[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: December 25, 2021 - January 2, 2022

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*This Week [December 25, 2021 - January 2, 2022] in Avant Garde Cinema*




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*sorted by submission deadline*
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):

   - 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]
   - 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]
   - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed
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[January 2,
   online]
   - The Long Conversation
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   [ongoing, online]
   - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works — Edition Nº 26
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   [ongoing, online]
   - Ecstatic Static Screenings
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[ongoing,
   online]


*STARTING BEFORE DECEMBER 26, 2021*

*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 - 31*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
aCinema
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streaming 24/7,
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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.

*SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 2022*
*HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!*


*SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 2022*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*GearWax*
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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*
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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*
*6x6 Project*
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*Artists' Moving Image Works — Edition Nº 26*
6x6 project is an online artists' community that serves as a platform for
disseminating artists' moving image works, and to create
an ever-growing network among peers.

To date, there have been twenty-six editions with six different artists.
There are now a total of one hundred and fifty-six artists’ profiles and
almost four hundred artists’ film and moving image works available to view
on the website.

Edition Nº 26 includes works by Jenna Bliss, Kerry Jones, Ruaidhri
Ryan, Daniel Theiler, Tetsuya Maruyama.

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Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Ecstatic Static*
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*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. 8: At Land*
Maya Watanabe, *Sceneries II*. 2014, 15 min
Lois Patiño, *In Landscape´s Movement*. 2012, 9. min, 30 sec
Minjung Kim,* (100ft)*. 2017, 3 min
Salomé Lamas, *Encounters With Landscape (3x)*. 2012, 29 min
Malena Szlam, *Altiplano*. 2018, 15 min, 30 sec
Carla Andrade, *The Landscape Is Empty and Emptiness Is Landscape*. 2017, 15
min
Jumana Emil Abboud, *Hide your Water from the Sun (Chapter II)*. 2016, 9 min
Jeremy Leatinu'u, *Mai i te kei o te waka ki te ihu o te waka*. 2018, 8 min


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