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*This Week [January 31 - February 8, 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 <http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?submission=enternew> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 02.01.2026 Maryland Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/2zNgICb0n81?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 02.04.2026 Kinoskop – Analog Experimental Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/SMIupu5T9dM?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> – Strictly Academia Special Edition 02.06.2026 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/KN5BKoFH3Kq?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 02.09.2026 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/g_yXyglA_4J?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Extended Deadline) 02.20.2026 Coney Island Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/fpcmmaUWns5?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Final Deadline) 02.20.2026 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/nyr_RLc7dxR?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 02.21.2026 Moviate Underground Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/2a8gdue0vUw?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 02.24.2026 Fugue State <https://us.list-manage.com/pbJhEEZIY2i?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 02.28.2026 Crossroads <https://us.list-manage.com/HUqS6_bDmwD?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Late Deadline) 02.28.2026 Laterale Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/jhcW7f01QxK?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Fifth Deadline) 03.01.2026 VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich <https://us.list-manage.com/NYkBacos0Nd?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 03.20.2026 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) <https://us.list-manage.com/--oHcAMgZK0?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 03.22.2026 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/5EzwO3XjCPL?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 03.25.2026 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/nyQ6gxY_WBJ?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 03.23.2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/IH0WHIf8vF6?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://us.list-manage.com/pMSRLcx6gHD?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 05.01.2026 Media City Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/2k45vdH1GVR?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 05.15.2026 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/uUuUz7RTCSj?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 05.31.2026 ICS Grants <https://us.list-manage.com/dHkM0kwObFs?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?submission=enternew> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Look What I Found! Found Footage Film & Video 1936-2026 <https://us.list-manage.com/wOh-ujf80qO?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [January 17 - February 7, Brooklyn, NY] - Lettrist Film <https://us.list-manage.com/Uiz4beG62Pw?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [January 29 - February 1, New York, NY] - Robert Beavers: Filmmaker In Residence <https://us.list-manage.com/WWpPFeCuuTk?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [January 30 - February 7, Berkeley, CA] - Filmforum 50, Program 7: Vision of The Fire Tree <https://us.list-manage.com/lK9KjZqHv2I?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 1, Los Angeles, CA] - Lost & Found: Films by Peggy Ahwesh snd Maya Deren <https://us.list-manage.com/zx2cQ1bt4XJ?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 2, New York, NY] - EC: Georges Méliès, Program #2 <https://us.list-manage.com/bsfadip7o9D?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 3, New York, NY] - EC: Georges Méliès, Program #3 <https://us.list-manage.com/QoPh61Z0TfU?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 3, New York, NY] - EC: Marie Menken <https://us.list-manage.com/bQ663QIEx1O?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 5, New York, NY] - EC: Robert Nelson <https://us.list-manage.com/pfY6vbiMaVl?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 5, New York, NY] - Peer Bode: Signal Into Memory <https://us.list-manage.com/l2PUpvloLG0?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 6 - June 6, Rochester, NY] - ICS Presents: Imago Dei—Four By Will Hindle <https://us.list-manage.com/lhCkcipuWG_?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 7, Seattle, WA] - Filmforum 50, Pgm 8: Step Across The Border, Fred Frith In Person <https://us.list-manage.com/zSR4TMobTxU?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [February 8, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://us.list-manage.com/yfSIEqeQpTi?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://us.list-manage.com/KcPzOCKcJ_K?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2026**January 17 - February 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://us.list-manage.com/43Fj-vlRtvL?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 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. ___________________________________________________________________ *January 29 - February 1* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/_0GjWRMDW58?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 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://us.list-manage.com/gATJdfc-QYd?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> January 29 at 7:30 PM Isidore Isou *VENOM AND ETERNITY / TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D’ÉTERNITÉ* <https://us.list-manage.com/qJ5TVxrvJh0?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> January 30 at 7:30 PM Maurice Lemaître *LE FILM EST DÉJÀ COMMENCÉ?* <https://us.list-manage.com/73MVvk_Woef?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> January 31 at 7:30 PM MAURICE LEMAÎTRE <https://us.list-manage.com/eP50047Fp9T?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> February 1 at 7:30 PM ___________________________________________________________________ *January 30 - February 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://us.list-manage.com/Hg0ErSOmolp?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 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://us.list-manage.com/vqgpu-cagpx?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 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 *MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmmakers Coop <https://us.list-manage.com/XScQZ0ZboaO?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7pm ET, The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St, New York, NY *Lost & Found: Films by Peggy Ahwesh and Maya Deren* Join us for a program of longtime FMC member Peggy Ahwesh's work, plus Maya Deren's 1943 avant-garde classic *THE WITCH'S CRADLE*, presented in collaboration with MissVideo4u! A screening and Q&A of Peggy Ahwesh’s work. Some finished… some not. *TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/ia0nA1a7wYZ?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 6:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #2* The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent. *A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE* (1909, 8 min, 35mm) *THE CASCADE OF FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU* (1904, 3 min, 35mm) *VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE VOYAGE À TRAVERS L’IMPOSSIBLE* (1904, 20 min, 35mm) *THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA FÉE CARABOSSE* (1906, 13 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 50 min ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/vo5eBT8BZ17?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 8:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #3* All films in this program are b&w and silent. *EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS / ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE PUITS FANTASTIQUE* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA MANCHE* (1907, 25 min, 35mm) *THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT* (1903, 3 min, 16mm) *THE DOCTOR’S SECRET / HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE* (1909, 11 min, 35mm) *SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN OU LES MESAVENTURES D’UN BUVEUR* (1909, 5 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 55 min *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/lhn61zKCNMD?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 6:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: MARIE MENKEN* All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN* (1957, 5 min, 16mm) *ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER* (1961, 4 min, 16mm) *EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR* (1961, 4 min, 16mm, silent) *NOTEBOOK* (1962-63, 10 min, 16mm, silent) *GO! GO! GO!* (1962-64, 12 min, 16mm, silent) *ANDY WARHOL* (1965, 17 min, 16mm) *LIGHTS* (1964-66, 7 min, 16mm, silent) “Marie Menken pioneered the radical transformation of the handheld, somatic camera into a formal matrix that would underpin an entire work in the films she made between 1945 and 1965. […] The extraordinary cinematic style that I have been calling Menken’s somatic camera has been her most influential gift to the American avant-garde cinema. It is an embodiment of the Emersonian invention of a pictorial air, the spiritual emancipation automatically brought about by ‘certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local position.’ It is also analogous to the equally Emersonian somatic theory of poesis Charles Olson was developing at nearly the same time: his emphasis on breath and proprioception corresponds to Menken’s identification of the camera with her body in motion and her cultivation of the respiratory and nervous agitation of the handheld camera even in its quietest moments.” –P. Adams Sitney, EYES UPSIDE DOWN Total running time: ca. 65 min ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/jE3mvNgVbeJ?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 8:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: ROBERT NELSON* *THE GREAT BLONDINO* (1967, 42 min, 16mm. Preservation print, with thanks to the Academy Film Archive.) “The original Blondino was a 19th-century tightrope artist who among other feats crossed Niagara Falls trundling a wheelbarrow. In this film, Nelson sees Blondino as a metaphor for those who still try. Too subtle to be allegorical, the picture is in the shape of a quixotic search in which the goal is the journey and the means is the end.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART “It is…difficult to get at the rich visual texture that is the film’s most striking attribute. Long stretches are concerned with Blondino’s visions, dreams, and dreams within dreams. The film unfolds in brief recurring patterns of imagery. Even the more straightforward sections are dense with interpolated newsreel and TV commercial footage, visual gags, and homemade special effects. The net effect is funny, seamless, and elusive.” –J. Hoberman, “A Filmmakers Filming Monograph” & *BLEU SHUT* (1970, 33 min, 16mm. Preservation print, with thanks to the Academy Film Archive.) “Boat-name quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer’s *JOAN OF ARC* in montage with a sultry whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a passionate embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating Dreyer and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What’s happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid.” –Leo Regan Total running time: ca. 80 min *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2026**February 6 - June 6* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visual Studies Workshop <https://us.list-manage.com/ErANjk8BOzb?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> Wed–Fri: 11am – 6pm ET, Sat: 12 – 4pm ET, VSW 36 King Street, Rochester, New York 14608 *Peer Bode: Signal into Memory* Opening Reception: Friday, February 6, 6-9pm ET Curator Talk: Saturday, May 30, 2-3pm ET Closing Party: June 5, 6-9pm ET In a career spanning over five decades, video artist Peer Bode has created an extensive body of work that investigates electronic media events, active perception systems and the cultural impact of media tools and technologies. His earliest works were made at the Experimental Television Center, where he worked with video processing tools and innovative engineers to expand upon the possibilities of the emerging field of video. This exhibition will feature an extended selection of Bode’s “Process Tapes”, many of which were recorded as real time events at the Experimental Television Center between 1975-83. *Signal into Memory* traces the origins of Bode’s inquiry into the electronic signal as both a source and a substance in the video field, decoding the nature of video art and its ongoing impact as an interactive social system. *Signal into Memory* includes projections and installations of recently digitized videotapes from the artist’s archive which have never been shown publicly, as well as prints that reflect his work with video in material form. Throughout the exhibition there will be a series of events featuring video artists and toolmakers as part of the VSW Salon. *Signal into Memory* is curated by Tara Nelson and Nilson Carroll of Visual Studies Workshop, where Bode’s tapes have been preserved. Video artist Peer Bode (pronounced “Pear BOHdah”) has been working with video, performance, sound and multiple forms of printed media for over five decades. Bode is a graduate of Binghamton University’s Cinema Department, and has studied with Larry Gottheim, Nicholas Ray, Ken Jacobs and Peter Kubelka, and later with Woody and Steina Vasulka, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad and Hollis Frampton at SUNY Buffalo’s Media Study Program. Bode worked at the Experimental Television Center (ETC), which his lifelong mentor and friend Ralph Hocking established in Binghamton in 1969. At the ETC, Bode made his foundational early works while assisting and collaborating with the video artist and engineer David Jones, whose “Jones Frame Buffer” became a signature processor within Bode’s oeuvre. *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Northwest Film Forum <https://us.list-manage.com/GeoiQvBtZFd?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7pm PT, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122 *ICS Presents: Imago Dei—Four by Will Hindle* (Will Hindle, 1963-1971, United States, 57 min, in English) *FFFTCM* (1967) Renewed income and the ability to work on one’s own produced this feeling and work. A Promethean awakening, de-bonding of the human spirit … reaching for the unfiltered blaze of Light and Life. The driving sounds of heart beat, fanfare for the Common Man and devotional chants. A time of sharing … a touch of vision in the night. *LATER THAT SAME NIGHT* (1971) Hindle’s first all-southern-made work, filmed shortly after moving his studio from San Francisco to the lower Appalachians. Jackie Dicie sings the song in disruptive out-of-synchronization. It is Hindle’s first-water attempt to express the southern country mode of existence … the alone woman and the lonesome land. *NON CATHOLICAM* (1963) Another granddaddy of the American Personal Film movement. Set to the music of Hindemith, filmed entirely in a Gothic cathedral and edited to precision counter-point. An almost somber beginning that rises to brilliant exaltation. As with *PASTORALE*, extremely innovative for its day and even now. Entire film was an “optical print” to retain light nuances. Has never been placed in competition. *WATERSMITH* (1969) Perhaps Hindle’s magnum opus to date. New York Times critic Vincent Canby calls *WATERSMITH* “beautiful abstract patterns of lines of energy. A kind of ode to physical grace.” A deceptively “calm” film requiring an equally calm audience and a superior soundtrack reproduction system, *WATERSMITH* weaves its lone visual threads closer and closer until the screen is awash with multiple levels of artistic achievement, technical supremacy, physical and mental demands and rewards … for the relaxed and receptive viewer. Not a flash and funk work. A film to be seen again and again. Program curated by Patrick DiCero. Synopses courtesy of Canyon Cinema. *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2026* Venue type: LA Filmforum <https://us.list-manage.com/yI9N5w8SxXb?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 1pm PT, 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057 *Filmforum 50, pgm 8: Step Across the Border, Fred Frith in person* Los Angeles Filmforum and Black Editions present Filmforum 50, program 8: Step Across the Border Fred Frith in person! Restoration sneak preview Back in the mid-1990s, Filmforum presented two beautiful music films by the duo of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, Step Across the Border and Middle of the Moment. These two films remain in the memory long after viewing, with their unique approaches, captivating performances and adventures, humor, and remarkable visuals. We’re delighted to present a sneak preview of the restoration of Step Across the Border, which follows the musician Fred Frith in a variety of deeply absorbing interactions with other musicians and artists. Filmed from 1987 to 1990 in rich black & white film, it is a fantastic portrait of the extended improvised art music world of the time, with other musicians such as Joey Baron, Ciro Battista, Arto Lindsay, René Lussier, Haco, Kevin Norton, Bob Ostertag, Zeena Parkins, Lawrence Wright, and John Zorn, and that world’s intersections with artists working in other forms. The film is an inspiring look at the life of a working musician of the time, with Frith, around the age of forty in the years of filming, already internationally renowned as a musician seeking creativity where possible. We have the unique opportunity to talk with him reflecting on the film and the thirty-five years that have passed. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith has been making noise of one kind or another for more than 50 years, starting with the rock collective Henry Cow, which he co-founded with Tim Hodgkinson in 1968. Frith is best known as a pioneering electric guitarist and improviser, song-writer, and composer for film, dance and theater. Through bands like Art Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew, the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Cosa Brava, and the FF Trio he has stayed close to his roots in rock and folk music while branching out in many other directions. Shelley Burgon is a harpist, composer and sound installation artist who creates ambient and abstract music using graphic notation, indeterminacy, electronics and sound sculptures. She studied extensively with Oliveros at Mills College where she received an MFA in Electronic Music. Burgon’s chamber music has been recorded by the Ne(x)tworks ensemble featuring the vocalist Joan LaBarbara. Her most recent work *The In Between* for solo harp was released by Thin Wrist Recordings in July 2025. Shelley’s music has been commissioned for film, chamber ensembles and choreographers, most notably by The Merce Cunningham Dance Company for their Hudson Valley Project at the Dia Beacon. As an ensemble member, Burgon is sought after for her vast experience as an interpreter of new-music and the classical avant-garde performing the works of Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Butch Morris, Morton Subotnick, Cornelius Cardew and most recently performing with the Long Beach Opera and Wild Up. She has performed at institutions such as the Whitney Museum, MoMA, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Lincoln Center and has recorded harp for various artists ranging from Bjork to Anthony Braxton. She has recently released a duo record with the guitarist Fred Frith. *Step Across the Border*, A ninety-minute celluloid improvisation, 1990, 35mm transferred to digital, b&w, sound, 90 min, Sneak preview of new restoration! Note that Fred Frith and Sheeley Burgon will be in performance at 2220 Arts + Archives on February 7th, the night before this screening. https://dice.fm/event/k6n39p-fred-frith-shelley-burgon-modern-current-7th-feb-2220-arts-archives-los-angeles-tickets *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://us.list-manage.com/WowNu4QsKLW?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 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://us.list-manage.com/qoDupG4wXnV?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 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 <http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl>. 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