[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: April 6 - 14, 2024

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*This Week [April 6 - 14, 2024] in Avant Garde Cinema*

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*sorted by submission deadline*
04.10.2024 Oak Cliff Film Festival
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(Late Deadline)
04.15.2024 WNDX Festival of Moving Image
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04.18.2024 Locarno Film Festival
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04.27.2024 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival
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04.30.2024 Laterale Film Festival
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05.01.2024 Chicago Underground Film Festival
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05.05.2024 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
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05.17.2024 Edinburgh Short Film Festival
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05.18.2024 Braziers International Film Festival
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05.30.2024 Analogica
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05.31.2024 25FPS Festival
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05.31.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival
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06.01.2024 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
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06.15.2024 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*

This week's programs (summary):

   - 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
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[March
   26-April 7, Ann Arbor, MI + online]
   - Short Films By Nicolás Pereda
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[April
   6, Berkeley, CA]
   - Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues
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[April
   6, London, England, UK]
   - EC: Walden (Diaries, Notes, And Sketches)
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[April
   6, New York, NY]
   - Nervous Gender
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[April
   6, San Francisco, CA]
   - Sambizanga
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[April
   7, Berkeley, CA]
   - EC: Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania
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[April
   7, New York, NY]
   - Anto(n) Astudillo To Become The Person I Have Always Been
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[April
   8-11, New York, NY]
   - EC: Marie Menken
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[April
   11, New York, NY]
   - EC: Robert Nelson
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[April
   11, New York, NY]
   - SLUDGE Film Screening II
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[April
   11, Rochester, NY]
   - EC: Georges Méliès: Programs 1-3
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[April
   13-14, New York, NY]
   - SF Psycho-Geography1
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[April
   13, San Francisco, CA]
   - Vitalina Varela
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[April
   14, Berkeley, CA]
   - Mono No Aware Community Screening Program
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[April
   14, New York, NY]
   - Margaret Tait / Luke Fowler
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[April
   14-27, New York, New York]
   - The Long Conversation
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   [ongoing, online]
   - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
   online]

*STARTING BEFORE APRIL 6, 2024* *March 26 - April 7*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Ann Arbor Film Festival
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*62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival*
March 26-31 (in person) & March 26 - April 7 (online)
Presenting 10 feature films and 100 short films in competition in person
and online. Juror programs and selected other programs will be available
online. Additional in-person-only special programs, performances, panel
discussions, and exhibitions will be presented at the Michigan Theater,
State Theatre, and other locations in downtown Ann Arbor. Complete schedule
and tickets at the AAFF website linked above.

*SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Pacific Film Archive
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7PM PST,
2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720
*Short Films by Nicolás Pereda*
One of the major voices of contemporary Mexican cinema (and currently a
film professor at UC Berkeley), Nicolás Pereda has been featured in
retrospectives around the world. This program offers a rare opportunity to
view some of his evocative short films on the big screen, from his
early *Interview
with the Earth*, a docu-fiction hybrid look at how two children deal with
tragedy, to the recent *Flora*, where an onlooker demands a role in
Pereda’s films. *The Palace* opens the doors to a large house shared by
multiple women, while *Dear Chantal* renders a moving, magical homage to
Chantal Akerman.

*Flora*, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 2022, 11min, DCP
*Dear Chantal*, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 2021, 5min, DCP
*The Palace*, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 2013, 34min, DCP
*Interview with the Earth*, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 2008, 18min, DCP

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Close-Up
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6.30pm GMT+1
Close-Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater Street, London E1 6HR, UK
*Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues.*
Films by Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers, Luke Fowler, Anthea Kennedy and Ian
Wiblin, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Renate Sami, Peter Todd.

“There is no language. There is no art. There is no knowledge. There is but
film as film: the beginning and the eternal moment.” – Gregory J.
Markopoulos.

“In poetry, something else happens. Hard to say what it is. Presence, let’s
say, soul or spirit, an empathy with whatever it is that’s dwelt upon,
feeling for it – to the point of identification". – Margaret Tait

This latest programme of artists' films in an ongoing series curated by
Peter Todd brings together filmmakers with overlapping histories,
friendships, and dialogues. Ute Aurand and Peter Todd met thanks to the
late Margaret Tait and remain active in the exhibition and preservation of
her remarkable 'film poems'. Robert Beavers takes forward the late
Markopoulos' films with Berlin restoration workshops steadily presenting
fresh 16mm prints of his epic, 80-hour *Eniaios* at the Temenos site in
Arcadia, Greece. Rare 16mm prints of Markopoulos’ and Tait’s work courtesy
of Temenos Verein and the Estate of Margaret Tait. This programme also
presents work by Renate Sami, Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin’s. Luke Fowler’s
acclaimed recent work includes *Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret
Tait*.

In fond memory of Renate Sami (10.02.1935 - 24.12.2023)

*Bliss*, Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967, 6 min, 16mm
*Cape Cod*, Renate Sami, 2018, 3 min
*Fenster*, Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin, 2024, 5’30 min, World Premiere
*Four Diamonds*, Ute Aurand, 2016, 4’30 min, 16mm
*The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo*, Margaret Tait, 1955, 7 min, 16mm
*A Visit with Robert*, Luke Fowler, 2013, 3 min, 16mm, World Premiere
*The Suppliant*, Robert Beavers, 2010, 5 min, 16mm
*Together*, Peter Todd, 2018, 3 min, 16mm
*A Year/Ein Jahr*, Renate Sami, 2011, 12 min

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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6pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: WALDEN (DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES)*
by Jonas Mekas, 1968-69, 180 min, 16mm
“Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around
with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends,
New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others
ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one
writes diaries, it’s a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back
at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is
to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get
it now, or you don’t get it at all.” –Jonas Mekas

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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
*NERVOUS GENDER*
SUSAN STRYKER ON CRONENWETT's MAGGOTS AND MEN + TRANS SHORTS
Living right here in the City, Susan Stryker is a professor and filmmaker
whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality...and is in fact one of
the world's leading experts on Trans history and sensibility. We are
delighted to have her in the house tonight to introduce the premiere
revival of Cory Cronenwett's *Maggots and Men*, a utopian re-visioning of
the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of
over 100 transgender actors! The hour production--written
by ATA staffer Ilona Berger and shot here in SF with many of our
neighbors--paints a portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at
the Kronstadt garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the
new Bolshevik state. Stryker contextualizes this breakthrough work within
new gender theories and practices, answering questions and affording
precious insider insights. The evening is opened by 3 (maybe more?)
personal essays on the non-binary experience: Benja Thomas' (in person) new
and exquisite *leafmold*, Shani Heckman's already-classic *Wrong Bathroom*,
and the debut of Anto Astudillo's *How to Make an Avatar and Render my Body*.
Free Bud Lite to support their trans stance!

*SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Pacific Film Archive
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4PM PST, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720
*Sambizanga*
One of the first feature films made by a woman in Africa, *Sambizanga* was
cowritten by filmmaker Sarah Maldoror’s husband, Mário Pinto de Andrade, a
leader in the Angolan resistance. “The film was seen to be so effective at
mobilizing action that the Portuguese colonial authorities banned it from
being screened in their then province of Angola. It was first seen publicly
in Angola only after the country won its independence in 1974. Based on a
novel by Luandino Vieira, a political prisoner of the Portuguese from 1961
to 1974, *Sambizanga* is a fictionalized chronicle of the arrest and fatal
imprisonment of a man whose underground activities were an impenetrable
secret to all around him. It was at a prison near the Luandan suburb of
Sambizanga on February 4, 1961, that the first uprising of what was to
become the Angolan resistance movement was staged. The film is set a few
weeks before that uprising, during a time of increasingly desperate and
repressive security measures by the colonial government” (Tom Mulcaire,
Cabinet Magazine).

We will play a selection of music featured in Ntone Edjabe’s new book *La
Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror *beginning at 3:30pm, when the doors open.

*Sambizanga*, Sarah Maldoror, Angola, 1972, 97min, DCP
preceeded by: *Foreword to Guns for Banta, (Préface à des fusils pour
Banta)*, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, France, 2011, 27min, digital

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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
*EC: REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA*
by Jonas Mekas, 1971-72, 82 min, 16mm-to-35mm
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation.
Special thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise.

“The film consists of four parts. The first part contains some footage from
my first years in America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971
in Lithuania. The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent
eight months in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971)
with Peter Kubelka, [Hermann] Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc.
The film deals with home, memory, and culture.” –Jonas Mekas

*MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024* *April 8 - 11*
Venue type: *Both physical and online*
Microscope Gallery
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7:30pm ET,
525 W. 25th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Event URL:
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*Anto(n) Astudillo To become the person I have always been*
A solo screening of film and video works by New York-based artist Anto(n)
Astudillo. The screening will take place both in person and online, with a
Q&A with the artist following the screening, in person and online.

In the seven works on the program, Astudillo considers the effects of two
concurrent personal transitions: the gender affirming process of hormone
replacement therapy (HRT) and their experience as a US immigrant from Chile
during the past twelve years.

Social and political upheaval is also at the center of the artist’s
concerns and practice, including several works in the program. *In
Person:* April
8, 7:30pm.
*Online:* goes live April 8 7:00PM ET thru April 11, 11pm PT at the URL
above.

Anto(n) Astudillo (they/he) is a Lenapehoking/NYC-based filmmaker,
performance artist, and curator of trans experience from Wallmapu
(Santiago, Chile). Astudillo works with 16mm film, video, and performance
to create moving portraits of personal and political themes, navigating
dynamic interconnections between embodied practices and experimental cinema.

*THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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6:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: MARIE MENKEN*
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

*GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN* (1957, 5 min, 16mm)
*ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER* (1961, 4 min, 16mm)
*EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR* (1961, 4 min, 16mm, silent)
*NOTEBOOK* (1962-63, 10 min, 16mm, silent)
*GO! GO! GO!* (1962-64, 12 min, 16mm, silent)
*ANDY WARHOL* (1965, 17 min, 16mm)
*LIGHTS* (1964-66, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, silent)

“Marie Menken pioneered the radical transformation of the handheld, somatic
camera into a formal matrix that would underpin an entire work in the films
she made between 1945 and 1965. […] The extraordinary cinematic style that
I have been calling Menken’s somatic camera has been her most influential
gift to the American avant-garde cinema. It is an embodiment of the
Emersonian invention of a pictorial air, the spiritual emancipation
automatically brought about by ‘certain mechanical changes, a small
alteration in our local position.’ It is also analogous to the equally
Emersonian somatic theory of poesis Charles Olson was developing at nearly
the same time: his emphasis on breath and proprioception corresponds to
Menken’s identification of the camera with her body in motion and her
cultivation of the respiratory and nervous agitation of the handheld camera
even in its quietest moments.” –P. Adams Sitney, EYES UPSIDE DOWN

Total running time: ca. 65 min

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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8:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: ROBERT NELSON*

*THE GREAT BLONDINO *(1967, 42 min, 16mm. Preservation print, with thanks
to the Academy Film Archive.)
“The original Blondino was a 19th-century tightrope artist who among other
feats crossed Niagara Falls trundling a wheelbarrow. In this film, Nelson
sees Blondino as a metaphor for those who still try. Too subtle to be
allegorical, the picture is in the shape of a quixotic search in which the
goal is the journey and the means is the end.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

“It is…difficult to get at the rich visual texture that is the film’s most
striking attribute. Long stretches are concerned with Blondino’s visions,
dreams, and dreams within dreams. The film unfolds in brief recurring
patterns of imagery. Even the more straightforward sections are dense with
interpolated newsreel and TV commercial footage, visual gags, and homemade
special effects. The net effect is funny, seamless, and elusive.” –J.
Hoberman, “A Filmmakers Filming Monograph”

*BLEU SHUT *(1970, 33 min, 16mm. Preservation print, with thanks to the
Academy Film Archive.)
“Boat-name quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer’s *JOAN OF ARC* in montage with
a sultry whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a
passionate embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating
Dreyer and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What’s
happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid.” –Leo Regan

Total running time: ca. 80 min

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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Visual Studies Workshop
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7pm ET + 6pm open studio,
Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY
*SLUDGE Film Screening II*
6pm Open Studio with Project Space Resident Rianna Jade Parker
7pm SLUDGE Film Screening II

The VSW Film Archive contains over 5000 16mm films primarily originating
from public and university libraries. VSW values this rare chunk of media
and cultural history on behalf of the artists and researchers who find
useful information and source material within.

16mm film of the 20th century both reflected and influenced American
cultural life, with many films produced to homogenize educational standards
and national viewpoints, for better and worse. Film archives are left to
reckon with this cultural heritage, confronting a varied field of broadcast
values that, in 2024, feel strange and distant, yet foundational and
familiar.

SLUDGE takes its name from an extrasensory TikTok fad of simultaneously
showing two or more unrelated videos on one screen – an extreme example of
the evolution of our attention spans. By looking at films from the past in
this exaggerated approach to media consumption, the educational,
documentary, propaganda, and animated films of the 1940s-80s become rich
texts for re-interpretation.

The SLUDGE Film series offers an evening’s experiment of mashed up titles
and topics from VSW’s 16mm collection, making new meaning from old formats
and playing with our new tempos of media consumption. This series is
curated and projected by Mary Lewandowski, VSW’s Curatorial & Research
Associate.

*SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2024* *April 13 - 14*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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times vary, see below,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS: Programs 1-3*
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All films in this program are b&w and silent.

*THE CONJUROR / L’ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE* (1899, 1 min, 35mm)
*TRIP TO THE MOON / VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE* (1902, 12 min, 35mm)
*THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS* (1905,
21 min, 35mm)
*MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU DIABLE* (1906, 18 min,
35mm)
*DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L’HUILE* (1907, 5 min,
35mm)

Magician, master of special effects, Méliès broke with the realistic
(Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated unlimited fantasy and artificiality
(in its best sense).

“All early filmmakers were fascinated at first with the camera’s
possibilities for tricks and illusionism. In fact, many were magicians
before becoming filmmakers. But it was Georges Méliès, the French magician,
producer of spectacles, actor, artist, and poet, who had the imagination
and enthusiasm to fully exploit its marvels. His films are spectacles that
amaze and delight. He created fantastic visions – all of them curious, some
of them comic.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Total running time: ca. 60 min

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The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent.

*A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE* (1909, 8 min, 35mm)
*THE CASCADE OF FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU* (1904, 3 min, 35mm)
*VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE VOYAGE À TRAVERS L’IMPOSSIBLE* (1904, 20
min, 35mm)
*THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA FÉE CARABOSSE* (1906, 13 min, 35mm)
Total running time: ca. 50 min

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*EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS / ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES* (1903, 3 min, 16mm)
*THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE PUITS FANTASTIQUE* (1903, 3 min, 16mm)
*TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA MANCHE* (1907, 25 min, 35mm)
*THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT* (1903, 3 min, 16mm)
*THE DOCTOR’S SECRET / HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE* (1909, 11 min, 35mm)
*SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN OU LES MESAVENTURES D’UN
BUVEUR* (1909,
5 min, 35mm)
Total running time: ca. 55 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
*SF PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY1*
DANIEL + PLOTNICK + GREEN/BRUNO +
The first of two Psycho-Geo shows sports a sterling roster of
amazing SF makers, both young and old(er). In-person are Danny
Plotnick, Dana Smith, Russ Forster, and Bill Daniel...all sho' nuff
art-gods walking among us! The opening half is mostly about
turn-of-the-(new)-century action with a massive Mission School presence,
from prodigal son Daniel's *Quake* *Scam*, to Margaret
Kilgallen and Twist taggin' train cars, to Rigo throwing
up SOMA billboards, and to Angerame's *SFAI* (RIP)--where many of us on
this program met. *Russ Forster*'s banjo-busking and *William Wiley*'s
billboard-art (*Void—*now at SFO) open the evening, and the first half is
closed by *Sam Green/Christian Bruno*'s *Pie Fight '69* reconstruction,
just 11 days before its subject, the SF Int. Film Fest, initiates its next
iteration! The second half is hand-picked from a parade of Frisco decades,
from the '76* Market Street *memento mori *Stolen Movie* (Baldwin), to the
'85 49ers Super Bowl, to the 90s *Meet the Realtors* (Whispered Media), to
the Aughts' *Lombard Luchadores* (Gorrell), to the 20-teens' *Mission* *Miracle
Mile* (Smith), to the 2023 *Elevator to Stardom* (Plotnick). Come early
for Waymo burnings, free postcards, and Gilbert's Shapeshifters beer,
AND Bill Daniel's West Coast launch of his new *Mostly True* zine!

*SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Pacific Film Archive
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4PM PST,
2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720
*VITALINA VARELA*
by Pedro Costa, Portugal, 2019, 124min, DCP
Vitalina Varela travels to Lisbon from Cape Verde, only to find out that
her husband, from whom she has been separated for decades, was buried three
days prior. Based on her own story, Varela’s emotionally potent performance
delves into the grief that both drives her and haunts her. In what might be
Pedro Costa’s most visually stunning work, the “society of Black Cape
Verdean immigrants whom Costa films is presented as a world apart . . .
enshrouded in an endless night at the margins of Portuguese society. Pushed
into homelessness, forced into a cycle of crime and incarceration,
relegated to substandard housing, the residents of Cova de Moura inhabit a
perpetual realm of furtive darkness that offers them the cover in which to
survive outside the gaze of hostile authority and the menacing chill of
official indifference. . . . These immigrants [which include longtime
collaborator Ventura] endure an apathy of inner colonialism, in which the
hostility that they face and the exclusion in which they live has seeped
into their bones and turned their energies self-consuming and
self-exhausting” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). Winner of the Golden Leopard
at Locarno, along with the Best Actress prize for Varela.

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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 Spring 2024.

This program 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.

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*April 14 - 27*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*MARGARET TAIT / LUKE FOWLER*

*BEING IN A PLACE – A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT* finds one of Scotland’s
preeminent contemporary experimental filmmakers, Luke Fowler (whose
extensive body of work includes the film cycle *A GRAMMAR FOR LISTENING*, *ALL
DIVIDED SELVES*, and *ELECTRO-PYTHAGORAS*, among many others) paying
tribute to one of the most illustrious of his Scottish forebears, the great
Margaret Tait, whose work is still not sufficiently celebrated here in the
U.S.

Tait’s path to the cinema was an unusual one: her initial training was in
medicine, and she practiced both abroad with the Royal Army Medical Corps
during WWII and back in the UK in the late 1940s. But she had also, in the
immediate postwar period, studied at the Centro Sperimentale film school in
Rome. And eventually, in the early 1950s, she began making her own films,
which span or combine short-form documentary, family portraiture,
impressionistic experimental filmmaking, and animation. Her unconventional
path – as well as her parallel identity as a writer of poetry and short
stories – is reflected in her cinema, which is distinctly noncommercial,
personal, and lyrical. Her body of work is also proudly local: making more
than thirty films during her lifetime, Tait focused intently on the
landscapes, people, and stories of Scotland, and in particular of the
Orkney islands, where she was born.

On the occasion of a visit to NYC from Luke Fowler in April, we’ll be
screening his invaluable portrait film, *BEING IN A PLACE*, as well as a
program of his own recent short films. Later in the month, we’ll host the
filmmaker Ute Aurand, who introduced Tait’s work to audiences in Germany in
the mid-1990s, and visited the artist herself in Orkney before her death.
Following on from her presentations at the Harvard Film Archive in
mid-April, Aurand will present two programs of Tait’s work here at
Anthology.

Very special thanks to Ute Aurand and Luke Fowler; and to Haden Guest &
Alexandra Vasile (Harvard Film Archive); Hanan Coumal (LUX); Angelika
Ramlow (Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst); and Calum Sutherland
(The Modern Institute).
  Upcoming Screenings RECENT SHORT FILMS BY LUKE FOWLER
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Luke Fowler
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MARGARET TAIT PGM 1
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MARGARET TAIT PGM 2
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April 27 at 7:30 PM

*ONGOING*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Riverwest Radio
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*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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