[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: November 19 - 27, 2022
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*This Week [November 19 - 27, 2022] in Avant Garde Cinema*
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11.28.2022 Atelier 105 Residency
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11.30.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video
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(Half-time Deadline)
11.30.2022 Laterale Film Festival
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(Second Deadline)
11.30.2022 Braziers International Film Festival
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11.31.2022 Lightpress Grant
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12.01.2022 Athens International Film + Video Festival
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(Extended Deadline)
12.05.2022 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
12.13.2022 LMCC Arts Center Residency & 2023 SU-CASA
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12.15.2022 Light Field
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12.15.2022 Onion City Film Festival
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(Early Deadline)
12.16.2022 Coney Island Film Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
12.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage
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01.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival
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01.15.2023 Video Art Miden
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02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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02.01.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival
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(Early Deadline)
02.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
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03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival
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03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
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03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart 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]
- VISIONS: HÁ TERRA! By Ana Vaz
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[November
3-December 3, online]
- Eighth Annual Report
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[November
18-20, Petaluma, CA]
- Archive Fever2
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[November
19, San Francisco, CA]
- Jason Isolini: the Ballad of A Laborer
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[November
19, New York, NY]
- Lewis Klahr: Circumstantial Pleasures
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[November
20, Los Angeles, CA]
- Gary Adlestein Memorial Film Screening
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[November
20, Reading, PA]
- Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed
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[November
20, online]
- A Spirit Appears To A Pair of Lovers: with Gryphon Rue
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[November
21, New York, NY]
- In Memoriam Jim Jennings
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[November
22, Binghamton, NY]
- The Cunninghame Graham Lecture 2022 - Poli Marichal
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[November
22, online]
- EC: Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
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[November
22, New York, NY]
- EC: Hugo / Jacobs / Levitt / Maas
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[November
23, New York, NY]
- EC: Lawrence Jordan
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[November
23, New York, NY]
- The Short Films of Eric Leiser
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[November
25, Santa Fe, NM]
- Color Rhythms: Abstract Animation from Center for Visual Music
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[November
25, Washington, DC]
- No-Thanks Giving
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[November
26, San Francisco, CA]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE NOVEMBER 19, 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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*March 2022 - Fall 2022*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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open during Museum hours,
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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*November 3 - December 3*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
VISIONS
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://visionsmtl.com/2022/ana-vaz/
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*VISIONS: HÁ TERRA! by Ana Vaz*
As part of its new online cinema series, VISIONS presents *HÁ TERRA!* by
Ana Vaz with a text by Ralitsa Doncheva | 2016 | 16mm to digital | 12 mins
37 secs
In *Poetics of Cinema*, Raul Ruiz writes that “films are like human beings,
you look at them and they look back at you”. I think about this idea while
watching *HÁ TERRA!* imagining the film’s body as a wild animal that preys
on me as much as I glimpse at it. Does it sense my shame, my fear?
I experience *HÁ TERRA!* as a choreography of gestures and gazes that hits
like a rock. A bodily cinema where the eye blurs into the ear, ending in
the shape of a mouth. Where one gazes at an animal, animal-like, and
listens to the stories vibrating in the landscape while touching it.
Where am I in this dream? Perhaps under the hand, hiding. Without a sense
of self, levitating. Like a piece of clothing, floating at sea. There is no
understanding without feeling, no justice without poetry. There is no
encounter without a loss. No moving forward without paddling back to a
fractured past that, like the swollen foot of the girl in the film, changes
with the moon’s phases. Before language, before language. Back to the land.
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*November 18 - 20*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Camera Obscura
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Hotel Petaluma [205 Kentucky Street, Petaluma, CA]
*Eighth Annual Report*
The reconvened Camera Obscura Film Society, under the coordinated
co-direction of Amanda Salazar and Jonathan Marlow, will present its Eighth
Annual Report from 18- to 20-November in its long-anticipated return to
Petaluma, California (roughly forty-five minutes north of San Francisco)!
Over the course of this extraordinary weekend, "unusual, antique and
experimental" films will be presented at a pop-up cinema constructed inside
the grand ballroom of the one-hundred-year-old Hotel Petaluma. Selections
of longer-works-paired-with-shorter-works will be screened along with
filmmaker Q&As and related events at the venue (and a handful of assorted
nearby locations in downtown Petaluma).
The original Camera Obscura Film Society was founded in 1957 by Lawrence
Jordan and Bruce Conner (along with Roger Ferragallo, Willy [Wilma] Werby,
Ben Payne and a handful of others) in the years following the closing of
Frank Stauffacher's legendary "Art in Cinema" series at SFMOMA. COFS'
eclectic programs continued at occasional intervals until the organization
ceased to exist in 1962 (although research by Steve Seid suggests that it
largely folded after Conner and Jordan disappeared in late-1958 to open the
Movie, a cinema in North Beach dedicated to underground film). With
CO-VIII-AR, the reconstituted Camera Obscura has existed for a handful of
years longer than its original incarnation!
EXPANDING CO-Independence: Annual Reports are occasionally accompanied by
Quarterly Reports around the world and supplemental Monthly Reports in
Petaluma and surrounding areas.
In the intervening period, Camera Obscura has featured works by its
illustrious original founders and over one-hundred-twenty other remarkable
filmmakers. As in prior Reports, the precise program of film screenings and
events of CO-VIII-AR will only be announced in the days prior to opening
night.
--- 18-November-2022 [Friday] I - 7:00pm ---
*PLAN 75* (2022) dir. Chie Hayakawa [112min.] Japan (courtesy of KimStim)
*THE SHADOW LINE* (1985) dir. Toney Merritt [13min.] U.S. [filmmaker
in-attendance] (courtesy of the filmmaker)
*HARPER'S BAZAR* (2022) dir. Lawrence Jordan [5.5min.] U.S. [filmmaker
in-attendance] (courtesy of the filmmaker + Studio Films)
--- 19-November-2022 [Saturday] II - noon ---
*GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE* (2022) dir. Jacquelyn Mills [103min.] Canada
(courtesy of Cinema Guild)
*[undisclosed]* (2023) dir. Mario Furloni [8.5min.] U.S. [work-in-progress
| filmmaker in-attendance] (courtesy of the filmmaker + Pretty / Ugly
Pictures)
--- 19-November-2022 [Saturday] III - 3:00pm ---
*CARELESS CRIME* [JENAYAT-E BI DEGHAT] (2020) dir. Shahram Mokri [139min]
Iran (courtesy of Deaf Crocodile)
*ECHOLOCATION* (2022) dir. Nadia Shihab [8.5min.] U.S. / Iraq (courtesy of
the filmmaker)
--- 19-November-2022 [Saturday] IV - 6:00pm ---
*REWIND + PLAY* (1969 / 2022) dir. Alain Gomis [65min] France (courtesy of
Grasshopper Film)
*IN THE AIR TONIGHT* (2020) dir. Andrew Norman Wilson [11min.] U.S.
(courtesy of the filmmaker)
--- 19-November-2022 [Saturday] V - 8:00pm ---
*OUT OF THE BLUE* (1980) dir. Dennis Hopper [94min.] Canada (courtesy of
Discovery Productions)
*WE WERE THERE TO BE THERE* (2021) dir. Mike Plante + Jason Willis [27min.]
U.S. [filmmaker in-attendance] (courtesy of the filmmakers +
Field_of_Vision)
--- 20-November-2022 [Sunday] VI - 1:00pm ---
*SOFT FICTION *(1979) dir. Chick Strand [54min.] U.S. (courtesy of Canyon
Cinema Foundation)
*in ocula oculorum* (2022) dir. Anna Kipervaser [12min.] U.S. / Ukraine
(courtesy of the filmmaker)
--- 20-November-2022 [Sunday] VII - 4:00pm ---
*THE APPARITION* (1976) dir. Lawrence Jordan [50min.] U.S. [filmmaker
in-attendance] (courtesy of the filmmaker + Studio Films)
*THE TELEPHONE BOX [LA CABINA]* (1972) dir. Antonio Mercero [35min.] Spain
(courtesy of an undisclosed private archive)
--- 20-November-2022 [Sunday] VIII - 7:00pm ---
*WALK-UP* (2022) dir. Hong Sang-soo [97min.] South Korea (courtesy of
Cinema Guild)
*PENTHOUSE* (2022) dir. Vergard Dahle + Line Klungseth Johansen [19.5min]
Norway (courtesy of Spætt Film)
*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*ARCHIVE FEVER2*
PRELINGER's HOME MOVIES + BEST OF FOUND FOOTAGE FEST
Prelinger present! Yes, walking amongst us is thee planet's most visionary
polymath facilitating Public Memory, and tonight he brings us a pair of
revelatory programs of amateur films originally curated for the
esteemed Art Gallery of Ontario. One is the broader *Panorama*, a half-hour
“montage” of clips from personal, small-gauge cameras, surveying everyday
life in the last half of the 20th Century. His other “special collection”
is a super-rare cache of 8mm material from an African-American scene-maker
in the River Rouge (Detroit) area from the dynamic '63-'67 period,
including dances, street views, and historic anti-racism protests.
After Rick's home-movie hour, we return for a 40-min. *focus* on archival
production in the Art World, drawing from the fantastic *Found Footage *boxset
recently published by the eponymous Spanish collective...their marvelous
catalog boasting exquisite digital versions of essential pieces from the
last 60 years. Five of their 16 selections will sparkle again on our big
screen---landmark works from Jeff Keen, Cécile Fontaine, Thomas
Draschan, Jean-Gabriel Périot, and Gianikian/Lucci. Free film cans!
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Microscope Gallery
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7:30 pm ET,
525 W 29th St, New York, NY
*Jason Isolini: The Ballad of a Laborer*
In connection with the launch of “The Ballad of a Laborer" - a performative
intervention within Google Maps, by Brooklyn-based artist Jason Isolini as
part the “Platform” section of our website dedicated to the exhibition of
net-based and digital art - the artist will present a live projected
navigation of the project at the gallery.
“The Ballad of a Laborer” is an artwork existing online in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard section of Google Maps to be experienced through its Street View
feature. Isolini’s project was inspired in part by his discovery that the
Navy Yard, as a privately owned property, is not accessible to Google Maps’
camera crews. All street views of the Navy Yard — as well as the digital
objects, other photographic elements, and images of the artist performing —
were mapped and added by the artist over the nearly three years since the
project began.
Because of the ephemeral nature of the project, what visitors find on
Google Street View may change when Google periodically catches Isolini’s
unauthorized contributions, as well as when the artist restores their
deletions.
*"Treating Street View as a stop-motion medium, the click-through
experience of the Navy Yard can be understood as an expanded cinema that
transforms the industrialized private/public space into an unexpected and
animated feature."* --JI--
“The Ballad of a Laborer” will also be exhibited and available for viewers
to explore in its complete and uncensored form on our site beginning after
the event at: microscopegallery.com/platform
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This launch event marks the first time that Isolini is publicly claiming
the project as an artistic work, which was created and uploaded under the
user name “Loosii Ninjas,” representing a scrambling of Isolini’s full name.
*SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Filmforum
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7:30 pm PT,
2220 W. Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90057
*Lewis Klahr: Circumstantial Pleasures*
We’re happy to welcome back Lewis Klahr with the long-overdue Los Angeles
premiere of his feature film *Circumstantial Pleasures*!
“Leaving the seductive mid-century imagery that he’s best known for far
behind, *Circumstantial Pleasures* looks at the raw materials of
contemporary life and distills them into a demanding and powerful work of
anxiety, alienation, agitation, and abrasion. The film consists of six
short works (ranging from two to 22 minutes) that convey the experience of
being alive in the 21st century in ways that few other films have…---Chris
Stults, Assistant Curator Film/Video Wexner Center for the Arts.
In person: Lewis Klahr
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Moviate + Albright College
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3PM EST,
1621 N. 13th St, Reading, PA
*Gary Adlestein Memorial Film Screening*
A special screening of films by Gary Adlestein, who passed away in June.
This special memorial will be held in Klein Hall, where many Berks
Filmmakers screenings occurred since the early 90's. A curated program of
his Super-8, 16mm, and video pieces will be screened at 3pm on Sunday
November 20th. Klein Hall is located in the Center for the Arts at Albright
College in Reading, Pennsylvania.
*___________________________________________________________________*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
GearWax
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6pm-8pm PT,
https://www.gearwax.org/
*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!
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Microscope Gallery
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7:00 pm ET,
525 W 29th St, New York, NY
*A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers: Screening and Immersive Listening
with Gryphon Rue*
Rue as well as several of the visual artists will be in attendance.
A screening of video works made in response to Gryphon Rue’s album “A
Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers” released earlier this year by artists
Robert Buck, Abigail Child, Keren Cytter, Ray Sweeten & Lisa Gwilliam
(DataSpaceTime), Benton C Bainbridge, Dante Lentz, Gryphon Rue, Taietzel
Ticalos, and B. Wurtz. All 10 tracks of the album are interpreted.
The in-person event involves an immersive multi-speaker arrangement by Rue.
*TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Binghamton University
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7:30pm ET,
Binghamton University, Lecture Hall 6, 4400 Vestal Parkway East,
Binghamton, NY
*In Memoriam Jim Jennings*
Jim Jennings passed away in May this year after a prolonged illness. Often
considered the filmmakers’ filmmaker, Jennings made exquisite, often silent
and black-and-white, 16mm films admired by many avant-garde masters and
discerning critics. His spontaneous and intuitive camera sculpted urban
spaces with light and shadow, revealing striking formal beauty and poetry
in the familiar and the mundane. For this occasion, we present a selection
of 7 films to honor Jennings’s remarkable filmmaking career spanning over 4
decades.
*Bye Bye Bob* (16mm, b&w, sound, 11 min., 1990)
*Made in Chinatown* (16mm, color, silent, 6 min., 2006)
*Wall Street* (16mm, b&w, silent, 6 min., 1980)
*Elements* (16mm, b&w, silent, 7 min., 2002)
*Silvercup* (16mm, b&w, silent, 12 min., 1998)
*Fashion Avenue* (16mm, b&w, silent, 7 min., 2007)
*Refraction *(16mm, color, silent, 3 min., 1972)
TRT 52 min.
JIM JENNINGS (1951-2022) was an American experimental filmmaker and
photographer. His films have been screened at some dozen solo shows in the
United States and Europe, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
and the San Francisco Cinematheque to the Oberhausen Film Festival in
Germany, International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands and the
Viennale in Austria. His work has also been included in group shows at the
Whitney Museum, the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York
Film Festival’s “Views from the Avant-Garde.” Jennings’s work has been
shown at major venues since 1973, beginning at the Collective for Living
Cinema. His black-and-white, silver gelatin photographic prints have been
exhibited in gallery shows in New York City and are included in major art
collections.
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Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
University of Edinburgh
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6-8pm GMT,
Event URL:
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*The Cunninghame Graham Lecture 2022 - Poli Marichal*
“La Síntesis Rota – experimentos en el ojode la tormenta”/ “A Broken
Synthesis – Experiments in the Eye of the Storm.”
Puerto Rican filmmaker-artist Poli Marichal will speak about her Super 8
work from the 1980s, and digital experimentations in the present.
Co-sponsored by the Spanish Embassy in London, Spanish Consulate of
Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh. Introduced by Dr Jessica
Gordon-Burroughs, Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Visual Culture
(University of Edinburgh)
*Talk will be in Spanish.*
"I am me and my circumstance and if I don't save her I don't save myself".
Jose Ortega y Gasset.
Puerto Rican filmmaker and visual artist Poli Marichal illustrates her
artistic trajectory and her creative process using family and documentary
photos and experimental film clips in super 8mm and 16mm, as well as recent
virtual animations. For me, finding meaning in the reality that I have had
to live as a woman, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, the daughter of an exiled
Republican father and a mother of Creole extraction, both with a lot of
existential baggage, continues to be a process of encounter, struggle and
reconciliation. Visual art and cinema have helped me to try to synthesize
and find a rhythm and internal logic to all that burundanga, daughter of
forced migration, of the cultural and racial miscegenation that defines us,
and of the pathetic situation of Puerto Rico as a colony of the United
States of America, whose war booty we are even at this point in the 21st
century. All these circumstances, contradictions and dissonances resound
like a drum at a subjective and at the same time universal level. My
specificity becomes a quarry that I drill to find the essence of what it is
to be a citizen of the convulsed planet Earth. And it is then that,
starting from that dilemma, I can transcend my limitations.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON*
by Ken Jacobs
1969, 115 min, 16mm, b&w/color, silent
“Original 1905 film shot and probably directed by G.W. ‘Billy’ Bitzer,
rescued via a paper print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of
Congress. It is most reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with a new
movie, almost as a side effect, coming into being.” –Ken Jacobs
*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: HUGO / JACOBS / LEVITT / MAAS*
Ian Hugo, *BELLS OF ATLANTIS* (1952, 10 min, 16mm. Preserved by the Library
of Congress through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film
Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation.)
A film poem, based on Anaïs Nin’s *HOUSE OF INCEST*, narrated by and
featuring Nin.
“[*BELLS OF ATLANTIS* was] inspired by the prologue to my *HOUSE OF INCEST* and
the line: ‘I remember my first birth in water.’ The film evoked the watery
depths of the lost continent of Atlantis. It is a lyrical journey into
prenatal memories, the theme of birth and rebirth from the sea.” –Anaïs Nin
Ken Jacobs, *LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS* (1959-63, 18 min, 16mm. With Jack
Smith.)
“Material was cut in as it came out of the camera, embarrassing moments
intact. 100’ rolls timed well with music on old 78s. I was interested in
immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where suffering was acknowledged but
not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy was our achievement, as well as
breaking out of step.” –Ken Jacobs
Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee, *IN THE STREET* (1952, 12 min,
16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
“Informality is indeed the crucial and virtually definitive quality of *IN
THE STREET*; it is even the guiding principle and vision. […] This is the
extreme realization of a classic ‘naturalistic’ genre, the German ‘street
film,’ where the street was imaged as the arena of the everyday and random,
the channel in which the ‘stream of life’ conveniently became microcosmic.”
–Ken Kelman, THE ESSENTIAL CINEMA
Willard Maas, *GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY* (1943, 7 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by
Anthology with support from The National Film Preservation Foundation.)
“The terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered,
mysterious continent.” –Willard Maas
Total running time: ca. 55 min.
*___________________________________________________________________*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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8:45pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: LAWRENCE JORDAN*
*DUO CONCERTANTES* (1962-64, 6 min, 16mm, b&w)
*HAMFAT ASAR* (1965, 13 min, 16mm, b&w)
*GYMNOPEDIES* (1968, 6 min, 16mm)
*THE OLD HOUSE, PASSING* (1966, 45 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives.)
*OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE* (1968, 9 min, 35mm)
“With a taste for nostalgic romanticism…Jordan creates a magical universe
of work using old steel engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year
pursuit into the subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of
cinema as a prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of
the inner self.” –Jackie Leger
Total running time: ca. 85 min.
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
No Name Cinema
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7pm MST,
No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM
*The Short Films of ERIC LEISER*
+ an analog laser illuminated transmission Agfa film hologram light
pre-show!!!
Leiser is an award-winning filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer,
holographer & multi-media artist. A graduate from CalArt's Experimental
Animation program, he creates animated and live action feature films and
shorts as well as works integrating animation, puppetry, holography, live
performance and installation. Leiser is interested in how animation
transforms perception when it is combined with live action space, creating
a fantastical, spiritual, or surrealistic quality. His animated & live
action films have been shown internationally in museums, film festivals
worldwide, galleries, and through special installations across the United
States, Europe, and Asia.
filmmaker in attendance! * post-screening Q&A!
*___________________________________________________________________*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
National Gallery of Art
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3:30 EST,
National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium, 4th St and Constitution
Ave NW (Enter or exit at 4th Street), Washington, DC
*Color Rhythms: Abstract Animation from Center for Visual Music*
A journey through decades of pre-digital abstract animation and visual
music, featuring many restored films from the Center for Visual Music
(CVM), a California film archive that preserves and exhibits historical
experimental animation. From their extensive collection we’ll see a 35mm
print of Oskar Fischinger’s classic *Allegretto* (1936-43), his *Composition
in Blue* (1935)—digitized from his own original nitrate print—and a new 4K
restoration of *Tarantella* (1940) by Mary Ellen Bute, a pioneer of
electronic imagery. Curated by CVM’s director Cindy Keefer, the program
also includes preserved films by Jordan Belson (*Mandala*, and a new 16mm
print of *Allures*) and Jules Engel, Austrian Baerbel Neubauer’s hand-drawn
*Algorithmen*, and direct animation creating both image and sound by Barry
Spinello. Film/digital.
Total running time approximately 60 minutes
*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*NO-THANKS GIVING*
PECK'S *EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES* + NATIVE VOICES
Our yearly No-Thanks Giving program in this case is anchored on the
must-see *Exterminate All the Brutes* project of Haitian auteur Raoul Peck.
The internationally acclaimed firebrand is a prolific maker (*The Young
Karl Marx*, *Lumumba: Death of a Prophet*, *I Am Not Your Negro*) who has
masterminded this recent round of radical histories about settler
colonialism and slavery in the Americas, and his frank, even shocking
docu-drama looks at the arrival of the Europeans from the Native POV.
Hosting the program is guest MC Luis Booth (Passamaquoddy) who shares his
own *Any Face, Whatever Body*, as well as introducing an eclectic set of
opening shorts on Indigenous issues: Crazyboy/Ybarra’s hilarious *Peace
Pipeline*, Vice’s *What Really Happened at Standing Rock*, and Melting
Barricades*’ *triptych of stories from their utterly unique
perspective--the intuits of Greenland!
*ONGOING*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*Riverwest Radio*
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streaming 24/7
*THE LONG CONVERSATION*
THE LONG CONVERSATION with Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber is on indefinite
hold. But... all episodes from the last year and a half are streaming!!!
*___________________________________________________________________*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
*6x6 Project*
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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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