[Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: September 7 - 15, 2024

Tue Sep 10 14:14:04 CDT 2024

View this email in your browser
<https://mailchi.mp/35bb3a9408c6/this-week-in-avant-garde-cinema-10697262?e=857b71a9cb>

*This Week [September 7 - 15, 2024] in Avant Garde Cinema*

To receive the weekly listing directly via email rather than through
Frameworks, just hit Subscribe
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=091193278b&e=857b71a9cb>
.

*DEADLINES APPROACHING*
**** Enter upcoming calls for entry here
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5b5e210d55&e=857b71a9cb>
****
___________________________________________________________________________________
*sorted by submission deadline*
09.13.2024 Thomas Edison Film Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5aa3351274&e=857b71a9cb>
(Final Deadline)
09.16.2024 Slamdance Film Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f946edcc21&e=857b71a9cb>
(Late Deadline)
09.20.2024 21st accordi @ DISACCORDI
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5265838af7&e=857b71a9cb>
10.01.2024 San Diego Underground Film Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=132ef09895&e=857b71a9cb>
(Regular Deadline)
10.01.2024 Single Frame
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=07f6afc31c&e=857b71a9cb>
(Early Deadline)
10.01.2024 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78d4001218&e=857b71a9cb>
(Early Deadline)
10.01.2024 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f0a1bee911&e=857b71a9cb>
(Final Deadline)
10.31.2024 MONO NO AWARE Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dba12a6256&e=857b71a9cb>
11.01.2024 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (Regular Deadline)
11.08.2024 Coney Island Film Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=29fb5f8409&e=857b71a9cb>
(Regular Deadline)
11.15.2024 Cosmic Rays Film Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ba6c13eaa&e=857b71a9cb>
11.30.2024 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=edfa1328ba&e=857b71a9cb>
12.15.2024 Strangloscope Experimental International Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6a94649baf&e=857b71a9cb>
(Extended Deadline)

*EVENTS*
**** Enter your event announcements here
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=772d2369dd&e=857b71a9cb>
****
___________________________________________________________________________________
*complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*

This week's programs (summary):

   - Other Cinema Season Opener! TOONS'N'TUNES
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9642aa644c&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   7, San Francisco, CA]
   - Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Revisited
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=714cf8f6be&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   8, Oakland, CA]
   - Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=878ed03bf0&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   9, Dallas, TX]
   - Harry Smith's Film #18, Mahagonny In 4k
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=76db86b10d&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   12, Los Angeles, CA]
   - Nothing Is Perfect And Everything Is Perfect
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fb9a252725&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   13-14, Atlanta, GA]
   - Body Prop by M Woods w/Coin Celleil at Peripheries 2024
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=27c9f3b4b5&e=857b71a9cb>
   [September 13-29, Chicago, IL]
   - EC: Joseph Cornell
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0cc67f2c94&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   14, New York, NY]
   - Earth, Air, Fire, Water
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5324a4c0e0&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   14, San Francisco, CA]
   - Experimentations: Imag(In)Ing Knowledge In Film PGM 1
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=684674bf93&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   15, Los Angeles, CA]
   - Experimentations: Imag(In)Ing Knowledge In Film, PGM 2
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ae96006ff&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   15, Los Angeles, CA]
   - EC: Conner / Conrad
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=71188cf30e&e=857b71a9cb>
[September
   15, New York, NY]
   - The Long Conversation
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=92af034c02&e=857b71a9cb>
   [ongoing, online]
   - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works
   <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=440fd23d21&e=857b71a9cb>
[ongoing,
   online]

*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=22375197fd&e=857b71a9cb>
8pm PT,
ATA Gallery - 992 Valencia ST, San Francisco, CA
*Other Cinema Season Opener! TOONS'N'TUNES*
HUGHES on DISNEY + STARK/ROURKE + STAINS +
Our Fall Season opener promises an explosion of creative energy akin to the
moment when two atomic pits come together to achieve critical
mass!---Curatorially, we drive together a pair of 45-min. sets---one
animated and one musical--- to properly inaugurate OC’s autumn programming.
Featured is the world premiere of Salise Hughes’ marvelous rendition
of Mickey Mouse*’*s inside story---*Citizen Mickey*---following two tunes
from Bernal Heights’ Scott Stark, the second being a duet with Jeremy
Rourke! Jeremy’s presence invokes Peter Lichter, Sharon Liu, Gretchen
Hogue, Laura Harrison, and the latest (*The Lost Season*)
from Boulder genius Kelly Sears. The musical “half pit” leans in a festive,
even comical direction, with some half-dozen anomalies from the margins of
mid-century popular culture---Josie and the Pussycats, Sesame Street, two
kinds of ventriloquism, and the premiere revival of Sam Green and Sarah
Jacobson's* Fabulous Stains*. Come early for our reception with Korla
Pandit, Barney Google, Kraftwerk, free toast-and-jam, and Russ
Forster scratching vinyl on the sidewalk!

*SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
San Francisco Cinematheque
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6e57600f41&e=857b71a9cb>
7pm PT,
Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th Street, Oakland, CA
*Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Revisited*
Presented in association with Shapeshifters Cinema

Analog Dreaming, curated by Kornelia Boczkowska and sponsored by the
Interbay Cinema Society, celebrates the vast legacy of one of the Pacific
Northwest's most prolific filmmakers and composers, the late Seattle-based
artist Jon Behrens (1964-2022).

Showcasing his unique experiments with image, sound and celluloid—from
silent studies in light, color and water and cinematic abstractions to
landscapes, cityscapes, NASA images and Hollywood movies—the program
demonstrates a remarkable diversity of Behrens' films, which are both
simple and complex, lyrical and psychedelic as well as meditative and
visually challenging. Since the late 1970s, Behrens made well over 100
films using different formats, styles and approaches, ranging from short
documentaries, narratives and diaries to found footage, hand painted and
optically printed films.

Behrens' work is a living proof of his genuine love and passion for
experimental film, his lifelong mission of supporting analog filmmakers and
his numerous contributions to the filmmaking community through the Interbay
Cinema Society, the Lightpress Grants program, Engauge Experimental Film
Festival and other initiatives. The program features a selection of
Behrens' films, including the world premiere of three unreleased films!!!

*MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
UT Dallas
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f0524415c5&e=857b71a9cb>
5:30pm CDT,
Jonsson Performance Hall, UT Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080
*Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective*
This touring program is presented in association with Center for Visual
Music. (www.centerforvisualmusic.org
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e06d8c656b&e=857b71a9cb>
)

This is a rare opportunity to see Fischinger’s pioneer work in abstract
animation and visual music. This HD version of CVM’s Retrospective program
features his classic visual music films, many transferred from restored
material and Fischinger’s own nitrates.

Fischinger (1900-1967), hailed as the “Father of Visual Music,” influenced
animators and filmmakers worldwide. He created iconic works such as
*Allegretto* and *Motion Painting No. 1* and the groundbreaking 1930s
*Studies* series, which debuted in theaters globally.

This event is co-organized by experimenta.l. and the Ackerman Center for
Holocaust Studies.

*Spirals (Spiralen)*, c.1926, Germany, b/w, silent, restored by CVM
*Wax Experiments (Wachsexperimente)*, 1921-26, Germany, silent, restored by
CVM
*Spiritual Constructions (Seelische Konstruktionen)*, c. 1927, Germany,
b/w, silent)
*Walking from Munich to Berlin (Munchen-Berlin Wanderung)*, 1927, Germany,
b/w, silent
*Studie Nr. 5*, 1930, Germany, b/w, sound, restored by CVM
*Studie Nr. 6*, 1930, Germany, b/w, sound
*Studie Nr. 7*, 1931, Germany, b/w, sound, restored by CVM
*Studie Nr. 8*, 1931, Germany, b/w, sound, 5 min
*Coloratura (Koloraturen)*, 1932, Germany, b/w, sound
*Kreise (Ad Version), (Circles)*, 1933-34, Germany, color, sound
*Muratti greift ein! (Muratti Marches On)*, 1934, Germany, color, sound
*Composition in Blue (Komposition in Blau)*, 1935, Germany, color, sound
*Allegretto (Late Version)*, 1936-1943, US, color, sound, restored by CVM
*Radio Dynamics*, 1942, US, color, intentionally silent, restored by CVM
*An American March*, 1941, US, color, sound
*Motion Painting No. 1*, 1947, US, color, sound

CVM thanks Barbara Fischinger, William Moritz, Cinemaculture, and its
Donors and Members for their support which makes these programs possible.

*Wax Experiments* was restored by CVM with funding from the National Film
Preservation Foundation. *Studie Nr 5* was restored by CVM with funding
from EYE Filmmuseum. *Studie Nr 8* was restored by EYE Filmmuseum. *Muratti
greift ein!* and *Komposition in Blau* were transferred from Fischinger's
original nitrates.

Please visit CVM’s Fischinger Research Site at
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c8f28c35a&e=857b71a9cb>

*THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Academy Museum
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1ae6f7c07&e=857b71a9cb>
7:30pm PT,
Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90036
*Harry Smith’s Film #18, Mahagonny in 4K*
DIRECTED BY: Harry Smith. 1970–80. 141 min. USA. Color. 4K DCP.
“You have to live Mahagonny, in fact be Mahagonny in order to work on it.”
— Harry Smith

Experimental filmmaker, anthropologist, painter, and musicologist Harry
Smith’s final film, *Mahagonny*, was an epic four-screen projection. Smith
worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s
opera *Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny * for over ten years and
considered it his magnum opus. *Mahagonny* explores the needs and desires
of man amid the rituals of daily life in New York City. Much of the film
takes place within the Chelsea Hotel and contains cameos of important
avant-garde figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and Jonas Mekas,
intercut with installation pieces from Robert Mapplethorpe’s studio, New
York City landmarks of the era, and Smith’s visionary animation. This
screening represents the completion of an ambitious preservation project by
the Harry Smith Archives with the assistance of Anthology Film Archives.
The artist’s original intention was to screen the film with four 16mm
projectors; the original masters have been optically printed onto a single
“tiled” 35mm film negative. This presentation is a new restoration of the
film.

Programmed by Hyesung ii and K.J. Relth-Miller. Note by Rani Singh, Harry
Smith Archives. Thanks to Rani Singh and Hilary Staff. Academy Museum film
programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

*FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024* *September 13 - 14*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Off the Wall
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=472e8c680b&e=857b71a9cb>
8pm ET both nights,
Off the Wall, 725 Ponce de Leon Ave NE on the Atlanta Beltline, Atlanta, GA
*Nothing is perfect and everything is perfect*
This program takes its name from novelist, activist, and Georgia native
Alice Walker’s quote, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is
perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still
beautiful.”

The all star lineup of film and video artists includes work by Kate
Balsley, Cecelia Condit, Ufuoma Essi, Jodie Mack, Rachel Parish, Sabrina
Ratté, Deanna Sirlin, Cauleen Smith, Deborah Stratman, Malena Szlam, Masha
Vlasova, Jennifer West.

This program takes these words to heart, contorting and bending to explore
stunning visions of nature by contemporary women artists. Addressing the
human impact on our world and exploring environmental beauty in equal
measure, these films take viewers from psychedelic South American
landscapes to cosmos-spanning ecocriticism, and from the earliest
photographic techniques to meditations on today’s AI and digital
technologies. Themes of care, dissent, critique, awe, and self-preservation
all dovetail in this kaleidoscopic collection of cinematic perspectives
questioning what it means to see and hear the “natural” world today.

Off the Wall is the largest movie screen in the Southeast, illuminating
Atlanta's Beltline Trail with film and video art from around the world.
Curated by Gregory Zinman.

IG + X: @offthewall725

*___________________________________________________________________*

*September 13 - 29*
Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Peripheries Experimental Film and Video Festival
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6cdbac60f3&e=857b71a9cb>
6:30PM CT,
Sweet Void Cinema, 3036 W Chicago Ave 1W, Chicago IL, 60622
*BODY PROP by M Woods w/ COIN CELLEIL at Peripheries 2024 | Hosted at Sweet
Void*
Sweet Void Cinema will be screening a radical double feature with the cult
omnibus film *COIN CELLEIL* opening for the world premiere of M. Woods' 3rd
feature film *BODY PROP*.

6:30PM - *COIN CELLEIL* by Various Artists (2023), an omnibus remake of
Chris Marker's *Sans Soleil*. It was originally shared as a series of reels
on the instagram account @coincellpro7 Follow @coincelhoe

8:30PM - *BODY PROP* by M. Woods (2024) 75’, an avant-garde essay film and
attack against the ontology of white imperialism. Made of mostly
hand-processed super 8mm film, 16mm, and archival video. The piece, in five
movements, takes on the subject of the Body as a prop, as a body politic,
as a simulation, and as a necropolitical expense, creating a “Cadaver
Decomposition Island” of discarded scraps of Super 8 and archival material
to reveal the shadow of US nihilism within the advanced stage of
hyperreality.

Combining original manifestoes (in the style of Situationism) with excerpts
of Jean Baudrillard’s *A System of Objects*, Sartre’s *Being and
Nothingness* and other treatises on phenomenological existentialism,
Biblical passages from Genesis and Ecclesiastes, impeachment transcripts,
*Beloved* by Toni Morrison, the speeches of Malcolm X, YouTube news
archives, and dozens of other texts in conversation in a tumult of signs,
oscillating in a trance between attempting to situate within and
disassociate from the Body Prop. The cinema itself is a Body Prop -
simultaneously full and devoid of feeling and senses. Featuring an original
score composed of Hip-Hop beats and soundscapes created by director M Woods.

Select movements from *Body Prop* have been screened internationally
including at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, VideoEx,
Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival, the Ann Arbor Film
Festival, and the Athens International Film and Video Festival. WARNING: *Body
Prop* contains accounts and representations of racism, violence, sex, and
nudity. Parts of this work are based on actual events. Some parts contain
fast edits and strobing imagery and that may negatively impact those
viewers with epilepsy and other light-sensitive disorders.

*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93c895794d&e=857b71a9cb>
3:45pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: JOSEPH CORNELL*
Unless otherwise noted, all the films in this program are silent. With the
exception of *GNIR REDNOW*, all films have been preserved by Anthology Film
Archives.

*ROSE HOBART* (ca. 1936/68, 20 min, 16mm, sound)
*CENTURIES OF JUNE* (1955, 10 min, 16mm. Photographed by Stan Brakhage.)
*THE AVIARY* (1954, 11 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)
*GNIR REDNOW* (1955, 5 min, 16mm. Photographed by Stan Brakhage.)
*NYMPHLIGHT* (1957, 8 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)
*A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS* (1957/65, 17 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy
Burckhardt; completed by Lawrence Jordan.)
*ANGEL* (1957, 3 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)

“[*ROSE HOBART*] is a breathtaking example of the potential for
surrealistic imagery within a conventional Hollywood film once it is
liberated from its narrative causality. […] In Cornell’s later films – both
those photographed by Rudy Burckhardt, Stan Brakhage, and Larry Jordan and
the collage films which Jordan completed – Joseph Cornell describes the
marginal area where the conscious and the unconscious meet. These are films
which affirm a sustained present moment in which a quality of reminiscence
is implicated.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM

Total running time: ca. 80 min

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Other Cinema
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d3c89d4ed6&e=857b71a9cb>
8pm PT,
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
*EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER*
KORNELIA's INTERAKTIVE ECO-KINO!
Exquisitely curated by that canny Polish critic—now almost a regular figure
in the Bay Area film family that she’s chosen to adopt—here’s a living,
breathing, oh-so-fresh program of small-gauge moving-image artworks that
specifically focus on the Natural World. Selecting titles of tangible
sensory power that provide a boldly physical, almost immersive viewing
experience, Ms. Boczkowska--in a triumphant return from last season’s *Road
Movie* tour–now promises a panoply of new pieces from world-renown masters
such as Laura Kraning, Julie Murray, Tomonari Nishikawa, Emily Richardson,
and Melissa Faivre, mixed in with our own in-the-flesh local heroes Dominic
Angerame, Scott Stark, and Toney Merritt (world premiere)! Thematically
organized within elemental sub-sets, the unprecedented accessing of
contemporary international artists brings very many previously unseen
perspectives to a community voraciously hungry for a revelatory visual
poetics of the environment.

*SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
LA Filmforum
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78eb40b8b7&e=857b71a9cb>
3pm PT,
2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057
*Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film PGM 1: Feminist Film
Experiments with Science*
Curated by Jennifer Lynn Peterson

*Pwdre Ser, the rot of stars*, by Charlotte Pryce, 2018, 16mm film to
digital, sound, 7min
*The Jollies*, by Rachel Mayeri, 2016, digital, color, sound, 12min
*We Rule*, by Catherine Chalmers, 2014, digital, color, sound, 4min
*Wolf Release*, by Bill Basquin, 2018, digital, color, sound, 10min
*Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty*, by Jodie Mack, 2019, 16mm, color, silent,
7min
*...These Blazeing Starrs!*, by Deborah Stratman, 2011, 16mm, color, sound,
14min
*the air we breathe*, by Christina Battle, 2023, digital, color, sound, 9min
*How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather*, by Anna Kipervaser, 2019,
digtal, color, silent, 8min
*in ocula oculorum*, by Anna Kipervaser, 2021, digital, color, sound, 12min
*Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons*, by Jodie Mack, 2021, 16mm, color, silent,
5min

This screening presents a sample of contemporary experimental films that
explore science from feminist perspectives. To the extent that one can
generalize about feminist experimental film, we might say it is known for
its critique of gender, sexuality, and representations of the body. But in
the past quarter-century, feminist experimental filmmaking has been
transformed by new contexts, new ideas, and new points of departure. Rather
than a unitary singular subject, much recent experimental film is more
interested in hybrids, networks, collectivities, and blurred boundaries.
Not only has the status of the personal shifted, but a new set of
generational concerns has emerged such as intersectionality, trans and
nonbinary gender identities, decolonization, environmentalism, and
human-nonhuman entanglements, to name just a few. In many recent
experimental films we can detect a skepticism about personal
self-expression, replaced by an ambitious critical interrogation of the act
of representation and knowledge-making itself, often deployed with
strategies of convolution or play. This shift marks as a turn away from the
singular, fixed, psychological self of modernity and a turn toward the
manifold, fluid, material self of the Anthropocene.

Some of the films in this screening play with the tradition of the natural
history film, visualizing the life cycles of animals and plants using
microscopy, time lapse, and other forms of cinema-specific manipulation.
Other films explore the limits of cinema’s ability to represent natural
phenomena, displaying affinities with scientific observation but diverging
from science in their goals. Some of these filmmakers use “laboratory”
methods, balancing the rigors of artmaking against the repetitive and
sometimes wild practices of experimentation. Many of these films visualize
subjects in the natural sciences such as biology, zoology, botany, or
geology. Questioning scientific objectivity, deconstructing traditions of
scientific visualization, and deploying an array of cinematic techniques,
these feminist artists demonstrate experimental film’s ongoing, provocative
engagement with science.

Screening followed by a panel: *Thinking about Scientific Imagery in
Experimental Films* with Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Charlotte Pryce, Rachel
Mayeri, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, moderated by Jheanelle Brown. 4:45 – 6:00pm.

Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film is Filmforum’s expansive
film series and upcoming publication that investigates the ways that
experimental and scientific films produce and question the visualization of
the world. Combining artist films utilizing scientific imagery, science and
natural history films, and films of indigenous and traditional knowledge,
the series examines how science, nature, and technology films shape our
understanding of humans, nature, gender, knowledge, and progress. The
multi-venue public screening series presents analog and digital time-based
media incorporating diverse scientific and experimental film traditions
from across the globe. The series will include eighteen screenings between
September 2024 and February 2025, with films and digital works from 1874 to
today from around the world, multiple guests, panels and wonderful
collaborations that will reveal the possibilities and circumstances of
cinema in this realm.

Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film is among more than 70
exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in
September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide,
this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science,
both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information
about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit: pst.art
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c6287ff03d&e=857b71a9cb>

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
LA Filmforum
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fa2d028338&e=857b71a9cb>
7:30pm PT,
2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057
*Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film PGM 2: Rethinking Bodies,
Rethinking Gender: Biology’s Expansive Otherworlds*
Curated by Jheanelle Brown

*Our Body is a Planet*, by Léonie Hampton, 2022, digital, color, sound,
11min
*Yummy Body Truck*, by Noam Youngrak Son, 2021, digital, color, sound, 7min
*How Old Are You? How Old Were You? 入世*, by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, 2017,
16mm, color, sound, 16min
*The Posthuman Hospital*, by Junha Kim, 2023, 5min
*Mother is a Woman*, by Jes Fan, 2018, 4min
*Xenophoria*, by Jes Fan, 2018-2020, 7min
*Autodidact*, by Jeamin Cha, 2014, South Korea, HD digital, color, sound,
9min
*Bodies and Places are Contiguous*, by Maria Fernandez Pello, 2021, 10min

Bodies in flight, bodies in stasis. Our bodies are bound by both the
current reality and aspirational future of science, but expand even further
in the search for an otherwise. This program takes as its jumping-off point
questions, experiments, and memories of the body, wrestling with history,
memory, gender, social institutions. Junha Kim and Noam Youngrak Son
approach deconstructions of humanism and socially-encoded bodies with
whimsy and sardonic humor. Léonie Hampton, Maria Fernandez Pello, and
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu hone in on the atmospheric intimacy of human bodies
and the memories they hold. Jeamin Cha and Jes Fan present the expansive
potential of scientific practices that inform race, history, violence, and
personhood.

Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film is Filmforum’s expansive
film series and upcoming publication that investigates the ways that
experimental and scientific films produce and question the visualization of
the world. Combining artist films utilizing scientific imagery, science and
natural history films, and films of indigenous and traditional knowledge,
the series examines how science, nature, and technology films shape our
understanding of humans, nature, gender, knowledge, and progress. The
multi-venue public screening series presents analog and digital time-based
media incorporating diverse scientific and experimental film traditions
from across the globe. The series will include eighteen screenings between
September 2024 and February 2025, with films and digital works from 1874 to
today from around the world, multiple guests, panels and wonderful
collaborations that will reveal the possibilities and circumstances of
cinema in this realm.

Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film is among more than 70
exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in
September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide,
this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science,
both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information
about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit: pst.art
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=337b6bd7df&e=857b71a9cb>

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Live, physical event*
Anthology Film Archives
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e99a7b9a19&e=857b71a9cb>
4pm ET,
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
*EC: CONNER / CONRAD*

Bruce Conner
*A MOVIE* (1958, 12 min, 16mm)
*COSMIC RAY* (1961, 4 min, 16mm)
*REPORT* (1965, 13 min, 16mm)
“Conner stands as a kind of twentieth century Peter Breughel. For like the
great Flemish master he distorts the visible world in order to penetrate a
reality of being rather than appearances; his vision is cosmic in breadth;
he deals with some of the most provocative issues, both artistic and
otherwise, of his time; and finally, with an evocative ambiguity and
painful irony he touches something which we sometimes call the human
experience.” –Carl I. Belz, FILM CULTURE

*COSMIC RAY* and *REPORT* have been preserved by Anthology through the
National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program
funded by The Film Foundation.

Tony Conrad
*THE FLICKER*
(1966, 30 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology with funding provided by the
National Film Preservation Foundation.)
“*THE FLICKER* is a tremendous harnessing of the raw power, the elemental
material of the cinematic medium – light itself – to transport the
spectator slowly at first, hardly perceptibly, then accelerating, through a
non-objective non-abstract world of sheer energy. Time becomes the
compelling pulse of white into black and back, space becomes the unbounded
expansion and contraction of force; the screen becomes a new sun, the
audience its creatures.” –Ken Kelman

Total running time: ca. 65 min

*ONGOING*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
Riverwest Radio
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=34ac8c3867&e=857b71a9cb>
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!!!

*___________________________________________________________________*

Venue type: *Virtual, online event*
6x6 Project
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a1a985e2eb&e=857b71a9cb>
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.

------------------------------

*Let us know about your alternative film/video event!*

Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ef34734411&e=857b71a9cb>
.

To receive the weekly listing directly via email rather than through
Frameworks, just hit Subscribe
<https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=091193278b&e=857b71a9cb>
.

*Copyright © 2020 Flicker, All rights reserved.*
Longtime recipient of This Week in Avant Garde Cinema
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://film-gallery.org/pipermail/frameworks_film-gallery.org/attachments/20240910/5e1388d6/attachment.htm>