[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema

[Cari Machet]

What an incredible legacy

Thank you deeply for everything

On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 20:24, Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Scott for all the years that u have put into This Week in the Avant
> Garde it was not done in vain. Thanks
>
> Dominic
>
> On Feb 21, 2021, at 8:57 AM, sstark at hi-beam.net wrote:
>
> Hi all, someone asked me offline about the status of This Week in Avant
> Garde CInema, so I thought I’d post my response here.
>
> Since 1996 (25 years ago!) I’ve been producing or overseeing volunteers
> producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema, a weekly listing of experimental
> film/video events around the world. I and a handful of volunteers initially
> entered the events manually every week, and in the early 2000s I converted
> it to a DIY system where venues and makers could enter their own listings.
> This worked well for a while, but as the ubiquity of social media grew,
> people started listing shows on other channels such as Facebook, and not
> TWIAGC. I developed some scripting to integrate those listings into TWIAGC,
> but it became a game of whack-a-mole keeping up with variations.
>
> When the pandemic hit last year and physical exhibitions stopped
> happening. I put the project on pause. (You can still see the last post
> here <http://www.hi-beam.net/whats.html>.) I considered continuing it
> with online shows, but as the number of those grew that too started to seem
> daunting. And frankly, though I still enjoyed seeing the weekly compendium
> of some of the amazing shows happening across the U.S. and elsewhere, after
> nearly 25 years I was a bit tired of maintaining and overseeing it.
>
> So at this point, even after physical shows start to come back, I will no
> longer be producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema.
>
> That said, the data entered for the previous listings still exists. While
> not all events were always included, the listings do provide a rich
> historical snapshot of thousands of events taking place over the last 20+
> years.
>
> And if someone with a lot of energy wants to take this on again, I’d be
> happy to help them get started.
>
> Thanks for all the well-wishes and appreciation for this resource over the
> years. Stay safe and creative.
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Stark
> www.scottstark.com
>
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