[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: November 11 - 19, 2023
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*This Week [November 11 - 19, 2023] in Avant Garde Cinema*
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11.15.2023 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival
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11.24.2023 Crescent City Film Festival
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(Early Deadline)
11.30.2023 Laterale Film Festival
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(Second Deadline)
11.30.2023 Lightpress Grants
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11.30.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival
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(Regular Deadline)
11.30.2023 dresdner schmalfilmtage
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12.01.2023 ICDOCS - Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
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12.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival
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01.07.2024 Gravitational Lensing
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01.12.2024 Coney Island Film Festival
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02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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03.30.2024 Braziers International Film Festival
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*
This week's programs (summary):
- Inheritance
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[June
22, 2023-Feb 2024, New York, NY]
- Alternative Visions
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[September
6-November 15, Berkeley, CA]
- Fragments of A Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith
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[October
4-January 28, 2024, New York, NY]
- Ephraim Asili Song For My Mother
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[October
5-January 28, 2024, Brooklyn, NY]
- EC: L’âge D’or
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[November
4+14, New York, NY]
- EC: Los Olvidados
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[November
5+14, New York, NY]
- Media City Film Festival
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[November
7-11, Detroit, MI, US & Windsor, ON, Canada]
- Hannes Schüpbach
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[November
11, New York, NY]
- Doors of Perception
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[November
11, San Francisco, CA]
- Tomonari Nishikawa: Two Performances
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[November
13, New York, NY]
- Seeing Them: The Films of Lindsay Mcintyre
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[November
15, Berkeley, CA]
- Millennium Film Journal No. 78: “Now… And Then (Fall 2023)
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[November
15, New York, NY]
- Maureen Selwood: Animating The Interior
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[November
17, Los Angeles, CA]
- Cosmic Rays - Sightings
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[November
17, Oakland, CA]
- Camera Obscura | Ninth Annual Report
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[November
17, Petaluma, CA]
- Ventriloquist Puppets
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[November
18, San Francisco, CA]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE NOVEMBER 11, 2023*
*June 22, 2023 - February 2024*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Whitney Museum of American Art
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99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY
*Inheritance*
Inheritance traces the profound impacts of legacy and the past across
familial, historical, and aesthetic lines. Featuring new acquisitions and
rarely-seen works from the Whitney collection by forty-three leading
artists, the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, videos,
photographs, and time-based media installations from the 1970s to today.
This diverse array of works consider what has been passed on and how it may
shift, change, or live again.
Drawing inspiration from Ephraim Asili’s 2020 film of the same title,
Inheritance reflects on multiple meanings of the word, whether celebratory
or painful, from one era, person, or idea to the next. The exhibition takes
a layered approach to storytelling by interweaving narrative with
documentary and personal experiences with historical and generational
events. A group of works examining the cycle from birth to death opens the
exhibition, while other galleries take up different kinds of lineages, such
as how artists borrow from and remake art history or unspool legacies of
racialized violence and their recurrences.
The poet Rio Cortez speaks of being “framed by our future knowing”—even as
we sit in this moment, we slide backward and forward in time, between our
foremothers and the descendants we will never know. Rather than passively
accepting our current state, the artists whose work is on view here ask:
How did we get here, as individuals and as a society, and where are we
going?
Artists featured in this exhibition include Ephraim Asili, Sadie Barnette,
Kevin Beasley, Diedrick Brackens, Beverly Buchanan, Widline Cadet, Andrea
Carlson, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Ralston Crawford, Mary Beth Edelson, John
Edmonds, Kevin Jerome Everson, Chitra Ganesh, Todd Gray, Wade Guyton, David
Hartt, Emily Jacir, Wakeah Jhane, Mary Kelly, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê,
Maggie Lee, Sherrie Levine, Dindga McCannon, Ana Mendieta, Thaddeus Mosley,
Lorraine O’Grady, Kambui Olujimi, John Outterbridge, Pat Phillips, Faith
Ringgold, Sophie Rivera, Carissa Rodriguez, Cameron Rowland, Sturtevant,
Hank Willis Thomas, Clarissa Tossin, Kara Walker, Joan Wallace, Carrie Mae
Weems, WangShui, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto.
This exhibition is organized by Rujeko Hockley, Arnhold Associate Curator
at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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*September 6 - November 15*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Pacific Film Archive
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7:00 PM PST
2155 Center Street, Berkeley CA, 94720
*Alternative Visions*
We open our annual showcase of historical and current experimental film
with Luis Buñuel’s Surrealist classics, *L’age d’or* and *Un Chien Andalou*.
Further historical explorations include a guest-curated program of local
ninety-year-old filmmaker Paul Fillinger’s one-of-a-kind educational films,
which he refers to as experiential cinema. Leeroy K. Y. Kang presents a
selection of queer Asian experimental video, from Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
to Patty Chang. There are a number of opportunities to see and hear guest
artists: Ernie Gehr travels from New York with four recent city films,
Peggy Ahwesh and Jacqueline Goss screen their “theoretical musical about
scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich,” Canadian Lindsay McIntyre
discusses a selection of her films exploring her Inuit and settler
ancestry, and local filmmaker Jerome Hiler presents four programs of his
work. The series includes two programs of recent films drawing on varied
sources, including Super 8mm, glass slides and negatives, photographs,
audio recordings, ray-o-grams, and artificial intelligence, with guest
artists in person. We also pay tribute to longtime cocurator of Alternative
Visions Jeffrey Skoller, who has retired after teaching in the Film & Media
Department at UC Berkeley since 2005; Jaimie Baron, this year’s cocurator,
presents her annual Festival of (In)appropriation.
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*October 4 - January 28, 2024*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY
*Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith*
Member Previews, Sept 28–Oct 2
Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
Harry Smith (1923–1991), was a painter, filmmaker, folklorist,
musicologist, and collector as well as a radical nonconformist whose work
defies categorization. Although his creative output includes paintings,
films, poetry, music, and sound recordings, it also consists of extensive
collections of overlooked yet revealing objects, such as string figures and
found paper airplanes. His best-known work, a compilation of recordings
from the 1920s and 1930s titled the *Anthology of American Folk Music*,
achieved cultlike status among many musicians and listeners since it was
first published in 1952.
*Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith* puts the artist's
life on display alongside his art and collections. It follows him from an
isolated Depression-era childhood in the Pacific Northwest—a time when he
was immersed in ecstatic religious philosophies and Native American
ceremony—to his bohemian youth of marijuana, peyote, and intellectualism in
postwar Berkeley, California. The exhibition also traces his path through
the milieus of bebop and experimental cinema in San Francisco to his
decades in New York, where he was an essential part of the city's
avant-garde fringe.
Keenly attuned to changing technology, Smith embraced innovation and used
whatever was new and of the moment. At the same time, his lifelong interest
in abstract art, ancient traditions, metaphysics, spiritualism, folk art,
and world music came to the fore even as he devised ingenious ways of
collecting sounds and creating films. These concerns make Smith's work feel
increasingly prescient as collecting and sharing come into view as creative
acts that are necessary for drawing meaning from the glut of images and
juxtaposition of cultures we encounter every day.
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*October 5 - January 28, 2024*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Amant
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Amant, Géza, 306 Maujer, Brooklyn, NY
*Ephraim Asili Song for My Mother*
Working across mediums, Ephraim Asili weaves together fragments of popular
culture and personal narrative to tell stories that situate individuals and
the ideas that inform them within broader historical contexts. In *Song for
My Mother* (2023), a new three-channel film installation, Ephraim takes
inspiration from his own story and charts a process of ancestral awakening
that arose out of a period of tremendous personal loss. By layering
gathered footage from across various sites, including unscripted interviews
and performances arising from chance encounters with members of the BCU
community, with archival materials and other cultural iconography, the
installation functions as a historical journey that crosses and connects
space and time to the past, present and future.
By relocating the personal within a wider context of what Ephraim calls
“Black radical collectivity,” *Song for My Mother* establishes a dialogue
with his first feature film *The Inheritance* (2020), a semi-fictional
documentary that follows the inner workings of a Black Marxist commune in
Philadelphia. Working in tandem, both films explore the nature of the
collective, from the interpersonal to the institutional, within the Black
American experience and its importance in establishing and maintaining safe
spaces for Black people to think outside of the constant reminders of a
racist society.
*Song for My Mother* is part of Rituals of Speaking, a film-led series that
explores how artists represent the voices of others through collective
storytelling.
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*November 4 + 14*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: L’ÂGE D’OR*
Nov 4 @ 5:30pm ET + Nov 14 @ 6:30pm ET
*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
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*November 5 + 14*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: LOS OLVIDADOS*
November 5 @ 4pm ET, November 14 @ 8:30pm ET
*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
“[*LOS OLVIDADOS*] lashes the mind like a red-hot iron and leaves one’s
conscience no opportunity to rest.” –André Bazin
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*November 7 - 11*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Media City Film Festival
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*Media City Film Festival*
Media City Film Festival (MCFF), Windsor-Detroit’s internationally
acclaimed festival of film and digital art, launches its dazzling 26th
edition with a return to in-person presentations.
MCFF is ecstatic to present an exceptional, rare, and bountiful offering of
over 70 films made by some of cinema’s most extraordinary practitioners.
Many of the works will be screened in their original formats including
Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, and digital.
MCFF 2023 ARTISTS: ★ Simone Leigh ★ Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich ★ Ja’Tovia Gary
★ Harry Smith ★ Michael Snow ★ Narcisa Hirsch ★ Sharon Lockhart ★ Maryam
Tafakory ★ Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet ★ Sarah Maldoror ★ Sky
Hopinka ★ Nour Ouayda ★ Rose Lowder ★ Kevin Jerome Everson ★ Tetsuya
Maruyama ★ Robert Beavers ★ Nathaniel Dorsky ★ dream hampton ★ Tomonari
Nishikawa ★ Skip Norman ★ Ana Vaz ★ Miryam Charles ★ Mary Helena Clark ★
Ayanna Dozier ★ Ute Aurand ★ Colectivo Los Ingrávidos ★ Hadassah GreenSky ★
Ben Russell ★ Jeannette Ehlers ★ Helga Fanderl ★ Helena Girón & Samuel M.
Delgado ★ Pablo Mazzolo ★ Ben Rivers & Céline Condorelli ★ Adam Piron ★ Sam
Drake ★ Deborah Stratman ★ Rouzbeh Akhbari & Felix Kalmenson ★ Fox Maxy ★
Paul Sharits ★ Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) ★ Siegfried Fruhauf ★ Morgan
Quaintance ★ Forough Farrokhzad ★ Simon Liu ★ Mike Stoltz ★ Abigail Child ★
Alexandre Larose ★ Luke Fowler ★ Daïchi Saïto ★ Amy Halpern ★ Nik Liguori ★
Michele Goulette ★ Julia Yezbick ★ Derek Jenkins ★ Alana Bartol & Bryce
Krynski ★ Adam Sekuler ★ Calla Moya ★ Ed Janzen ★ and more!
*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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4pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*HANNES SCHÜPBACH*
For this special event, we welcome Swiss artist and experimental filmmaker
Hannes Schüpbach, on the occasion of the publication of the new book,
“Hannes Schüpbach: Essais. Conversations and Film Images” (Vienna: Verlag
für moderne Kunst, 2023).
Born in Winterthur in 1965 and educated in Zurich and Basel, Schüpbach
began his career in the early 1990s by creating spatial installations and
serial paintings that, in their exploration of perception through movement,
had a strongly cinematographic flavor. Since turning more definitely to
16mm filmmaking in 1999, he has completed eleven films, many of which deal
explicitly with artistic processes, including *ERZÄHLUNG* (2007),
*L’ATELIER* (2007), *CONTOUR* (2011), and *INSTANTS* (2012).
In recent years Schüpbach has produced several books that radically expand
his art projects into published dialogues. His new book centers on his most
recent film, *ESSAIS* (2020), featuring conversations with his
collaborators that revolve around the concept of “the movement that starts
within us” in dance, poetry, fashion, music, and language. How singular are
our gestures? Where do transitions between individuals come into play?
Where does a common cultural space come into being? In both book and film –
whose shared title references Montaigne’s “Essais”, in which he
contemplates existence on the basis of his own observations and reflections
– Schüpbach addresses a pivotal aspect of artistic work. This special event
will encompass screenings of both *ESSAIS* and the earlier film *INSTANTS*,
a reading, and a conversation with the artist.
*INSTANTS*, 2012, 16 min, 16mm, silent
“Instants arrive and take place for us and in us. Like the girl appearing
in a gust, as a goddess of winds, whose movements settle into a gesture, a
suite of still images. Between the instants relations unfold, the evident
as well as the invented. The hand that halts in writing sentence after
sentence implies a loop, a stepping back. There, what has been felt takes
form. The jolts, abrasions, and stops in the arrival of images make up this
body of instants from which language flows.” –Hannes Schüpbach
*ESSAIS*, 2020, 43 min, 16mm, silent
The dancer Kira Blazek explores new movements, her dance passionately
broadening into a bodily reflection about the possible. Her shifting
ventures in dance dialogue with the six further personalities the film
introduces, all of them engaged in some form of self-experiment. Stephen
Watts, Éléonore Bernard, Heba-Raphaëlle Meffre, Flurin Cuonz, Marco
Baschera, and Jiajia Zhang are artists and researchers, filmed in London,
Bern, Antwerp, Zurich, and St. Gallen. It is gestures and postures that
define them. They exist alongside one another in a fictional exchange where
the other extends their own form. In Schüpbach’s film, the images are
unlocked from linear time via black transitions, resulting in a hypnotic
flow. Its temporality marks a recollection: the repetition of what has once
been seen, in a rhythm linked to recapitulation and speech.
Total running time (with reading + conversation): ca. 90 min
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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
*DOORS OF PERCEPTION*
JORDAN BELSON RETRO + PAD/BOB's VISIONARY 3-D
An eye-popper, both hyper-abstract and hyper-real! Tonight's
O*ptr*o*nica2* promises
a mini-retro of newly restored 16mm masterworks by none other Jordan
Belson, thee North Beach visionary who opened up new dimensions of
cinematic experience in both his legendary Vortex light shows
in GGP's Planetarium and in his psychedelic single-channel film works.
Introduced by local Belson scholar Lumia, we see four pristine prints from
his late 60s/early 70s peak: *Phenomena*, *Momentum*, *Meditation*, and
*Chakra. *Lumia segues between the pieces with biographical
background, 35mm slides, recorded audio, and a video visit by Anthology
Film Archives' John Klacsmann aiding curator Raymond Foye in his
inspired preservation project. Sharing top billing are the utterly
astounding stereoscopic projections of Pad McLaughlin and Bob Bloomberg,
much-loved OC superstars, arguablythe leading purveyors of 3-D magick in
all of NorCal. They mobilize a matrix of brilliant projectors, radiant
screens, and audio playback to conjure up their own set of impossible
worlds: A pair of new collaborations, Hall/Jameson's *One Night in Hell*, OK
Go/Pilobolus Dance Company's *All is Not Lost*, Santiago Caicedo's *Moving
Still*,* et alia**. *
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Microscope Gallery
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7:30pm ET,
525 W. 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
*Tomonari Nishikawa: Two performances*
An evening of film performances by Japanese filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa,
featuring Nishikawa’s two most recent works for multiple 35mm slide
projections and for 16mm film that is altered in real time. These two
performances - *Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 2* (2022) and
*Performance
for Three Slide Projectors* (2023) build upon the sense of visual and
acoustic accumulation through climatic compositions starting from basic
elements — monochrome 35mm slides, as well as linear incisions onto an
exposed film loop — which entrance the viewer while highlighting the
intimate, structural connection of image and sound.
Tomonari Nishikawa's films explore the idea of documenting a scene in the
public space through a chosen medium/format and techniques, while his
performance projects focus on the process of creating a visual/sound
phenomenon using analog devices, including 16mm film projector and slide
projector. Nishikawa started using a 16mm film projector for his
performance projects in 2013, scratching the film emulsion to produce the
visual and sound. His on-going 16mm film projection performance project, *Six
Seventy-Two Variations*, have been performed at Cosmic Rays Film Festival,
Exploratorium in San Francisco, FRACTO in Berlin, New York Film Festival,
Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, among others. He also uses slide
projectors in his performance or collaborative work with sound artists, and
one of such works, *Chiratsuki*, was performed with Sontag Shogun at Mono
no Aware VIII in New York. He is based in Vestal, NY, and Tokyo, Japan.
Nishikawa teaches in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
*WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Pacific Film Archive
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7:00 PT,
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA
*Seeing Them: The Films of Lindsay McIntyre*
Canadian filmmaker and artist Lindsay McIntyre is of Inuit and settler
descent, and much of her work reflects on her complicated family history. A
lover of 16mm film, she embraces handmade techniques, often hand processing
her films and at times creating her own 16mm film stock with handmade
emulsions. Employing interviews and silence in her emotional,
impressionistic explorations, her films (more than forty in twenty years)
include a variety of portraits—of people and family, and of the land and a
former residential school. Among her concerns are silence as resistance,
intergenerational trauma, and “the grandmother effect,” which notes elders’
unique impact on social dependence and survival. McIntyre is an associate
professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on
unceded Coast Salish territories.
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 78: “NOW… AND THEN (FALL 2023)*
This mostly digital program consists of works discussed in the current
issue of Millennium Film Journal. The texts oscillate between temporally
polarized generations, their movement speaking alternately to the past and
future of moving image media. In a world aflood with an infinite array of
screens competing for attention, we hope these pages can offer a moment of
critical reflection on where we’ve been, where we’re going, and where we
are now. –Vince Warne, MFJ 78 Introduction
Programmed by Jonathan Ellis & Grahame Weinbren. All film descriptions are
excerpted from Millennium Film Journal No. 78. Works in this program were
included in the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 69 (2023) and
NYFF 60 (2022).
Ajabu Ajabu *APOSTLES OF CINEMA* (Tanzania, 2023, 18 min, digital)
“A fast-paced examination of the Tanzanian pirate DVD-based DJ movie
culture, offering an exhilarating account of what true democratization of
cinema might look like.” –Susana Bessa
Kenneth Anger *KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS* (U.S., 1965, 3 min, 16mm)
“His very name is provocative, much like the artist himself – a mysterious
creator of worlds steeped in dark beauty and perverse imagination. Anger’s
force of nature emerged from an early age, shaping a unique worldview of
homoerotic obsession and desire, where myth and ecstasy danced to a
soundtrack that would leave an indelible mark on the aesthetics of the 60s
and 70s. He was a cinematic magician, and in his eyes, Lucifer shone as a
beacon of light piercing through cosmic darkness, the patron saint of the
visual arts.” –Brian Butler
Chris Brandt *DANCE VOLDO DANCE* (U.S., 2004, 4 min, digital)
“A humorous, sexy, and hypnotic video is made even more so by the knowledge
that human users are manipulating the characters via controllers, not (as
one might do today) by coding the dance movements. Containing only a single
cut, the film is a technical achievement and an immersive meditation on
video games as sites of embodiment.” –Will DiGravio
Alan Butler *DOWN AND OUT IN LOS SANTOS – LE MOMENT FABRIQUÉ* (Ireland,
2017, 4 min, digital)
“Using the in-game camera, Butler captures [Grand Theft Auto V’s]
non-playable characters (NPCs), specifically the unhoused population of Los
Santos (a city based on Los Angeles), who mostly exist on the game’s
fringe. Butler’s efforts to bring these NPCs back from within the margins
of the game calls attention to how the digital’s ever-growing associations
with the real feed capitalist hegemonies.” –Will DiGravio
Lori Felker *PATIENT* (U.S., 2023, 20 min, digital)
“Looking for different ways of examining trauma, *PATIENT* is especially
convincing, because of how unsentimental and matter-of-fact it is in its
daily staging of queries and reactions between trainee medical
professionals and their assigned ‘patients.’” –Susana Bessa
Lawrence Abu Hamdan *45TH PARALLEL* (Dubai/Beirut, 2022, 15 min, digital)
“Hamdan’s art – or his artistic intervention – is profoundly political. In
his words, it demands deploying all available means, scientific, legal,
religious, or mnemonic, to uncover the truth. Through his research,
evidence collection, and presentation of findings in the form of a
monologue performance, the artist transcends the traditional approach
towards artistic process through reference materials such as documents,
photographs, video clips, digital 3D architectural models, and interviews.”
–Andrzej Jachimczyk
Nicolás Pereda *FLORA* (Mexico, 2022, 11 min, digital)
“Ostensibly an account of the making of a film, it is never made clear to
us which film is being referred to. ‘Why are they acting? Who are they
acting for?’ says a woman. *FLORA* complicates the nature of representation
by simultaneously unpacking and conflating moments across film and time.”
–Camila Galaz
Total running time: ca. 80 min
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Academy Museum
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7:30pm PT,
Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
*Maureen Selwood: Animating the Interior*
In person: Maureen Selwood.
Over her wide-ranging career as a visual artist working in installation,
performance, and particularly animation, Maureen Selwood has created a
pioneering body of work that is vividly evocative and marked by a tender
and intimate poetry. Often focusing on stories, memories, and dreams that
reframe and foreground women’s subjectivity and experience, Selwood’s
animated films employ multiple techniques and textures to showcase her
highly lyrical and unmistakably personal approach to line, color, and
movement. Surrealist moments of surprise and humor combine with themes of
loss, grief, resistance, and empowerment, resulting in a memorable
cinematic sensibility that is deeply empathetic as it externalizes complex
emotions and consciousness with great awareness and beauty.
The Academy Film Archive has been home to Selwood’s collection since 2016,
and this program features restorations of several of her 16mm and 35mm
films, in addition to a selection of digital work.
Programmed and note by Academy Film Archive Senior Film Preservationist
Mark Toscano. All films directed by Maureen Selwood. All films courtesy of
Maureen Selwood and the Academy Film Archive.
*As You Desire Me* 2009. 10 min. USA. Color. Digital.
*Flying Circus: An Imagined Memoir* 1995. 11 min. USA. Color. English.
35mm. Restored print from the Academy Film Archive.
*Hail Mary* 1998. 3 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Restored print from the
Academy Film Archive.
*A Modern Convenience* 2012. 6 min. USA. Color. Digital.
*Drawing Lessons* 2005. 6 min. USA. Color. English. Digital.
*Blue Poodle Chair* 2022. 2 min. USA. Color. English. Digital.
*Pearls* 1990. 1 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Restored print from the
Academy Film Archive.
*This is Just to Say* 1987. 4 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. New print
courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
*The Rug* 1985. 10 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Restored print from the
Academy Film Archive.
*Odalisque* 1980. 12 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Restored print from
the Academy Film Archive.
Total program runtime: 65 min
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Shapeshifters Cinema
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8pm PT,
567 5th St, Oakland, CA
*Cosmic Rays - Sightings*
The Cosmic Rays Experimental Film Festival was founded in 2017 by
filmmakers and educators Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown to showcase
non-commercial short films, live-cinema, and new media projects to
audiences in the Triangle region of North Carolina and across the
Southeastern U.S. Sightings is a special touring program of short films
featured in the 2023 festival that probe the limits of representation.
These films cut across the generic boundaries of documentary and fiction,
the social boundaries of the personal and the political, as well as the
material boundaries of cinema itself. The full program includes: *Prearranged
Signal* by Alina Taalman; *Lockdown Dreamscape* by Nicolas Gebbe; *Lesser
Choices* by Courtney Stephens; *Because the Sky is Blue* by Wenhua Shi; *Hors
Titre* by Wiame Haddad;* Sine Die* by Camila Moreiras; *NE Corridor* by
Joshua Solondz; *Phase II *by Kelly Sears; *Blue Room* by Merete Mueller;
and *Sightings* by Pere Ginard. Running Time: 75 minutes.
*___________________________________________________________________*
*November 17 - 19*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Camera Obscura
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noon - 10:00pm PT,
Hotel Petaluma [205 Kentucky Street], Petaluma, CA
*CAMERA OBSCURA | Ninth Annual Report*
The reconvened *Camera Obscura Film Society*, under the coordinated
co-direction of Amanda Salazar and Jonathan Marlow, will present its *Ninth
Annual Report *over a trio of days from 17-19 November in Petaluma,
California, fifty kilometers (or roughly thirty miles) from the Golden Gate
Bridge, a reasonably scenic drive from all points throughout the Bay Area!
Over the course of an exceptional weekend, "unusual, antique and
experimental films" will screen at a pop-up cinema constructed inside the
grand ballroom of the historic Hotel Petaluma. Numerous programs of
longer-works-paired-with-shorter-works will be presented along with
filmmaker Q&As and related events at a handful of nearby locations within
walking-distance of the hotel.
The original Camera Obscura Film Society was founded in 1957 by Lawrence
Jordan and Bruce Conner (along with a handful of others) in the years
following the conclusion of Frank Stauffacher's legendary "Art in Cinema"
series at SFMOMA. COFS' eclectic programs continued at occasional intervals
until the organization ceased to exist shortly thereafter. The
reconstituted Camera Obscura has unexpectedly existed for considerably
longer than its original incarnation!
As in prior Reports, the complete program of screenings and events will
only be announced a day or two prior to opening night! We are unable to
reveal the specific selections until that time except to note that there
will be films by G. Anthony Svatek, Deborah Stratman, Aleksandr Ptushko,
Karen Merchant, Yui Kiyohara, Liz Keim, Shambhavi Kaul, Hong Sang-soo,
Jerome Hiler, Michael Gitlin, Lori Felker, Nathaniel Dorsky, Bryan Boyce
and many others!
*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*VENTRILOQUIST PUPPETS*
ROSS LIPMAN's VANISHING GODS + CAMLIN's LIVE VENTRILOQUISM +
Back after last season's brilliant Samuel Beckett essay, LA-based
archivist/artist Ross Lipman graces our gallery with a pair of
premieres—new think-pieces that cut beneath the gloss and dross of
commercial cinema to analyze the deeper human psychology that drives the
work in the first place. In his 70-min. *Vanishing Gods *meta-commentary,
played out through marvelous puppets and countless film clips, a
hypnotized dummy manages to recover his memory—in fact the cultural history
of ventriloquism itself, from the prophetic tradition to the modern horror
film...a strange house-of-mirrors journey into our collective
unconscious. Opening is not only Lipman's *Cropping of the Spectacle*--a
deconstruction of the birth and continued ideological power
of television via the 1954 anti-Communist McCarthy Hearings broadcasts--but
also April Camlin's live ventriloquist act, *Glucuous*!! PLUS assorted film
clips of magicians, marionettes, and puppet-performances.
*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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