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*This Week [February 21 - March 1, 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=ce8a436e05&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 02.24.2026 Fugue State <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6429e3742a&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.27.2026 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b2e0b8cf50&e=857b71a9cb> (Final Deadline) 02.28.2026 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e28e53a4e3&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 02.28.2026 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3227309e9b&e=857b71a9cb> (Fifth Deadline) 03.01.2026 VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42e3d8c3c5&e=857b71a9cb> 03.08.2026 Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=049ce465dc&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=dc9e40794b&e=857b71a9cb> 03.21.2026 Moviate Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b61d8d1495&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.22.2026 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cdda66b29a&e=857b71a9cb> 03.25.2026 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39b6c2d3dc&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.23.2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17d498ae06&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7bbd7bf362&e=857b71a9cb> 04.02.2026 What’s Your Flavor? <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=242d7a4a1b&e=857b71a9cb> 04.12.2026 Elevation Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=da3ebaf2d4&e=857b71a9cb> 05.01.2026 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39bfff434e&e=857b71a9cb> 05.15.2026 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9bde434c66&e=857b71a9cb> 05.15.2026 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4da56ab986&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.31.2026 ICS Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a8af1db93d&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2026 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eab419dd44&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3553844fc8&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Peer Bode: Signal Into Memory <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6254b62e08&e=857b71a9cb> [February 6 - June 6, Rochester, NY] - Brakhage Symposium 2026 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f4a795798d&e=857b71a9cb> [February 21-22, Boulder, CO] - Experimental Trailers <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4dd1707c0e&e=857b71a9cb> [February 21, New York, NY] - Epic Protest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=51393425d5&e=857b71a9cb> [February 21, San Francisco, CA] - Untime (Annihilate This Week) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=61e7bcc53b&e=857b71a9cb> [February 22, Chicago, IL] - Print Generations <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ad4336908d&e=857b71a9cb> [February 22, San Francisco, CA] - Broken Dreams & TéLé-Bingo Mutations <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2d891129d3&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25, Paris, France] - Conversations At The Edge: Kioto Aoki: Findings <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=28094b6c9c&e=857b71a9cb> [February 26, Chicago, IL] - Scott MacDonald Selects: Birth, Earth, Screen, Sky <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c204ffcfae&e=857b71a9cb>[February 26-28, New York, NY] - Making Kin(O)! Remote In New York : A Letter To You Was A Slice of My Reflection <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8e14ad8aff&e=857b71a9cb> [Feb 27, Brooklyn, NY] - Obló Cinema Presents The Death Spiral Tour By M. Woods <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=106e198d10&e=857b71a9cb> [February 27-28, Lausanne, Switzerland] - Glimmers And Ghosts: The Cinema of Tomonari Nishikawa <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=04bb2da50f&e=857b71a9cb> [February 28, Los Angeles, CA] - SF Psycho-Geo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=602c780daa&e=857b71a9cb> [February 28, San Francisco, CA] - Eve-Lauryn Lafountain: Conversation Pieces <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=22cd805609&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9a1ec3eb3a&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=450a8a0776&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2026* *February 6 - June 6* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visual Studies Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eacf40e603&e=857b71a9cb> 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 21, 2026* *February 21 - 22* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The Brakhage Center for Media Arts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=972737e5e0&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, ATLAS 102, Roser ATLAS Center, CU Boulder, 1125 18th St, Boulder, CO 80309 *Brakhage Symposium 2026* A Forum on Contemporary Experimental Film and Media The first Brakhage Center Symposium took place in April 2005 and has since become a nationally recognized forum on contemporary experimental film and media. The 2-day event in March has featured screenings, presentations, and panel discussions by top-notch filmmakers, scholars, critics and curators such as Ken Jacobs, Michael Snow, Guy Maddin, Ben Rivers, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Kathy Geritz, Annette Michaelson, Sally Berger, Ed Halter, Bill Nichols, Michael McElhatten, Steve Seid, Chris Stults and Scott MacDonald. It was free and open to the public. “The Brakhage Symposium was one of the highlights in my USA trip in 2012. I was thankful to be able to see wonderful works and people. It was an inspiration that I badly needed.” - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Filmmaker and recipient of the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival “The dialogue with the audience was informative, challenging, and an opportunity to critically re-enter my previously made films. Equally important is the wide variety of films and lectures presented during that session and the lingering presence they continue to have on my work, teaching, and curatorial activities.” - Abraham Ravett, Professor and Filmmaker, Hampshire College “This was a great experience for me as both a filmmaker and as an audience member. The theatre was full of an extremely attentive and intelligent audience, made up of academics, curators, film makers and film lovers – which promoted much lively discussion and feedback. This is invaluable as an artist travelling with their wares, to speak with an audience and get a sense of what the work does outside of the relatively solitary act of making.” - Ben Rivers, Filmmaker --- Saturday, February 21, 2026 --- /// 12:00-2:00 PM PT — Stephanie Barber Between June 25th and August 7th, 2011, Stephanie Barber moved her studio into the Baltimore Museum of Art where she created a new video each day in a central gallery open to museum visitors. The goal of this project, entitled *Jhana and the rats of James Olds or 31 days/31 videos*, was to create a series of short, poetic videos in the playful and serious footprints of Oulipo games and daily meditations––creating one new video each day. The exhibit was both a constantly changing installation as well as a collaborative performance in which museum visitors were present as spectator and often creative partner. The works, now removed from the course of production, compile a known fascination with the philosophical implications of photographic images; a grappling with memory and the way it shapes our sense of time; an enduring interest in non-human animals, an acute awareness of our mortality and a desire to engage the formal concepts of 'narrative' in unexpected ways. They consider these concepts with humor, pathos and imagination. Barber will be sharing a selection of these videos and talking about the process and the individual pieces in celebration of the release of these new compilations. /// 2:15-4:15 PM PT — A.S.M. Kobayashi Alison S. M. Kobayashi’s critically acclaimed performance *Say Something Bunny!* is a one-woman show based on an amateur audio recording made more than sixty years ago. The origins of this recording were a mystery: two spools of thin steel wire discovered inside an obsolete sound device purchased by a collector at an estate sale. Through obsessive research, active imagination, and hundreds of hours of listening, Kobayashi decoded the rich dialogue embedded in the recording and uncovered the detailed history of an unforgettable Jewish family from New York, bursting with humor, surprise, and drama. Participants will experience an excerpt from the performance and be guided through Kobayashi’s process of transforming this enigmatic artifact into an immersive theatrical work. The session will also include an excerpt and deep dive into Kobayashi’s multidisciplinary project *Electric Neon Clock*. Drawing from her family’s WWII-era Custodial File, Kobayashi examines her family’s forced dispossession and relocation in Canada during the Second World War. *Electric Neon Clock* asks: how can an artist liberate forensic practices and state records from their original intent, and use them instead to reconstruct the families and communities they were designed to dismantle? By focusing on these two works, participants will explore innovative approaches to forensic and archival research as creative tools, methods for uncovering rich family histories that intertwine complex interpersonal dynamics with pivotal moments of social history. /// 4:30-6:30 PM PT — Deborah Stratman In *Last Things* (2023, 50min, 16mm digital transfer), evolution and extinction are examined from the point of view of rocks and various future others. The geo-biosphere is introduced as a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures. The project originated from two novellas of J.-H. Rosny, the joint pseudonym of the Belgian brothers Boex who wrote on natural, prehistoric and speculative subjects—sci-fi before it was a genre. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Bjørnerud form the film's science-fictional/science-factual spine. Stones are its anchor. To touch stone is to meet alien duration. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain. *Last Things* will be paired with some thoughts on geological listening, critical debates around the Anthropocene, monumentality, and the politics of audibility by turning to geology as an experimental pedagogy and an archive. --- Sunday, February 22, 2026 --- /// 12:00-2:00 PM PT — Group program and conversation *Music is Magic*, A.S.M. Kobayashi, 2017, 14:00 *Laika*, Deborah Stratman, 2021, 4:33 *Pressing*, Stephanie Barber, 2025, 3:19 *Otherhood*, Deborah Stratman, 2023, 3 :00 *The Enlightenment*, Stephanie Barber, 2023, 12:00 *Hungry Kitty*, A.S.M. Kobayashi, 2011, :28 /// 2:15-4:15 PM PT — 1990s Experimental Film in Japan: Women’s Anarchic Visions of the Everyday Emerging from Japan’s independent film culture of the 1990s, these five works by women filmmakers mark a quiet but decisive shift within experimental cinema. Enabled by the growing accessibility of small-gauge film and alternative exhibition spaces, the filmmakers move away from strict formal abstraction toward the textures of everyday life, bodies, rituals, and intimacies. *The Life of Ants (Ari no seikatsu)* / Yūko Asano, Japan, 1994, 14:00 *Benighted but Not Begun (Yukikuredo machiakazu)* / Yukie Saitō, Japan, 1994, 22:00 *The Place Which Isn’t Necessarily Wrong (Anagachi machigatteru tomo ienai kū)* / Hiromi Saiki, Japan, 1996, 18:00 *Night Park/White Roses (Yoruno kōen / shiroi bara)* / Mari Terashima, Japan, 1997, 11:00 *A Dandelion, Rosaceae (Bara-ka tanpopo)* / Utako Koguchi, Japan, 1990, 8:00 /// 4:30-5:30 PM PT — Celebrating Stan Curated by Suranjan Ganguly Celebrating Stan pays homage to the filmmaker’s extraordinary creativity (nearly 400 films) as well as his profound impact on the history of cinema. *The Wold Shadow*, 1972, 3:00 *Fire of Waters*, 1965, 7:00 *Visions in Meditation, #3, Plato's Cave*, 1989, Sound, 17:00 *Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie*, 1961, 5:00 *Trip to Door*, 1971, 14:00 *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7d986bd197&e=857b71a9cb> 20:30 (EST), 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EXPERIMENTAL TRAILERS* This program explores the wide and wonderful world of film trailers and previews. Mirroring the “Avant-Garde Ads” series as a whole, it includes bona fide trailers by experimental filmmakers, “fake” trailers for non-existent films, parodies, and collage films that use found trailers as their source materials. John Waters & Douglas Brian Martin *[Nuart Theatre no smoking PSA]* (1982, 40 sec, 35mm) Mark Shepard *[EZTV No smoking PSA]* (ca. 1985, 30 sec, video) Jack Goldstein *METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER* (1975, 2 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.) Oskar Fischinger *COLORATURA / KOLORATUREN* (1932, 2 min, 16mm. Commissioned by Froelich as a trailer for a film.) Francis Lee *FILM-MAKERS’ SHOWCASE TRAILER* (1963, 3 min, 16mm) Curt McDowell *AINSLIE TRAILER* (1972, 2 min, 16mm) Curt McDowell *KATHLEEN TRAILER (for Underground Cinema 12) *(1972, 1.5 min, 16mm) Suzan Pitt *WHITNEY COMMERCIAL* (1973, 3 min, 16mm-to-digital) Alexis Krasilovsky *GUERRILLA COMMERCIAL *(1973, 1 min, 16mm-to-digital) Tom Rubnitz *UNDERCOVER ME! *(1988, 2 min, video) George Kuchar *TERROR BY TWILIGHT* (1988, 6 min, video) Maurice Lemaître *FILM ANNONCE* (1993, 3 min, 16mm) Heather McAdams *FAKE PREVIEWS* (1985, 5 min, 16mm) Kerry Laitala *COMING ATTRACTIONS* (2004, 3 min, 16mm, silent) Peggy Ahwesh *BEIRUT OUTTAKES* (2007, 7.5 min, digital) Chris Jolly *MULTIPLEX* (ca. 2012, 3 min, 35mm) Ben Coonley *2008 NEW YORK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL TRAILER STARRING DR. ZIZMOR* (2008, 1 min, digital) Jim Finn *NYUFF ’08 TRAILER* (2008, 1 min, digital) Jean-Luc Godard *OFFICIAL SPOT OF THE 22ND JI.HLAVA IDFF* (2018, 1 min, digital) C. Spencer Yeh *[Selected Spectacle Theater Trailers]* (2012-18, ca. 6 min, DCP) Total running time: ca. 65 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3c1e9e271a&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *EPIC PROTEST* *WTO/99* + WHISPERED MEDIA + This immersive archival documentary takes viewers to the streets of Seattle in 1999 for massive protests that have heavily influenced the current political and protest climate. *WTO/99* brings four days in late 1999 back to life and provides insights into the world we live in today. The film shows the results of tens of thousands of people occupying the streets of downtown Seattle to vocalize their concerns about the existence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its impact on the environment, economy, human rights, and labor. Hoping to dissuade world leadership from continued support of the WTO, the protesters were met with extreme violence by a militarized police force. The protests strived to focus the public’s attention on the kind of future the WTO would bring forth—the future we live in today. Created from more than 400 hours of never-before-seen footage, *WTO/99* is an immersive visual artifact that reanimates a week that still reverberates over two decades later. PLUS: Introduction by members of that rad media collective Whispered Media, also sharing some of their own WTO clips! *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Doc Films <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=23c39cc022&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm CT, Doc Films, Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, The University of Chicago (1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 *Untime (annihilate this week)* 2026 · Kioto Aoki & Cameron Worden · 45m · 35mm slides A multi-image work made for several 35mm slide projectors with no shutter or intermittent, operated in real time and accompanied by live music, *Untime* attempts to upend the rigid linearity of cinematic time, a sideways progression of concurrent images splayed across multiple slide carousels, blipping ad infinitum. This program will additionally include two short 35mm films made by Cameron Worden: *Today (in a haze)* and *Digital Devil Saga*. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* San Francisco Museum of Modern Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f220a0c9ca&e=857b71a9cb> 2pm PT, Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA, 151 Third St, San Francisco, CA 94103 *Print Generations* Presented in collaboration with Canyon Cinema Join us for Canyon Cinema’s inaugural film commissioning project! Borrowing its title from J.J. Murphy’s astounding structural showpiece, *Print Generation* (1974), and inspired by the centennial of 16mm film (1923–2023), Print Generations was conceived to support analog-based filmmaking in the Bay Area. For this first iteration, three filmmakers — Tijana Petrović, Amy Reid, and TT Takemoto — were selected through an open call to create new cinematic works. No restrictions were imposed on the proposed films’ subject matter, style, or length. The only requirement was a commitment to working with 16mm. The newly created films screen for the first time at SFMOMA, complemented by works from the Canyon Cinema collection and selected by the Print Generations cohort. Print Generations is supported by the Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation. Technical support was provided by Oakland’s Black Hole Collective Film Lab, a DIY community resource center and art studio based in West Oakland. *Night Swing* (TT Takemoto, 2026, 2.5 minutes, silent, 16mm, 18fps) *Swing Swish Sway* (TT Takemoto, 2026, 7 minutes, sound design by Kadet Kuhne, digital file) *Innesti Neri e Bianchi* (Federica Foglia, 2022, 7 minutes, sound, digital file); selected by TT Takemoto *Bay Area Sampler Quilt* (Amy Reid, 2026, 10.5 minutes, sound design by Tyler Bell, digital file) *Ma Sewing* (Amy Halpern, 2021, 1.5 minutes, silent, 16mm); selected by Amy Reid *Film Quilt* (Amy Reid, 2026, 2 minutes, silent, 16mm) *Site Visit* (Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, 1998, 10 minutes, sound, 16mm); selected by Amy Reid *Flow Attachment* (Tijana Petrović, 2026, 10 minutes, sound design by Chris Carlson, digital file) *Salt Garden / Jardin du Sel* (Rose Lowder, 2011, 16 minutes, sound, 16mm); selected by Tijana Petrović Approximate running time: 66 minutes *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Collectif Jeune Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6835c36bbf&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm GMT+1, Cinéma Le Grand Action, 5 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France *Broken Dreams & Télé-Bingo Mutations* Screening in two parts programmed and presented by Clint Enns and moderated by Ejla Kovacevic /// Broken Dreams: Selected Works of Clint Enns Born in Winnipeg and now based in Montreal, Clint Enns is an artist whose work refuses to sit still or behave itself. Having studied mathematics before turning toward cinema, Enns brings a systems-minded curiosity to images that are anything but orderly. His films are eclectic works that resist easy classification, built largely from found material and low-tech processes: mangled analogue film, screen-captured video chats, deconstructed video games, ASCII animations, toy cameras, Super 8, and footage scavenged from the Internet. Errors are invited, not corrected. An antidote to the hyper-clean tyranny of high-definition images and a sideways jab at overly solemn avant-garde. Algorithms shape the images, but so does a sense of play. The jokes are visual, structural, and occasionally lowbrow. This program offers a dense microcosm of electronic debris and images that aren’t afraid to fail. Welcome to the broken dream. *The Death of Natural Language*, Clint Enns, 2007, 3min *Let Me ASMR You*, Clint Enns, 2014, 3min *Guy Maddin on the set of the Hauntings*, Clint Enns, 2010, 1min *I for NDN*, Clint Enns, 2011, 2min *Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris Trailer*, Clint Enns, 2010, 1min *Self Improvement*, Clint Enns, 2010, 3min *putting yourself out there*, Clint Enns, 2009, 2min *Splice Lines*, Clint Enns, 2012, 30sec *Whiplash*, Clint Enns, 2010, 1min *Spider-Man Vs. Macrovision [Winnipeg Outtake]*, Clint Enns, 2010, 1min *The Everden*, Clint Enns, 2013, 16min First part of the program: 35min /// *Télé-Bingo Mutations: Signals from the Montréal Underground* A small sampling of experimental works by Montréal-based artists. Created by moving-image artists free to pursue eccentric and personal visions, these pieces together offer a glimpse into the formal fixations, private mythologies, and restless curiosities of those who call Montréal home. *Action Bog*, Winston Hacking, 2025, 1min *Pinball Symphony (All-Scores Supercut)*, James Schidlowsky, 2026, 9min *Handsome Devil*, Daniel Barrow, 2024, 4min *On Breathing*, Emma Roufs, 2017, 3min *∞An Archive of Disappearing Sounds∞*, Michaela Michalak, 2025, 11min *Thuya*, Antoine Larocque and Antoine Provencher, 2018, 7min Second part of the program: 45min *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Siskel Film Center <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4b01fbcb4a&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm CT, Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60601 *Conversations at the Edge: KIOTO AOKI: FINDINGS* 2013, 2026, Kioto Aoki, USA, 60 mins In English | Format: 16mm, 35mm slides, and live musical score In the finely attuned 16mm films of Chicago-based filmmaker, photographer, and musician Kioto Aoki, everyday phenomena—sunlight pooling on a wooden floor, blades of grass shifting in a lawn—become the material for exquisite compositions of sensorial and perceptual play. Grounded in an improvisatory sensibility and the embodied physicality of analog filmmaking, Aoki often edits her works in-camera and hand-processes them in her own basement studio.For this special evening, she presents a selection of 16mm films and debuts a new 35mm slide work that draws from her photographic practice and turns more explicitly toward the archive and the relations between perception, culture, and history. Musicians Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Jamie Kempkers accompany the program with a live score, extending Aoki’s improvisatory approach to the event itself—one that opens onto larger questions about how we come to see and understand ourselves in the world around us. Followed by a conversation with Kioto Aoki and audience Q&A *___________________________________________________________________* *February 26 - 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05c1623307&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *SCOTT MACDONALD SELECTS: BIRTH, EARTH, SCREEN, SKY* “What and how does one see when little light is available?” –Scott MacDonald, COMPREHENDING CINEMA “Birth, Earth, Screen, Sky” commemorates the completion of Scott MacDonald’s “Avant-Doc Trilogy” and celebrates his many decades as an educator, scholar, and champion of the moving image. MacDonald’s extensive body of critical interviews and historical scholarship has been an essential education for countless admirers of avant-garde cinema, both inside and beyond the space of the classroom. This collaborative series, programmed by MacDonald and three of his former students, represents the vast and varied influences that his pedagogical approach to cinema has inspired in our lives as film workers, scholars, artists, and cineastes. These selections wander through the infinitely diverse pathways of “comprehending cinema”: beginning from birth and the development of the senses, to the discovery of our physical, material environment(s), moving to the processes of interpreting our vast screen worlds, and culminating in the contemplation of its most ineffable, affective mysteries. This series draws together filmmakers and critical scholarship from MacDonald’s books, “Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema” (2014), “The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama” (2019), and “Comprehending Cinema” (2024) (all published by Oxford University Press). Guest-programmed by Ava Witonsky, Annie Berman, and Isha Parkhi. Selected screenings will be followed by a discussion between Scott MacDonald and the curators. --- BIRTH: THE UNTUTORED EYE - February 26 @ 7:00PM ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b9ed830e81&e=857b71a9cb> --- Stan Brakhage *WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING* 1959, 12 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Carla Simón *LETTER TO MY MOTHER FOR MY SON / CARTA A MI MADRE PARA MI HIJO (MIU MIU WOMEN’S TALES #24)* 2022, 24 min, DCP. In Spanish and Catalan with English subtitles. Agnes Varda *L’OPÉRA-MOUFFE* 1958, 16 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In French with English subtitles. Marie Menken *HURRY! HURRY!* 1957, 3 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Priya Sen *STORIES OF US: FOOTNOTES FROM EMERALD ISLAND* 2015, 12 min, DCP Kiro Russo *NUEVA VIDA* 2015, 15 min, DCP. In Spanish with English subtitles. Total running time: ca. 85 min. --- EARTH: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL: THE FILMS OF ERIN ESPELIE - February 27 @ 7:00PM ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42c1b29f29&e=857b71a9cb> --- Erin Espelie *THE LANTHANIDE SERIES* 2014, 70 min, DCP Erin Espelie *视网膜 (A NET TO CATCH THE LIGHT)* 2016, 7 min, 16mm-to-DCP Erin Espelie *内共生 (INSIDE THE SHARED LIFE)* 2017, 9 min, 16mm-to-DCP Total running time: ca. 90 min. Followed by discussion and Q&A with Erin Espelie and Scott MacDonald. --- SCREEN: THE VIDEO ESSAY: A NEW AVANT-GARDE? - February 28 @ 5:00PM ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f47bf3dd37&e=857b71a9cb> --- Maryam Tafakory *IRANI BAG* 2021, 8 min, DCP Carlos Adriano *UNTITLED #4: IN SPITE OF RUIN, SING IN THE RAIN / SEM TITULO #4: APESAR DOS PESARES, NA CHUVA HÁ DE CANTARES* 2018, 27 min, DCP. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Jennifer West *FILM TITLE POEM* 2016, 67 min, 35mm-to-DCP Kevin B. Lee & Lého Galibert-Laîné *READING BINGING BENNING* 2018, 11 min, DCP Total running time: ca. 120 min. Followed by a discussion with Scott MacDonald and the curators, Annie Berman, Isha Parkhi, and Ava Witonsky. --- SKY: “THE TIMELESS CANVAS” - February 28 @ 8:15PM ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7ea425ab31&e=857b71a9cb> --- Takahiko Iimura *KIRI (FOG)* 1970, 5 min, 16mm, silent Yoko Ono & John Lennon *APOTHEOSIS* 1970, 18 min, 16mm-to-digital Tadhg O’Sullivan *TO THE MOON* 2020, 76 min, DCP Lois Patiño *FAJR* 2017, 12 min, 16mm-to-DCP Total running time: ca. 115 min *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MONO NO AWARE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc46c07c3e&e=857b71a9cb> 7:00 PM ET, 33 Flatbush Ave THIRD FLOOR REAR * call for enty * *CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS: Making Kin(o)! Remote in New York : a letter to you was a slice of my reflection* *Making Kin(o)! Remote in New York : a letter to you was a slice of my reflection*. A film program organized by Erica Sheu of Taiwan-based experimental film group/collective ReaRflex. TRT, 67 minutes. Additional time for discussion / Q & A with Erica Sheu * IN PERSON * Since 2021, Taiwan-based experimental film group/collective ReaRflex has been hosting a series of screenings titled, Making Kin(o)!, borrowing the phrase from Donna Haraway’s “making kin, not babies.” Making Kin(o) focuses on artist-organized screening events, reflecting a grassroots spirit tracing its history back to the beginning of the avant-garde cinema community. ReaRflex also hosts visiting artists to present work when they visit Taiwan. ReaRflex’s main members, Johan Chang, Erica Sheu, and Tzuan Wu, travel with film screening programs. Past engagements include Worm (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Center Kanuma (Tochigi, Japan), Tamagawa University (Tokyo, Japan), Whammy! Analog media (Los Angeles, USA), among others. One of ReaRflex’s longest-running programs, 台日實驗電影自主放映, Taiwanese and Japanese Experimental Film Screenings, is an annual screening presented in collaboration with Ground Level/Rebel Cinema (GLC). GLC is a self-organized volunteer cohort from Image Forum Institute (Tokyo, Japan) that presents new work or work in progress. The screenings are hosted concurrently in Taipei and Tokyo, while filmmakers reunite in person and online from both venues. Many participants, whether working in a film-related job or elsewhere, use this opportunity to make their work more personal and reflective of the films they aspire to make. ’The films featured in this program are from the Taiwan side of this collaborative screening series. They reveal a personal ritual, a letter to a newborn, exchanged film diaries, and fresh and curious eyes behind a film camera. Shot on film and hand-processed, they are tactile approaches to personal whispers, or a happy spinning around.’ - Erica Sheu *morphosis*, Lichun TSENG & Mick O'Shea, 16mm to digital | b&w and color | digital sound | 15 min | 2025 | Netherlands, Taiwan *Sites of Dependency*, YEN Wang-Yun, 16mm to digital | color | digital sound | 6 min | 2025 | Netherlands, Taiwan *Single 8 Single Frame Diary*, Chun-tien CHEN, 8mm to digital | color | digital sound | 8 min | 2025 | Taiwan *Fur Film Vol. 1: I don’t own a cat*, Tzuan WU & Erica SHEU, 16mm & super 8 to digital | b/w & color | digital sound | 7 min | 2021 | Taiwan, USA *Jouhatsu Letters*, Johan CHANG & Masa KUDO, 16mm & super 8 to digital | b&w and color | digital sound | 31 min | 2024 | Taiwan, Japan *___________________________________________________________________* *February 27 - 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Obló Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=51fb216fc3&e=857b71a9cb> 8:00PM Central European Standard Time, Cinéma Oblò Avenue de france 9 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland *Obló Cinema Presents the Death Spiral Tour by M. Woods* Obló Cinema in Lausanne, Switzerland hosts two nights of the Death Spiral Tour screening the feature films *Body Prop* and *Commodity Trading: Dies Irae *by radical multidisciplinary artist M. Woods. *Body Prop* (75 min, HD, English with French subtitles) is an avant-garde essay film and attack against the ontology of white imperialism. Made of mostly hand-processed super 8 film - the rejected pieces of film used in other pieces of The Numb Spiral. The piece, in five movements, takes on the subject of the Body as a prop, as a body politic, as a simulation, and as a necropolitical expense, creating a “Cadaver Decomposition Island” of discarded scraps of Super 8 and archival material reveal the shadow of US nihilism within the advanced stage of hyperreality. *Commodity Trading: Dies Irae*, (approx. 90 min., HD, English with French subtitles) described by Lucia Ahrensdorf of Screen Slate as "an immersive and hallucinatory carnival”, has been touring worldwide since 2021, most recently at the Maysles Documentary Center and the East London Experimental Film Club. The recipient of a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art and Lightcone Paris, Woods’ magnum opus is a genre-defying documentary of resistance wrapped in a nightmare chronicling the Numb Spiral, a metaphysical hell that Woods sets against the destructive first Trump presidency. Woods stars as a fictional version of themself, losing reality, and eventually collapsing into a swirling void of media overdrive. *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Academy Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5cfa7c9099&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 *Glimmers and Ghosts: The Cinema of Tomonari Nishikawa* One of the leading experimental filmmakers of the 21st century, Tomonari Nishikawa began his practice in 2003, exploring the tangible qualities and apparatus of filmmaking. “Just as an artist carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa said of his early *Sketch Film(s) #1–5*, “I carried a Super 8 camera and practiced stop-motion animation of the lines and shapes I see in public spaces,” documenting city streets in his native Japan and in New York. Using in-camera techniques and strategic masking to capture life in compounded fragments, Nishikawa creates tiny magic tricks of time and space, elegantly showcased in *Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon* (2016), a contemplative short that features bridges in his hometown of Mount Ōkawairi, Japan, and his... “slipstream city symphonies” (*Mubi Notebook*) like *Shibuya – Tokyo* (2010) and *45 7 Broadway* (2013). Nishikawa’s films have been showcased around the world; lauded at international festivals; and deeply appreciated by his students at Binghamton University in New York. When Nishikawa passed away suddenly in April 2025, at the age of 55, he left behind his influence on a generation of aspiring filmmakers and a collection of remarkable shortform works, showcased in near completion in this program. All films are directed by Tomonari Nishikawa. Special thanks to Miki Nishikawa, Canyon Cinema, and Lightcone. Program and notes by K.J. Relth-Miller. Total program runtime: approx. 70 min. *Apollo* 2003. 6 min. USA/Japan. Black-and-White. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Market Street* 2005. 5 min. USA. Black-and-White. Silent. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *16-18-4* 2008. 3 min. Japan. Color. Silent. Not Rated. 35mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Lumphini 2552* 2009. 3 min. Thailand. Black-and-White. Sound. Not Rated. Print courtesy Lightcone. *Tokyo – Ebisu* 2010. 5 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Shibuya – Tokyo* 2010. 10 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *45 7 Broadway* 2013. 5 min. USA. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Manhattan One Two Three Four* 2014. 3 min. USA. Black-and-White. Silent. Not Rated. *sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars* 2014. 2 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 35mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Luminous Veil* 2016. 6 min. USA. Color. Sound. Not Rated. *Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon* 2016. 10 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Amusement Ride* 2019. 6 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke* 2023. 6 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc285a4df7&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *SF PSYCHO-GEO* BILL DANIEL's *MISSION BAY* + BEN WOODS' *BASTION OF MEMORY* + Our annual iteration of local work on SF locales here foregrounds the brave interrogations of changing Bayshore communities by a prodigal photog/filmmaker who's fortunately returned to roost on the City's easternmost side –Bill Daniel unspools two beauties on the Bayshore's, uh, beaches, in tandem with a sneak-peak at Greta Snider's 16mm paean to the same liminal paddlin' zone. Fort Point stalwart Ben Wood steps up with his own 18 min. essay on that same shoreline, though at its northernmost, a downright riveting account of the Irish immigrant who manned the Lifesaving Station at the promontory, who details ship-lore in the dangerous days before the Golden Gate. A Fisherman's Wharf overture celebrates those shallows between those two compass points. This focus on our proud extension into our beloved salt/fresh water pond is complicated by other supporting shorts – from Jim (Angels) Granato, (hopefully) a Thad Povey episode, and, yes, a knee-slapping send-up of Haight/Ashbury stereotypes by decidedly LA-based Damon Packard. Plus a passel of pre-show pieces by the home-team, all to illuminate possible understandings of what “San Francisco” might mean. *SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b014e291e5&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA *Eve-Lauryn LaFountain: Conversation Pieces* With camera in hand, Eve-Lauryn LaFountain's Experimental Films extinguish mythical ideals of history in the American Southwest, while engaging a troth of interrelated dynamics between the land and those who hear its beauty and history. The films often bind together the very layered and enchanting awareness(es) between place and space, while concomitantly living life and critiquing stereotypical media representations of Native people and cultures. At other times, the films exhibit imagery symbolizing a liberated consciousness, free from a contaminated imagination suppressing the textures and colors of our everyday experience of land and landscapes. Eve memorializes the strained and distant relationship contemporary life has to a directly connected spirit to nature. Simultaneously she heightens the reading we have of existence through audiovisual blessings and cleansings, from legacies of colonialism(s), and cycles of ecological collision and collapse. The films leaf through dynamics of heritage and generational knowledge, juxtaposing meditations on tradition(s), with, as Eve says, a "braiding" and "resurrecting", an ascending, and descending, into and beneath time, and its reality. - Diego Robles, programmer Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She was born into a family of artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she is currently based. She is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and educator. Her work explores identity, history, Indigenous Futurism, feminism, ghosts, magic, and her mixed Native American and Jewish heritage through lens based media and installations. She is a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow, and has received support for her work from the Sundance Institute, Mike Kelley Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, COUSIN Collective, Echo Park Film Center and more. She has exhibited her work in venues and festivals around the world. She holds a BA from Hampshire College, and a dual MFA in Film & Video and Photography & Media from CalArts. Smudge Series and Conversation Pieces will screen on 16mm! *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b5812e7096&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=ee1d4cc4ca&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=02785d8cd1&e=857b71a9cb> . 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