[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: December 12 - 19, 2021
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*This Week [December 12 - 19, 2021] in Avant Garde Cinema*
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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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12.31.2021 Microscope Gallery Open Call
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01.01.2022 Cosmic Rays
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01.07.2022 Struts Gallery Open Studio Residency
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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]
- 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]
- Kinoskop 2021
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[December
10-12, Belgrade, Serbia + online]
- The Works of Lynne Sachs
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[December
10-12, New York]
- 16mm Festival 2021
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[December
10-12, Mumbai]
- Mono No Aware Community Screening Program
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[December
12, New York]
- The 50th Anniversary of Collectif Jeune CinéMa Invited By CinéDoc
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[December
16, Paris]
- Visions: Brent Chesanek
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[December
16, Montreal]
- EC: James Broughton
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[December
17-19, New York]
- Stan Brakhage: Black Films
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[December
19, Brussels]
- Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed
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[December
19, online]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- Ecstatic Static Screenings
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE DECEMBER 12, 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 - 18*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
The Flaherty NYC
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various times,
various venues, New York, NY
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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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and Maysles Documentary Center
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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
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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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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://www.sfmoma.org/alfred-leslies-the-last-clean-shirt/
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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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*December 10 - 12*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Kinoskop
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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).
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*December 10 - 12*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Metrograph
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times vary, 7 Ludlow Street, NYC
*The work of Lynne Sachs*
Since bursting onto the filmmaking scene in the 1980s, Memphis-born Lynne
Sachs has compiled an inimitable, astonishing body of work which includes
essay films, diaristic shorts, gallery installations, and quite a number of
simply uncategorizable hybrids. Sachs’s wide-ranging, restless ingenuity is
on full display in this program, which includes her 2020 documentary
portrait A Film About a Father Who; The Washing Society, her collaboration
with playwright Lizzie Olesker, which premiered in 2015 at a Clinton Hill
laundromat; and this year’s E•pis•to•lar•y: Letter to Jean Vigo, a
ruminative, surprising response to the January 6th Capitol Hill riots. A
blast of engaging, and engaged, cinema.
Sachs will be present for all three programs.
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*December 10 - 12*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Harkat Studios
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Harkat Studios, Versova, Mumbai
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*16MM FESTIVAL 2021*
The 16mm Film Festival is back, and in full swing! Every film in this
festival is made on physical film, where a mechanical device captures 24
images every second, as an eye looks through a flickering viewfinder and a
shutter makes anxious rotations, cutting out as much light as it’s letting
in.
Most of us who have had the opportunity of befriending celluloid remember
holding up the first piece of film we saw against a light, noticing the
details in the frame. And like with any medium, our perceptions and
approach change the more we get to know it, but we never end up where we
started.
Just like our own personal histories of learning, this year’s curatorial
takes you on a journey, or as we like to think of it — a conceptual album
of celluloid films. We’re set to take the screen with an opening program
that truly reveals the nature and possibilities of working on celluloid.
These are visuals and experiments that are unique to the medium, a perfect
introduction to the world of analog film. As we traverse through this
sphere, the following screenings are more structured, as we get more
attuned to its instruments, we take steps with intention, sounds and
feelings become familiar, and it all boils down to light and time. With the
introduction of our film lab this year and all it has taught us, it felt
right to close our festival with a glimpse into Harkat’s present film
endeavours; a continued journey, but it’s where this one ends.
This year we are also pleased to invite the Rennes-based Labo K as our
festival guests. They will be showcasing their work as well as some
collaborative films we have been working on together, for the very first
time. We’re also excited to partner with the folks at Straight-8 once
again, screening their Top-8 and India entries! So come join us for a three
day celebration of celluloid, screening over 50 very special films from
around the world.
Note: Screenings will take place online and offline this year. Offline
screenings will be held at our studio in Versova, Mumbai.
*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.
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*November 4 - 7 + December 12*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Xcèntric
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Teatre CCCB, Plaça de Joan Coromines
*Xcèntric 20th Anniversary*
The 20th anniversary of Xcèntric will take place on 4, 5, 6 and 7 November
and 12 December at the CCCB’s cinema. We have prepared a special program
that includes screenings, a conference by Tom Gunning, happenings, and
several performances. We celebrate cinema as a collective experience, the
survival of photochemical film and the profession of projectionist, through
a reflection on the present and future of cinema in the digital age.
December 12 @ 18:30 (GMT +2)
*Album 1*, Boris Lehman, 1974, Super 8 to 16 mm, colour, silent, 60
min. Live musical accompaniment by Marina Herlop.
*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2021*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
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7 30 PM GMT+1,
Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris
*The 50 th Anniversary of Collectif Jeune Cinéma invited by Cinédoc*
For the 50th Anniversay of Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC), Cinédoc - Paris
Films Coop created in 1974, is giving a "carte blanche" to the CJC. The
films that will be screened belong to filmmakers who had, at the time,
films in both coops, and some, still do today. France has a great tradition
in distributing experimental cinema. Many foreign filmmakers and critics
don’t know about that, or prefer not to know. We wrote, Raphaël Bassan,
Gérard Courant, Christian Lebrat and Dominique Noguez, a text in 2004 for
English speakers.
See the link in French
http://www.gerardcourant.com/index.php?t=ecrits&e=229
See the link in English
https://www.academia.edu/63098842/French_experimental_cinema_the_richness_of_the_1970s
Programmed by Théo Deliyannis, administrator of the Collectif Jeune Cinema
CJC.
*L'HIVER : SORTIE DE CHARLERINE DUPAS*, Joseph Morder, 1981, 16 mm, 3'19'
*PICTURLURE*, Barbara Glowzwewska, 1977, 16 mm, 16'
*ZERO-ONE*, Edouard Luyken, 1977, 16 mm, 5'
*V2 (PUCCINI)*, Christian Lebrat, 2008, numérique, 4'20"
*ALDÉBARAN*, Hugo Verlinde, 2000, numérique, 10'
*ARTMATIC*, Robert Cahen, 1981, numérique, 4'15"
*MY ROOM LE GRAND CANAL*, Anne-Sophie Brabant, Pierre Gerbaux, 2002, 35 mm,
32'
In the presence of Christian Lebrat, Anne-Sophie Brabant and Pierre Gerbaux
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Visions
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7 pm,
7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC
*VISIONS: BRENT CHESANEK*
*City World *| 2012 | HD | colour | sound | 69 mins
City World is a doc-hybrid set in the physical and psychological wastelands
of an abandoned Orlando, Florida. A young boy narrates an adventure tale
that slowly swivels from a American historical myth into his a harrowing
familial reality. Set in the swamps and the suburbs, and populated by
plants, animals, roads and architecture, City World is a meditation on
modernity, history, mythology, nature, and theme parks.
Brent Chesanek is a filmmaker operating somewhere in the shadows between
narrative, documentary, and experimental practice. He grew up in Central
Florida and his work carries a fascination with everyday Floridian and
broader American self-mythologies. Chesanek’s films have screened at
CPH:DOX, RIDM, Seattle International Film Festival, DOXA, Singapore
International Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Denver Film
Festival, Art Basel Miami Beach, and more. He has presented projects at
Ji.Hlava New Visions Forum, UnionDocs, US-In-Progress Paris. Chesanek
studied journalism/telecom and film theory at the University of Florida. He
lives and works in Brooklyn.
*FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2021*
*December 17 - 19*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York
*EC: JAMES BROUGHTON*
PROGRAM 1: December 17, 5:30pm
*MOTHER’S DAY* (1948, 22 min, 16mm)
*FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON* (1951, 15 min, 16mm)
*LOONY TOM, THE HAPPY LOVER* (1951, 10 min, 16mm)
“For Broughton, making films did not make him less of a poet; it made him
more of a poet. Like Jean Cocteau, Broughton insisted that poetry was not
limited to ‘verse,’ and that it was the most precise word to describe his
activities. […] His ‘filmic passion’ led him not to commercial cinema…but
to a ‘life of vision’ in which he might experience ‘a poetry that would
reveal on a large screen what my feelings looked like.’” –Jack Foley, FULL,
FRONTAL MYSTERY: THE FILMS OF JAMES BROUGHTON
Total running time: ca. 50 min.
PROGRAM 2: December 19, 12:30pm
*THE PLEASURE GARDEN* (1953, 38 min, 35mm, b&w)
*THE BED* (1968, 19 min, 16mm)
*NUPTIAE* (1969, 14 min, 16mm)
“Broughton was and is a poet, sometimes a dramatist. Yet whatever the mode,
his style is remarkably consistent: urbane and witty with the persona of
the naïve, or the simpleton, or the child. Like the poems, the films record
the basic rites of passage, the search for love, the primal relationships,
with ironic insight: there are parents who are children, a rube who’s
really the artist, a loony wise man.” –P. Adams Sitney
Total running time: ca. 75 min.
PROGRAM 3: December 19, 2:30pm
*THE GOLDEN POSITIONS* (1970, 32 min, 16mm)
“A lovely, poetic, humorous, and crystal investigation of mankind standing,
sitting, and lying down.” –John Wasserman, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
*DREAMWOOD* (1972, 45 min, 16mm)
“A modern day spiritual odyssey in which a man is mysteriously compelled to
leave his home and embark on a voyage to a strange, magical island. On the
island he faces the most improbable and intense experiences of his life,
ranging from total humiliation to a deep sense of oneness with the force of
life. Heroic in concept, subtle in execution, DREAMWOOD is a beautiful film
by a true master of the medium.” –David Bienstock
*HIGH KUKUS* (1974, 3 min, 16mm)
“A High Kuku is, of course, a cuckoo haiku. In inventing this form
Broughton has concocted zany verses which are ‘high’ in the sense that they
are often metaphysical and are keenly aware of the metacomedy of things.”
–Alan Watts
Total running time: ca. 85 min.
*SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2021*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
*Cinema Parenthèse*
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7pm CET.,
iMAL, Quai des charbonnages 30, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, 1080, Brussels
*Stan Brakhage: Black Films*
December edition of Cinema Parenthèse's monthly screening series, held on
the last Sunday of the month, in Brussels, presents rarely screened films
by Brakhage in which black plays a major or significant part. The program
includes *Passage Through: A Ritual*, *Crack Glass Eulogy*, and *Roman
Numerals V* and *VI*. All work in 16mm prints.
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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!
*ONGOING*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Riverwest Radio*
https://www.riverwestradio.com/show/the-long-conversation/
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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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