[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: March 5 - 13, 2022

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*This Week [March 5 - 13, 2022] in Avant Garde Cinema*

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*sorted by submission deadline*
03.05.2022 Chicago Underground Film Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
03.06.2022 Mimesis Documentary Festival
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(Early Deadline)
03.07.2022 Oak Cliff Film Fest
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03.08.2022 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
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03.11.2022 Coney Island Film Festival
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03.20.2022 Videoart.Ist International Video Art Screening Program
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03.31.2022 Braziers International Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
03.31.2022 San Diego Underground Film Festival
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03.31.2022 FIDMarseille
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04.01.2022 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
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04.11.2022 Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (EXIS)
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04.11.2022 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
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04.30.2022 Antimatter [media art]
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04.30.2022 Analogica
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05.16.2022 Edinburgh Short Film Festival
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06.01.2022 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*

This week's programs (summary):

   - Jonas Mekas 100!
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[November
   1, 2021-January 25, *2023*, worldwide]
   - The Autobiographical Animal
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[February
   4-March 12, online]
   - Cenzorka (107 Mothers), By Peter Kerekes
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[February
   26 - March 10, online]
   - aCinema: Bones of the Future
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[March
   1-31, online]
   - North By Current
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[March
   5, Baltimore]
   - The United States of America
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[March
   5, San Francisco]
   - Les Fest!
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[March
   5-6, Santa Fe, NM]
   - seen only, heard only through someone else’s description
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[March
   5-April 30, San Francisco]
   - Film Talks Live: Jayne Parker and Simon Payne
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[March
   6, London, UK]
   - Expmtl : Montréal Experimental Cinéma On Tour [In Melbourne]
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[March
   6, Melbourne, Australia]
   - Seeing With No Eyes: video & Ai
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[March
   6, New York]
   - Facts/Artifacts: Millennium Film Journal No. 74
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[March
   8, New York]
   - Erica Schreiner's the Special People
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[March
   10, Brooklyn]
   - Peggy Ahwesh: Recent Installations
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[March
   10, Chicago]
   - Sentient.Omnibus: You Us Them
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[March
   10, New York]
   - EC: Hollis Frampton
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[March
   12, New York]
   - EC: Ernie Gehr
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[March
   13, New York]
   - Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed
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[March
   13, online]
   - The Long Conversation
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   [ongoing, online]
   - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works — Edition Nº 27
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[ongoing,
   online]
   - Ecstatic Static Screenings
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[ongoing,
   online]

*STARTING BEFORE MARCH 5, 2022*

*November 1 - January 25, 2023*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Jonas Mekas 100!
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times and locations vary, see below
Event URL: https://jonasmekas100.com/
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*Jonas Mekas 100!*
In 2022, the world and Lithuania celebrate the life and work of Jonas
Mekas, one of the country’s most prominent cultural figures of the 20th and
21st centuries and a global cultural phenomenon in his own right,
considered by many to be the “godfather of avant-garde cinema”.

Throughout his life, Mekas always emphasized and cherished his Lithuanian
roots. After fleeing the foreign occupation of his native land, he arrived
in New York City, in his own words “at exactly the right moment”, joining
thousands of others escaping the devastation wrought by destructive
ideologies and tyrannical regimes in Europe. One might say that Mekas left
one village, his native Semeniškiai in northern Lithuania, and immersed
himself in the life of another – the Village thriving in and around lower
Manhattan, and in its landmark publication, the Village Voice, helping to
shape American and global culture so profoundly in the latter half of the
20th century.

This centennial celebration, Jonas Mekas 100!, seeks to expand global
recognition of his work and encourage a deeper exploration of Mekas’
prolific contributions to cinema, film criticism, cultural organization,
and, in particular, his body of poems and prose, now published in
Lithuanian, French, German, English, Japanese, Hebrew, and many other
languages.

The centennial program features over 50 events in an expanding list of
countries, including: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan,
Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The vast scope of
Mekas’ contribution to global cultural is examined through film screenings
and retrospectives, exhibitions, readings, workshops, new publications and
translations of Mekas’ writings, and concerts celebrating the spirit of his
work, among other events.

The centennial program is a joint international collaboration between
leading art and cinema organisations, curators, publishers, the global
network of Lithuanian cultural attachés, the Estate of Jonas Mekas, and the
Lithuanian Culture Institute.
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*February 4 - March 12*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Deluge Contemporary Art
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://deluge.squarespace.com/now
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*The Autobiographical Animal*
An online exhibition comprising four works considering hypotheses of
post-human narrative via moving image. Animals do not produce autobiography
in any sense we can even begin to comprehend, so the human imagination
steps in to create it. The artists in this exhibition approach an often
frustrated desire for interspecies communication and equity in surprising
and open-ended ways, employing the POV of the protagonists while avoiding
the coercion and sentimentality of anthropomorphism—deprivileging their own
status in favour of the other. Occurring on built sets and Saskatchewan
prairies, in virtual environments and appropriated cinematic landscapes,
these films allow for the failure of connection as well as success,
accepting delusions of wildness and power, limitations of human empathy and
vast possibilities of the sensory and perceptual surrounding what we know
about animal consciousness.

*Best of Breed*, VALENTINA GAL | 2017 | 7 MIN
*Horsey*, FRÉDÉRIC MOFFETT | 2018 | 9 MIN
*aen loo pawatamihk*, DIANNE OUELLETTE | 2020 | 6 MIN
*The animal that therefore I am (L’ animal que donc je suis)*, BEA DE
VISSER | 2019 | 11 MIN

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*February 26 - March 10*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Museum of Modern Art
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/7647
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*Cenzorka (107 Mothers), by Peter Kerekes*
In Odessa Correctional Facility Number 74 [in Ukraine], children born in
the prison may remain in the care of their incarcerated mothers—but only
until the age of three. In making this docudrama (Slovakia’s 2021 Academy
Award submission), director Peter Kerekes spent several years within the
unusual matriarchy of a prison populated by female inmates, wardens, and
children.

Slovakia/Czech Republic/Ukraine. New York premiere. In Russian, Ukrainian;
English subtitles. 93 min.

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*March 1 - 31*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
aCinema
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streaming 24/7,
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*aCinema: Bones of the Future*

*A Juncture of Pleasures* • Jacarrea Garraway, 3 min 36 sec • video
*Hojas (Leaves)* • Camila García, 2 min 23 sec • video
*Roserade* • Véro Marengère, 4 min 44 sec • video
*Volatilis* • Jenna Eriksen (with Anna Seymour; performer), 11 min • video
*SO NATURAL* • Tara Olayeye, 1 min 18 sec • 16mm to video
*De las Cenizas (From the Ashes)* • Donna Conlon, video • 2 min 56 sec

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.

*SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Sight Unseen
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6:30pm ET,
SNF Parkway Theatre, 5 W North Avenue, Baltimore, MD
*NORTH BY CURRENT*
Director / Producer: Angelo Madsen Minax
85 minutes, 4k, 2k, HD, VHS, Super 8

Q&A with director, Angelo Madsen Minax immediately following the screening

Masks are required. Attendees must provide proof of full COVID-19
vaccination upon arrival at the SNF Parkway (either original vaccination
card of a photographic copy).

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
*Hammer Museum*
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7:00pm,
Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
*THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA*
(2021, 97 minutes, Digital, color, sound) by James Benning
North American theatrical premiere.

Both elegiac and lovingly rendered, critical and celebratory, *THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA* is Benning’s paean to the ideals and hard truths of the
American cultural landscape. Emerging from the era of COVID and its social
restrictions, Benning’s USA (an updating of the 1975 film with the same
title co-made with Bette Gordon) portrays the country’s fifty states, plus
Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, as sites that exist in the
imagination as well as through representational sounds and images. But
while *THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA* is meditative and reflective in ways
that are characteristic of Benning’s earlier work, this is a landscape that
is haunted by its past, evidence of which can be seen, heard and felt
throughout the film. (Steve Anker)

Long considered a consummate craftsman of 16mm film, James Benning
transitioned to digital technology in 2009, quickly achieving a comparable
level of mastery with this new medium. Throughout the decades, the artist
is best known for elegantly framed landscapes studies - built upon rigorous
conceptual and formal structures - that slowly and subtly become fields of
evidence and revelations of discovery. Indefatigable for five decades,
Benning has produced over thirty feature-length films and videos as well as
numerous shorts and museum installations that deal with the perception of
reality and underlying social implications. Each Benning film becomes an
encounter with time and the unexpected in ways that can only be achieved
through cinema.

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*March 5 - 6*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
NO NAME CINEMA
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6pm MST,
No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe
*LES FEST!*
Two days and two different programs of classic works by the fiercely
independent, late, great filmmaker LES BLANK!

No Name Cinema is absolutely thrilled to be able to present both vintage
16mm prints (on loan from the private collection of film impresario Keif
Henley), as well as brand new 4K digital restorations (by Les' son Harrod
Blank & Anthony Matt) of quintessential films created throughout Les
Blank's fifty year career.

Each program will be over 3 hrs long and feature portraits of Chicano
culture, Dizzy Gillespie, Thailand, blues musicians Mance Lipscomb &
Lightnin' Hopkins, Serbian-American communities, mass tourism, Norteño
music of the Texas-Mexican border, and of course Werner Herzog eating his
shoe.

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*March 5 - April 30*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
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Wed - Sat, 11am-6pm PT,
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, 1150 25th Street, Building B, San Francisco
*seen only, heard only through someone else’s description*
Short films offer new temporal spaces for considering how images and
narratives construct meaning, artifice, and memory.
*seen only, heard only through someone else’s description* engages
filmmakers and artists whose interdisciplinary practices draw from
performance, film, photography, research, and writing. The program’s title
stems from *Audience Distant Relative* (1977) by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
(1951–1982)—a poem, performance, and mail art piece that uses language to
unravel dynamics of distance, visibility, hearing, and communication.

The program is organized in two sessions of experimental short films by
women and nonbinary artists from the 1970s through the 2010s. *Sometimes We
Stand Alone* explores personal identity and history through experimental
processes and found footage. *Drawing Energy* is concerned with communities
of women and their collective power to document and deeply engage with
artistic, cultural, or familial lineages. The collected works interweave
varied perspectives to probe formal tensions between the moving image and
still photography. *Sometimes We Stand Alone* screens daily from January 14
through March 4, 2022. *Drawing Energy* debuts March 5 and runs through
April 30, 2022.

Guest curated by Gina Basso in conjunction with Image Gardeners, an
exhibition of modern and contemporary photography from the McEvoy Family
Collection.

---- March 5 – April 30, 2022 /// Drawing Energy ----
Ilene Segalove, *Mom in Famous Women*, 1978
sair goetz, *me and my army*, 2017
Deborah Stratman, *Vever (For Barbara)*, 2019
Onyeka Igwe, *Her Name in My Mouth*, 2017
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, *Spit on the Broom*, 2019
Lily Jue Sheng and Rita Ferrando, *Ikebana*, 2020

*SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
LongPlay
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7pm AEDT,
LongPlay, 318 St. Georges Road, Fitzroy North, VIC, Australia
*EXPMTL : Montréal Experimental Cinéma on Tour [in Melbourne]*
EXPMTL is a programme of film and video works made by artists in and around
Montréal, Canada.

*Just Words *– Louise Bourque (1991, 10mins, 16mm to digital)
*Opus 1* – Pierre Hébert (1964, 4mins, 16mm to digital)
*un bête accident* – Alexandre Fatta (2013, 3mins, Digital) -
*Drei Atlas* – Miryam Charles (2018, 7mins, 16mm to digital)
*TimeTraveller™ Episode 01* – Skawennati (2007, 6mins, Digital)
*Mobilize* - Caroline Monnet (2018, 4mins, Digital)
*brouillard #14* – Alexandre Larose (2013, 10mins, 35mm to digital)
*Full Love* – Olivier Godin (2013, 13mins, 16mm to digital)
*Aliquid* - Sabrina Ratté (2019 , 5mins, Digital)

Presented in person by Benjamin R. Taylor, artist and founder of VISIONS
and member of la lumière collective in Montréal.
Presented in collaboration with Artist Film Workshop

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Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Microscope Gallery
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7:30 pm ET,
525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001
Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/seeing-with-no-eyes-video-ai/
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*Seeing With No Eyes: Video & AI*
Works by Memo Akten, Morehshin Allahyari, Minne Atairu, Carla Gannis, Faith
Holland, Jieyuan Huang, Ha Na Lee, Bill Posters, Rachel Rossin, and
Taietzel Ticalos.

A screening program of video works by emerging to established artists
centered around Artificial Intelligence as a means of collaborative video
making.

Although the origin of AI can be traced back to as early as the mid-1940s,
its mass commercialization and real-world usage just started to develop
during the past 20 years. With social media algorithms and conversational
bots starting to permeate our society, the scope of artificial intelligence
also expanded from imitation of human intelligence to a collaborative
relationship that extends to human abilities. The works in this program,
spanning from 2015 to 2021, were made with a range of AI technologies
including GAN, GPT-3, Deepdream, Deepfake, and weak AI. Through uncanny
AI-generated imagery and conversations, these videos test visual and
narrative possibilities through the hybrid teamwork of human and machine.

This event is organized with Yiran Xu of Microscope Gallery Event Series.

*Advance In-person tickets HERE*: https://tinyurl.com/2p93y4xb

*Online tickets and the link to watch will go live at 7pm ET on the day of
the show on the event page HERE*: https://tinyurl.com/4wup5kn5

Please note: The event has a limited capacity of 30 on-site, with proof of
vaccination for Covid-19 and masks required.

*TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*FACTS/ARTIFACTS: MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 74*
Films discussed in recent issues of the MFJ. This program of rarely
screened moving-image works by distinguished artist filmmakers from four
countries celebrates the publication of Millennium Film Journal No. 74.

Programmed by Grahame Weinbren & Jonathan Ellis. For more info regarding
Millennium Film Journal, visit: https://millenniumfilmjournal.com/
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Francis Alÿs
*CHILDREN’S GAMES*
Belgium/Nepal/Afghanistan/Mexico, 2011-17, 8 min, digital
“Depicting children at play in the bleak contexts of refugee camps or in
landscapes devastated by war, Alÿs’s films trigger feelings of warm empathy
as well as a mere enjoyment in watching the games. If vulnerable beings
like children can cope with the grim conditions of war and poverty, there
is hope for all mankind.” –Steven Jacobs in MFJ 71/72

Anal Shah
*KALARIPAYATTU*
U.S./India, 2017, 22 min, digital
“[T]he very form of Shah’s film is nonlinear, ever-moving, and
multiplicative as opposed to linear, stable, and additive. This
constellation method of montage – images branching out and forming
connections with one another to form a multiplicity – allows each image to
be itself and to join with others in an assemblage.” –Madison Brookshire in
MFJ 74

Christoph Janetzko
*THE MECHANICS*
Germany/Cambodia, 2021, 23 min, digital
“Janetzko makes use of an armory of contemporary techniques, reflecting a
deep familiarity with the arcane mysteries of digital video technology,
which matches the analog skills in the mechanics’ oil-stained hands. It is
a breathtaking visual statement.” –Ingo Petzke in MFJ 74

Amir Yatzif
*ANOTHER PLANET*
Israel, 2017, 48 min, digital
Collating existent digital models of one of the most awful places on earth,
indeed another planet, the filmmaker interviews avatars of the designers
placed within their own models.
“The model speaks the logic of a society obsessed with summoning and taming
the future, with the management and prediction of risk, with its major
social motors, like economy and security, driven by speculation. The model
is meant to contain such future-oriented transactions within a safe space
of action.” –Lalic Melamed in MFJ 74

Total running time: ca. 105 min.

*THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Millennium Film Workshop
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7:30 PM EST,
Spectacle Theater, 124 S 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY
*Erica Schreiner's The Special People*
MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP, in collaboration with SPECTACLE THEATER is proud
to present:

*(part of the ongoing series with Spectacle Theater, Means of Production:
New Artists' Cinema)*

In a dark humor vein, the sci-fi experimental art film, *The Special
People* asks
you to consider the hypnotic state induced by smart technology and human
desire for freedom and authenticity. The audience goes through a hero’s
journey while bathing in sparkling storybook sets, an eerie combination of
VHS nostalgia and foreboding dilemmas. The citizens of a pink forest stare
into iridescent cubes and cannot look away. Apple, Bird and Violet manage
to break their trance, and indulge in philosophical conversation. They
question why they are free while the others are not. They had their voices
removed when they were babies so they learn to communicate telepathically.
They experience the sensuality of fruit and each other in The Forest, but
soon feel it is not enough. The Special People decide to embark on a
journey to bring the other citizens of The Forest back to consciousness by
attempting to destroy the master cube, guarded by The Overlords. On this
journey, the three get separated and Apple must continue the journey alone.
She encounters many of The Obstacles along the way and learns if she is to
free the citizens of The Forest, she’ll have to sacrifice her life. Erica
Schreiner wrote, directed, and stars in The Special People. She single
handedly built elaborate, colorful and sparkling sets in her apartment
where she filmed the feature on her VHS camera. This avant garde art film
is reminiscent of 1960s experimental cinema like that of Kenneth Anger or
Jack Smith. The other actors in this film are her friends. Local art stars
like Matthew Silver, Chris Carr, Nick Walther, Lily Chambers and Oya Damla
all have major roles in the film. *The Special People* was produced by Alex
Norelli and is a silent film with a musical score by Johnny Dydo of The
Johns.

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
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7pm CT,
Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL
*Peggy Ahwesh: Recent Installations*
Since the early 1980s, Peggy Ahwesh has forged a distinctive moving image
practice in the ruins of originality and authority. Whether by working with
nonprofessional performers, especially children, or by repurposing existing
images--such as a decaying pornographic film, the video game Tomb Raider,
or computer-animated news coverage--Ahwesh embraces improvisatory
strategies that probe the critical potential of play. With keen
attentiveness to the materiality of bodies and media technologies alike,
her works articulate a feminist commitment to the marginal and the minor.
Even as Ahwesh rejects the notion of style as authorial signature, her
concerns with sexuality, subjectivity, and troubling the boundary between
the animate and inanimate have remained constant across the decades. At
this event, Ahwesh will present and discuss her 2020 pieces *Kansas
Atlas*, *Border
Control*, and *Night Skies*, alongside other recent video and installation
work. Q&A moderated by DOVA Associate Professor Catherine Sullivan. Masks
and proof of vaccination are required for entry for this in-person event at
the Logan Center. Presented by the Film Studies Center and the Open
Practice Committee.

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*Sentient.Omnibus: You Us Them*
Founded in 2018, Sentient.Art.Film (SAF) is a creative distribution
initiative and artist support network dedicated to increasing equity and
supporting freedom of expression in independent film and moving image art.
SAF has an international micropolitical orientation that centers
marginalized voices, information sharing, community building, and
courageous storytelling. Among SAF’s numerous initiatives, the fiscally
sponsored Line of Sight project focuses on artist development (through
mentorship and project support); discourse development and mutual aid
(through the SAF Bulletin); and special projects in expanded cinema and
moving image art (AR/VR and collective artmaking).

As part of the Line of Sight project, Sentient.Omnibus was conceived in
January of 2021 out of the convergence of many different concerns, above
all a desire to create a space in excess of the usual classifications of
genre, period, nation-state, and medium. Organized by Keisha Knight, Carla
Troconis, and Caroline Xia, Sentient.Omnibus is animated by a frustration
with a curatorial and programming practice that so often divides and
segregates Art and Film, fiction and nonfiction, this nationality from that
nationality, and so on.

Designed to take place annually, the inaugural Sentient.Omnibus adopted the
theme, “You Us Them.” All of the works that came together invoke
intersubjectivity in form and often in the filmmaker’s or artist’s practice
even though they live in different ecosystems. The pieces in “You Us Them”
navigate the dynamic dance between inside and outside, compassion and
isolation, fear and care in beautifully varied but consonant ways. The
curatorial goal was to bring works and their makers into proximity with
each other and to have a good time!

Guest-curated by Keisha Knight, Carla Troconis, and Caroline Xia.

Hee Young Pyun & Jiajun (Oscar) Zhang, *IN THE BLANKS*, 2016, 17 min,
digital
Asia Stewart & Jasi Lampkin, *LA NÉGRESSE BLANCHE*, 2020, 6.5 min, digital
Maegan Houang, *IN FULL BLOOM*, 2019, 10 min, digital
Charmaine Lee, *A RACE TO THE BOTTOM*, 2021, 6 min, digital
Che R. Applewhaite, A NEW ENGLAND DOCUMENT, 2020, 16 min, digital
Anna Gustavi, *DOMIS*, 2020, 10 min, digital
Jovan James, *THE JUMP OFF*, 2017, 5 min, digital
Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner, *A DEMONSTRATION*, 2020, 25 min, digital
John Brattin, *THE TRIUMPH OF NIGHT*, 2006, 23 min, digital

Total running time: ca. 125 min.

*SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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6pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*EC: HOLLIS FRAMPTON*
*ZORNS LEMMA* (1970, 60 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
“A major poetic work. Created and put together by a very clear eye-head,
this original and complex abstract work moves beyond the letters of the
alphabet, beyond words and beyond Freud. If you don’t understand it the
first time you see it, don’t despair, see it again! When you finally ‘get
it,’ a small light, possibly a candle, will light itself inside your
forehead.” –Ernie Gehr

*HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia)* (1971, 36 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives, MoMA, and the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation
Program, with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.)

“In *(nostalgia)* the time it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus
confirm its two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while
Frampton plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating,
mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them
both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of his
earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic, mathematics, and
physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors for most of
Frampton’s films.” –P. Adams Sitney

Total running time: ca. 100 min.

*SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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4pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*EC: ERNIE GEHR*
“Ernie Gehr [makes] cinematic magic, often from the least likely materials.
Indeed, Gehr’s most famous film, *SERENE VELOCITY* (1970), in which the
filmmaker transforms an institutional hallway in the basement of a
classroom building at the State University of New York at Binghamton into a
nexus of visual and conceptual energy, merely by adjusting his stationary
camera’s zoom lens every four frames for twenty-three minutes, can be read
as Gehr’s manifesto. For Gehr the most everyday spaces and the most mundane
actions offer the imaginative filmmaker the most interesting potential. No
other filmmaker, with the exception of Michael Snow, has so relentlessly
and so productively explored the capacity of filmmaking to develop the
visual (and auditory) opportunities afforded by the cinematic apparatus
itself.” –Scott MacDonald, A CRITICAL CINEMA 5

Brand new prints!
*REVERBERATION* (1969, 23 min, 16mm)
*SERENE VELOCITY* (1970, 23 min, 16mm, silent)
*STILL* (1971, 54 min, 16mm)

Total running time: ca. 105 min

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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*
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*
*6x6 Project*
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streaming 24/7
*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-seven editions with six different artists.
There are now a total of one hundred and sixty-two artists’ profiles and
more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works available to
view on the website.

Edition Nº 27 includes works by Krzysztof Honowski, Tilly Shiner, André
Santos Martins, Deniz Şimşek, João Pedro Faro, Clara Helbig

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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. 12: Five Films by Nazlı Dinçel*
Nazlı Dinçel, *Between Relating and Use*. 2018, 9 min
Nazlı Dinçel, *Instructions on How to Make a Film*. 2018, 13 min
Nazlı Dinçel, *Hands Oxes*. 2017, 1 min
Nazlı Dinçel, *Solitary Acts #5*. 2015, 6 min
Nazlı Dinçel, *Leafless. 2011*, 8 min

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