[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: April 8 - 16, 2023
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*This Week [April 8 - 16, 2023] in Avant Garde Cinema*
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04.09.2023 Kabayitos Microcinema
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04.09.2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival
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04.10.2023 Flamingo Film Festival
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(Extended Deadline)
04.15.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
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(5th Deadline)
04.18.2023 LMCC Workspace Residency
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04.19.2023 Locarno Film Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
04.27.2023 Reeling The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
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04.28.2023 Live Soundtrack
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(Late Birds)
04.30.2023 Antimatter [media art]
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(Early Deadline)
04.30.2023 ANALOGICA
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(Regular Deadline)
04.30.2023 Laterale Film Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
04.30.2023 Braziers International Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
05.12.2023 Buffalo Int’l Film Festival
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05.12.2023 New Orleans Film Festival
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05.19.2023 Edinburgh Short Film Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
05.31.2023 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants
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05.31.2023 25FPS Festival
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06.01.2023 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
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06.15.2023 Revolutions Per Minute Festival
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06.30.2023 ULTRAcinema
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07.10.2023 Affective Intermediality International Conference
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*
This week's programs (summary):
- Refresh
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[March
2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO]
- VISIONS: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil & Jackson Polys
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[March
17-April 17, online]
- Natural Magic: Experiments In Photography
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[March
17-June 4, Oxford, UK]
- The 33rd Onion City Experimental Film Festival
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[March
30-April 9, Chicago, IL]
- *O*PTR*O*NICA2
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[April
8, San Francisco, CA]
- Films By Valentina Alvarado Matos And Carlos Vásquez Méndez
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[April
10, New York, NY]
- Color of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova [Encore Screening]
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[April
12, New York, NY]
- Material Universe 3
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[April
12, Denver, CO]
- Xcentric: Fever Dreams
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[April
13, Barcelona, Spain]
- Visions From Colorado Landscapes & Archives
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[April
13, Denver, CO]
- Animated Shorts By Lydia Greer And Luca Dipierro
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[April
14, Oakland, CA]
- ARCHIVE FEVER1
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[April
15, San Francisco, CA]
- Liquid Form: Water In Experimental Film
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[April
15-16, Santa Fe, NM]
- EC: Cavalcanti / Crockwell
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[April
16, New York, NY]
- EC: Joseph Cornell
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[April
16, New York, NY]
- EC: Conner / Conrad
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[April
16, New York, NY]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE APRIL 8, 2023*
*March 2022 - Spring 2023*
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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*March 17 - April 17*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
VISIONS
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11am, Event URL:
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*VISIONS: ADAM KHALIL, ZACK KHALIL & JACKSON POLYS*
As part of its online screening series, VISIONS presents, in collaboration
with Présence Autochtone, *The Violence of a Civilization Without
Secrets* (2018,
digital, 10min) by Zack Khalil, Adam Khalil & Jackson Polys, with a an
original text by Ghada Sayegh.
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*March 17 - June 4*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Bodleian Library
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Mo - Sa 10am-5pm, Su 11am-4pm GMT,
Transept, Weston Library, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Broad St,
Oxford, UK
*Natural Magic: Experiments in Photography*
Photography was invented by a network of chemical experimenters. Little by
little, they discovered the photosensitive properties of precious metals
and learned to capture images from life on a chemical emulsion of silver
nitrate, or iron, or gold, or ground up vegetables. Today’s digital
photography feels a long way from the experiments of the nineteenth
century, but an intrepid society of alchemists is reviving the processes of
the past and creating new approaches to darkroom photography.
*Natural Magic* features work by Megan Ringrose, Nettie Edwards, Karel
Doing, Andrés Pardo, and Garry Fabian Miller – artists who have spent a
lifetime exploring the chemical potentials of photography.
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*March 30 - April 9*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Chicago Filmmakers
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Event URL: https://www.onioncityfilmfest.org/full-program
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*The 33rd Onion City Experimental Film Festival*
Beguiling, radical, uncanny, trippy, hilarious, transgressive,
heart-breaking, horrific, militant, cosmic, and profoundly human.
Chicago Filmmakers (www.chicagofilmmakers.org
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invites you to this year's competition for The 33rd Onion City Experimental
Film Festival! These nine programs feature 54 shorts from over 15
countries, with themes of Love, Isolation, Revolution, Simulation, Virtual
Spaces, Ecologies, and Geologies. We are thrilled to once again present one
of the most important revues of contemporary alternative, avant-garde, and
experimental cinemas from critically-acclaimed visionaries and emerging new
talents. Enter the next wave of movie exploration.
The 33rd Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Onioncityfilmfest.org
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runs from March 30 - April 9, beginning with the Chicago Premiere of
Deborah Stratman's *Last Things*, fresh off its festival premieres at
Sundance and the Berlinale. This partnership with the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago's Conversations at the Edge (www.saic.edu/cate
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will kick off this year's festival, the largest Onion City program ever.
The Gene Siskel Film Center of Chicago hosts as Deborah Stratman appears
in-conversation with Sukhdev Sandhu. (The Gene Siskel Film Center is
located: 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL 60601)
Competition programs begin March 31, 7:00PM (CT) at Chicago Filmmakers'
Firehouse Cinema, located at 1326 W. Hollywood Avenue. On April 1, the
first streaming programs go live, remaining online until April 9 at 11:59PM
(CT). No matter where you are in the world, you can enjoy this year's
radical line-up. See the full program & reserve your tickets and streaming
passes by visiting www.onioncityfilmfest.org/full-program
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Special screenings will be taking place at Comfort Station and Mana
Contemporary (in partnership with the Monira Foundation).
FEATURING:
Deborah Stratman, Lisa McCarty, Stéphanie Lagarde, Christopher Harris,
Leonardo Pirondi, Padrick Ritch, Martine Syms, Ramey Newell, Niccolò
Bigagli, Tijana Petrović, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Patrick Müller, HC Gilje,
Kalil Haddad, Lindsey Arturo, Luis Carlos Rodríguez, Alisa Berger, Onyou
Oh, Yanbin Zhao, Lynn Kim, Charlotte Pryce, T.J. Blanco, Rachel Ferber,
Alice Avery, Angelo Madsen Minax, Kishino Takagishi, Alexis McCrimmon, Saif
Alsaegh, Adam Farcus, Chiara Caterina, Ryan Tynan, Allison Radomski, Sam
Taffel, Maryam Tafakory, Zhen Li, Marius Packbier, Aïlien Reyns, Maxime
Jean-Baptiste, Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen, Margaux Parillaud, Gülce
Besen Dilek, Jingyuan Luo, Janelle VanderKelen, eteam, Dave Rodriguez, Wen
Pey Lim, Erin Weisgerber, Kelly Sears, Oona Taper, Yannick Mosimann, Diane
Christiansen, Natasha Woods, Sarah Ballard, Alex Lo, Amina Maher, Fernanda
Pessoa, Dani Leventhal ReStack, and Sheilah Wilson ReStack.
*SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*OPTRONICA2*
ROURKE + SCOTT + VANDERLIP +
Here's a rowdy and robust expanded cinema program of makers who bravely
stride into uncharted territories, then bring their impressions back in an
energized live-cinema mode, just as wild as their primary source
material! Mills College emeritus Jake Scott is just now back from a season
in Southeast Asia, documenting on 16mm film the native processes of
forging gamelan gongs—instruments that he'll be using in his multi-screen
performance! His Earth/Fire filmic metaphors are played out against
erupting Indonesian volcanoes at every turn. Jeremy Rourke is also just
back in the Mish, with a radical retrofit of his multi-screen piece de
resistance, *You're Not Listening*, that dares to dig into the
disordered 16mm archive beneath the very floorboards of our gallery! PLUS:
the prolific Ellie Vanderlip (also part of our gallery) steps into the fire
circle with the world premiere of *The End of Baseball*, a
double-projection critique of that male-dominated arena. Her collage-essay
is nested amidst a hothouse of 16mm animation, including TT Takemoto's (in
person) poached-emulsion *On the Line*, Dennis Pies' re-discovered CCAC work
, and the utterly Otherly *Kung Fu Fighter* by 17-year old James Head.
ALSO: Harry Partch performing at the aforementioned Mills, John Klacsmann's
*Blops*, and ethnic dances from India and Thailand.
*MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2023*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Microscope Gallery
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7:30 pm ET,
525 W 29th St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10001
Event URL:
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*Films by Valentina Alvarado Matos and Carlos Vásquez Méndez*
Screening of films by Barcelona-based filmmakers and artists Valentina
Alvarado Matos and Carlos Vásquez Méndez, both of whom will be attending in
person. The event will be accessible online as well, with a live streaming
of the introduction and Q&A from the gallery.
The program of short 16mm films — one of which is a double 16mm film
projection — Super 16mm, Super 8mm films and film transfers to digital,
includes eight works made by Matos and Méndez between 2014 and 2023. Both
filmmakers show an interest in the abilities of human hands — to make
physical artifacts, to shape matter, to produce sounds — as well as the
intermingling of people and cultures across the ages, and the artistic
response to the forced pause of the pandemic.
Matos and Méndez will be available for a Q&A following the screening.
Special Thanks to Carlos Saldaña. Online Tickets will go live 7pm on the
event page
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*COLOR OF POMEGRANATES / SAYAT NOVA [ENCORE SCREENING]*
by Sergei Paradjanov
In Armenian with English subtitles, 1969, 78 min, 35mm
[BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - SCREENING ON 35MM!]
The powerful words of 17th-century poet Arutuin Sayadian, also known as
“Sayat Nova” (“King of Siam”) are magnificently captured in this visual
pastiche which is both a stylized biography and a tribute to his work.
Conceived as a complex series of painterly tableaux that recall Byzantine
mosaics, the film is divided into eight sections, which evoke the poet’s
childhood and youth, his days as a troubadour at the court of King
Heraclius II of Georgia, his retreat to a monastery, and his old age and
death. Comprising a series of symbolically rich, almost hallucinatory
scenes, this baroque masterpiece was banned in the Soviet Union for its
religious sentiment and nonconformity to “Socialist realism”. Paradjanov, a
tirelessly outspoken campaigner for human rights, was convicted on a number
of trumped-up charges and sentenced to five years of hard labor in the
gulag. A wave of protest from the international film community led to his
release in 1978.
“Paradjanov’s greatest film. […] The striking use of tableau-like frames
recalls the shallow space of movies made roughly a century ago, while the
gorgeous uses of color and the wild poetic conceits seem to derive from
some utopian cinema of the future, at once ‘difficult’ and immediate,
cryptic and ravishing.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Material Universe
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7pm MT,
Evans School, 1115 Acoma Street (use 11th Street entrance), 1st floor,
Denver, CO
*Material Universe 3*
An experimental film screening as part of the program FILMS & WORDS. This
event is free and open to the public.
Please join us for an evening of film & words, featuring both local and
NY-based artists. Matthew Klane of Albany will read from his poetry and
writing; & Kalpana Subramanian of Buffalo will screen her short films,
along with a selection of works by artists Erin Espelie, Anna Kipervaser,
Janie Geiser & Laura Kraning. This event also will feature the poetry &
translations of local writer Patrick Pethybridge. Some light refreshments
will be provided, but feel free to bring your own drinks or snacks. This
event is free and open to the public. I would encourage you to forward this
announcement to anyone who you think might be interested.
*A Free Inquiry Into Air* (Erin Espelie, 2021. 3 mins)
*Chameleon Law* (Janie Geiser, 2021/2022, 7:38 mins)
*de-composition* (Laura Kraning, 2023, 4 mins)
*How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather* (Anna Kipervaser, 2019, 7:29
mins)
*Incantation* (Kalpana Subramanian, 2021, 8:38 min)
FILMS & WORDS also features the poetry/writing of Matthew Klane (Albany,
NY) and Patrick Pethybridge (Denver, CO). For questions re: event please
contact joshua_ware at hotmail.com.
*THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Xcentric
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7pm GMT+2,
Xcentric: the CCCB cinema, Montalegre, 5 08001 Barcelona, Spain
*Xcentric: Fever Dreams*
The five filmmakers in this session conceive of cinema as a total medium
with which to awaken the senses. In this program, life and domestic rituals
or gestation periods progressively give way to the exploration of
sensuality and sexuality, the unconscious and desire or delirium and
trance. Sensory experiences lead here to the most ecstatic fantasies.
The domestic portrait, both familiar and hallucinated, of *A Trojan House* is
built on the relationship between architectural and emotional structures.
Sharon Couzin conceives the house as a living organism, a space for order,
protection and enclosure, but also as a weapon with which to conquer
creative terrain. For her part, through elusive and ambiguous transitions,
Chick Strand composes not so much the lyrical portrait of a person as that
of her consciousness. In *Mujer de Milfuegos* the repetitive daily tasks,
turned into liturgical obsessions, are interspersed with desire and
experiences of ecstasy and madness. The rituals of nature are also present
in *Trumpet Garden*, where an environmental portrait is outlined in the
superposition of visual and sound textures. Barbara Klutinis discovered an
analogy between the mysteries, joys and fears surrounding a garden and the
emotional diary of her pregnancy.
“They leave us alone, and it is we alone who see things and complete the
visions. It is with the image of the elasticity, the tenacity and the
majesty of the human mind that I have a true romance, wrote Chick Strand.
The portrait of the sexual fantasy of two women in *Fever Dream* rests on
their skin and their caresses. On her side, Coni Beeson, a pioneer in the
filming of explicit lesbian sex, also makes an erotic portrait activated by
touch. Through the accumulation of superimpositions, she creates a collage
of fragmented bodies with the sea, the hills and the forests in which she
fuses temporal rhythms in the sexual act. Lastly, *Women I Love*, A sensory
portrait of Barbara Hammer's friends and lovers from past lives, it is
conceived as a necklace: a fruit, flower or vegetable is attributed to the
quality of each woman to differentiate the different types of relationships
in form and content. Hammer breaks the relationship between subject and
object by including himself in this celebration of completeness, reminding
us in full tantric culmination of sustained sexuality that, at birth, we
touch before seeing: a butterfly has landed on the images of masturbation.
*A Trojan House*, Sharon Couzin, 1981, 16mm, 21';
*Mujer de Milfuegos*, Chick Strand, 1976, 16 mm, 15';
*Trumpet Garden*, Barbara Klutinis, 1983, 16mm, 10';
*Fever Dream*, Chick Strand, 1979, 16mm, 7';
*Holding*, Coni Beeson, 1971, 16mm, 13';
*Women I Love*, Barbara Hammer, 1976, 16mm, 22'
Projection in 16 mm. Copies of *Mujer de Milfuegos* and *Women I Love* from
Light Cone. Prints of *A Trojan House*, *Trumpet Garden*, *Fever Dream*,
and *Holding* coming from Canyon Cinema.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Counterpath
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6pm MDT,
Counterpath, 7935 E 14th Ave, Denver, CO
*Visions from Colorado Landscapes & Archives*
A two-part screening and talk on Stan Brakhage and the experimental film
legacy in Colorado. Part of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
conference and sponsored by CU Boulder’s Brakhage Center for Media Arts and
Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, featured work is by
Stan Brakhage, Hammer, Jeanne Liotta, Reed, Reeves, and Phil Solomon. The
event is free and open to the public. Taco truck starting at 5:30
*FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Shapeshifters Cinema
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8pm PT,
567 5th St, Oakland, CA
*Animated Shorts by Lydia Greer and Luca Dipierro*
Join us for this moving image feast featuring two west coast artists who
use puppets, non-linear narrative and stop motion animation to delight and
unsettle. East Bay artist Lydia Greer will show a selection of recent short
pieces, including two animated music videos—*Absentee* and *Unproud
Warrior*—both
made for singer-songwriter Cass McCombs and Anti- Records. She will also be
sharing excerpts from recent pieces made using puppets, props and
performing objects in collaboration with Facing West Shadows.
Portland-based artist Luca Dipierro, will present his latest film, *The
Cadence - A Tale of Paper and Cloth*, a 33-minute animation shot in stop
motion, using marionettes made with paper, bookcloth, and thread. Five
years in the making, *The Cadence* tells the story of a boy, lover of
silence, and the journey toward his own beginning. The program will also
include a selection of Dipierro’s short films made between 2012 and 2018
that dive into themes of loneliness, death and violence through the
playfulness and symbolic resonance of the puppet theater.
*SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*ARCHIVE FEVER1*
SAMUEL BECKETT + BUSTER KEATON's *FILM* + LIPMAN's *NOTFILM*
After many years in post-production, the Bay Area finally gets to see the
*kino*-essay that our LA archivist-ally Ross Lipman has fashioned and
about, Beckett’s only motion picture, *Film* (1965).OC screened the 20-min.
anomaly many years ago, though it dropped out of sight with the closure
of Barney Rossett’s Grove Press. But Lipman was on the trail, finding
out-takes, tracking down production crew members, interviewing family and
friends of the principals, and consulting historians and critics like Kevin
Brownlow and Leonard Maltin. The result is a fascinating feature-length
think-piece that rightfully situates *avant-garde* literature, theater, and
cinema within their 20C socio-historical contexts, and humanizes
risky 60s projects like this and others out of Rossett’s provocative
publishing bouse. Lipman's magnum opus is screened in two iterations, with
the original *Film* (and an intermission) between them.
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*April 15 - 16*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
No Name Cinema
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7pm MST,
No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe
*LIQUID FORM: water in experimental film*
Two days & two different programs of experimental films that incorporate,
are inspired by, or focus on water as material and subject. Featuring the
work of luminaries such as Barbara Hammer, David Gatten, Stan Brakhage,
Paul Sharits, Jacalyn White, and Will Hindle (all presented on 16mm!) - as
well as short films and videos by Ralph Steiner (1929), Charles Cadkin
(CHI), Luna Galassini (NM), Matt Feldman (London), Vanessa Renwick (PDX),
Justin Rhody (NM), Sam Drake (MKE) & JC Gonzo (NM).
* accompanying print program! * filmmakers in attendance! * presented on
16mm film! *
--- FULL PROGRAM (*not in order of appearance*) ---
Will Hindle - *Watersmith* (1969, 32 min) - 16mm
Barbara Hammer - *Pools* (1981, 6 min) - 16mm
Stan Brakhage - *Window Water Baby Moving* (1959, 12 mins) - 16mm
Paul Sharits - *S:Stream:S:S:ection:S:ection:S:S:ectioned* (1971, 42 mins)
- 16mm
Jacalyn White - *Badwater Next Right* (1982, 10 mins) - Super-8mm
David Gatten - *What the Water Said Nos 1-3* (1998, 16 mins) - 16mm
Ralph Steiner - *H20* (1929, 10:30 mins)
Luna Galassini - *Fire Sign* (2023, ~12 mins)
Vannesa Renwick - *Cold Holy Water* (2019, 5:20)
Matt Feldman - *Strange Phenomena* (2023, 8:52)
Sam Drake - *Test Objects* (2023, 9:09)
JC Gonzo - *Upstream (into America)* (2023, ~4 mins)
Justin Clifford Rhody - *El Rito* (2021, 7:41)
Charles Cadkin - *Pump* (2022, 4:42) - on 16mm
Charles Cadkin - *The Fall of Cannonsville* (2023, 21:26)
*SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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8pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: CAVALCANTI / CROCKWELL*
Alberto Cavalcanti
*RIEN QUE LES HEURES / NOTHING BUT THE HOURS* 1926, 52 min, 35mm
One of the very first “city symphonies,” this film interweaves documentary,
experimental, and narrative elements that together provide vivid images of
Paris in the mid-1920s. The Brazilian-born Cavalcanti was at the time a
central figure of the French avant-garde, but his fascinating career would
later find him making pioneering documentaries for John Grierson’s GPO Film
Unit in the UK in the 1930s, dramas, noirs, and musicals for Ealing Studios
throughout the 1940s, and finally a wide array of films in Brazil, East
Germany, France, and Israel in the years before his death in 1982.
Douglass Crockwell
*GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE* (1946, 8 min, 16mm)
*THE LONG BODIES* (1947, 6 min, 16mm)
Both films preserved by Anthology Film Archives.
“The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on various layers with
plastic paint, adding at times and removing at times, and to a certain
extent these early attempts were successful.” –Douglass Crockwell
Total running time: ca. 70 min.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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3:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: JOSEPH CORNELL*
Unless otherwise noted, all the films in this program are silent. With the
exception of *GNIR REDNOW*, all films have been preserved by Anthology Film
Archives.
*ROSE HOBART* (ca. 1936/68, 20 min, 16mm, sound)
*COTILLION* (ca. 1940s-1968, 8 min, 16mm, b&w. Completed by Larry Jordan.)
*THE MIDNIGHT PARTY* (ca. 1940s-1968, 3.5 min, 16mm, b&w. Completed by
Larry Jordan.)
*THE CHILDREN’S PARTY* (ca. 1940s-1968, 8 min, 16mm. Completed by Larry
Jordan.)
*CENTURIES OF JUNE* (1955, 10 min, 16mm. Photographed by Stan Brakhage.)
*THE AVIARY* (1954, 11 min, 16mm, b&w. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)
*GNIR REDNOW* (1955, 5 min, 16mm. Photographed by Stan Brakhage.)
*NYMPHLIGHT* (1957, 8 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)
*A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS* (1957/65, 17 min, 16mm, b&w. Photographed by Rudy
Burckhardt; completed by Larry Jordan.)
*ANGEL* (1957, 3 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)
“[*ROSE HOBART*] is a breathtaking example of the potential for
surrealistic imagery within a conventional Hollywood film once it is
liberated from its narrative causality. […] In Cornell’s later films – both
those photographed by Rudy Burckhardt, Stan Brakhage, and Larry Jordan and
the collage films which Jordan completed – Joseph Cornell describes the
marginal area where the conscious and the unconscious meet. These are films
which affirm a sustained present moment in which a quality of reminiscence
is implicated.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM
Total running time: ca. 105 min
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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6pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: CONNER / CONRAD*
Bruce Conner
*A MOVIE* (1958, 12 min, 16mm)
*COSMIC RAY* (1961, 4 min, 16mm)
*REPORT* (1965, 13 min, 16mm)
“Conner stands as a kind of twentieth century Peter Breughel. For like the
great Flemish master he distorts the visible world in order to penetrate a
reality of being rather than appearances; his vision is cosmic in breadth;
he deals with some of the most provocative issues, both artistic and
otherwise, of his time; and finally, with an evocative ambiguity and
painful irony he touches something which we sometimes call the human
experience.” –Carl I. Belz, FILM CULTURE
*COSMIC RAY* and *REPORT* have been preserved by Anthology through the
National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program
funded by The Film Foundation.
Tony Conrad
*THE FLICKER* (1966, 30 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology with funding
provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.)
“*THE FLICKER* is a tremendous harnessing of the raw power, the elemental
material of the cinematic medium – light itself – to transport the
spectator slowly at first, hardly perceptibly, then accelerating, through a
non-objective non-abstract world of sheer energy. Time becomes the
compelling pulse of white into black and back, space becomes the unbounded
expansion and contraction of force; the screen becomes a new sun, the
audience its creatures.” –Ken Kelman
Total running time: ca. 65 min
*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
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