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*This Week [November 22 - 30, 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=95132504cf&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 11.30.2025 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=136e65c789&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2aa4b79d22&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 11.30.2026 Video Art Miden Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c9b73bf35a&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2026 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eac336923a&e=857b71a9cb> (Second Deadline) 12.01.2025 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=518e83e333&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 12.10.2025 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=978d2e89c4&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 12.15.2025 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=79ba9b4479&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 01.09.2026 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eb638c881f&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.22.2026 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ee2a4dc925&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f0c3bd539&e=857b71a9cb> 05.01.2026 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7537752711&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eb2a37df0a&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Rewind, Replay: Vidéographie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9082f644fa&e=857b71a9cb> [October 25 - December 21, Brussels, Belgium] - 2025 Light Matter Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7bf1f50e71&e=857b71a9cb> [November 7-9 in Alfred, NY + November 22-23 in Buenos Aires, Argentina] - Jordan Belson By Raymond Foye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5c6cc75f1&e=857b71a9cb> [November 10 + 24, Cambridge, MA] - French Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be1b17e1ff&e=857b71a9cb> [November 13-30, Tokyo, Japan] - Helga Fanderl: Monna Lisa <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=125707ea1b&e=857b71a9cb> [November 15-December 12, Trieste, Italy] - Between Borders And Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9f6b0ea28a&e=857b71a9cb> [November 22, Ridgewood, NY] - South Sound Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93d6a3d702&e=857b71a9cb> [November 22-23, Seattle, WA] - PSYCHO-GEO2: Occupied State <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e5cfcd2800&e=857b71a9cb> [November 22, San Francisco, CA] - Cinematic Synesthesia III <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fd5d7f81e9&e=857b71a9cb> [November 23-26, Berlin, Germany] - Rajee Samarasinghe: Your Touch Makes Others Invisible <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2fca022368&e=857b71a9cb> [November 23, Los Angeles, CA] - Lynn Marie Kirby: Expanded Frames <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=095bc84250&e=857b71a9cb> [November 23, San Francisco, CA] - Sky Hopinka's Maɬni--Towards The Ocean, Towards The Shore <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71c40fe8da&e=857b71a9cb> [November 28, Los Angeles, CA] - The Fragmentations Only Mean ... <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c25a108df3&e=857b71a9cb> [November 29, Mexico City, Mexico] - No-Thanks Giving - New Red Order: Give It Back! + Spaces of Exception <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1b2b373d3&e=857b71a9cb> [November 29, San Francisco, CA] - John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=56d4ab50bc&e=857b71a9cb> [November 30, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d67906f020&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e5df29652e&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2025* *October 25 - December 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* argos <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0c0578f886&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 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=cefacc073b&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 10 + 24* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Harvard Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cbbffb4c71&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 13 - 30* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Institut Français, Tokyo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a3ffa33b52&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 *___________________________________________________________________* *November 15 - December 12* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Trieste Contemporanea <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a98516c59e&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. *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* UnionDocs <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=95ebc77af5&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (EST), 352 Onderdonk Ave, Ridgewood, NY *Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz* UnionDocs, Color Congress — through its Elev8Docs Marketing Initiative — and Cinema Tropical present acclaimed filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz for a special evening of conversation and preview, part of Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz — the first retrospective of the three-time Emmy-nominated director and one of the most incisive voices in contemporary nonfiction media. With over two decades in independent film, Ruiz will reflect on the collapse of traditional funding, the rise of the creator economy, and the challenges of making meaningful work outside legacy systems. Through film clips and personal insights, he’ll share his “imperfect strategy” for navigating today’s media landscape. The evening includes a sneak peek at Ruiz’s newest project, *The Low Season* — a hybrid fiction-documentary about a woman from the future who helps immigrant families in present-day Queens. Blending participatory storytelling and speculative fiction, the film opens up bold new possibilities for socially engaged cinema. Join us for this timely and thought-provoking conversation — and be among the first to experience Ruiz’s daring new work in progress. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 22 - 23* Venue type: *Live, physical event* South Sound Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=57825f4066&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see link above, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 *South Sound Experimental Film Festival* The Sound Sound Experimental Film Fest is an accessible channel for experimental filmmaking from local artists in the Pacific Northwest. Our intention is to harbor a community for the exploration and development of the creative potentialities of the growing medium. We celebrate independent work which may otherwise get pushed to the fringe due to identity, insufficient resources, or qualifications of practice or technique. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=192ddc0214&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *PSYCHO-GEO2: OCCUPIED STATE* SPELLETICH/THOMPSON: ON ICE + LORD + WOBBLY + The Cali Apocalypse plays out ever more cinematically in this scream of rage against the evil machine that is ICE! Mission gem/Ant Farm vet Chip Lord kicks it off with the new super-cut of his classic *Not Top Gun*, puncturing the retrograde militarism oozing out of San Diego. Also a neighbor, Wobbly steps up with live remixes of the most Contra Costa-critical audio collages cooked up by Negativland, and Mr. Rick Prelinger expertly unspools what's too often hidden in the archive--how a geographic paradise has been despoiled by prisons and factory-farming. We climax with Kal Spelletich/Mike (Steel Pole Bath Tub) Morasky's live remediation of ICE depredations, garnered from ProPublica reporter AC Thompson. AC shares updates, fields questions, and joins us in smashing an ICE piñata! Gilbert's beer's here too. *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2025* *November 23 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Kino Moviemento <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ffb4f4cc5&e=857b71a9cb> Various Times, see below, Kino Moviemento, Kottbusser Damm 22, 10967 Berlin, Germany *Cinematic Synesthesia III* Kino Moviemento in Kreuzberg hosts Cinematic Synesthesia III, a three-part programme of experimental and personal cinema presented by EFS Film School, Experimental Film Society (EFS), and Tehran Contemporary Sounds (TCS) as part of the Tehran Contemporary Sounds Festival 2025. The series foregrounds cinema as a self-reflexive, inquiry-driven practice, emphasizing collective authorship, formal experimentation, and an aesthetics of resistance. --- 23 November, 18:00(GMT+1) – Programme One: The Exquisite Corpse Project (collaborative film produced in the EFS masterclass) --- At the time of writing, this film does not yet exist; its very absence is the enigma it advances. Conceived as an event rather than a prefabricated object, it will be realised within an intensive two-day masterclass co-hosted by EFS Film School and the Tehran Contemporary Sounds (TCS) Festival. Participants will conceive, intuit, and compose images and sounds through a lyrical, non-scripted practice—improvising, devising, and assembling a collaborative work that will make its first appearance in this screening. In this sense, the premiere and the workshop are inseparable: the film arrives not as a finished artefact but as the trace of its own becoming—process become form. Eschewing prior narrative scaffolding and informational delivery, it posits that cinema can be constituted in the present, unsettling, subverting, and detonating habituated ways of seeing. All participating filmmakers will be present for an extended discussion and Q&A, opening the work to the same risk, scrutiny, and collective thought that animated its creation within this programme. --- 25 November, 20:00(GMT+1) – Programme Two: Films by Left Bank Cinema (Tehran) --- *Lady in Red* (2024) — 6 min — Maedeh Mohsenpour, Iran *Epilogue in Prologue* (2025) — 14 min — Zahra Qodsi, Iran *Listen, Do You Hear the Wind of Darkness* (2023) — 5 min — Maryam Mortazavi, Iran *Hegemony* (2023) — 8 min — Maryam Mortazavi, Iran *Ghorab Jendoon* (2024) — 5 min — Fatemeh Akbari Mehr, Iran *The Short Ceiling* (2024) — 18 min — Fatemeh Akbari Mehr, Iran *It Was Snowing in That Burnt Room* (2025) — 33 min — Fatemeh Akbari Mehr, Iran The Q&A will be conducted online via Zoom, bringing together members of Left Bank Cinema and the filmmakers featured in the programme. This interactive discussion invites the audience to engage directly with the artists, hear about their creative processes, and participate actively by posing questions and sharing reflections. TRT: 89 minutes. --- 26 November, 20:00(GMT+1) – Programme Three: New works by filmmakers affiliated with EFS --- *Hoping for Freedom* (2022) — 4 min — Mahdi Falahati, Iran *Zamino Zamaan *(2025) — 10 min — Yasaman Pishvaei, Germany/Iran *Scrying Session #1* (2023) — 14 min — Daniel Zander, Germany *Blind ins Auge* (2025) — 20 min — Mehrad Sepahnia and Atefeh Kheirabadi, Germany/Iran *Thanatophobia* (2022) — 11 min — Ieva Balode and Michael Higgins, Latvia/Ireland *Alicia *(2024) — 25 min — Juana Robles, Ireland Most of the filmmakers featured in this programme will be present for an in-person discussion moderated by Rouzbeh Rashidi. Following the screening, a Q&A will invite the audience to engage directly with the filmmakers, offering an opportunity to explore their creative processes, conceptual approaches, and the ideas underlying their works. TRT: 84 minutes. TCS is funded by Hauptstadt Kulturfonds and Goethe Institut im Exil! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75c699b0e1&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA *Rajee Samarasinghe: Your Touch Makes Others Invisible* Filmmaker in Person. We welcome back Rajee Samarasinghe with his new feature film *Your Touch Makes Others Invisible*. As many as 100,000 people, predominantly members of the minority Tamil community, are estimated to have disappeared during the 26-year-long Sri Lankan Civil War. Fifteen years after the end of the war in 2009, families are still looking for their vanished loved ones. Samarasinghe reflects on this harrowing history through a combination of direct interviews, newsclips, dramatic re-enactments and abstract, symbolically coded tableaux. *The Eyes of Summer (Gimhanaye netra)*, By Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka/USA, 2020, color, sound, 15min *Your Touch Makes Others Invisible*, Sri Lanka & USA, 2025, 2.39 Scope, color, 5.1 Surround Sound, 70min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Museum of Modern Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9a7d6e8ef9&e=857b71a9cb> 13:30 (PST), 151 3rd Street 94105 San Francisco, California *Lynn Marie Kirby: Expanded Frames* As a filmmaker and SFAI graduate, Lynn Marie Kirby has long explored the boundaries of cinematic form — often playing at and beyond the edges of the frame and audience expectations. Her work compels viewers into a deeper engagement with observations on place. This program highlights several of Kirby’s expanded cinema works. In these pieces, the projection screen is no longer a static surface; it fragments or extends into the audience itself. Sound moves through the space, emerging not only from the projected images but also from a range of live performers. Each work is deeply rooted in a specific place and time, serving as an anchor for reflection on history, memory, and the role of technology in shaping narrative. The doors will open at 1:30 p.m. with a presentation of the installation *C to C: Several Centuries After the Double Slit Experiment*, followed by a lineup of screenings and performances that begin at 2 p.m. The program includes collaborations with musician and composer Anne Hege, filmmaker Zach Iannazzi, concert pianist Anne Rainwater, and choral singers from the Bay Area. Following the presentation, Kirby will be in conversation with curator and writer Tanya Zimbardo, who has contributed to a book on Kirby’s work published by X Artists’ Books, *Time and Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby*, and provided an essay for Kirby’s most recent exhibition in Paris. Pre-show: 1:30 p.m. *C to C: Several Centuries After the Double Slit Experiment *(1995, 16mm, live piano accompaniment) Screening/Performance: 2 p.m. *Under the Linden Trees* (2002/2019, video, made in collaboration with Etel Adnan) *Bathing* (1994/2025, video with composer and singer Anne Hege) *Aspects of Projection* (2025, live performance, made in collaboration with Zach Iannazzi) *One* (2020, video, made in collaboration with James Kirby Rogers) *Elegy *(2025, video and live voice-over) *Listen to the World Waking* (2021, video with live chorus) *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=84817cc2ad&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (PST), Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90027 *Sky Hopinka’s Maɬni--Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore* Renowned visual artist Sky Hopinka's stunning debut feature film — a meditative, experimental exploration of the Chinookan death myth. At the Philosophical Research Society Hopinka in conversation with Adam Piron after the film. *Maɬni--Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore *Dir. Sky Hopinka, 2020, English/Chinuk Wawa w/ English Subtitles, Unrated, Digital, color, sound, 80 min. Featuring: Sweetwater Sahme, Jordan Mercier, Sky Hopinka, Produced by: Sky Hopinka, Crystal Erlendson, Steve Holmgren, Camera, Sound Edit: Sky Hopinka, Music: Thad Kellstadt The film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier's wanderings through each of their worlds as they wonder through and contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and the place in-between. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, their stories are departures from the Chinookan origin of death myth, with its distant beginning and circular shape. “An essential portrait of contemporary Indigenous life that resists the touristic gaze, *Małni — Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore*, the debut feature from the Ho-Chunk artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, isn’t too concerned with whether we fully understand the traditions and rituals it entrancingly commits to screen. It refreshingly centers the Native perspective, and beckons audiences onto its wavelength by tapping into something more intuitive, the stuff of dreams.” -- Beatrice Loayza, New York Times Critic’s Pick. *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficos <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c64f71ee2f&e=857b71a9cb> 1:00 PM CST, Mario de la Cueva s/n, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, CDMX *The Fragmentations Only Mean ...* A documentary film by Jesse Lerner and Sara Harris, 72 minutes, 2021. An audiovisual landscape of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum, located in the California high desert. In 1986 Noah Purifoy (1917- 2004) retired from his position of many years on the California Arts Council and moved to a remote desert site north of Joshua Tree National Park, where, over the last eighteen years of his life, he created an ambitious series of over a hundred assemblage sculptures which sprawl over acres of the harsh, arid land, and address issues of North American history, race relations, social justice, contemporary philosophy, and human interactions with and impact upon the environment. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=133f502524&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (PST), 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA *NO-THANKS GIVING - NEW RED ORDER: GIVE IT BACK! + SPACES OF EXCEPTION* Following their last feature here, our Native (Ojibway) cohorts have been busy with many projects--including a bombshell for ITVS--and tonight's half-hour opener gives us a strong sense once again of their razor-sharp perspective. Their de-colonial discussion comes to focus on ex-Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf's rematriation of a sizable East Bay land parcel to the Sogorea Te Land Trust, serving as a springboard for a larger campaign for the return of most all Indigenous lands and cultural artifacts. In the program's second part, we bear witness to Matt Peterson/Malek Romamny's studied cine-essay on mass population displacement, with coverage of Mohawk and Dine resistance to Black Mesa relocation juxtaposed with footage of Palestinian refugee camps, environmental activists, and families of martyrs and political prisoners. The parallels between the Southwestern US footage and the Gaza material create a conversation about the critical importance of the meaning of homeland, and its conditions for life, community, and sovereignty. *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=08c76c1f40&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (PST), Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90027 *John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office, by Courtney Stephens and Michael Almereyda* >From the deep end of the psychedelic age, replete with isolation tanks, LSD research, and interspecies communication — *JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE* tells the mind-bending story of John C. Lilly, the man who tried to map consciousness itself. Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens' fascinating experimental doc about the psychonautic scientist who tried to communicate with dolphins. *JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE* (2025) presented by 7th House, Bibliomancers, and Los Angeles Filmforum with Courtney Stephens in person and musical performance by Twig Harper! *JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE *2025, digital color, sound, 89 minutes, Produced by Taylor Hess and Jesse Miller, Narrated by Chloë Sevigny *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b4be40057d&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=d1d93b7cc0&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=b8d490007b&e=857b71a9cb> . 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