[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: May 14 - 22, 2022
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05.15.2022 VSW Project Space Residency
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05.15.2022 Sharjah Film Platform
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05.16.2022 Edinburgh Short Film Festival
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05.20.2022 Coney Island Film Festival
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05.20.2022 New Orleans Film Festival
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05.25.2022 non-syntax Experimental Image Festival
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05.31.2022 Analogica
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05.31.2022 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
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(Final Deadline)
05.31.2022 25 FPS Festival
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05.31.2022 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
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(2022 Films)
05.31.2022 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants
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06.01.2022 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
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06.03.2022 New York Film Festival
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06.06.2022 Southwest Seen Commission & Exhibition
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06.10.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video
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06.14.2022 VIDEONALE.19 – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts
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06.15.2022 Revolutions per Minute Festival
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06.15.2022 Imagine Science Film Festival
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06.30.2022 Antimatter [media art]
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07.31.2022 San Diego Underground 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]
- Refresh
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[March
2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO]
- Jodie Mack: Matter Matters
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[March
29-June 19, Rochester, NY]
- The New England Triennial
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[April
8-September 11, Lincoln + Harvard, MA]
- I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces
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[April
13-August 14, Toronto, Canada]
- Barbara Hammer's My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
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[April
23-May 30, online]
- Ieva Balode. Loop of Fear. Solo Show
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[April
30 - June 12, Riga, Latvia]
- aCinema: Geopersistence
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[May
1-31, online]
- Imageless Films, Part 2
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[May
7-June 2, New York, NY]
- 23rd Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival
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[May
13-15, Harrisburg, PA]
- Avant To Live: New Experimental Works
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[May
14, San Francisco, CA]
- how we are in time and space
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[May 14-29, online]
- Room Tone: Ben Felton & Alina Taalman
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[May
18, Chapel Hill, NC]
- Boundaries: Millennium Film Journal No. 75
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[May
18, New York, NY]
- Visions: Charlie Shackleton
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[May
19, Montreal, Canada]
- EC: Paul Sharits
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[May
19, New York, NY]
- Gravity Spells ii: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art
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[May
19-22, San Francisco, CA]
- Joyce Wieland
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[May
20-26, New York, NY]
- Spectacle and the Archive
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[May
20-June 11, Durham, NC]
- Animal Spirits/Spirit Animals
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[May
21, San Francisco, CA]
- Biogenesis: 16mm Films On the Origins of Weird Life
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[May
22, Los Angeles, CA]
- Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed
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[May
22, online]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
- Ecstatic Static Screenings
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE MAY 14, 2022*
*November 1 - January 25, 2023*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Jonas Mekas 100!
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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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*March 2022 - Fall 2022*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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The Summit Stage and Expedition Health, Denver Museum of Nature & Science,
2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO
*REFRESH: *CYANOBACTERIA OFFER PERSPECTIVE ON OURSELVES
This art-science collaboration looks at the microscopic ways cyanobacteria
move, on an individual level and in colonies. If we study these organisms
and their varied forms, we might discover ways to improve our future.
On display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in the Summit Stage and
Expedition Health, March 2022 - Fall 2022
The cells in your body take in oxygen and sweep out waste products like
carbon dioxide (CO2). Microscopic cyanobacteria use photosynthesis to work
in reverse, breathing in CO2 and pumping out oxygen.
Three billion years ago, cyanobacteria created Earth’s oxygenfilled
atmosphere, supporting the evolution of creatures like us. Today, they
provide one-quarter of the planet’s oxygen, and cyanobacteria like
spirulina provide us with food.
Researchers believe that cyanobacteria —which need only sunlight, CO2, and
water to thrive— could offer solutions to our changing climate. They might
help reduce CO2 on a grand scale, contribute to biofuel production, and
support long-term space travel. This diverse group of organisms offers a
symbolic warning as well: when colonies of cyanobacteria become too dense
or stressed, they can run out of nutrients or be destroyed by their own air
pollution.
Made with the collaborative efforts of filmmaker Erin Espelie and the
Jeffrey Cameron Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder, which
created a customized microscope system specifically tailored for long-term
growth and quantitative imaging of cyanobacterial cells; with special
thanks to microbiologist and cinematographer Evan Johnson and artists Nima
Bahrehmand, Travis Austin, Will Alstetter, as well as NEST Studio for the
Arts.
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*March 29 - June 19*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
George Eastman Museum
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Tue-Sat,10-5pm + Sun 11-5pm ET,
Multipurpose Hall, George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
*JODIE MACK: MATTER MATTERS*
The George Eastman Museum is pleased to present selected experimental
animated films by Jodie Mack (UK, b. 1983), an artist who has developed a
remarkable filmmaking style that provides new perspectives on a variety of
familiar materials. Mack’s subjects often include captivating decorative
objects and vintage, ornate textiles. Her films invite viewers to
contemplate the objects’ significance and the nature of disposability.
Mack often works with a Bolex camera and 16mm film, and her films explode
with dizzying displays of colors, shapes, and patterns. While her mastery
of traditional stop-motion animation technique is highly precise and
sometimes abstract, Mack’s films have a joyful, handmade quality that
radiates humor and human warmth.
The following film descriptions are provided by the artist.
A program of four animated short films. Originally shot in 16mm the films
will be screened digitally in this presentation on a loop (21 min. total)
during museum hours.
*Posthaste Perennial Pattern* (US 2010, 4 min.). Rapid-fire florals and
morning birdsong bridge interior and exterior, design and nature.
*Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart is* (US 2012, 3 min.).
Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty-gritty.
*Blanket Statement #2: All or Nothing* (US 2013, 4 min.). A battle of
extreme extremes.
*Something Between Us* (US 2015, 10 min.). A choreographed motion study for
twinkling trinkets: costume jewelry and natural wonders join forces to
perform plastic pirouettes, dancing a luminous lament until the tide comes
in.
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*April 8 - September 11*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
The New England Triennial
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deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA + Fruitlands Museum,
Harvard, MA
*The New England Triennial*
The New England Triennial 2022 recognizes the vitality of contemporary art
across the Northeast amid the recent years of upheaval and transformation.
Spanning two museum venues—deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and
Fruitlands Museum—this year’s iteration features artwork by twenty-five
artists from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and Vermont.
Prioritizing change over stability, many of the artists’ practices involve
processes of unmaking and remaking—patching things together, dissecting,
and rebuilding forms using discarded parts. Their collective artistry
reveals interconnected tendencies: a focus on kinship and ancestral
lineages; a search for one’s place in the world; the visualization of data;
themes of ruin and decay, and processes of alchemical transmutation.
Artists in this exhibition grapple with difficult and unjust moments of
history and contemporary life. Some employ generations-old creative
traditions in poetic, passionate, and informed ways. Altogether, their work
unearths hidden energies and stories surfacing at a time defined by change
and resilience.
Since 1989, the New England Triennial (formerly known as the deCordova New
England Biennial) has been a mainstay of deCordova’s programming and
mission, exemplifying the museum’s commitment to contemporary art of the
Northeast region. For the first time, this upcoming cycle will span two
museum venues, deCordova and Fruitlands, expanding the platform for this
highly-anticipated survey of art making in New England. We hope you will
visit both locations to appreciate the exhibition’s full scope.
deCordova Artists
Elizabeth Atterbury, Ann Craven, Jeremy Frey, Merik Goma, Kate Greene,
Meena Hasan, Baxter Koziol, Jodie Mack, Anina Major, Marla McLeod, Elle
Pérez, Estefania Puerta, Allison Maria Rodriguez, Em Rooney, Michelle
Segre, Nafis M. White
Fruitlands Artists
Sascha Braunig, Edwige Charlot, Ann Craven, David Antonio Cruz, Furen Dai,
Brenda Garand, Shaina Gates, Harry Gould Harvey IV, Jarrett Key, Heather
Lyon
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*April 13 - August 14*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Art Gallery of Toronto
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during gallery hours,
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario
*I AM HERE: HOME MOVIES AND EVERYDAY MASTERPIECES*
>From the earliest cave paintings to TikTok, humans have found creative ways
to document their day-to-day lives. *I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday
Masterpieces*, a major new AGO exhibition opening in April of 2022, is a
revealing look at our universal need to capture, share and cherish the
everyday. Featuring lost-and-found home movies from the Prelinger Archives,
alongside celebrated artworks by the likes of David Hockney, Patti Smith,
Claes Oldenburg, Annie Pootoogook, Arthur Jafa and Mary Pratt, as well as
snapshots, photo albums, letters, television, grocery lists, and social
media, *I AM HERE* brings together a broad range of personal records from
different time periods and locales to explore the shared human impulse to
document life as it happens.
Co-curated by Jim Shedden, the AGO’s Manager of Publishing, and Alexa
Greist, AGO Associate Curator and R. Fraser Elliott Chair, Prints &
Drawings, in collaboration with archivist, scholar and writer Rick
Prelinger, the exhibition is a celebration of daily life and human
creativity, replete with music and creative prompts. Among the artworks on
display will be a digital collage of the more than 3000 submissions
received from around the world as part of the AGO’s 2021 Portraits of
Resilience exhibition. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue
co-published by the AGO and DelMonico Books/D.A.P
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*April 23 - May 30*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Electronic Arts Intermix
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://fifty.eai.org/video-features/barbara-hammer-my-babushka
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*Barbara Hammer’s My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities*
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and the Estate of Barbara Hammer have made
Hammer’s 2001 personal documentary My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian
Identities available to view through May 30th. As the artist writes, this
timely video “centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural
differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her
own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine.”
*My Babushka: Searching for Ukranian Identities*
2001, 53:16 min, color, sound
“The current news is full of Ukraine and the Ukrainians who claim it as
home. However, many people in the world admit they know little of either.
The video, made in 2001, provides a glimpse into the people who were
struggling at that time for identity in a divided and economically
depressed country.
Following her natural curiosity and love of adventure, Hammer went to
Ukraine in 2000 to trace her roots and find family members. As with most of
her work, Hammer wanted to uncover hidden histories, so she sought out
information about anti-Semitism and homophobia among Ukrainians. Hammer
discovered that old political, societal and cultural barriers were
collapsing but without new ways to replace them. Fast forward to 2022 and
we see ruin, death, renewed poverty, and destruction, but we also see
strong people fighting for their country and their future. There will be
many more questions for others to research and art to be made, but we felt
it important to show this film now.”
- Florrie Burke, Spouse and Executor of Hammer Estate
Louky Keijsers Koning, Director, Estate of Barbara Hammer
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*April 30 - June 12*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Latvian National Museum of Art
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Tu-Th 11am-6pm, F 10am-8pm, Sa-Su 10am-5pm (GMT+3)
1 Jaņa Rozentāla laukums, Riga, Latvia
*Ieva Balode. Loop of Fear. Solo Show*
Loop of Fear turns to the subject of fear in society, which is particularly
relevant today, after two years of the pandemic and the current horrors of
the war in Ukraine. Fear has always existed in a variety of gradations and
forms: fear of the unknown, fear of the dark, fear of the enemy, fear of
death. Since the beginnings of mankind fear has been both a driving force
for humanity and a stumbling block. It is an instinctive force that has
made humanity form communities for safety and shelter from the danger that
is lurking in darkness. The fear of death has compelled civilisations to
build temples and for people to dedicate their lives to preparing society
for the afterlife.
Likewise, the medium of analogue photography and analogue cinema, which
Ieva Balode uses in this exhibition, embodies this same fear – the fear to
lose and forget what once took place or was alive. It is the propensity to
make the world immortal, the propensity to freeze time in a capsule for
eternity, which, through the lens of the camera, leaves an instant's
impression on the light-sensitive surface of the film. Here light serves as
a record on the surface of a film, which, by dispelling darkness in the
body of the camera, captures what is in front of it through the glass of
the lens, similar to the human eye.
The exhibition presents 16 mm film loops and spatial image projections.
Their mechanical nature interacts with the architecture of the space to
create a slight sense of alarm, reminding us of the fragility and mortality
of the material world. The exposition gives visitors the opportunity to
become familiar with the photochemical film stock as a kinetic object
which, together with several other analogue projectors, illuminate the
museum's gallery in a different light.
About the artist
Ieva Balode is an artist and analogue film activist who works with analogue
film and image. She earned her BA and MA from the Department of Visual
Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. Her interest in analogue media
resides in its relationship to nature, memory and human perception. The
artist's works have been exhibited in art galleries Platform, Munich
(2020), Den Frie, Copenhagen (2019), Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2018),
Latvian National Museum of Art (2018–2020), Latvian Museum of Photography
(2018), LCCA Office Gallery, Riga (2016), Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre
(2018), Бükü, Leipzig (2016), 1st Riga International Biennial of
Contemporary Art (2018), Riga Photomonth as well as international film
festivals: Harkat 16mm film festival (India, 2021), 65th International
Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany, 2019), KRAAK (Belgium, 2019),
Luminous Void (Ireland, 2018–2019), MIEFF (Russia, 2018), Riga IFF (Latvia,
2017–2021), EFF Process (Latvia, 2017–2021), Kinoskop (Serbia, 2017–2019),
TIFF Wavelength series (Canada, 2017), Zabroffka (Poland, 2013), Oslo
Screen Festival (Norway, 2012) and others.
As a cinema activist Ieva Balode is the founder of Baltic Analog Lab – an
artist collective providing a space and platform for the production,
research and education of analogue cinema. Since 2017 she is also a
director of the Riga-based experimental film festival Process.
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*May 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: Geopersistence*
*Arpas eólicas: la presencia póstuma del sonido (Aeolian harps: the
posthumous presence of sound)* • Ce Pams • 2 min 12 sec
*Spirit of the Magpie* • Alice Cohen • 25 min 55 sec
*Arpas eólicas: la presencia póstuma del sonido (Aeolian harps: the
posthumous presence of sound)* • Ce Pams • 1 min 57 sec
*Leave Your Body* • Natasha Cantwell • 4 min 6 sec
aCinema is heading into a dormant summer period as we prepare our next
season of programming, which we hope will be back inside the cozy confines
of Woodland Pattern for in-person events. Until then, we send love to all
around the world, and we wish for peace and good health over the summer
months!
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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*May 7 - June 2*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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5:15pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*IMAGELESS FILMS, PART 2*
If there’s one central element that would seem to be intrinsic and
indispensable to any reasonable definition of the cinema it would be the
presence of imagery, whether photographed, animated, or generated through
more experimental methods such as hand-painting, scratching, collaging, and
so on. Nevertheless, throughout the history of the medium, artists have
challenged even this seemingly core tenet of the art form by producing
works that subvert or entirely dispense with the image, by expanding the
definition of the kinds of experience that can be shared within the space
of the cinema, or by provocatively defining as “cinema” performances that
might seem a thing apart.
These subversions of the idea of a medium of “moving images” have taken
many forms: works that emphasize spoken dialogue or sound collages; films
whose visual tracks consist primarily of written text; projector
performances that showcase or manipulate light and darkness; flicker films;
pure color studies; films that punctuate long stretches of darkness with
near-subliminal bursts of imagery; and so on and so forth.
This ongoing series represents an extended, in-depth, and multi-chapter
exploration of the various ways that filmmakers and artists have
experimented with the possibilities of an “imageless” cinema (or have
played with the idea of “emptiness” or visual subtraction in a more general
sense). The series began in April, and continues in May with films by
Coleen Fitzgibbon, Margaret Honda, Takahiko Iimura, Andrew Lampert,
Charmaine Lee, Maurice Lemaître, George Maciunas, João César Monteiro,
Luther Price, and many others. Further programs will take place in June,
including a very rare presentation of Louise Lawler’s *A MOVIE WILL BE
SHOWN WITHOUT THE PICTURE* (1979), works by Morgan Fisher, Hollis Frampton,
and Malcolm Le Grice, projector performances, and more.
In addition, Microscope Gallery will participate by presenting a number of
expanded cinema works or pieces that are specially designed for a gallery
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Programmed by Jed Rapfogel, in collaboration with Bradley Eros and John
Klacsmann. Special thanks to Elle Burchill & Andrea Monti (Microscope
Gallery); Gilad Baram; Coleen Fitzgibbon; Ed Halter; Margaret Honda; Adam
Kaplan; Andrew Lampert; Charmaine Lee; Keith Sanborn; Miguel Armas (Light
Cone); Théo Deliyannis (Collectif Jeune Cinéma); Andrew Steel Hart (NOS
Lusomundo); Edda Manriquez & Brian Drischell (Academy Film Archive); MM
Serra (Film-Makers’ Coop); Tom Sveen & Qing Jin (Cinema Guild); and Gerald
Weber (Sixpack Film).
IMAGELESS FILMS: THE DISAPPEARED
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May 15 at 8:30 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: EXPEDITION CONTENT
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May 15 at 4:15 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: COLOR CORRECTION
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May 14 at 4:45 PM
May 16 at 7:30 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: FILMING TIME
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May 15 at 6:30 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: INTERNAL SYSTEMS
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May 19 at 6:45 PM
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*May 13 - 15*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Moviate
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7PM EST - 9:45PM EST,
Midtown Cinema 250 Reily St, Harrisburg, PA
*23rd Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival*
The Moviate Underground Film Festival returns! Over 70 films from 12
different countries. In-person filmmakers, live music to films, 4K MoMA
restorations, East Coast Premieres, etc!
Held at the MIDTOWN CINEMA. (Tickets range from $8 to a full festival pass
for $75)
Full Schedule:
FRIDAY, May 13th
7:00 PM - BASKET CASE"with director FRANK HENENLOTTER, In-Person! 40th
Anniversary Screening with a 4K Restoration by MoMA.
9:15 PM - IN THE MOUNTAINS: SURREALISTIC HORROR SHORTS
SATURDAY, May 14th
11:00 AM - SATURDAY MORNING SHORTS: ALL AGES SHOW
12:25 PM - OUR CRUMBLING BODIES
1:50 PM - FINKELWAVE
3:20 PM - HOLIDAY IN THE SEA OF SUPREMACY
5:10 PM - ANTI-BINARY STARS or MY BODY IS NOT A CONSTRUCT
8:00 PM - TO WHOEVER WANTS TO LISTEN
10:00 PM - IMMANENT UNION, a live-sound expanded-cinema event with Kyle
Whitehead – 58min, Canada
SUNDAY, May 15th
11:45 AM - LANDSCAPE CONTRACTIONS
1:10 PM - THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US
2:50 PM - I HAVE SEEN THE FIRE SHIP
4:30 PM - WE HAD EACH OTHER
8:00 PM – SOUND MECHANIC with Director Skizz Cyzyk and Producer Jen Talbert
In-Person
*SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco
*AVANT TO LIVE: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS*
Our sublime NEW Night pops up earlier this Spring, because of super-lucky
access to Frisco's ruling multi-media maestro, Mr. Jeremy Rourke!! Rourke's
delicious, delirious *Domo Domo*, a 'Live A/V' travelog on his solo bike
ride round the Japanese island of Hokkaido, in fact caps
a bold and beautiful bill of a dozen-plus recently completed shorts!
Notable initiatives include Ellie Vanderlip's (in person) ingenious water
faucet thesis *Forgotten Fountains*, New Red Order's *Crimes against the
Unreal*, and Jakov Leskur's hand-painted film performance (he teams with L.
Guzman for both soundtrack and intermission ambience). ALSO: the West Coast
premiere of Anna Kipervaser's *in ocula oculorum*, Mark Street's *False
Starts*, and Francois Miron's exquisite animation *What Excites Me*.
PLUS Kelly Sears, Alex Johnston, Tomas Talamantes, Wayne Thiebaud, and Free
Pencils!! $9
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*May 14 - 29*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Los Angeles Filmforum
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streaming 24/7,
*how we are in time and space: films and videos by Nancy Buchanan, Marcia
Hafif, Babsi Loisch, and Jennifer West*
Presented by Los Angeles Filmforum and Armory Center for the Arts
Tickets: free, via Eventive
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Online Conversation with the artists, Saturday, May 21 with Nancy Buchanan,
Babsi Loisch, Barbara T. Smith, and Jennifer West, moderated by Michael Ned
Holte.
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Parallel to the exhibition how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan,
Marcia Hafif, Barbara T. Smith, at Armory Center for the Arts, a number of
artists and arts organizations have been invited to respond to one or more
specific works in this exhibition, resulting in new art works,
performances, screenings, talks, and other events. This program will favor
annotation over remaking of historic works, initiating a dialogue with the
primary exhibition, its artists, and its rich materiality, expanding these
connections outward in time and space. Events will take place at various
sites over the course of the exhibition. All programs are free and open to
the public.
*Letters to J.-C. #6*, Marcia Hafif, 1999, video, 30:44
*can’t put it back*, Babsi Loisch, 2022, digital video, 8:40
*Webs*, Nancy Buchanan, 1983, video, 4:40
*California Stories*, Nancy Buchanan, 1983, video, 9:33
*Skinnydipping Carbon Beach Malibu Film*, Jennifer West, 2008, 16mm film
transferred to digital video, 5:08
*Rainbow Party on 70MM Film*, Jennifer West, 2008, 70mm film transferred to
digital video, 0:39
Screening curated by Michael Ned Holte.
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Nightlight
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8pm ET,
Nightlight, 405 1/2 West Rosemary St, Chapel Hill, NC
*Room Tone: Ben Felton & Alina Taalman*
Room Tone is a new series featuring video, film and moving image work by
local (and not local) artists in the Chapel Hill area (and beyond). $5
*My Moment of Self*, Ben Felton, 41 min, 2022, digital
A video collage/essay about mental health, neurodiversity, and dual
narratives, composed of an interview, a short story, open source stock
footage, and collected video from up and down the East Coast over the
course of the last 5 years.
*Prearranged Signal* (work in progress), Alina Taalman, 7 min, 2022, 16mm /
digital / archival video
*Kolmas Punkt (The Third Point)*, Alina Taalman, 23 min, 2019, 16mm / super
8 / digital
"The daughter of Estonian immigrants, filmmaker Alina Taalman returns to
her family's homeland to see if she can fix a point on her family's
mercurial past. But in this ethereal, experimental film, experiencing is
always a step removed from knowing." - from the 2019 Full Frame program
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*BOUNDARIES: MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 75*
This program of short films and video works celebrates the publication of
Millennium Film Journal No. 75 (Spring 2022), and features films discussed
in recent issues of the MFJ. Filmmaker and writer Jeanne Liotta will be in
attendance. Programmed by Jonathan Ellis & Grahame Weinbren. For more info
regarding Millennium Film Journal, visit: https://millenniumfilmjournal.com/
Onyeka Igwe
*the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered*
2019, 25 min, digital
“‘What does it mean to go looking for yourself in the archive?’ A web of
overlapping origin stories puts personal, mythic, and bodily ways of
knowing on par with official histories. The film is a study of how we
interact with the objects, bodies, and institutions that make memory.”
–Josh van Biema, MFJ 71/72 “Crisis” (Spring / Fall 2021)
Mike Crane
*CUTTING THE MUSHROOM*
2021, 22 min, digital
“New modes of relating, communicating, and projecting ourselves in virtual
space give rise to new ways of expressing our fractured identities
cinematically. The film is an exploration of technologically mediated
communication based on correspondence between the filmmaker and an art
dealer in the Baltic region. ‘Why will anyone see movie (sic) about art
that you buy from me? … Nobody will watch.’” –Kim Knowles, MFJ 75
“Boundaries” (Spring 2022)
Dana Kavelina
*LETTER TO A TURTLEDOVE*
2019, 26 min, digital
“A second-degree artistic appropriation of amateur footage shot during the
war in the Donbass region of Ukraine, recombined into a surreal anti-war
film-poem. The war videos are interspersed with Kavelina’s own animated
segments, staged mise-en-scènes, and archival footage of the Donbass from
the 1930s and onwards (when the region became a hotspot for Stalinist
industrialization of the Soviet Union, and of heated class warfare).”
–Grahame Weinbren, MFJ 73 “Everywhere” (Spring 2021)
Matthias Müller
*PENSÅO GLOBO*
1997, 15 min, 16mm
“Film as skin, to touch and be touched, deeply eroticized. A lone man faces
his approaching death from AIDS while inhabiting a hotel room in Lisbon.
The film uses a ghostly doubling effect achieved through re-photography and
home processing, producing what Mueller has called ‘an epidermal cinema.’
Desire and doom are entwined… –Jeanne Liotta, “Enter Germs. Enter the
World”, MFJ 75 “Boundaries” (Spring 2022)
Julie Murray
*ANATHEMA*
1995, 7 min, 16mm
“The filmmaker works with industrial found footage, centered around the
formally discreet and nearly ceremonial medical practice of ‘scrubbing up’
before surgery to avoid any contamination from germs before the probing
investigations of the diseased body. Murray had tried to use a homemade
toner, but the process produced a splattering of red dots. The rash
proliferates, the surgeon notices the hole in his glove – and we suddenly
realize he is no longer safe or immune from danger.” –Jeanne Liotta, “Enter
Germs. Enter the World”, MFJ 75 “Boundaries” (Spring 2022)
Total running time: ca. 100 min.
*THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2022*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
*VISIONS*
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7pm ET,
7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC, Canada
*VISIONS: CHARLIE SHACKLETON 19.05.2022*
VISIONS, in collaboration with Main Film, presents *THE AFTERLIGHT* by
Charlie Shackleton | 35mm | B&W | sound | 82 mins
Fragments of hundreds of films from around the world bring together an
ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive.
Together, they contend with a fragile existence lived solely through these
traces of their work.
The Afterlight itself exists as a single 35mm film print. Further eroding
every time it screens, the film is a living document of its life in
circulation. Eventually it will disappear entirely.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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8:45pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*EC: Paul Sharits*
*S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED*
(1968-70, 41 min, 16mm. Newly restored by Anthology Film Archives!)
“Yes, *S:S:S:S:S:S* is beautiful. The successive scratchings of the
stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete
organism with all the possible levels really recognized.” –Michael Snow
*COLOR SOUND FRAMES*
(1974, 26 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
“A film in which Sharits sums up his researches in the area of film strip
(in opposition to the individual frames). The film strips move horizontally
and vertically; two strips move simultaneously in opposite directions;
variations in color; action of sprocket-holes. Very methodically and
scientifically he covers the area. […] *COLOR SOUND FRAMES* advances one
area of cinema or one area of researches in cinema (call it art if you
wish) to a new climax, to a new peak: his exploration is so total, so
perfect.” –Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE
Total running time: ca. 70 min.
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*May 19 - 22*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
San Francisco Cinematheque
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8:30pm PT,
The Lab, 2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA
*Gravity Spells II: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art*
Gravity Spells II is a four-evening series of sound, music and live cinema
performance featuring twenty-four Bay Area artists collaborating through
live cinema, music and sound art practices. Curated by John Davis, Gravity
Spells II celebrates Bimodal Press’ multimedia publication of the same name.
produced and organized by John Davis, presented in association with Bimodal
Press and Southern Exposure, all performances presented at The Lab
Admissions: $10 general/$6 for Cinematheque members
*Gravity Spells II: program 1*
May 19—8:30pm @ The Lab
Artists: Alfonso Alvarez + Laetitia Sonami • Keith Evans + Suki O’Kane •
Kevin Corcoran + Zack Parinella
*Gravity Spells II: program 2*
May 20—8:30pm @ The Lab
Artists: Bill Basquin + Paul DeMarinis • Lynn Marie Kirby + Zach Iannazzi •
Headboggle + Greta Snider
*Gravity Spells II: program 3*
May 21—8:30pm @ The Lab
Artists: Scott Stark + Wobbly • Amma Ateria + Mark Wilson • Anna Geyer +
Billy Gomberg
*Gravity Spells II: program 4*
May 22—8:30pm @ The Lab
Artists: Alix Blevins + Zachary James Watkins • Molly Fishman + Janis
Crystal Lipzin •
Joshua Churchill + Konrad Steiner
*Gravity Spells II: The Publication*
Gravity Spells II celebrates Bimodal Press’ publication of the same name: a
multimedia “bundle” featuring 2 LPs, 4 DVDs, a perfect bound letterpress
booklet containing original commissioned essays, color images, artist bios,
a silkscreened show poster and announcement card, packaged in a
hand-printed sleeve.
LP (sound/music): Paul DeMarinis; Suki O’Kane; Laetitia Sonami; Zachary
James Watkins
DVD (moving images): Kieth Evans; Zach Iannazzi; Janis Crystal Lipzin;
Scott Stark
Original Writing: John Davis; Steve Anker; Brian Darr; Paul DeMarinis;
Tooth (arc); Kathleen Quillian; Tanya Zimbardo
Publication will be available for purchase at all performance events or via
San Francisco Cinematheque
*FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2022* *May 20 - 26*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York
*Joyce Wieland*
Joyce Wieland is one of the most important Canadian artists and filmmakers
of the second half of the 20th century, but her work has not been showcased
in its entirety in New York City for many years. Anthology aims to redress
that oversight with this comprehensive retrospective, which brings together
virtually all of her pioneering short and feature films.
Wieland began making films in Toronto in the 1950s at the animation studio,
Graphic Associates, which had been co-founded by George Dunning, and where
she worked alongside other artists including the young Michael Snow.
Wieland and Snow soon married and moved to New York City in 1962, becoming
integral parts of the experimental film and art scenes of the time, and
producing some of the key filmic works of the era.
Her sojourn in the U.S. awakened a deep sense of Canadian national
identity, and following her split with Snow and her return to Canada in
1971, this became increasingly reflected in her work, culminating in films
like PIERRE VALLIÈRES (1972) and her ambitious narrative feature, THE FAR
SHORE (1976). The negative reception afforded that last film brought her
cinematic career largely to a close (though she did collaborate with Hollis
Frampton in 1984 on A AND B IN ONTARIO, and in 1986 completed a film she
had shot earlier, BIRDS AT SUNRISE). She remained prolific and widely
celebrated as an artist, however – working largely in the realms of
collage, assemblage, and quilt-making – until her death in 1998.
Filmmaker, scholar, and curator Kay Armatage, who directed ARTIST ON FIRE:
THE WORK OF JOYCE WIELAND (1987), and has written extensively on Canadian
cinema and on Wieland’s work in particular, will be here in person during
the retrospective to introduce selected screenings!
This retrospective is co-presented with the Consulate General of Canada in
New York, and Canada Now (https://canadanow.us). Special thanks to
Catherine Scheinman (Consulate General of Canada in New York); Teresa Di
Cairano, Jacqueline Geday & Susie Monette (Canada Now); Kay Armatage;
Kathryn Elder; Jesse Brossoit (CFMDC); and MM Serra (Film-Makers’ Coop)
JOYCE WIELAND, PROGRAM 1
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May 20 at 7:30 PM
May 23 at 7:30 PM
JOYCE WIELAND, PROGRAM 2
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May 21 at 6:15 PM
May 24 at 7:30 PM
JOYCE WIELAND, PROGRAM 3: REASON OVER PASSION
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May 21 at 8:15 PM
May 26 at 6:30 PM
Kay Armatage
ARTIST ON FIRE: THE WORK OF JOYCE WIELAND
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May 22 at 4:00 PM
JOYCE WIELAND, PROGRAM 4
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May 22 at 6:15 PM
May 26 at 8:45 PM
JOYCE WIELAND, PROGRAM 5: THE FAR SHORE
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May 22 at 8:15 PM
May 25 at 7:30 PM
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*May 20 - June 11*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Power Plant Gallery
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Power Plant Gallery, Suite 100, American Tobacco Campus, 320 Blackwell
Street, Durham, NC
*Spectacle and the Archive*
Tom Whiteside / Durham Cinematheque
Tom Whiteside is a visual artist, film historian, and collector with
interests in experimental film, early cinema, and regional film history.
Since 1991 he has presented more than 100 screenings as Durham Cinematheque
in a wide variety of venues, ranging from the outdoor Movies in the Park
series to microcinema programs in his downtown Durham studio, home of the
Analog Museum.
This gallery exhibition includes projections, lightboxes, and objects made
from motion picture gear and image machine ephemera. There will be open
studio dates during the residency as well as a screening series (TBA). The
screening series will include new work in 16mm film and video as well as a
retrospective of Durham Cinematheque programs.
Artist’s talks:
--- Third Friday Durham, May 20th, 8pm ---
“Attractions and Distractions” Artist's talk on early cinema and
experimental film, with new multiscreen works SWIM and Trips through Film
History, featuring different versions of “A Trip to the Moon” by Georges
Melies, 1902.
--- Encore and talk May 28th, 8pm ---
"What is The Archive?" Thoughts on collecting and the nature of loss,
memory, and discovery with screenings of SWIM and Conjure Bearden, plus
highlights and excerpts from the Durham Cinematheque collection.
In a career of more than 40 years, Whiteside has exhibited work at the
North Carolina Museum of Art, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, Strange
Beauty Film Festival, and many others. He lives in Hillsborough.
*SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2022*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco
*ANIMAL SPIRITS/SPIRIT ANIMALS*
JOHNSON's MANATEES + JOSH HARPER + CHRIS MARKER +
Continuing our wild *Animal Spirits/Spirit Animals* theme from last
season!!...Headlining is the world premiere of local folk-naturalist Daniel
Johnson's lushly illustrated lecture/video on the crisis facing manatees!
He also unspools precious peeks of the UCB Campanile Falcon “soap opera”,
as well as his ongoing Cali Condor in-person research. ALSO in the house is
the apocalyptic plea of our enlightened East Bay cine-essayist Joshua
Harper, with the global debut of and personal intro to his archive-rich *WAR
ON EARTH…*PLUS: Some time back, OC soul-sister Lynne Sachs teamed up with
none Other than Chris Marker to finish their 20-min. *Three Cheers for the
Whale*, and its delightful historical trace tonight rounds out our opening
“Animal” hour. But our second half is all about humans, who
inhabit animal skins, literally and figuratively, perhaps to better
understand our commonalities. Andrew Shirley's 30-min. *Wasted Land *is a
revelatory but under-seen work that follows 3 furries as they mark their
dystopian territory via graffitti tags! Jim Trainor's *Moschops* is a
*faux*-paleontology animation that
endows invented creatures with emotional lives, and in Rainier Gels' *Brementon
Musicians*, a 16mm cult clip from a children's matinee manages to deliver
an uncannier fantasy than any mere cartoon. AND a quarter-hour excerpt
of David Attenborough beautiful *Baobob* eco-study, Disney's now
infamous *White
Wilderness,* and of course some Harryhausen beasties! Come in animal
costume!! $7
*SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Los Angeles Filmforum
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7:30 PM PST,
2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
*BIOGENESIS: 16mm Films on the Origins of Weird Life*
Artists in person: Charlotte Pryce, Courtney Hoskins, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin
Liu, and Andrew Kim.
Film as a medium is itself a strange, organic and chemical material
miraculously capable of phenomenological expression, of temporally complex
and unfolding explorations in sound and vision. Despite being experienced
primarily as an intangible, ephemeral performance, a film’s image and sound
are created by the exposure of light onto a photosensitive compound,
altering its composition to create a material life form which is then
activated even further to give manifestation to an artistic vision.
Perhaps conscious of the potential for film to be considered as a sort of
animated organism, some artists have been inspired to use the medium of
16mm for the purposes of considering the eccentric formations of life, and
the actual and metaphorical implications of biogenesis and its related
processes. The incredible fact of life and its origins are embedded deeply
in the metaphorical capability of the film medium itself, as a semi-animate
object which is brought to life first through chemistry, and again through
its animation into motion and sound on a film projector.
This program will celebrate the unique union between the medium of 16mm
film and its use by various artists to consider the origins of life itself,
albeit on the weirder end of the biological spectrum. Transformations of
matter and spirit will be on display, as we traverse a wildly unpredictable
biogenetical spectrum which includes everything from insects to slime molds
and lunar bodies to microscopic crystals (solid and liquid), with the vivid
materiality and magical illusionism of film as the thematic and physical
chain that holds everything together (figuratively and literally).
Program and notes by Mark Toscano. All films courtesy of the filmmakers.
*Crystals* was restored by the Academy Film Archive. All films screening on
16mm.
*Prima Materia *by Charlotte Pryce, 2015, 16mm, color, silent, 3m
*Aura-Corona *by Sky David, 1974, 16mm, color, sound, 4m
*Europa (from The Galilean Satellites series) *by Courtney Hoskins, 2003,
16mm, color, sound, 7.5m
*A Study of Fly 飛的修羅場 *by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, 2018, 16mm, color, sound,
13m
*Instant Life *by Juan David Gonzalez Monroy, Anja Dornieden, and Andrew
Kim, 2022, 16mm, color, sound, 27m
*Crystals *by Elwood Decker, 1951, 16mm, color, silent, 2.5m
*Babobilicons *by Daina Krumins, 1982, 16mm, color, sound, 16m
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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*
*6x6 Project*
https://6x6project.com/
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streaming 24/7
*Artists' Moving Image Works*
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.
There are now more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works
available to view on the website.
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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. 15: Little Feet*
Yashaddai Owens, *Ema’s Day With the Kids*. 2022, 1 min
Lucile Hadžihalilović, *De Natura*. 2017, 6 min
Jocelyne Saab, *Les Enfants de la guerre (Children of War)*. 1976, 10 min
Moira Sweeney, *Hide And Seek*. 1987, 15 min, 14 sec
Gillian Garcia, *War*. 2022, 2 min, 54 sec
Sharon Lockhart, *Pine Flat (excerpt)*. 2005, 10 min
Rajee Samarasinghe, *Gimhanaye Netra (The Eyes of Summer)*. 2020, 15 min
Želimir Žilnik, *Little Pioneers*. 1967, 18 min, 35 sec
Leslie Thornton, *Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding*. 2016, 95 min
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