[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema

[Dominic Angerame]

Thanks Scott for all the years that u have put into This Week in the Avant Garde it was not done in vain. Thanks

Dominic

> On Feb 21, 2021, at 8:57 AM, sstark at hi-beam.net wrote:
> 
> Hi all, someone asked me offline about the status of This Week in Avant Garde CInema, so I thought I’d post my response here.
> 
> Since 1996 (25 years ago!) I’ve been producing or overseeing volunteers producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema, a weekly listing of experimental film/video events around the world. I and a handful of volunteers initially entered the events manually every week, and in the early 2000s I converted it to a DIY system where venues and makers could enter their own listings. This worked well for a while, but as the ubiquity of social media grew, people started listing shows on other channels such as Facebook, and not TWIAGC. I developed some scripting to integrate those listings into TWIAGC, but it became a game of whack-a-mole keeping up with variations.
> 
> When the pandemic hit last year and physical exhibitions stopped happening. I put the project on pause. (You can still see the last post here <http://www.hi-beam.net/whats.html>.) I considered continuing it with online shows, but as the number of those grew that too started to seem daunting. And frankly, though I still enjoyed seeing the weekly compendium of some of the amazing shows happening across the U.S. and elsewhere, after nearly 25 years I was a bit tired of maintaining and overseeing it.  
> 
> So at this point, even after physical shows start to come back, I will no longer be producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema.
> 
> That said, the data entered for the previous listings still exists. While not all events were always included, the listings do provide a rich historical snapshot of thousands of events taking place over the last 20+ years. 
> 
> And if someone with a lot of energy wants to take this on again, I’d be happy to help them get started.
> 
> Thanks for all the well-wishes and appreciation for this resource over the years. Stay safe and creative.
> 
> Scott
> 
> Scott Stark
> www.scottstark.com <http://www.scottstark.com/>
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