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*This Week [November 1 - 9, 2025] in Avant Garde Cinema*




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11.07.2025 Coney Island Film Festival
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11.16.2025 Cosmic Rays
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11.30.2025 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants
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11.30.2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival
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12.01.2025 Single Frame
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12.10.2025 Chicago Underground Film Festival
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12.15.2025 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival
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03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
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05.01.2026 Media City Film Festival
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*

This week's programs (summary):

   - Rewind, Replay: Vidéographie
   
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[October
   25 - December 21, Brussels, Belgium]
   - Remote Viewing
   
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[November
   1, New York, NY]
   - Halloween Horror Auteur
   
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[November
   1, San Francisco, CA]
   - Xcèntric: My Tongue Is Lesbian
   
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[November
   2, Barcelona, Spain]
   - Larry Gottheim: Entanglements
   
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[November
   2, Los Angeles, CA]
   - Accordi @ Disaccordi International Short Film Festival
   
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[November
   3-9, Naples, Italy]
   - Larry Gottheim: The Red Thread
   
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[November
   5-7, San Francisco, CA]
   - Diffraction: European Tour
   
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[November
   5-14, Netherlands, France, Spain]
   - Engauge Experimental Film Festival
   
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   [November 6-8, Seattle, WA]
   - BRADLEY EROS: HẎSTÉRY IN EVERY MEDIA
   
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[November
   7-9, New York, NY]
   - Tav Falco Presents A Troika of Sui Generis Films
   
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[November
   7, New York, NY]
   - The Light Out West
   
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[November
   7, San Francisco, CA]
   - 2025 Light Matter Film Festival
   
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[November
   7-9 in Alfred, NY + November 22-23 in Buenos Aires, Argentina]
   - Sisters' Pictures
   
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[November
   8, San Francisco, CA]
   - EC: Hollis Frampton
   
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[November
   9, New York, NY]


*STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2025*

*October 25 - December 21*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
argos
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ongoing,
argos centre for audiovisual arts, Werfstraat 13 Rue du Chantier, 1000
Brussels, Belgium
*Rewind, Replay: Vidéographie*
argos is pleased to welcome you for the official opening of *Rewind,
Replay: Vidéographie*, an exhibition revisiting the revolutionary Belgian
television programme *Vidéographie*, aired on RTBF between 1976 and 1986.

*Vidéographie* transformed public television into a space for artistic
experimentation, cultural debate, and social critique. The exhibition
brings together archival episodes, thematic compilations, and contemporary
works inspired by the programme’s legacy. Throughout its ten years,
*Vidéographie* featured pioneering local and international artists who
shaped the beginnings of video art.

Join us for the festive opening evening on October 25, be among the first
to discover the exhibition, and celebrate with us at argos.

With works by: André Romus, Anne-Françoise Perin, Anne-Marie Miéville,
Annie Lummerzheim, Antonio Muntadas, Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Ben
Vautier, Bernard Secondini, Bill Viola, Boris Lehman, Brigitte Fontaine,
Carole Roussopoulos, Charlotte Moorman, Christiane Philippe, Danièle Nyst,
Delphine Seyrig, Dominique Castronovo, Eddy Luyckx, Edmondo Za, Ed
Emschwiller, Enrique Ahriman, Eva L’Hoest, Frank Van Herck, Fred Forest,
Giuseppe Chiari, Henri Vaume, Herbert Wentscher, Ioanna Wieder, Jacques
Charlier, Jacques Delcuvellerie, Jacques Lederlin, Jacques Lizène,
Jacques-Louis Nyst, Janos Urban, Jean Otth, Jean-Claude Riga, Jean-Luc
Godard, Jean-Paul Tréfois, Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Jean-Pierre et Luc
Dardenne, Joan Jonas, John Cage, Joëlle de La Casinière, Koen Theys, Laurie
Anderson, Léonce Wapelhorst, Marcelle Imhauser, Marie André, Marie-Jo
Lafontaine, Michael Klier, Michael Laub, Michel Bonnemaison, Michel
Jaffrennou, Michèle Blondeel, Monika Funke Stern, Nadja Ringart, Nam June
Paik, Nan Hoover, Nicole Widart, Patrick Van Antwerpen, Patti Smith, Paul
Paquay, Pierre Schaeffer, Ronald Dagonnier, Theo Naniot, Thierry Michel,
Vincent Blanchet, Vito Acconci, William Wegman, Wolf Vostell

Co-organisor: SONUMA - Les Archives audiovisuelles: Virginie Vandeputte,
Sandra Bettiol, Maria Dias Pereira, Laurent Golia

Partners: Space Collection: Aurélie Frankenne, Genaro Marcos, Alain De
Clerck. With contributions from Marc-Emmanuel Mélon. Beaux-Arts de Liège:
Ronald Dagonnier, Dominique Castronovo. De Vlaamse Overheid, de VGC Vlaamse
Gemeenschapscommissie

Thanks to: Electronic Arts Intermix: Rebecca Cleman, Kelly Filreis, Karl
McCool, Jooyoung Park, Matos Museum: Pascal Becker

*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*REMOTE VIEWING*
“Remote Viewing” is a screening program that examines how contemporary
artists employ moving images to render psychic phenomena, altered states of
perception, and metaphysical dimensions of consciousness. Grounded in the
strategies of experimental cinema, the selected works draw on trance,
telepathy, memory fracture, and ritual transformation, reconceiving the
screen not as a passive surface, but as a psychic interface through which
time, voice, and identity are disassembled and reconfigured into new
perceptual architectures.

The title references “remote viewing,” a Cold War-era term for extrasensory
perception conducted across distance. While formalized within military and
parapsychological research during the 1970s, its conceptual lineage extends
further, entwined with modern psychology, hypnotic trance, spirit
communication, occult practice, and early scientific inquiries into the
unconscious. Reframed here as both historical reference and curatorial
metaphor, it positions consciousness as a medium that traverses spatial,
temporal, and affective thresholds.

This program presents a focused selection from the forthcoming exhibition
at MoNTUE, Taipei (2026), featuring works by Tony Oursler, Ho Tzu Nyen, Sky
Hopinka, Jeremy Shaw, and Hsu Che-Yu, among others.

Guest-programmed by Alice, Nienpu Ko.

Tony Oursler *HELENE SMITH* (2024, 8 min, digital)
Ho Tzu Nyen *O FOR OPIUM* (2023, 12.5 min, digital)
Sky Hopinka *I’LL REMEMBER YOU AS YOU WERE, NOT AS WHAT YOU’LL BECOME* (2016,
12.5 min, digital)
Jeremy Shaw *LIMINALS* (2017, 31.5 min, digital)
Hsu Che-Yu *CATASTROPHISM* (2025, 13 min, digital. In Mandarin with English
subtitles.)

Total running time: ca. 80 min.

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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*HALLOWEEN HORROR AUTEUR*
AN EVENING WITH RODNEY ASCHER

Many of us came to know and love Rodney a couple decades back when he moved
from Miami to San Francisco, and proceeded to impress larger and larger
audiences with his sharp wit, his emotional range, and his outrageous
cinematic talent. But it wasn't long before his special fusion of genre
savviness and contemporary pop-cult dread took him to Hollywood, which he
similarly awed with even more masterful re-animations of classic narrative
modes into the up-to-date stylizations of psychological horror seen in
his *Room
237*, *The Nightmare*, and *A Glitch in the Matrix*. The time has finally
come when the dark visionary's woefully underseen art-films are readily
available and appreciated in an incredibly rich program of the mature
auteur's shorts...in fact perfect for our annual Halloween haunting. Here
in the flesh, Mr. Ascher himself leads the evening's deep dive over the
edge of modern film angst, including his infamous *The S from Hell*, *Visions
of Terror*, *Primal Screen*, *The First Ventriloquist*, a music video, a
collaboration with Doris Wishman(!), and our own 16mm monster mash. Come in
costume for Tricks AND Treats!!

*SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
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18:30 (CET),
Carrer de Montalegre, 5 08001 Barcelona, España
*Xcèntric: My Tongue is Lesbian*
Beyond their differences, the cinematic poetics of Barbara Hammer and
Sandra Lahire share the same radical question: how do we position the body
in the struggles (and care) running through the intimate and the shared?
This programme runs alongside the two Aula Xcèntric talks, aimed at the
publics of Barbara Hammer (4 November) and the cinema of Sandra Lahire (18
November).

In the seventies, Barbara Hammer was a pioneer in exploring radically
lesbian and feminist themes, sensibilities and forms in cinema. Along with
films that document the struggle for the political, psychological and
sexual emancipation of women, her cinema takes the body (her own and that
of friends, colleagues and lovers) as a starting point for empathetic,
affirmative and intensely lyrical meditations on intimacy and lesbian
pleasure (as in *Sync Touch* and *Double Strength*), and female communities
(which in *Sappho* take the mythological form of collective prayer). By way
of an intermission in the session, the reactions of different spectators to
Hammer’s films, documented in *Audience*, consider whether the cinema can
be a space for recognition, contact and shared desire.

In the Conservative England of the 1980s and ‘90s, Sandra Lahire also
worked with her own body to expose the polymorphic violences of the
capitalist patriarchy. Her first film, *Arrows*, is an eclectic exploration
of anorexia and the obsessive awareness of the body’s fragility, while *Night
Dances* adapts Sylvia Plath’s poem of the same name to create a meticulous
musical montage that evokes the spectral nature of death, family, religion
and love. An excerpt from an unfinished project by Lahire, *Eerie* is the
briefest evocation of an interplay of glances and desires.

*Sappho*, Barbara Hammer, 1978, 16 mm, 7 min
*Sync Touch*, B. Hammer, 1981, 10 min
*Double Strength*, B. Hammer, 1978, 15 min
*Audience*, B. Hammer, 1983, 32 min
*Arrows*, Sandra Lahire, 1984, 16 min
*Night Dances*, S. Lahire, 1995, 16 min
*Eerie*, S. Lahire, 1992, 1 min

Digital screening, original version with Catalan subtitles. Copies of
Hammer courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, and copies of
Lahire by LUX, London. A programme by Carlos Saldaña with contributions by
Mireia Montané. Participants: Carlos Saldaña, Mireia Montané Guitart.
Directors: Barbara Hammer, Sandra Lahire

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Los Angeles Filmforum
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19:30 (PST),
2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA
*Larry Gottheim: Entanglements*
Renowned filmmaker Larry Gottheim returns to Los Angeles Filmforum with a
classic film and the LA premieres of two new digital works!

Larry Gottheim taught film-making and cinema aesthetics at Binghamton
University until 1998. This was a program he started in the late 1960’s,
the first regular undergraduate program dealing with film as a personal
art. His early silent films such as *FOG LINE*, *DOORWAY*, *BARN RUSHES*
are widely known. In the 1970’s he made *ELECTIVE AFFINITIES*, a set of 4
long films that explore complex relationships between sound and image.
While still formal and concerned with sound and image, some later films
include material that would ordinarily be seen in a documentary mode (*MACHETE
GILETTE*.... *MAMA*.) His many years’ involvement with Vodou in Haiti led
to a video work *CHANTS AND DANCES FOR HAND*. His works have been included
in numerous museums, festivals and other venues throughout the world.

*Natural Selection* 1983, 16mm transferred to digital, color, sound, 35 min
*Entanglement* 2022, video, color, sound, 24 min. Los Angeles premiere!
*A Private Room* 2024, video, color, sound, 10 min.  Los Angeles premiere!

*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2025* *November 3 - 9*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
accordi @ DISACCORDI International Short Film Festival
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*accordi @ DISACCORDI International Short Film Festival*
accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival celebrates its
22nd anniversary on November 3-9, 2025, and welcomes filmmakers,
professionals, and enthusiasts from across the world, to share the art of
independent short films with the local audience, to entertain and enlighten
the festival attendees, to provide filmmakers the opportunity for
professional networking and development, and to encourage cultural tourism
and film industry development in Naples and the surrounding area in
Campania.

accordi @ DISACCORDI is dedicated to fiction and documentary short films,
short animated, experimental, and research films. The main aim of the event
is to promote and support talented emerging directors, and independent
cinematographers, with an eye to new visual languages and new ways of
expression resulting from experimentation, aesthetic research, expressive
originality, innovation, and productive independence. The main objective of
the festival is to be a privileged observatory of the new forms,
perspectives, and artistic trends of "Short Cinema".

The format of the festival, structured in a wide and diversified program,
provides that the screenings of the presented works are accompanied by
close meetings with their authors, producers, actors in the presence of
lovers of the seventh art, professionals in the film industry, industry
experts and cultural operators in an informal atmosphere. Over the years
the event has been enriched by a rich program of cultural activities
consisting of laboratories, seminars, conferences, and workshops with
universities and schools; exhibitions, masterclasses, and special events,
focus on recent film productions of countries or geographical areas and on
issues of pressing current events. The entrance to cultural events is free
of charge. Special attention is devoted to the competitive section on
environmental issues on eco-sustainability, respect for and protection of
the environment, good ecological practices, and climate change.

*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2025* *November 5 - 7*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
San Francisco Cinematheque
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*Larry Gottheim: The Red Thread*
“Early on, Gottheim […] challenged us to rethink our conventional
experiences with filmgoing: basically, to start over by deepening and
broadening our perception of what the elements of celluloid cinema were and
how they could be used. Now, half a century later, his film
*Entanglement* (2022)
is a kind of meta-haiku that challenges us to work at comprehending, as
best we can, the media-saturated world of the 21st century that we are all
awash in.” (Scott MacDonald, from *The Read Thread: Larry Gottheim and His
Films*)

Among the meanings of The Red Thread are the connections that run from one
film to the next, and the threads that run from the films to issues of
biography, philosophy, psychology, film theory, social issues, ritual and
ceremony. (Larry Gottheim)

Working in film since the late 1960s, the cinema of Larry Gottheim is an
observational cinema, rewarding contemplation, stillness and active
intellectual engagement and offering uncannily commonplace imagery rife
with elusive metaphor and/or accumulating into densely immersive conceptual
conundra. In Gottheim’s films, time slows, hesitates and seems to move in
novel and non-linear directions, the circularity of experience a recurring
aspect of the master filmmaker’s rich body of work. Gottheim’s recent
book, *The
Red Thread: Larry Gottheim and His Films* (published 2024 by Eyewash Books
and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative) is a ruminative and musing
career-spanning culmination, teasing out longitudinal threads and uncanny
occurrences in the oeuvre, presenting the artists’ body of work as a
multi-faceted whole, a throughline of thought and material-based philosophy.

In celebration of *The Read Thread*, Cinematheque is honored to present a
three-program residency presenting selections from the artist’s vast body
of work, from early single-shot films, still lifes and nature studies to
the complex sound/image constructions of later work to the very recent
films completed 2019–2024. This series is presented in partnership with the
Roxie Theater, Gray Area and Shapeshifters Cinema with Larry Gottheim in
person at all screenings. (Steve Polta)

--- Nov 5 @ 6pm PT - Program One: Introduction & Early Works ---
THE ROXIE THEATER
3117 Sixteenth Street (at Valencia)
San Francisco, CA

Cinematheque’s three-part series commences with an early evening
interactive presentation of three of the artist’s iconic single-shot early
works and the later, semi-autobiographical titular film The Red Thread,
filmed in mid-1980s San Francisco. All works screened in 16mm.

*Corn* (1970); 16mm, color, silent, 11 minutes.
*Fog Line* (1970); 16mm, color, silent, 11 minutes.
*Harmonica* (1971); 16mm, color, sound, 11 minutes.
*The Red Thread* (1987); 16mm, color, sound, 17 minutes.


--- Nov 6 @ 7:30pm PT - Program Two: The Garden is Closed—Mnemosyne + Tree
of Knowledge ---
GRAY AREA / GRAND THEATER
2665 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA

The Red Thread series centerpiece features two mid-period masterworks which
confound the linear experience of time through complex reversals,
repetitions and elaborate restructurings of sound/image relationships,
films in which time runs backward and forwards at the same time, reflective
films pondering paranoia, remembrance, grief, childhood and aging. (Steve
Polta)

*Mnemosyne Mother of Muses* (1986) by Larry Gottheim; 16mm screened as
digital video, color, sound, 18 minutes.
*Tree of Knowledge (Elective Affinities, Part 4)* (1980) by Larry Gottheim;
16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, 60 minutes.


--- Nov 7 @ 7pm PT - Program Three: Knots & Entanglements ---
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA
567 5th Street
Oakland, CA

Cinematheque’s whirlwind survey of Larry Gottheim’s works wraps at
Shapeshifters Cinema with later period films and recent digital videos,
each a dense and sensorially confrontational collage of off-the-cuff
cinematography and/or collaborative encounter, from *"Sorry/Hear Us"* (1984),
an open-ended group project exploring temporal and linguistic reversal to
recent digital works *Entanglement* (2022) and *A Private Room* (2024),
each a confounding rebus-like audio/visual puzzlment. (Steve Polta)

*Thought* (1970) by Larry Gottheim; 16mm screened as digital video, color,
silent, 8 minutes.
*“Sorry/Hear Us”* (1986) by Larry Gottheim; 16mm screened as digital video,
b&w, sound, 8 minutes.
*Entanglement* (2022) by Larry Gottheim; digital video, color sounds, 24
minutes.
*A Private Room* (2024) by Larry Gottheim; digital video, color, sound, 10
minutes.

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*November 5 - 14*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
la lumière collective
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WORM (Rotterdam, PB) ; L’Etna (Montreuil, FR) ; Atelier MTK / le 102
(Grenoble, FR) ; Dodeskaden (Marseille, FR) ; Alternativa Festival
(Barcelone, ESP)
*DIFFRACTION: European Tour*
Presented by la lumière collective and proposed by co-director Emma Roufs,
DIFFRACTION is an experimental cinema program that invites viewers to
discover the work of six Montreal-based artists who constantly question
their relationship with the moving image.

In the first part, viewers discover six short 16mm films by Samy Benammar,
Charles-André Coderre, Emma Roufs, Malena Szlam, Benjamin R.Taylor and Erin
Weisgerber. The films offer a sensitive, visceral, photochemical and analog
experience, in which we find life through film, and film as an integral
part of life. By foregrounding nature and the body, this program emphasizes
the material gestures of creation on photochemical film.

This 30-minute film programme is followed by *MORAINE*, a 30-minute live
cinema performance by Erin Weisgerber (of Jerusalem in My Heart)
accompanied by an electronic soundtrack composed by SUUNS drummer Liam
O’Neil.

*Dans les cieux et sur la terre *| Erin Weisgerber | 2022 | 16mm |
color-b&w | sound | 12 mins
*kauaʻi ʻōʻō *| Samy Benammar | 2023 | Super 8 to 16mm | color | sound | 3
mins
*Lunar Almanac* | Malena Szlam | 2013 | 16mm | color | silent | 4 mins
*spring rebirth at Source du Pêcher* | Emma Roufs | 2024 | Super 8 > 16mm |
sound | 1 min 40
*A Film About A Man Of A Certain Age* | Benjamin R. Taylor | 2023 | 16mm |
b&w | sound | 5 mins 30
*Fractures chimiques ON/OFF* | Charles-André Coderre & Mathieu Arsenault |
2024 | 16mm | color-b&w | sound | 6 mins
MORAINE | 30 minutes | Erin Weisgerber | Accompanied by an electronic
soundtrack of subtly evolving rhythmic patterns composed by SUUNS drummer
Liam O’Neil, Weisgerber forges a tight audio-visual experience as she
performs live manipulations across four 16mm projectors and an
ever-evolving series of handmade film loops.

11.05.2025 WORM
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(Rotterdam, PB)
11.07.2025 L’Etna
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(Montreuil, FR)
11.10.2025 Atelier MTK / le 102
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(Grenoble, FR)
11.11.2025 Dodeskaden
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(Marseille, FR)
11.14.2025 Alternativa Festival
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(Barcelone, ESP)

*THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Interbay Cinema Society
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times vary, see below,
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA
*Engauge Experimental Film Festival*
🎞 Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film. 🎞
The 8th Engauge Experimental Film Festival celebrates sprocket-driven,
artist-made experimental film, presenting six programs of shorts over three
nights at NWFF’s cinema in Capitol Hill. All work featured in the festival
originates on film stock. The festival closes with a program of ten films,
featuring original compositions performed live by Lori Goldston.

History/Memory/Archive
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- Thu Nov 06: 7.00pm PDT
Embodied Landscapes
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- Fri Nov 07: 4.30pm PDT
Bodies in Space and Time
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- Fri Nov 07: 7.30pm PDT
A Panoply of Techniques
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- Sat Nov 08: 3.30pm PDT
In Situ
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- Sat Nov 08: 5.30pm PDT
Sound/Light/Movement: Solo Cello + Handmade Film featuring Lori Goldston
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- Sat Nov 08: 7.30pm PDT

*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2025* *November 7 - 9*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*BRADLEY EROS: HẎSTÉRY IN EVERY MEDIA*
This fall, Anthology celebrates the moving-image work of the one and only
Bradley Eros, who for the past 50 years has been one of the presiding
spirits of downtown NYC underground culture. Eros’s contributions to the
experimental film community have been as unquantifiable as they are
enormous. Above and beyond his visible production as a filmmaker, artist,
and curator – not to mention as a longtime staff member of Anthology, where
he has played a crucial role in sustaining the institution, both
practically and philosophically – he has played the more invisible role of
catalyzing agent, inspiring generations of experimental filmmakers with his
boundless energy, enthusiasm, creativity, inventiveness, and knowledge, and
his radically welcoming spirit.

In the wake of his recent exhibition at Microscope Gallery, we present
three programs surveying his film, video, and expanded cinema work,
including his collaborations with Aline Mare, Jeanne Liotta, and many other
collaborators past and present. In keeping with Eros’s gleefully multimedia
approach, the screenings will encompass films, digital works, projector
performances, slideshows, and more!

“Bradley Eros is a mediamystic maverick, who prefers the night & the
perfume of eau de cinema. Eros is an artist-catalyst actively involved in
diverse aspects of the New York underground, working with myriad media –
experimental film & video, collage, photography, poetry, performance,
sound, text, installation, expanded & contracted cinema – as well as a
curator, designer, researcher, composer & investigator. Concepts include:
Mediamystics, Optipus, ephemeral cinema, Erotic Psyche, subterranean
science, Vampÿrates, Mushroom Archive, Ocula, cinema povera, metaBody,
poetic accidents, fragmentstein, musique plastique, Oysters of the Id,
Narcolepsy Cinema, Artaud-Butoh, The Owl of Minerva, Velvet Hermetic
System, Imageless Film & Black Hole Cinema.” –Bradley Eros

November 7 at 7:30 PM BRADLEY EROS, PGM 1: BRADLEY EROS / JEANNE LIOTTA:
MEDIAMYSTICS
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Filmmakers Coop
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18:00 (EST),
475 Park Ave South, 6th floor, New York, NY
*Tav Falco Presents A Troika of Sui Generis Films*
Legendary musician, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Tav Falco (whose
moving image work recently joined the collection of The Film-Makers'
Cooperative) visits the FMC Screening Room to present a troika of sui
generis films, including his avant-garde feature THE URANIA TRILOGY.

*Navigators* by Noah Teichner (2022) 35mm-to-digital, 85 minutes
*The Violinist* by Winsome Brown (2009) 16mm-to-digital, 44 minutes
*The Urania Trilogy* by Tav Falco (2024) 16mm-to-digital, 129 minutes

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
San Francisco Cinematheque
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12pm PT,
BRAVA THEATER CENTER 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
*The Light Out West*
Screendance and Bay Area Avant-Garde Cinema 1940s–1950s

Presented in association with the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and
ChromaDiverse

This screening and presentation features works that synthesize the
languages of dance and film that emerged from the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art’s Art in Cinema screenings in the mid-1940s.

The Light Out West takes audiences on a journey into post-World War II San
Francisco, illuminating how early dance film evolved alongside the West
Coast experimental film movement and how choreographic approaches
manifested in experimental film forms. The screening will also serve as a
call to action to raise awareness about art archival initiatives in light
of the closure of longstanding arts archives & institutions in the San
Francisco Bay Area, and focus on the work of marginalized filmmakers whose
work was often disregarded in their day.

The program will be preceded by a contextual introduction by SFDFF Staff
member Clare Schweitzer, whose article Lone Mountain College’s San
Francisco Dance Film Festival 1976-1978 was published in the most recent
edition of the International Journal of Screendance.

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*Introspection* (1941/1946) by Sara Kathryn Arledge, 6 minutes;
*Triptych* (1950) by Padgett Payne, 9 minutes;
*Horror Dream* (1946) by Sidney Peterson, 10 minutes;
*Clinic of Stumble* (1947) by Sidney Peterson, 16 minutes;
*Hangar* (1957) by William Heick, 7 minutes

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*November 7 - 9 in Alfred + November 22-23 in Buenos Aires*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Light Matter Film Festival
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see website for details,
November 7-9, Nevins Theater, Alfred, NY, USA
November 22-23, Kino Palais, Buenos Aires, Argentina
*2025 Light Matter Film Festival*
"A major East coast showcase of experimental film and video," Light Matter
proudly announces programs for the fifth annual festival, to run as an
international co-production.

12 world premieres, 26 North/South American premieres, 10 New York
premieres, and 5 Argentina premieres. Light Matter is programmed by James
Hansen.

*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT, ATA
Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*SISTERS' PICTURES*
SACHS' SNEAK-PEEK/BOOK-LAUNCH + QUILLIAN +

We are oh-so-lucky to host the most lovely presence of thee queen of
contemporary film-essay, Lynne Sachs! Returning to the site of her very
earliest retrospective, Lynne blesses the first section of our semi-annual
SisPix with an hour of her engaged oeuvre: Beginning with a brief reading
from her *Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of
Laundry*--even another perfect-bound bundle of Lynne's image-text
brilliance--she proceeds with *The Washing Society* cine-excerpt that best
complements that new release, then clothes-pins her abortion-rights-ritual
short *Contractions* to our riveted line-of-sight, and closes her Artist's
Talk with a few choice chapters from her forthcoming feature, *Every
Contact Leaves a Trace*. Tonight's second set of women's work is
constituted by a quintet of feminist films that parlay personal insights
into the public sphere: Shapeshifter Kathleen Quillian's *Wildflower
Season* considers
her daughters' comings-of-age, Virginia's Sasha Waters' *Fragile* picks up
the thread, correlating a parallel trajectory into one's middle-age,
Sacramento State's Jenny Stark spatializes the metaphor with her *Where
Your Road Ends, Mine Begins*, Caribbean-based Karla Betancourt's *New
Indigo Wave* extols the organic plant-based inks of Oaxaca, Mexico, and
East Bay artiste Kate Dollemayer's 16mm *Cycladic Thermometer* imagines
female figurines from ancient Greece as possible agents for healing the
wounds of the world.

*SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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4:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: HOLLIS FRAMPTON*

*ZORNS LEMMA* (1970, 60 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
“A major poetic work. Created and put together by a very clear eye-head,
this original and complex abstract work moves beyond the letters of the
alphabet, beyond words and beyond Freud. If you don’t understand it the
first time you see it, don’t despair, see it again! When you finally ‘get
it,’ a small light, possibly a candle, will light itself inside your
forehead.” –Ernie Gehr

*HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia)* (1971, 36 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives, MoMA, and the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation
Program, with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.)
“In *(nostalgia)* the time it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus
confirm its two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while
Frampton plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating,
mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them
both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of his
earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic, mathematics, and
physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors for most of
Frampton’s films.” –P. Adams Sitney

Total running time: ca. 100 min

*ONGOING*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Riverwest Radio
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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!!!

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Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
6x6 Project
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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.





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