[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: January 1 - 8, 2023
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01.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival
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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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01.31.2022 Laterale Film Festival
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(Fourth Deadline)
02.01.2023 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
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02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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(Early Deadline)
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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(Late Deadline)
02.28.2023 Braziers International Film Festival
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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]
- Films From Iran For Iran
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[December
5-January 4, online]
- Jonas Mekas: A Small Table, With A Bottle of Wine, Garlic, Sausage,
Bread
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[Dec 8-Jan 21,
New York, NY]
- Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed
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[January
1, online]
- EC: O’Neill / Richter / Sharits
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[January
5, 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 JANUARY 1, 2023*
*November 1 - January 25, 2023*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Jonas Mekas 100!
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times and locations vary, see below
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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 5 - January 4*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Another Screen
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streaming 24/7,
Event URL: https://www.another-screen.com/films-from-iran-for-iran
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*FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN*
A group programme with Bani Khoshnoudi, Mitra Tabrizian, Sanaz Azari, Tara
Najd Ahmadi, Nahid Rezaei, Niki Kohandel, Sepideh Farsi, Gelare
Khoshgozaran, Katayoun Jalilipour, Maryam Tafakory, Maaman Rezaee, Parastoo
Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Nia Fekri, Parisa Aminolahi;
convened by Another Screen/Daniella Shreir.
On September 16, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was
murdered in Tehran following her arrest by Iran’s Morality Police for
wearing “improper” hijab. This brutal state-sanctioned murder spurred a new
women-led revolution across the country: with women, schoolgirls, and their
allies mobilising against veiling (mandatory since the foundation of the
Islamic Republic in 1979), as well as countless other manifestations of the
Islamic Republic’s all-pervasive oppression. Since then, hundreds of
protesters have been murdered, with the particular targeting of ethnic and
religious minorities. The images of mass resistance that have come out of
Iran – relayed largely on social media (with the mainstream press
remaining, for the most part, negligently silent or ill-tuned to the
complexities) – portray a revolution on a micro and macro level. Some of
the most emblematic include women on the streets cutting their hair and
burning their hijabs en masse; a woman eating alone, unveiled, in a café;
schoolgirls finding novel ways to protest in their classrooms; large
demonstrations populated by all generations and genders; and mass strikes
by steel and oil workers…
FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN is a programme of films by women and non-binary
filmmakers, made from 1979 to the present day, with a focus on experimental
and non-fiction work. Exploring ideas around forced and chosen departures,
return, mother and other tongues, familial and non-familial feminist and
proto-feminist lineages, we seek to extend solidarity to the struggle in
Iran, and contribute some much-needed nuance and context to the long
history of feminist resistance to state violence that has existed there, at
the intersections between gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity. Bringing
together a multitude of diaspora and non-diaspora voices speaking across
generations, the programme was created in the spirit of community, with
artists suggesting other artists with whom they are friends or whom they
admire. It aims to provide a non-institutional corrective to the
opportunism of big western art institutions, whose interest lies almost
exclusively in the fetishisation of certain symbols of Iranian society,
which have themselves been moulded by the Islamic Republic – institutions
that foreground only those artists who reflect and reinforce this western
gaze.
This project can only be idealistic, however: shaped as it is by sad
absences and other forms of positionality. At the time of writing, nearly
one-hundred filmmakers have been arrested since the beginning of this new
revolution, and are awaiting trial and sentencing; fifty are now in prison.
Several artists we approached did not feel safe having their films online –
those who live in Iran, or between Iran and the west, or who still have
family in the country; while most artists in the programme, for whom one or
more of these apply, are taking significant risks in showing their work.
Another Screen would like to thank all of them for their courage and
generosity, and for several weeks of invigorating conversations that have
informed and immeasurably enhanced this project.
As one artist, who did not feel able to share her work publicly, wrote in
her email: “Hopefully in some bright future, there will be an opportunity
for us all to show our films together: in Iran”.
*Iranian Women's Liberation Movement: Year Zero (Le mouvement de libération
des femmes iraniennes: année zéro*, 1979, 13’)
*The Silent Majority Speaks* (Bani Khoshnoudi, 2010, 94’)
*Cem* (Bani Khoshnoudi, 2012, 4’)
*Transit* (Bani Khoshnoudi, 2005, 35’)
*Journey of No Return* (Mitra Tabrizian, 1993, 23’)
*I For Iran* (Sanaz Azari, 2014, 50’)
*A Week with Azar* (Tara Najd Ahmadi, 2018, 11’)
*Dream of Silk* (Nahid Rezaei, 2003, 43’)
*The Sparrow is Free* (Niki Kohandel, 2021, 14’)
*Harat* (Sepideh Farsi, 2007, 75’)
*Letter to an Unborn Child* (Sepideh Farsi, 1988/2015, 3’)
*Royal Debris* (Gelare Khoshgozaran, 2022, 35’)
*Men of my Dreams* (Gelare Khoshgozaran, 2020, 9’)
*rial and tERROR* (Gelare Khoshgozaran, 2011, 15’)
*Gut Feelings: Fragments of Truth* (Katayoun Jalilipour, 2021, 12’)
*Irani Bag* (Maryam Tafakory, 2021, 8’)
*Minuet For A Disappearance* (Maaman Rezaee, 2016)
*And Their Eyes Were Not Watching Us* (Maaman Rezaee, 2020)
*Chooka* (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, 2018, 22’)
*Pictures of Departure* (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, 2018,
12’)
*Mothers Apricot Compote* (Nia Fekri, 2020, 23')
*Away* (Parisa Aminolahi, 2013, 15’)
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[Essay]
"The Commodification of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom) by Art
Institutions in the West," by Pegah Pasalar, Katayoon Barzegar and Niloufar
Nematollahi
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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.
*SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2023* 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!
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: O’NEILL / RICHTER / SHARITS*
*SAUGUS SERIES*, Pat O’Neill (1974, 19 min, 16mm)
Seven short films, one-and-a-half to six minutes long, united by a common
soundtrack. Each is an evolving “still life” made up of meticulously
assembled but spatially contradictory elements.
“[...] exhibits the possibilities of the optical printer with considerable
self-confidence and élan. The colors are deeply saturated; radically
incompatible spaces are meticulously pieced together; moving images are
layered in front of each other or masked within ‘negative’ spaces outlined
by the absence of an object; a multiplicity of textures and densities and
the dynamics of particles in turmoil enliven the imagery. […] The displaced
objects and the uncanny juxtapositions of Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, and
Curtis Harrington take on meaning from their relationship to the human
figures that encounter them. As such, they become symbolic functions.
O’Neill, a native of southern California, seems to be telling us that such
a symbolic and psychologically personalized landscape loses its
significance in a space like Los Angeles which is so overwhelmed by
fragmented representations and gerrybuilt perspectives.” –P. Adams Sitney,
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL
*RHYTHMUS 21*, Hans Richter (1921, 3 min, 35mm, b&w, silent)
“Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary is elemental
geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of contrasting
opposites.” –Standish Lawder
*TWO PENNY MAGIC / ZWEIGROSCHENZAUBER*, Hans Richter (1929, 2 min, 16mm,
b&w)
Produced as a commercial for a German illustrated magazine, this film is an
experiment with visual rhymes.
*EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING TURNS / ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT
SICH*, Hans Richter (1929, 9 min, 16mm, b&w)
“Richter’s unique and fascinating view of magic and cruelty in a carnival
side-show.” –Cecile Starr
*N:O:T:H:I:N:G*, Paul Sharits (1968, 36 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.)
“Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani Buddhas/a journey
toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu Wisdom)/space and
motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color energy create virtual
shape/in negative time, growth is inverse decay.” –Paul Sharits
*T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G*, Paul Sharits (1969, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives.)
“Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on the soundtrack/an
uncutting and unscratching mandala.” –Paul Sharits
Total running time: ca. 85 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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*Artists' Moving Image Works*
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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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