[Frameworks] Two Open Calls! for Filmmakers and Programmers

Thu Apr 1 00:41:14 UTC 2021

Last call!  We’ll probably take down the submission links on the morning of April 1.  Thank you.

Best regards,

Adam

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Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 7:35 PM
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Subject: Two Open Calls! for Filmmakers and Programmers

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Last Call for Two Open Calls!
And Alternative Film and
Video Events of Note

Greetings all. We have two open calls, both due March 31.

Open Call For Programmers
Call for Los Angeles Filmforum Program Proposals!

Los Angeles Filmforum is accepting program proposals for the 2021 calendar year. As a way to widen our net of curatorial possibilities and spark inspiration in our film communities during this unprecedented time, we would love to hear from you in this call for programming. 

We are looking for engaging ideas from first-time, emerging, or seasoned programmers and curators for single programs, program series, or other programmatic formats that highlight short or feature-length works.  Given the uncertainty of when theater venues will be open again to the public and to support the ongoing safety of our patrons, we ask that proposals be submitted for virtual viewing only.

Criteria:

The following criteria must be met for proposals to be considered:
    •    Each Program Running Time: 50-70 mins (preferred)
    •    All works must be able to be presented in a virtual screening environment 
    •    Proposals must include a post-screening Q&A component with featured filmmakers/artists 
    •    Programs must align with Los Angeles Filmforum's mission to exhibit non-commercial, independent, experimental, and progressive film and media art
    •    We ask that programmers refrain from programming their own works; however, all proposals will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
    •    If you have an idea for a series, please limit it to three programs at most.
    •    Priority will be given to programmers in Southern California, but we will not be limiting it to only people from the area
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2021 @ 11:59 pm PDT

To submit a proposal please complete this online Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/4cqXFCs3Qr4r2RVh8

Members from Filmforum's Programming Committee will review proposals and inform all participants in late April or May, 2021.

Selected guest programmers will receive a $250 stipend along with a $500 budget for artist fees/film rentals per program. Technical and promotional support from Filmforum will also be provided for all selected programs.

Program Committee Review Panel: 
Madison Brookshire
Jheanelle Brown
Kate Brown
Tuni Chatterji
Adam Hyman
Leeroy Kang

If you have any questions please contact:  lafilmforum at yahoo.com 
We look forward to your proposals. Please spread the word!
https://www.lafilmforum.org/open-calls-march-2021/

Open Call For Filmmakers
We’re announcing an open call for films started and completed during the pandemic.  We originally announced this with a deadline of February 28, but it was buried in another announcement and we received only a few, so we are extending the deadline to March 31, 11:59 pm PDT.
We are looking for short works (under 20 minutes) that can be screened digitally, assuming we will be holding the show(s) virtually in the late Spring.
We’re keeping it simple, and not having submission fees, although if we get too many, we may need to change that.  We would like to see experimental and animated works, not short narratives.  Your work on them should have started after March 15, 2020, and presumably they should in some way deal with the pandemic, observations and emotions you have dealt with in this period, and whatever else seems appropriate.  Abstract films are great; observations of places, essays on physical distancing, and so forth. Please email lafilmforum at yahoo.com with any questions.  We’ll be paying a small honorarium for each film screened!  To submit a film, please use the  form at https://forms.gle/uWMJeAqgyb3ETJ929 before March 31!

Greetings all,
Here are some noteworthy events coming up. 

The 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival is online now!
March 23-28, 2021
https://59aaff.eventive.org/
https://watch.eventive.org/59aaff
Lots of great films!
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As Above, So Below, by Larry Clark
March 25, 2021 - 4:00 pm
Streaming online, through the UCLA Film & Television Archive
FREE RSVP
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2021/03/25/as-above-so-below

Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Larry Clark and cultural critic Ernest Hardy.
As Above, So Below
U.S., 1973, Color and b&w, 52 min. Director: Larry Clark. Screenwriter: Larry Clark. With: Nathaniel Taylor, Gail Peters, Billy Middleton.
Free jazz, state propaganda, religious feeling and revolutionary action all roil the air in writer-director Larry Clark’s masterwork of the L.A. Rebellion. When Black veteran Jita Hadi (Nathaniel Taylor) arrives in South-Central Los Angeles after serving stints in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Vietnam—a veritable guided tour of postwar American imperialism—he immediately recognizes the symptoms of a population under occupation in the wake of the 1965 Watts rebellion. At a local diner, a church service, and out on the streets, Hadi bears witness to the forces of oppression and reaction within and without the Black community while an underground army watches and waits. On the soundtrack, Horace Tapscott’s improvisational score plays against recorded HUAC testimony on the threat of Black nationalism while Clark (also director of Passing Through) intercuts scenes of Hadi’s political awakening with documentary footage of U.S. foreign interventionism and domestic police brutality. Politically radical and aesthetically inventive, As Above, So Below couples a far-reaching critique of American racial injustice with an expansive vision of the possibilities of Black resistance.
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GENEVIEVE YUE PRESENTS: IMPLICIT MOVIES PROGRAM 1: SECRET CITY
Available on Demand, Mar 24-30
through the Metrograph Theater, New York
Multiple short films by Thom Andersen, Bill Brand, Mary Helena Clark, Alexandra Cuesta, Kevin Jerome Everson, Miko Revereza, Karen Yasinsky
USA / 1980-2018 / TRT: 80 MIN
Introduced by Genevieve Yue
https://metrograph.com/live-screenings/genevieve-yue-presents-implicit-movies-program-1-secret-city/

Within the city, there is another, secret city. It is full of people we don’t ordinarily see, who don’t always want to be seen. They round the loops of public transportation, stopping at convenience stores, nightclubs, and shop windows. Through their eyes, the city is cast in an unfamiliar light. Shadows grow tall, and echoes of movie refrains, of previous lives and memories, float through the air. A wonderful program with multiple films by people we've hosted at Filmforum, and Genevieve Yue was once a volunteer with us!

Program Includes:
Masstransiscope (Bill Brand, 1980/2008, 3 min) 
Disintegration 93-96 (Miko Revereza, 2017, 5 min)
The Tony Longo Trilogy (Thom Andersen, 2014, 14 min)
Audition (Karen Yasinsky, 2013, 4 min) 
Goddess & Richland Blue (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2018, 2 min., 4 min) 
The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark, 2014, 14 min) 
Piensa en mí (Alexandra Cuesta, 2009, 15 min)
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Pat O'Neill - Spectrum
17 - 31 March 2021 online through Philip Martin Gallery
https://philipmartingallery.com/exhibitions/131-pat-o-neill-spectrum/works/

Philip Martin Gallery is proud to present, “Spectrum,” an exhibition of photographs, collages and a film by filmmaker, photographer and artist, Pat O’Neill. A pioneer of the optical printer, O’Neill’s works explore photographic technique, perception and figuration.

Long recognized as a master of avant-garde film, Pat O’Neill is probably the first American to receive an MA in moving image art. O’Neill began his studies at University of California (Los Angeles, CA) in 1957, working with renowned designer Henry Dreyfuss. In 1961, he began studying with Robert Heinecken, who like O’Neill, was coming out of design. Heinecken was, according to O’Neill, “bringing photography and Pop Art together and breaking the mold for what was acceptable in photography at that time.” O’Neill collaborated with Heinecken, and fellow students Carl Cheng and Darryl Curran on a multi-screen slide projector work, “American/Image Ideal,” for the 1963 Aspen Design Conference, organized by Charles and Ray Eames. O’Neill recalls that Heinecken “welcomed transgressions of the purity of the medium. We were encouraged to distort the technology, cook the negative, cut up the print, and even use its surface to paint upon.”
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Bodies of Animation: Analogue Tales from Latin America
Monday, March 29, 2021, 8 pm
https://www.redcat.org/event/bodies-animation-analogue-tales-latin-america
VIRTUAL EVENT
As part of the collective Moebius Animación, Juan Camilo González is dedicated to amplifying the voices of animators from Latin America. For this program of short films, he proposes a reading of analogue animation as a means to exorcise personal and collective traumas. By paying close attention to the materiality of these productions—an indexical trace of the bodily labor that went into the creative processes—the program underlines an experimental approach that recognizes animation as a vehicle of performative dimensions. These films reclaim lo-fi style, recycled animation techniques, and the use of analogue materials as aesthetic decisions rather than the outcome of economic limitations.The evening includes works by Joaquín Cociña, Cristobal León, and others.

In person via Zoom: curator Juan Camilo González Jiménez; filmmakers TBA
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The Arab Film & Media Institute Hosts
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
ساعة التحرير دقت
With an Exclusive LIVE Conversation with Director Heiny Srour
This Special Program opens on March 25th!
https://arabfilm.eventive.org/
https://watch.eventive.org/arabfilm/play/6046772992d66a00bdf1da20?mc_cid=afdf306b8b&mc_eid=057de89084

The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived was the first film by an Arab woman to screen at Cannes, where it was nominated for four awards and nominated for a Palme d'Or (Best film) in 1974. It is believed that her documentary film The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived was actually the first film by any female filmmaker to be screened at the festival.

Srour was vocal about the position of women in Arab society, and in 1978, along with Tunisian director Salma Baccar and Arab cinema historian Magda Wassef, she announced a new assistance fund "for the self-expression of women in cinema." Read more about filmmaker Heiny Srour on our blog

The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived will become available for on-demand streaming on March 25th.  You can buy a ticket just to this event, or watch all the movies in the showcase with a pass.  To learn more about the complete lineup of AFMI's 6 Days | 6 Nights - Revolutionary Arab Women in the Arts, visit Arab Cinema Reimagined, https://arabfilm.eventive.org/welcome?mc_cid=afdf306b8b&mc_eid=057de89084
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JJJJJerome Ellis: Three Psalms
Saturday, April 3, 2021, 8:00 pm
at REDCAT
https://www.redcat.org/event/jjjjjerome-ellis-three-psalms
Virtual Event
TWO PSALMS was filmed in Ellis' apartment on May 18, 2018 and features musicians Catherine Brookman, Starr Busby, Haruna Lee, James Harrison Monaco, Ronald Peet, and Shu Wang. The piece's three movements are settings of Psalm 42 and Psalm 23 from the Hebrew Bible, in both English and Latin translations, with spoken interludes. During the evening, REDCAT will also present a new commissioned psalm setting, as Ellis continues his ongoing contemplation of devotion, yearning, and uncertainty. 

JJJJJerome Ellis is a stuttering, Afro-Caribbean composer, performer, and writer. His current practice explores Blackness, music, and disabled speech as forces of refusal and healing. He is a 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellow, a writer in residence at Lincoln Center Theater, and a 2015 Fulbright Fellow.
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Prismatic Ground Film Festival of Experimental Documentaries
April 8-18, 2021
Streaming through the festival's duration at prismaticground.com and through maysles.org:

Prismatic Ground is a new film festival centered on experimental documentary. The inaugural edition of the festival, founded by Inney Prakash, will be hosted virtually in partnership with Maysles Documentary Center and Screen Slate. Catch the ‘Opening Night,’ ‘Centerpiece,’ and ‘Closing Night’ events live via Screen Slate's Twitch channel. The rest of the films, split into four loosely themed sections or ‘waves’, will be available for the festival’s duration at prismaticground.com and through maysles.org. On April 10, at 4PM ET, Prismatic Ground will present the inaugural Ground Glass Award for outstanding contribution in the field of experimental media to Lynne Sachs. Other live engagements TBA.
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Conference: “There is no such thing as documentary”
Conference hosted by the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
The conference is past but the panels are now online
http://ntu.ccasingapore.org/events/conference-there-is-no-such-thing-as-documentary/

As the concluding programme of the exhibition Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films. (17 October 2020 – 28 February 2021) at NTU CCA Singapore, this four-part conference brings together scholars and practitioners across filmic, anthropological and curatorial disciplines, addressing notions of multivocality, performativity, and truth in fiction, through Trinh’s practice as a filmmaker and theorist.

As Trinh wrote: “There is no such thing as documentary…The words will not ring true.” Both a response and homage to Trinh’s provocation, and at once a close but also an opening, the conference extends multiple threads of inquiry beyond the ontological frames presented in Trinh’s films, to further explore the theoretical parallels and proximities between arrangement and composition, territorialisation and deterritorisalisation, that underscore Trinh’s cinematic works.
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The FIAF Programming Game
Multiple great archival programs, available through
https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/Training/2021-Winter-School-Programmes.html#pgm_294

Los Angeles Filmforum screenings are supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; The California Community Foundation with the Getty Foundation, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the Wilhelm Family Foundation. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors.

Los Angeles Filmforum is the city’s longest-running organization dedicated to weekly screenings of experimental film, documentaries, video art, and experimental animation. 2021 is our 46th year!

Memberships available, $75 single, $125 dual, $40 single student, or $225 for Silver Nitrate membership!
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