[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: January 7 - 15, 2023

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*This Week [January 7 - 15, 2023] in Avant Garde Cinema*




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01.08.2023 BEK Residency
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01.09.2023 I-Park Residency
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01.12.2023 Onion City Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
01.15.2023 Video Art Miden
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01.16.2023 New Cinema Days
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01.31.2023 Laterale Film Festival
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01.31.2023 Crossroads
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02.01.2023 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
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02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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02.01.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival
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02.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
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02.03.2023 Coney Island Film Festival
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02.24.2023 Edinburgh Short Film Festival
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02.28.2023 Braziers International Film Festival
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03.01.2023 EXIS
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03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival
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03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
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03.01.2023 Found Footage Magazine
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03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*

This week's programs (summary):

   - Jonas Mekas 100!
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[November
   1, 2021-January 25, 2023, worldwide]
   - Refresh
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[March
   2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO]
   - Jonas Mekas: A Small Table, With A Bottle of Wine, Garlic, Sausage,
   Bread
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[Dec 8-Jan 21,
   New York, NY]
   - Soda Jerk: the Time That Remains
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[January
   6 - February 6, online]
   - Coloring Outside the Lines: Celebrate the Art That Is Life Shellie
   Fleming
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[January
   7, Montreal, QC, Canada]
   - Hand Made: Recent Films By Dicky Bahto
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[January
   8, Los Angeles, CA]
   - THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA
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[January
   9, online]
   - In Situ: Nayla Dabaji, Kim Kielhofner & Lyndsie Alguire
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[January
   11, Montreal, QC, Canada]
   - EC: Paul Sharits
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[January
   11, New York, NY]
   - VISIONS: Soda Jerk
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[January
   12, Montreal, QC, Canada]
   - EC: Harry Smith
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[January
   12, New York, NY]
   - EC: Harry Smith's Film No. 12 (Heaven and Earth Magic)
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[January
   12, New York, NY]
   - EC: Ron Rice / Jack Smith
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[January
   13, New York, NY]
   - Extended Nature: Feel Like A Plant
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[January
   14, Paris, France]
   - Sound & Cinema Performances By K/S/R + Wind Tide
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[January
   14, Santa Fe, NM]
   - SPACE//SPACE
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[January
   15, New York, NY]
   - Stan Brakhage On 8mm + 35mm
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[January
   15, New York, NY]
   - Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed
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[January
   15, online]
   - The Long Conversation
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   [ongoing, online]
   - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
   online]


*STARTING BEFORE JANUARY 7, 2023*

*November 1 - January 25, 2023*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Jonas Mekas 100!
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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 - 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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*December 8 - January 21*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Microscope Gallery
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12:00-6:00pm ET,
525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001
*Jonas Mekas: A small table, with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread*
“A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread,” a solo
exhibition of works by Jonas Mekas, opening on December 8 and taking place
in connection with 100th anniversary of his birth on December 24, 1922.

“A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread" features
Mekas’ final work *Requiem* (2019), an 84-minute video piece that, after
its debut as part of a live visual/orchestral performance at The Shed in
2019, is being exhibited for the first time in its final single-channel
video form. Additionally, the show includes a selection of the artist's
4-channel video installations, know as “quartets,” as well as
multi-projector 35mm slide, sound, and photographic installations made
between 2000 and 2018 — most of which have rarely, if ever, been presented
in the United States.

Associated events will also be taking place during the course of the
exhibit.

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*January 6 - February 6*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
VISIONS
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://visionsmtl.com/2023/soda-jerk-2/
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*SODA JERK: The Time That Remains*
2012 | digital | 12 mins

Dear J,

After you left the house this afternoon — we had both so much and so little
to say to each other, as if the objects around us contained our words and
we had to unlock them one by one, the way jewelery boxes of thought ready
to bring forth their miniature dancer—I was seized with a sudden melancholy
(for lack of a better word to describe the calm nervous breakdown that
gripped me). The prospect of seeing you again terrified me. Because after
all that we have shared, made shine, passionately sabotaged, in short,
after all that we have lived leaning against each other, and here we are
catapulted out of ourselves and yet perhaps more than ever in- inside of
us, something was said in me without formulating it clearly that we would
inevitably miss this reunion imposed by others. Did I just want to see you
again? You must have grimaced when M. proposed this meeting to you.

The prospect of seeing you again terrified me, I was just telling you, and
this manifested itself in the dreams of the previous night, dreams during
which frayed images formed an atmosphere where you were going, alternately
shimmering and shimmering. Who were you, who was I, these images asked, who
were we to each other, to each other, what was the distance that was
intrinsically part of our relationship, this intimacy- there, this
detestation of love, this hinge, this fold through which we articulated
ourselves on both sides of closed doors and our broken lives at the work of
appearing without common measure?

So you were there and not quite there. You were beautiful and then I
watched you being beautiful and you yourself watching me, only I was
elsewhere than within beauty, elsewhere than beautiful yes, that I knew,
from the now familiar sensation of my more more porous and to the
ever-surprised vision of my own weathered face, no longer belonging to
myself and yet welcoming all the strata of this I no longer am and then am
by the desiring force of oblivion. And the dream, made of an image of a
ball, of a marvelous dress, of curly hair falling in a cascade, image of
you archaic and new, image of a waltz by Chopin, of a sea evoking the
density of a psalm, conveyed a traversed and traversing duration, an idea
of you and of me. From my dream emanated the affinity emerging from the
vitality of our antagonism, I cannot tell you exactly how, since they were
only old images projected by the mind which sleeps and fears the next day,
but yes the affinity and split were expressed in the same way, like a
wavering, a given meaning, the indifference of the setting sun.

In the morning, I got up as if accomplished in a train station. After all
these years, you would soon be here, as we began our disappearance and this
disappearance became the new surface, the new support of our being. I was
about to welcome you into this detachment, into this impalpable transit
where I felt you, still erotic and hot with anger, I was about to see you
and say hello to you ironically.

You were there, in front of me, with your make-up that fools no one, your
buried beauty, your sulky lips but worked at the same time by a subtle
smile with an impossible to define spring. We disdainfully drank tea with
these people who framed us and this pan of fatalism hanging on your blink,
hanging on the closing of your incredibly long eyelids behind which I knew
you knew all the material of our battles against the world.

This afternoon, you were once again this other against whom I sought
headlong to define myself and impose an image, this creature to swallow, to
engulf like food. We pretty much said the things they expected, those
barking dogs. And that was suddenly all. The door, with its people, your
presence, its uproar, has closed. You were well and truly gone this time.
And I immediately noticed a flicker, at the source of the intranquility
that makes me take paper and pencil.

I write to you as to myself, to this other that I have become, similar to
what you have always been in the hollow of my angular heart and who lives a
little through your own memories whose exact content I do not know, but
within which I know I exist. I am writing to you through various accents,
through the ages that we have had, alone and together, and from this
station from where I would like to wish you good continuation, good
disappearance, dear... wish you a beautiful death like sea, a beautiful
death like your eyebrows.

Friendships,
B.

*SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
la lumière collective
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7:30pm ET,
la lumiere collective, 7080 Alexandra Street, #506, Montreal, QC
*Coloring outside the lines: celebrate the art that is life, with Shellie
Fleming*
Filmmaker and artist Shellie Fleming has moved hundreds of people with her
works that reflect her intelligence and great generosity. Following her
death in December 2012, Shellie bequeathed us not only an impressive legacy
of films, books, photographs, street art and installations, but she also
influenced a generation of young artists who knew how to flourish. thanks
to his advice.

To celebrate Shellie's life and influence, as well as to mark 10 years
since her death, we present a program that brings together four of her most
important films. They are deeply personal works, charged with a quiet
intensity and sensual beauty, both attentive and incisive, like Shellie
herself: *Left-Handed Memories* (1989), *Private Property (public domain)*
 (1991), *Devotio Moderna* (1993) and *Life/Expectancy* (1999). Being a
private person by nature, the four films of the filmmaker have rarely been
presented to the general public. Her works consist of a form of teaching –
and she will have taught until the end of her days.

The films will be accompanied by works and short dedications made for
Shellie by her friends and her students from all over the world. Together,
we warmly welcome you to this very special event in order to start the year
2023 in the image of Shellie.

*Left-Handed Memories* | 1989 | 15 mins
*Private Property (public domain)* | 1991 | 12 mins
*Devotio Moderna* | 1993 | 10 mins
*Life/Expectancy* | 1999 | 30 mins

*SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Los Angeles Filmforum
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7:30 PM PST,
2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
*HAND MADE: Recent Films by Dicky Bahto*
Artist, curator, and educator Dicky Bahto is not only widely known for his
extensive practice in photography, film, installation, performance, and his
numerous collaborations with luminaries of experimental music, but also as
an educator and curator who has inspired and influenced many years of
students and audiences alike with his profound appreciation and passion for
the time-based arts and beyond.  His varied and complex engagement with
moving image and photographic media is steeped in a deeply felt humanity
and empathy, manifesting through his inspired photographic eye and
frequently direct interaction with and appreciation of the material
vitality of film and cinema.  His films achieve heightened emotional states
of great intimacy and poetry, often channeling the uniquely aleatory
qualities of film to carry a sensuality and spirituality hovering in the
space between loving depiction and vaporous abstraction.

Filmforum is thrilled to showcase the work of its longtime friend and
periodic collaborator, as we present a program of recent work by Dicky
Bahto, including pieces made in collaboration with musicians Sarah Davachi
and Raum (Liz Harris + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma).  The evening will conclude
with a new expanded cinema collaboration with Tashi Wada.

PROGRAM:
*Alas, Departing* (2022) music by Sarah Davachi, 7.5 minutes
*Tout par compas suy composés* (2022) silent, 10m
* six pages from a diary* (2021) sound, 13.5 minutes
*Sunlight crying* (2022) music by Raum, 7.5 minutes
*A play in black & white (for baba)* (2022) shown as silent, 17.5 minutes

The program concludes with a new expanded cinema collaboration with Tashi
Wada total

TRT approx 75min. Notes and program by Mark Toscano.  Thanks to Dicky Bahto
and Tashi Wada.

*MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2023* *January 9 - 30*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Media City Film Festival
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/thousandsuns-cinema/
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*THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA*
60+ FILMS BY INDIGENOUS ARTISTS FROM TURTLE ISLAND AND AROUND THE WORLD,
PRESENTED WITH COUSIN COLLECTIVE

THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA animates aspects of Media City Film Festival’s
long-storied program history online. Featuring selections from hundreds of
artists showcased by MCFF over its twenty-five year history, THOUSANDSUNS
presents short and feature-length films, previous MCFF commissions,
fellowship screenings, retrospectives, and other cinematic endeavours
connected with our activities since 1994. Moving image artworks exhibited
in THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA will screen for a limited time. Conceived as a
working space, THOUSANDSUNS will also function as an ever-growing online
index, cataloguing artists operating in avant-garde film circles
internationally. As MCFF works to migrate its immense history of previously
screened filmmakers online, new artists will also be invited to exhibit
their work.

*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
la lumière collective
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7pm ET,
7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5
*IN SITU: Nayla Dabaji, Kim Kielhofner & Lyndsie Alguire*
Proposed by la lumière collective, IN SITU is a series that focuses on
unique audiovisual works and live sound performances by local artists
passionate about cinematic material, experimental moving images and sound
art.

Films selected by the curator Nicole Gingras.

*Boomerang* | Nayla Dabaji | 2019 | video | 6 mins 52 secs
A seaside stroll brings back the memory of a conversation with a friend, at
dawn, in the mountains. Images and events come back to me, delayed and
trapped behind the screen of a news broadcast.

*Migrer le musée* | Nayla Dabaji | 2021 | HD | 14 mins
A stroll/reverie in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts becomes a pretext for
reflection on a nameless new era. An artist is asleep at her desk,
surrounded by her tools. Birds, drawings, landscapes and artworks from the
museum’s collection migrate through stories, close and afar, in an attempt
to reconcile her with her senses. A video piece created during the artist
residency Empreintes at the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal in 2020; a
residency organized and supported by the Museum and by the Conseil des arts
de Montréal.

LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE BY LYNDSIE ALGUIRE | 20 mins

*Madonna Swimming* | Kim Kielhofner | 2007 | HD | 2 mins 39 secs
Madonna Swimming is a video work created from footage of Madonna’s music
videos, Madonna is a cultural figure of excess, her iconography
appropriated from a saturated visual culture. This video collects the
leaking Madonna, her images of sexuality and religion, and ultimately
presents a more ambiguous product.

*Rehearsal *| Kim Kielhofner | 2013 | HD | 2 mins 36 secs
Collected from the interviews of Meryl Streep, Rehearsal is an act of
remembering and performance.

*Anna *| Kim Kielhofner | 2017 | HD | 5 mins 17 secs
Anna presents a layered narrative through archival images and re-enactments.

+ A SURPRISE FILM BY KIM KIELHOFNER

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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8:45pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: Paul Sharits*

*S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED*
1968-70, 41 min, 16mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives.
“Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive scratchings of the
stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete
organism with all the possible levels really recognized.” –Michael Snow

*COLOR SOUND FRAMES*
1974, 26 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.
“A film in which Sharits sums up his researches in the area of film strip
(in opposition to the individual frames). The film strips move horizontally
and vertically; two strips move simultaneously in opposite directions;
variations in color; action of sprocket-holes. Very methodically and
scientifically he covers the area. […] *COLOR SOUND FRAMES* advances one
area of cinema or one area of researches in cinema (call it art if you
wish) to a new climax, to a new peak: his exploration is so total, so
perfect.” –Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE

Total running time: ca. 70 min.

*THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
VISIONS
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7 pm ET,
7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5
*VISIONS: SODA JERK*
VISIONS, in collaboration with Fabrique Monde and Film POP, presents *TERROR
NULLIUS* by Soda Jerk.

*TERROR_NULLIUS *| 2018 | digital | coulor | sound | 54 mins
Part political satire, eco-horror and road movie, *TERROR NULLIUS* is a
political revenge fable constructed entirely from samples pirated from the
Australian cinema cannon. Binding together a documentary impulse with
speculative fictions, Soda Jerk’s feature remix offers an incendiary
un-writing of Australian national mythologies.The apocalyptic desert camps
of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee detention, flesh-eating sheep are
recast as anti-colonial insurgents and the women of Australian cinema go
vigilante on Mel Gibson. Funded by the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission
in 2016, *TERROR NULLIUS* was disowned by the organisation just days prior
to the film’s premiere in 2018. Offended by its politics, the Ian Potter’s
Board of Trustees described the work as “a very controversial piece of art”
and “unAustralian”. The Guardian named the “dizzyingly ambitious satirical
work” one of the best Australian films of the decade.

BIOGRAPHY:
Soda Jerk is an artist duo who make sample-based experimental films with a
rogue documentary impulse. They are fundamentally interested in the
politics of images; how they circulate, whom they benefit and how they can
be undone. Formed in Sydney in 2002, they’ve been based in New York since
2012. They were founders of the Australian chapter of the anti-copyright
initiative Missionary Church of Kopimism and have collaborated on projects
with the cyberfeminist art collective VNX Matrix and electronic music group
The Avalanches. Soda Jerk’s new feature *Hello Dankness* (2022) is a
suburban stoner musical that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of
American politics from 2016 to 2021. It follows their controversial
political revenge fable *TERROR NULLIUS* (2018)

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: HARRY SMITH*

*FILM NOS. 1-5, 7, 10 (EARLY ABSTRACTIONS)* (ca. 1946-57, 23 min,
16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation
with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.)

*FILM NO. 11 (MIRROR ANIMATIONS)* (ca. 1957, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives.)

*FILM NO. 14 (LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS)* (1964, 28 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored
by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by
the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.)

“My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: – batiked animations made
directly on film between 1939 and 1946; optically printed non-objective
studies composed around 1950; semi-realistic animated collages made as part
of my alchemical labors of 1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed
photographs of actualities formed since the latter year. All these works
have been organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking
beats of the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should
be observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works,
works that will forever abide – they made me gray.” –Harry Smith

Total running time: ca. 60 min.

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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8:45pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: Harry Smith's FILM NO. 12 (HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC)*
ca. 1957-62, 66 min, 16mm, b&w
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film
Preservation Foundation and Cineric, Inc.

“*NO. 12* can be seen as one moment – certainly the most elaborately
crafted moment – of the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith’s life
work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest and
most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema. Its elaborately
constructed soundtrack in which the sounds of various figures are
systematically displaced onto other images reflects Smith’s abiding concern
with auditory effects.” –P. Adams Sitney

*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: RON RICE / JACK SMITH*

*SCOTCH TAPE *Jack Smith (1962, 3 min, 16mm)
A junkyard musical.

*FLAMING CREATURES *Jack Smith (1963, 45 min, 16mm, b&w)
“[Smith] graced the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic
and rhythmic power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for
the first time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely
lacking in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the
restraint of all previous filmmakers.” –FILM CULTURE

*CHUMLUM* Ron Rice (1964, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. With Jack Smith, Beverly
Grant, Mario Montez, Joel Markman, Frances Francine, Guy Henson, Barry
Titus, Zelda Nelson, Gerard Malanga, Barbara Rubin, and Frances Stillman.
Music by Angus MacLise. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film
Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.)
“A hallucinatory micro-epic filmed during lulls in the production of
Smith’s *NORMAL LOVE* and one of the great ‘heroic doses’ of ’60s
underground cinema, a movie so sumptuously and serenely psychedelic it
appears to have been printed entirely on gauze.” –Chuck Stephens, CINEMA
SCOPE

Total running time: ca. 75 min

*SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Lightcone
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3pm GMT+1,
National Museum of Natural History, Auditorium of the Grande Galerie de
l'Évolution - 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris, France
*EXTENDED NATURE: FEEL LIKE A PLANT*
While our time is marked by the extent of human actions on the rest of the
living (the Anthropocene), filmmakers engage in ecological practices that
lead to a decentering of the privilege attributed to humans. Experimental
filmmakers work to broaden our view of nature and their films gradually
realize non-human perceptions: an "animal seeing", from the knowing gaze of
a pet cat to the multifaceted eye of a bee, a " vegetal smell", from the
photosynthesis of the dandelion to the delicacy of a Mimosa pudica.

These experimental films, whose production requires ingenuity and poetry,
invite you to discover new perceptual senses in animals or plants, to
marvel, to reconnect with other forms of life while participating in
philosophical and scientific research. contemporary on these issues. The
production methods of these films are the terrain of a political ecology
thanks to artisanal alternatives to productivism, groupings in
eco-responsible collectives and an exploration of processes on film support
such as “phytography” or “eco-development”.

This cycle accompanies the publication of the collective work *Expanded
Nature - Ecologies of Experimental Cinema* under the direction of Elio
Della Noce and Lucas Murari at Light Cone Editions.


FEEL LIKE A PLANT
In the presence of Elio Della Noce and Emmanuel Lefrant.

For this third and final session, the gaze leaves the animal world for a
while to turn to the sentience of plants. From the seed, the petiole, the
petals and the leaves, how do the filmmakers disseminate this “plant
intelligence” which is embodied in a variety of perceptual senses? For
this, experimental cinema offers surprising correspondences between the
biochemical processes of plants and the technical processes of film on
silver support. From the photosynthesis of a leaf to the "phytogram" that
prints it negative on celluloid, from "herbarium collages" to the
techniques of in-camera animation of "cinematic bouquets", from
"photograms" of petals with photosynthetic properties which preside over
the perception of their color.

*GESTURES TOWARD PLANT VISION* by Sarah ABBOTT / 2021 / HD / color / sound
/ 10' 09
*FLOWERS #1* by Alexander GRANGER & Philip HOFFMAN / 2022 / HD / color /
silent / 3' 06
*GRAND PARK-PHOTOSYNTHESIS* by Robbie LAND / 2017 / HD / color / silent /
7' 00
*PHSYCHÈ TROPHIKÈ* by Bruno VARELA / 2020 / HD / b&w / sound / 2' 15
*PURKYNE'S DUSK* by Helena GOUVEIA MONTEIRO / 2020-2021 / HD / color-b&w /
silent / 9' 09
*THE PUDIC RELATION BETWEEN MACHINE AND PLANT* by Pedro NEVES MARQUEZ /
2016 / HD / color / sound / 2' 30
*LICHEN* by Lisa JACKSON / 2019 / HD / color / sound / 12' 00
*BOTANICOLLAGE ON FRISCO BAY* by Caryn CLINE / 2017 / HD / color / sound /
3' 46
*THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS* by Stan BRAKHAGE / 1981 / 16mm / color /
silent / 1' 50
*GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN* by Marie MENKEN / 1957 / 16mm / color / sound / 4'
00
*TRACK MOSS BYPASS* by Miles MCKANE / 1987 / 16mm / color / silent / 7' 00
*LES POPPIES* by Rose LOWDER / 2000 / 16mm / color / silent / 2' 30
*A PERFECT STORM* by Karel DOING / 2022 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / 3' 00

Free admission within the limit of available places (reservations
recommended
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Doors open: 2:45 p.m

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
No Name Cinema
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7pm MST,
No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM
*Sound & Cinema performances by K/S/R + Wind Tide*
All new works for hand painted & found footage 16mm projections with live
improvised sound - along with the premiere of a collaborative handmade 16mm
film created through the mail by all 5 performers using dirt & food.
Release show for the new K/S/R + Wind Tide split cassette!

And a winter clothing drive for the local harm reduction shelter (bring
winter clothing to donate)

$5 - $15 suggested donation
Free Popcorn, books + VHS
BYO snacks + drinks

*SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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1:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*SPACE//SPACE*
by Alex Harvey & Banana Bag & Bodice
2022, 72 min, digital

SPECIAL SCREENING! FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!

It’s been ten years since Banana Bag & Bodice’s beloved experimental
production *SPACE//SPACE* made waves in the New York theater scene (“*WAITING
FOR GODOT* in space”, raved the New York Times). Now the married
performance artist duo who created that infamous work are squeezed into the
first wave of pandemic lockdown: alone in their attic, they rehash their
claustrophobic container tale of two brothers stuck in a space capsule –
but this time performing for a bank of empty seats. The play, and their
relationship with their eight-year-old son, Zoom-schooling in the house
below, merge into a semi-permeable dream about marriage, parenting,
performance, and the elasticity of time in the age of Coronavirus.

*SPACE//SPACE* is a hybrid cinematic collaboration between writer/director
Alex Harvey and Banana Bag & Bodice (aka Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe).
A hall of narrative mirrors that keeps revealing and then hiding its
subjects behind continually crumbling fourth walls, the film ponders the
nature of relationships in isolation and the ways in which families perform
for each other – and fail to perform for each other. Ultimately a grief cry
made by artists and lovers, *SPACE//SPACE* laments an era where aliveness
and physical connection are endangered species.

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*STAN BRAKHAGE ON 8MM + 35MM*
To celebrate the publication of a new book on the films of Stan Brakhage by
esteemed scholar Fred Camper – and on the occasion of a visit to NYC from
Camper himself – we present a very special program focusing on the
relatively rare instances in Brakhage’s filmography in which he departed
from the 16mm film gauge. The program will feature a selection of works
drawn from his 8mm SONG cycle, as well as all the 35mm Brakhage films that
are currently in circulation, with all films screening on their intended
formats.

To be released on January 14 – which marks the 90th anniversary of
Brakhage’s birth – “Seeking Brakhage” (2023, Eyewash Books) encompasses
five decades worth of Camper’s writing on the filmmaker, and features an
introduction by P. Adams Sitney. For more info visit:
www.eyewashbooks.com/camper

“Truth to materials’ is a statement that, though less fashionable today, I
still think informs some of the best art. The artist, it argues, should use
media in ways that acknowledge their natures. Brakhage’s films are replete
with momentary illusions, but the emphasis is on ‘momentary’; they do not
seek to lose the viewer in substitute worlds, as his ‘worlds’ are
constantly changing. It is natural, too, that his films vary according to
the materials with which they are made, the acknowledgement of which
reflects a fundamental honesty.

“The majority of Brakhage’s work was created on 16mm film. But he also
worked with three types of 8mm: standard 8mm, Super-8, and also briefly in
Polavision, a short-lived format which used a unique type of 8mm film
instantly processed in its cartridges. Additionally, he hand-painted on
35mm film (as well as 70mm, reduced to 35mm in printing). This program
presents a selection of his standard 8mm SONGS, as well as all of his 35mm
films (with the exception of two that are not currently available on 35mm).

“The differences between the two gauges, particularly when the films are
shown in their original formats, is vast. Brakhage used the size of 35mm to
create hand-painted images with a detail not possible in the smaller
formats, as in *INTERPOLATIONS* for instance, which offers forest-like
densities in which the viewer can feel lost. He used 8mm more as a highly
developed sketch book, in which often lush yet fragile illusions
momentarily coalesce out of evanescent imagery, yet with thought-provoking
moments that, among other things, may refer in varied and complex ways to
their own making.” –Fred Camper

We’ll also take advantage of Camper’s presence in NYC to highlight the
little-known but fascinating 16mm films he made himself, all of which have
been newly restored (only on 16mm) by the Chicago Film Society.

All the films in this program are silent.

8mm:
*SONG 1* 1964, 4 min, 8mm
*SONG 2* 1964, 2 min, 8mm
*SONG 3* 1964, 3 min, 8mm
*SONG 6* 1964, 2 min, 8mm
*SONG 7* 1964, 2.5 min, 8mm
*SONG 13* 1965, 3 min, 8mm
*SONG 21* 1965, 5 min, 8mm
*SONG 22* 1965, 3 min, 8mm

35mm:
*EYE MYTH* 1967, 9 sec, 35mm
*THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS* 1981, 1.5 min, 35mm
*NIGHTMUSIC* 1986, 30 sec, 35mm
*THE DANTE QUARTET* 1987, 6 min, 35mm
*RAGE NET* 1988, 1 min, 35mm
*INTERPOLATIONS 1-5* 1992, 12 min, 35mm
*NIGHT MULCH* 2001, 2 min, 35mm
*VERY* 2001, 4 min, 35mm
*CHINESE SERIES* 2003, 2.5 min, 35mm

Total running time (with pauses and discussion): ca. 105 min

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
GearWax
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6pm-8pm PT,
*GEARWAX: OLD VINYL, REPURPOSED*
A bi-weekly online radio program featuring old LPs, 45rpm and 78rpm
records. Hosted by Kathleen and Scott from San Francisco. Every other
Sunday, 6-8pm PT!

*ONGOING*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Riverwest Radio
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streaming 24/7
*THE LONG CONVERSATION*
THE LONG CONVERSATION with Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber is on indefinite
hold. But... all episodes from the last year and a half are streaming!!!

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
6x6 Project
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streaming 24/7
*Artists' Moving Image Works*
6x6 project is an online artists' community that serves as a platform for
disseminating artists' moving image works, and to create
an ever-growing network among peers.

There are now more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works
available to view on the website.









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