[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: September 9 - 17, 2023
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09.03.2023 PRISME #6
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09.06.2023 Punto de Vista
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09.08.2023 Light Matter Film Festival
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09.08.2023 Slamdance Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
09.08.2023 Coney Island Film Festival
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09.30.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
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(9th Deadline)
10.01.2023 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival
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10.02.2023 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
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10.05.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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10.15.2023 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival
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10.17.2023 Student Experimental Film Festival Binghamton
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(2022-23 Student Films ONLY)
11.01.2023 Alchemy Film and Moving Festival
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11.01.2023 Experiments in Cinema <https://www.experimentsincinema.org/>
11.30.2023 Lightpress Grants
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01.07.2024 Gravitational Lensing
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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]
- 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]
- Jan Soldat
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[September
8-12, New York, NY]
- A Magic Lantern Show: Nellie Bly Around The World In 72 Days
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[September
9, Staatsburg, NY]
- A Tribute To Kenneth Anger
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[September
12, Rochester, NY]
- It Matters What & In vivo
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[September
14, London, England, UK]
- The Long Conversation
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[ongoing, online]
- 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
online]
*STARTING BEFORE SEPTEMBER 9, 2023*
*March 2022 - Summer 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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*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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*September 8 - 12*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*JAN SOLDAT*
While it may be a truism to say that sex pervades the cinema, few
experimental or documentary filmmakers have explored the subject as
persistently, thoroughly, or in such a distinctive and unusual way, as Jan
Soldat. Over the course of the last 15 years, and across more than 100
films, Soldat has devoted himself to mapping – with a radical lack of
judgment and a profound yet unshowy empathy – the myriad forms that human
desire can take, and the vast variety of sexual practices that exist. In
his ever-growing body of (mostly short) films, Soldat documents individuals
engaging in erotic acts, either alone or together, sometimes in the context
of ongoing relationships but often via brief, temporary encounters. While
his films focus almost entirely on gay male sexuality, they nevertheless
survey a vast landscape of erotic activity, from relatively conventional
practices to a dizzying variety of kinks, fetishes, and sometimes
disturbingly deviant behaviors or fantasies.
What unites all the films, however – even those that are most extreme and
at times difficult to watch – is the degree to which their focus is less on
sexual acts per se than on the phenomenon of desire, both in and of itself
and as a prism through which Soldat is able to construct an unusually
honest and inclusive portrait of human behavior, psychology, desire, and
interdynamics. Though sex – sometimes in its more shocking manifestations –
is almost always front and center, the act itself typically takes up only a
small part of each film. Soldat focuses instead on the deeply human mixture
of awkwardness, vulnerability, social protocol, and tentative connection
that frames sexual intercourse, and devotes much of the films’ running
times to interviews with his subjects, who speak (eloquently) about their
desires but also about their lives in general. Working in collaboration
with his protagonists, Soldat has created a kaleidoscopic body of work that
comprises a profound and empathetic investigation into the human body,
desire, and the undeniable urge towards interconnection, both physical and
emotional.
*---> Please note: some of the films in this series contain graphic sexual
content, and certain viewers may find them disturbing <---*
This program is co-presented by Erste Bank and Deutsches Haus at NYU, with
additional support from the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.
Special thanks to Jan Soldat; Juliane Camfield & Sarah Girner (Deutsches
Haus at NYU); Ruth Goubran (Erste Bank); and Melina Tsiamos (Austrian
Cultural Forum New York).
Upcoming Screenings
JAN SOLDAT - PROGRAM 1: BLIND DATES
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September 8 at 7:30 PM
JAN SOLDAT - PROGRAM 2: PORTRAITS
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September 9 at 7:30 PM
JAN SOLDAT - PROGRAM 3
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September 10 at 7:30 PM
JAN SOLDAT - PROGRAM 4
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September 12 at 7:30 PM
*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
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7pm ET,
Staatsburgh State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Road, Staatsburg, NY 12580
*A Magic Lantern Show: Nellie Bly Around the World in 72 Days*
>From the beautiful east portico of Staatsburgh’s mansion, enjoy a
delightful journey around the world, through 19th-century magic lantern
slides, illustrating the exotic globe-trotting and record-breaking trip of
Nellie Bly.
A small-town girl with little education, but possessing blazing ambition
and talent, Nellie Bly rose from obscurity to worldwide fame by the age of
23. Following her groundbreaking muckraking journalism, exposing the
horrors of a mental asylum by going undercover as an inmate, Bly continued
to harness the power of sensational journalism by embarking on a journey
around the world, setting out in 1899 to beat the fictional record of Jules
Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days.
Shown with an 1890s magic lantern, “Nellie Bly” is an illustrated
presentation with 19th-century glass lantern slides, tracing the exotic
locations of her astounding journey. Award-winning magic lanternists, Dawn
Elliott and Joel Schlemowitz will transport their audience across the
globe, from the portico of Staatsburgh’s mansion on a beautiful,
late-summer evening. Refreshments and Nellie Bly trivia with prizes
included in the ticket price; perfect for ages 14 and up!
The event will take place out of doors on the lawn. Bring a folding chair
or a blanket.
*Rain date*: September 23. Ticket refunds by request only
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Visual Studies Workshop
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7pm ET,
Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY
*A Tribute to Kenneth Anger*
Kenneth Anger (February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023), a prolific underground
experimental filmmaker who explored ritual, the occult, and queerness in
his decades spanning career. In tribute to Anger’s legacy, VSW will screen
a hypnotically transgressive and salaciously saturated experimental film
program by the Overlord of the Underground. We will honor Anger’s
experimental legacy with a screening of some of his most iconic and
visually vivacious films. Anger was a prolific underground experimental
filmmaker who explored ritual, the occult, and queerness in his decades
spanning career.
VSW will screen 16mm prints from the VSW Film archive as well as from
Canyon Cinema, including: *Puce Moment* (1949), *Inauguration of the
Pleasure Dome* (1954), *Scorpio Rising* (1964), and *Kustom Kar Kommandos*
(1965).
*THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Close Up Film Centre
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20:15 BST,
Close-Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater Street, London, E1 6HR
*It Matters What & In Vivo*
This programme is a continuation of an enduring dialogue between Karel
Doing and Franci Duran, two experimental filmmakers who are both interested
in Donna Haraway's multi-species thinking. An initial exchange took place
in 2018 at the Film Farm in Canada where they both experimented with
phytography, a technique that makes it possible to inscribe detailed images
of plants on film emulsion. Both films combine microscopic vegetal worlds
with scavenged found footage to haunting soundscapes. Followed by a Q&A
session with the artists hosted by Chris Dymond.
*It Matters What*, Franci Duran, 2019, 9’06 min
Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an
exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription.
The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human
relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist
Donna Haraway.
*In Vivo*, Karel Doing, 2021, 61 min
Reality has countless layers, many of these will remain invisible to the
untrained eye. In this elegy humans appear like ants, walking around their
habitat in a pre-programmed way, while animals and plants act like
individuals. This upside-down world has a strange attraction which is at
once alienating and deeply familiar
*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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