[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: May 25 - June 2, 2024

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*This Week [May 25 - June 2, 2024] in Avant Garde Cinema*

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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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06.21.2024 Edinburgh Short Film 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):

   - Atlas Variations: The Moving-Image Work of Charles Atlas
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[May
   8-June 27, New York, NY]
   - Avant To Live
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[May
   25, San Francisco, CA]
   - Mono No Aware Community Screening Program
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[May
   26, New York, NY]
   - Stan Brakhage's Passage Through: A Ritual
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[May
   26, San Francisco, CA]
   - EC: Ruttmann / Stauffacher
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[May
   29, New York, NY]
   - Symposium XP
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[May
   30-June 16, Montreal, QC, Canada]
   - Windowed Worlds: The Films of Barry Gerson
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[May
   31-June 3, New York, NY]
   - EC: Paul Sharits
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[June
   2, New York, NY]
   - The Long Conversation
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   [ongoing, online]
   - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
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[ongoing,
   online]

*STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, MAY 25, 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 25, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
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8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*AVANT TO LIVE*
JEANNE FINLEY's RED BOAT CROSSING + BARON's NEAREST NEIGHBOR + NEW
EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Our seasonal mini-fest of innovation in film form, this Spring's NEW night
boasts a healthy crop of contemporary visions, each program-half anchored
by the NorCal theatrical debut of a major essay from our State's most
esteemed women makers...both in person! Yes, SF's Jeanne
Finley and LA's Rebecca Baron are both in the house to introduce their
sublimely smart cine-meditations—Finley's 40-min. *Red Boat Crossing* on
her mother's European experience in WWII, and Baron's 20-min. *Nearest
Neighbor*--a collab with Cal Arts' Doug Goodwin--on human communication
with both birds and computers. Baron/Goodwin's provocative
thought-experiment is showcased in the opening half-- they self-consciously
exploit AI agency to generate novel image/sound relations, comparing and
contrasting communication with animals to that with machines, and so
affording new understandings of language acquisition in
both Nature and Technology. And in the program's finale, Finley takes her
camera back to France's southern coast, to the precise location of
the Allied landing and where her mother, 65 years earlier, had served on
a Red Cross ship, tending to the War wounded--the resulting footage later
layered with memorabilia discovered in a long-lost family trunk,
Captain's logs, letters, phone calls, and archival footage--all weaving a
rich tapestry of memory, history, and heroism. ALSO: The in-the-flesh
return of Canadian whiz-kid Jake Scott with his 15-min. live
expanded-cinema piece *On Leadership*, TT Takemoto's lovely *Lion in the
Wind*, Alex Miller's *Denis Anatomy*, and new shorts from Bryan Boyce,
Yuyan Wang, and Others TBA! Free pencils.

*SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2024* 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/Summer 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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Venue type: *Live, physical event*
San Francisco Cinematheque
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7:30pm PT,
COUNTERPULSE, 80 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
*Stan Brakhage’s Passage Through: A Ritual*
presented by John Powers

Created over fifty years of ceaseless activity, filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s
body of nearly 400 films is notable for its dazzling kineticism, expressive
camerawork and rich use of optical and painterly abstraction and for its
emphasis on direct, primal and pre-linguistic vision as direct conduit to
the nervous system and as the conveyor of experience and meaning. In this
radical centering of vision, Brakhage promoted a general aesthetics of
cinematic silence and the abstraction of experience through the attenuation
of the auditory. Considering his work to be expressive of “moving visual
thinking” Brakhage was, of course, deeply influenced by music and the
experience of sound. It is not surprising then that his rare forays into
sound filmmaking have resulted in films which are among the most unique
sound/image works in the history of the medium.

An anomalous entry in Brakhage’s oeuvre, *Passage Through: A Ritual* (1990)
pairs Fluxus composer Philip Corner’s long form solo piano piece *Through
the Mysterious Barricade: Lumen* (after F. Couperin)—itself composed in
response to Brakhage’s *The Riddle of Lumen* (1972)—to a pointilist stream
of image bursts (Brakhage: “the most exacting editing process ever”)
punctuating an experience of cinematic darkness. Engaging rhythmically with
Corner’s rejoinder, Brakhage’s *Passage Through…* presents contrapuntal
dialog with the obsessions with sound/image synchrony of Sharits and
Kubelka and the minimal and temporarily spacialized cinema of Markopoulos
while—most crucially—creating space for the reflective experience of
memory, anticipation and perceptual surprise. This evening’s program—which
will also include Brakhage’s *The Riddle of Lumen* (1972) and *Ephemeral
Solidity* (1993)—will be introduced by John Powers, author of “Moving
through stasis in Stan Brakhage’s Passage Through: A Ritual,” published
2019 in Screen, vol. 60, Issue 3.

PROGRAM
*The Riddle of Lumen* (1972) by Stan Brakhage; 16mm, color, silent, 14
minutes. Print from Canyon Cinema
*Ephemeral Solidity* (1993) by Stan Brakhage; 16mm, color, silent, 4
minutes. Print from Canyon Cinema
*Passage Through: A Ritual* (1990) by Stan Brakhage; 16mm, color, sound, 50
minutes. Print from Canyon Cinema

The making of *Passage Through…* was unlike that of any other film in
Brakhage’s career. The film began with [composer Philip] Corner, who
performed this rendition of *Through the Mysterious Barricade* as part of a
general series of improvisations called Withinstascys, continuing efforts
to create a “daily personal spiritual practice with music.” Corner was
inspired by *The Riddle of Lumen* (1972), an earlier film that Brakhage had
always hoped would, in the manner of a riddle, engender a creative response
affirming that another artist recognized the mysteries of the film and
himself paid homage with another enigma. Brakhage pinned this hope on
filmmaker Hollis Frampton, but Frampton never fashioned an explicit
artistic response. Consequently Brakhage was eager to reciprocate by making
a film using Corner’s piece in the spirit of an anagogic exchange. In his
few statements on the film, Brakhage followed Corner’s lead and suggested a
spiritual reading: “I think it’s a film about the dark night of the soul
with moments of Illumination that are intrinsic to my present, where I am
now. In that sense, the film is very cathartic.” (John Powers: “Moving
through stasis in Stan Brakhage’s Passage Through: A Ritual,” published
2019 in Screen, vol. 60, Issue 3.

*WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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7:30pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: RUTTMANN / STAUFFACHER*
Karl Freund, Carl Mayer & Walter Ruttmann
*BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY / BERLIN, DIE SYMPHONIE DER GROSSTADT*
1927, 65 min, 35mm-to-DCP, silent. 16mm collection print courtesy of the
UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Ruttmann and company’s seminal, groundbreaking film is a valentine to the
‘new’ Berlin of the late 1920s. Beginning at dawn and ending after
midnight, it shows Berliners hard at work by day and possessed by the
city’s thriving nightlife. Essentially a feature-length montage, the film
was heavily influenced by Soviet documentary experiments like Dziga
Vertov’s *KINO-PRAVDA* and was itself very influential in fostering the
‘city symphony’ genre and other documentary hybrid styles to come.

Frank Stauffacher *SAUSALITO* (1948, 10 min, 16mm)
“His love for a place in which he lived (Sausalito) and his poetic
sensitiveness, to interpret here and there the ordinary in extraordinary
scenes, changed the ‘quasi-documentary’ character of the film and made it a
poetic essay, a model and new form for ‘city’ films.” –Hans Richter, FILM
CULTURE

Total running time: ca. 80 min

*THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2024* *May 30 - June 16*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Cinémathèque québécoise
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Cinémathèque québécoise, 335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Symposium XP*
For this latest edition of the experimental film symposium, we offer a
retrospective of a major American filmmaker (Henry Hills, in attendance),
provide updates on current female production, accompany director Christian
Lapointe in his first experience with radical cinema, host musician Sam
Shalabi, and present two forgotten classics, one of which is a newly
restored version that we have just completed.

--- Rétrospective Henry Hills 1 - Thurs May 30 - 6pm ET ---
A prolific experimental filmmaker, living between New York and Vienna
(Austria), Henry Hills won the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in
2009, and his works are held in the permanent collection of the MOMA. Among
his best-known films are several collaborations with musician John Zorn and
his group Naked City. The two-part program of his works presented at the
Symposium XP provides an overview of his work spanning over forty years.

This short film program is composed of *George* (1976, 16 mm), *Porter
Springs 3* (1977, 16 mm), *Kino Da!* (1981, 16 mm), *Radio Adios* (1982, 16
mm), *Little Lieutenant* (1994, 16 mm), SSS (1988, 16 mm), *Electricity* (2007,
num.), *Social Skills* (2021, num.) and *The Tree* (2018, num.)

Filmmaker in attendance

--- 20 ans de Double Négatif 1 - Thurs May 30 - 8pm ET ---
Since the mid-2000s, Double Négatif has brought together a substantial
portion of creative talents involved in the experimental film scene of
Montreal and the province of Quebec. A number of landmark works have
benefited from increased collaboration between filmmakers, from the sharing
of equipment to the establishment of a shared aesthetic spirit. The desire
to highlight the specificity of film produced and shown on analog media is
an essential feature. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, we're showing a
few key films.

*Mouvement de lumière* Karl Lemieux, *Las Mujeres de Pinochet (Pinochet’s
Women)* Eduardo Menz, *Sans chemin (L’Ocelle Mare)* Charles-André
Coderre, *Ghosts
and Gravel Roads* Mike Rollo, *Dans les cieux et sur la terre* Erin
Weisgerber, *Altiplano* Malena Szlam, *Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis* Daïchi
Saïto.

--- Head in Flames - Fri May 31 - 6pm ET ---
Followed by a conversation with filmmaker Christian Lapointe, and Lance
Olsen, author of the *Head in Flames* book

In 2004, while pedaling on his bike, filmmaker Theo van Gogh, the
great-nephew of the famous Dutch painter, was killed in a cold blood street
in Amsterdam by Mohammed Bouyeri. The murderer attacked him in retaliation
for the film Submission that he directed, written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

In 2009, the American author Lance Olsen wrote a book (*Head in Flames*)
featuring three voices: the murderer, the director and the painter Vincent
Van Gogh, in an oratorio connecting these three figures. The author shows
the painter just before his suicide and the other two characters at the
time of the murder. The writer uses quotations from the three men to put
into perspective the culture of violence that all intolerance generates.
Using a deepfake device, Christian Lapointe gives substance to Olsen's
score and "resurrects" the protagonists in an experimental film in which he
embodies these highly divisive historical figures himself.

--- Diary of an occupation: films and images shot in Palestine (1920-2024)
- Fri May 31 ---
Live musical performance by Sam Shalabi featuring archive footage from the
'Katsakh' collection shot in Palestine, South Lebanon and Jordan
(1920-2011), 30min
*Scenes From the Occupation in Gaza*, Mustapha Abu Ali, 1973, 12min
*Gaza Diary*, Taysir Batniji, 2001, 5min
*Offing*, Oraib Toukan, 2021, 29min
*Mehdi Amel in Gaza, On The Colonial Mode of Production*, Mary Jirmanus
Saba, 2024, 14min

--- Rétrospective Henry Hills 2 - Sat June 1 - 6pm ET ---
A prolific experimental filmmaker, living between New York and Vienna
(Austria), Henry Hills won the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in
2009, and his works are held in the permanent collection of the MOMA. Among
his best-known films are several collaborations with musician John Zorn and
his group Naked City. The two-part program of his works presented at the
Symposium XP provides an overview of his work spanning over forty years.

This short film program is composed of *Money* (1985, 35 mm), *Goa
Lawah* (1990-91,
16 mm), *Failed States* (2008, num.), *arcana* (2011, num.) and *The
Falls* (2019,
num.)

--- Abijévis + Panorama au féminin - Sat June 1 - 8pm ET ---
On a snowy Abitibi road, a subjective camera shares the nighttime journey
of a driver returning from La Sarre. In the storm and blowing snow, strange
territories and curious phantasmagorias born out of memories take shape.

New restoration - The restoration of this film is part of the
implementation of a measure in Quebec's Digital Cultural Plan.

*Kisses*, Betty Ferguson, 1976, 55min

--- 20 ans de Double Négatif 2 - Sun June 16 ---
Since the mid-2000s, Double Négatif has brought together a substantial
portion of creative talents involved in the experimental film scene of
Montreal and the province of Quebec. A number of landmark works have
benefited from increased collaboration between filmmakers, from the sharing
of equipment to the establishment of a shared aesthetic spirit. The desire
to highlight the specificity of film produced and shown on analog media is
an essential feature. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, we're showing a
few key films.

*La noirceur souterraine des racines* Charles-André Coderre, *Unearthed* Karl
Lemieux, *All-Around Junior Male* Lindsay McIntyre, *lunar almanac* Malena
Szlam, *Traces* Erin Weisgerber, *Perceptual Subjectivity* Philippe
Leonard, *P.O.P.* Eduardo Menz, *lacuna* Shannon Harris, *Engram of
Returning* Daïchi Saïto.

*FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2024* *May 31 - June 3*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*WINDOWED WORLDS: THE FILMS OF BARRY GERSON*
*Gerson will be in person for all four programs!*

“I see myself more like a poet, but using film images. I like my work to be
felt, to make you feel that you can almost touch it. Film is an ethereal
thing, images float out in space, and I don’t concern myself too much with
practical aspects. […] To me, the dream world knows everything. The dream
world is the real world, and it is wise.” –Barry Gerson

An artist, filmmaker, poet, and composer, Barry Gerson’s body of work
encompasses 16mm and digital moving-image works, paintings with
photographic elements, sculpture, as well as performance (as an actor and a
performer of throat music). He uses the formal qualities of film in the
service of visual poetry, creating moving-image works that reflect his
lyrical exploration of the nature of existence.

Though Gerson’s early films were screened alongside the major avant-garde
filmmakers during the 1960s-70s, written about in the pages of Film Culture
and other journals, and included in the distribution catalogues of the
Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Canyon Cinema, and Castelli/Sonnabend Videotapes
and Films, they have been more rarely screened in recent years. Though
reminiscent in some ways of contemporaneous films by Stan Brakhage, Ernie
Gehr, Larry Gottheim, and others, his films are ultimately highly
distinctive, evincing a particularly sustained focus, on the one hand, on
exploring the formal properties of the filmic image – the extent to which
the “window” of the frame transforms and organizes the observed world into
an interrelationship of shapes, lines, and qualities of light – and on the
other hand, on using photography to draw out the spiritual or “magical”
dimensions of his environment.

Following a two-decade hiatus from filmmaking, brought on by the rising
costs of celluloid and a tendency by some to group his work with that of
structuralists, Gerson revisited the medium in 2002. He soon turned to
digital media, and since 2008 has steadily produced works in that format.
To celebrate Gerson’s gifting of his films to Anthology, and the
publication of his new book, “Elixir of Light: Intuition, LED Lights and
Healing Oneself Through the Super Brain”, we’re thrilled to present the
first sustained focus on his moving-image oeuvre for many years, with four
programs devoted to his 16mm works from 1961-82, and a fifth program
showcasing a selection of his more recent digital works.

“[Gerson’s fascination with light and framing allows him to build cubistic
scenarios of lines and blocks of color, as displayed in the paintings of
Mark Rothko, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and in Edward Hopper’s ‘Room by the Sea’
(1951). Gerson’s camera movements are never the result of apparatus
technology. It is the filmmaker who moves, who approaches the world, feels
and sees, transforms, reframes, and changes perspectives, creating new
realities and paracinematic sculptures. […] The vibrant energy of the
objects, sustained in time as ultimate force, exults us and moves us
through space smoothly. The eyes are not merely witnessing – stimulated by
the lack of objectivity, our vision readjusts preconceived impressions
regarding shape, color, timing, and texture. Displacement here, as in life,
is an opportunity for change and improvement.” –Mónica Savirón, LUMIÈRE

“Over the…years I have worked in various mediums, each having informed the
other in a symbiotic relationship of images and ideas. My overriding
concern has involved an ongoing investigation to illuminate the spiritual
in the physical world – to make it perceptible, palpable. Since all matter
in the Universe pulsates rhythmically, it is therefore, in constant motion.
My films/videos become an activated metaphor to elucidate this phenomenon.
I attempt to create psychically charged images that are in a constant state
of flux – structured formally but with a poetic intent. Through the use of
slow movements and small changes the images become felt, eliciting an
almost tactile response.” –Barry Gerson

“Barry Gerson emerged in the late ’60s with a series of short films, each
exploring a slightly different aspect of seeing. Each little film was
centered around a limited, restricted theme, very rigorously structured and
executed. As he progressed, his concerns grew in subtlety and complexity.
[…] His forms are varied, his style is clear and sure, his techniques are
complex, his content is magic. These works are among the most interesting
in the current American cinema.” –Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE

Special thanks to Barry Gerson and Paul Smart. Unless otherwise noted, all
film descriptions are by Barry Gerson.

For more info about “Elixir of Light: Intuition, LED Lights and Healing
Oneself Through the Super Brain” (Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY) – a
memoir of the artist’s explorations with color LED therapy lights to heal
the various maladies that accompany aging, combined with a reiteration of
his theories regarding the energy powers of light and intuition, featuring
a foreword by former Whitney Museum and Smithsonian curator John Hanhardt
and an introductory essay by French neurologist Pierre LeMarquis – visit:
https://stationhill.org/

Upcoming Screenings
BARRY GERSON, PROG. 1
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May 31 at 7:30 PM

BARRY GERSON, PROG. 2
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June 1 at 5:45 PM

BARRY GERSON, PROG. 3
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June 1 at 7:45 PM

BARRY GERSON, PROG. 4
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June 2 at 7:00 PM

BARRY GERSON, PROG. 5
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June 3 at 7:30 PM

*SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
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5pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: PAUL SHARITS*

*S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED *1968-70, 41 min, 16mm. Restored
by Anthology Film Archives.
“Yes, *S:S:S:S:S:S* is beautiful. The successive scratchings of the
stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete
organism with all the possible levels really recognized.” –Michael Snow

*COLOR SOUND FRAMES *1974, 26 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives.
“A film in which Sharits sums up his researches in the area of film strip
(in opposition to the individual frames). The film strips move horizontally
and vertically; two strips move simultaneously in opposite directions;
variations in color; action of sprocket-holes. Very methodically and
scientifically he covers the area. […] *COLOR SOUND FRAMES* advances one
area of cinema or one area of researches in cinema (call it art if you
wish) to a new climax, to a new peak: his exploration is so total, so
perfect.” –Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE

Total running time: ca. 70 min

*ONGOING*

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*THE LONG CONVERSATION*
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hold. But... all episodes from the last year and a half are streaming!!!

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There are now more than four hundred artists’ film and moving image works
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