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*This Week [September 20 - 28, 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=7eab36f478&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 09.30.2025 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f8d6c3fcb9&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 09.30.2025 Pollen: Video Spells <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc22c64a82&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2025 PRISME #8 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=acf48e9479&e=857b71a9cb> 10.13.2025 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=61a14319f7&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 10.15.2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2c91598f95&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.01.2025 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=49a025a773&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2025 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f94326a9c8&e=857b71a9cb> 11.07.2025 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=502c6be26c&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.16.2025 Cosmic Rays <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5c8e2886b5&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=95744397ff&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e9104ca674&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Sputnik And The Space Race <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d8847e3ec7&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, Hillsborough, NC] - The Freedom To Control <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a2c83d696&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=d6358e0e5a&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, New York, NY] - Palestine Action <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=afb9e3a691&e=857b71a9cb> [September 20, San Francisco, CA] - Focus On: Stefanie Weberhofer <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a6dede61ae&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=c1da7a309f&e=857b71a9cb> [September 21, Los Angeles, CA] - Trans+ Film Social <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=da988e4522&e=857b71a9cb> [September 22, New York, NY] - Chris + Heather's Big Screen Blowout #2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a03cb47fb&e=857b71a9cb> [September 23, Chicago, IL] - 25 FPS - International Experimental Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d16b02d606&e=857b71a9cb> [September 23 - 27, Zagreb, Croatia] - Remixé et Remodelé (needle vs Man Ray) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b3d5ae7591&e=857b71a9cb> [September 24, Miami, FL] - Analogica Selection 14 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2c59d02700&e=857b71a9cb> [September 25, San Francisco, CA] - Archivio Aperto 18th Edition: Time of Liberations <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29f6252fa8&e=857b71a9cb> [September 26 - 30, Bologna, Italy] - Land As Language <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ed0580d17e&e=857b71a9cb> [September 26, New York, NY] - P. Adams Sitney Short Film Pgm <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=632bfe671a&e=857b71a9cb> [September 27, New York, NY] - Psycho-Geo1: Verses of Resistance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc1e7c62a3&e=857b71a9cb> [September 27, San Francisco, CA] - Gregory Markopoulos, Part of: P. Adams Sitney (1944-2025) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3cb6c8b51e&e=857b71a9cb> [September 28, New York, NY] - Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Program 11 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7eb1e2e2e5&e=857b71a9cb> [September 28, Oakland, CA] - The Defense Trilogy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a6267e1ac9&e=857b71a9cb> [September 28, Washington, DC] *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2025* Venue type: Durham Cinematheque @ Eno House <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f182825a4d&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=0d3df0b70c&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=1a8dcac5f6&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=2a277c6e2d&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=737fbe74c3&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=02afcdb069&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 *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f16d36455&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (EST), 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY *Trans+ Film Social* Our monthly Trans+ Film Social gatherings, organized by Trans Film Collective and Millennium Film Workshop. Trans+ Film Social is a space for Trans, NB, GNC, Intersex and Two-Spirit film and video artists, actors, animators to share their work (in any stage of the creative process) and find community! RSVP to sign up and secure a 20 minute time slot to share your work (*Sharing of work is not required to attend*) We recommend folks to wear masks and stay home if you do not feel well. Testing for Flu and C0vid is encouraged! We will make gatherings available via online meeting for accessibility. *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Chicago Film Society <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=465614b174&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (CDT), Music Box Theatre, 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL *Chris + Heather’s Big Screen Blowout #2* CFS continues its bid to secure “national treasure” status for Heather McAdams and Chris Ligon by offering up the Music Box’s large screen for another orgiastic evening of small-gauge confections from the Renaissance eccentrics’ extensive film collection. Known throughout Chicagoland as masterminds and hosts of the long-running “Country Calendar Show” (and its ancestor, the “Record Roundup Film Jamboree”), Chris and Heather have (since last year’s Big Screen Blowout I) unearthed many more nuggets from their goldmine of 16mm arcana. This includes vintage trailers for films like *Diary of a High School Bride*, *Battle of the Amazons*, *Shock Corridor*, *Cotton Pickin’ Chicken Pickers*, and *The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave*; forgotten TV commercials for wacky toys like Water Wiennie, Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, and Dream Date; sensational songs by The Byrds, Sugar Chile Robinson, Steppenwolf, Peggy Lee, The Royal Teens, and more; plus a newly restored print of Chris and Heather’s 1995 “The Lester Film,” a portrait of Chicago club scene crossdresser/artist/therapist Lester Brodzik (aka Lestushka). Naturally, the vivacious duo will appear live on stage to introduce the evening festivities. Highly recommended for fans of 20th century American weirdness, drive-in culture, chugging beers in the parking lot, sitting quietly in the library, knitting, true love, drinking coffee at night, or simply being alive on this magical planet. (GW) Approx 90 min • 16mm from Chris and Heather’s collection “The Lester Film” has been preserved by the Chicago Film Society with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation. *___________________________________________________________________* *September 23 - 27* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Zagreb International Festival of Experimental Film and Video <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=24242bc14a&e=857b71a9cb> Kinoteka Cinema, Kordunska ul. 1 10000, Zagreb, Croatia *25 FPS - International Experimental Film And Video Festival* The international competition will feature 25 films focusing on humanity and its conceptual and literal fragility, turbulent existential crises, and cracks in time, space and ourselves; the festival opens with an exhibition by Italian visual artist Rosa Barba. 21st 25 FPS Festival will take place from September 23 to 27, 2025 at Kinoteka cinema in Zagreb, with a grand opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art. After Zagreb, the festival continues at Art-kino cinema in Rijeka (September 30, October 1 and 3), and at Multimedia Cultural Centre Split (October 30). *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Miami Beach Regional Library <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e4ce989ad0&e=857b71a9cb> 18:00 (EST), 227 22nd Street, Miami Beach, FL *Remixé et remodelé (needle vs Man Ray)* AV CLUB: Silent Cinema Scored: Remixé et remodelé (needle vs Man Ray) is a program that pairs seminal silent-era films by Man Ray from the Miami-Dade Public Library Collection, with original sound scores performed live by Miami's legendary firebrand of sound, 'needle,' featuring Edward Bobb and Brom Lee. The event also features the world premiere of *Sketch No. 1, Fire Station No. 9* (2024) by Barron Sherer—the first new 16mm film print entered into the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s collection in over 30 years. Admission: Free with RSVP *Sketch No. 1, Fire Station No. 9 *(2024, 2 min) – Barron Sherer (World Premiere) *Retour à la Raison* (1923, 3 min) – Man Ray *Emak Bakia* (1926, 20 min) – Man Ray *L’Étoile de Mer* (1928, 21 min) – Man Ray *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Analogica <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4bdcc78280&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (PST), 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA *ANALOGICA SELECTION 14* ANALOGICA is a annual festival and a platform for the investigation and dissemination of analog practices in visual and sonic experiments based in Bolzano, South Tyrol. Italy. This special screening features a selection of films from the 2024 program: *Abgad Hawaz* by Robin Riad, Cameraless, 16mm / 2024 / Canada / 1’ 24’’ *Ripple Effect* by Niyaz Saghari, super8 / 2023 / UK / 9’ *War Zone* by Dominic Angerame, 16mm / 2024 / US / 7’ *Questa disperazione di Piero* by Mattia Biondi, found footage / 2023 / Italy / 3’ 20’’ *ULÍA *by Laura Moreno Bueno, 16mm / 2024 / Spain / 13’ 20’’ *Diane (wrapped in plastic ) *by Joanna Byrne, Mark Byrne, super8 / 2022 / UK / 3’ 30’’ *Why i never became a driver* by Yuula Benivolski, 16mm / 2023 / Canada/ 11’ 6’’ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Analogica Selection 15, the new 2025 edition, will take place in Bolzano from November 12 to 16. Part of the selection will also be available for streaming on the Analogica website from December 15 to 21, 2025. The new call for entries for Analogica will open at the end of December. *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025* *September 26 - 30* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Archivio Aperto <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=99cae605e2&e=857b71a9cb> Various Times, Via Sant’Isaia 18 40123 Bologna, Italy *Archivio Aperto 18th edition: Time of Liberations* Archivio Aperto is the festival dedicated to the rediscovery of small-format film heritage — private, amateur, experimental, artist’s cinema — and their contemporary reuse organised by Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia. Founded in Bologna in 2008 as an opening day of the archive, over the years it has developed into a festival, with focuses and retrospectives dedicated to the greatest names in amateur cinema, home movies and found footage, from Ross McElwee to Gustav Deutsch, up to Jonas Mekas, Boris Lehman, David Perlov, Maya Deren and Péter Forgács. This is the 18th edition! And this year there will be a focus on filmmaker Rose Lowder, a retrospective of Kenneth Anger's films, an homage to Andrea Granchi’s art films, a curatorial programme by Cinédoc Paris Films Coop on French experimental cinema and a tribute to Marinella Pirelli. What if acts of liberation were a small breach in the timeline? The kind that allows us to make that dialectical leap Walter Benjamin spoke of, and encounter the past within our present? And what if liberations were always a conquest of the self—when the self, however, is the result of an active relationship with other bodies, human, animal, and vegetal? What if liberations included those from Nazi-Fascist or imperialist occupations, but also from authoritarian regimes, patriarchal and colonial cages, and from economic and social injustices? What if liberation also meant freeing cinema from the often stifling mechanisms of the industry? And what if we could then celebrate a poorer but freer cinema, as taught to us by Maya Deren, Jonas Mekas, or Roberto Rossellini who, eighty years ago, created the film that became the emblem of all liberations, *Roma, città aperta*, shooting in the rubble-strewn streets of a shattered city, even using expired film stock? “Spring will come. And it will be more beautiful than the others. Because we will be free.” *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmmakers Coop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5e999ccc5b&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (EST), 475 Park Ave South, 6th floor, New York, NY *Land as Language* The title Land as Language suggests that land; an area of ground, a region, an island, a field, a hill, a desert, a rock, can be comprehended as a form of communication, a site of knowledge, a place that can be ‘read’ and interpreted. Land as Language also relates to how a country or nation might invoke land either through its common name (Greenland, The Netherlands, etc.) or through appealing to a form of national or cultural identity (motherland, fatherland, homeland). The works selected for this screening are, in different ways, concerned with how experiences and concepts of specific areas of land, and lands, are translated through film and moving image practices, especially the interplay between proximity and distance that film works can invoke. The films in Land as Language share an interest in both human and non-human experiences of time and in bringing these films together - at this point in time - I hope to offer a dialogue on the often-troubled relationships between travel, photography, and place, evoking ways of thinking through processes of undoing, quoting, and delineating. *Development* (2000-2015) Karen Cunningham. 8 minutes, 32 seconds. *Development *(2000–2015) Karen Cunningham (UK) *Air’s Rock* (1985) Takahiko Iimura. 32 minutes. *Mean Time* (2020) Karen Cunningham. 9 minutes. *Alluvium* (2015) Peggy Ahwesh. 25 minutes. *Apparent Time* (2024) Karen Cunningham. 11 minutes *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ec5f9b1df&e=857b71a9cb> 17:30 (EST), 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *P. ADAMS SITNEY SHORT FILM PGM* Jonas Mekas *WALDEN: REEL 2* (1969, 40 min, 16mm) “Kreeping Kreplachs meet (Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Tuli, Warhol, Barbara Rubin, etc) / Hare Krishna walk; autumn scenes; Sitney’s wedding; New Year’s Evening in Times Square; Goofing on 42nd Street; Uptown Party; Velvet Underground; Deep of Winter; Naomi visits Ken & Flo Jacobs; Amy stops for Coffee; Coop Directors meet; Dreams of Cocteau; In Central Park; What Leslie saw thru the Coop window; Olmsted Hike.” –Jonas Mekas Marjorie Keller *THE FALLEN WORLD* (1983, 9.5 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) “An elegy for a Newfoundland dog named Melville and a portrait of his owner.” –Marjorie Keller Marjorie Keller *PRIVATE PARTS* (1988, 13 min, 16mm, silent) “[...] the third in a series of in-camera edited films. A portrait of Blake Sitney on some summer days.” –Marjorie Keller Stan Brakhage *FILMS BY STAN BRAKHAGE: AN AVANT-GARDE HOME MOVIE* (1961, 4 min, 16mm, silent) “I had a camera with which I could make multiple superimpositions spontaneously. It had been lent to me for a week. I was also given a couple of rolls of color film which had been through an intensive fire. The chance that the film would not record any image at all left me free to experiment and try to create the sense of the daily world in which we live, and what it meant to me. I wanted to record our home, and yet deal with it as being that area from which the films by Stan Brakhage arise, and try to make one arise at the same time.” –Stan Brakhage Plus, additional special surprises! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=486bf9abf4&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, 992 Valencia Street @ 21st, San Francisco, CA *PSYCHO-GEO1: VERSES OF RESISTANCE* MEJIA: GUATEMALAN POET-FILMMAKERS A righteous celebration of the history-making initiatives by our own Alex Mejia to restore crucial films with the Cinemateca Nacional in Guatemala City! Tonight he guides us on a ultra-rare journey through the region's radical cinema underground, where poets picked up cameras and filmmakers found their voices in verse...from a forgotten '40s doc capturing Indigenous political mobilizations for Jacobo Arbenz, through national poet Otto René Castillo's experimental collaborations in West Berlin exile, to militant writer Eduardo Labarca's fierce reflections on art and armed struggle. The program showcases the recently digitized *Al Cabo del Tiempo* (scanned right here at SF State!), in which the radical Taller de Cine collective grapples with defeat through a critical poet's lens. We'll witness Anais Taracena's lyrical video with Indigenous author Rosa Chávez, building toward our centerpiece: Javier Briones' (in person) sublime meditation on historical memory, told through Maya Achi voices and the ancestral lands that hold their stories. Five films..Decades of resistance..Traditions of political fury becoming cinematic poetry. Tamales de chipilin too! *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2b21f62a30&e=857b71a9cb> 17:00 (EST), 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *GREGORY MARKOPOULOS, part of: P. ADAMS SITNEY (1944-2025)* Gregory Markopoulos was among the filmmakers whose work P. Adams Sitney most respected and treasured. He wrote about Markopoulos’s work on many occasions, in “Visionary Film” and elsewhere, and traveled to experience the quadrennial presentations of the artist’s monumental final work, *ENIAIOS* (1947-91) at the Temenos site near Lyssarea, Greece. As part of our memorial tribute to Sitney, and with the generous cooperation of filmmaker Robert Beavers (the Director of the Temenos Archive), we will present two reels drawn from *ENIAIOS IV*, which have never been presented in this configuration. Total running time: ca. 60 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0a5529a3f0&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Program 11 - Relative Positions | Unmapping Lineages* Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque By deconstructing ties to family, culture and geographical origins, the films in this program create new navigational charts—triangulating between points known and points unknown—to find paths that lead toward the discovery of the self. Screening: *Incantation* (2021, DV) by Kalpana Subramanian; *Hair *(2023, Super-8 film shown on DV) by Sara Alghesheyan, *Mudra (Yearning to be Loved)* (2023, DV) by Meghana Bisineer; *Kolmas Punkt (The Third Point) *(2019, 16mm shown on DV) by Alina Taalman; *Everything in our house did not seem to fit* (2023, Super-8 film shown on DV) by Alicia Abieyuwa Bergamelli; *Can You Carry Me?* (2023, 16mm film shown on DV) by Tess Meersman; *Dandelions* (1995, 16mm film shown on DV) by Dawn Wilkinson; *Range* (2005, 16mm film) by Bill Basquin, and *Navajo Talking Picture *(1986, 16mm film shown on DV) by Arlene Bowman. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* National Gallery of Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=554a2f9b62&e=857b71a9cb> 2:00 pm EST, National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium, Washington, DC *The Defense Trilogy* Join us for a special post-screening discussion with Valentin Noujaïm, in person. *The Defense Trilogy* reimagines Dante’s Divine Comedy within the hypermodern labyrinth of Paris’s business district, La Défense. These films traverse Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, mapping the collision between monumental architecture and fragile humanity. The trilogy explores the violence of a system built on surveillance and alienation, while celebrating fleeting moments of tenderness and rebellion. Presented in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. *Pacific Club* is a nonfiction short that invokes an infamous club opened in a basement of La Défense. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of the club and of the generation that dreamed of integrating into France but that instead came face to face with racism, the AIDS epidemic, and other obstacles (2023, 16 minutes) *To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion* focuses on Claire (Kayije Kagame), a businesswoman promoting a new skyscraper in La Défense and facing increasing scrutiny and isolation. The cold, grey offices amplify her loneliness, driving vivid dreams (2024, 14 minutes). *Demons to Diamonds* follows strangers as they move through the streets like ghosts, bound by the invisible threads of paranoia. In the eerie glow of a collapsing city, destruction may be the only chance for rebirth (2025, 29 minutes). About the filmmaker: Valentin Noujaim (b. 1991, France) graduated in screenwriting from La Fémis in Paris and was a guest student at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Noujaïm’s work challenges dominant societal narratives, shedding light on the lives of individuals and historically marginalized communities. The cinematic worlds he creates reflect his commitment to exploring varied formats, including 16mm film, archival materials, digital footage, and special effects. His films have been selected by a number of prestigious festivals, including CPH:DOX, Visions du Reel, IFFR Rotterdam, and BlackStar Film Festival among others. In 2024, his film Pacific Club was shortlisted for the Cesar Award for best documentary. His work has also been featured in several group exhibitions, most recently at the Fondation Cartier (2025), Nimes Triennale (2024), and Museo Madre (2024). Noujaïm presented his first institutional solo show at Kunsthalle Basel in February 2025. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d246a97be6&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=dd02ed30e2&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=8ba0794599&e=857b71a9cb> . 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