[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: March 25 - April 2, 2023
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(No Dialogue + PG)
03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival
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03.28.2023 Live Soundtrack
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(Late Birds)
03.31.2023 Festival Émergence de Montréal
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03.31.2023 Experimental Film Festival Process
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03.31.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival
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(Extended Deadline)
04.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
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04.01.2023 Crescent City Film Festival
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(Extended Deadline)
04.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
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(90 second ultra shorts)
04.01.2023 Flamingo Film Festival
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04.02.2023 VSW Project Space Residency
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04.07.2023 Buffalo Int’l Film Festival
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04.09.2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival
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(Regular 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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04.27.2023 Reeling The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
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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 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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(Regular Deadline)
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]
- 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival
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[March
21-29, Ann Arbor, MI]
- Abigail Child
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[March
24-28, New York, NY]
- FIFA Expérimental - Focus Michael Snow
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[March
25, Montreal, QC, Canada]
- Dominic Angerame: A Complete Retrospective (Program 3: Sex, Death,
Passion)
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[March
25, Oakland, CA]
- SF PSYCHO-GEO2:80s
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[March
25, San Francisco, CA]
- Luis Buñuel Programs
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[March
25-31, New York, NY]
- Color of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova
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[March
29, New York, NY]
- The 33rd Onion City Experimental Film Festival
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[March
30-April 9, Chicago, IL]
- ALT.TRANSPORT
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[April
1, San Francisco, CA]
- Mono No Aware Community Screening Program
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[April
2, 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 MARCH 25, 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 21 - 29*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Ann Arbor Film Festival
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various times,
various locations including: the Michigan Theater and State Theatre
Event URL: https://www.aafilmfest.org/61-aaff
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*61st Ann Arbor Film Festival*
61st Ann Arbor Film Festival Features 108 Films From 33 Countries With
screenings and programs both online and in person, the oldest avant-garde
and experimental film festival in North America opens March 21.
Founded in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) is the oldest
avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America.
Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers
and artists, AAFF engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences.
For a second year, the festival will be presented in a hybrid format,
allowing selected filmmakers to reach a worldwide audience from March 21 to
29. In-person screenings and events will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
from March 21 to 26.
Distinguished artists and an acclaimed film programmer/festival director
will jury this year’s edition: Amir George, Christine Panushka, and Koyo
Yamashita. Each juror will present a curated program of their own work that
also will be screened online.
Highlights from the upcoming festival include:
Submissions: 2,754 films from 95 countries
Films in Competition: 108 films from 33 countries
Features in Competition: All 12 features from outside the United States
Premieres: 12 world, 30 North American, and 13 United States premieres
Percentage on Film: 11% of selected films shot on 16mm or 35mm
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*March 24 - 28*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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times vary, see below,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*Abigail Child*
This spring, Anthology hosts a long-overdue retrospective of the work of
the moving-image artist, writer, and poet Abigail Child. A leading figure
of the generation of experimental filmmakers that emerged in the late
1970s-early 1980s, Child has continued to make innovative and challenging
work – in a dizzying variety of forms and on a wide range of topics – ever
since.
Child, who has often grouped her films into thematically and/or formally
linked series, first gained widespread recognition with the seven films
presented under the title “Is This What You Were Born For?” Created between
1981-89, these works inspired (and continue to inspire) a plethora of
commentary, and have become modern classics. But Child’s body of work
extends far beyond this renowned series, encompassing her rarely-screened
but remarkable early films; later cycles such as the “Suburban Trilogy”
(2004-11) and the “Foreign Film” series (2005-14); and feature-length works
produced over the past decade, including the experimental biographical
films *UNBOUND: SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF MARY SHELLEY* (2013) and *ACTS &
INTERMISSIONS: EMMA GOLDMAN IN AMERICA* (2017), and the recent *ORIGIN OF
THE SPECIES* (2020), which explores the growing field of android
development and the ethical, emotional, and psychological impacts of these
technological developments.
This retrospective gathers together all these films and many more, offering
a rare chance to experience and grapple with Child’s body of work as a
whole. Child has restlessly explored different mediums and modes, often
working with preexisting footage – drawn from Hollywood films,
advertisements, home movies, and many other sources – which she radically
transforms in ways that unite formal experimentation and social-political
analysis. But what unifies her moving-image work above all is the
unparalleled dynamism of her investigations into the relationship between
sound and image, the still not-fully-tapped possibilities of cinematic
montage, the technique of audiovisual fragmentation, and the complex
mechanisms of language. Child’s films, videos, and installations activate
the potential energy of the cinema to an extraordinary degree.
“[Child] has for decades been an inspiring teacher, and I feel the same
energy drives her films. The very title of the series: ‘Is this what you
were born for?’ captures the tone of her pedagogy: Asking questions, not
instilling answers, demanding a personal address from filmmaker to viewer,
probing the very foundations of one’s existence. […] The complexity of
Child’s pedagogy relies on such juxtapositions and transformations in
meaning between image and sound, image and image, language and noise, as
well as image and language.” –Tom Gunning, “Abigail Child: The Pulse of the
Last Machine”
“As an artist and writer, Child has worked seriously across a range of
media. In all of them, her principal form has been montage, developing, as
Tom Gunning writes, ‘a system founded not on coherence, but on breakdown,
not on continuity, but interruption.’” –Colin Beckett
Child will be here in person for the majority of the screenings!
ABIGAIL CHILD PROGRAM 1: IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR?
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March
24 at 7:30 PM
ABIGAIL CHILD PROGRAM 2: EARLY FILMS
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March
25 at 4:00 PM
ABIGAIL CHILD PROGRAM 3: FACING REALITY
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March
25 at 6:00 PM
ABIGAIL CHILD PROGRAM 4: FOREIGN FILM SERIES
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March
26 at 5:45 PM
ABIGAIL CHILD PROGRAM 5: THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY
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March
26 at 8:00 PM
ABIGAIL CHILD PROGRAM 6: UNBOUND
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March
27 at 6:45 PM
ABIGAIL CHILD PROGRAM 7: ACTS & INTERMISSIONS
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March
27 at 8:45 PM
ABIGAIL CHILD PROGRAM 8: ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES
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March
28 at 7:30 PM
*SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
FIFA
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5pm ET,
Université Concordia - J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell,
Montreal, QC, Canada
*FIFA EXPÉRIMENTAL - FOCUS MICHAEL SNOW*
On January 5, Michael Snow discreetly left us. And he left us, each of us,
a magisterial body of work to which we can turn to plumb its riches,
cherish its subtleties, to re-view it, to get in touch with the artist.
Three works have been selected for *Focus Michael Snow*. Each epitomizes
the artist’s attentiveness and profound attachment to word, image and
sound, while underscoring his wit and wisdom in bringing them together and
into dialogue. Each is also inhabited by Snow’s passion for light and
space, duration and movement, and the experiential present of every work of
art. This program, assembled with respect, hails the contributions of a
truly exceptional Canadian artist whose practice spanned more than seventy
years.
The screening will be in the presence of Michael Snow’s life partner, art
historian and experimental film and video specialist Peggy Gale. Programmed
by Nicole Gingras, Programmer, FIFA Experimental section
*WVLNT – WAVELENGTH For Those Who Don’t Have the Time: Originally 45
minutes, now 15!* – Michael Snow. Canada. 2003. 15 min. English.
*So Is This* – Michael Snow. Canada. 1982. 43 min. Without sound. English.
*See You Later / Aurevoir* – Michael Snow. Canada. 1990. 17 min 25 s.
English.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Shapeshifters Cinema
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8pm PT,
567 5th St., Oakland, CA
*Dominic Angerame: A Complete Retrospective (Program 3: SEX, DEATH,
PASSION)*
This is the third in a series of monthly screenings comprising a complete
retrospective of the work of Dominic Angerame. Since 1968 Angerame has
produced more than 30 films on 16mm and several newer works in digital
format. Some of these films have never had a public screening. Many of
Angerame’s films show San Francisco, the city he has lived and worked in
since 1979, and its varying cityscape as it looks and changes over time. He
has also created short comedies, short-form documentaries and many diary
films. Angerame has taught film in many schools and universities in the Bay
Area as well as at the University of Nevada, Reno. He was Executive
Director of Canyon Cinema from 1980-2012.
For this third screening we will present a compelling program of mid-career
work that wrestles with the adverse forces of desire and death. All (but
one) of them shot and shown on 16mm film. The program includes *Anaconda
Targets* (2004), *Consume* (2003), *The Waifen Maiden* (2003), *Pixiescope*
(2003), *Battlestations: A Naval Adventure* (2002), *Phone/Film Portraits*
(1985), *Voyeuristic Tendencies* (1984), *Hit the Turnpike* (1984), *Honeymoon
in Reno* (1984), *I’d Rather be in Paris* (1983) and *The Mystery of Life
(as Discovered in Los Angeles)* (1982).
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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
*SF PYSCHO-GEO2:80s*
YORK's WHO CARES ANYWAY + CRAIG & PAUL MIDGET + STAR PANELISTS +
An outrageous oral history of the Bay Area's wild post-punk underground!
Writer Will York spent two decades conducting interviews and whittling it
all down to a mere (?) 560 pages’ worth of existetial drama, dark humor,
spectacular failures, and improbable successes—including in-depth coverage
of acts ranging from Flipper to Factrix, Minimal Man to Mr.
Bungle, Inflatable Boy Claims to Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
Now Will is flying across the country to launch it in thee City that gave
it birth, here moderating a panel that includes Bill Gould of Faith No
More, photographer Joan Osato, Longshoreman Dog Swan, Peter Urban (aka “The
Pope of Punk”), punk fiction pioneer Deise Dee, peace
punk-turned-experimental artist CYRNAI, and RE/Search Pubs guru V. Vale.
Members of Toiling Midgets and (the long-defunct) Arkansaw Man play
separate sets; Liz Keim's *In the Red* and Richard Gaikowski's *Deaf Punk* set
our screen aflame.
*___________________________________________________________________*
*March 25 - 31*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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times vary, see below,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*Luis Buñuel Programs*
--- March 25 @ 5:45pm ET - EC: BUÑUEL / DALÍ ---
Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí *UN CHIEN ANDALOU* (1928, 22 min, 35mm, b&w)
Twenty-two minutes of pure, scandalous dream-imagery, a stream of images
from which anything that could be given a rational meaning was rigorously
excluded. It remains the unsurpassed masterpiece of the surrealist cinema.
Luis Buñuel *LAND WITHOUT BREAD / LAS HURDES: TIERRA SIN PAN* (1932, 28
min, 35mm, b&w. With English narration.)
“A documentary describing, matter-of-factly, a region of Spain so ravaged
by epidemic poverty that there our worst fantasies find their objective
correlative.” –Raymond Durgnat
--- March 26 @ 5:30pm ET - EC: *L’ÂGE D’OR* ---
by Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, In French with English subtitles, 1930, 73
min, 35mm, b&w
“The story is a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics. The sexual
instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a
romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy.” – Luis Buñuel
--- March 26 @ 7:45pm ET - EC: *LOS OLVIDADOS* (*THE FORGOTTEN ONES*) ---
by Luis Buñuel, In Spanish with English subtitles, 1950, 88 min, 35mm, b&w
“Buñuel shows the sad condition of the poor without embellishing them,
because if there is one thing Buñuel hates it is that artificial sweetness
imparted to all the poor which we so frequently see in the traditional
film. If, as usually happens in motion pictures, the moral principals
approved by conventional society are carefully observed by members of the
poorest classes…then these principals have some universal validity.
However, Buñuel is concerned with exposing the opposite.” –Emilio Garcia
Riera, FILM CULTURE
--- March 28 @ 7pm ET - EC: *LOS OLVIDADOS* (*THE FORGOTTEN ONES*) ---
by Luis Buñuel, In Spanish with English subtitles, 1950, 88 min, 35mm, b&w
“Buñuel shows the sad condition of the poor without embellishing them,
because if there is one thing Buñuel hates it is that artificial sweetness
imparted to all the poor which we so frequently see in the traditional
film. If, as usually happens in motion pictures, the moral principals
approved by conventional society are carefully observed by members of the
poorest classes…then these principals have some universal validity.
However, Buñuel is concerned with exposing the opposite.” –Emilio Garcia
Riera, FILM CULTURE
--- March 31 @ 6:45pm ET - EC: *LOS OLVIDADOS* (*THE FORGOTTEN ONES*) ---
by Luis Buñuel, In Spanish with English subtitles, 1950, 88 min, 35mm, b&w
“Buñuel shows the sad condition of the poor without embellishing them,
because if there is one thing Buñuel hates it is that artificial sweetness
imparted to all the poor which we so frequently see in the traditional
film. If, as usually happens in motion pictures, the moral principals
approved by conventional society are carefully observed by members of the
poorest classes…then these principals have some universal validity.
However, Buñuel is concerned with exposing the opposite.” –Emilio Garcia
Riera, FILM CULTURE
--- March 31 @ 9pm ET - EC: *L’ÂGE D’OR* ---
by Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, In French with English subtitles, 1930, 73
min, 35mm, b&w
“The story is a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics. The sexual
instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a
romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy.” – Luis Buñuel
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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8pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*COLOR OF POMEGRANATES / SAYAT NOVA*
by Sergei Paradjanov
In Armenian with English subtitles., 1969, 78 min, 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
Preceded by:
Ramin Bahrani *PLASTIC BAG* (2009, 19 min, digital)
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to
his owner and along the way discovers the world in this poignant ecological
love story narrated by Werner Herzog
*THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023*
*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 1, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco
*ALT.TRANSPORT*
BRECKE/McABEE's I_BUTTERFLY + RAIL PUNKS
Adventurous and free-thinking refusals of the petroleum dead-end give rise
to thriving sub-cultures, and tonight, two of these are celebrated in their
respective halves of a program filled to bursting with radical ideas and
experiences. Bernal Heights hero Mark Brecke takes the handlebars of
the I_Butterfly project, Cory (Stingray Sam) McAbee's inspired campaign to
save the Monarch Butterflies through the seeding of their migratory
pathways with the milkweed plants that are essential to survival..and which
can sprout right out of our lovingly composted corpses! Mark's 20-min.
live-narrated slideshow details the fascinating episodes of McAbee's junket
to launch the national consciousness-raising, a bike journey through 2000
miles and 15 states, from Maine to Florida, stopping at theaters---and
“green” graveyards---along the way to spread the word! Cory's own
25-min. *Cultured
Cells Culture* performance-video was often screened, and will be tonight.
Our second half sports a spate of reports of travel by even Other
means---hopping those freights! Showcased is David Murphy*'*s *Free Ride*,
supported by a pair of shorts from the InDecline Collective. ALSO: Ivy
McClelland in-person with clips of herself in the European hit-doc, *The
Train I Ride*, AND on our gallery walls, a sneak-preview of Bill Daniel*'*s
upcoming *Mostly True *rail zine, plus a choice clip of his *Bozo Texino*,
of course! $12-120 benefit for I_Butterfly.
*SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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1pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*MONO NO AWARE COMMUNITY SCREENING PROGRAM*
Featuring the world premiere of films made locally with the support of MONO
in March and April 2023.
These programs will include films made through the educational initiatives
of MONO NO AWARE, a cinema-arts nonprofit organization and film positive
community working to promote connectivity through the cinematic experience.
Established in 2007 and based in downtown Brooklyn, MONO NO AWARE presents
monthly artist-in-person screenings, facilitates equipment rentals,
operates a film distribution initiative, maintains wet & dry lab
facilities, and hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary artists and
international filmmakers whose work incorporates Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or
altered light projections.
For more info visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com
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*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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