[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: April 29 - May 7, 2023
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*This Week [April 29 - May 7, 2023] in Avant Garde Cinema*
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05.03.2023 Locarno Film Festival
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05.07.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
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(6th Deadline)
05.08.2023 FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS ET EXPÉRIMENTAUX DE PARIS
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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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05.14.2023 Braziers International Film Festival
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05.19.2023 Edinburgh Short Film Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
05.31.2023 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants
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05.31.2023 ANALOGICA
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(Late Deadline)
05.31.2023 Laterale Film Festival
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(Extended Deadline)
05.31.2023 25FPS Festival
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06.01.2023 Reeling The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
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06.01.2023 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
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06.15.2023 Revolutions Per Minute Festival
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06.30.2023 Antimatter [media art]
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06.30.2023 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
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(rough cuts + pre world premiere)
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]
- Natural Magic: Experiments In Photography
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[March
17-June 4, Oxford, UK]
- Prism: Experimental Films
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[April
25-May 1, Busan, South Korea]
- Bad Puppets
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[April
29, San Francisco, CA]
- New Films On Re:Voir Online
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[April
29, online]
- Snow In Springtime: A Michael Snow Tribute In Three Films, Including
Wavelength
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[April
30, LA, CA]
- Prismatic Ground
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[May
3-7, New York, NY]
- EC: Maya Deren
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[May
4, New York, NY]
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
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[May
4, New York, NY]
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
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[May
4, New York, NY]
- Foraged Futures
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[May
5, Milwaukee, WI]
- Untitled
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[May
6, New York, NY]
- A Complete Retrospective, Program 4: It's A R(Eel) A(Nswer) P(Rints)!
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[May
6, Oakland, CA]
- Good Puppets
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[May
6, San Francisco, CA]
- Spotlight On Alee Peoples
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[May
6, San Francisco, CA]
- Mono No Aware Community Screening Program
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[May
7, New York, NY]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE APRIL 29, 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 - 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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*April 25 - May 1*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Busan International Short Film Festival
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seven days of screenings, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea
*Prism: experimental films*
Prism 1:
*The End* by Christopher Maclaine, 1953
*(nostalgia)* by Hollis Frampton, 1971
Prism 2:
*Field* by Arc, 2023
*Vestibule (in three episodes)* by Ken Kobland, 1978
*Running Shadow* by Robert Fulton, 1972
*Infinite Column* by Arc, 2023
Live performances on dual 16mm projectors by Tooth.
*SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*BAD PUPPETS*
CHILD's *ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES* + KAVANAGH's *WE'VE BEEN WARNED*
This first of two Puppet Shows—this one foregrounding the Scary—sees the SF
premiere of Abigail Child's *Origin of the Species*, her masterful
hour-plus exploration of both new tech/engineering developments and of
radically new understandings of the relations
between humans and machines...that are apparently our equals, and soon to
be our superiors. Abby's cinematic genius is realized in exquisite doc
coverage—especially of the new Japanese initiatives. Opening the evening is
a much-needed push-back from OC ally Mike Kavanagh, *A Short History of
Robots and AI in Cinema*, that presses the case for regulatory action to
keep the genie back in the bottle. This 40-minute chronology includes
scores of riveting clips, from *Metropolis* to* Colossus: The Forbin
Project*, and beyond, teasing out the critical distinctions between
“generative” and “sentient”. Enhancing the two anchors are Keith
Sanborn on Jeremy Bentham, Peter Freund on HAL 9000, Mark Shephard's *Sentient
City*, and David Cox' “real-world” noggin'-choppin' heli-drone!
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*April 29 - May 6*
Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Re:Voir
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12pm, Event URL: ReVoir Online (app store
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*NEW FILMS ON RE:VOIR ONLINE*
Every week we add four new films to the Re:Voir Online database and
streaming platform. New films this week:
*Don’t Move* - Studio Eén, Marc Geerards (1996, 7 mins.)
*Departure on Arrival* - Studio Eén, Barbara Meter (1996, 22 mins.)
*Parkautomaat* - Stuio Eén, Francien van Everdingen (1996, 4 mins.)
*Le Château de Pointilly* - Adolpho Arrietta (1972, 39 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 30, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Los Angeles Filmforum
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7:30 PM PST,
2220 beverly blvd, Los Angeles, CA
*Snow in Springtime: A Michael Snow Tribute in three films, including
Wavelength*
Presented by Los Angeles Filmforum and Mezzanine
When Michael Snow passed away on January 5 at the age of 94, the world lost
a tremendous artist, who worked with rigor and humor in film, music,
photography, sculpture, and more.
His classic film *Wavelength* hasn’t played in Los Angeles for several
years, so we are bringing it with two other short films, *Standard Time *(1967)
and *See You Later *(1990) all screening on 16mm.
An accomplished cross-disciplinary artist even before he came to cinema,
Michael Snow was perhaps best known for his highly influential avant-garde
films, which remain as brazenly conceptual as they are perceptual. After
moving to New York City with his wife Joyce Wieland in the 1960s, the two
were exposed to the burgeoning New American Cinema movement, where Snow
became part of an emerging tradition of medium-specific and highly
formalist approach to avant-garde cinema—often described as
“structuralism”—and made a series of groundbreaking films that are still
among the most widely discussed and debated in the American avant-garde.
The act of watching Snow’s work is perhaps best described by P. Adams
Sitney, who calls it the “discovery of a simple situation permeated by a
rich field of philosophical implications, which duration elaborates." Yet
Snow’s work also contains “a persistent undercurrent of humour that can
range from dryly witty to pure slapstick (Chris Kennedy)."
"Mr. Snow was a prolific and playful artist, as well as a polymath of
extraordinary versatility. “I am not a professional,” he declared in a
statement written for a group show catalog in 1967. “My paintings are done
by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter, music by a
filmmaker, paintings by a sculptor, sculpture by a filmmaker, films by a
musician, music by a sculptor.” And, he added, “Sometimes they all work
together.” -- J. Hoberman, New York Times, 2023-01-06
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16mm prints courtesy of Canyon Cinema. Special thanks to Chloe Reyes and
Seth Mitter (Canyon Cinema). Masks are still required at Filmforum shows -
N95 or KN95.
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2023*
*May 3 - 7*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Prismatic Ground
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various locations in NYC
*Prismatic Ground*
Prismatic Ground, an annual festival centered on experimental documentary
and avant-garde film and co-presented by Screen Slate, will hold its third
edition May 3-7, 2023, in-person across the Museum of the Moving Image,
Maysles Documentary Center, BAM Cinematheque, DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema,
Light Industry, and Anthology Film Archives. For the complete festival
program and schedule visit: prismaticground.com
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Opening Night will feature the hometown premiere of sibling duo Soda
Jerk’s *Hello
Dankness*. Comprised entirely of hundreds of film samples, *Hello
Dankness* bears
witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to
2021 and the mythologies and lore that took root around it, exemplifying
the festival’s commitment to politically and aesthetically abrasive new
forms.
The full lineup of roughly sixty films features recent work by dozens of
artists including Naomi Uman, Lawrence Lek, Jim Finn, Miryam Charles, Tsai
Ming-Liang, Collectif Faire-Part and Kimi Takesue; plus new restorations of
essential work by Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Julius-Amédée Laou, Arthur &
Corinne Cantrill, Maike Höhne and Bill Brand; and films screened in tribute
to late filmmakers Michael Snow, Takahiko Iimura, and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa.
At least one out of every six selections will be projected on 16mm or 35mm
film, including Gaëlle Rouard’s *Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright* and
the Closing Night presentation of Alexandre Larose’s *scènes de ménage*.
A small selection of films will be available to stream for free, worldwide
during the festival dates, alongside work by the recipient of this year’s
Ground Glass Award (TBA). A selection of short films from the first two
editions of Prismatic Ground can currently be streamed on the Criterion
Channel by subscribers in the US.
*THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: MAYA DEREN*
All films in this program have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives.
*MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON *(1943, 14 min, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by
Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959.)
*AT LAND *(1944, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman
and Alexander Hammid.)
*A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA *(1945, 3 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. By
Maya Deren and Talley Beatty.)
*RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME *(1946, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent.
Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella
Heyman. With Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook.)
“*MESHES* is, one might say, almost expressionist; it externalizes an inner
world to the point where it is confounded with the external one. *AT LAND* has
little to do with the inner world of the protagonist, it externalizes the
hidden dynamics of the external world, and here the drama results from the
activity of the external world. It is as if I had moved from a concern with
the life of a fish, to a concern with the sea which accounts for the
character of the fish and its life. And *RITUAL* pulls back even further,
to a point of view from which the external world itself is but an element
in an entire structure and scheme of metamorphosis: the sea itself changes
because of the larger changes of the earth. *RITUAL* is about the nature
and process of change.” –Maya Deren
Total running time: ca. 55 min.
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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.
*FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
aCinema
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7pm CT,
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
*Foraged Futures*
*ABRIR MONTE* [Maria Rojas], 25 min 47 sec, 16 mm. Transfer 4K
On July 19, 1929, in a town in Colombia, a group of shoemakers fought to
improve living and working conditions in the country. They called
themselves The Bolsheviks of Líbano Tolima. Their revolution lasted only
one day, and its traces were almost completely lost. The women of this
village share with Aura, an anarchist grandmother, a feeling that their
rebellion is still going on.
*Seaweed* [Julia Parks], 18 min 33 sec, 16mm
16mm moving image artwork that explores the folklore, ecology, and history
of seaweed in north Scotland. Voiced by seaweed harvesters, workers in the
alginate factories, environmental activists, archaeologists, seaweed
farmers behind the miracle resource. The film includes archive footage,
oral histories and contemporary documentary footage of people working with
seaweed.
*Elsewhere* [Joseph Popper], 4 min 41 sec, HD Video
The film responds to the promise of virtual reality to experience new
worlds as new characters in new bodies. The work imagines a fall from one
reality into another, and a transition between physical and virtual senses
of presence. A man stumbles and wades alone through a country stream. He
appears out of place, his grey city clothes in contrast with the
surrounding green landscape. On his face rest a pair of glasses with a lens
conspicuously missing. He ignores the world around him, absorbed in the
search for a means to escape it—to return to somewhere else and to be
someone else.
*Nuclear Salt* [Emma Charles] 24 min 07 sec, 4K Video
The film centres on a nuclear waste repository in Carlsbad, New Mexico,
where scientists are working on a research programme to construct a system
of markers or warning systems that will last 10,000 years. The film is a
story about the physical existence of nuclear waste in the world today, but
it is also a science fiction story about a speculative future and its
inhabitants.
*SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023*
*5/6 through 5/18*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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May 6 @ 3:15pm & May 18 @ 7:30pm,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*UNTITLED*
by Kathy Acker & Alan Sondheim, 1974, 55 min, video
“This black-and-white video [often referred to as *BLUE TAPE*, though that
title was applied only later] depicts a sexually explicit, emotionally
charged, and psychologically fraught encounter between a
twenty-six-year-old Acker and a thirty-one-year-old Sondheim that took
place over the course of a 48-hour period in Sondheim’s NYC loft. [It]
opens with a close-up shot of Acker as she recounts her initial meeting
with Sondheim several weeks prior and the subsequent unfolding of events
leading to the making of the work, including her practice of ‘memory
experiments,’ intended to ‘break through memory to desire.’ With the camera
framed tightly on Acker, Sondheim reads aloud a text she sent to him in
advance of their second meeting in which she ascribes to him the role of
her father, whom she never met. The text, and Sondheim’s out-of-view
recitation, set the stage for the exchange (of ideas, of roles, of pleasure
and its lack, of fluids) we bear witness to over the next 55 minutes.” –JOAN
Followed by:
*UNTITLED (TAPE 2)* by Kathy Acker & Alan Sondheim, 1974, 33 min, video
The day after recording the video piece that has come to be known as *BLUE
TAPE* (but which was never intended to have a title), Sondheim and Acker
made a second, related tape. Commenting on and structured after the first,
it similarly documents a charged intellectual and sexual encounter but with
Sondheim and Acker’s roles reversed. This tape had never been screened in
the U.S. until we showed it at Anthology as part of our Wilhelm
Reich-themed film series this past March!
Total running time: ca. 95 min.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Shapeshifters Cinema
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8pm PT,
Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th Street, Oakland, CA
*A Complete Retrospective, Program 4: It's a R(eel) A(nswer) P(rints)!*
This is the fourth and final screening of the 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 final screening we finish at the start, with 11 of his earliest
films dating back to 1968 including A *Ticket Home* (1982), *Freedom's
Skyway* (1980), *SFAI* (1980), *A Film* (1979), *Neptunian Space Angel*
(1977), *El Train Film* (1976), *Scratches, Inc.* (1975), *Delaware Park*
(1969-73), *Demonstration* (1968-74), *Putzo* (1972) and *10x17* (1971).
We will also be showing 8 short, diary films—all of which have never been
publicly screened before, including *At the Robert Fulton Estate, Newtown
Ct., Palm Sunday, Democratic Convention, No Nothing Cinema, Bruce Conner
playing piano, Erotica, Last Temptation of Christ, Susan’s portrait of
Dominic* and *Havana Diary*.
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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
*GOOD PUPPETS*
GREER/FACING WEST's THE ENDLESS END + REINIGER + BICKFORD +
Following up on their first major museum exhibition at the San Jose
Institute of Contemporary Art, Lydia Greer's shadow ensemble brings its
“performative installation” up to big-City SF, for us locals to get a look!
In their immersive environment, shadow puppets play with hand-made
silhouettes, rear-screen projection, and a multi-dimensional soundscape.
Here whole species live and die over the span of a half-hour of looping
overlays. This marvelous sculptural environment situates *homo
sapiens* as animals within
a larger system, with humans as the primary predator. Supporting Greer's
shadow theater is *The Art of Lotte Reiniger*, certainly one of her primary
inspirations. ALSO: An opening cast call of hand-made mannequins, including
clips from DeeDee Halleck's doc on the Bread and Puppet outdoor pageant,
the premiere of Max Mueller's uncanny *Strange Bedfellows*, a harrowing
10-min. excerpt from Bruce Bickford's *Prometheus's Garden*, and the Mission's
own David Cox with his crafty *Puppenhead*. The luv-fest is festooned with
delightful glimpses of German, Hungarian and Slovakian puppetry.
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*May 6 + May 7 *
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Roxie
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May 6 @ 4pm PT, May 7 @ 1pm PT,
Roxie, 3125 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
*Spotlight on Alee Peoples*
Co-presented by Film on Film Foundation, Canyon Cinema and SF Cinematheque.
We welcome Peoples up from Los Angeles to present her complete body of 16mm
films along with selections from the Canyon Cinema collection. Alee’s films
are brim-ful of bold gestures, pointedly orchestrating performances and
camera movements, views and edits, sound and image. What are her films
about–planes, balloons, friends, traffic, pop music, the signs and
billboards of LA? Sure, these are among the recurring environmental and
cultural threads from which she weaves her cinematic scherzi. Most
importantly, she is always playing, and she takes it seriously.
*Them Oracles* (2012) 7 min
*Three Peonies* by Stephanie Barber (2017) 3 min
*Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies* (2015) 9 min
*Spotlight On A Brick Wall* by Peoples and Mike Stoltz (2016) 8 min
*Untitled* (double 8mm) (2014) 4 min
*If You Can’t See My Mirrors, I Can’t See You* (2016) 12 min
*Mutiny* by Abigail Child (1983) 11 min
*Decoy* (2018) 11 min
*Standing Forward Full* (2020) 6 min
All films on 16mm. Q&A follows.
*SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2023*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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12pm 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!!!
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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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