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*- - -** BIG NEWS** - - -* *We are excited to announce that the next 12 months of MailChimp fees for distributing the TWIAGC newsletter is sponsored by Ann Arbor Film Festival!!! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42ddb21b2f&e=857b71a9cb> * *This Week [September 27 - October 5, 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=68f402f7d8&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=c0f41e50cf&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 09.30.2025 Pollen: Video Spells <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cbb05aefdc&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2025 PRISME #8 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=22b33fefdc&e=857b71a9cb> 10.13.2025 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0d5adf00e1&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 10.15.2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=749838d009&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.15.2025 The Lighthouse Works Fellowship Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fb55f8da80&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2025 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e953430f20&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2025 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5cd6301d58&e=857b71a9cb> 11.07.2025 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f4857660fd&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.16.2025 Cosmic Rays <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc45412c6c&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2025 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2eae941776&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2025 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8a760e96f7&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=015d5cc55b&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1220eb2008&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - 25 FPS - International Experimental Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6c15fa543b&e=857b71a9cb> [September 23 - 27, Zagreb, Croatia] - Archivio Aperto 18th Edition: Time of Liberations <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db9cd538be&e=857b71a9cb> [September 26 - 30, Bologna, Italy] - P. Adams Sitney Short Film Pgm <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=98b6d60d4e&e=857b71a9cb> [September 27, New York, NY] - Psycho-Geo1: Verses of Resistance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=26f8f8ebf5&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=6e3372750d&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=ccd0c6e77a&e=857b71a9cb> [September 28, Oakland, CA] - The Defense Trilogy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=acefc9fdde&e=857b71a9cb> [September 28, Washington, DC] - Bogancloch, By Ben Rivers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d6d054d3b8&e=857b71a9cb> [September 30, Los Angeles, CA] - The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a0ed994cac&e=857b71a9cb> [October 1, London, England, UK] - Black Rock Arts X The Film-Makers' Cooperative: Water, Water, Everywhere <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b561505703&e=857b71a9cb> [October 2, Buffalo, NY] - Ben Rivers + Jake Williams <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9974059898&e=857b71a9cb> [October 2 - 5, New York, NY] - Bogancloch By Ben Rivers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4135e7c429&e=857b71a9cb> [October 3 - 9, New York, NY] - Drunken Film Fest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a32846ea3a&e=857b71a9cb> [October 4, San Francisco, CA] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025* *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=ff88e30e1e&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). *___________________________________________________________________* *September 26 - 30* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Archivio Aperto <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6d39afaf60&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.” *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=466db8f58a&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=2772beccf6&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=75dbf3658b&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=fbd6f45b8e&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=93aeac1f6a&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. *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a6a5b11ab2&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA *Bogancloch, by Ben Rivers* Ben Rivers returns to present the LA Premiere of *Bogancloch*, where modern day hermit Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. At the heart a song, an argument between life and death, each stating their case to rule over the world. *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Close-Up Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78a09713b4&e=857b71a9cb> 20:30 (GMT), Close-Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater Street, E1 6HR, London, England, UK *The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes* Stan Brakhage, 1971, 32 min, 16mm Introduced by Molly Miles and Lucy Peters Preceded by *Obverse and Reverse *Barbara Rupik, 2020, 8 min In conversation with Tyler Thier <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f08c74a92b&e=857b71a9cb>’s Little White Lies article ‘In Praise of <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=28d6c18057&e=857b71a9cb>Stan Brakhage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=457db2367f&e=857b71a9cb>’s Most Disturbing Film Document’, Electric Blue presents a corpus of cinematic bodies, surgically unpicking cinema's complex histories of seeing and unseeing the flesh we all possess. *The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes* is the final film in Brakhage’s *Pittsburgh Trilogy*, a silent meditation on death depicting real bodies lying in a morgue. Described by Thier as “one of the starkest works of body horror” in which Brakhage “makes the monster our very own perception”, this work derives its title from the word ‘autopsy’ to consider how we see, and what we see on the cinema screen. *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Black Rock Arts and Filmmakers Coop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ed6d2d2306&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (EST), Black Rock Arts, 43 Hamilton St, Buffalo, NY *Black Rock Arts x The Film-Makers' Cooperative: Water, Water, Everywhere* The Film-Makers' Cooperative is thrilled to collaborate with Black Rock Arts, co-founded by FMC filmmaker-member Jason Duval, to present an evening of water-themed 16mm and digital films by FMC filmmaker-members Dave Gearey, Ann Deborah Levy, J.J. Murphy, and Margaret Rorison. This screening is part of Black Rock Arts' larger month-long exhibition WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE. This film program is the first in an ongoing series of screenings curated and presented collaboratively by Black Rock Arts, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative of New York City, and FMC’s member artists. Regular screenings will relate thematically to the exhibitions on view in the gallery. Films will be screened in their native formats whenever possible. Future events will involve guest curators, artist talks, and possibly workshops. Conceived as a complement to the gallery’s current exhibition, Water, Water, Everywhere, the evening’s program opens with two films by Ann Deborah Levy, *Water Falls New York* (2019) and *Watercolors* (2007), followed by Margaret Rorison’s *Gowanus Haze* (2012). These works will be presented in digital video. The second half of the program features two rarely-seen historic works in 16mm film: *Sky Blue Water Light Sign* (1972) by J.J.Murphy and *Stream Rapids Falls* (1978) by Dave Gearey. These films are true gems of experimental film spanning five decades. The program was curated by Jason Duval, co-founder of Black Rock Arts, and Matt McKinzie, Artistic Director of The Film-Maker's Cooperative. *___________________________________________________________________* *October 2 - 5* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fe3f228ba0&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *BEN RIVERS + JAKE WILLIAMS* Ben Rivers has made films with and about numerous people throughout his career, but one subject he has repeatedly been compelled to return to is the eccentric and self-reliant Jake Williams. Alongside our week-long engagement of Ben Rivers's new film *BOGANCLOCH*, his second feature-length portrait of Williams, we'll be screening the four previous films they have made together: *THIS IS MY LAND* (2006), *I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING* (2009), *TWO YEARS AT SEA* (2011), and *MORE THAN JUST A DRAM* (2014). BEN RIVERS, PGM 1: THIS IS MY LAND + I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=359cd98cfb&e=857b71a9cb> October 2 at 6:45 PM October 4 at 4:45 PM BEN RIVERS, PGM 2: TWO YEARS AT SEA + MORE THAN JUST A DRAM <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bcc4a652a5&e=857b71a9cb> October 2 at 8:15 PM October 5 at 4:00 PM *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2025* *October 3 - 9* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=db7026ccf0&e=857b71a9cb> nightly @ 18:30 & 21:00 (EST), 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *BOGANCLOCH by Ben Rivers* NYC THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! “One conception of cinematic duration involves holding a shot for a long time, even – or especially – when dramatic action is scarcely present. A second form, less frequently deployed but equally a rebuff to a culture obsessed with speed and novelty, is created when a director commits to filming the same subject again and again, over a period of many years. Both come together in *BOGANCLOCH*, Ben Rivers’s return to the boreal existence of Jake Williams, the unassuming star of *THIS IS MY LAND* (2006) and *TWO YEARS AT SEA* (2011). Shot on color and hand-processed black-and-white film using anamorphic lenses, *BOGANCLOCH* is a textured portrait of a man who once travelled the oceans but now chooses to live alone in rural Aberdeenshire, in a home that gives the film its title. It is also, less obviously, a record of the friendship between he and Rivers, a filmmaker who knows that many other worlds can be discovered within this one, far from the madding crowd. Quietly, beguilingly, he shows that solitude is not synonymous with loneliness, and that to the curious gaze the stuff of daily life is alive with memory, magic and dreams.” –Erika Balsom, VIENNALE “Fiercely self-sufficient, Williams has spent decades creating his own private world, one characterized by ritualized labor, the rhythm of the seasons, and his own priorities regarding how to spend his time. In some respects, Williams is an avatar for Rivers’s own filmmaking. Shooting in 16mm, hand-processing his footage, and editing it himself, Rivers is one in a long line of experimental filmmakers who abjure the industrial model in favor of artisanal image and sound creation. Both Rivers and Williams are committed to existence on their own terms, sharing the results with all and sundry.” –Michael Sicinski, IN REVIEW ONLINE “[By] celebrating a way of being stripped down to the bare necessities, Rivers is also celebrating a more elemental approach to cinema, fiercely impervious to the demands of traditional storytelling and wholly open to the kind of wonders that would normally go unseen. With its capacity to wring bliss and beauty out of the most mundane routines, the film approximates something close to what Herzog once called ‘ecstatic truth’ – that mysterious, elusive type of truth that can only be reached through imagination. By the time *BOGANCLOCH* wraps…this tiny corner of the Highlands has become an immense expanse, this shaggy-haired loner a king of infinite space.” –Leonardo Goi, THE FILM STAGE Ben Rivers will be here in person for selected screenings! Distributed by The Cinema Guild. *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5e05317e30&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *DRUNKEN FILM FEST* KNIGHT: MANN'S SPARKS + MASH-UPS Now in its eighth edition, Oakland's Drunken Film Fest remains committed to bringing the year's most creative shorts, too often excluded by traditional industry-centered festivals, to where people are--in bars. Nested in a cozy alt-space with our own modest canteen, OC is honored to host this year's opening event, a “special” West Bay pop-up promising a sumptuous spread of four resonant remixes of contemporary film, TV, and internet material...alternatively cool, clever, and critical. The centerpiece is Ryland Knight's 50-min. homage to the luscious imagery of feature auteur Michael Mann (ten of his titles sampled, from *Thief* to *Blackhat*), whose big-budget scenes are here married to the hypnotic dream-pop of Beach House's *Depression Cherry*–each track of the album supporting a pastiche from another of the ten Mann productions. The opening set is a witty threesome of rather different, “collage-y” pieces: Drew Durepos' evil-bird bricolage *Animal Trials*, Jordan Wong's *Mountain Lodge*--a send-up of inane online commodity fetishism, and Neozoon's *A* *Little Lower than the Angels*--a comic cut-up skewering religious propaganda. DFF director Arlin Golden is here in person to introduce the artist behind our evening's anchor--Knight (Cherokee) is an East Bay writer/director and 2024 Sundance Native Lab Fellow. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4bc552e63e&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=73d68dd799&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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