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Found Footage Film & Video 1936-2026 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=763eebd73a&e=857b71a9cb> [January 17 - February 7, Brooklyn, NY] - Experiments In Film: La Force Diagonale <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f5e262f1b1&e=857b71a9cb> [January 24, London, England, UK] - EC: Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f80bccf7f6&e=857b71a9cb> [January 24, New York, NY] - EC: Georges MélièS, Program #1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bbc737bb14&e=857b71a9cb> [January 24, New York, NY} - Filmforum 50: 8 Films by Shirley Clarke + Book Launch + Discussion <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a0afa8104f&e=857b71a9cb> [January 25, Los Angeles, CA] - Lettrist Film <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fdf83489fd&e=857b71a9cb> [January 29 - February 1, New York, NY] - Robert Beavers: Filmmaker In Residence <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2434d65d58&e=857b71a9cb> [January 30 - February 7, Berkeley, CA] - Filmforum 50, Program 7: Vision of The Fire Tree <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b118395a4e&e=857b71a9cb> [February 1, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4868a105a8&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1a7b8d8078&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2026* *January 17 - February 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de99cecfa8&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 PM, 167 Wilson Avenue *Look What I Found! Found Footage Film & Video 1936-2026* As we sail into 2026, Millennium is proud to announce our first exhibition of the new year, *Look What I Found! Found Footage Film & Video 1936-2026* a 90 year survey of re-appropriated media. The found footage film is generally regarded as being culled into existence through Joseph Cornell’s revolutionary fever dream Rose Hobart in 1936. In the time since then, film and video artists have utilized the techniques of appropriation, collage, montage and displacement to force new meaning into various media created with no such intention in mind. Works otherwise kitschy, anodyne, objective and industrial become in the hands of artists surreal, political, humorous and powerful. This transformation is a testament to the alchemical potential of moving image art, where the simple act of montage becomes a mystical synthesis, generating a whole greater than the sum of its parts. In found footage one finds the purest illustration of that magical mathematic formula of cinema, 1+1=3. The exhibition will begin on Friday, January 16th, with a 16mm Found Footage Workshop at 7:00 PM. Participants will be invited to use our Steenbeck editing table and and splicers to create new found footage film from pieces of old nature films, industrials and educational reels from Millennium’s archive. This film, once completed, will be then included as a looping installation for the rest of the duration of the exhibition, opening the following night. To register for the workshop, please email [email protected]. Saturday, January 17th @ 7pm is the Exhibition Opening, also featuring installation work from Mike Videopunk, Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Joe Wakeman. That same night at 8:00 PM we will screen contemporary found footage video works by the likes of Robert Mizaki, Nunet Clitandre, Venatapes, Preston Spurlock, Animal Charm, and Gloria Chung. --- Installation --- *Richard Spencer Getting Punched In The Face For An Hour *Mike Videopunk VHS 60min *The Urge To Collage *Joe Wakeman VR Video 2 min *Play Boy *Tessa Hughes-Freeland Super8mm to Video, Pepper’s Ghost Viewing Booth 10 min *Looping 16mm Found Footage Installation *created by Jan 16 Workshop Participants --- Screening --- *Cosmic Crossroads* Robert Mizaki 18 min *Gentle Voices* Nunet Clitandre 9 min *Dwight* Venatapes 30 min *Obscene Numerals *Preston Spurlock 17 min *Videoworks Vol. 1* Animal Charm 19 min *TBA* Gloria Chung This program is curated by Executive Director Joe Wakeman and Preston Spurlock for Millennium Film Workshop. Special Thanks to The Film-makers’ Cooperative, Video Databank, and MM Serra. Saturday, January 24th @ 7pm will be the second screening, featuring all archival 16mm prints of found footage films from the Film-makers’ Cooperative, including films by Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Chick Strand, MM Serra, Christoph Janetzko, Bill Morrison, an Unknown Filmmaker, Mary Fillipo, Bruce Conner, and of course, the film that started it all, Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart. *Murder Psalm - *Stan Brakhage 17 min *Perfect Film* - Ken Jacobs 22 min *S1* - Christoph Janetzko 16 min *The Film of Her* - Bill Morrisson 12 min *Cartoon Le Mousse* - Chick Strand 12 min *Peace O’Mind* - Mary Fillippo 9 min *Come Dance With Me* - Unknown Filmmaker 6 min *Mongoloid* - Bruce Conner 3 min *Rose Hobart *- Joseph Cornell 19 min *Just For You Girls* - MM Serra 2 min TRT 96 min This program is curated by Executive Director Joe Wakeman and Preston Spurlock for Millennium Film Workshop. Special Thanks to The Film-makers’ Cooperative, Video Databank, and MM Serra. *SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Barbican Centre <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ce88e97df6&e=857b71a9cb> 14:00 (GMT), Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS *Experiments in Film: La force diagonale* Join us for a compelling journey through history, memory and creative resilience with *La force diagonale* (*The Diagonal Force*), a feature-length experimental film by Annik Leroy and Julie Morel that brings together intimate portraits from across Europe. Filmed in Sarajevo, Görlitz and Belgium, the work collects powerful testimony—from a former tram driver recounting life during the siege of Sarajevo to personal stories of postwar discrimination and the search for belonging—turning moments of trauma into expressions of human creativity and renewal. Inspired by the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, the film meditates on our capacity to bring something new into a world shaped by historical wounds and transformations, culminating in a striking movement sequence featuring the dancer Claire Vivianne Sobottke with readings by Claudia von Alemann and others. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cdbd51c50c&e=857b71a9cb> 5:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA* by Jonas Mekas, 1971-72, 82 min, 16mm-to-35mm Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. “The film consists of four parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania. The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter Kubelka, [Hermann] Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with home, memory, and culture.” –Jonas Mekas ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=598087042d&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #1* All films in this program are b&w and silent. *THE CONJUROR / L’ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE* (1899, 1 min, 35mm) *TRIP TO THE MOON / VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE* (1902, 12 min, 35mm) *THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS* (1905, 21 min, 35mm) *MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU DIABLE* (1906, 18 min, 35mm) *DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L’HUILE* (1907, 5 min, 35mm) Magician, master of special effects, Méliès broke with the realistic (Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). “All early filmmakers were fascinated at first with the camera’s possibilities for tricks and illusionism. In fact, many were magicians before becoming filmmakers. But it was Georges Méliès, the French magician, producer of spectacles, actor, artist, and poet, who had the imagination and enthusiasm to fully exploit its marvels. His films are spectacles that amaze and delight. He created fantastic visions – all of them curious, some of them comic.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Total running time: ca. 60 min *SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* LA Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bd95819209&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90027 *Filmforum 50: Embodied Filmmaking: 8 Films by Shirley Clarke + Book Launch and Discussion* As part of Dance Camera West, an evening of pioneering experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke’s dance films in celebration of Karen Pearlman’s new book on her work! “I’ve realized that all my films are dance films. Every film of mine is dance. Every one. It’s clear in the way I use the camera, my editing, my sense of rhythm. I learned so much from being a dancer. I could not have been as good a film-maker had I not danced.” — Shirley Clarke, quoted in Karen Pearlman, *Thinking Through Movement* (Edinburgh University Press) On the occasion of the publication of *Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement* (2025; Edinburgh University Press), Dance Camera West, Los Angeles Filmforum, 7th House Screenings at The Philosophical Research Society, and Clare Schweitzer welcome writer/director Karen Pearlman, who will appear in person to discuss this book and present a screening of films by pioneering filmmaker Shirley Clarke. Shirley Clarke (1919-1997) was a trained dancer who became a pioneer of independent and experimental film. Clarke’s early work in dance film radically expanded the notion of onscreen choreography, first with explorations of the choreographic potential of camera and editing with filmic reworks of dance performance to highlighting the performative elements of the interaction of bodies, surfaces, space and light in films such as *Bridges Go Round* & *In Paris Parks*. Clarke also challenged the structures of filmmaking away from the camera and co-founded the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative (with Jonas Mekas) and then the New York Film-Makers’ Distribution Center (with Louis Brigante). In 1975, Shirley Clarke became a professor at UCLA, inspiring a younger generation of film artists to defy convention and make socially meaningful films. Writer/Director Karen Pearlman’s latest book, *Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement* is the first film-philosophy book on filmmaker Shirley Clarke and the films she edited and directed. The book draws on film analysis, archival research, dance and film theory, and creative practice expertise, to think through Clarke's work as a dancer turned multi-award-winning editor and director of dance film, fiction, documentary, and video art. This account of Clarke's creative oeuvre offers the reader insight into a too long overlooked filmmaker and offers a novel method for analysis of films, filmmaking practices and cultures of film production. Following the screening, Karen will join us to discuss the singular artistry of Clarke's choreographed cinema, in conversation with dancer-filmmaker Clare Schweitzer. Copies of *Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement* will be available for purchase, with a book signing by the author to follow. *Dance in the Sun* (1953, 16mm transferred to digital, b&w, 6:47) *In Paris Parks* (1954 /2014, 16mm transferred to digital, color, 13:36) *A Moment in Love* (1956, 16mm trans to digital, color, 9:08) *A Visual Diary* (1980, video, color, sound, 6:06) *Butterfly* (1967, 16mm trans to digital, color, 3:40) *Four Journeys into Mystic Time: One-2-3* (1978, 16mm film and video, color, 8:18) *24 Frames Per Second* (1977, 16mm transferred to digital, color, 2:57) *Skyscraper* (1959, 35mm transferred to digital, b&w and color, 21:05) *THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2026* *January 29 - February 1* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=31848498d5&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *LETTRIST FILM* Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou (1925-2007) arrived in Paris after WWII to found Lettrism, an avant-garde movement intended to transform daily life through the reinvention of all forms of art and knowledge. Lettrism initially surged into public view as a sensational poetry movement; by 1950 Isou had turned his attention to disciplines including the novel and cinema. He conceived of several original Lettrist approaches to film including “discrepant cinema” – the dissociation of sound and image – and various forms of “chiselling” including painting and scratching directly upon film stock. In 1951 Isou presented an in-progress version of his first film, VENOM AND ETERNITY, at the Cannes Film Festival, causing a scandal and earning praise from Jean Cocteau. Many Lettrist films followed, including works by early adherents Maurice Lemaître, Gil J Wolman, and Guy Debord. Stan Brakhage saw Isou’s first film at SF MoMA in 1953 and corresponded with Isou in the 1960s. Nevertheless, early Lettrist achievements in experimental cinema have rarely been credited and have only recently begun to gain appropriate notice. To celebrate both the 101st anniversary of Isidore Isou’s birth and the centenary of Maurice Lemaître, and in association with the current exhibit “Rewriting the World: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Book” at the Center for Book Arts (January 21-May 2, 2026), co-curators Frédéric Acquaviva and Bill Kartalopoulos have programmed the following selection of key Lettrist films and seldom-seen shorts, offering a rare opportunity to explore Lettrism’s essential cross-disciplinary nature. Presented with the generous support of Fonds de Dotation Bismuth Lemaître, Catherine Goldstein, and Barbara and Hedy Laure Wolman. Gil J Wolman *L’ANTICONCEPT* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e47fbb4504&e=857b71a9cb> January 29 at 7:30 PM Isidore Isou *VENOM AND ETERNITY / TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D’ÉTERNITÉ* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cf15ab4510&e=857b71a9cb> January 30 at 7:30 PM Maurice Lemaître *LE FILM EST DÉJÀ COMMENCÉ?* <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f62eb1983b&e=857b71a9cb> January 31 at 7:30 PM MAURICE LEMAÎTRE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b66b4340cf&e=857b71a9cb> February 1 at 7:30 PM *FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2026* *January 30 - February 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a70ecfc5ae&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA *Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence* Filmmaker in attendance This career retrospective, combined with a filmmaker residency, offers Bay Area audiences a chance to see American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers’s highly rewarding body of work and engage with him as an artist. His films are exceptional for their visual beauty, aural texture, and depth of emotional expression. Born in 1949 in Brookline, Massachusetts, Beavers began to make films in the mid-1960s in New York City. By the end of that decade, he had relocated to Europe with fellow American filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos, who would be his lifelong companion until Markopoulos’s death in 1992. The majority of Beavers’s films were shot in the 1970s and 1980s in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Greece. Between 1994 and 2002, the artist involved himself in reediting the images and creating new soundtracks for his eighteen-film cycle, *My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure*. Beavers’s films embody the ideals of the Renaissance in their fascination with perception, psychology, literature, the natural world, architectural space, musical phrasing, and aesthetic beauty. For many years now, Beavers has made Berlin his home with fellow filmmaker Ute Aurand. We will present seven films he has made since 2007, which continue his exploration of sense of place, reflection, and harmony. —Susan Oxtoby, Director of Film and Senior Film Curator --- Friday, Jan 30, 2026 @ 7PM PT - Robert Beavers: Program 1 --- The first four films in Robert Beavers’s extraordinary cycle encompass elements of self-portraiture, eroticism, and charged allusion, including *Early Monthly Segments* and *Winged Dialogue*, filmed when Beavers was eighteen and nineteen years old, which depict the filmmaker and his companion Gregory J. Markopoulos. *Early Monthly Segments* (Switzerland/Germany/Greece; 1968–70/2002); 35mm, color, silent, 33 minutes. Print from the maker. *Winged Dialogue* (Greece; 1967/2000); 16mm, color, sound, 3 minutes, Print form the maker. *Plan of Brussels* (Belgium; 1968/2000); 16mm, color, sound, 18 minutes. Print from the maker. *The Count of Days* (Switzerland; 1969/2001); 16mm, color, sound, 18 minutes, Print form the maker. TRT: 75 minutes --- Saturday, January 31 @ 2PM PT - Robert Beavers: Program 2 --- Three films from Robert Beavers’s eighteen-film cycle, originally filmed in 1970 and remastered in 2001. *Palinode* (Switzerland; 1970/2001); 16mm, color, sound. 21 minutes. Print from the maker. *Diminished Frame* (Germany; 1970/2001) 16mm, b&w/color, sound, 24 minutes. Print from the maker. *Still Light* (Greece; 1970/2001); 16mm, color, sound, 25 minutes. Print from the maker. TRT: 70 minutes --- Saturday, January 31 @ 4:30PM PT - Robert Beavers: Program 3 --- In these two nuanced and structurally self-reflexive works, *From the Notebook of ...* and *The Painting*, Robert Beavers contemplates the world around him and reflects on the nature and processes of art. *From the Notebook of…* (Italy; 1971/98); 35mm, color, sound, 48 minutes. Print from the maker. *The Painting* (Switzerland/US; 1972/99); 35mm, color, sound, 13 minutes. Print from the BAMPFA Collection. TRT: 61 minutes --- Sunday, February 1 @ 3:30PM PT - Robert Beavers: Program 4 --- These three films from Robert Beavers’s film cycle create connections between varied times and places, and between old-world artisanal practices and the craft of filmmaking. *Work Done* (Italy/Switzerland; 1972/99); 35mm, color, sound, 22 minutes. Print from the BAMPFA Collection *Ruskin* (Italy/Switzerland/UK; 1975/97); 35mm, b&wcolor, sound, 45 minutes. Print form the maker. *AMOR* (Italy/Austria; 1980); 35mm, color, sound, 15 minutes Print from the BAMPFA Collection TRT: 82 minutes --- Thursday, February 5 @ 7PM PT - Robert Beavers: Program 5 --- *Sotiros* incorporates narrative film devices such as intertitle cards into a metaphorical dialogue between two male lovers. In *Efpsychi* we hear a word spoken, *teleftea*, meaning the last (one). *Wingseed* draws comparisons between the pastoral beauty of a Greek hillside and that of the male form. *Sotiros* (Greece/Austria/Switzerland; 1976–78/96); 35mm, color, sound, 25 minutes. Print from the maker. *Efpsychi* (Greece; 1983/96); 35mm, color, sound, 20 minutes. Print from the maker. *Wingseed* (Greece; 1985); 35mm, color, sound, 15 minutes. Print from the maker. TRT: 60 minutes --- Friday, February 6 @ 3:30PM PT - Mosse Lecture: Robert Beavers --- The Berlin-based filmmaker will present *Diminished Frame* and *The Sparrow Dream* and discuss the relationship of history, memory, and place in his films. *Diminished Frame* (Germany; 1970/2001); 16mm, color, sound, 24 minutes. Print from the maker. *The Sparrow Dream* (Germany/US); 16mm, color, sound, 29 minutes. Print from the maker. --- Friday, February 6 @ 7PM PT - Robert Beavers: Program 6 --- The final three works in Robert Beavers’s film cycle—*The Hedge Theater*, *The Stoas*, and *The Ground*—offer images of ineffable beauty, unspoken eloquence, and an expression of devotional love. *The Hedge Theater* (Italy; 1986–90/2002); 35mm, color, sound, 19 minutes. Print from the BAMPFA Collection. *The Stoas* (Greece; 1991–97); 35mm, color, sound, 22 minutes. Print from the BAMPFA Collection. *The Ground* (Greece; 1993–2001); 35mm, color, sound, 20 minutes. Print from the BAMPFA Collection. TRT: 61 mins --- Saturday, February 7 @ 7PM PT - Robert Beavers: Program 7 --- Robert Beavers’s seven works made after his film cycle demonstrate his continued interest in the poetic form and emotions linked to a sense of home or place, including his delicate portrait of his mother, *Pitcher of Colored Light*, and the graceful *The Suppliant*. *Pitcher of Colored Light* (US; 2000–07); 35mm, color, sound, 23 minutes. Print from the BAMPFA Collection. *The Suppliant* (US; 2010); 35mm, color, sound, 5 minutes. Print from the BAMPFA Collection. *Listening to the Space in My Room* (Switzerland; 2013); 16mm, color, sound, 19 minutes. Print from the maker. *Among the Eucalyptuses* (Greece; 2017); 16mm, color, silent, 4 minutes. Print from the maker. *“Der Klang, die Welt…”* (Switzerland; 2018); 16mm, color, sound, 5 minutes. Print from the maker. *The Sparrow Dream* ( Germany/US; 2022; 16mm, color, sound, 29 minutes. Print from the maker. *Dedication: Bernice Hodges* (US; 2024); 16mm, color, sound, 4 minutes. Print from the maker. TRT: 89 minutes Copresented by the Department of German, with support from the Mosse Foundation. Promotional partners: Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley; San Francisco Cinematheque; Shapeshifters; and Light Field. Thank you to Deniz Göktürk, Department of German, UC Berkeley; Jonathan Marlow, SV Archive; Glenn Fox, Seattle; Mark Johnson, Harvard Film Archive; Steve Polta, San Francisco Cinematheque; Kathleen Quillian, Shapeshifters; and Light Field. *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* LA Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8681fdcb1d&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, 2220 Arts + Archives 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057 *Filmforum 50, program 7: Vision of the Fire Tree* A very special evening, with classic films by Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon with live performance by beloved LA composers and musicians, Ulrich Krieger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Eyvind Kang. All films will be screened in 16mm. The program opens with *Vision of the Fire Tree*. It is, as Brakhage writes, “like a fire in the mind” that “seeks that ‘tree’ along a line of metaphorical synapse.” Landing in the *Cat of the Worm's Green Realm*, cats, flames, worms, leaves, sunlight, and tiny creatures thrive in a fantastical world refracted by octagonal prisms—a mysterious, luminous, and boundless visual feast beneath an autumn-hued sky. *Desert* gazes directly at the dazzling sun. Yellow sand and mirages. Dried red and yellow rose petals, black and white calligraphic lines, hieroglyphic pinks, greens, and blues. *The Persian Series #6-12* is a symphony of bold and delicate emotions, the power of lines and shapes clashing and merging, yet appearing and disappearing like ghosts—indistinct, ultimately… The program concludes with Phil Solomon's *Clepsydra*, in which a water-clock rescues us from the lost flames, taking us back to the origin of the universe through the heavy black-and-white noise, where perhaps the "tree" resides. We wish to acknowledge that these films were originally created in silent film format by the artist, and our performance reflects this, demonstrating our deep understanding and respect for Brakhage's artistic vision. This event celebrates the 50th anniversary of Los Angeles Filmforum, paying tribute to art films and bringing together these musicians who are also devoted fans of Brakhage. This live performance is authorized and approved by Stan Brakhage's widow, Marilyn Brakhage. *Vision of the Fire Tree* By Stan Brakhage, 1991, 16mm, color, silent, 4 min (first shown silent) *Vision of the Fire Tree* By Stan Brakhage, 1991, 16mm, color, Live Performance, 4 min. (This film will be screened again, this time accompanied by live performance) *Cat of the Worm's Green Realm* By Stan Brakhage, 1994, 16mm, color, Live Performance, 14:00 *Desert* By Stan Brakhage, 1976, Super 8 to 16mm, color, Live Performance, 10:00 *The Persian Series #6-12* By Stan Brakhage, 1999, 16mm, color, Live Performance, 25:00 *Clepsydra* By Phil Solomon, 1992, 16mm, B&W, Live Performance, 14:00 Curated by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=619fd9786c&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=cca4bc21ee&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=642655d56f&e=857b71a9cb> . 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