[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: August 7 - August 15, 2021

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*This Week [August 7 - August 15, 2021] in Avant Garde Cinema*




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*sorted by submission deadline*
08.15.2021 Imagine Science Film Festival
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08.16.2021 Media City Film Festival
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08.16.2021 Slamdance
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08.23.2021 Sundance Film Festival
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08.25.2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
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08.26.2021 28th Chicago Underground Film Festival
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08.31.2021 Ann Arbor Film Festival
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09.01.2021 Swedenborg Film Festival
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09.04.2021 The 4th Annual Film and Video Poetry Symposium
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09.13.2021 Festival Prisme #4
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09.19.2021 Punto de Vista
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09.24.2021 18th accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival
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09.30.2021 Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC)
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10.15.2021 Thomas Edison Film Festival
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11.01.2021 Experiments in Cinema
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*

This week's programs (summary):

   - Mimesis Documentary Festival
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[August
   4 - August 10, Boulder]
   - Razor Blades, Paul Sharits
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[August
   5 - August 8, New York, New York]
   - The Long Conversation
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   [August 8, online]
   - Film Kitchen Presents A Tribute To Leo Vale
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[August
   10 - August 24, online]
   - Superimpositions 1964
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[August
   12 - August 15, New York, New York]
   - Kenneth Anger
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[August
   14, New York, New York]
   - Baillie / Belson
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[August
   15, New York, New York]
   - The Long Conversation
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   [August 15, online]
   - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed
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[August
   15, online]
   - Ecstatic Static Screenings
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[ongoing,
   online]


*STARTING ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 7, 2021*

*August 4 - August 10*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Mimesis Documentary Festival
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varies, Boulder, CO
*Mimesis Documentary Festival*
Announcing the 2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival Program August 4th-10th,
2021 - Boulder, CO. The festival is an immersive theatrical and virtual
experience featuring in-person and at-home screenings, workshops, and
conversations with documentary artists, scholars, and producers from across
the world. We're excited to announce the program for the 2021 Mimesis
Documentary Festival, welcoming Featured Artist Pedro Costa! With 22 blocks
of nonfiction programming and installation-based documentary by more than
80 artists from around the world, the second annual Mimesis Documentary
Festival comes to the Dairy Arts Center and the B2 Center for Media Arts.

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*August 5 - August 8*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm + 8:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue
*RAZOR BLADES, Paul Sharits*
(Brand new restoration!)
Produced in association with the American Film Institute. Newly restored by
Anthology Film Archives. Special thanks to Colorlab and Audio Mechanics.
Anthology Film Archives marks its long-awaited post-pandemic reopening with
a program that could only take place “in real life,” projected theatrically
and on film: our brand-new restoration of Paul Sharits’s rarely screened
early masterpiece, RAZOR BLADES (1965-68).

The latest in our ongoing series of restorations of Sharits’s films, RAZOR
BLADES is a typically mind-bending, consciousness-expanding experiment in
perception and a classic among “expanded cinema” works. By means of color
combinations, the strobe-like flickering of the dueling projectors, a
high-volume stereo soundscape, and single-frame imagery, it demonstrates
the cinema’s capacity for exploring the mysterious interaction between
light, color, rhythm, eye, and mind. The double projection piece never
exhibits precisely the same way, rendering every screening a unique
experience. “A mandala opens to the other side of consciousness/since the
film ends as it begins and because its inner fabric is made up of (14
different) loops, an infinite loop is suggested/the varied length loops are
constructed so that viewers may chart variations in their consciousness of
speed, rhythm and image recognition/projected side by side so that both
images are regarded as one large image, subjective variability is
geometrically increased and ‘repetition’ is transcended.” –Paul Sharits
“[A] twin-screen ‘flicker’ film that boggles mind and eye. [...] Sharits
assaults the eye with contradictory, Strobe-lit patterns, images, designs
and colors that, projected on two adjacent screens, fluctuate in intensity
with the rhythms of the light flashes. Compared to Tony Conrad’s THE
FLICKER and Michael Snow’s WAVELENGTH, RAZOR BLADES is a kind of BEN-HUR of
structural films, employing not only abstract designs but also little,
almost Vanderbeekian cutouts of identifiable things (a strawberry sundae, a
penis) and people (a man apparently cutting his wrist). The effect is
extraordinarily unsettling as the mind tries desperately to make
intelligent connections between recognizable images, while at the same time
it automatically falls into the pace of the light explosions.” –Vincent
Canby, NEW YORK TIMES

Preceded by: Paul Sharits RAY GUN VIRUS 1966, 14 min, 16mm. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives. “Although affirming projector, projection beam,
screen, emulsion, film frame structure, etc., this is not an ‘abstract
film’/projector as pistol/time-colored pills/yes=no/mental suicide and
then, rebirth as self-projection/dedicated to Regina Cornwell.” –Paul
Sharits “With films like RGV, LSD may become obsolete.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN
ART

Total running time: ca. 45 min

*SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2021*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Riverwest Radio*
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8pm ET,
*THE LONG CONVERSATION*
THE LONG CONVERSATION...new episodes live every Sunday night! 8 pm eastern
standard time & 7 by Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber for Riverwest Radio,
104.1 or at riverwestradio.com ***& a new song by stephanie & xav for every
episode***

*TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2021*

*August 10 - August 24*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Film Kitchen*
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7 PM EST August 10, recording avail until August 24, Event URL:
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*FILM KITCHEN PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO LEO VALE*
Film Kitchen presents a very special tribute to Leo Vale, stalwart of the
1970s and 80s Pittsburgh film scene, who passed away in December of 2020.
Leo was a lifelong movie lover who started making 8mm films with his
brother Jim (J.T.) when they were kids. He attended CalArts in the 1970s
and was also a crucial figure in the early days of Pittsburgh Filmmakers,
where he developed a distinctive style of filmmaking reflecting a breadth
of cinematic and historical influences. His work can varyingly be described
as experimental, narrative, documentary, found footage, b-movie (and
sometimes all at once) but it is consistently visionary. Yet his films have
been almost entirely unseen for over 30 years, so we are honored to be able
to present every extant, complete Leo Vale movie. Of particular note is the
world premiere of a brand new 2K digital transfer of Leo’s most
well-remembered film, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, a brilliantly edited,
shot-on-a-shoestring adventure spectacle that reimagines Pittsburgh’s South
Side as the site of holy fortress under attack from an airplane gunner.
Leo’s family and friends will join hosts Matthew R. Day and Steven Haines
for a remembrance. The live program will be broadcast free of charge to the
Jump Cut Theater Twitch stream starting at 7 PM on Tuesday, August 10th. A
recording of the event will remain viewable online until 8/24.
www.twitch.tv/jumpcuttheater

*THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2021*

*August 12 - August 15*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm + 9pm ET, 32 Second Avenue
*SUPERIMPOSITIONS 1964*
1964 brought about the release of two pioneering superimposition films:
FILM NO. 14 (LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS) by artist, animator, and mystic Harry
Smith, and CHUMLUM by bohemian film legend Ron Rice. Both feature
mesmerizing, complex, and psychedelic in-camera Kodachrome layering set to
memorable soundtracks. While the two films share a lot in common and are
among the most celebrated experimental films of that era, they have rarely
screened together. For this program, we’ll be pairing these seminal films
in glorious new 16mm-to-35mm blow-ups, and further contextualizing them
with shorts by two other trailblazing (if under-recognized) New York City
filmmakers – Barbara Rubin and Jerry Jofen – who also worked wonders with
the technique of superimposition. Special thanks to The Film Foundation,
Simon Lund (Cineric, Inc.), and John Polito (Audio Mechanics).

*Harry Smith*
FILM NO. 14 (LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS)
1964, 28 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The
Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family
Foundation. Restoration premiere! “Superimposed photographs of Mr.
Fleischman’s butcher shop in New York, and the Kiowa around Anadarko,
Oklahoma – with Cognate Material. The strip is dark at the beginning and
end, light in the middle, and is structured 122333221. I honor it the most
of my films, otherwise a not very popular one before 1972.” –Harry Smith

*Ron Rice*
CHUMLUM
1964, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. With Jack Smith, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez,
Joel Markman, Frances Francine, Guy Henson, Barry Titus, Zelda Nelson,
Gerard Malanga, Barbara Rubin, and Frances Stillman. Music by Angus
MacLise. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with
funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. “In a house that
one could believe was created just for the purpose, Rice gives us an
infinite spectacle, superimposing bodies swinging in hammocks, back and
forth through diaphanous gossamer draperies that slow the movements, and
suspend them on the edge of the abyss.” –Rene Micha, LES TEMPS MODERNES

Preceded by:
*Barbara Rubin*
[REEL 5347]
ca. 1964, 4 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

*Jerry Jofen*
HOW CAN YOU TELL THE DANCER FROM THE DANCE?
ca. 1968, 10 min, 16mm-to-digital

Total running time: ca. 70 min.

*SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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4:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue
*KENNETH ANGER*
“Scandal, evil, violence, and Fascism, like Hollywood, are centers of
fascination for Anger, and his films are the fields in which the dialectic
of that fascination is played and fought.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM
“All of [Anger’s] films have been evocations or invocations, attempting to
conjure primal forces which, once visually released, are designed to have
the effect of ‘casting a spell’ on the audience. […] Not a surrealist who
puts blind faith in his own dream images and trusts his dreams to convey an
‘uncommon unconscious,’ Anger works predominantly in archetypal symbol. As
the magus, he is the juggler of these symbols, just as in the Tarot, where
the Magician is represented by the Juggler and is given the attribution of
Mercury, the messenger.” –Carel Rowe, FILM QUARTERLY

FIREWORKS (1947, 15 min, 16mm-to-35mm, b&w. Preserved by the UCLA Film &
Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.)
RABBIT’S MOON (1950-70, 15 min, 35mm. Preserved by the UCLA Film &
Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.)
EAUX D’ARTIFICE (1953, 13 min, 16mm)
SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 min, 16mm)
KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965, 3 min, 16mm)

Total running time: ca. 80 min.


*SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2021*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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4:45pm ET, 32 Second Avenue
*BAILLIE / BELSON*

*Bruce Baillie*
MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64, 20 min, 16mm, b&w)
CASTRO STREET (1966, 10 min, 16mm)
ALL MY LIFE (1966, 3 min, 16mm)
VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS (1968, 10 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives.)
“In [Baillie’s late 1960s films], the eye of the film-maker quiets his mind
with images of reconciliation; the dialectics of cinematic thought become
calm in the filming of the privileged moment of reconciliation.” –P. Adams
Sitney, VISIONARY FILM

*Jordan Belson*
ALLURES (1961, 9 min, 16mm)
RE-ENTRY (1964, 6 min, 16mm)
SAMADHI (1967, 6 min, 16mm)
WORLD (1970, 6 min, 16mm)
“Our greatest abstract film poet: he has found how to combine the vision of
the outer and the inner eye.” –Gene Youngblood

Total running time: ca. 75 min.

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Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*GearWax*
https://gutsyradio.org/
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6pm-8pm PT,
*GEARWAX: OLD VINYL, REPURPOSED*
A bi-weekly online radio program featuring old LPs, 45rpm and 78rpm
records. Hosted by Kathleen and Scott from San Francisco. Every other
Sunday 6-8pm Pacific time on Gutsy Radio @ https://gutsyradio.org/

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Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Riverwest Radio*
riverwestradio.com
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8pm ET,
*THE LONG CONVERSATION*
THE LONG CONVERSATION...new episodes live every Sunday night! 8 pm eastern
standard time & 7 by Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber for Riverwest Radio,
104.1 or at riverwestradio.com ***& a new song by stephanie & xav for every
episode***


*ONGOING*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Ecstatic Static*
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streaming 24/7
*ECSTATIC STATIC SCREENINGS*
We host regular online screenings of artists’ films and videos on the
landing page, as a way to share work both new and rare, that may otherwise
have a limited release. For more information on each artist and ways on how
to support their work, please see the links below.

*Screening No. 4: I Remember*
Bani Abidi, Funland (Karachi Series II). 2014, 12 min, 48 sec
Luis Arnías, Punky Eye / Ojo Malcriado. 2018, 15 min
Tinne Zenner, Sleeping District. 2014, 12 min
Miko Revereza, Distancing. 2019, 10 min
Catarina Vasconcelos, Metaphor or Sadness Inside Out. 2013, 31 min
Leonardo Mouramateus, A Festa e os cães. 2015, 25 min

*Screening No. 3: W,O,R,D,S*
Erica Sheu, first draft. 2017, 3 min
Anna Thew, Lost for Words. 1980, 25 min
Abigail Child, Mutiny. 1983, 11 min
Yann Beauvais, SID A IDS. 1992, 5 min, 30 sec
Rhea Storr, Junkanoo Talk. 2017, 11 min, 36 sec
John Smith , Steve Hates Fish. 2015, 5 min
Jenny Brady , Wow and Flutter. 2013, 13 min, 3 sec
Eva Giolo, A Tongue Called Mother. 2019, 18 min

*Screening No. 2: Five Films by Jodie Mack*
Jodie Mack, Wasteland #1: Ardent, Verdant. 2017, 4min, 30 sec
Jodie Mack, Something Between Us. 2015, 9 min, 30 sec
Jodie Mack, Razzle Dazzle. 2014, 5 min
Jodie Mack, Undertone Overture. 2013, 10 min, 30 sec
Jodie Mack, Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart is. 2012, 3 min

*Screening No. 1: The Ecstatic Static*
Luca Werner, Schöngeising. 2020, 1 min, 10 sec
Kersti Jan Werdal, Slow Shapes. 2017, 12 min, 54 sec
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Wrestlers. 2015, 7 min
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces. 2016, 8 min
Simon Liu, Signal 8. 2019, 14 min
Anna Marziano, La Veglia. 2010, 2 min
Andrea Franco, East Los Angeles Punk. 2012, 7 min
Jeano Edwards, Familiar Strangers. 2020, 2 min, 22 sec.
Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega, Parres Trilogy. 2004, 12 min, 56 sec
Gillian Garcia, YDS. 2021, 3 min, 49 sec


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