[Frameworks] This week [December 15 - 23, 2018] in avant garde cinema

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This week [December 15 - 23, 2018] in avant garde cinema 


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Yes: Morrison Gong / Erica Sheu <>  [December 16, Brooklyn, New York] 

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Cineinfinito #79: Joyce Wieland <>  [December 18, Santander, Spain] 

DEADLINES APPROACHING: 
Main Street Landing Gallery (Burlington, Vermont, USA; Deadline: December 31, 2018)
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Spectral Film Festival (Stevens Point, WI, USA; Deadline: January 06, 2019)
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago; Deadline: January 04, 2019)
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Single Frame (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: January 01, 2019)
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Call for Entry: Figurative Works II (St. Charles; Deadline: December 31, 2018)
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Wake America! (Austin; Deadline: December 20, 2018)
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Bethesda Film Fest (Bethesda, MD, USA; Deadline: January 11, 2019)
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Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.

This week's programs (summary): 

*        Whirlwind_karel Doing / SesiÓN 16/35mm / Crater-Lab / Zumzeig <>  [December 15, Barcelona, Spain] 

*        Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Hall of Mirrors <>  [December 15, Los Angeles, California] 

*        People's Music: Drew's  <> "Open Country" + Cash's "Ridin' the Rails" + [December 15, San Francisco, California] 

*        Crawling Through the Wreckage: Avant Garde Film and video Artists Respond To the Trauma of the 21st Century”  <> [December 16, Amsterdam] 

*        Yes: Morrison Gong / Erica Sheu <>  [December 16, Brooklyn, New York] 

*        Secret Life of…Anthology Film Archives - Psychedelic Edition <>  [December 16, New York, NY] 

*        Terror Nullius <>  [December 16, New York, NY] 

*        Cineinfinito #79: Joyce Wieland <>  [December 18, Santander, Spain] 

*        Ec: Diaries, Notes  <> & Sketches (Walden) [December 20, New York, NY] 

*        Ec: Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania <>  [December 21, New York, NY] 

*        New Experimental Works <>  [December 22, San Francisco, California] 


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2018 

12/15
Barcelona, Spain: Crater Lab 
9:30 PM, Carrer de Béjar, 53 baixos
WHIRLWIND_KAREL DOING / SESI&OACUTE;N 16/35MM / CRATER-LAB / ZUMZEIG 
El próximo SÁBADO 15 de DICIEMBRE organizamos una nueva sesión en Zumzeig Cinema, en esta ocasión de la mano del artista, cineasta e investigador Karel Doing. Contaremos con la presencia del autor, que nos mostrará en su FORMATO ORIGINAL (16/35mm) una selección de piezas que muestran una versátil exploración técnica y conceptual. Una serie de películas que abarcan un recorrido de experimentación en torno a la luz, la performance, el metraje encontrado, la química de las plantas, y las mismas propiedades fotoquímicas del film. Una obra que muestra su interés por el CINE EXPERIMENTAL y el CINE EXPANDIDO y que se enmarca dentro de una aproximación crítica hacia la modernidad y la posmodernidad, en busca de nuevos significados de lo real y lo material. A través del estudio de los procesos químicos, el registro de la historia oral y la (re)utilización del patrimonio fílmico, Doing se propone explorar en torno a sistemas de conocimiento alternativos. En muchas de sus obras se destacan las cualidades rítmicas, pictóricas y performáticas del cine analógico como medio. Sus películas, performances e instalaciones han sido exhibidas internacionalmente, incluyendo presentaciones en París, Los Ángeles, Toronto, Bonn, Rotterdam y Londres. Junto con Bea Haut dirige “Film in Process”, un laboratorio DIY ubicado en Londres-Inglaterra. 

12/15
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum 
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7:30 pm, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,
BARBARA HAMMER, SUPERDYKE: HALL OF MIRRORS 
By the very nature of her multifaceted identity, lesbian feminist filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer (b. 1939) has maintained a formal fluidity in her half-century-long practice effectively unparalleled by any living moving image maker. From her first Super 8 experiment, SCHIZY (1968), Hammer gave herself permission to fearlessly follow her instincts. Through her explicit and politically-charged work of the 1970s to her material interactions and printing exercises of the 1980s and continuing with her seamless adoption of analog and digital video, Hammer’s visual lyricism and sensuality dance invariably within each of her over 80 moving image works in a conscious, active (re)writing and (re)defining of a singular cinematic language. Hall of Mirrors: Composed entirely of recently restored films from the Academy Film Archive, this program explores various modes of self-envisionment, a strong, recurring theme throughout Hammer’s art practice. Spanning verite portraiture, mythological drama, optically printed collage, and even appropriated x-ray footage, these extraordinarily diverse films are linked in their wide-ranging approaches to self-examination and Hammer’s acute awareness of being a body within a world, and within a culture. 

12/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema 
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8 PM, 992 Valencia Street
PEOPLE'S MUSIC: DREW'S "OPEN COUNTRY" + CASH'S "RIDIN' THE RAILS" + 
So in tune with the current class crisis, Jesse and Glenda Drew truck in from the Valley to deliver a robust updating of their big-hearted embrace of the real proletarian roots of the Country/Western genre. Their much-anticipated historical essay situates the origins of C/W music as being drawn from the same well as “hillbilly” or “folk”, written from the perspectives of the marginal poor...but appropriated by post-War corporate consolidation of broadcast radio audiences and McCarthy’s anti-communism. Some 5 years after their last luv-fest here, the Drews delight us again with new developments from their researches and interviews—focusing particularly on the dobro, Irish Aires, and the Hawaiian pedal steel guitar. CO-BILLED is the Premiere Revival of a truly obscure 16mm treasure, Ridin’ the Rails, an irresistible tribute to the nation’s train system, guided by narration and songs by Mr. Johnny Cash himself! A delicious 45-min. slice of authentic Americana happily surviving since its 1974 release, Cash here re-enacts the most important events in US railway history. Come early for the Reluctant Trucker on banjo, Country Corner dancing, and copious moonshine! 


SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2018 

12/16
Amsterdam: Filmhuis Cavia 
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19:30, Van Hallstraat 52-I (trap op) 1051 HH Amsterdam, Netherlands
CRAWLING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE: AVANT GARDE FILM AND VIDEO ARTISTS RESPOND TO THE TRAUMA OF THE 21ST CENTURY” 
Filmhuis Cavia presents, Avant Garde Film and Video Artists Respond to the Trauma of the 21st Century,” Curated by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster An evening of Surrealism, animation, political videoart, and handmade experimental short films (often incorporating archival materials) made in response to turn of the century trauma and shock. Featuring film/video art by international artists including Kasumi, Francesca Fini, Marie Craven, Gina Kamentsky, Indecline, Rhayne Vermette, Bill Domonkos, Jon Behrens, Sylvia Toy, Larry Wang, Jennifer Sharpe, Beth Holmes, Janie Geiser, Karissa Hahn, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Christina Raia, Charles Pieper, Sarah Brown, Donna Kuhn, Kim Balouch, Edward Ramsay-Morin, Eduardo Cuadrado, Isabel Chiara, Marco Coraggio, and Colectivo Los ingrávidos. (Guest Curator) Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an experimental filmmaker and author of numerous books and essays on experimental films and avant garde filmmakers. Foster is originally from New York City and is currently Willa Cather Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska. Here is a teaser trailer: https://vimeo.com/299108010 

12/16
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery 
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7:30pm, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, 2B Brooklyn, NY 11237
YES: MORRISON GONG / ERICA SHEU 
Artists in person! Screening of works in film, video, and performance by Morrison Gong and by Erica Sheu, as part of Microscope's emerging artist series YES. Although informed by different life experiences, both Gong and Sheu tackle themes of national identity, cultural backgrounds, gender, eroticism and intimacy — often through very personal and poetic perspectives — in their individual as well as in their collaborative work. In the four 16mm and Super 8mm films by Sheu in the program, the artist starts with events of everyday life to consider her origins and the concept of home in a foreign country, often drawing by hand on the filmstrip or featuring text from books, as well as setting the images in dialogue with each other through double-channel or split-screen. Gong’s work centers around ritual, sexuality, and the transgression of cultural traditions, frequently treating body, food, animal bones, butterfly wings, etc. as material. Most of the artist’s moving image works consist of collages or slideshows of still photography, digital scans, and fixed-camera shots, often with references to or featuring the work of Nan Goldin, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Carolee Schneemann, among others. Closing the night is a new collaborative, multiple projector performance “Immoral Tales” by the two artists — featuring Super 8mm and 16mm film, 35mm slides and digital video — accompanied by a live score by Yifan Guo. Among the projections are excerpts from “Ne Zha Nao Hai”, a 1979 Chinese animated film about the myth of Prince Nezha and his triumph against the Dragon King; virtual porn games; 70s Taiwanese propaganda; excerpts from “Twenty-Two” a documentary about Korean and Chinese “comfort women” during WWII; scratch film loops; handmade 35mm slides; and original video shot by the two artists. Q&A following the screening and performance. Program and additional info: www.microscopegallery.com <http://www.microscopegallery.com>  General admission $8, Members & Students $6. info at microscopegallery.com <mailto:info at microscopegallery.com>  Tel: 347 925 1433. Nearest subway: Jefferson St. L (exit Starr St.) 

12/16
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives 
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5:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
SECRET LIFE OF…ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES - PSYCHEDELIC EDITION 
As part of our occasional "Secret Life of…Anthology Film Archives" program, which showcases the film- and video-making efforts of AFA's staff, friends, fellow-travelers, and devotees, our very own Steve Erickson has compiled a selection of psychedelic videos, clips, and performances for our viewing pleasure. "Feel the distorted guitars, wailing vocals, and pounding drums as Anthology takes you back to the heyday of psychedelic music. Rather than settling for the most obvious choices - although some canonical artists are featured - this program travels around the world in 90 minutes. Showcasing bands from the U.S., U.K., France, West Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Denmark, and Japan, the selection demonstrates how psychedelia became a lingua franca that was transformed by different cultures. While American TV rarely took the counterculture seriously in the late 1960s and early 70s, European TV programs let rock groups play 8-minute long songs and allowed them to take the piss out of the interviewer. Enjoy your mind trip, but don't trip on your mind." -Steve Erickson 

12/16
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives 
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8:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
TERROR NULLIUS 
by Soda_Jerk. NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE! FILMMAKERS IN PERSON! Soda_Jerk are a two­person art collective who work at the intersection of documentary and speculative fiction. Hailing from Australia but based in New York since 2012, they are fundamentally interested in the politics of images: how they circulate, whom they benefit, and how they can be undone. Their sample­based practice takes the form of films, video installations, cut­up texts, and lecture performances. Anthology hosted them in 2015 for a Show & Tell program showcasing their genuinely subversive and often riotously funny body of work, and we welcome them back for the NYC premiere of their new feature-length piece, TERROR NULLIUS. A political revenge fable that offers an un­writing of Australian national mythology, TERROR NULLIUS works entirely within and against the official archive to achieve a queering and othering of Australian cinema. Part political satire, eco­horror, and road movie, it conjures a world in which minorities and animals conspire, and not­so­nice white guys finish last; where idyllic beaches host race­riots, governments poll love­rights, and the perils of hypermasculinity are overshadowed only by the enduring horror of Australia's colonizing myth of terra nullius ('nobody's land'). "TERROR NULLIUS is a euphoric 55-minute long drunken dance with a raised middle finger and I can think of nothing more Australian than that. By actively reframing the meaning of the dominantly conceived Australian film canon, Soda_Jerk powerfully and practically demonstrates Jonathan Rosenbaum's observation that film canons are 'an active process of selection rather than a passive one of reportage.' Soda_Jerk do not attempt anything so ambitious or ultimately futile as an alternate canon, but rather achieve something far more urgent: they reveal the gaps, the hypocrisies and the biases active within the canon we already have, reflective of a whole spectrum of issues and questions white Australia desperately needs to address." -Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, ARTLINK "A weird, dazzling, kinetic, dizzyingly ambitious, sensationally mishmashed beast of an Australian film, one part video art installation project, one part revisionist documentary." -THE GUARDIAN "TERROR NULLIUS is a rogue remapping of national mythology, where a misogynistic remark is met with the sharp beak of a bird, feminist bike gangs rampage, and bicentenary celebrations are ravaged by flesh-eating sheep. By intricately remixing fragments of Australia's pop culture and film legacy, TERROR NULLIUS interrogates the unstable entanglement of fiction that underpins the country's vexed sense of self." -AUSTRALIAN CENTER FOR THE MOVING IMAGE 


TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018 

12/18
Santander, Spain: Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo 
6:00 PM, Casimiro Sainz, S/N
CINEINFINITO #79: JOYCE WIELAND 
Cineinfinito #79: Joyce Wieland CINEINFINITO / Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo Martes 18 de Diciembre de 2018, 18:00h. Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo Calle Casimiro Sainz, s/n 39004 Santander Programa: Water Sark (1965), 16mm, sonora, color, 13:30 Sailboat (1967), 16mm, sonora, color, 2:45 Cat Food (1967), 16mm, sonora, color, 13:30 Solidarity (1973), 16mm, sonora, color, 10:40 A & B in Ontario (1984), 16mm, sonora, b/n, 16:05 Birds at Sunrise (1986) 16mm, sonora, color, 10:15 *Sesión presentada por Esperanza Collado Formato de proyección: HD (copias cortesía de Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre) (Agradecimiento especial a Esperanza Collado y a Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre) 


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2018 

12/20
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives 
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7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: DIARIES, NOTES & SKETCHES (WALDEN) 
by Jonas Mekas. Filmed 1964-68; edited 1968-69. "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." -J.M. "I make home movies - therefore I live. I live - therefore I make home movies." -from the soundtrack 


FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2018 

12/21
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives 
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7:00 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, Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with home, memory, and culture." -J.M. 


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2018 

12/22
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema 
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8 PM, 992 Valencia Street
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS 
For over 30 years now, the OC season has been consummated with an energized evening of radical expression and film form, with many of the artists in person (7!). Spot-lit on this round are Jeremy Rourke’s performance may two thousand and eighteen, Bryan Boyce’s Fake but True, Tim Johnson’s March of Tim, and David King’s Male Men, all world premieres with makers here in the flesh. ALSO Greta Snider’s A Small Place, Julie Murray’s Wind Wire Wound, Sabine Gruffat’s A Return to the Return to Reason, Lana Caplan’s Play and Repeat, Haley McCormick’s Dancer, Mark Street’s ZOOM, Montgomery Cantsin’s Smythe, Anthony Buchanan’s I, Chris, and the No. American debuts of Michael Fleming’s Never Never Land and Bori Mate’s Silent Spring Seahorse. A Robert Todd short is also included, in memory of this lovely gentleman who has passed from our world. Closing this colossal group show is Alex Cruse and Kevin Lo (Drought Spa), with a new performance A Fume, on fractured pressures in volatility’s mouth. Fruitcake and free pencils!! *$8. 

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