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*This Week [December 27, 2025 - January 4, 2026] 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=e78888bcf1&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 12.30.2025 BAL Film School <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1904eed68f&e=857b71a9cb> 12.31.2025 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3f4811a4ef&e=857b71a9cb> (Third Deadline) 01.01.2026 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b950c27b04&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 01.01.2026 Pollen: Video Spells <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=60fd6cd8e4&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 01.02.2026 Sleepy Eyes Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4e6192aa6d&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 01.09.2026 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8e4159c838&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 01.20.2026 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=517dc95a54&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 01.23.2026 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c987575af7&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 01.26.2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc86ad7c3a&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 01.31.2026 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a7b8fe51de&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.06.2026 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8899558e4f&e=857b71a9cb> 02.21.2026 Moviate Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0934701ab0&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.20.2026 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=28405bc18a&e=857b71a9cb> 03.22.2026 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=83977d022a&e=857b71a9cb> 03.25.2026 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a676227b67&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d27f116cdb&e=857b71a9cb> 05.01.2026 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4087452124&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=09ebd15d5b&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - EC: Kubelka / Lye <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4ea54098e4&e=857b71a9cb> [January 3, New York, NY] - EC: George Landow, AKA Owen Land <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=60fe1de700&e=857b71a9cb> [January 4, New York, NY] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71a629ac4c&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71ab1aa4d1&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c0d36dd14f&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: KUBELKA / LYE* Peter Kubelka *MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN* (1955, 16 min, 35mm, Made in collaboration with Ferry Radax.) *ADEBAR* (1957, 1 min, 35mm) *SCHWECHATER* (1958, 1 min, 16mm) *ARNULF RAINER* (1960, 7 min, 35mm) *OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE* (1966, 12 min, 16mm) “Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world’s greatest filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above all else…etcetera.” –Stan Brakhage Len Lye *TUSALAVA* (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent) *TRADE TATTOO* (1937, 5 min, 35mm. Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum.) *RHYTHM* (1957, 1 min, 16mm) *FREE RADICALS* (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm) A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of ‘scratch’ or ‘direct’ filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film’s surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms. Total running time: ca. 60 min *SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6bfc80b7ed&e=857b71a9cb> 7:15PM ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND* “The unique contribution of Land’s work lies in the fusion of intellectual reason and, significantly, the humor that distances it from the supposedly ‘boring’ world of avant-garde film. Having explored the basic properties of the celluloid strip itself in early works such as *FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR…*, his attention turned to the spectator in a series of ‘literal’ films that question the illusionary nature of cinema through the use of word play and visual ambiguity. His work often parodies experimental film itself by mimicking his contemporaries and mocking the solemn approach of film theorists and scholars.” –Mark Webber, TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND *FLEMING FALOON* (1963, 6 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR EDGE LETTERING, SPROCKET HOLES, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC.* (1965-66, 5 min, 16mm, silent) *DIPLOTERATOLOGY* (1967/78, 7 min, 16mm, silent) *THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER* (1968, 9 min, 16mm) *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY* (1969, 5 min, 16mm) *REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION* (1970, 5 min, 16mm) *WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?* (1972, 13 min, 16mm) *THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT* (1973, 6 min, 16mm) *A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA* (1974, 11.5 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH…*, *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY*, and *FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR…* have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Total running time: ca. 70 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a0cc1280d7&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=8a39f5a2a3&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7 *Artists' Moving Image Works* 6x6 project is an online artists' community that serves as a platform for disseminating artists' moving image works, and to create an ever-growing network among peers. 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