[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: September 10 - 18, 2022
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09.12.2022 Slamdance Film Festival
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09.15.2022 PACT Zollverein Residencies
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09.20.2022 International Film Festival Rotterdam
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(shorts completed after July 1)
09.20.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video
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09.20.2022 Punto de Vista Festival
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09.20.2022 Art from Archives / Archive as Material Workshop @ VSW
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09.23.2022 accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival
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09.24.2022 Melbourne Underground Film Festival
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09.24.2022 San Diego Underground Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
09.26.2022 Josephine Massarella Artist Award
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09.30.2022 Harkat 16mm Film Festival
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09.30.2022 San Francisco International Film Festival
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09.30.2022 Ann Arbor Film Festival
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10.01.2022 Images Festival On Screen
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10.01.2022 Athens International Film + Video Festival
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10.01.2022 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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10.01.2022 MONO NO AWARE XVI
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10.10.2022 Handmade Film Workshop @ VSW
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10.15.2022 Thomas Edison Film Festival
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11.01.2022 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
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11.01.2022 Experiments in Cinema
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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]
- The New England Triennial
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[April
8-September 11, Lincoln + Harvard, MA]
- New Black Wave, Vol. 2
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[September
10, Los Angeles, CA + online]
- Archive Fever1
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[September
10, San Francisco, CA]
- Imageless Films, Part 5
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[September
10-29, New York, NY]
- Mud Luscious
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[September
11, Albuquerque, NM]
- Gearwax: Old vinyl, Repurposed
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[September
11, online]
- Shirley Clarke's Jazz + Ornette
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[September
13 + 25, Amsterdam, NL]
- Razzle Dazzle Film Performance
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[September
14, Toronto, ON, Canada]
- Urban Nature: A Salon With S Topiary Landberg
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[September
15, San Francisco, CA]
- Derek Jarman: Super 8 Revelations
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[September
15, Los Angeles, CA]
- Carl Stone/Eric theise/Samantha Bounkeua @ Indexical
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[September
15, Santa Cruz, CA]
- Celluloid Now
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[September
15-18, Chicago, Illinois]
- Terra Femme By Courtney Stephens
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[September
15-21, New York, NY]
- Eiki 16mm 3580 SSL Projector Care and Repair Workshop
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[September
17, online]
- Unsettling Gender
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[September
17, San Francisco, CA]
- Works On Paper
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[September
17-October 22, San Francisco, CA]
- Basement Films: On Microcinemas & Underground Culture
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[September
18, Santa Fe, NM]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE SEPTEMBER 10, 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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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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*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
*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022* Venue type: *Both Physical and Online*
Los Angeles Filmforum
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1:00 PM PST,
2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Event URL:
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Sat Sept 10 from 1pm to 9pm PT and again on Sat Sept. 24 from 4pm to
midnight PT
*New Black Wave, Vol. 2*
Program curated by DaManuel Richardson and Solomon Turner of Hello Benjamin
Films
Presented by Los Angeles Filmforum, Hello Benjamin Films, Canyon Cinema,
and the California African-American Museum present
New Black Wave showcases films by Black filmmakers that push cinema's
conceptual and aesthetic boundaries to explore deep-rooted emotions within
the African Diaspora. Back for its second edition, the films in New Black
Wave Vol. 2 remix public and personal archives to reveal new meanings
within familiar images of Black life in America. We bear witness to the
absolute and overwhelming freedom exhibited in Black expression and the
ever-present power of Black culture. The show features brilliant films by
Michèle Stephenson and Imani Dennison, Julie Dash, Ja'Tovia Gary, Paige
Taul, Jenn Nkiru, Moïse Togo, and Darol Olu Kae. The screening will be
followed by a discussion with filmmakers and curator and writer Taylor
Renee Aldridge of the California African American Museum (CAAM).
*i ran from it and was still in it*, By Darol Olu Kae, USA, 2020, digital,
11 min.
A poetic meditation on familial loss and separation, and the love that
endures against dispersion.
*10:28,30*, By Paige Taul, USA, 2019, digital, 5 min., Los Angeles Premiere
As a part of the larger constellations of works concerning familial
relationships, 10:28,30 examines the relationship between myself and my
sister, and our relationship to our mother. I am interested in the
dissonance of our lives apart and the tension in the desire to be together.
*An Ecstatic Experience*, By Ja'Tovia Gary, USA, 2015, digital, 7 min.
A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.
*For Our Girls*, By Michèle Stephenson and Imani Dennison, USA, 2020,
digital, 10 min., Los Angeles Premiere
The film is a love letter to Black daughters — acknowledging the sacred,
and at times, tense relationship mothers and daughters share as they face
challenges and accept each other’s flaws.
*$75,000*, By Moïse Togo, France/Mali, 2020, digital, 14 min., Los Angeles
Premiere
A look at the biological aspect of albinism, which is a genetic and
hereditary condition that affects not only the pigmentation of sufferers
but also, and above all, their physical and mental health. These people are
victims of discrimination, mutilation, and ritual crimes in Africa.
*What’s good Bruce?*, By Paige Taul, USA, 2018, digital, 4 min., Los
Angeles Premiere
A reference to Bruce Nauman's Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the
Perimeter of a Square (1967) in order to question whose body and whose body
language is allowed in the studio space. Instead of mimicking the way
Nauman walks, Peter uses the pimp walk (sans cane).
*Standing at the Scratching Line*, By Julie Dash, USA, 2016, digital, 11
min.
Traveling between Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina, to
Mother Bethel AME in Philadelphia, Julie Dash creates a cinematic tone poem
about returning to sacred spaces of departure and arrival.
*BLACK TO TECHNO*, By Jenn Nkiru, United Kingdom, 2019, digital, 21 min.
BLACK TO TECHNO is a music documentary charting the anthropological,
socio-economical, geopolitical roots of techno from Detroit and how it
traveled and translated into becoming the soundtrack to fall of the wall in
Berlin
In person: Michèle Stephenson, Imani Dennison, and Darol Olu Kae
Masks are still required at Filmforum shows - N95 or KN95.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
*ARCHIVE FEVER1*
BILL MORRISON's *VILLAGE DETECTIVE* + FF GEMS
During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a
most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film, seemingly of Soviet
provenance. Unlike the film find explored in Bill Morrison’s *Dawson City:
Frozen Time*, it turned out this discovery wasn’t a lost work of major
importance, but an incomplete print of a popular Soviet comedy from 1969,
starring the beloved Russian actor Mihail Žarov. To Morrison, the heavily
water-damaged print, and the way it surfaced, could be seen as a fitting
reflection on the film work of Žarov, who re-emerges from the bottom of the
sea 50 years later like a Russian Rip Van Winkle, to a world where reels of
film are as antiquated as the Soviet Union.
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*September 10 - 29*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York
*IMAGELESS FILMS, PART 5*
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. The ongoing
series, “Imageless Films”, which we’ve been presenting since April,
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).
With the September chapter, we bring the series to a close – and in high
style, thanks to rare screenings of Gregory Markopoulos’s *GAMMELION*; a
program featuring works that directly address the audience and/or
projectionist (including Morgan Fisher’s *PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS* and
Hollis Frampton’s *A LECTURE*); a screening in which we’ll share some of
the most memorable voicemail messages we’ve received over the years at
Anthology; and several live-performance pieces, including Malcolm Le
Grice’s *PRE-PRODUCTION* and a work designed specifically for the Maya
Deren theater by Bradley Eros *(MAYA)*. This final chapter will also bring
the publication of a booklet featuring the complete program notes and a
selection of related texts.
Programmed by Jed Rapfogel, in collaboration with Bradley Eros and John
Klacsmann. Special thanks to Elle Burchill & Andrea Monti (Microscope
Gallery); Olivier Marboeuf (Spectre Productions); and Jeff Perkins.
In addition, Microscope Gallery will participate by presenting a number of
expanded cinema works or pieces that are specially designed for a gallery
space; for more info visit: https://microscopegallery.com/
Upcoming Screenings IMAGELESS FILMS: SO IS THIS + SO’S NEPHEW
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September 13 at 7:30 PM
AFTERIMAGE, PGM 2: GAMMELION (Gregory Markopoulos)
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September 14 at 7:30 PM
WORD FILMS: YANN BEAUVAIS
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September 17 at 7:30 PM
PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE: ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES VOICEMAILS THROUGH THE AGES
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September 21 at 7:30 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: (PROJECTOR) PERFORMANCE
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September 22 at 7:30 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: MAYA
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September 25 at 7:30 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: DAVID WHARRY
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September 27 at 8:15 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: MOVIES FOR THE BLIND + FOYER
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September 28 at 7:30 PM
IMAGELESS FILMS: EL CAFETAL + VERA CRUZ
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September 29 at 7:30 PM
*SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Guild Cinema
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1pm MST,
Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Avenue NE Albuquerque, NM
*MUD LUSCIOUS*
Short films by the NO NAME CINEMA folks Justin Rhody, Ben Kujawski &
Abigail Smith, various - 2015 to NOW! - 75m approx. - ALL SEATS $8
The good folks of Santa Fe's way awesome microcinema NO NAME CINEMA comes
to town with a stew of short movies to fancy, perplex, amuse, engage &
wonder over! You don't want to miss this one!
FROM THE MIGHTY JUSTIN RHODY HIMSELF - We'll be presenting a full program
of our respective short films. The formats and techniques of the films will
run the gamut in wild eclecticism: works shot on Super 8, hand-sewn/painted
and xeroxed 35mm, hand painted 8mm mail art collaborations, VHS found
footage, 4K digital narratives that resemble normal movies, abstract miniDV
video pieces ... "
*Potemkin Piece* (2022 / 1 min 35 secs / 35mm / sound)
*Move Outs* (2020 / 18 mins / VHS / sound)
*Black Palms* (2022 / 1 min / 35mm / sound)
*Media Mail I* (2020 / 4 mins / Super-8mm / silent)
*El Rito* (2021 / 8 mins / MiniDV / sound)
*Closed Off Opening* (2020 / 16 mins / MiniDV / silent)
*Harquahala Mountain Wilderness* (2021 / 9 mins / VHS)
*Misery Machine* (2018 / 3 mins / Super-8mm)
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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!
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022* *September 13 + September 25*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Eye
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Sept 13 @ 7:15pm + Sept 25 @ 9:30pm GMT+2,
Eye, IJpromenade 1, 1031 KT Amsterdam, NL
*SHIRLEY CLARKE'S JAZZ + ORNETTE*
with live music by Giuseppe Doronzo, Michael Moore and Sun Mi Hong
A special on Shirley Clarke, with a screening of *Ornette: Made in America*.
Ahead of this, a special ode to Clarke's love of jazz and her refreshing
way of working: three jazz musicians play three different jazz scores in
the spirit of Clarke to accompany *Bridges-Go-Round*.
*WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
PIX FILM Gallery
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7pm ET,
PIX FILM Gallery, 1411 Dufferin St Unit C, Toronto, ON
*Razzle Dazzle FILM PERFORMANCE*
Britt-Al-Busultan, artist in residency at LIFT, will be presenting a 2 x
16mm film projector performance at PIX FILM Gallery with sound
accompagnement by Ben Rositsan.
Britt Al-Busultan (b. 1976, Al Khobar, Saudi-Arabia) is based in the area
of Vaasa, Finland. She studied Fine Arts (BA) at AKI, Academy of Fine Arts
in the Netherlands and completed an MA in Time//Space from the University
of the Arts in Helsinki and from Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. She has
been showing her works of expanded cinema internationally in exhibitions
and festivals, such as Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival
Rotterdam and AAVE Festival Helsinki. Since 2009, she works and lives in
Finland, where she founded the artist-run film lab Filmverkstaden.
http://www.britt-al-busultan.com
Ben Rositsan is a multi-instrumentalist and multi-media artist working in
Toronto. His current focus is improvised music in collaboration with
obsolete or fractured technologies. He is part of the noise-art band
Ecotone Orchestra.
*THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Canyon Cinema
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7:30pm PT,
16 Sherman Street, San Francisco, CA
*Urban Nature: A Salon with S Topiary Landberg*
The Canyon Cinema Salon returns to 16 Sherman for the first time in nearly
three years, for a program of urban landscape films selected by Bay Area
media artist, curator, and writer S Topiary Landberg.
As Topiary writes, “This suite of landscape étude films use the film/moving
image medium to create an experience of the urban environment as a
collaborative composition. In creating works that use the found
environment, these artists expand from the tradition of city symphony
filmmaking, creating works of visual music, offering a kind of lyrical
seeing or visual poetry.”
As always, this Salon event is free and open to the public, with
refreshments served beginning at 7pm and the doors closed for the start of
the show at 7:30. Please note that masks are strongly encouraged, and that
the theater’s seating capacity is extremely limited. An informal
conversation with the curator will follow the screening.
*Hand Held Day* by Gary Beydler (1975, 5 min, 16mm)
*Night Train* by Guy Sherwin (1979, 2 min, 16mm)
*A City in Four Parts* by Jon Behrens (2016, 6 min, digital file)
*Bridges-Go-Round* by Shirley Clarke (1958, 8 min, 16mm)
*New York Portrait II* by Peter Hutton (1981, 12 min, 16mm)
*Untitled (light)* by Julie Murray (2002, 5 min, 16mm)
*Momentum* by S Topiary Landberg (2000, 4 min, digital file)
*The Grid* by Cauleen Smith (2011, 15 min, digital file)
*Around* by Bill Basquin (2013, 5 min, digital file)
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Academy Museum
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7:30pm PT,
Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
*Derek Jarman: Super 8 Revelations*
An eclectic array of Derek Jarman’s Super 8 films chosen especially for
this occasion. In-person: James Mackay
Few filmmakers have earned the descriptor of “legendary,” but Derek Jarman
(1942–1994) is one this word seems to fit. With innovation and an intensity
of devotion to his cinematic craft, Jarman produced a radical and hugely
influential series of films over the course of his tragically short life,
including the acclaimed features Jubilee (1978), Caravaggio (1986), The
Last of England (1987), and Blue (1993). Known for their mystery, beauty,
and evocative texture, Jarman’s films often employed classical myth,
narrative, and history in a complex interplay that tackled topics ranging
from queer sensuality and identity to often brutal and brilliant
indictments of Thatcher’s Britain and the outmoded mores and political
ideologies it represented.
However, the intimacy, presence, and audiovisual experimentation of these
more widely known feature films have their origins in Jarman’s prodigious
Super 8 filmmaking practice, which roughly spanned the period from 1970 to
1983, during which he produced approximately 80 short films of incredible
diversity. The Super 8 medium, with its lower cost, practical limitations,
and unique aesthetic properties, inspired Jarman to experiment freely and
develop a complex and exciting cinematic language that deeply informed his
later work, not to mention the work of generations of artists he inspired.
Thanks to the Luma Foundation and Jarman’s longtime friend and producer,
James Mackay, these rarely seen Super 8 films have been newly digitized in
recent years, in an appropriately experimental manner that acknowledges
Jarman’s tendency to often show these films at different speeds and with
different soundtracks, giving them an unfixed form that resisted definitive
characterization. In translating Jarman’s Super 8 films for digital
presentation, Mackay has not only made these remarkable works accessible,
but also revived the unique qualities of spectacle and strange magic that
they embody for an immersive and revelatory cinematic experience. Featuring
soundtracks by Coil, Simon Fisher Turner, Nick Hudson, and Cyclobe, this
program will showcase an eclectic array of Jarman’s Super 8 films chosen
especially for this occasion.
Programmed and notes by Academy Film Archive Senior Film Preservationist
Mark Toscano
*Studio Bankside*, 1972. 7 min. UK. B&W and Color. Sound. Digital.
*Journey to Avebury*, 1973. 10 min. UK. Color. Sound. Digital.
*Tarot*, 1973. 7.5 min. UK. Color. Sound. Digital.
*Sulphur*, 1973. 15.5 min. UK. Color. Sound. Digital.
*Sloane Square*, 1974–76. 8.5 min. B&W and Color. Sound. Digital.
*Duggie Fields at Home*, 1974. 3 min. UK. Color. Silent. Digital.
*My Very Beautiful Movie*, 1974. 6.5 min. UK. B&W and Color. Silent.
Digital.
*Garden of Luxor*, 1972. 9 min. UK. Color. Sound. Digital.
*Electric Fairy*, 1971. 6.5 min. UK. Color. Silent. Digital. Courtesy of
James Mackay.
Super 8 films courtesy of the Luma Foundation, with immense thanks to James
Mackay. Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard
Roth Foundation.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Indexical
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8p doors, 8;30 event; Pacific time,
1050 River St., #119, Santa Cruz, CA
*Carl Stone/Eric Theise/Samantha Bounkeua @ Indexical*
Carl Stone’s Santa Cruz debut, as he comes into town for a performance at
Indexical, the site for radical and experimental work. Indexical works with
musicians and other time-based visual or performing artists to bring about
new projects that push the boundaries of the discipline. Carl will perform
a solo set of new work and for the second set will be joined by Eric
Theise, handling projections for the premiere of a new collaboration.
Theise combines strategies from experimental film & animation, color
theory, the Light and Space movement, and concrete poetry with open data
and open source software to create digital maps that behave in ways never
intended by the original developers. Opening the evening will be Santa
Cruz’s own Samantha Bounkeua (RogueViolin).
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Samantha Bounkeua (RogueViolin) https://www.rogueviolin.com/
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*September 15 - 18*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Chicago Film Society
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times vary,
@ Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Constellation in
Chicago, IL
*Celluloid Now*
The Chicago Film Society presents Celluloid Now: four days of screenings,
workshops, and other events showcasing the exciting world of analog cinema.
Celluloid Now features more than 50 films from working filmmakers and
artists from across the world, alongside a slate of restorations and
rediscoveries, all projected on 35mm, 16mm, or super 8 film. Includes films
by Jodie Mack, Ted Fendt, Alexandre Larose, Fern Silva, Christopher Harris,
Daïchi Saïto, Paul Sharits, Rose Lowder, Lori Felker, Anna Kipervaser,
Alexander Stewart, and many more!
*___________________________________________________________________*
*September 15 - 21*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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times vary, see below,
32 Second Avenue, New York
*TERRA FEMME by Courtney Stephens*
*The live version will be presented on Thurs, Sept 15 and Sun, Sept 18 at
7:30 each night; the pre-recorded version will screen on Fri, Sept 16 at
7:00 & 9:00, Sat, Sept 17 at 5:00, 7:00 & 9:00, Sun, Sept 18 at 5:30, and
Mon-Wed, Sept 19-21 at 7:00 & 9:00 nightly.*
*TERRA FEMME* by Courtney Stephens, 2017-21, 60 min, DCP
Writer and filmmaker Courtney Stephens has, over the past decade, emerged
as a crucial figure in the realms of experimental and documentary cinema,
thanks to her numerous short films – several of which have found her
working with archival film material – as well as the feature-length *THE
AMERICAN SECTOR* (2020, co-directed by Pacho Velez). Her new
essay-film/performance-piece, *TERRA FEMME* is constructed entirely from
amateur travelogues filmed by women in the 1920s-50s. Moving between
geographical essay, personal inquiry, and historical speculation, Stephens
examines these films as both private documents and accidental
ethnographies. The travelogues present a new type of traveler: no longer a
male seeker of conquests, she might be a divorcee on a tour of biblical
gardens, or a widow on a cruise to the North Pole. In rescuing the films of
these unknown travelers from the archives, *TERRA FEMME* weaves together
questions of female authorship, cinematic excavation, and the Western gaze,
complicating the freedoms these women experienced while traveling through
foreign landscapes. A film about longing for past worlds through cinematic
excavation, *TERRA FEMME* reveals how this force flows in both directions,
as women from the past convey themselves into the present through the power
of their gaze.
*TERRA FEMME* began life as an illustrated lecture, with Stephens
presenting and discussing her archival finds in person – a format that
mirrored the way the films might have been exhibited when they were shot.
During the pandemic, Stephens edited the material into an hour-long essay
film, with music by Sarah Davachi. During Anthology’s week-long engagement,
we will present two incarnations of the film, with Stephens performing the
narration live on Thursday, September 15 and Sunday, September 18.
*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022* Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Interbay Cinema Society
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11 AM PT to 2 PM PT, online
Event URL:
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*EIKI 16mm 3580 SSL Projector Care and Repair Workshop*
Co-sponsored by Interbay Cinema Society and Northwest Film Forum; Moderated
by Echo Park Film Center;
Taught by Kristin Reeves.
The EIKI 16mm 3580 SSL projector is a workhorse machine for microcinemas,
experimental filmmakers, film workshop & classroom teachers, film artists
and cinematheques. Keeping these machines in good working condition is a
necessity and a challenge. This workshop will teach you the basics of how
to care for and do basic repairs on your EIKI slot load projector so that
you can keep it up and running for as long as possible between actual
repairs (and repair people are harder to find these days).
Taught by filmmaker, expanded cinema performance artist and professor
Kristin Reeves, the workshop will bring together filmmakers and
projectionists from around the world to learn basic techniques and
troubleshooting. Kristin plans to run the workshop “like a cooking show.”
*___________________________________________________________________*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
*UNSETTLING GENDER*
SUSAN STRYKER's *CHRISTINE IN THE CUTTING ROOM* + LUMINOUS PROCURESS +
Steven Arnold’s 1971 surrealistic fantasy, lauded by Salvador Dali and Andy
Warhol is a tour de force of the imagination – a journey through peekboxes
of naked tableaux, theatres of mechanical dreams, feasts of monsters and
piles of humanity. Two hippies drink a magic potion and encounter the
mystical Procuress. AND: Here in person to introduce this queer classic is
none other than Susan Strkyer, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s
Studies, and Presidential Fellow and Visiting Professor of Gender, Women’s,
and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her *CITCR* uses the career of
1950s transsexual icon Christine Jorgensen to explore identity, embodiment,
technology, and representation. As part of her introduction Dr.
Stryker also shares a juicy clip from her recent doc on the Compton’s
Cafeteria riots, *SCREAMING QUEENS*.
*___________________________________________________________________*
*September 17 - October 22*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Telematic Media Arts
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6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.,
323 10th Street, San Francisco, CA
*Works on Paper*
Telematic Media Arts is pleased to present Works on Paper, an exhibition of
animated films by artists working with paint, paper, drawing, cut-out
collage, and sculpture to produce time-based, moving image works. Attending
to tangible materials, the films in this screening simultaneously
foreground the artistic process and the labor required for their own
creation. They mark the passage of time, giving it form and meaning as
chronicles of physical change. And they show how – with the right degree of
creative imagination, thoughtful attention, and sustained effort – the
world is open to re-invention.
Featuring the work of Meghana Bisineer, Martha Colburn, Jennifer Levonian,
Peter Millard, Johan Rijpma, Paloma Trecka, Selina Trepp
Curated by Clark Buckner and Sarah Klein
*SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe
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4pm MST,
Center for Contemporary Arts, Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM
*Basement Films: On Microcinemas & Underground Culture*
Join us for an in-depth discussion on underground cinema culture and the
nature of microcinemas—small-scale exhibition venues that provide
noncommercial, nontheatrical options for experimental films. The panel
includes Beth Hansen (Basement Films, Vice President), Bryan Konefsky
(Basement Films, Current Present); Keif Henley (owner/operator of The Guild
& former president of Basement Films); and Justin Clifford Rhody (founder &
co-operator of No Name Cinema). The conversation will be moderated by CCA
Head of Cinema Programming, Luke Henley.
The program will feature a unique 45-minute film program of selections from
Basement Films’ archive of 16mm film prints—a cerebral celebration of
celluloid, cultural ephemera and orphaned media!
This event is in conjunction with CCA Cinema Gallery’s current
exhibition, *Basement
Films: 30 Years of Undependent Media*, currently on view, free and open to
the public, through October 15, 2022.
*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!!!
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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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