<https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3/images/c6a4b757-b14c-4ec9-b8c6-9553961a080e.gif> This week [December 15-22, 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=5efeffcb4a&e=f36020cad0> Flicker Weekly Listing Form. 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This week's programs (summary): * Body Memory [December 15, Brooklyn, NY United States] * The Fourth Dimension [December 15, New York, NY] * Night Passage [December 15, New York, NY] * Nitrate Kisses [December 15, New York, NY] * Yes: Philip Cartelli & Mariangela Ciccarello / Sonia Leimer [December 16, Brooklyn, New York] * Naked Spaces - Living Is Round [December 16, New York, NY] * Jonas Mekas, Program 7: My Paris Movie [December 16, New York, NY] * Surname viet Given Name Nam [December 17, New York, NY] * Shoot For the Contents [December 18, New York, NY] * Cineinfinito #113: Mike Leggett [December 18, Santander, Spain] * Reassemblage [December 19, New York, NY] * A Tale of Love [December 19, New York, NY] * Cineinfinito #115: Corinne &Amp; Arthur Cantrill (Iii) [December 19, Santander, Spain] * James Fotopoulos’ Film “Migrating Forms”: 20 Years [December 20, Brooklyn, New York] * Forgetting vietnam [December 20, New York, NY] * Ec: Christopher Maclaine [December 21, New York, NY] * Night Passage [December 21, New York, NY] * Ec: Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [December 21, New York, NY] * The Fourth Dimension [December 21, New York, NY] * Jonas Mekas, Program 8: My Mars Bar Movie [December 21, New York, NY] * Reassemblage [December 21, New York, NY] * Avant To Live [December 21, San Francisco] * Surname viet Given Name Nam [December 22, New York, NY] * Ec: Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches) [December 22, New York, NY] * Forgetting vietnam [December 22, New York, NY] SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2019 12/15 Brooklyn, NY United States: UnionDocs <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=3c2a6b5b59&e=f36020cad0> http://www.uniondocs.org 7:30 PM, 322 Union Ave BODY MEMORY Presented with Millennium Film Journal. Screening to be followed by a discussion with Faith Holland, Seth Barry Watter, and Rachel Stevens Among the common tropes of the New Age healing narrative is that the self must be dismembered before it can be made whole. Visualization and channeling, aromatherapy and crystals are aids to that labor of self-excavation. Moulton’s deft use of the video medium has often gone far to portray such experience—to make graphically manifest the metaphysics of feeling-good. […] The riddle posed by Whispering Pines as a whole is: what’s wrong? Each episode attempts in some way to solve it. Moulton offers one clue in Whispering Pines 7 (2006) when she sings in the form of a cubistic sphinx: “Now that I’m a woman, everything is strange.” —Faith Holland & Seth Watter From Picture Plane to Astral Plane: Shana Moulton’s Whispering Pines We are excited to host a festive evening dedicated to the latest volume of Millennium Film Journal, BODY MEMORY. In celebration, we have invited featured writers from this volume, Faith Holland and Seth Barry Watter, to unpack and walk us through their essay “Picture Plane to Astral Plane” that examines Video Artist Shana Moulton’s video performance series Whispering Pines. We will share a program of Moulton’s videos alongside Jennifer Reeder’s film A Million Miles Away, also featured in this volume of the journal to open up a conversation around contemporary feminist filmmaking perspectives and practice. Millennium Film Journal’s Editor Grahame Weinbren will be in attendance with Rachel Stevens to introduce this volume and the program. Following a presentation from Seth Watter and Faith Holland, Stevens will lead a conversation with them on the films and their work. https://uniondocs.org/event/2019-12-15-body-memory/ 12/15 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=6a727e0c70&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 PM, 32 Second Avenue THE FOURTH DIMENSION by Trinh T. Minh-Ha. THE FOURTH DIMENSION is an incisive and insightful examination of Japan through its art, culture, and social rituals. As is the case with Trinh's previous films, it is a multi-layered work addressing issues around its central theme: the experience of time, the impossibility of truly "seeing," and the impact of video on image-making. In her first foray into digital video, she deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present. With its lush imagery, Trinh's Japan is viewed through mobile frames, with doors and windows sliding shut, revealing new vistas as it blocks out the old light. "Trinh's newest essayistic work and her first videotape, cuts an intricate key for unlocking this elusive culture. Her tack finds great visual pleasure in the everyday, composing and decomposing the social landscape, while constructing a poetic grid of temporalities, symbolic meaning, and ritual. Trinh's lyrical narration guides us through 'Japan's likeness,' the perfected framing of the sacramental familiar." -Steve SeidThis screening is also part of The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film Series; click here for details. 12/15 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=9358c6ff7c&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:15 PM, 32 Second Avenue NIGHT PASSAGE by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Co-directed by Jean-Paul Bourdier. Made in homage to Kenji Miyazawa's children's sci-fi classic MILKY WAY RAILROAD, this provocative tale tells the story of three young friends traveling for a brief moment together on the train between life and death. Their journey into and out of the land of "awakened dreams" occurs on a long ride on a night train. Ingeniously framed through the train window, Trinh and artist Jean-Paul Bourdier create whimsical and sensual dreamscapes, which are matched by an equally beautiful and other-worldly music score. Once again, Trinh shifts the way she engages with the form and the spirit of the cinema - to challenge and provoke her audience. "The netherworld between life and death is viewed as a place of light, shadow, movement and uncertain ideas in NIGHT PASSAGE." -VARIETY 12/15 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=75dd850ebc&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue NITRATE KISSES by Barbara Hammer. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. "At the heart of Barbara Hammer's first feature, the now-iconic NITRATE KISSES, is a question articulated as a radical action: How do we discover and define cinematic images of queerness? The resulting film is both a query as to the very nature of a queer cinema as well as a complex and deeply empathic gesture towards the ongoing creation of one. By employing gorgeous black and white cinematography intermixed with historical found footage, Hammer aesthetically disintegrates temporal, geographical, creative, and political boundaries in her effort to unify rather than separate. Embracing and exploring sexuality, intimacy, and identity across wide expanses of time, age, gender, race, and politics, NITRATE KISSES still stands today as a defining call to action and awareness not just for queer cinema, but for our larger global consciousness." -KJ Relth & Mark Toscano MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2019 12/16 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=6e212c23ff&e=f36020cad0> http://www.microscopegallery.com 7:30pm, 1329 Willoughby Ave YES: PHILIP CARTELLI & MARIANGELA CICCARELLO / SONIA LEIMER Artists in Person! Microscope presents as part of its ongoing emerging artist series YES a screening of new and recent collaborative works by Philip Cartelli & Mariangela Ciccarello and a selection of new videos by Sonia Leimer.Similar concerns inspire works in the program such as the topic of migration, the fragility of cultures, as well as the fantasy of discovering and conquering new territories both on Earth and in space. Other areas of overlap of otherwise distinct and unique bodies of work — by the artists who all in part engage with their Italian origins or descent — are the extensive use of voice-overs and found or original film footage, interspersed within longer sequences in high definition video. Mariangela Ciccarello (1983, Italy) is an artist working in moving image, installation, and sculpture. Her work has been featured at the Locarno Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, Harvard Art Museum, and Film at Lincoln Center among other venues. She is a participant in the 2019-2020 Whitney Independent Study Program – Studio Program. Philip Cartelli(1984, USA) is a moving-image artist and researcher. His film and video works have been exhibited at the Festival del film Locarno, Edinburgh International Film Festival, FIDMarseille and Art of the Real, among others. He holds a PhD in Media Anthropology from Harvard University, where he was a member of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. He also holds a PhD in Sociology from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Wagner College. Sonia Leimer (born in Meran, Italy) lives and works in Vienna. She has exhibited her work internationally at Kunsthaus Zürich; artothek, Cologne; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Basis Frankfurt; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Galerie n.chst St. Stephan, Vienna; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Leopold Museum, Vienna; LAMOA Los Angeles Museum of Art; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Manifesta 7, Rovereto; Mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Museion, Bozen, Italy; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Salzburger Kunstverein; the 5th Moscow Biennale, and the 14th Fellbach Triennale. Admission: $8, Members & Students $6. More info and full program: www.microscopegallery.com <http://www.microscopegallery.com> . Jefferson L (exit Starr Street) 12/16 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=f5aff7dfbb&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue NAKED SPACES - LIVING IS ROUND by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Shot with stunning elegance and clarity, NAKED SPACES explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the rural environments of six West African countries (Mauritania, Mali, Burkino Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal). The nonlinear structure of NAKED SPACES challenges the traditions of ethnographic filmmaking, while sensuous sights and sounds lead the viewer on a poetic journey to the most inaccessible parts of the African continent: the private interaction of people in their living spaces. "Trinh's images are as unpretentious as home movies. […] There are times in NAKED SPACES when representation decomposes into isolated details and pure sensation. More than a mosaic of impressions however, the film is nonlinear, de-centered, and deliberately unsettling." -J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE 12/16 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=c80a9af022&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue JONAS MEKAS, PROGRAM 7: MY PARIS MOVIE MY PARIS MOVIE (2011, 159 min, digital) For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle Hibon's] suggestion [to make a new work celebrating 20 years of cinema at the Jeu de Paume museum] came just in time. I spent some three months going through my Paris footage and I managed to reduce it to the length you will be seeing, two hours and 39 minutes. It was very very hard to do so. I have so many friends in Paris, so many memories - and it's all on video. So this is my love letter to Paris. To its streets, to the river Seine, to its cafes, bistros, bars, to the jambon de Paris, and, especially, to all of you, my Paris friends! TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2019 12/17 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=10048938d3&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Newly restored by Women Make Movies. Trinh's third film is a meditation on identity, popular memory, and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives of women and the history of female resistance in (both north and south) Vietnam and in the U.S., it raises questions regarding the politics of interviewing and documenting. A theoretically and formally complex work, SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM explores the difficulty of translation, and themes of dislocation and exile, critiquing both traditional society and life since the war. "A film made with emotional confidence and intellectual nerve, a documentary that questions the nature of documentaries, a history that uses the testimony of poetry, a polemic that appeals to the heart." -G. Gabrenya, DISPATCHThis screening is also part of The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film Series; click here for details. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2019 12/18 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=77a7125693&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue SHOOT FOR THE CONTENTS by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Reflecting on Mao's famous saying, "Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend," Trinh's film - whose title refers in part to a Chinese guessing game - is a unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China. The film ponders questions of power and change, politics and culture, as refracted by the events in Tiananmen Square. It offers at the same time an inquiry into the creative process of filmmaking, intricately layering Chinese popular songs and classical music, the sayings of Mao and Confucius, women's voices, and the words of artists, philosophers, and other cultural workers. Video images emulate the gestures of calligraphy and contrast with film footage of rural China and stylized interviews. Like traditional Chinese opera, Trinh's film unfolds through "bold omissions and minute depictions" to render "the real in the illusory and the illusory in the real." "One of the most extraordinary documentaries of recent years and a major creative intervention on the conventions of the genre…. A beautiful and moving film, as challenging and stimulating formally as it is politically." -LONDON FILM FESTIVALThis screening is also part of The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film Series; click here for details. 12/18 Santander, Spain: Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo 6:00 PM, Casimiro Sainz, S/N CINEINFINITO #113: MIKE LEGGETT Cineinfinito #113: Mike Leggett CINEINFINITO / Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo Miércoles 18 de Diciembre de 2019, 18:00h. Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo Calle Casimiro Sainz, s/n 39004 Santander Programa: Sheepman and the Sheared (1970 – 1975): – Part 1: Sheep & Part 2: Sheepman, 16mm, color, silente, 18 min – Part 3: Window, 16mm, color, sonido óptico, 45 min – Part 4: The Lane,16mm, color, silente, 18 min – Part 5: Farm, 16mm, color, sonido, 25 min – Part 6: Blue Plus Green Plus Red, 16mm, color, silente, 9 min – Part 7: Sheepwoman, 16mm, color, mag stripe, 16 min Formato de proyección: HD Agradecimiento especial a Mike Leggett y LUX https://www.cineinfinito.org/cineinfinito-113-mike-leggett/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2019 12/19 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=eb296c56b1&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue REASSEMBLAGE by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Newly restored by Women Make Movies. Women are the focus but not the object of Trinh's influential first film, a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, REASSEMBLAGE reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures. "Disentangling sound from image, foregoing an authoritative voice-over, and relinquishing the long takes of an observational style for a disjunctive montage aesthetic, Trinh overturns the conventions traditionally employed in anthropological filmmaking. Rather than a work of ethnographic cinema, REASSEMBLAGE is better understood as anti-ethnography - a film that reflexively dismantles the objectification and exoticization of otherness which mark the ethnographic and colonial projects alike." -Erika Balsom, FRIEZE "[The film] denotes something more than an exceptional spirit of observation; let's say by all means a kind of amorous enthrallment." -Alberto Moravia, L'EXPRESSO 12/19 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=6dd4eaedd5&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:15 PM, 32 Second Avenue A TALE OF LOVE by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Co-directed by Jean-Paul Bourdier. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Portraying the Vietnamese immigrant experience, A TALE OF LOVE follows the quest of a woman in love with "Love." The film is loosely inspired by THE TALE OF KIEU, the Vietnamese national poem of love which Vietnamese people see as a mythical biography of their "motherland," marked by internal turbulence and foreign domination. A free-lance writer, Kieu also works as a model for a photographer who idealizes the headless female body and who captures Kieu sheathed by transparent veils. Voyeurism runs through the history of love narratives, and here it is one of the threads that structures the narrative of the film. Exposing the fiction of love in love stories and the process of consumption, A TALE OF LOVE marginalizes traditional narrative conventions and opens up a denaturalized space of acting where performed reality, memory, and dream constantly pass into one another. "Nothing else around is even remotely like it. […] At times a frankly erotic film that interrogates its own eroticism, it challenges the audience as well with its acting styles." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER 12/19 Santander, Spain: Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo 7:00 PM, Casimiro Sainz, S/N CINEINFINITO #115: CORINNE & ARTHUR CANTRILL (III) Cineinfinito #115: Corinne & Arthur Cantrill (III) CINEINFINITO / Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo Jueves 19 de Diciembre de 2019, 19:00h. Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo Calle Casimiro Sainz, s/n 39004 Santander Programa: In This Life’s Body (1984), 16mm, color, sonora, 147 min. *Programado en colaboración con Celeste Araújo y Oriol Sánchez Formato de proyección: HD (copia cortesía de Arsenal) Agradecimiento especial a Corinne y Arthur Cantrill, Celeste Araújo, Oriol Sánchez, Angelika Ramlow, Alexander Boldt y Alejandro Fernández FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2019 12/20 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=a9a884832c&e=f36020cad0> http://www.microscopegallery.com 7:30pm, 1329 Willoughby Ave JAMES FOTOPOULOS’ FILM “MIGRATING FORMS”: 20 YEARS Screening & Artist Talk! A screening of James Fotopoulos’ 16mm film “Migrating Forms” in celebration of its 20th anniversary, along with a selection of latex props that appear in the movie as well as drawings and storyboards by the artist, which will be on view for the evening. A film that shocked New York’s film community and beyond at its first showing at Anthology Film Archives in the context of the NY Underground Film Festival in year 2000, Migrating Forms is a caustic, decadent, life-non-affirming, visionary feature 16mm film made by a then 23-year-old Fotopoulos as though channeling Baudelaire in portraying a love story à la “Les Fleurs du Mal” reframed within a Chicago urban wasteland. Fotopoulos, in considering the film today, writes: “Nothing has really changed in how I see it. I made it — and then moved on to the next film — I just put the films out there. When I think of it, I don't think things have changed in terms of how I do things. I make what I feel, what I see at that time I am making it. And I don't think anything has changed in what I think about film itself, in all its elements: a shadow world or dream place, that atmosphere, the fantastic… Meanings have to be in front of the camera to be seen.” Admission $8, Student $6, Free for Members! More info: www.microscopegallery.com <http://www.microscopegallery.com> , tel: 347.925.1433, i...@microscopegallery.com <mailto:i...@microscopegallery.com> . Jefferson L (exit Starr Street). 12/20 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=41a9448942&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue FORGETTING VIETNAM by Trinh T. Minh-ha. One of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam involves a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam's curving S-shaped coastline. Trinh's lyrical film essay commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of the war draws inspiration from ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture. Trinh's classic SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM (1989) used no original footage shot in the country; in FORGETTING VIETNAM, images of contemporary life unfold with a dialogue between land and water - the elements that form the term "country." Fragments of text and song evoke the echoes and traces of a trauma of international proportions. The encounter between the ancient as related to the solid earth, and the new as related to the liquid changes in a time of rapid globalization, creates a third space of historical and cultural re-memory - what local inhabitants, immigrants, and veterans remember of yesterday's stories to comment on today's events. "Her latest film crosses the country of her birth from north to south, confronting changing imaging technologies and the ambivalence of modernization along the way. Through landscapes, history, folklore, and popular songs, this [film] commemorates both the passing of Trinh's father and the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The work possesses a lyricism not present in REASSEMBLAGE, but Trinh's words from the earlier film resonate in it even more strongly: 'Reality is delicate.'" -Erika Balsom, FRIEZEThis screening is also part of The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film Series; click here for details. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2019 12/21 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=04c6c3fe15&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:45 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE "The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield, California. These films, along with Ron Rice's, are clearly the most significant work to come out of the beat period." -J.J. Murphy All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD (1957, 14 min, 16mm) BEAT (1958, 6 min, 16mm) SCOTCH HOP (1959, 5.5 min, 16mm) THE END (1953, 35 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 65 min. [THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD, BEAT, and SCOTCH HOP are not part of the Essential Cinema collection, but they are included here as a special bonus.] 12/21 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=ddca693392&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:45 PM, 32 Second Avenue NIGHT PASSAGE by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Co-directed by Jean-Paul Bourdier. Made in homage to Kenji Miyazawa's children's sci-fi classic MILKY WAY RAILROAD, this provocative tale tells the story of three young friends traveling for a brief moment together on the train between life and death. Their journey into and out of the land of "awakened dreams" occurs on a long ride on a night train. Ingeniously framed through the train window, Trinh and artist Jean-Paul Bourdier create whimsical and sensual dreamscapes, which are matched by an equally beautiful and other-worldly music score. Once again, Trinh shifts the way she engages with the form and the spirit of the cinema - to challenge and provoke her audience. "The netherworld between life and death is viewed as a place of light, shadow, movement and uncertain ideas in NIGHT PASSAGE." -VARIETY 12/21 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=4f615e1096&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA by Jonas Mekas. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. "The film consists of four parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania. The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter Kubelka, [Hermann] Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with home, memory, and culture." -Jonas Mekas 12/21 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=e1d36d786f&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue THE FOURTH DIMENSION by Trinh T. Minh-Ha. THE FOURTH DIMENSION is an incisive and insightful examination of Japan through its art, culture, and social rituals. As is the case with Trinh's previous films, it is a multi-layered work addressing issues around its central theme: the experience of time, the impossibility of truly "seeing," and the impact of video on image-making. In her first foray into digital video, she deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present. With its lush imagery, Trinh's Japan is viewed through mobile frames, with doors and windows sliding shut, revealing new vistas as it blocks out the old light. "Trinh's newest essayistic work and her first videotape, cuts an intricate key for unlocking this elusive culture. Her tack finds great visual pleasure in the everyday, composing and decomposing the social landscape, while constructing a poetic grid of temporalities, symbolic meaning, and ritual. Trinh's lyrical narration guides us through 'Japan's likeness,' the perfected framing of the sacramental familiar." -Steve SeidThis screening is also part of The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film Series; click here for details. 12/21 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=902eb4ca08&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue JONAS MEKAS, PROGRAM 8: MY MARS BAR MOVIE REPORT FROM MILLBROOK Filmed (1965/edited 1966, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.) REPORT FROM MILLBROOK was filmed in 1965, on a weekend visit to Timothy Leary's place. It was a light summer outing. No LSD. Tim took me for a walk, though, and we talked about LSD. […] I told him that the chemicals that motivate and drive artists are more powerful and mysterious than LSD or any drug. On that note we turned back and ended our walk. There was nothing more to say. In 1966, Tim's place was raided by the local sheriff. The East Village Other taped an interview with the sheriff about the raid. I used the interview as the soundtrack for the film. MY MARS BAR MOVIE (2011, 87 min, digital) For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and tequila whenever we had to take a break from our work at Anthology Film Archives, and it was also a bar where most of those who came to see movies at Anthology ended up after the shows. We always had a great time at Mars Bar. It was always open, there was always the juke box, and very often there was no electricity, and it was old and messy and it didn't want to be any other way - it was the last escape place left downtown New York. So this is my love letter to it, to my Mars Bar. Mars Bar as I knew it." 12/21 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=8b9004d1f1&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue REASSEMBLAGE by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Newly restored by Women Make Movies. Women are the focus but not the object of Trinh's influential first film, a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, REASSEMBLAGE reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures. "Disentangling sound from image, foregoing an authoritative voice-over, and relinquishing the long takes of an observational style for a disjunctive montage aesthetic, Trinh overturns the conventions traditionally employed in anthropological filmmaking. Rather than a work of ethnographic cinema, REASSEMBLAGE is better understood as anti-ethnography - a film that reflexively dismantles the objectification and exoticization of otherness which mark the ethnographic and colonial projects alike." -Erika Balsom, FRIEZE "[The film] denotes something more than an exceptional spirit of observation; let's say by all means a kind of amorous enthrallment." -Alberto Moravia, L'EXPRESSO 12/21 San Francisco: Other Cinema <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=b515bf30d8&e=f36020cad0> http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 992 Valencia Street AVANT TO LIVE DEC 21: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS A sensational season-ender that honors radical expression and innovative film form, the program tonight promises a veritable tsunami of cinema initiatives (18!). Portland prodigy Carl Diehl bestows on us the first-peek at his magician-uncle ode Misdirections, whilst Bryan Boyce rushes in from El Cerrito with his latest Fake But True beauty. Specially spotlit is a raft of brill hand-rolled works by Winnipeg’s Rhayne Vermette! Two other Canadians also figure prominently–Matt Soar (Naked Launch) and Frederic Moffet (Horsey), while Andre Perkowski (Nixon Sings the Blues) and Montgomery Cantsin (SCREAMINGLY!) bring the news/noise from LA. Additional Coast debuts come from Peggy Ahwesh (The Falling Sky), Roger Deutsch (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me), Kent Lambert (Reckoning 7), Jenny Stark (Standing on Fishes), and Brittany Gravely (her 16mm Astrology). ALSO Jay Rosenblatt’s When You Awake, Anton Astudillo’s Almargen, Saifey Maynor’s Starring in a Student Production, Andy Prisbylla’s Lithium Nuke Magick, and more! Free pencils and fruitcake!! *$9 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2019 12/22 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=0149023911&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Newly restored by Women Make Movies. Trinh's third film is a meditation on identity, popular memory, and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives of women and the history of female resistance in (both north and south) Vietnam and in the U.S., it raises questions regarding the politics of interviewing and documenting. A theoretically and formally complex work, SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM explores the difficulty of translation, and themes of dislocation and exile, critiquing both traditional society and life since the war. "A film made with emotional confidence and intellectual nerve, a documentary that questions the nature of documentaries, a history that uses the testimony of poetry, a polemic that appeals to the heart." -G. Gabrenya, DISPATCHThis screening is also part of The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film Series; click here for details. 12/22 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=587ec9901a&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: WALDEN (DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES) by Jonas Mekas. "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don't get it at all." -Jonas Mekas 12/22 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=b89d178017&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue FORGETTING VIETNAM by Trinh T. Minh-ha. One of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam involves a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam's curving S-shaped coastline. Trinh's lyrical film essay commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of the war draws inspiration from ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture. Trinh's classic SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM (1989) used no original footage shot in the country; in FORGETTING VIETNAM, images of contemporary life unfold with a dialogue between land and water - the elements that form the term "country." Fragments of text and song evoke the echoes and traces of a trauma of international proportions. The encounter between the ancient as related to the solid earth, and the new as related to the liquid changes in a time of rapid globalization, creates a third space of historical and cultural re-memory - what local inhabitants, immigrants, and veterans remember of yesterday's stories to comment on today's events. "Her latest film crosses the country of her birth from north to south, confronting changing imaging technologies and the ambivalence of modernization along the way. Through landscapes, history, folklore, and popular songs, this [film] commemorates both the passing of Trinh's father and the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The work possesses a lyricism not present in REASSEMBLAGE, but Trinh's words from the earlier film resonate in it even more strongly: 'Reality is delicate.'" -Erika Balsom, FRIEZEThis screening is also part of The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film Series; click here for details. _____ 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=aa794a9143&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=eaebc7fdaf&e=f36020cad0> Subscribe. <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=1880c565f7&e=f36020cad0> <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=cd0fc59440&e=f36020cad0> Copyright © 2019 Flicker, All rights reserved. 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