becomes a theatre for intimacy, and the thoughts become music. It was a good moment to think of death. Death looked like a world without words. Something pure, made invisible by its absoluteness. Fedor Koptsev *Can You Be Real*, 2025, 9 min. We have all been hearing stories about ghosts. What if they are still alive and still living in places where we are afraid to go? This film is about one of these ghosts. She is alone and forgotten, but wants to be heard, to find her identity and establish a connection, but can’t reach anyone who visits the place she calls home. All that remains for her is to wander there, look at the views that are already boring, and gradually die from the fact that she was forgotten and left there. Ruth Kazanovich, Miroslav Churin *The Original Sin*, 2025, 5 min. When a person is left alone in a room, with nothing there but their consciousness, their desires gain power. In the silence, their thoughts amplify, leading them into the depths of their mind. Every wish, fear, and regret surfaces, trying to break free. The mind becomes both a sanctuary and a battleground, where inner conflicts grow stronger and unresolved dreams haunt. Investigate the boundaries of the human temper; watch how our own desires destroy us little by little. Follow us on this absurd yet sincere journey. (There is no end). Yasha Vetkine *Le syndrome de la page blanche*, 2025, 10 min. The fear of a blank page is a basic challenge for every artist facing a personal crisis. To overcome this, the artist must be in a constant search for a visual language that can reflect on a changing reality. Art is necessary to revive our perception and to reset our vision. *___________________________________________________________________* *September 13 - 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=864bec9ea7&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30pm & 8pm ET both nights, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *Tomonari Nishikawa, PGM 1 + 2* This year brought the tragic news of the untimely death of experimental filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, who passed away in April at the age of 55. Nishikawa came relatively late to avant-garde cinema (after first studying Economics, and then working odd jobs in Japan, Australia, Canada, and the U.S.). But, as the countless testimonies that have emerged in the wake of his death attest, he quickly became an indispensable, invaluable, and widely admired figure in contemporary experimental cinema, thanks both to his extraordinary body of work – which ranks among the truly exceptional contributions to 21st century avant-garde cinema – and to his role as a teacher, colleague, and mentor at Binghamton University, where (following in the footsteps of earlier faculty members such as Larry Gottheim, Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, and Vincent Grenier) he proved to be equally gifted at supporting and nurturing students and fellow teachers alike. It's his body of work, though, that will live on most vividly. Shot mostly on Super-8 and 16mm, his films’ rich textures, rhythmic dynamism, and evocative imagery create a quality of quiet rapture, while his mastery of film technique – and in particular his astounding facility for in-camera editing and superimposition – is worthy of filmmakers like Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, and Stan Brakhage. Nishikawa continued to expand his practice over the years, turning to digital media as well as live projector performances, proving himself to be an artist whose search for new formal discoveries was ever ongoing. To celebrate Nishikawa, Anthology joins forces with Tomonari’s wife, Miki Nishikawa, his friends and colleagues Sofia Theodore-Pierce and Daïchi Saïto, and Prismatic Ground, for a comprehensive survey of his film and video work. Co-presented by Prismatic Ground. --- PGM 1 - September 13 + 14 at 5:30 PM --- *APOLLO* (2003, 6 min, 16mm) *MARKET STREET* (2005, 5 min, 16mm, silent) *CLEAR BLUE SKY* (2006, 4 min, digital) *SKETCH FILM #1-5* (2005-07, 15 min, Super-8mm, silent) *INTO THE MASS* (2007, 6 min, double projection 16mm, silent) *16-18-4* (2008, 2.5 min, 35mm, silent) *LUMPHINI 2552* (2009, 3 min, 35mm) *TOKYO – EBISU* (2010, 5 min, 16mm) *SHIBUYA – TOKYO* (2010, 10 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min. /// --- PGM 2 - September 13 + 14 at 8:00 PM --- *45 7 BROADWAY* (2013, 5 min, 16mm) *SOUND OF A MILLION INSECTS, LIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS* (2014, 2 min, 35mm) *MANHATTAN ONE TWO THREE FOUR* (2014, 3 min, Super-8mm, silent) *LUMINOUS VEIL* (2016, 6 min, Super-16mm-to-digital) *TEN MORNINGS TEN EVENINGS AND ONE HORIZON* (2016, 10 min, 16mm) *AMUSEMENT RIDE* (2019, 6 min, 16mm) *TRAFIC* (2021, 6.5 min, 16mm-to-digital) *MAGNETIC POINT* (2023, 6 min, Super-16mm-to-digital) *LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE, AND LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE* (2023, 6 min, 16mm) 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=faa4bc9f4f&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *KINO CRITTERS* KORNELIA BOCZKOWSKA's THE ANIMAL SHOW Ever wondered how experimental films represent animals? Our international cinema sister Kornelia personally introduces a global program that challenges the representation of animals in mainstream media, highlighting non-anthropocentric modes of seeing, being, and movement. These home movies, diaries, animations, found footage, and music videos--both handmade and digital--deepen our understanding of the complex relationship between humans, animals, media, and environment: *Becoming*, Jan van Ijken (Netherlands, 2018), the miraculous genesis of animal life seen in a great microscopic detail--a salamander in its transparent egg from fertilization to hatching; *Not (A) Part**,* Vicky Smith (16mm, UK, 2019), in reference to the rapid decline of flying insects, dead bees found on walks were positioned directly onto negative film and contact-printed; *Jamal [A Camel] *(16mm, 1981), Ibrahim Shaddad's report from the life of a Sudanese camel plays out in a dreary, small room--a sesame mill; *buffalo lifts*, Christina Battle (16mm, Canada, 2004), a herd of buffalo desperately try to hold on as they cross the film frame; *a b* *movie*, Lindsay McIntyre (Canada, 2005), in-camera S8 film about a dog named *b*; *Laika**,* Deborah Stratman (USA, 2021), homage to the spirits of Space Test dogs, with music by Olivia Block, Michael Morris (16mm, USA, 2023), cine-poem for Black Taffy’s song *Riding Day* and a loving nod to LeGrice’s 1970 *Berlin Horse*;* PATTAKI*, Everlane Moraes (Cuba, 2019)--in the dense night, when the moon lifts the tide, water beings are hypnotized by the powers of Yemaya, goddess of the sea; *The Fourfold*, Alisi Telengut (Canada/Mongolia, 2020), based on ancient shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, and against the backdrop of modern existential crisis and human-induced environmental change, an exploration of indigenous worldviews and wisdom--a reclaiming of the ideas of animism for planetary health; *HORANGI*, Lynn Kim (USA/Korea, 2024), based on a dream of laying in a field of tigers, wrapping around each other, existing in union...a moment of tenuous harmony and myriad tactile feelings and emotions; *Cuban iMAL* (world premiere, USA, 2025), shot by both Dominic Angerame (here in person) when in Cuba and Alanna Zrimsek when on African safari; TBA, by Toney Merritt (USA), also a 2025 world premiere, and also with artist in person! *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5af6a47c7&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PDT), 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA *Coral & Florida-Structuralism: New Works by Matt Town* In person: Artist Matt Town and programmer Jorge Ravelo Los Angeles Filmforum welcomes local artist & experimental filmmaker Matt Town to screen films and videos from his latest show “Coral”, as well as select older works. Town, who frequently addresses social issues in his work, turns his attention in “Coral” to themes of chemical addiction in the US, drawing upon the experiences of and at times collaborating with his family members. His new 16mm and video works form a strikingly intense, poetic, and personal response to the opioid epidemic, alcoholism, and methods of addiction treatment. The works being screened are the result of his own process of grieving and healing following the sudden death in 2018 of his older step-sister from opioids. Los Angeles Filmforum will screen *Coral*, a structuralist 16mm film, referencing both the marine organisms and the first name of Town’s sister, who was in her thirties when she died in her home on the Florida Gulf, where the artist is also from. For the film, which is shot underwater, Town spent over a year learning about, training for, and getting certified in open water scuba diving. The purpose was to create a living, ocean memorial by planting a “gravestone” sculpture within a coral reef, the act of which appears in the film. The circular stone — with the letters CORAL in capital letters on its surface— now rests at an undisclosed location off the coast of California and is made with environmentally friendly concrete into which Town mixed his sister’s ashes. “Bleached coral can regain its health and can return to life after bleaching, which the film proposes by placing the concrete tombstone I made with my sister’s ashes on a reef in the ocean, to enable new growth and new life.” — MT The artist’s use of black and white film stock connects the dangers of the unfriendly Pacific waters he dives in, the condition of the coral reefs — which experienced their worst global bleaching event in the years just prior to his sister’s death — and the solemness of his actions. While, at times, the unsettling figure of Town in his scuba gear reminds us of the precariousness of life and breath. *SOAP*, 2014, 16mm film, black & white, silent, 11 minutes. West Coast premiere! *TRAP*, 2018, Hi8 to digital video, color, sound, 4 minutes 24 seconds. West Coast premiere! *ROOF*, 2020, HD video, color, sound, 2 minutes 50 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Gravemaking*, 2024, Hi8 to digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes 17 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Needles*, 2024, HD video, black & white, sound, 15 minutes 14 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Rehearsal*, 2024, 16mm film, black & white, silent, 48 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Nod*, 2024, HD video, color, silent, 1 minute 12 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Training*, 2024, HD video, color, sound, 5 minutes 49 seconds. West Coast premiere! *CORAL*, 2024, 16mm film, black & white, silent, 11 minutes. West Coast premiere! *Bimini*, ON VIEW LOOPING IN THE LOBBY, 2024, Hi8 to digital video, color, sound, 24 minutes 56 seconds Matt Town (b. 1989, Sarasota, Florida) is a Los Angeles-based artist working with moving image, photography, painting, installation and sculpture. His work is primarily concerned with a sense of community and one’s role within it and has appeared at Microscope Gallery, New York; eyes never sleep, New York; Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Box, Los Angeles, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; and The Horse, Dublin, Ireland, among others. His works have screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY; Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY; UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; among others. His works have been discussed in Millennium Film Journal, ARTnews, ArtObserved, Hyperallergic, and others. Matt Town received a BA in Film & Media Studies from the University of Florida in 2013 and an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2017. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* UnionDocs <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=86a9c941d8&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (EST), 352 Onderdonk Ave, Ridgewood, NY *You Don’t Know Me* With Sabine Gruffat, Bill Brown, Karen Yasinsky, Susanna Wallin. In Partnership with Cosmic Rays Film Festival. Doors 7:30p, Program 8:00p We’re so excited to bring back and work alongside Cosmic Rays Film Festival for their 2025 Touring Program! Cosmic Rays celebrates work that extends the artistic possibilities of cinema and new media technologies; that explores the lyrical and poetic dimensions of media; that speaks with a personal voice; that challenges audience expectations of cinema form and content; that arises from a diversity of life experiences, identities, and communities; and that questions conventional models of production, exhibition, and distribution. The program features films which are a visual examination of the roles of our bodies, the information that they generate, the identities that are adopted, and the records they leave behind. They are films that ask if we’re evolving into something new, or just heading for extinction. You won’t want to miss it! *I’m Not Your Monster* by Karen Yasinsky, 4:33 mins, 2024 *Lizzy* by Susanna Wallin, 14 mins, 2024 *Exo Gestus #2* by Yvette Granata, 4:30 mins, 2024 *Listening In, Resounding Out* by Eislow Johnson & Dominic Bonelli, 11:23 mins, 2023 *Night Music* by Edwin Rostron, 3:25 mins, 2024 *Species of Analogy* by J.M. Martínez, 13 mins, 2023 *File No. 2304* by A. S. M. Kobayashi, 5:22 mins, 2024 *an egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains* by Mohamed Thara, 3:50 mins, 2023 *ESP* by Laura Kraning, 2:45 mins, 2024 *The Big Day of Coloane* by Keng U Lao, 17:30 mins, 2023 Program Duration: 82 mins *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc5af19a09&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (EST), 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *JUNE LEAF, PGM 1: JEM COHEN + panel* In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Jem Cohen sent an unsolicited VHS tape of his recently-completed film *BURIED IN LIGHT* (1994) to Robert Frank and June Leaf, and was shocked to receive a heartfelt and substantive handwritten letter in response. This exchange blossomed into a decades-long friendship, with Leaf in particular, that proved vitally important to Cohen. Over the years, he filmed Leaf intermittently, resulting in a collection of moving-image material (ultimately destined to comprise a feature film) that documents Leaf’s work and personality with extraordinary elegance, sensitivity, and insight. Capturing Leaf’s artistic process, her searching intelligence, her wit, and the extraordinary artwork that is her studio itself, and aglow with the friendship between Cohen and Leaf, these short films add up to not only a lovely filmic portrait of a particular artist but one of the finest of all documents of an artist at work. This evening Cohen will present a selection of excerpts from his work-in-progress project about June Leaf. Total running time: ca. 70 min, plus panel discussion about June Leaf’s life and work, with Alice Attie, Jem Cohen, Sara Driver, and Laura Israel *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=99c7c055a9&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (EST), Burns Park, 1300 Baldwin Ave, Ann Arbor, MI *Walk Right In* The Ann Arbor Film Festival is thrilled to welcome the community back to Walk Right In at Burns Park. This year’s screening includes a stellar lineup from the 63rd AAFF: Pack your blanket or lawn chair and join us under the stars for this free neighborhood event, featuring a 40-minute program of award-winning short films alongside delicious food and good company. *Purgatorio* by Stephanie Miracle, Auden Lincoln-Vogel, and Philip Rabalais — winner of the Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film *We Are Not Alone* by Adebukola Bodunrin — winner of The No. 1 African Film Award *Desk Bugs* by Hakhyun Kim — winner of the Best Experimental Animation Award *Riding Day* by Michael Alexander Morris — winner of the Best Music Video Award *Uncle Bardo* by Luke Mistruzzi — winner of The Coma and Forklift Jury Award *Satellites* by Gustavo Ramos — winner of the Take Your Breath Away Jury Award Admission is free, but we encourage an $8 donation to help support the 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival, happening March 24–29, 2026 *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Close-Up Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1c9c91654c&e=857b71a9cb> 20:15 (GMT), 97 Sclater Street, London, England, UK *In Our Sleep* Curated by Matt Feldman and Syd Farrington, In Our Sleep brings together the work of 8 artists for a screening of films presented on 16mm. The films offer a unique approach to 16mm filmmaking in their consideration of landscape, domestic space and media as a means of addressing notions of ‘Place’. Through reflections on light, magic, death and dreams, each film considers the importance of what remains unseen and beyond the surface of image. *Osmose*, Laurence Favre, 2022, 11 min, 16mm *Colour Poems*, Margaret Tait, 1974, 13 min, 16mm *The Girl Who Is*, Sara Sowell, 2021, 6 min, 16mm *The Magician’s House*, Deborah Stratman, 2007, 5 min 45 sec, 16mm *In Our Sleep*, Syd Farrington, 2023, 4’40 min, 16mm *Las Animas*, Matt Feldman, 2025, 14 min, 16mm *Daisies Cloud Passing*, Peter Todd, 2019, 30 sec, 16mm *Everything Comes Full Circle*, Lilan Yang, 2023, 14 min, 16mm *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=04513504d6&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (EST), 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *'THE OCCULT HARRY SMITH' BOOK RELEASE EVENT – LIVE PERFORMANCE BY JOHN ZORN, IKUE MORI, JORGE ROEDER, AND CHES SMITH!* Harry Smith remains an enduring figure in American culture, as demonstrated by the numerous exhibitions, biographies, and other publications that have emerged in the past several years alone. This evening’s program heralds the release of a new volume, “The Occult Harry Smith”, edited by Peter Valente and published by Inner Traditions in Vermont. In celebration of the new book, Anthology – in collaboration with Raymond Foye and John Zorn – has organized a very special event, which will feature the world premiere of Anthology’s new restoration of Smith’s *FILM NO. 20: FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN*, as well as rare recordings and home movies of Harry Smith. To make the event even more unmissable, Anthology’s Composer in Residence John Zorn will be performing live (on sax), along with Ikue Mori (electronics), Jorge Roeder (bass), and Ches Smith (drums)! “Alchemist, magician, filmmaker, artist, mystic, anthropologist, collector, rebel, eternal omnivore, and 20th century Renaissance man, Harry Smith was many things to many people and this outstanding collection of lovingly written testimonies pays tribute to Harry with wit, respect, love, and laser-like precision. It is absolutely impossible to forget any interaction you had with Harry – and the beautiful tales in this remarkably readable and heartfelt book will have you awestruck, laughing out loud, and hungry for more. Perhaps the best collection of writings about one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures the world has ever known.” –John Zorn on “The Occult Harry Smith” Harry Smith *FILM NO. 20: FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN *1980, 28 min, 35mm-to-DCP. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with support from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. In 1980, Harry Smith combined his two Wizard of Oz-related films (*FILM NO. 16* and *19*) and called the new work *FILM NO. 20: FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN*. The film was to premiere accompanied by a live score at an Anthology fundraising event at Alice Tully Hall, but, unfortunately, the event was canceled and it never screened. As a special preview to our new 35mm restorations of *FILM NO. 16* and *19*, we present *FILM NO. 20* for the first time ever with a live score by Anthology’s Composer in Residence, John Zorn, along with Ikue Mori, Jorge Roeder, and Ches Smith. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2025* Venue type: Durham Cinematheque @ Eno House <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fe0eddd2ce&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm ET, Eno House, 903 Eno Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278 *SPUTNIK AND THE SPACE RACE* Durham Cinematheque presents a 16mm archival film program about the start of the space age, including home movie footage of Robert Goddard's first rockets. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visualcontainer + [.BOX] Videoart Project Space <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c0ae37b3b3&e=857b71a9cb> 18:00 (CEST), Via Passerini 18, 20162, Milan, Italia *The Freedom to Control* Twelve experimental filmmakers are walking through shifting landscapes of power, resistance, and transformation. The films are balancing on the fragile line between control and liberation, drawn through experimental visual narratives that dissolve linear time and twist perspectives. Across diverse cultures and contexts, the works try to break through the walls of identity, memory. *THE ELASTICITY OF A MOMENT* by Navya Sah | India (2022) *HUNGRY GHOST* by Guido Devadder, Kaitlin McSweeney | Belgium (2022) *I BHFAD AS AMHARC (OUT OF SIGHT) (OUTRO)* by Jelena Perišić | Serbia (2020) *KASIKAS SA GANIHA UG UNYA / A RUSTLING FROM A TIME AGO AND TOMORROW* by Kuda Bux, Eric Bico | Philippines (2021) *MANUFACTURED DEMOCRACY* by Huner Emin | Mesopotamia (Modern Iraq), USA (2024) *NO WATER* by Pietro Gardoni | Italy (2022) *NOMADISM, TEMPORAL CONNECTION AND NEW FEMININE LONGINGS / NOMADISMO, CONEXIÓN TEMPORAL Y NUEVOS ANHELOS FEMENINOS* by Maria Bilbao Herrera | Venezuela (2024) *PHANTOM REQUIEM* by Zazie Kanwar-Torge (Zazie Productions) | USA (2024) *SHERIFF STATION’S DINER & AMUSEMENTS* by Jacob Alexander Sitowski | Mexico, USA (2024) *SHIVERING WALL* by Tseng Yu Chin | Taiwan (2020) *SILENCE IV / ԼՌՈՒԹՅԱՆ ԿԱԹԻԼԱՅԻՆ* by Anna Grigorian | Armenia, Canada (2023) *IN THE NOISE OF THE DOWNPOUR / В ШУМІ ЗЛИВИ* by Oleksandr Stupak | Ukraine (2024) *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmmakers Coop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ebfe172540&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (EST), 475 Park Ave South, 6th floor, New York, NY *Erica Schreiner: A Girl in Her World* Co-curated by Schreiner and Matt McKinzie, will be followed by a Q&A with the artist. “Erica Schreiner’s videos span a 20-year period, charting her personal and creative evolution within that time frame, while also appearing to collapse time altogether. Her journey as a visual artist, performer and world-maker — beginning in her early 20s through to her early 40s — is crystallized here within the same gauzy, waxy, pastel-tinted medium. Schreiner’s work looks and feels like no one else’s; you always know when you are watching an Erica Schreiner video, and in this sense she is the definition of an auteur. There are influences and compeers, certainly. As the artist (typically in an enclosed and claustrophobic space) turns the camera on herself, adorns herself with wigs and dresses and glitter, devours fruit and chocolate and butterflies, and smothers her body in paint, one can’t help but think of Věra Chytilová’s candy-coated feminist classic *DAISIES*, Jacques Rivette’s lush and otherworldly *CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING* (both of which Schreiner cites as key influences) or Chantal Akerman’s gleefully anarchic debut *SAUTE MA VILLE*. Like Schreiner’s work, all of these films probe the tension between creation and destruction and reveal the power and agency in girlishness, whimsy, and so-called frivolity. There are also shades of Marja Samsom’s Super 8mm shorts from the 1970s, in which the artist — in a series of static, single-shot portraits — turns the camera on herself and engages subversively with apparatuses of traditional femininity and domesticity as her alter ego, ‘Miss Behave,’ thereby blurring the line between diaristic filmic portraiture and outright performance. Schreiner’s videos engage with all of these techniques, elements, and dichotomies through an intimate and hyper-feminine visual aesthetic, engendering connections to these antecedents while simultaneously transcending precedent altogether to emerge as totally original (and indelible) audiovisual evocations. Ultimately, Schreiner’s work invites viewers into a world that is all her own: one that reveals the softness in anarchy, the tenderness in ruination, and the capacity for creation amid devastation.” —Matt McKinzie (Co-curator) *Easter Bunny* - 10 minutes *Red Rover* - 7 minutes *Paper Cup* - 3 minutes *Sauce* - 4 minutes *Painting Over You And Me* - 3 minutes *Erase* - 8 minutes *Pulp* - 4 minutes *Metamorphosis* - 8 minutes *Blue Transcendence* - 9 minutes *Birth* - 10 minutes *Hold* - 7 minutes *Love Is Power* - 10 minutes *Smoke* - 8 minutes Total Run Time: 91 minutes. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=557166e6c7&e=857b71a9cb> 6:45pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *PALESTINE ACTION* BANSKY: WALLED OFF + NO OTHER LAND Not one, but TWO long-form arguments for Palestinian autonomy, because our righteous anger and the urgent need for action against genocide in our time--in real time!–demands extraordinary measures. The first piece affords an entrance into legendary prankster Banksy's art hotel near the West Bank barrier, housing a semi-secret museum that displays artifacts from creative resistance struggles against 70+ years of Zionist occupation. Vin Arfuso's feature, in its NorCal premiere, comes from a collaboration between Palestinian-American musician Anwar Hadid, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, and the grandson of South African founding father Nelson Mandela. A slightly extended intermission accommodates easy entry for patrons choosing only the second on the bill, the Oscar-winning (though effectively suppressed) *No Other Land*, hardly seen in SF despite wide-spread protests against the egregious political censorship. This powerful doc from a Palestinian-Israeli directorial collective shows the destruction of the West Bank village of Masafer Yatta, and the alliance which develops between an activist and a journalist from the respective nationalities. Doors at 6:45 for the 7:15 Walled Off, tho additional arrivals are welcome during the 8:45-9PM break. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Breitenseer Lichtspiele <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=81519773f6&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (CET), Breitenseer Str. 21 1140, Vienna, Austria *FOCUS ON: Stefanie Weberhofer* As a member of the artist run film lab filmkoop wien, Stefanie Weberhofer is one of the driving forces behind the promotion of analog film culture in Austria. For more than a decade, she has been captivating audiences with her inventive, material-driven, and experimental works. This special showcase presents 17 of her films across two programs. --- 7:00 pm – Program 1 --- *The Two Sisters* (AT 2012, 5 min) *Dissolved* (AT 2015, 4 min) *Wave Gang* (AT 2018, 13 min) *Turquoise-Blue (Street View) *(AT 2020, 5 min) *Dead Ice Ground* (AT 2022, 4 min) *Color Experiment Program* (AT 2022, 5 min) *Red is the crocodile* (AT 2024, 8 min) --- 9:00 pm – Program 2 --- *Pushing It *(AT 2015, 3 min) *Look How Beautiful the Light Moves* (AT 2016, 3 min) *Copy Work *(AT 2020, 7 min) *Wickenburggasse 15* (AT 2022, 3 min) *Arbor Labor *(AT 2024, 8 min) *IN MOTION* (AT 2024) *Traces *(3 min) *Shift Change* (Festival Version, 5 min) *Dual image* (3 min) *Handwork* (3 min) *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7018c1695e&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA *Gibson + Recoder: Projection Performance for Single and Dual 16mm Film Projection* Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder return to Filmforum for a special evening of projection performances. In this program of 16mm film performances for single and dual projection, film is not the exclusive object of attraction but the occasion for potentially disclosing the art of projection. The “performance” in our title refers to the success or failure of the film to articulate the beauty of projected light on a screen. *Backlight*, 2006, Dual 16mm film projection performance, b&w, sound or silent, approx. 15–20 min *Lightline*, 2011, 16mm film, color, silent or sound, 12 min *Alignments for Linea*, 2003, Dual 16mm projection performance, b&w, sound, approx. 15–20 min, Music by Charlemagne Palestine: Schlingen-Blängen (1979/1999) *Corner Film*, 2019, 16mm film, b&w, silent, 11 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a7234bb6c1&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=66f6e51404&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. There are now more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works available to view on the website. ------------------------------ *Let us know about your alternative film/video event!* Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=297b171e98&e=857b71a9cb> . 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