[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: May 4 - 12, 2024
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05.05.2024 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
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05.06.2024 Currents @ NYFF
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05.10.2024 aDifferent Program
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05.15.2024 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris
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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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05.30.2024 Cairo Video Festival
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05.31.2024 Laterale Film Festival
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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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05.31.2024 Interbay Cinema Society (ICS) Lightpress Grants
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06.01.2024 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
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06.01.2024 Chicago Underground Film Festival
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06.15.2024 RPM Fest - Revolutions Per Minute Festival
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06.28.2024 Duluth Superior Film Festival
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06.30.2024 Thomas Edison Film Festival
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07.14.2024 Cindependent Film Festival – NEW Experimental Section
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*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*
This week's programs (summary):
- Seeing The City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York
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[May
3-7, New York, NY]
- Video Rituals
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[May
4, Brooklyn, NY]
- Free Palestine
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[May
4, San Francisco, CA]
- Jordan Belson / Erik Davis
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[May
5, New York, NY]
- Connectivity Through Cinema: Landscapes of The Future Memory Exp Films
from Serbia
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[May
6, Bklyn, NY]
- Maya Jeffereis Passages Screening w/ Live Performance
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[May
6, New York, NY]
- Louise Landes Levi
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[May
7, New York, NY]
- Atlas Variations: The Moving-Image Work of Charles Atlas
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[May
8-June 27, New York, NY]
- Cult of Conspiracy
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[May
11, 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 SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024* *May 3 - 7*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Film at Lincoln Center
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Film at Lincoln Center - Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts, 144 W 65th St, New York, NY
*Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York*
Film at Lincoln Center and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative present “Seeing the
City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Collection and Beyond,” to be presented at FLC from May 3–7. The series
will feature a selection of films from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative catalog
and elsewhere that paint a unique portrait of the city, with many presented
on 16mm.
An iconic, oftentimes cliched, cinematic setting for hundreds of films, New
York has regularly played a starring role in the history of cinema.
Narrative films set in New York City are almost a subgenre unto themselves
and have received copious attention. Less well explored are visions of the
city anchored in exploration, experimentation, and subversive political
commitment. This set of programs offers a diverse and engaging introduction
to some of the scores of films in The Film-Makers’ Cooperative’s collection
(and beyond) that explore the city. From the lyrical evocations of the
anonymity of the crowd and mass transit, and a clutch of visionary works
examining the built environment, to sets of films exploring housing, the
lurking shadow of ever-encroaching gentrification, and works on specific
areas of the city, this selection gives an alternative vision of one of the
most filmed and photographed metropolises on earth.
Organized by Tom Day and Dan Sullivan. Tom Day would like to thank the
entire Film-Makers’ Cooperative team, especially interns Haley Aaskow,
Chris Stoddard, and Lucy Talbot Allen
*SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Millennium Film Workshop
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8pm EDT,
167 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
*Video Rituals*
A program of new work by Erica Schreiner and David Finkelstein, including
Schreiner’s short Blue Transcendence (2022) and the world premiere of
Finkelstein’s feature Dirt. A series of video rituals, designed to connect
us to ancient networks and gateways to hidden knowledge, these films
celebrate video technology for its magickal potential. The program is 90
minutes and will be followed by a discussion with the artists.
*Blue Transcendence *(2022, 9 minutes, Erica Schreiner).
A montage of blue butterflies, a performance in blue, and time lapse of a
candle burning during a magical spell. The narration guides the audience
through a psychedelic experience, reflecting on real friendships and the
importance of being silly. Filmed by Erica Schreiner on her VHS camera in
her apartment.
*Dirt* (2024, 79 minutes, David Finkelstein, world premiere).
An extended poetic meditation on the American relation to the soil, and the
energies buried within it. Notions of “dirtiness” and “cleanliness” are
re-examined. Centuries of history, of conquering and re-conquering, lie
beneath our feet, and the return of the vanquished is inevitable. There has
also always been an alternative possibility, within the American landscape,
inspired by indigenous culture, of a more peaceful relationship with the
soil, the resting place of our ancestors.
A collage of poetic imagery, music, and invocatory language, the film
follows two men in a series of esoteric experiments. Their words take us to
unexpected landscapes, populated by revengeful toasters, flying fiddles, an
unusual game of tennis, and a mountaintop crowned with an electric guitar.
A postmodern video opera, *Dirt* bathes the viewer in music, language, and
visual spectacle.
ERICA SCHREINER is an experimental video and performance artist. Based in
New York City, she shoots on VHS, while performing before the camera. Erica
creates allegorical, ethereal video art that combines feminine and
anarchistic themes, ritual and sensuality. Manipulating existing objects,
or building sets to perform in and film, Erica creates surreal, intimate
worlds on VHS video, employing her clearly defined style. Schreiner has
completed more than 100 performative video art pieces, including two
feature films and several music videos. In 2021, Erica received a New York
City Artist Corps Grant for her second feature film, *The Special People*.
DAVID FINKELSTEIN is a Guggenheim Fellow in film/video. His video work has
been featured in numerous film festivals around the world and has won
awards at 28 of them. In 2013, he was an invited artist at the Traverse
Vidéo Festival in Toulouse, France. His two feature films premiered at New
Filmmakers in New York. He has had solo screenings of his films in Bilbao,
London, Porto, New York, Chicago, Portland, Austin, North Carolina,
Minnesota, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. His
work has been funded by The Fund for Creative Communities, The Field,
Movement Research, Meet the Composer, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BACA, and
other sources.
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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
*FREE PALESTINE*
MALAS' THE DREAM + SALLOUM + SABA +
In collaboration with black hole cinematheque and from the river to the
sea collective, we present an evening of films in solidarity with
the Palestinian people and their struggle for liberation. Curated and
introduced by our righteous East Bay ally Tooth, tonight's program is built
around Mohammad Malas' 1987 film, *The Dream (Al-Manam)*, which centers
around interviews with Palestinians living in forced exile among the
refugee camps of Lebanon in the early years of the civil war and just prior
to the massacres of Sabra and Shatila. The film uniquely focuses on the
role that dreams play in the daily existence and struggles of the
inhabitants of the camps. The first half of the night's program--
featuring Jayce Salloum's 2003 film *untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never
ends*, and Mary Jirmanus Saba's brand new film *Mahdi Amel: The Colonial
Mode of Production--*hopes to resonate further on *Al-Manam*'s dialectical
relationship between the multivalent concept of dreams (both as oneiric
visions and ideological ambitions) and the lived realities of those
subjected to the generational and ongoing trauma of displacement, war,
genocide, and cultural erasure, and their steadfast resistance in the face
of it all. Benefit for Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
*SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*JORDAN BELSON / ERIK DAVIS*
In conjunction with the third solo exhibition of the pioneering
experimental filmmaker and artist Jordan Belson, at Matthew Marks Gallery
in New York, Erik Davis will present and discuss Belson’s films. Noted
author of “Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of
Information”, Erik Davis is one of our foremost scholars of esoteric
mysticism. He lives in San Francisco and writes extensively about West
Coast Post-War culture. He will be presenting a program of rare 16mm prints
from public and private collections, and will discuss the filmmaker and his
work.
For more info about the exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, visit:
https://matthewmarks.com/
Titles will include:
*WORLD* (1970, 7 min, 16mm)
*MEDITATION* (1971, 6 min, 16mm)
*CHAKRA* (1972, 8 min, 16mm)
*LIGHT* (1973, 8 min, 16mm)
*CYCLES* (1974, 10 min, 16mm. Made in collaboration with Stephen Beck.)
*MUSIC OF THE SPHERES* (1977, 10 min, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 60 min
*MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
MONO NO AWARE
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7 PM EST US,
72 Rockwell Place, Brooklyn, New York
*CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS: LANDSCAPES OF THE FUTURE MEMORY
Contemporary program of short experimental films from Serbia Presented by
Milan Milosavljević IN PERSON*
This program consists of 9 short films which were mainly produced and
co-produced at Academic Film Center of Students’ City Cultural Center in
Belgrade, Serbia and also screened at Alternative Film/Video festival.
Academic Film Center Belgrade was founded in 1958, in what was then
socialist Yugoslavia, under the name of Academic Cine Club. Through its
long history, thanks to the artists who created their films and videos
there, it became one of the most significant and most awarded film clubs in
Yugoslavia. Some of the most famous authos of Yugoslavian cinematography
were members of AFC (like Tomislav Gotovac, Živojin Pavlović, Kokan
Rakonjac, Dragoslav Lazić, Sava Trifković...) but also exceptional
amateur and alternative filmmakers, and in the 21st century visual artists
and activist (Ivko Šešić, Nikola Đurić, Bojan Jovanović, Miodrag
Milošević, Igor Toholj, Doplgenger Artist Duo, Julijana Terek, Zorica
Kijevčanin, Biljana Belić, Ivana Todorović...) In 1976 AFC became part
of the Student’s City Cultural Center, public institution for student
culture, funded by the government.
In 1982 AFC founded the Alternative Film Archive to take care of its film
and video heritage that now counts over 800 films and videos produced by
AFC. Also, in the same year, AFC started Alternative Film/Video Festival
(1982-1990, renewed in 2003), one of the oldest festival in the region
dedicated exclusively to experimental and alternative filmmaking since
beginning. AFC is still an open space for experimentation in filmmaking
process of all types, especially for students and young authors.
Landscapes in all works are dealing with some sort of memory through
images, of the places, feelings or personal/public footage which soon will
be replaced as a future cinema memory.
*Tomorrow*, 2023 / 3’ / Directed by: Marko Dabović
*Dust*, 2022 / 9’19’’ / Directed by: Filip Markovinović
*Minutiae: One Film, Two Cuts*, 2022 / 6’6’’ / Directed by: Miljana Niković
*Dreamland*, 2018 / 13' / Directed by: Allan Brown
*Surfacing Images*, 2023 / 5’ / Directed by: Tara Najd Ahmadi
*Underwater Diaries*, 2023 / 3’26’’ / Directed by: Ivan Velisavljevic
*One*, 2023 / 15’54’’ / Directed by: Nadine Poulain
*Heterotopia*, 2024 / 7’ / Directed by: Nikola Nikolić
*A Record of Landscape Without Prehistory*, 2020 / 14’ 22′′ / Directed by:
Doplgenger
TRT: 76 minutes
MONO NO AWARE SCREENING SERIES: The CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA series will
present the work of artists, film-makers and curators who are traveling or
presenting special interactive programs in-person. Our hope is to engage
the community by showing work with a focus on post-screening discussion.
This series is made possible by support from the New York State Council on
the Arts (NYSCA).
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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Microscope Gallery
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7:30PM ET,
525 W. 25th Street, 2nd Floor
*Maya Jeffereis Passages Screening w/ live performance*
A solo screening of video works along with a live video lecture performance
by New York-based artist Maya Jeffereis. The event will take place in
person only, and will be followed by a Q&A with the artist.
The program features three short videos by Jeffereis, which through
dream-like and entrancing imagery that often merges hand-processed film
with archival photographic materials and views of nature, conveys the
experiences of the Asian diaspora in the US while examining Orientalism and
the history of colonialism.
Jeffereis’ videos often show a profound, almost metamorphic relationship
between workers and the environment they work within: salt water becomes
the their tears and blood, and the sweat from their bodies waters the
harvested fruits of the land. The work *Fields Fallen from Distant
Songs* underlines
the significance of songs — which are unbound by limitations of time and
physical borders — in carrying the memory and knowledge of Japanese
immigrants in Hawaii working in the sugar cane plantations, who were like
many others “caught in the cross tides of empires.”
The exoticized women subject to the colonial gaze are visible, or even
hypervisible and placed at the center of the attention, yet remaining
completely unseen. Jeffereis asks whether the disappearance of their
figures as achieved through digital erasure or forms of abstraction may
offer a remedy. Ultimately, the artist seeks ways to liberate such depicted
bodies from the imprisonment of the frame, in art, and more broadly from
the imposition of a unidirectional gaze.
The artist will also be performing *The Moment Before a Dream*, a live
video lecture rethinking “archival spaces of darkness as sites of
emancipation, refuge, and reinvention” for exoticized and fetishized women
put on display at world fairs.
*TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*LOUISE LANDES LEVI*
SPECIAL SCREENING AND LIVE PERFORMANCE!
Since the mid-1960s, poet, musician, and Sanskrit scholar Louise Landes
Levi has been traveling the world and performing with musicians such as
Terry Riley, Josephine Foster, Kawabata Makoto, and Christer Hennix. She is
a frequent artist-in-residence at Blank Forms in Brooklyn. For this special
program, we will be presenting the NY premiere of Brooklyn artist and
filmmaker William Carrà’s *RASA*, a drone meditation filmed in Woodstock in
2023 (with Will Epstein and Ben Vida). Following *RASA*, Landes Levi will
perform a live soundtrack to Ron Rice’s hallucinatory film *CHUMLUM*,
starring Jack Smith, Beverly Grant, Gerard Malanga, Mario Montez, and
Barbara Rubin.
William Carrà *RASA*, 2023, 40 min, digital
Ron Rice *CHUMLUM*, 1964, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. Restored by Anthology Film
Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas
Family Foundation.
Total running time: ca. 70 min.
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2024* *May 8 - June 27*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*ATLAS VARIATIONS: THE MOVING-IMAGE WORK OF CHARLES ATLAS*
FILMMAKER IN PERSON! Charles Atlas will be here in person for most if not
all of the screenings!
Anthology is overjoyed to present a major survey – throughout May and June
– of the moving-image work of the one-and-only Charles Atlas. An
exceptionally prolific, protean, and inventive artist, Atlas has
collaborated for the past fifty years with an extraordinary array of
choreographers, dancers, musicians, actors, and performance artists, and
has himself occupied a crucial role at the intersection of the worlds of
art, film, video, performance, dance, and installation. During the course
of his career, he has pioneered the medium of videodance, documented the
nightlife and performance scenes of New York City throughout the past
several decades, and created some of the most inspired works of
installation art in recent memory. Arguably no other single figure has
contributed as substantially to so many of the most advanced and important
currents in American culture since the 1970s, both as a chronicler,
collaborator, and creator.
Atlas’s films and videos have taken so many forms and involved so many
collaborations that his moving-image career can only be conveyed through a
large-scale series. Indeed, even this 10-program survey represents a
partial retrospective: since Anthology focused on Atlas’s seminal
collaborations with Merce Cunningham (with whom he collaborated on numerous
films beginning in 1975) during our Cunningham centennial screenings in
2019, we’ve chosen to focus on Atlas’s other collaborations and solo works
here. Encompassing some of his best-known works (including *THE LEGEND OF
LEIGH BOWERY*, *HAIL THE NEW PURITAN*, *SUPERHONEY*, and so on), as well as
more rarely-screened pieces such as the various *“MARTHA” TAPES*, his early
films *MAYONNAISE*, *#1* (1972) and *NEVADA* (1974), his ad campaign for
Calvin Klein, and his stereoscopic film *TESSERACT 3D* (2017), this survey
demonstrates the embarrassment of riches contained within Atlas’s
dizzyingly inventive and ever-morphing body of work.
“Collaboration is a major aspect of Atlas’s expansive practice. He has
collaborated with important figures from the worlds of dance, art,
performance, music and theater, including Michael Clark, Merce Cunningham,
Leigh Bowery, John Kelly, Marina Abramovic, Anohni, Yvonne Rainer, Fennesz,
New Humans (Mika Tajima and Howie Chen), Karole Armitage and Bill Irwin.
For Atlas, the theatricality of dance and performance is a point of inquiry
into artifice, fiction and reality. After first working in film, Atlas was
a pioneer of videodance, collaborating on performance works created
specifically for the two-dimensional space, intimate scale and temporality
of video. His groundbreaking early works…evolved from a unique
collaboration with Merce Cunningham, for whose dance company he was
filmmaker-in-residence from 1975 to 1983. Since then, Atlas has worked on
numerous international productions for television with choreographers,
artists and musicians. In these extravagantly stylized ‘documentary
fictions,’ Atlas manifests his fascination with what he terms ‘narrative,
psychology, dance and flights of fantasy.’ Typified by a provocative,
postmodern performance sensibility and an ironic urban insouciance, Atlas’s
works transform performances into vivid time capsules of contemporary
culture.” –ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX
Co-organized and co-presented by Electronic Arts Intermix; special thanks
to Rebecca Cleman & Karl McCool. Unless otherwise noted, all the individual
film descriptions are from the Electronic Arts Intermix catalogue.
Upcoming Screenings
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 1
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May 8 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 2
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May 16 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 3
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May 22 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 4
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May 25 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 5
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May 30 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 6
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June 5 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 7
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June 11 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 8
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June 15 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 9
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June 19 at 7:30 PM
CHARLES ATLAS, PROGRAM 10
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June 27 at 7:15 PM
*SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT, ATA Gallery,
992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*CULT OF CONSPIRACY*
THE NET: THE UNABOMBER, LSD, AND THE INTERNET +
By popular demand, from a City eviscerated by the pernicious effects of Big
Tech, here's a cult movie about cult thinking! Lutz Dammbeck's break-out
stunner was considered dangerously paranoid when first released some 20
years ago, and, despite its absence from DVD and streaming platforms, it
has never since ceased to feverishly incite anti-authoritarian skepticism
from an international underground of dissidents, dropouts, crackpots, and
trolls. True to its title, *The Net *excels at the hyperlink-style essay
format in which pulling the threads of seemingly disparate modern
phenomena—electronic art, technology, armed conflict—reveals a single
tight-knit system. As Dammbeck becomes evermore fascinated with Ted
Kaczynski, he digs deeper into his Neo-Luddite ideology and victims in
academia and technology. His search brings him into contact with figures
including Stewart Brand, editor of the self-sufficiency countercultural
publication *Whole Earth Catalog*, and art/literary agent John Brockman,
who draws connections between Norbert Wiener’s *Cybernetics* and
avant-garde figures
including John Cage, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik. Gradually the
narration begins to pull in Dammbeck’s own correspondence with the
incarcerated Kaczynski. “*The Net* is not merely a diagram of the lines and
nodes that form a secret history of the 20th Century, but an unsettling
examination of the morality of the architects of contemporary society” (*Screen
Slate*). OPENING the evening: Short tangles of related conspiracy knots: a
clip from Craig Baldwin's *Tribulation 99*, the whole trembling 9 mins.
of Rodney Ascher's legendary *S from Hell*, and a very rare peek
at Dammbeck's follow-up, the never released *Overgames**, *partially shot
right here at ATA!
*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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