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Rewind, Replay: Vidéographie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ddfafa9f6f&e=857b71a9cb> [October 25 - December 21, Brussels, Belgium] - Accordi @ Disaccordi International Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=45abbd073a&e=857b71a9cb> [November 3-9, Naples, Italy] - Diffraction: European Tour <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3b36f41df2&e=857b71a9cb> [November 5-14, Netherlands, France, Spain] - Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0a23cc25f0&e=857b71a9cb> [November 6-8, Seattle, WA] - BRADLEY EROS: HẎSTÉRY IN EVERY MEDIA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b62c86017e&e=857b71a9cb> [November 7-9, New York, NY] - 2025 Light Matter Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=965c15599d&e=857b71a9cb> [November 7-9 in Alfred, NY + November 22-23 in Buenos Aires, Argentina] - Sisters' Pictures <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=238e668a77&e=857b71a9cb> [November 8, San Francisco, CA] - EC: Hollis Frampton <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=44801e584b&e=857b71a9cb> [November 9, New York, NY] - Jordan Belson By Raymond Foye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ab83b33f1&e=857b71a9cb> [November 10 + 24, Cambridge, MA] - French Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=25bc9fff83&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13-30, Tokyo, Japan] - Ann Deborah Levy: Illusions <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de324c2a41&e=857b71a9cb> [November 14, New York, NY] - Wintertime Fun And Safety <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ef48af455d&e=857b71a9cb> [November 15, Hillsborough, NC] - Avant To Live: Becker + Scott + New Experimental Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=52990c5e45&e=857b71a9cb> [November 15, San Francisco, CA] - Helga Fanderl: Monna Lisa <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a37f428f75&e=857b71a9cb> [November 15-December 12, Trieste, Italy] - Filmforum At 50, Program 1: Classics of Los Angeles Experimental Film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=47ee078361&e=857b71a9cb> [November 16, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e5d8117d13&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9b02caa983&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025* *October 25 - December 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* argos <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=647f9c805b&e=857b71a9cb> 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 *___________________________________________________________________* *November 3 - 9* Venue type: *Live, physical event* accordi @ DISACCORDI International Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=590565cd65&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see link above, locations vary, see link above *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. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 5 - 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* la lumière collective <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7bbaabf24e&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see FB event <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ab7184bbac&e=857b71a9cb> 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 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0116094255&e=857b71a9cb> (Rotterdam, PB) 11.07.2025 L’Etna <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f0816a6b04&e=857b71a9cb> (Montreuil, FR) 11.10.2025 Atelier MTK / le 102 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=704c4beaa2&e=857b71a9cb> (Grenoble, FR) 11.11.2025 Dodeskaden <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3f0053dfb9&e=857b71a9cb> (Marseille, FR) 11.14.2025 Alternativa Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ea9a1111ac&e=857b71a9cb> (Barcelone, ESP) *___________________________________________________________________* *November 6 - 8* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Interbay Cinema Society <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=617a441164&e=857b71a9cb> 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 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b11917fae0&e=857b71a9cb> - Thu Nov 06: 7.00pm PDT Embodied Landscapes <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4126815b0f&e=857b71a9cb> - Fri Nov 07: 4.30pm PDT Bodies in Space and Time <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=89e7ec93a8&e=857b71a9cb> - Fri Nov 07: 7.30pm PDT A Panoply of Techniques <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=500408305a&e=857b71a9cb> - Sat Nov 08: 3.30pm PDT In Situ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05e4e3a90a&e=857b71a9cb> - Sat Nov 08: 5.30pm PDT Sound/Light/Movement: Solo Cello + Handmade Film featuring Lori Goldston <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b015549ceb&e=857b71a9cb> - Sat Nov 08: 7.30pm PDT *___________________________________________________________________* *November 7 - 9* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e36f8c9dc&e=857b71a9cb> 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 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3c4d131803&e=857b71a9cb> November 8 at 7:00 PM BRADLEY EROS, PGM 2: EROS & OTHERS: COLLABORATIONS 1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0220593ed4&e=857b71a9cb> November 8 at 9:30 PM BRADLEY EROS, PGM 3: EROS & OTHERS: COLLABORATIONS 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5722a35fbb&e=857b71a9cb> November 9 at 7:30 PM BRADLEY EROS, PGM 4: EROS.ION: SOLO WORKS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=31d1008218&e=857b71a9cb> *___________________________________________________________________* *November 7 - 9 in Alfred + November 22-23 in Buenos Aires* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Light Matter Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e5ff9f74dc&e=857b71a9cb> 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 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0720bce9ee&e=857b71a9cb> 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 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ae2b0a9ef7&e=857b71a9cb> 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 *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2025* *November 10 + 24* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Harvard Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ee1d768899&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm EST, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA *Jordan Belson by Raymond Foye* The works of independent filmmaker and visual artist Jordan Belson (1926-2011) are much discussed but seldom seen. His early influences were the Non-Objective artists, including mentors Oskar Fischinger and Rudolf Bauer. A devoted student of Kabbalah, Indian mysticism and yoga, Belson explored these subjects in his art over the course of six decades. His films bring aesthetic, spiritual and sensual experiences to the viewer, reflecting his deep interest in sacred art, cosmology and cosmogenesis. While Jordan Belson is best known for making films, he also made a significant body of two-dimensional art from the 1940s until his death in 2011, consisting of hundreds of individual works. Independent curator and scholar Raymond Foye has organized three one-person exhibitions of Belson at the Matthew Marks Gallery (New York) and is supervising a comprehensive photochemical and digital restoration project of the films, on behalf of the Belson estate. Raymond Foye will present and discuss two evenings of films, images and rare audio recordings of Belson. At the vanguard of the Berkeley Renaissance and San Francisco Beat scene from the late 1940s, Belson worked closely alongside his friends Harry Smith and Bruce Conner throughout the 1950s, including visits to New York. Like Smith, he received support and patronage from Hilla Rebay, one of the founders of the Guggenheim Museum, where Belson had his first exhibition. Belson's 1957-1959 "Vortex Concerts," staged with sound artist Henry Jacobs at the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco, were an important influence on the multimedia "expanded cinema" of the 1960s, as was his singular film work. In the late 1970s Belson renounced all public involvement in the worlds of art and film, and began a fruitful period of near-seclusion, which he maintained until his death. A Guggenheim Fellow and Ford Foundation Fellow, Belson also twice received American Film Institute grants. New 16mm prints from the Harvard Film Archive collection (acquired from the Estate of Jordan Belson) will be screened, in addition to a selection of 16mm-to-DCP films currently under preservation. --- Program ONE - November 10 @ 7pm --- *Allures*, 1961, 16mm, color, 9 min. *Cosmos*, 1969, 16mm, color, 5 min. *World*, 1970, 16mm, color, 6 min. *Light*, 1973, 16mm, color, 8 min. *Cycles*, co-directed with Steven Beck, 1975, 16mm, color, 10 min. *Mandala*, 1953, DCP, color, 3 min. *Autobiography (excerpts)*, 1951, DCP, black & white, silent, 10 min. --- Program TWO - November 24 @ 7pm --- *Re-Entry*, 1964, 16mm, color, 6 min. *Phenomena*, 1965, 16mm, color, 6 min. *Samadhi*, 1967, 16mm, color, 6 min. *Momentum*, 1968, 16mm, color, 6 min. *Meditation*, 1971, 16mm, color, 7 min. *Chakra*, 1972, 16mm, color, 6 min. *Music of the Spheres*, 1977, 16mm, color, 10 min. *Infinity*, 1979, 16mm, color, 8 min. *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2025* *November 13 - 30* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Institut Français, Tokyo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=73ca3e46fa&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see link above, Image Gallery of the French Institute of Tokyo, 15 Ichigaya Funagawaracho, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, Japan *Festival Cinéma Expérimental Français 2025* We present French experimental cinema in the company of Pip Chodorow, founder and director of the RE:VOIR label (www.re-voir.com), which showcases experimental films from around the world, from classics to contemporary works. In addition to screenings, talks and discussions are also planned. What is experimental cinema? These are films that challenge the viewer and open their eyes to new ways of seeing. Films that reject traditional narrative, push the boundaries of the medium, and find new means of expression. France has a long history and a deep relationship with cinema. The first forms of documentary (Lumière) and fiction (Méliès) were produced in France. Dadaist and Surrealist films were shot and distributed in France in the 1920s. The 1950s were particularly rich in creative output with the Lettrist movement, as were the 1970s, which saw the birth of the first filmmakers' cooperatives. The French Institute presents a series of experimental films that illustrate the full scope of this history. Pip Chodorov's *Free Radicals* offers a glimpse into the early decades of experimental cinema. Isidore Isou's *Treatise on Slime and Eternity* (1951) is a manifesto for radical creativity in filmmaking. Patrick Bokanowski's *The Angel* (1982) explores, over several years, new animation and composition techniques. Marcel Hanoun's films are meta-narrative attempts to integrate the filmmaking process into fiction. Peter Goldman (with Godard's support) and Adolpho Arrietta (supported by Duras) drew inspiration from the French avant-garde and the New Wave and came to France to produce their melancholic feature films. This series offers an overview of the diverse modes of independent film production in France. Now 13 @ 6:30PM GMT+9: *Free Radicals, a history of experimental cinema* / Pip Chodorov / France / 2010 / 82min / color Nov 14 @ 4:30PM GMT+9: *L'Ange*, Patrick Boganowski / France / 1977-1982 / 64min/ color & *The Atelier of Peter Boganowski* / Pip Chodorov / 2017 / 27min / color Nov 14 @ 7PM GMT+9: *Flammes* / Adolpho Arrietta / France / 1982 / 87min / color Nov 15 @ 11AM GMT+9: *L'Eté cycle des saisons* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1968 / 64min / B&W Nov 15 @ 1PM GMT+9: *L’Hiver cycle des saisons* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1969 / 78min / B&W Nov 15 @ 3PM GMT+9: *Le Printemps cycle des saisons* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1970 / 78min / couleur / B&W Nov 15 @ 5PM GMT+9: *L’Automne cycle des saisons* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1972 / 75min Nov 15 @ 7PM GMT+9: *Octobre à Madrid* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1964 / 63min / B&W Nov 16 @ 12:15PM GMT+9: *Free Radicals, a history of experimental cinema* / Pip Chodorov / France / 2010 / 82min / color Nov 16 @ 2:30PM GMT+9: *Une simple histoire* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1958 / 64min / B&W Nov 16 @ 4:30PM GMT+9: *Echoes of Silence* / Peter Emanuel Goldman / United States / 1964 / 74min Nov 16 @ 7PM GMT+9: *Wheel of Ashes* / Peter Emanuel Goldman / United States-France / 1968 / 95min Nov 21 @ 4:30PM GMT+9: *Wheel of Ashes* / Peter Emanuel Goldman / United States-France / 1968 / 95min Nov 21 @ 7PM GMT+9: *Echoes of Silence* / Peter Emanuel Goldman / United States / 1964 / 74min Nov 28 @ 4:30PM GMT+9: *Octobre à Madrid* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1964 / 63min / B&W Nov 28 @ 6:30PM GMT+9: *Le Traité de bave et d’éternité* / Isidore Isou / France / 1951 / 120 min / B&W Nov 29 @ 11AM GMT+9: *Une simple histoire* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1958 / 64min / B&W Nov 29 @ 1PM GMT+9: *L'Eté cycle des saisons* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1968 / 64min / B&W Nov 29 @ 3PM GMT+9: *L’Hiver cycle des saisons* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1969 / 78min / B&W Nov 29 @ 5PM GMT+9: *Le Printemps cycle des saisons* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1970 / 78min / couleur / B&W Nov 29 @ 7PM GMT+9: *L’Automne cycle des saisons* / Marcel Hanoun / France / 1972 / 75min Nov 30 @ 12:15PM GMT+9: *L'Ange*, Patrick Boganowski / France / 1977-1982 / 64min/ color & *The Atelier of Peter Boganowski* / Pip Chodorov / 2017 / 27min / color Nov 30 @ 3PM GMT+9: *Flammes* / Adolpho Arrietta / France / 1982 / 87min / color Nov 30 @ 5:30PM GMT+9: *Le Traité de bave et d’éternité* / Isidore Isou / France / 1951 / 120 min / B&W *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmmakers Coop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c3a52b4ca6&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (EST), 475 Park Ave South, 6th floor, New York, NY *Ann Deborah Levy: Illusions* A program of illusory, water-themed films by visual artist Ann Deborah Levy. The filmmaker will be in attendance to discuss her work and answer audience members’ questions. The centerpiece of the program consists of two 16mm films, Levy's 52 minute *WATERSCAPE: illusions* and the shorter *Watercolors*, 13 minutes, both 2007; in which she began explorations in two directions that influenced all of the films she has made since. WATERSCAPE, set on a mysterious wilderness lake and seemingly about filming swans and swan mythology, is a meditation on illusion and reality and filmmaking as myth-making. In Watercolors, shot on the same location, Levy zeroes in on the reflections on the surface of the water that play a part in *WATERSCAPE*, engaging light, color, texture and rhythm, to show what these reflected images reveal and distort of the surrounding location. Her later digital films, *Rain Painting*, 6 minutes, 2014, and *WATER FALLS, New York City*, 12 minutes, 2019, continue her visual investigations but also illustrate how the camera, depending on where it focuses, plays a role in how her images are created. While plumbing the fluidic and illusory possibilities of the surface image and layers of perception, Levy invites viewers to superimpose their own visions and associations onto the canvas of her work. The program will conclude with the two later digital works by Levy. *Rain Painting* conveys rain striking car windows and “painting” the landscape beyond, thereby re-imagining the external environment in a variety of moods, colors, and abstract patterns. *WATER FALLS, New York City* reimagines the traditional “city symphony,” wherein the camera captures impressionistic paintings made by water falling, flying, and flowing from New York City fountains. *Watercolors*, 2007, silent, original format 16mm film, 13 minutes *Rain Painting*, 2014, HD video, 6 minutes *WATER FALLS, New York City,* 2019, HD video, 12 minutes *WATERSCAPE: illusions, *52 minutes, original format 16mm film, 52 minutes *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Eno House <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=468bd013a3&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, Eno House, 903 Eno Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278 *WINTERTIME FUN AND SAFETY* This is an entertaining program of archival film to get you in the mood for the upcoming cold weather, with snow and ice and last minute emergency stops for milk and bread, because that's how we do it around here. This program features skiing, skating, and all kinds of frozen fun, some of it presented with experimental Double Projector Tricks (a first for Eno House Movie Nights, but not a first for Durham Cinematheque). This show includes clips from *Nanook of the North* (Robert Flaherty, 1922) and *The Gold Rush* (Charlie Chaplin, 1925), so there will be plenty of film history depictions of cold weather on screen as well. Also featured will be chilly bits from cartoons, educational films, television commercials, and other pieces of cinematic flotsam and jetsam. As always, the show is presented in 16mm with films from the Durham Cinematheque archive. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b1f5bd4c23&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (PST), 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA *AVANT TO LIVE: BECKER + SCOTT + NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS* A polymorphous program that honors radical expression and innovative film-form, this evening of New Experimental Works promises a fresh bouquet of more than a dozen cine-initiatives! Tommy Becker personally introduces the world premiere of his single-channel *Prefer Not to Say*, on the disappearance of privacy amongst intrusive bureaucracies, Alex Mejia is in the house with *Canceled Cyanos*, on the deep history of plant-chemistry cinema, Kelly Sears bestows on us the West Coast debut of her airy *The Call*, Mike Plante's *The Polaroid Job* exposes his fascinating family history with in-store photo-ops in holiday costumes, and Jake Parker Scott blazes up from CalArts to unveil his Javanese gong-smithing piece *Transformation by Fire*. PLUS Nik Nerburn's exquisite doll-house miniature *Bad Weather*, Max Oginz' monumental *Center Surface Signal*, and brief bits of cinema brilliance from Bryan Boyce, James Sansing, Peter Lichter, and John Cannizzaro (in person?)... all leading to the latest mind-melt from that unstoppable SoCal sensation Damon Packard! Free pencils. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 15 - November 12* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Trieste Contemporanea <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=53f5be3bba&e=857b71a9cb> ongoing, Trieste Contemporanea via del Monte 2/1 34122 Trieste, Italy *Helga Fanderl: Monna Lisa* Monna Lisa is an artistic project that explores the complexity of the contemporary gaze and the perception of historical works of art in an era dominated by digital reproducibility. The Mona Lisa, a universal icon, becomes the subject of a reflection on the relationship between art, time and visual memory. Starting in 2000, Fanderl made a series of recordings inside the Louvre with her Super 8 film camera, observing the painting not only as a work of art, but also as a social phenomenon, amid the crowds of visitors and the incessant recording of images with all kinds of photographic and video equipment. The installation at Studio Tommaseo uses five 16mm projectors, twice the size of the original Super 8 format, to create a cinematic gallery of moving images that presents Leonardo’s painting in multiple variations. The images projected in a loop onto the walls recreate the presence of the work through time and the movement of visitors, marking both its permanence and its change. Fanderl’s work presents two types of gazes: that of the public, quick and often superficial, driven by curiosity and the desire to capture the image, and that of the artist, attentive, measured and delicate, capable of capturing gestures, details and nuances. The visitor to Monna Lisa, on view in Trieste until December 12, finds themselves at the centre of a dialogue between image, time, and perception: between the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa and the photochemical density of Fanderl’s Super 8 films, each viewer is invited to reflect on the fragility and richness of vision, on the phenomenon of mass viewing, and on the memory of images. The installation thus becomes an immersive experience, in which classical art and cinematic experimentation enter a conversation, creating a space for observation and contemplation, where time, history, and technology intertwine. Helga Fanderl (Ingolstadt, 1947) lives and works in Berlin. She studied film with Peter Kubelka at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and with Robert Breer at the Cooper Union School of the Arts in New York. Since the mid-1980s she has made hundreds of Super 8 short films, presented in ephemeral montages that result in one-of-a-kind programs. Her work has been shown at numerous international festivals and is part of the collections of major museums, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2023, the volume Konstellationen Super 8 (Hatje Cantz) was published, which brings together the full breadth of her artistic work. *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e1a1cdc89a&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA *Filmforum at 50, program 1: Classics of Los Angeles Experimental Film* We hope you will join us for this special event, the launch of our celebration of Filmforum’s 50th year! As the USA prepared to celebrate its bicentennial year, the nation took little notice of one small non-profit organization dedicated to screening avant-garde films. This cheery oasis of sanity and unconventionality amidst the miasma of Southern California arose from the efforts of Terry Cannon. The Neighborhood Church in Pasadena (at 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd) hosted that first season. After a special event screening in November 1975, Filmforum’s first full season, January-March, 1976, set a clear, high standard for the programs ever since. Starting off with four weeks dedicated to “The Ethnographic Film,” in its first three months Filmforum embraced “The American Avant-Garde: West Coast,” “Thee Films of Paul Robeson,” “Sixteen Films Under Five Minutes,” “Films of Sexy Humor,” and “Women in Film.” We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Filmforum with multiple screening and events over the next year with blasts from the past, films looking to the next fifty years, and visits from former directors and programmers of the organization. Tonight, we start with some highlights of experimental films made in Los Angeles, several of which by people linked to Filmforum. Works by Amy Halpern, Sara Kathryn Arledge, James Whitney, Adam Beckett, Beth Block, Chick Strand, Pat O’Neill, Craig Rice, and more! *Invocation*, By Amy Halpern, 1982, 16mm, color, silent, 2 min *Introspection*, By Sara Kathryn Arledge, 1941, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min *Meshes of the Afternoon*, By Maya Deren & Alexnader Hammid, 1943, 16mm, b&w, sound, 14 min *Lapis*, By James Whitney, 1963-1966, 16mm film, color, sound, 10 minutes *Kitsch In Synch*, by Adam Beckett, 1975, 16mm, color, sound, 4.5 minutes *Twelve*, By Beth Block, 1977, 16mm, color, sound, 9 min *Cartoon Le Mousse*, By Chick Strand, 1979, 16mm, b&w, sound, 15 minutes *Foregrounds*, By Pat O'Neill, 1979, 16mm, color, sound, 13.5 minutes *Filmforum Film*, By Craig Rice, 1980, 16mm, b&w, silent, 4 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9c6a9252a5&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=ce4b9c3031&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=908a3bb990&e=857b71a9cb> . 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