[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: July 3 - 11, 2021

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*This Week [July 3 - July 11, 2021] in Avant Garde Cinema*




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*sorted by submission deadline*

07.05.2021 Slamdance <https://slamdance.com/> (Early Deadline)
07.08.2021 Middle East Studies Association Film Festival
<http://www.mesana.org/annual-meeting/film-festival>
07.12.2021 Jakarta Independent Film Festival
<https://filmfreeway.com/JakartaIndependentFilmFestival>
07.15.2021 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
<https://filmfreeway.com/istanbulexperimentalfilmfestival>
07.15.2021 SFFILM New American Fellowship
<https://sffilm.org/new-american-fellowship/>
07.16.2021 Darmstädter Sezession
<http://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/das-projektion/5523>
07.30.2021 Media City Film Festival
<https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/entries/>
07.31.2021 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://filmfreeway.com/AAFilmFest>
(Early Deadline)
07.31.2021 Ji.hlava IDFF <https://www.ji-hlava.com/prihlaseni-filmu>
07.31.2021 Viennale <http://www.viennale.at/en/submission>
07.31.2021 Fisura, International Experimental Film and Video Festival
<https://filmfreeway.com/FISURAInternationalFilmFestival> (Regular Deadline)
08.02.2021 Punto y Raya Festival
<https://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/en/blog/articles/2021/11>
08.06.2021 Sundance Film Festival <https://filmfreeway.com/Sundance> (Early
Deadline)
08.15.2021 Imagine Science Film Festival
<https://filmfreeway.com/ImagineScienceFilmFestival>
08.26.2021 28th Chicago Underground Film Festival <http://www.cuff.org>
09.04.2021 The 4th Annual Film and Video Poetry Symposium
<http://www.fvpsociety.com>
09.19.2021 Punto de Vista
<https://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/edicion_actual.asp?IdSeccion=153>
10.15.2021 Thomas Edison Film Festival
<https://filmfreeway.com/ThomasEdisonFilmFestival>


*EVENTS*
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*

This week's programs (summary):

   - Cousins and Kin
<https://www.sfcinematheque.org/video/cousins-and-kin/> [May
   16-July 15, online]
   - 3 X Holly Fisher: Out of the Blue + Deafening Silence + Softshoe For
   Bartok <https://vimeo.com/showcase/hollyfisher> [June 16-July 6, online]
   - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed <https://gutsyradio.org/> [July 4,
   online]
   - The Long Conversation <http://riverwestradio.com> [July 4, online]
   - Yes: Diva Martinez / Robert Orlowski, Curated By Devon Narine-Singh
   <https://microscopegallery.com/yes-diva-martinez-robert-orlowski/> [July
   5-July 8, New York, New York]
   - The 8 Fest <http://the8fest.com/> [July 9-July 11, online]
   - Ephraim Asili's the Inheritance
   <https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/the-inheritance/>
   <https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/the-inheritance/>[ongoing, online]
   - Ecstatic Static Screenings
<https://www.ecstaticstatic.com/screenings/> [ongoing,
   online]


*STARTING ON OR BEFORE JULY 3, 2021*

*May 16 - July 15*
Venue type: *online*
*San Francisco Cinematheque*
https://www.sfcinematheque.org/video/cousins-and-kin/
<http://www.sfcinematheque.org/>
streaming 24/7,
*COUSINS AND KIN*
series curated by the Cousin Collective The Cousin Collective was formed in
2018 by Adam Piron, Alex Lazarowich, Sky Hopinka and Adam Khalil. The
question of how to find other Indigenous filmmakers who are making work
that is experimental and exciting was where we began. How to support and
share their films is where we’re at now. The programs in the Cousins and
Kin series are a culmination and a survey of the moving images we’ve
curated individually and collectively over the years. We’re thankful to
Steve Polta and San Francisco Cinematheque for this opportunity and this
platform.We’re very proud to share these works, the artists and the
conversations and communion they foster, between each other as well as
across nations and time. (Cousin Collective)

*program four Anti-Ethnography program curated by Adam Khalil and Zack
Khalil program online June 16–July 15, 2021*
For Indigenous peoples, the camera is a weapon that has been wielded
against them since the device’s inception. Anthropology’s obsession with
preserving images of so-called vanishing cultures, through ethnographic
films or, relatedly, archives filled with boxes of ancestral remains, has
long been a tool used to colonize and oppress Indigenous peoples. The
ethnographer’s encapsulating gaze ignores the fact that, for Indigenous
communities, tradition is not an immutable set of truths handed down by
revelation, but a set of ever-evolving social practices whose continuity
cannot be repaired by preservation, only elaborated through struggle and,
finally, achieved under conditions of genuine self-determination. In the
works assembled for this screening, the power of Indigenous people claiming
the camera for themselves is explored. Screening includes work by Guillermo
Gómez-Peña; Tonia Jo Hall; Shelley Niro; Diane Burns; Sky Hopinka; Kent
Monkman; Axel Gerdau, Erik Olsen & John Woo; Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil &
Jackson Polys; Olivia Camfield & Woodrow Hunt; Thirza Cuthand and others.

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*June 16 - July 6*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Anthology Film Archives*
https://vimeo.com/showcase/hollyfisher
<http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/>
streaming 24/7,
*3 X HOLLY FISHER: OUT OF THE BLUE + DEAFENING SILENCE + SOFTSHOE FOR
BARTOK*
In November 2019, Anthology presented the most comprehensive retrospective
to date devoted to the work of Holly Fisher, whose films range freely
between the realms of documentary, essay film, personal meditations, and
intricate juxtapositions of imagery and text. As a kind of sequel to the
earlier retrospective, we’ll be focusing on Fisher’s work again this summer
and fall, beginning with an online presentation pairing two brand-new
films, OUT OF THE BLUE and SOFTSHOE FOR BARTOK, with an earlier film that
has gained new relevance in the context of current events, DEAFENING
SILENCE. OUT OF THE BLUE is a typically thought-provoking and contemplative
work constructed from seemingly disparate elements: imagery recorded from
the window of a plane during her trans-Atlantic travels, diary-like
footage, found imagery and sound, and onscreen texts. The result is a
highly personal, open-ended meditation on the passage of time, historical
trauma, and liminal physical and emotional spaces that embodies Fisher’s
radically multilayered approach: she juxtaposes multiple layers of visual
and aural materials not only to create a rich visual experience, but to
bring into play a dizzying and cross-pollinating array of ideas. The
soundtrack features composer Lois V Vierk’s long-form piece, “Words Fail
Me,” a work inspired by Vierk’s experience as an eyewitness to the fall of
the World Trade Center, twenty years ago. DEAFENING SILENCE partakes of
some of the same techniques to explore – firsthand as well as through the
lens of the media – the sociopolitical situation in Myanmar/Burma in the
early 2000s, and the oppression of the ethnic Karen population. The film
features appearances from some of the same figures – such as Maung Zarni –
who have been prominent commentators and witnesses during the more recent
upheaval in Burma. As a special bonus we’ll also present the brand-new
short film, SOFTSHOE FOR BARTOK, a digital reimagining of Fisher’s 16mm
film “s o f t s h o e” (1987). In September we plan to host Holly Fisher in
person for theatrical screenings of OUT OF THE BLUE, as well as her 2019
film, A QUESTION OF SUNLIGHT, which was made in response to the events of
9/11. Both films feature music by Lois V Vierk.

*SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2021*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*GearWax*
https://gutsyradio.org/ <http://%20https://gutsyradio.org/>
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 Stark 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
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***

*MONDAY, JULY 5, 2021*

*July 5 - July 8 *
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
*Microscope Gallery*
7:30pm ET
https://microscopegallery.com/yes-diva-martinez-robert-orlowski/
525 W. 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001
*YES: DIVA MARTINEZ / ROBERT ORLOWSKI, CURATED BY DEVON NARINE-SINGH*
Microscope presents a new edition of our emerging artist series YES,
featuring works by Diva Martinez and by Robert Orlowski. Orlowski’s 16mm
films are frequently concerned with the act of seeing, camera and light
movements as well as with film’s ability to alter the experience of time
and space. Martinez’s works combine archival and found footage — often
related to the body — to which various processes such as video feedback,
collaging, replication and others are applied, often with humor. From
curator Devon Narine-Singh: “*Drawn together by a focus on analog
techniques, Diva Martinez and Robert Orlowski exhibit works where process
is front and center. Choice moments highlight this such as when Martinez
explains creating her own video synthesizer and Orlowski deliberately
removes his lens cap of his Bolex calling attention to its mechanical
nature. Memory is key as well both in the format choices but in themes as
well. Both filmmakers push the choice of analog as a way of living in a
memory.*” *In-person* General admission $10 Member admission $8 Proof of
Covid-19 vaccination required at the door Online tickets will be available
at the above link starting at 7pm ET on Monday July 5th. *Diva Martinez* was
born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated to the United States as a political
refugee at the age of three alongside her family. She studied photography
at Miami Dade College, CUNY LaGuardia where her interest in video grew. She
currently studies Film Production at CUNY Brooklyn College. Her passion for
photography has driven her to experiment with image creation both still and
moving. Fueled by nostalgia and the desire to time travel, Diva uses
archival footage as the canvas with which she creates. Using any resources
available to her, Diva combines a mixture of analog and digital
technologies to create visceral works of moving images that reflect a time
before today. *Robert Orlowski* is a filmmaker currently based in Brooklyn,
NY who works across documentary, experimental and narrative films. His
short films have shown internationally at festivals such as the Alchemy
Film and Moving Image Festival, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, ICDOCS,
Mono No Aware Festival, and the Transient Visions Festival of the Moving
Image. In 2019 he was a finalist for the Tribeca If/Then American Midwest
grant, for his work with Kati Rehbeck on their film, Lake Arrowhead. He is
currently working on his first feature length film titled, Everything I Had
Known About You.

*FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2021*

*July 9 - July 11*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*The 8 Fest*
http://the8fest.com/
streaming 24/7
*THE 8 FEST*
Our 14th annual festival is online July 9 – 11th, 2021 the8fest is a
festival for anyone using small-gauge to create rough little gems on film.
A unique Toronto-based film festival that presents all forms of small-gauge
film: 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm, as well as works in installation, loops,
personal, handmade, experimental, animations, diaries, essays, collage,
cut-ups, performance/film, music/film and ‘proto-cinema devices’ like
zoetropes.

*ONGOING*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema*
https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/the-inheritance/
streaming 24/7
*EPHRAIM ASILI'S THE INHERITANCE*
Pennsylvania-born filmmaker Ephraim Asili has been exploring different
facets of the African diaspora—and his own place within it—for nearly a
decade. His feature-length debut, The Inheritance, is a vibrant, engaging
ensemble work that takes place almost entirely within the walls of a West
Philadelphia house where a community of young people have come together to
form a collective of Black artists and activists. Based partly on Asili’s
own experiences in a Black liberationist group, the film interweaves a
scripted drama of characters attempting to work towards political consensus
with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE,
which was the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985. Asili’s film is
an endlessly generative work of politics, humor, and philosophy,
referencing the legacies of the Black Arts Movement and featuring Black
authors and radicals, members of MOVE, as well as poets Ursula Rucker and
Sonia Sanchez. An NYFF58 selection. A Grasshopper Film release. Note: Films
are available in the U.S. and U.S. territories only. Users may have up to
two registered devices. Learn more in our FAQ.

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Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Ecstatic Static*
https://www.ecstaticstatic.com/screenings/
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. 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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