[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: April 15 - 23, 2023
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*This Week [April 15 - 23, 2023] in Avant Garde Cinema*
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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)
04.30.2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival
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(Late Deadline)
05.12.2023 Buffalo Int’l Film Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
05.12.2023 New Orleans Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
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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(Extended Deadline)
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]
- ARCHIVE FEVER1
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[April
15, San Francisco, CA]
- VASTLAB: VLX4 Touring Program
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[April
15, Chicago, IL]
- Liquid Form: Water In Experimental Film
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[April
15-16, Santa Fe, NM]
- New Films On Re:Voir Online
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[April
15-22, online]
- 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]
- Jodie Mack And Alan Berliner [April 17, Durham, NC]
- Tamarisk W/Eric Theise + Ghost Dance + Normal Rituals
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[April
17, Milwaukee, WI]
- John Szwed's “Cosmic Scholar: The Life And Times of Harry Smith”
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[April
18, New York, NY]
- Flamingo Film Festival X (2023)
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[April
22, Ft. Lauderdale, FL]
- War Refugees
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[April
22, San Francisco, CA]
- Disrupted By The Hand: Nazli Dinçel Program 1 & 2
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[April
22, New York, NY]
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
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[April
22, New York, NY]
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
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[April
22, New York, NY]
- The Margins of Dream Language: Contemp Korean Female Experimental
Filmmakers
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[April
23, LA, CA]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE APRIL 15, 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.
*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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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Chicago Filmmakers
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7:00PM Central,
1326 W Hollywood Avenue, Chicago, IL
*VASTLAB: VLX4 TOURING PROGRAM*
Chicago Filmmakers hosts VASTLAB's VLX4 Tour date in Chicago, April 15 at
7PM Central. Combining underground cinema and music scenes through
inventive modes of exhibition and collaboration, Vast Lab redefines the
contours of art spaces and experiences. A trip is always guaranteed.
Featuring work by: Josh Weissbach, Ben Balcom, Hüseyin Mert Everdi,
Brendamaris Rodriguez, Steven Woloshen, Tracy Miller-Robbins, John Muse,
Qianwen Hu, and many more... including a live performance by Toby
Kaufmann-Buhler.
Chicago Filmmakers, celebrating its 50th year anniversary, is co-presenting
with VASTLAB, a volunteer-run collective that brings artists and audiences
together through visual, audio, story, and technology arts.
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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)
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*April 15 - 22*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Re:Voir
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12pm, Event URL: http://re-voir.com/
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*NEW FILMS ON RE:VOIR ONLINE*
Every week we add four new films to the Re:Voir Online streaming platform.
* New films this week:
- Vivian Ostrovsky: *Wherever Was Never There* (2009, 6 mins.)
- Peter Rose: *Omen* (2001, 10.5 mins.)
- Peter Rose: *Babel* (1987, 17 mins.)
- Peter Rose: *Spirit Matters* (1984, 6 mins)
* The ReVoir Online app is free to download and free for the first 30 days,
free to watch clips and trailers. Subscription 8€/month to watch all films.
Currently over 500 films available.
*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
*MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
*Duke University Experimental Film Society*
7pm ET,
Duke University, Classroom Building, Screening Room 103, Durham, NC
*Jodie Mack and Alan Berliner*
Screening two films on 16mm as part of our series *Scenes from America*
*Dusty Stacks of Mom* (Jodie Mack, 2013, 41 minutes)
*The Family Album* (Alan Berliner, 1988, 60 min)
"Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the
rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of
a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business; the changing role
of physical objects and virtual data in commerce; and the division (or lack
of) between abstraction in fine art and psychedelic kitsch. Using alternate
lyrics as voice over narration, [*Dusty Stacks of Mom*] adopts the form of
a popular rock album reinterpreted as a cine-performance." – Jodie Mack
"Structured from birth to death, *The Family Album* is a collage film that
weaves its elements into a composite lifetime, passing through the
celebration and struggles from childhood to adulthood, from innocence to
experience. It is a universal yet intimate portrait of American family
life, not scripted, not rehearsed, not immune to conflicts and
contradictions underlying family life and its rituals." – J. Hoberman
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts
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8p Central,
926 E Center St, Milwaukee, WI
*Tamarisk w/Eric Theise + Ghost Dance + Normal Rituals*
Tamarisk will be passing through Milwaukee on tour via Texas/North Carolina
and make deep, enveloping, freely improvised music. San Francisco-based
performance cartographer Eric Theise will be collaborating on visuals.
Support from Ghost Dance (indigenous power electronics from Michigan) and
Normal Rituals (noise / free improv from Milwaukee).
Tamarisk's new tape is available here:
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More on Eric Theise's A Synesthete's Atlas project at:
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Ghost Dance:
https://ghostdancenoise.bandcamp.com/album/indian-babies-how-to-keep-them-well
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Normal Rituals: https://normalrituals.bandcamp.com/album/double-gesture
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8:00pm sharp / $10 NOTALOF / all-ages
*TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*JOHN SZWED’S “COSMIC SCHOLAR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HARRY SMITH”*
For the last four years John Szwed has been tracing the life of Harry
Smith, a man who’s been called many things: polymath, autodidact, genius,
but also a bum and an art mooch who never had a job. Smith was a witness
and a player in a period that began in the 1940s, unfolded in the ’50s, and
exploded in the ’60s, and that brought about major revolutions in the arts,
the social sciences, and in society itself. He closely observed and then
ignored the lines between the low and high arts, the folk and the fine, the
commonplace and the esoteric, and by consistently moving across these
artistic registers in his work he was able to see not just the cultural but
the aesthetic value of otherwise ignored arts, suspecting or knowing, all
the while, that everything in the world is connected. For this special
event, Szwed will be here in person to speak of that search and the writing
of Smith’s biography, “Cosmic Scholar”, focusing on his painting, film, and
music work to see how an underground scholar changed the world in no small
measure.
For more info about “Cosmic Scholar”, which will be published in August
2023, visit: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374282240/cosmic-scholar
*SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Flamingo Film Festival
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10 AM (ET),
Florida Atlantic University, 111 East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL
*Flamingo Film Festival X (2023)*
The Flamingo Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting international short
films produced by student filmmakers. For the past nine installments, this
event, held in sunny South Florida, has honored outstanding dramatic,
documentary, experimental, music video, and animated projects created by
students while enrolled in a college, university, or other post-secondary
institution. It's the goal of the festival to encourage student creativity
and recognize achievements in film and video. This year’s in-person event
is scheduled to start at 10 AM (ET), Saturday, April 22, 2023, at FAU's
MetroLab in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Parking is available around the
campus. The event is FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*WAR REFUGEES*
THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING + SACHS' ALL ELSE FAILED
A book release evening that focuses on the victims of war and those who
struggle to provide humanitarian care. Dana Sachs is an old neighbor of
ours, who has published some half-dozen books, and we are honored that we
can launch this brand new one with her in person! Her brief reading/Q&A is
followed by Elabdi/Graversen's *Ghosts of Moria*, a finely made doc on a
burnt down Syrian refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Though the
hour-plus anchor of the show is the Bay Area debut of Bianca Stigter's *Three
Minutes*, an utterly astonishing filmic achievement---almost a
materialistic approach to the medium that stretches out the duration of a
single 100' roll of 16mm to a wide and deep history, tracing back very many
individual human stories. A whole world is revealed through interviews,
narration, music, and jaw-dropping post-production---an entire milieu that
was surely no more within a year of the 1938 filming. Steve
McQueen and Helena Bonham Carter were among the principals who oversaw the
“deconstruction” of this home movie, shot by a Polish-American tourist
visiting relatives in East Europe, just before hostilities broke out. Some
3000 of the town's inhabitants were Jewish, and only six survived the War.
$8-100, benefiting Dana's *Humanity Now*.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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see below,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*DISRUPTED BY THE HAND: NAZLI DINÇEL PROGRAM 1 & 2*
--- Program 1 - 3:45pm ET ---
“Disrupted by the Hand: Program 1” is a deep dive into the hypnotic filmic
disruptions of Nazlı Dinçel. *BETWEEN RELATING AND USE* uses laser-engraved
on-screen text to question the internal ethnographic desire to look inward,
while *THE SHAPE OF SURFACE* disembodies limbs amid the historic ruins of
Aphrodite’s city. What is revealed and not revealed are probed via intimacy
and patriarchy (*HER SILENT SEAMING*) and equally exposed in
*UNTITLED*. *INSTRUCTIONS
ON HOW TO MAKE A FILM* is exactly what you think it is, plus farming.
The second program of Dinçel’s work weaves together their three *SOLITARY
ACTS* (which each explore the masturbatory impulse and the relationship of
genital to hand), with *HANDS:OXES*, a gestural, textural embrace of song
and skin, and *LEAFLESS*, a treatise on body and landscape and the
landscape of a body. Concluding the program, *INABILITY* demonstrates that
bodies, like materials, will inevitably fail us.
Following both programs, Nazlı Dinçel will be joined in conversation by
curator Angelo Madsen Minax!
*BETWEEN RELATING AND USE* 2018, 9 min, 16mm
*SHAPE OF SURFACE* 2017, 9 min, 16mm
*HER SILENT SEAMING* 2014, 11 min, 16mm
*UNTITLED* 2016, 12 min, digital
*INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE A FILM* 2018, 13 min, 16mm
Total running time: ca. 60 min (plus Q&A).
--- Program 2 - 6:30pm ET ---
*SOLITARY ACTS 4* 2015, 8 min, 16mm
*HANDS:OXES* 2017, 1 min, 16mm
*SOLITARY ACTS 5* 2015, 6 min, 16mm
*LEAFLESS* 2011, 8 min, 16mm
*SOLITARY ACTS 6* 2015, 11 min,16mm
*INABILITY* 2016, 4 min, 16mm, silent
Total running time: ca. 45 min (plus Q&A).
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE*
by William Greaves, 1968, 75 min, 35mm
In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid, the pioneering William
Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park,
leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. A
couple enacts a breakup scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a
crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project
defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture
landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever
made about making movies.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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9pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 2½*
by William Greaves, 2005, 99 min, digital
The “sequel” to *SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM* sees *TAKE ONE* actors Audrey
Henningham and Shannon Baker reunited in a more personal, metatheatrical
exploration of the effects of the passage of time on technology, the
artistic process, and relationships – real and fabricated.
*SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Filmforum
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1pm PT,
2220 W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057
*The Margins of Dream Language: Contemporary Korean Female Experimental
Filmmakers*
When image and language are paired together, written and spoken words can
reposition the image’s hierarchical role and create an opportunity for a
new point of view. In this program, Korean female filmmakers use text
itself as a material—either directly burned into the film or inserted as
voice over—to push cinema towards a radical location or realm, engaging
with an expansive legacy of colonial power dynamics. With the understanding
that translated language with subtitles always creates a gap, this series
welcomes and engages with it as an act of defiance, insisting on opacity
and being unexplainable.
The selected films are in subtle unity as they repurpose the dominant
language and reclaim it to propel the discourse on diasporic identity. Yet
each filmmaker also asks audiences to recognize her unique directionality
and experiences consciously. These films have either directly or loosely
emerged from themes of Korean female identity, but they also propose
divergent responses to militarism, homogeneity, patriarchy, immigration
issues, etc. Eventually, they invite audiences to build bridges between
poetic dream, politics, and the decolonial gaze.
This screening, curated by Seokyoung Yang, includes works by Eugene Mayu
Kim, Heehyun Choi, Woojin Kim, Onyou Oh, and Boyoon Choi, an essay by Jae
Min Lee. It will be followed by a conversation between curator Seokyoung
Yang and writer Jae Min Lee.
*Rei, Daddy, Liberty* By Eugene Mayu Kim, 2021, HD, 15 min.
*This Isn’t What It Appears* By Heehyun Choi, 2022, Super 8 to HD, 19 min.
*Korean Dictation Test You Will Have to Answer Questions You Hear *By
Woojin Kim, 2019, Single Channel Video, 7 min.
*Whispers in the Water* By Onyou Oh, 2020, 16mm to digital, 9 min.
*How to Be an Expressive Artist* By Boyoon Choi, 2021, HD, 26 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
*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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