[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: December 4 - 12, 2021
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12.07.2021 San Francisco International Film Festival
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(Youth Works/Mid-Length/Features Only)
12.13.2021 ATELIER 105 Post-Production Residencies
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12.17.2021 Visions du Réel
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12.22.2021 FLorida EXperimental Film/Video Festival
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12.31.2021 Laterale Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
12.31.2021 Microscope Gallery Open Call
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01.01.2022 Cosmic Rays
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01.07.2022 Coney Island Film Festival
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01.15.2022 Crossroads
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01.30.2022 Braziers International Film Festival
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01.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage
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02.01.2022 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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03.01.2022 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*
This week's programs (summary):
- Media Monsters Series 2
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[October
21-December 16, online]
- Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again
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[October
22-February 13, Cambridge, MA]
- Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde
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[November
20-February 26, Vilnius, Lithuania]
- Analogica 11
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[December
1-5, Bolzano, Italy + online]
- 2021 Fall Flaherty NYC: Transformation and Renewal
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[December
1-18, New York + online]
- aCinema: Syzygy & Polemicee
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[December
1-31, online]
- Alfred Leslie's *The Last Clean Shirt*
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[December
1-31, online]
- RETROSPECTIVE: Michael Snow
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[December
3-14, New York]
- Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed
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[December
5, online]
- Carolee Schneemann's *Fuses* - New Print + Discussion!
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[December
9, New York]
- New Films On the Re:Voir Online App
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[December
10, online]
- Kinoskop 2021
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[December
10-12, Belgrade, Serbia + online]
- EC: Robert Breer Program
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[December
11, New York]
- Screening @ NO NAME CINEMA
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[December
11, Santa Fe, NM]
- Mono No Aware Community Screening Program
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[December
12, New York]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- Ecstatic Static Screenings
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE DECEMBER 4, 2021*
*October 21 - December 16*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Media Monsters
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8pm PT,
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*Media Monsters Series 2*
Media Monsters is back for a second series! Join us for brand new episodes,
special events, and some surprises LIVE on Thursday's at 8pm PT/11pm ET!
*Video on demand is available if you cannot make it to the live screenings.
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*October 22 - February 13*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
MIT List Visual Arts Center
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MIT List Visual Arts Center 20 Ames Street, Bldg E15, Atrium level,
Cambridge, MA
*LESLIE THORNTON: BEGIN AGAIN, AGAIN*
Thornton’s List Center exhibition marks the artist’s first US solo museum
exhibition and most comprehensive presentation to date. The exhibition will
premiere a new video work, *Hemlock *(2021), as well as a new installation
of Thornton’s influential cycle *Peggy and Fred in Hell* (1983–2015).
In a career spanning nearly five decades, Leslie Thornton has produced an
influential body of work in film and video. Her early encounters with
experimental, structuralist, and cinéma vérité traditions as a student in
the 1970s fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape
to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival
film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound,
Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while
acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central
to scientific discourse and narrative in general. Engaging these themes
within a focused survey, Thornton’s List Center exhibition will mark the
artist’s first US solo museum exhibition and most comprehensive
presentation to date.
The relationship between technology, power, and violence is an enduring
concern for Thornton. In early works, such as *X-TRACTS* (1975), *All Right
You Guys* (1976) and *Jennifer, Where Are You?* (1981), Thornton contends
with the basic conditions of representation in film and how the camera
itself wields power. In *Let Me Count the Ways* (2004–ongoing) and *Cut
>From Liquid to Snake* (2018), Thornton takes up the United States’ history
of nuclear warfare—a subject fraught with personal resonance for her, as
both her father and grandfather were involved in the Manhattan Project, the
top-secret effort that produced the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on
Japan in the final days of World War II. A touchstone of experimental
film, *Peggy
and Fred in Hell *is a multi-chapter work that surfaces the Cold War-era
anxieties that shaped Thornton’s formative years and plumbs the
psychological impact of technology in postwar America. Thornton’s recent
film *Ground* (2020) embeds the voice of a physicist discussing particle
decay within elegant yet foreboding technological landscapes. The
exhibition’s title, *Begin Again, Again*—borrowed from a line in *Peggy and
Fred in Hell*—alludes to human-made cycles of destruction and renewal as
well the hallmarks of Thornton’s practice: an accumulation and repetition
of images and language and a radically open-ended approach to observing,
processing, and understanding.
Thornton’s exhibition is organized by Natalie Bell, Curator, MIT List
Visual Arts Center. In conjunction with the exhibition, the List Center is
co-publishing the artist’s first monograph with Sternberg Press.
*Exhibition Brochure with list of works exhibited*:
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*November 20 - February 26*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
National Gallery of Art, Vilnius
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National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr.22, Vilnius, Lithuania
*Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde*
The exhibition presents Jonas Mekas' (1922-2019) work in the expanded
sense. It covers his filmic practice as well as his intellectual,
organizational, and often bluntly administrative approach to the labour of
building and running multiple institutions and fostering new habits of
looking at film as an art form. The exhibition focuses on the first three
decades of Mekas' activities, starting with his coming to New York as a
displaced person in 1949, through to him becoming a central figure in
advocating, producing, distributing, promoting, and preserving the filmic
avant-garde.
The exhibition features Mekas' filmic corpus, including his celebrated
diary films that epitomize his lifelong practice of recording glimpses of
everyday life: while they show personal experiences, marked by exile,
longing, family, and friendships, they are also steeped in the social and
political events of the day. Though known primarily as a poet and a
filmmaker in Lithuania, Mekas wore many more hats that granted him the
title of the 'godfather' of American avant-garde cinema. Before premiering
his first film, Mekas together with his brother Adolfas Mekas began
publishing *Film Culture* magazine in 1955 and soon joined the *Village
Voice* as a film critic. These became the main outlets through which Mekas
channeled his ideas about film as an art form of personal expression and
called for a new kind of cinema free from censorship and existing
production and distribution systems.
An alternative arts movement sprang up across New York in the postwar
years, as artist-run spaces, groups, and cooperatives took the production
and distribution of art into their own hands in response to mainstream
institutional structures and official cultural politics. Mekas had been a
crucial part of it. By the mid-1960s, Mekas' loft at 414 Park Avenue South
became a headquarters for the fermenting avant-garde film culture; a
sleepless hub frequented by filmmakers and artists alike. This decade
marked Mekas' embrace of the avant-garde spirit, as he took part in the
formation of the New American Cinema Group, and the establishment of the
Film-Makers' Cooperative, the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, and Anthology Film
Archives. These time-consuming activities occasionally seeped into his
filmic diaries and even, as Mekas suggested, to some degree determined his
films' fragmentary structure. They are presented in the exhibition through
a selection of critical writings, photographs, magazines, institutional
ephemera, and other archival material arranged in porous conceptual
clusters on the table traversing the exhibition space. Images, sounds, and
materials Mekas collected and organized throughout his lifetime - in his
films and in his personal archive - serve today as an entry point into the
history of avant-garde film culture in New York.
The exhibition pays tribute to this era of the burgeoning American
avant-garde film scene and contextualizes Mekas' output by presenting a
selection of works by filmmakers who shared his aesthetic sensibility, whom
he championed, and with whom he worked, including Gideon Bachmann, Stan
Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Maya Deren, Storm de Hirsch, Ken Jacobs, Marie
Menken, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol. A
selection of films is screened behind the curved wall in the specially
designed projection rooms. These rooms are loosely inspired by the
Invisible Cinema, an experimental movie theater designed by the Austrian
artist and filmmaker Peter Kubelka and originally installed at Anthology
Film Archives in 1970.
*Curators:* Inesa Brašiškė and Lukas Brašiškis
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*December 1-5*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
ANALOGICA
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times vary in person + streaming 24/7,
Foto Forum / Via Weggenstein, 3 Bolzano, Italy & Waag / Piazza del Grano,
12 Bolzano, Italy
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*ANALOGICA 11*
ANALOGICA celebrates its first ten years and does so by returning with live
programming. ANALOGICA 11 takes shape in the spaces of Foto Forum and Waag
just a few meters from each other in historic downtown Bolzano. We have
decided to maintain a hybrid program, offering the ANALOGICA Selection and
ANALOGICA Selection / Retrospectiva programs available in streaming.
To those willing and able we look forward to seeing you in Bolzano from 1st
to 5th December.
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*December 1 - 18*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
The Flaherty NYC
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various times,
various venues, New York, NY
Event URL: https://theflaherty.org/2021-flaherty-nyc-1
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*2021 Fall Flaherty NYC: Transformation and Renewal*
The Flaherty is thrilled to announce its upcoming 2021 Fall Flaherty NYC,
Transformation and Renewal programmed by Kelsey White and L u m i a.
The series will run December 1st to 18th in venues across New York City
(Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Harlem) and online. We are excited to be
partnering this season with Anthology Film Archives
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Microscope Gallery
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UnionDocs
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This series of films highlights works by artists and visionaries who
reimagine life and transform its representation, often in response to the
many crises that mark their epochs.
*TRANSFORMATION AND RENEWAL *
*“BE YE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD: BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING
OF YOUR MIND.”* -ROMANS 12
>From the warm flicker of the hand-cranked projector to the cool glow of a
cracked iPhone screen, cinema remains in flux, and yet it continues to
offer the viewer chances to encounter uniquely personal visions. These
visions alter our perceptions of reality and strengthen our resistance to
conformity and complacency. Is this cinema as sorcery? Voluntary
derangement of the senses can lead to unexpected possibilities, and the
recovery of presence reveals the joy of living shrouded in the loss that
marks our time.
SERIES DATES & IN PERSON APPEARANCES
*entering and exiting in peace, part 1 of 4: for my friends in the plague
years *
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Opening Night *
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Wednesday, December 1 at 7:00pm
With Jeanne Liotta and Bradley Eros in person
*From the multitudes of narratives. Missing.*
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*Co-presented with **Microscope Gallery*
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Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 8:00pm
Moderated by Gina Telaroli
In conversation with artists Rachael Guma and Eve-Lauryn LaFountain
With artist Rachael Guma in person as well as Alexandra Cuesta, Thirza
Cuthand, Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, Vanessa Renwick, Leslie Supnet, and Paige
Taul participating online.
*Of creation / Of potential*
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*Co-presented with **UnionDocs*
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Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 7:30pm
Moderated by Monika Fabijanska
With artists Cecilia Vicuña and Terra Long participating online
*entering and exiting in peace, part 2 of 4: Home-Duty *
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*Co-presented with **Maysles Documentary Center*
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Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 12:30pm
With artists Alison Nguyen, Saul Levine, Frankie Symonds & Devin Utah in
person
*Vision within the boundary of sight*
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*Co-presented with **Anthology Film Archives*
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Monday, December 13, 2021 at 7:00pm
Moderated by Kelsey White
With artist Els van Riel in person
*entering and exiting in peace, part 4 of 4: almost everything important
is deleted*
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Closing Afternoon*
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December 18, 2021 at 1:30pm
*All staff and event attendees* *will be required to show proof of COVID-19
vaccination. Masks required at all indoor events. *
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*December 1 - 31*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
aCinema
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://www.acinema.space/current-program
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*aCinema: Syzygy & Polemicee*
*Reunification of the Motherland*, Franek Wardynski, 10 min 57 sec, video
*The Asphodel Phases*, Edwin Rostron, 23 min 27 sec, animation
*Thuy & T.*, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, 7 min 13 sec, video
*Speaking of Flowers*, Shelby Dillon, 7 min 13 sec, video
aCinema is a monthly exhibition dedicated to the screening of works by
moving image artists from around the globe for audiences during the 9 month
period of September to May. aCinema also organizes a yearly festival
programmed from an open call for works titled, aDifferent festival. Through
the exhibition of artists -- historical and contemporary, emerging and
established -- in curated programs, aCinema creates a platform for artists
of all career statuses to share a common exhibition space.
Through the curatorial themes and independent thoughts expressed within the
works, aCinema hopes to inspire and expand audiences' views of the moving
image, fostering an arts educational space, where audiences are free to
engage in discussion with curators and artists (when present) following the
screenings.
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*December 1 - 31*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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*Alfred Leslie’s The Last Clean Shirt*
*The Last Clean Shirt*, Alfred Leslie, 1964, 40 minutes. B/W. Sound.
Digital. English subtitles by Frank O’Hara.
Joan Mitchell’s artists circle in the 1950s and 1960s, known as the New
York School, included poet Frank O’Hara and SFMOMA collection artist Alfred
Leslie, a painter and filmmaker known for *Pull My Daisy*, a 1959 film
co-directed with Robert Frank. While the artists and writers held firm to
their own practices, wonderful things happened when they came together.
Released in 1964 and screened at SFMOMA that year, *The Last Clean Shirt* is
an avant-garde classic that probes the limits of cinematic form and
predates the rise of structuralist film. This collaborative project between
Leslie and O’Hara features a young Black man and white woman driving around
downtown Manhattan with an alarm clock taped to the dashboard. While the
woman speaks in a mix of Finnish and gibberish, their meanderings and
musings are told through O’Hara’s subtitles in a beautiful stream of
consciousness that runs throughout the film.
In a letter to O’Hara, Leslie describes a goal of the film: “We will shoot
for two SEPARATE LEVELS on the film. One is the VISUAL, the other the HEARD
& the spectator will be in TWO places or more SIMULTANEOUSLY. NOT AS MEMORY
BUT AT THE SAME MOMENT. PARALLELISM! MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW!”
Screens courtesy of LUX.
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*December 2*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Squeaky Wheel
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6pm ET,
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center 617 Main Street, Buffalo NY
Event URL: https://squeaky.org/event/cinema-of-breath-poetics-of-migrancy/
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*Cinema of Breath: Poetics of Migrancy*
Does cinema breathe? Can we understand migration through cinematic poetry?
Curated by Kalpana Subramanian, *Cinema of Breath: Poetics of Migrancy* brings
together a series of cinematic experiments that range across registers of
the personal, collective, scientific, and archival. Together, these short
films explore ideas of home and mobility, exile and displacement, and
memories of place.
The program showcases films by Alexandra Cuesta, Crystal Z Campbell, Erin
Espelie, Gariné Torossian, MTL Collective, Sky Hopinka, Sonali Gulati,
Suneil Sanzgiri, and Kalpana Subramanian. It will be followed by a
discussion with the curator and guest filmmakers.
*Cinema of Breath* is based on Subramanian’s doctoral research in Media
Study at the University at Buffalo. Her research into experimental film
draws from breath practices in Yoga and Buddhist philosophy. Through this
lens, “breath” can be thought of as the creational force of cinema that
brings it to “life.”
The event will be accessible to audiences for 24 hours after the event.
Squeaky Wheel members will have access for 72 hours. Not a member? Sign up
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This event is presented by the New York Immigration Coalition with Squeaky
Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
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*December 2*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
la lumière collective
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7pm ET,
la lumière collective, 7080, rue Alexandra, # 506, Montreal, QC
*IN SITU: Matthew Wolkow & Jean-Jacques Martinod*
IN SITU is a series that focuses on unique audiovisual works by local
artists passionate about cinematic material, moving images and social
dynamics.
[Musical performance by Marilène Provencher-Leduc]
*Tiger Dialogue*, Matthew Wolkow | 2017 | Super 8 to Super 16 digitized
| color and b & w | 18 mins
*La Bala by Sandoval*, Jean-Jacques Martinod | 2019 | Super 16mm to Digital
| color and b & w | 17 mins
*New work in progress*, Matthew Wolkow and Jean-Jacques Martinod, 2021
| Super 16mm digitized | Color | 8 mins
*New film*, by Jean Jacques Martinod, 2021 | Super 16mm to Digital | color
& b & w | 17 mins
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*December 3 - 14*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New YorkEvent URL:
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*RETROSPECTIVE: MICHAEL SNOW*
A filmmaker, photographer, sculptor, painter, musician, and writer, Michael
Snow’s prodigious talents have earned him a well-deserved reputation as one
of Canada’s foremost living artists. Born in Toronto in 1928, Snow was a
bohemian art student who devoted himself equally to painting and jazz piano
throughout the 1940s and 1950s (he is still an active musician today).
While he exhibited his visual works in Toronto galleries from the mid-50s
onwards, it was not until moving to New York City in 1962 that the larger
art world took notice of his various activities and endeavors.
No matter what mode he works in or in what context he exhibits (theater,
gallery, museum, public art installation), Snow always turns his content on
its head by playing with the formal structures of the medium at hand. Much
of his cinematic oeuvre is focused on exploring the differences between
screen space and physical space; film time and real time; the slippery
relationship between sound and picture; the critical processes involved in
producing and perceiving images; the material essence of the celluloid
image; and the transformative effects achieved through duration.
Intellectual without being overly didactic, and always playful, Snow’s
filmography stands out as one of the most accomplished bodies of
moving-image work produced in the last 60 years. As such, Anthology is
pleased to host a full retrospective of Snow’s film and video work, 1956 to
2019, including the premiere of our years-in-the-making restoration of his
seminal film *<--->* (BACK AND FORTH).
This retrospective has been programmed by John Klacsmann and Jed Rapfogel,
and is co-presented with the Consulate General of Canada in New York.
Special thanks to Peggy Gale; Chris Kennedy; Andrew Lampert; Catherine
Scheinman (Consulate General of Canada in New York); Jay Sanders, Stella
Cilman, Danielle Jackson & Rezarta Seferi (Artists Space); and Kenneth
White.
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PROGRAMMES
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 1
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December
3 at 7:00 PM & December 14 at 8:45 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 2
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December
3 at 9:00 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 3: WAVELENGTH (intro by Amy Taubin!)
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December
4 at 6:00 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 4: <---> (BACK AND FORTH)
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December
4 at 8:00 PM & December 12 at 4:30 PM & December 14 at 7:00 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 5: RAMEAU’S NEPHEW...
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December
5 at 3:00 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 6: LA RÉGION CENTRALE
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December
6 at 7:00 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 7
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December
7 at 6:45 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 8: PRESENTS
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December
7 at 8:45 PM & December 12 at 8:45 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 9
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December
10 at 6:30 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 10: TO LAVOISIER...
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December
10 at 9:00 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 11: *CORPUS CALLOSUM
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December
11 at 6:00 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 12
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December
11 at 8:30 PM
MICHAEL SNOW, PGM 13: ARTISTS SPACE PRESENTS
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December
12 at 6:15 PM
*SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2021*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*GearWax*
https://www.gearwax.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 PT!
*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2021*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN’S “FUSES” - New print + discussion!*
Filmmaker, artist, performer, and writer Carolee Schneemann, who passed
away in March 2019 at the age of 79, was an uncompromising figure whose
work was suffused with her boundless creative energy, sharp sense of humor,
and piercing intelligence. To celebrate our recent creation of a brand-new
16mm print of Anthology’s 2007 restoration of *FUSES*, her classic
avant-garde work, Anthology joins forces with the Carolee Schneemann
Foundation for a presentation of the film followed by a post-screening
discussion.
*FUSES*, 1965-67, 30 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology with support
from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the University of
Chicago Film Studies Center.
Schneemann’s self-shot erotic film, made over several years at her home in
upstate New York, remains a powerful ode to intimacy.
“[A] notorious masterpiece, a silent celebration in color of heterosexual
love making, the film unifies erotic energies within a domestic environment
through cutting, super-imposition and layering of abstract impressions
scratched into the celluloid itself… FUSES succeeds perhaps more than any
other film in objectifying the sexual streamings of the body’s mind.” –THE
GUARDIAN
Followed by a roundtable discussion with John Klacsmann, Andrew Lampert,
Erica Levin, Yvonne Rainer, Tess Takahashi, and Kenneth White follows the
screening. Introduction by Rachel Churner, director of the Carolee
Schneemann Foundation.
*FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2021*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Re:Voir
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12:00 GMT,
Event URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/online-re-voir/id1545131544
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*New films on the Re:Voir Online app*
The new Re:Voir Video app is available on iOS for iPhone and iPad, and will
be available soon for Android. The app is free to download and clips and
trailers are free to watch. Subscribe for 8 euros monthly to watch all
films unlimited. 30 day free promo for all subscriptions now through the
end of the year (then it will be 8 days).
New films available Friday, December 10:
*Fun and Games for Everyone* (1968, 54 min) by Serge Bard
*Eclats d'Orphée *(2002, 4 min) by Patrick Bokanowski
*The Very Eye of Night* (1958, 15 min) by Maya Deren
*Fog Line* (1970, 11 min) by Larry Gotthheim
*Portrait of Bill Morrison* (2006, 12 min) by Pip Chodorov.
We add two hours of new films every week.
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*December 10 - 12*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Kinoskop
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times vary,
Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade, Serbia
Event URL: https://www.kinoskop.co/2021.php
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*KINOSKOP 2021*
THIRD INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANALOG / EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - KINOSKOP
2021 is a hybrid edition, which will encompass three days of on-site
screenings, and additional features presented online
Ten eclectic selections which highlight the recent analog production will
be curated by veteran experimental film aficionados Nikola Gocić (film
writer and critic and visual artist), Marko Milićević (film author and
founder of the audiovisual initiative Kino Pleme), Ejla Kovačević (member
of Zagreb filmlab Klubvizija and 25FPS festival collaborator), Aleksandra
Dalichow (founder of ExperimentaL CinemA and film reviewer),and Csaba
Bollók (Hungarian filmmaker and teacher of analog film).
Program will also include live soundtracks, a slot for a filmmaker in focus
and q&a's with guests of the festival.
Members of the jury are Rouzbeh Rashidi (filmmaker and founder or
Experimental Film Society), Višeslav Radenković (Belgrade-based
screenwriter and filmmaker), and Miro Frakić (Zagreb-based film critic).
*SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2021*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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3pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*EC: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM*
“Roughly speaking [Breer’s] works belong to that category of films
generally called ‘abstract’ (though his are also highly ‘concrete’), but
differ from everything else that has been done along these lines in one
basic respect: Breer is undoubtedly the first filmmaker to have brought to
his medium the full heritage of modern painting and the sum of
sophisticated experimentation that it represents.” – Noël Burch, FILM
QUARTERLY
*FORM PHASES I* (1952, 2 min, 16mm)
*FORM PHASES II* (1953, 2 min, 16mm)
*RECREATION* (1956, 1.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
*MOTION PICTURES NO. 1* (1956, 4.5 min, 16mm, silent)
*JAMESTOWN BALOOS* (1957, 6 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
*EYEWASH* (1959, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
*BLAZES* (1961, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
*PAT’S BIRTHDAY* (1962, 13 min, 16mm, b&w)
*BREATHING* (1963, 5 min, 35mm, b&w)
*FIST FIGHT* (1964, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
*66* (1966, 5.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
*69* (1969, 4.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
*70* (1970, 5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
*GULLS AND BUOYS* (1972, 8 min, 16mm)
*FUJI* (1974, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
With the exception of *MOTION PICTURES NO. 1*, *PAT’S BIRTHDAY*,* BREATHING*,
and *GULLS AND BUOYS*, the films in this program were preserved by
Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Total running time: ca. 85 min.
*SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2021*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Mono No Aware @ Anthology Film Archives
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1pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAM*
Featuring the world premiere of 60 films made locally with the support of
MONO in September-December 2021.
This program will include films made through the educational initiatives of
MONO NO AWARE, a cinema-arts nonprofit organization and film positive
community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience.
Established in 2007 and based in downtown Brooklyn, MONO NO AWARE presents
monthly artist-in-person screenings, facilitates equipment rentals,
operates a film distribution initiative, maintains wet & dry lab
facilities, and hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary artists and
international filmmakers whose work incorporates Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or
altered light projections as part of a live performance or installation.
For more info visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
NO NAME CINEMA
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7:30pm MST,
NO NAME CINEMA, 2013 Piñon Street, Santa Fe, NM
*Screening @ NO NAME CINEMA*
A program focused on life, mythology and moral ambiguity in the American
West, featuring live musical accompaniment & introductions by Santa
Fe-based filmmaker Ben Kujawski!
*Misery Machine* (directed by Ben Kujawski / 2018 / 3 mins / B&W /
Super-8mm to HD / live musical accompaniment)
*Do You Think Jesus Liked Hard Boiled Eggs* (directed by Ben Kujawski /
2020 / 18 mins / color / sound / 4K UHD projection)
*Rancho Deluxe* (directed by Frank Perry / 1975 / 93 mins / color / sound /
1080p digital projection)
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*ONGOING*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Riverwest Radio*
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streaming 24/7
*THE LONG CONVERSATION*
THE LONG CONVERSATION with Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber is on indefinite
hold. But... all episodes from the last year and a half are streaming!!!
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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. 7: Five Films by Simon Liu*
Simon Liu, *Happy Valley*. 2020, 13 min
Simon Liu, *Signal 8*. 2019, 14 min
Simon Liu, *E-Ticket*. 2019, 13 min
Simon Liu, *Star Ferry*. 2018, 8 min
Simon Liu, *Fallen Arches*. 2018, 10 min
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