<https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3/images/c6a4b757-b14c-4ec9-b8c6-9553961a080e.gif> This week [Oct. 26 - Nov. 3, 2019] in avant garde cinema Enter your event announcements by going to the <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=239bb9eec7&e=f36020cad0> Flicker Weekly Listing Form. To receive the weekly listing via email: <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=4cbfdb231b&e=f36020cad0> Subscribe. <http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/K40KelpKaffee-bl-1-370x247.jpg> Dagie Delights: New Films From A Recent Residency [October 27, Los Angeles, CA United States] <http://www.nomadica.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GSpina_Variazioni-luminose-nei-cieli-della-citta%CC%80_2018_2.jpg> Weekend On the Moon [October 31, Bologna, Italy] <http://www.hi-beam.net/temp/oc-11-02.jpg> Optron 2: Media Archeology: STARK, BECKER, CAPLAN, BAIRD + [November 2, San Francisco] <https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/download_file/view_inline/7527/> Four Parts of A Folding Screen [November 3, London, England] <http://www.sfcinematheque.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Revelations-20190625-NBPL-poster5-wpcf_547x400.jpeg> Duo B. Vs. video Savant + Two Films By Dominic Angerame [November 3, San Francisco, CA United States] NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: Video Art Miden (Greece; Deadline: November 30, 2019) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=d96faf1b17&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2051.ann Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn. NY, USA; Deadline: June 26, 2020) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=9c4a8d4fc9&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2052.ann Spectral Film Festival (Stevens Point, WI, USA; Deadline: January 19, 2020) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=5db9d23a5f&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2053.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: Winter Film Awards International Film Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: November 15, 2019) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=0bf48e4913&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2034.ann The Wake Up! 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This week's programs (summary): * Incredibly Strange Religion [October 26, San Francisco] * The Wind Is Driving Him Towards the Open Sea [October 27, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Dagie Delights: New Films From A Recent Residency [October 27, Los Angeles, CA United States] * Jonas Mekas, Program 3: Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [October 27, New York, NY] * David Brooks Short Films [October 28, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Flaherty Nyc: the Face of the Planet [October 28, New York, New York] * Greater and Lesser Magic: Occult Films For Halloween [October 29, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] * Weekend On the Moon [October 31, Bologna, Italy] * Submissions: Artifact Small Format Film Festival [November 1, Calgary, Alberta Canada] * Luminous Intervals [November 1, New York, New York] * A Salon With Lana Z Caplan [November 1, San Francisco] * Gregory Markopoulos and Robert Beavers Tribute At the 60th thessaloniki International Film Festival [November 1, Thessaloniki] * Satellite Cinema: A Kiddie Matinee [November 2, RIDGEWOOD] * Optron 2: Media Archeology [November 2, San Francisco] * Greetings From Free Forests [November 3, Brooklyn, NY United States] * Four Parts of A Folding Screen [November 3, London, England] * Reminiscences of A Journey: A Tribute To Jonas Mekas [November 3, Los Angeles, California] * Mono No Aware Community Screening Program [November 3, New York, New York] * Duo B. Vs. video Savant + Two Films By Dominic Angerame [November 3, San Francisco, CA United States] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2019 10/26 San Francisco: Other Cinema <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=3e150bf7ff&e=f36020cad0> http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 992 Valencia Street INCREDIBLY STRANGE RELIGION OCT.26: REVIVAL OF EVIL + UNARIUS + SUB-GENIUS + Holy crap! For our annual Halloween SPOOKTACULAR, we couldn’t get any freakier than the contemporary hellscape of “alt religion”...and here is a veritable Flood of eschatological SPEW and wide-eyed WHEW!! We’ve got Pat Boone speaking in tongues, clips of Poke Runyon’s Magic of Solomon, Holy Ghost Hysteria, Mark of the Beast, Cult Explosion, the ever-visionary adventures of our flying-saucer/past-lives pals Unarius, and a couple clips (Arise!, X-Day Drill) from the Texas Slack sect with strong connections to SF, The Church of the Sub-Genius! Praise Bob!! The night’s 16mm high/low point is a conspiratorial section from Jeremiah Films’ ultra rare, utterly wicked Revival of Evil, with intro by collector Anthony Buchanan. ALSO the Mormon Ancient America (claiming Jesus preached in Meso-America), the post-Mormon doomsday sect Nesara, 700 Club on Burning Man’s Satanic connections, Joe Schimmel on backward-masking, black magic, sorcery, and witchcraft, and the energized rants and intra-Christian attacks of many other bizarre belief-systems. DJ Mysterious Music Meister will be spinning the vinyl backwards, of course, as well as dispensing free trick-or-treats! *$6.66 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2019 10/27 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=0422687f91&e=f36020cad0> http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 5pm, 24 Quincy Street, Attn: HFA THE WIND IS DRIVING HIM TOWARDS THE OPEN SEA In the beginning a philosopher tells of seeing his hero, DiMaggio, hit a home run. How did he know he hit a home run? He checked the newspapers. How did they know? The philosophers ask, ‘How can we prove that this is grass?’ How do we know anything? The Wind… is about those explorations one must make to find out about the world. The object of any man’s exploration must ultimately be a woman, a kumari. In the film a boy travels, while we search for a man, Chandler Moore. He is never found, but we see the world he has made for himself. When one does not find a kumari one often finds a kumiss. A film in numerous realities including those of image, news, myth, philosophy, documentary, mythopoeia. – David Brooks Directed by David Brooks. With Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, Sidney Morgenbesser. US, 1968, 16mm, color, 52 min. 10/27 Los Angeles, CA United States: Echo Park Film Center <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=2bbbfd5c28&e=f36020cad0> http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8:00 PM, 1200 N Alvarado St DAGIE DELIGHTS: NEW FILMS FROM A RECENT RESIDENCY EPFC’s 2-day Cinematic Oktoberfest wraps up at EPFC with the return of Dagie Brundert and a whole bunch of new eco-brew Super 8 films created during her two-month residency at North Street Collective in Willets, CA. Food, drinks, films and fun for everyone! FREE EVENT! FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE! This event is made possible by Wunderbar Together: Germany and the US, an initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by Goethe Institut and supported by BDI The Voice of Germany Industry. 10/27 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=24512cd484&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue JONAS MEKAS, PROGRAM 3: LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR 2008, 289 min, digital This video is made up of footage that I took with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded by the television newscasters. It can be also viewed as a classic Greek drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the unbending, bordering on irrational, will of one single man, one small nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight against the Might & Power, against the Impossible. MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019 10/28 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=ee1941bf49&e=f36020cad0> http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, 24 Quincy Street DAVID BROOKS SHORT FILMS Jerry Part I: music as image… Part II: movement of the film-maker [Jerry Jofen]. – David Brooks Directed by David Brooks. US, 1963, 16mm, black & white, silent, 3 min. Nightspring Daystar Dark to light, sadness to happiness, night to day; the film springs from the night through the dawn to the daystar, following the adventures of the mind on the way. – DB Directed by David Brooks. US, 1964, 16mm, color, 18 min. [Roland Kirk] Footage of the legendary jazz musician shot and edited by Brooks but never printed until preserved by Anthology Film Archives in 2009. Directed by David Brooks. US, 1964, 16mm, black & white, silent, 4 min. Winter ’64-‘66 Door golden night room trees fire drip rain blue horse river snow birds green mountain forest dark room mist car tress window ducks are flying…. Overtones: Raga Palas Kafi, Grant’s, Slug’s, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, Raga Rageshri, the wind, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, the Beatles, Piatnitsky Chorus. Locales: Nantucket, Kazakhstan, Grant’s, Nepal, Colorado, Mt. Kearsarge, Iowa, 7th Street. – DB Directed by David Brooks. US, 1964-66, 16mm, color, 17 min. Letter to D.H. in Paris Stoned friends/music more music/fields/movement/play/spontaneous/very beautiful. – Carolyn Brooks Directed by David Brooks. US, 1967, 16mm, color, 4 min. Eel Creek Fishing/boys and father/pure/simple/straight forward – Carolyn Brooks Directed by David Brooks. US, 1968, 16mm, color, 4 min. 10/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=79535a4569&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7pm, 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 FLAHERTY NYC: THE FACE OF THE PLANET 7:00 PM FLAHERTY NYC: THE FACE OF THE PLANET. This screening is part of: FLAHERTY NYC: SURFACE KNOWLEDGE. Jerome Ellis and Jennifer Peterson in person. Additional guests TBA. Moderated by Courtney Stephens, filmmaker and curator. What can films about nature do in this time of ecological crisis? Tracing a line through three discrete eras and modes of filmmaking – early nature films from the 1920s, feminist work of the 1970s, and contemporary work that attempts to queer and decolonize nature – this evening explores constellations of the “natural.” With a focus on notions of wildness and endangerment, the program explores how living worlds have been constructed – as fierce, “feminine,” or under threat – and how these constructions have been rejected, reinterpreted, or embraced by filmmakers of different generations. Featuring films, performance, and live lecture, these works move us beyond the flatness of the screen to engage with matters of ecological concern in the actually existing material world. Percy Smith NATURE’S HANDIWORK (1921, 10 min, 16mm-to-digital. Silent film accompanied by Jennifer Peterson (live narration) and Jerome Ellis (live music).) ALASKA'S EIGHTH WONDER (REEL 2) (ca. 1925, 12 min, 16mm-to-digital. Silent film accompanied by Jennifer Peterson (live narration) and Jerome Ellis (live music).) Ana Mendieta GRASS BREATHING (ca. 1974, 3 min, Super-8mm-to-digital) Ana Mendieta CREEK (1974, 3 min, Super-8mm-to-digital) Ana Mendieta SILUETA DE ARENA (1978, 2 min, Super-8mm-to-digital) Barbara Hammer JANE BRAKHAGE (1972, 10 min, 16mm) Bill Basquin DEER CENSUS (2009, 8 min, digital) Christina Battle OIL WELLS: STURGEON ROAD & 97TH ST (2002, 3 min, 16mm) Ja’Tovia Gary GIVERNY I (NEGRESSE IMPERIALE) (2017, 6 min, digital) Thirza Cuthland LESS LETHAL FETISHES (2019, 10 min, digital) Anna Kipervaser & Rhys Morgan NO GARDEN BEYOND (2019, 11 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 85 min. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019 10/29 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Nightletter <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=7b44f83e4c&e=f36020cad0> http://nightletter.org/lessermagic 7:30pm, 5213 Grays Ave GREATER AND LESSER MAGIC: OCCULT FILMS FOR HALLOWEEN This Halloween, join us at Nightletter for an evening of films that plumb the depths of the esoteric from Aleister Crowley and witchcraft to satanic panic and illusion. The occult has been integral to cinema since its emergence at the height of 19th Century Spiritualism. And it came pre-packaged with all the ingredients for magik: a ritual in darkness, the illusions of sound, color and editing, and the conjuring of light. Greater and Lesser Magic begins with Maya Deren’s Witch’s Cradle which was unfinished at the time of her death and then revived and completed from beyond the grave. Featuring Marcel Duchamp, the film makes common cause between the modernist disruption of dominant cultural values and the witchcraft beloved by the Haitian Voodoo trained filmmaker. Brakhage’s Cat’s Cradle presents a sexual ritual featuring Carolee Schneemann, James Tenney, bathed in a ghostly reddish light. As if from the perspective of a black cat as spirit medium, the result is a sensory overload of rapid editing. Kenneth Anger’s and Curtis Harrington’s films are platforms for Marjorie Cameron who, in the Los Angeles coven of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema movement, was destined to carry the reincarnated Whore of Babylon to term. The group, whose fingerprints are all over one-time member L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology, performed sexual masquerade rituals which are dramatized in Anger’s film. Its frenzied colors and costuming vacillates between the best of Hollywood cinematography and complete abstraction. The Wormwood Star is a more straightforward spell, documenting Cameron in statuesque still lives as well as her symbolist paintings while her voiceover acts as a sort of incantation. The program will also include a short selection of illusionist films by Georges Méliès. Witch’s Cradle / Maya Deren / 1943 / 12 min / 16mm Cat’s Cradle / Stan Brakhage / 1959 / 6 min / 16mm The Wormwood Star / Curtis Harrington / 1956 / 10 min / 16mm Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome / Kenneth Anger / 1954 / 38 min / 16mm THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2019 10/31 Bologna, Italy: Nomadica <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=adbd6dd3b4&e=f36020cad0> http://www.nomadica.eu/ oct 31 - nov 3, Menomale, Via De Pepoli 1/a, 40125, Bologna, Italy WEEKEND ON THE MOON Weekend On the Moon, Nomadica's second international event, will be held from Thursday October 31 until Sunday November 3 in Bologna, Italy. We've put together sixteen curated programs, three special morning gatherings, a four-projectors installation and an exhibition of archival documents and books! We've been working all year in order to make this event, a much needed marathon of films that otherwise would not be screened in Italy. We are grateful to all the artists and professionals who helped us in the making of this event, against all odds. We'll have six programs curated by Nomadica's main team (Giuseppe Spina, Giulia Mazzone and Riccardo Re) and eight special programs curated by Francisco Algarìn Navarro, Rinaldo Censi, Federico Epifanio, Martin Grennberger, Yavuz Gözeller, Tommaso Isabella, Stefano Miraglia, Cristina Martinez & César Ustarroz. Special solo screenings of Sky Hopinka, Luca Ferri and Bruno Delgado Ramo. Canti Neri installation by Samira Guadagnuolo & Tiziano Doria curated by Unzalab (which also takes care of all the 16mm/s8 film projections). Breakfast events with Found Footage Magazine, Walden Magazine, Revista Lumière, Luca Ferri, Chiara Seghetto (and with our beloved and deeply missed Marco Melani). Reading tables and archival documents exhibitions curated by La Camera Ardente, Cecilia Ermini and Stefano Miraglia. We are going to screen films by: Martin Arnold, Dianna Barrie, Prantik Basu, Alessandra Beltrame, Sarah Bliss, Dan Browne, Adrián Canoura, Linda Christanell, Charlotte Clermont, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Helena Deda, Bruno Delgado Ramo, Théo Deliyannis, Roger Deutsch, Lena Ditte Nissen, Tiziano Doria, James Edmonds, Zachary Epcar, Alex Faoro, Laurence Favre, Pedro Ferreira, Luca Ferri, Siegfried Fruhauf, Ariana Gerstein, Miriam Gossing, Tim Grabham (aka iloobia), Brittany Gravely, Samira Guadagnuolo, Vincent Guilbert, Sinan Güldal, Scott Hammen, Sky Hopinka, Roger Horn, Lara Kamhi, Chris Kennedy, Josh Lewis, Ken Linehan, Simon Liu, Rose Lowder, Jodie Mack, Jean-Jacques Martinod, Bori Máté, Ross Meckfessel, Luján Montes, Daniel Murphy, Naz Önen, John Price, Annalisa Donatella Quagliata, Lee Ranaldo, Georges Rey, Jay Rosenblatt, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Lee Anne Schmitt, M.M. Serra, Paul Sharits, Lina Sieckmann, Guli Silberstein, Claes Söderquist, Mike Stoltz, Deborah Stratman, Malena Szlam, Richard Tuohy, Esther Urlus, Zeno van den Broek, Josh Weissbach, Steven Woloshen. The screenings will be in 16mm, Super8 and digital. The event is held at our headquarters in the city center: we have a 40 seats screening room, a room for seminars/exhibitions, a lounge with bar and a small courtyard. In order to access the event you need to be a member (which costs 4 euros), the screenings are pay-what-you-can. Full program here: http://www.nomadica.eu/weekend2019/ Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/953784298347631/ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2019 11/1 Calgary, Alberta Canada: Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=0e0869c929&e=f36020cad0> http://www.csif.org midnight, https://artifactfilmfestival.com/ SUBMISSIONS: ARTIFACT SMALL FORMAT FILM FESTIVAL The Artifact Small Format Film Festival (formerly the $100 Film Festival) is Calgary’s oldest film festival, and one of the only ones in the world to EXCLUSIVELY screen Super 8 and 16mm films. When the festival was born in 1992, it showcased eight short films on Super 8. The name sprung from the challenge to shoot a short film on four rolls of Super 8 – which tallied to the cost of $100. In following years, the festival dropped the budgetary limit and allowed 16 mm film, which shifted the focus from low budget to quality small-format films. Thus, the name was changed to the Artifact Small Format Film Festival in 2017 so as to better represent the festival's role as an international celebration of creative storytelling on celluloid. Artifact is proud to be among the select few celluloid festivals worldwide that continue to keep the medium alive, and to draw celluloid lovers to Calgary each year. Artifact pays artist fees for all works selected for the festival (based on IMAA rates). 11/1 New York, New York: Medicine Show <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=de868c21cd&e=f36020cad0> https://www.facebook.com/events/2400569203325214/ 8pm, 549 West 52 St. (between 10th and 11th Avenues) New York, NY 10019 LUMINOUS INTERVALS New visionary video work by David Finkelstein and Fred Hatt. Film (2019, 7 minutes, Fred Hatt), Luminous Interval (1991, 12 minutes, Fred Hatt), Epistolary Fusillades (2011, 18 minutes, David Finkelstein), Invisible Body (2017,6 minutes, Fred Hatt), A Collection of Eccentricities (2019, 18 minutes, David Finkelstein, world premiere). Every so often a film would startle us for its originality and personal vision, it would electrify our senses and leave us hungry for more. David Finkelstein’s Epistolary Fusillades was one such film. -- Film Panic Journal. Hatt’s film is Ecstatic, Sensory, Visceral, Experiential! -- filmmaker Ken Jacobs. DAVID FINKELSTEIN's video work has been featured in numerous film festivals around the world and has won awards at 20 of them. As an artist, FRED HATT crosses the boundaries between performance and visual arts, between traditional craft and contemporary technologies. 11/1 San Francisco: Canyon Cinema Foundation <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=1ca8ecc322&e=f36020cad0> http://canyoncinema50.org/events/e521efc9-c659-4e32-b748 7:30, 1777 Yosemite Avenue, Suite 210 A SALON WITH LANA Z CAPLAN We are delighted to welcome multimedia artist Lana Z Caplan to present a Canyon Cinema Salon screening at 16 Sherman Street in San Francisco. Caplan has curated a program that elegantly weaves films from Canyon's deep catalog along with her poignant and visually rich work. "Chosen from subconscious memories and deep influences, the films in this program relate to the ideas and approaches that I have been wrestling with in my own work: harmony and disharmony with the rhythms and gifts of earth --- persuasive and abusive use of media --- ritual, ceremony, mysticism --- and the fleeting preciousness of it all. " - Lana Z Caplan As always, this event is free and open to the public, with refreshments served beginning at 7:00 and the doors closed for the start of the show at 7:30. An informal conversation with the filmmaker will follow the screening. Program includes: Kalendar by Naomi Uman (2008, 12 min, 16mm) A Depression in the Bay of Bengal by Mark Lapore (1996, 28 min, 16mm) My Name is Oona by Gunvor Nelson (1969, 10 min, 16mm) HedonHeathen 1 by Lana Z Caplan (2013, 2 min, HD) Aspect by Emily Richardson (2004, 9 min, 16mm) Patches of Snow in July by Lana Z Caplan (2017, 8 min, HD) About Lana Z Caplan: Lana Z Caplan works across various media, including single-channel films or videos in essay form, interactive installations, video art, and photography. Inspired by particular locations and notions of utopia, her work often explores the implications of the social landscape on the physical landscape and the transformative experience images, social and immersive media have on our psyche. Caplan’s work has been recognized by awards at various exhibitions and festivals including the Audience Award at the Crossroads Film Festival in San Francisco and Director’s Prize at Black Maria Film Festival. Other notable exhibitions and festivals include Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing), National Gallery (San Juan, PR), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City), Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Edinburgh International Film Festival, L’Alternativa Independent Film Festival (Barcelona), Anthology Film Archives (NY, NY), Chicago Underground Film Festival, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Antimatter media art (Victoria, BC), Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Scotland), Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque), Currents New Media Festival (Santa Fe) and Havana Film Festival. Caplan is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography and Video at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. 11/1 Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki International Film Festival <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=8e2950e2e8&e=f36020cad0> https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/professionals-b2b/media-press/26993-towards-temenos-the-experimental-cinema-of-gregory-markopoulos-and-robert-beavers-at-the-60th-tiff 17:00, Theatre Olympion, Screen Pavlos Zanas, Pl. Aristotelous 10, Thessaloniki 546 23, Greece GREGORY MARKOPOULOS AND ROBERT BEAVERS TRIBUTE AT THE 60TH THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL To celebrate two of the most respected figures in the history of film art, the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (31/10 – 10/11/2019) will host a tribute to the groundbreaking cinema of Gregory Markopoulos and Robert Beavers. | The film programme, “Towards Temenos: Gregory Markopoulos and Robert Beavers”, will present 12 films during the first three days of the Festival and it will be accompanied by an open conversation between Beavers and Mark Webber, founder of The Visible Press, on Saturday 2 November. Also in the programme, film critic Georgia Korossi's short-length documentary “Devotion” – a rare visual and ethnographic testimony of the quadrennial event of screenings of Markopoulos’ monumental film Eniaios (1947-91) – will screen to Greek audiences for the first time. | Curated by Georgia Korossi. With thanks to Temenos Verein, Cineric Inc. and the Schwyzer-Winiker Foundation, Zurich. | Programme duration: 1-3 November 2019. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2019 11/2 RIDGEWOOD: Independent <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=dd93f92296&e=f36020cad0> http://marybillyou.com/blog4/projects/ 1pm , 751 Onderdonk Ave. SATELLITE CINEMA: A KIDDIE MATINEE Satellite Cinema highlights the New York Public Library’s extensive holdings with additional support from independent distributors of artists’ films. Programming includes early cinema, silent films, animation, and experimental work. Live music will be performed during silent films. On November 2nd at 1pm Location: 755 Onderdonk Ave., Ridgewood 11385 Suggested Donation: $5 "Bug Vaudeville" Winsor McCay, 1917, sound, 10 mins. "The Rink" Charlie Chaplin, 1916, silent, b&w, 22 mins. "Ghosts Before Breakfast" Hans Richter, 1927, silent, b&w, 7 mins. "Spook Sport" Mary Ellen Bute & Norman McLaren, music by Saint-Saens, 1939, sound, color, 8 mins. "Trick or Treat" Huey, Dewey and Louie, 1952, sound, color, 8 mins. "The Leaf Dance" Judi Fogelman, 1983, sound, color, 3 mins. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 1972, sound, color, 13 mins. TRT: 71 mins For more information, contact: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 11/2 San Francisco: Other Cinema <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=18827ec95e&e=f36020cad0> http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 992 Valencia Street OPTRON 2: MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY NOV.2: SCOTT STARK + TOMMY BECKER + BILL BAIRD + LANA CAPLAN + A Live A-V luv-fest fer sure, with distinctive, daring demonstrations of creative expression from four of Cali’s leading media-artists! Prodigal son Scott Stark proffers a para-cinema set featuring the premiere of CLYPPS and his in-house 35mm scope projector, while twinkling SLO satellite Lana Z Caplan orbits back with the NorCal launch of her 35mm piece Apollonian Light and her Autopoiesis short. SF stalwart Tommy Becker sets up screen-left with the debut of his Side Two of Tape Number One--music and poetry exploring our entangled relations with auto-mobile machines. AND here’s the unveiling of The Cube by ex-Austinite Bill Baird--musical performance-art inside a projection-mapped tent! PLUS a sprinkling of cine/sonic tricks by Ryan Worsley, Bruce Haack, Brett Ingram, et al. Dizzying documentation of Brown/Gruffat’s Unsettling Texas film-performance follows Russ Forster‘s theremin busking. *$9.99 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2019 11/3 Brooklyn, NY United States: UnionDocs <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=9b6383ab26&e=f36020cad0> http://www.uniondocs.org 7:30 PM, 322 Union Ave GREETINGS FROM FREE FORESTS Drifting through the densely forested landscape of southern Slovenia—Greetings From Free Forests reveals a refuge of embedded historical memory. The film travels alongside the testimonies of local hunters, foresters, cavers, and foragers among others—orbiting around an absence left by radical struggle after it has come to fruition and since faded. During WWII, this forest served as a sanctuary for the Partisan Liberation Front, who were resisting the Fascist occupation of Yugoslavia. Remnants of this event can still be found throughout the forest in various states of decay, but also within images that sought to preserve the revolution’s emancipatory energy for future generations; images now stored in an underground film archive buried within the forest itself, depicting both the violence and the hope that came with radical change. Winner of DocLisboa’s Lisbon City Grand Prix, The Brooklyn Rail called it, “the competition’s most interesting film—and maybe its most unclassifiable…[it] moves discursively rather than didactically; offering a mixture of perspectives on the landscape’s past and present, rather than the single, authoritative essay voice that is common in similar films” We’re delighted to host Ian Soroka, former UNDO staff member, back home for the screening of his debut feature. He’ll be in attendance for conversation following the film. 11/3 London, England: Close Up Film Centre <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=e17b6b3415&e=f36020cad0> https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2019/four-parts-of-a-folding-screen/ 20.30, Close Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater Street, E1 6HR FOUR PARTS OF A FOLDING SCREEN Four Parts of a Folding Screen by Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin, 2018, 83 min. Shot in Berlin, this film explores the space between documentary and fiction. Its images combine to construct a contemporary surface of the city. The film’s subject concerns Germany’s past – of National Socialism. Under the oppression of this regime, a woman’s husband is forced to leave. The house must be sold and possessions put into storage. So begins a process orchestrated by the state to deprive the woman of her citizenship and to guarantee the legalised acquisition of her family’s belongings. These malignant acts of bureaucracy raise money for the Nazis and fund their war. The camera maps the addresses of the auction’s successful bidders. This organised theft creates a diaspora of household objects, scattered for the most part – the camera discovers – amongst buildings that no longer exist. An elderly woman asks the film-makers: “Are you working for Google Earth?”, and tells of seeing the whole of Frankfurter Allee destroyed in a single night by aerial bombing – such poignant juxtapositions of past and present spark throughout the film. Still-life studies of household objects break the flow of inevitable petty events. Blown-up sections of old family photographs bear perhaps the merest traces of personal things auctioned and lost. But the film is not a quest – that these objects might be found is never inferred. Instead, the film is a recounting or retelling of a brutalising process. The occasional glimpses of archive documents matter-of-factly underscore the mundane nature of day-to-day office work, whilst signalling its cruel consequences. Such imagery also adds to the film’s varied visual texture – a texture clashed and punctuated by voice, sound and musical fragments. As the camera probes the secrets of ordinary spaces, streets and buildings around the city of Berlin, semblances of a person and a history begin to emerge and coalesce.. A SPOON Peter Todd, 2019, 2'30 min, Silent. Commissioned by Margaret Tait 100. "Images gathered into a film. Images from earlier works and some new. I have always found spoons amazing things. Often beautiful, and ever useful. So I have made a film for them. Thank you spoons." Peter Todd. Martin Brady will be in conversation with the filmmakers following the screening. 11/3 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=1742095cdc&e=f36020cad0> http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:00 pm, UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY: A TRIBUTE TO JONAS MEKAS In person guests include: David E. James, Oona Mekas The importance of Jonas Mekas to the world of American independent and experimental film cannot be overestimated. Reaching the United States after World War II with his brother Adolfas, Mekas would, over the next seventy years, become a critical figure in exhibiting, distributing, and reviewing experimental films, organizing the New York scene, and by extension, establishing the society in which avant-garde film culture is created and appreciated to this day. His death earlier this year at age 96, shortly after completing two books for publication, marked the end of a generation, especially as it was so shortly followed by the deaths of Barbara Hammer and Carolee Schneemann. Over the course of decades, while also being co-founder of the distributor Film-makers Coop, founder of Anthology Film Archive, film reviewer for the Village Voice, editor of Film Culture, poet, filmmaker, and more, Mekas made a larger number of films, mostly in a diary vein. Overall he called his films “Diaries, Notes and Sketches”. Tonight’s tribute includes three examples, “Williamsburg, Brooklyn,” a more recent video piece that also includes some of his earliest footage from the 1950s; part one of “Walden” which also includes the short film “Notes on the Circus” and “Cassis”, and his feature film Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, along with comments from his daughter Oona Mekas, scholar David E. James and more. Tickets: $10 advance, $9 general in-person, $8 students with ID, seniors free for Filmforum members & UCLA Students with ID. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at https://emarket.cinema.ucla.edu/ShoppingCenter/Details.aspx?ref=1167 or at the door. For more information: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2019/11/3/reminiscences-of-a-journey-jonas-mekas , www.lafilmforum.org <http://www.lafilmforum.org> or 323-377-7238 11/3 New York, New York: MONO NO AWARE <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=2123182a3d&e=f36020cad0> http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2019#showing-51741 1 PM, Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003 MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAM Films by: Ethan Holland, Caitlan Arthur, Danielle Lessnau, Megan Stahl, Danabelle Ignes, Andri Pavlenko, Esme Y Loke OConnor, Samuel Adams, Hanna Ueda, Lavie Lin, Stephanie Park Dorian Anderson, Guiseppe De Lauri, Emilija Gasic, Evelyn Emile, Milos Milicevic, Constanze Han, William Stallworth, Ali Jaffery, Melina Torres, Emanuel Hahn, Qifan Pu, Reid Brewster, Michael Storey, Ashley Hart, John Daniel Holloway, Brett Warren, Samuel Fleischman, Conor Fay, Jan Klier, Furen Dai, Kyla Quinn, Jessica Saldana, Pamela Liou, Paul Oh, Natile Gee, Jamieson Baker, Anjelica Jardiel, Meryl Williams, Alex Tymchak, Linh Vu, Christine van den Berg, Eric Schleicher, Charlotte Carpenter, Chloe Kurabi, Emmanuel Muñoz Maldonado, Adina Glickstein, Alexander Dwinell, Kristen Lawrence, Dena Kopolovich, Natsuko Komatsu, Amba Guerguerian, William Stallworth, James Tacher, Michael Storey, Alexander Whelan, Brett Warren, John Dodderidge, John Daniel Holloway, Clinton Higgins, Helin Malchijah Paulraj, and more **** World Premiere of 60+ films made locally with the support of MONO in September and October 2019. This program will include films shot, processed, and edited on Super 8mm and 16mm film through the educational initiatives of MONO NO AWARE, a cinema-arts nonprofit organization and film positive community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience. FREE TO ATTEND. 11/3 San Francisco, CA United States: Center for New Music 7:30 PM, 55 Taylor St DUO B. VS. VIDEO SAVANT + TWO FILMS BY DOMINIC ANGERAME Tickets: $10 General, $6 C4NM and Cinematheque Members Buy Tickets Online or At Door duo B. vs. vIDEO sAVant (live sound/image performance) + two films by Dominic Angerame Presented in association with the San Francisco Cinematheque The Center for New Music collaborates with Cinematheque to present the finale performance by our 2019 Ensemble in Residence, duo B. vs. vIDEO sAVant. The trio, an improvising intermedia ensemble of drums (Jason Levis), bass (Lisa Mezzacappa) and live video (Charles Woodman), presents a new video/music performance developed this in residence this year. duo B. vs. vIDEO sAVant creates live performances of sound and image that seek the revelatory moments where the distinction between music and video, sound and image melt away and a new whole emerges from the flow between individuals and media. The group formed when Mezzacappa and Woodman met as residents at Headlands Center for the Arts, and since then, the ensemble has performed in the Bay Area and beyond, and has been presented by Cinemateque, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, and the Oakland Winter Live Festival. This year, duo B. vs. vIDEO sAVant has been Ensemble-in-Residence at the Center for New Music, and this evening’s performance is a culmination of the group’s creative work and research as part of that program. The program begins with a screening of works by filmmaker Dominic Angerame. The ongoing transformations of San Francisco’s skyline and cityscape are the grand subject of Angerame’s epic film series The City Symphony (begun 1987). Masterfully filmed in 16mm—and in striking, high contrast black & white—the films that make up The City Symphony demonstrate masterful in-camera editing and virtuosic super-impositions while embodying the paradoxes of solidity and ephemerality of the city in flux. The first half of this evening’s screening/concert features Revelations, the latest in Angerame’s ongoing series. Featuring a haunting soundtrack by Angerame’s long term collaborator Kevin Barnard, Revelations documents transformations in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood and Embarcadero, including the construction of the stadium currently known as Oracle Park. The filmmaker’s 1980 film Freedom’s Skyway, an early celebration of the city’s skyline featuring Chinatown pyrotechnics, opens the show. _____ Let us know about your alternative film/video event! Enter your event announcements by going to the <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=e34ed8f4db&e=f36020cad0> Flicker Weekly Listing Form. To receive the weekly listing via email, send a message to <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=271d7e311f&e=f36020cad0> Subscribe. <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=ab85195aa5&e=f36020cad0> <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=a259672ce0&e=f36020cad0> Copyright © 2019 Flicker, All rights reserved. Longtime recipient of This Week in Avant Garde Cinema <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=51686be292&e=f36020cad0>
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