[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: October 15 - 23, 2022
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10.15.2022 Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency
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10.15.2022 Thomas Edison Film Festival
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10.17.2022 San Diego Underground Film Festival
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(Extra Late Deadline)
10.17.2022 Josephine Massarella Artist Award
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10.30.2022 Harkat 16mm Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
10.31.2022 Laterale Film Festival
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(Inaugural Deadline)
11.01.2022 Athens International Film + Video Festival
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(Late Deadline)
11.01.2022 Images Festival On Screen
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11.01.2022 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
11.01.2022 Experiments in Cinema
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11.01.2022 Chicago Underground Film Festival
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(Early Deadline)
11.04.2022 Coney Island Film Festival
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11.06.2022 SPECTRAL Expanded Cinema Residency: S.P.A.C.E
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11.17.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video
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11.31.2022 Lightpress Grant
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12.15.2022 Light Field
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12.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage
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02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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(Early Deadline)
03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival
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03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
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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]
- Crossroads 2022 Online Echo
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[September
22-October 16, online]
- Let's All Be Lichen
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[October
10-November 10, New York, NY]
- Up and Down the River
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[October
15, Montague, MA]
- PSYCHO-GEO2: SoCAL
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[October
15, San Francisco, CA]
- Canyon Cinema Discovered: Trajectories of Self-Determination
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[October
16, San Francisco, CA]
- Canyon Cinema Discovered: Playing In the Dark: Watery Experiments
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[October
16, San Francisco, CA]
- ausland-filme: Christin Turner
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[October
16, Berlin, Germany]
- James Fotopoulos’ Film Migrating Forms
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[October
16, Paris, France]
- Bradley Eros (& Co-Conspirators) Black Screen: Imageless Films,
Performances
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[October
20, New York]
- A Synesthete's Atlas - Eric theise & Liz Draper
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[October
22, Minneapolis, MN]
- Ephraim Asili: Measuring Time
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[October
22, New York, NY]
- Magick/Cirkus Gala
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[October
22, San Francisco, CA]
- Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed
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[October
23, online]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE OCTOBER 15, 2022*
*November 1 - January 25, 2023*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Jonas Mekas 100!
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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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*September 22 - October 16*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
San Francisco Cinematheque
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL:
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*CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo*
CROSSROADS 2022 was the thirteenth manifestation of Cinematheque’s annual
film festival. Featuring 67 works of film, video and performance by 71
artists representing 18 countries and territories, CROSSROADS 2022 was
presented at Gray Area August 26–28.
By popular demand, Cinematheque proudly presents the CROSSROADS 2022 online
echo, a cross-sectional sampler of select works representing themes of the
year’s festival, including considerations of the contrasts between
individual sensual experience and the rise of the corporate media state;
the ongoing collisions and interminglings between analog and electronic
media; the role intimacy plays in the spaces of public communication and
the narration of generational lineage. The CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo is
presented worldwide to the public free of charge.
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CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo 1
shadows tremble
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program online September 22–October 16
SCREENING: *Curve the Night Sky* (2021) by Peggy Ahwesh (US); digital
video, color, sound, 5 minutes. *THAT WAS WHEN I THOUGHT I COULD HEAR YOU*
(2021) by Matt Whitman (US); digital video, color, silent, 9 minutes. *The
Girl Who Is* (2021) by Sara Sowell (US); digital video, b&w, sound, 6
minutes. *Paper Bag Test* (2019) by Trevon Jakaar Coleman (US); digital
video, color, sound, 5 minutes. *Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons *(2021) by
Jodie Mack (US/UK); 16mm, color, silent, 5 minutes. *Feriado* (2021) by
Azucena Losana (Mexico/Argentina); digital video, b&w, sound, 2 minutes.
*Configurations* (2021) by James Edmonds (UK/Germany); 16mm, color, sound,
8 minutes. *Solace* (2021) by Chantal Partamian (Lebanon): digital video,
color, sound, 1 minute. *from time without beginning* (2021) by Lorenzo
Gattorna (US); digital video, color, sound, 7 minutes. *Estuary *(2021) by
Ross Meckfessel (US); 16mm, color, sound, 12 minutes. *Dreams Under
Confinement *(2020) by Christopher Harris (US); digital video, color,
sound, 3 minutes.
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CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo 2
space to stretch my longing
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program online September 22–October 16
SCREENING: *Time Crystals* (2021) by Abinadi Meza (Wixárika); digital
video, color, sound, 6 minutes. *Light Signal *(2022) by Emily Chao (US);
digital video, color, sound, 13 minutes. *The Day Lives Briefly Unscented*
(2021) by Brandon Wilson (US); digital video, color, sound, 4 minutes.
*Lácrimas* (2021) by Jeremy Moss (US); digital video, color, sound, 14
minutes. *First Hypnotic Suggestion* (2020) by Brittany Gravely (US) & Ken
Linehan (US); 16mm double projection, color, sound, 10 minutes. *Up Close*
(2021) by Sam Gurry (US); digital video, color, sound, 3 minutes. *Dans les
cieux et sur la terre* (2022) by Erin Weisgerber (Canada); 16mm screened as
digital video, color, sound, 12 minutes.
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*October 10 - November 10*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Flaherty NYC
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*LET’S ALL BE LICHEN*
let’s all be lichen is an Inukjuamiut’s response to 100 years of our
namesake’s seminal film*. Featuring the works of largely circumpolar (Inuk,
Sámi, Evenk and Sakha) filmmakers, the series weaves together works by
artists who have harnessed their own power and distinct voice through the
moving image. The series shimmers with personal histories, the spiritual
anthropocene, questions of agency, memory, and urbanization, as well as a
fierce and love-filled reclaiming of the arctic imaginary.
With works by Siku Allooloo, Zinnia Naqvi, Sunna Nousuniemi, Lindsay
McIntyre, Chris Marker, Nivi Pedersen, Svetlana Romanova, Lada Suomenrinne,
Zulaa Urchuud, asinnajaq, and her father, world-renown filmmaker Jobie
Weetaluktuk.
let’s all be lichen is a five-part series that runs from October 10 to
November 10, 2022 at Anthology Film Archives, e-flux Screening Room. Online
programs will be announced shortly.
The Opening Night will take place on Indigenous People’s Day, October 10,
and will be hosted by Anthology Film Archives. The screening will be
preceded by Inuit games in Albert’s Garden — all are welcome, RSVP
required. Our closing event on November 10th will be at e-flux Screening
Room.
Additional screenings will be hosted on campuses thanks to the
Colgate/Flaherty Distinguished Global Filmmaker Residency program, NYU
Cinema Studies Department Friday Night Screening Series & NYU Center for
Media, Culture and History, and on The Flaherty’s custom-built platform
virtual.theflaherty.org
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Audiences all around the world, stay tuned: details of the hybrid and
online components will be forthcoming!
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LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF
Monday, October 10, 7 pm
Anthology Film Archives
** In collaboration with NYU Cinema Studies Department Friday Night
Screening Series & NYU Center for Media, Culture and History, this
screening will repeat on Friday, October 14th at Michelson Theater, NYU
Department of Cinema Studies (721 Broadway 6th Floor). The event will be
moderated by Iñupiat filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean.
Jobie Weetaluktuk, *INUKSHOP*, 2009, 2 min, digital
Asinnajaq, *THREE THOUSAND*, 2017, 14 min, digital
Jobie Weetaluktuk, *UMIAQ SKIN BOAT*, 2008, 31 min, betacam-to-digital
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OBSERVATIONS & LITTLE EPIPHANIES
Monday, October 17, 7 pm
Anthology Film Archives
Siku Allooloo, *SPIRIT EMULSION*, 2022, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital
Lindsay McIntyre, *SEEING HER*, 2020, 4 min, digital
Zulaa Urchuud, *ULAANBAATARAZATION*, 2017, 3 min, 16mm-to-digital
Zulaa Urchuud, *NUUDELCH KHANDLAGA (NOMADTITUDE)*, 2021, 7 min,
16mm-to-digital
Lada Suomenrinne, *MUN & DON (YOU & ME)*, 2018, 2 min, digital
Lada Suomenrinne, *Я неба (ME THE SKY)*, 2022, 17 min, digital
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SLOW GROWTH
Tuesday, October 18, 7 pm
e-flux Screening Room
Sunna Nousuniemi, *BOSO MU RUOVTTOLUOTTA (BREATHE ME BACK TO LIFE)*, 2021,
24 min, digital
Nivi Pederson, *PILLUARNEQ ERSIGIUNNAARPARA (HAPPINESS SCARES ME NO MORE)*,
2020, 70 min, digital
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OUT OF SIGHT, HELD IN MIND
Monday November 7, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
Zinnia Naqvi, *SEAVIEW*, 2015, 12 min, digital
Zinnia Naqvi, *THE TRANSLATION IS APPROXIMATE*, 2021, 11 min, digital
Zinnia Naqvi, *FARZANA*, 2021, 34 min, digital
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MUTATIONS
Thursday, November 10, 7 pm
e-flux Screening Room
Svetlana Romanova, Chelsea Tuggle, *Тарыҥ SEASON OF DYING WATER*, 2022, 62
min, digital
Chris Marker, *LETTER FROM SIBERIA*, 1957, 92 min, digital
*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Montague Common Hall
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7pm ET,
Montague Common Hall, 34 Main St, Montague, MA 01351
*Up and Down the River*
An evening of artist's film on place and placemaking by local filmmakers
living along the Connecticut River. A program of 11 short-form films
celebrating (but not limited to) work shot and screened on celluloid.
When's the last time you saw film projected on film? How do artists live
around you see and think about place? Have you ever used your own body to
move a filmstrip through a projector? Come and try it out on a set of
rewinds and Moviescope! Filmmaker Eric Stewart will be performing live
sound to accompany his 16mm film Helios.
*Down to the Water*. Hand-processed 16mm. B&W, sound. 05:00. 2022. Davey
Bendiksen
*Łódź:22592* . HD. 22:06. 2019. Abraham Ravett
*Decroux’s Garden* . 16mm, color, silent. 4:00. 2012. Baba Hillman
*Quaker City Home Movies: Pressing Cider* . Super 8 blown-up to 16mm, 2015,
3min., b&w, optical sound. Taylor Dunne
*Unless You're Living It* . Hand processed 16mm transferred to HD. B&W,
tinted and toned. 08:22. 2019. Sarah Bliss
*To All Those* . Super 8 on 16mm. 6:48. 2020. Josh Weissbach
*Helios* . 16mm. Color. 5:02. Eric Stewart
*Arcadia Rolls I+II* . 16mm, color and b&w, silent, 5:00. 2017. Josh
Guilford
*Haunted* . 16mm transferred to HD. 02:22. 2020. Danielle Vishlitzky
*Stories of Simulated Intimacy* . 16mm transferred to HD. 11:00. 2017.
Emily Drummer
*100 Ways to Cross the Border* . HD. Excerpt from 84 minute film. 2022.
Amber Bemak
Q&A with filmmakers follows the screening.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco
*PSYCHO-GEO2: SoCAL*
LERNER/HARRIS' DOC ON PURIFOY's DESERT ART-PARK
Here's the premiere of prolific documentarian Jesse Lerner's marvelous
exploration of Noah Purifoy's legendary sculpture-park in the desert
around Joshua Tree. Jesse flies up from his Pitzer College duties to
introduce this feature work, *The Fragmentations Only Mean...*,made
with Sara Harris, that celebrates the storied career of
this African-American *assemblage* artist from Watts, who retired from the
California Arts Council in 1986, to spend the last 18 years of his life
creating over 100 uncanny junk-sculptures in the high desert. Opening is a
handful of shorts and performances about the SoCal landscape: Mission
visionaries Bivoulab, with their immersive Virtual Reality piece *Re-Turn
to Zabriskie Point* (via both projection and VR helmet), Kelly Sears' *Maximum
Umbra*, Laura Gabbert's *Monument/Friendship Park*, on the border wall,
and Yash Pathak's live musical recitation to the *Coast Daylight*, the most
beautiful train-trip in the US (SF to LA). *$9
*SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Canyon Cinema
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2:10pm PT,
The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
*Canyon Cinema Discovered: Trajectories of Self-Determination*
Presented by Canyon Cinema, as part of its Canyon Cinema Discovered
curatorial fellowship program.
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA’S EMBRACE OF JAZZ. Curated by Juan Carlos Kase
Experimental cinema has long embraced American vernacular music as a
generative model, whether it supplied a formal template, an affective
inspiration, or a point of cultural reference. From the collective
polyphony of Charles Mingus’ kinetic ensembles to the gale and squall of
Joe McPhee’s storming cornet, the improvisational energies of jazz – as
well as blues and other popular-modernist musics – have continued to
inspire American avant-garde filmmakers. Collectively, the films in this
program explore the myriad ways in which experimental cinema has drawn from
African-American improvised music and embraced its spontaneous,
collaborative, polyrhythmic, and lyrical energies.
*Dufus (aka Art)*, Mike Henderson, 1970/73, 8 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm
*Up and Atom*, Doug Wendt, 1970, 3 minutes, color, sound, 16mm
*Not a Music Video*, Toney W. Merritt, 1987, 7 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm
*Pilgrim*, Cauleen Smith, 2017, 8 minutes, color, sound, digital video
*Duet for Trumpet and Camera*, Robert Fenz, 1992, 10 minutes, b&w, sound,
16mm
*Mirror Animations [Film #11]*, Harry Smith, 1957, 4 mins, color, sound,
16mm
*28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark)*, Christopher Harris, 2009, 3 mins, color,
silent, 16mm
*The Clown*, Donna Cameron, 1998, 13 mins, color, sound, 16mm
*Many Thousands Gone*, Ephraim Asili, 2014, 8 mins, color, sound, digital
video
*Four Women*, Julie Dash, 1975, 8 mins, color, sound, 16mm transferred to
digital video
*All My Life*, Bruce Baillie, 1966, 3 mins, color, sound, 16mm
Online through October 22 at
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Canyon Cinema
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4pm PT,
The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
*Canyon Cinema Discovered: Playing in the Dark: Watery Experiments*
Presented by Canyon Cinema, as part of its Canyon Cinema Discovered
curatorial fellowship program.
PLAYING IN THE DARK: WATERY EXPERIMENTS. Curated by Chrystel Oloukoï
Playing in the Dark engages the various ways in which blackness haunts the
sea and is haunted by the sea. Borrowing from Toni Morrison, “playing in
the dark” references the subdued Africanist presence which mediates
imaginations of water in the wake of variegated yet entangled transoceanic
slave trades but also takes seriously darkness as a subversive ecological
milieu, against lures of transparency. In the works gathered here, nothing
is left untouched by the confounding qualities of water and its corrosive
opacities, from bodies to the environment, to the materiality of film
itself. As such, “playing in the dark” also references attempts in Black
experimental filmmaking to chart paths in which cameras do not write with
light but probe shadows in search of “an aesthetics of turbulence whose
corresponding ethics is not provided in advance” (Glissant, Poetics of
Relation).
*By the Sea*, Toney W. Merritt, 1982, 3 minutes, color, silent, 16mm
*What the Water Said Nos 1-3*, David Gatten, 1998, 16 minutes, color,
sound, 16mm
*Aqua*, Samba Félix N’diaye, 1989, 12 minutes, color, sound, 16mm
transferred to digital video
*The Dislocation of Amber*, Hussein Shariffe, 1975, 32 minutes, color,
sound, 16mm transferred to digital video
*Giverny I (Négresse Impériale)*, Ja’Tovia Gary, 2017, 6 minutes, color,
sound, digital video
*Pattaki*, Everlane Moraes, 2019, 21 minutes, color, sound, digital video
*What the Water Said Nos 4-6*, David Gatten 2006-2007, 17 minutes, color,
sound, 16mm
*Towards the Colonies*, Miryam Charles, 2016, 5 minutes, color, sound,
digital video
*Song for the New World*, Miryam Charles, 2021, 9 minutes, color, sound,
digital video
Online October 23-29 at
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
ausland
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8pm GMT+2,
ausland, Lychener Str. 60, 10437 Berlin
*ausland-filme: Christin Turner*
I have been debating where to go with the screening, and I suppose it’s
more important to show where I am headed vs. where I have been. I think the
series will be cracking open my relationship to mystery, ritual, and
landscape. The program is 60 minutes long. The three most recent films are
commissions, wherein I explored ideas in order to expand Vesuvius at Home
into an experimental essay revealing how a mysterious mural depicting a
Dionysian woman’s cult can unlock ancient secrets of Pompeii, Cinema and
the Self.
*Born to be Yves Klein Blue* (2016) - HD, 5min
*What Happens to the Mountain* (2016) - HD & 16mm, 12 min
*Vesuvius at Home* (2018) - HD, S8, 16mm, 14 min
*Vulkan im Wörlitz* (2019) - 16mm, 5 min
*A Dream in Red* (2020) - HD, 16mm, 35mm Nitrate, 11 min
*Hymn to Dionysus* (Born of Semele) (2022) - HD, 5 min
*Hymn to Dionysus* (The Liberator) (2022) - HD, 8 min
ausland is an independent venue for music, film, literature, performance
and other artistic endeavours. We also offer our infrastructure for artists
and projects for rehearsals, recordings, and workshops, as well as a number
of residencies.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
The Film Gallery
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5pm GMT+2,
Cinéma L’archipel - 17 boulevard de Strasbourg, 75010 PARIS
*James Fotopoulos’ film Migrating Forms*
Screening & Artist Talk
As part of the exhibition *The Mirror Mask* at The Film Gallery (on view
thru Nov 12) we are very pleased to present a screening of James
Fotopoulos’ 16mm film *Migrating Forms* (1999)
A film that shocked New York’s film community and beyond at its first
showing at Anthology Film Archives in the context of the NY Underground
Film Festival in year 2000, *Migrating Forms* is a caustic, decadent,
life-non-affirming, visionary feature 16mm film made by a then 23-year-old
Fotopoulos as though channeling Baudelaire in portraying a love story à la
“Les Fleurs du Mal” reframed within a Chicago urban wasteland.
Fotopoulos, in considering the film today, writes: “Nothing has really
changed in how I see it. I made it — and then moved on to the next film — I
just put the films out there. When I think of it, I don’t think things have
changed in terms of how I do things. I make what I feel, what I see at that
time I am making it. And I don’t think anything has changed in what I think
about film itself, in all its elements: a shadow world or dream place, that
atmosphere, the fantastic… Meanings have to be in front of the camera to be
seen.” Fotopoulos in attendance and available for Q&A following the
screening.
“...the film that stays with me the most… *Migrating Forms* has a formal
purity and obsessive power that’s all too rare these days. It’s not a film
you’d ever find at Sundance (Blair Witch is a party by comparison). It
alone gives the Underground Film Festival a reason for being.” — Amy Taubin
.
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Microscope Gallery
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7:30 pm ET,
525 W 29th St, 2nd floor, NYC, 10001
*Bradley Eros (& co-conspirators) Black Screen: Imageless Films,
Performances*
a night of live film, sound and olfactory performance by Bradley Eros and
his “co-conspirators.” The event is taking place as part of our series of
“Imageless” film performances — now in its final week — in connection and
collaboration with the “Imageless Films” series at Anthology Film Archives
Velvet, silk, leather, rubber, satin, whiskey, glass, fire, crystal, ice &
liquids
~ with darkness & perfumes, metal & electricity ~ like nothing you've never
not seen.
Activated installations, with live sound & projections. — Bradley Eros &
co~conspirators
Please note: Masks are required for entry to our events at this time.
*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
MirrorLab
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Doors 7:30p, Show 8p Central,
3400 Cedar Av S, Minneapolis, MN
*A Synesthete's Atlas - Eric Theise & Liz Draper*
An evening of real-time cartographic improvisations using projected,
manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, directed and accompanied by
upright & electric bassist Liz Draper. Expect a visual wash of street
grids, land masses, bodies of water, and curiosities from the built
environment. Saturated colors and subtle tints. Sounds symphonic and
serrated. The flicker film as wayfinding device. Orphaned information and
untethered symbology. Crowdsourced data with Swiss precision, and glitches
a kilometer wide. OpenStreetMap as light show.
This will be the first performance of *A Synesthete's Atlas* in the
Midwest. While it's presented as the finale to the North American
Cartographic Information Society's Annual Meeting it is open to the public.
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software
developer. Through video and real time performance he reinvigorates the
perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, op
artists, and the light and space movement as new possibilities in the realm
of digital cartography. A Synesthete's Atlas premiered with cellist Helena
Espvall in Lisbon in April 2022 and has since been performed in East & West
Coast US venues. Theise's 16mm films have screened across the United
States, Canada, and France; he’s held residencies at Hangar (Lisbon),
Signal Culture, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and he's
received grants from the Interbay Cinema Society and Bay Area Video
Coalition.
Liz Draper, classically and jazz-trained versatile bassist, is fortuitously
on break from an international tour with Low. She's performed, recorded
and/or toured internationally with such groups as the Grammy Award-winning
Okee Dokee Brothers, Soul Asylum, Charlie Parr, The Rose Ensemble, Ben
Weaver, Orkestar Bez Ime, and Davina and the Vagabonds. A professional
musician since age 16, Liz has performed in an astonishing array of musical
genres and ensembles, from jazz and classical to folk, metal,
improvisational, experimental, Balkan, and chamber strings. Liz holds a
Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance from the University of
Minnesota and has studied at The School For Improvised Music in Brooklyn,
New York. She was awarded a 2019 fellowship through Giant Steps Music
Action Women, a partnership with the University of San Francisco.
https://erictheise.com/
https://lizdraper.bandcamp.com/album/hours-solo-bass-e-p
https://nacis.org/annual-meeting/current-meeting/
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Microscope Gallery
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7:30 pm ET,
525 W 29th St, 2nd floor, NYC 10001
*Ephraim Asili: Measuring Time*
an evening of live sound performance by Ephraim Asili taking place as part
of our series of “Imageless Film” performances in connection and
collaboration with the “Imageless Films” series at Anthology Film
Archives. A Q&A with Ephraim Asili will follow the performance.
New York-based artist Ephraim Asili will provide an improvised soundscape
performance on the Boss SP-404 SX Linear Wave Sampler Sequencer, which was
used to score several of his films, tapes, and most recently the vinyl
record included in his recently published book, “Measuring Time” (VSW
PRESS).
“My first medium was sound/music. Eventually film replaced sound as my main
mode of artistic communication. Whenever time permits and the spirit moves,
I make audio sketches and notes, what I consider Hip Hop inspired aural
journal entries. The audio-collage entries on the enclosed record were made
with my vinyl record collection, a Technic 1200 turntable, a Boss SP 404
sampler, and a Tascam four track cassette recorder.” — Ephraim Asili
Please note: Masks are required for entry to our events at this time.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco
*MAGICK/CIRKUS GALA*
DIEHL's *MISDIRECTIONS*
Our *Supernatural Suite* opens with a mind-melting carnival ride, through
both a rich legacy of the American circus subculture, and through the
particular sideshow art of the sleight-of-hand magician. We celebrate
the SF launch of Carl Diehl's utterly genius zine about his great-uncle
Werner “Dorny” Dornfield. Carl sends in a custom video cut that draws from
the chapbook itself, delving into Dorny's association with Harry Houdini,
as well as a series of conversations with historians, performance artists,
and magicians. ALSO: jaw-dropping contortionist footage, Kathleen
Quillian's animation *The Conjuror*, and Craig Baldwin's live magic trick!
As to the broader cultural phenomenon of the circus in the US, well, we DO
have the very best material in the form of a 1949 16mm Technicolor, *Circus
Train*. PLUS: *vérité* footage of the marvelous Bicentennial circus, also
in luscious color. AND an excerpt from the recent miracle acquisition, *Soviet
Circus* (if you can believe that!).
*SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022* 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*
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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