[Frameworks] Avant Garde Film /Meditative Practice / Yoga > Frameworks Digest, Vol 248, Issue 1
Kalpana Subramanian
shootatsightfilms at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 15:01:56 CDT 2025
Hi Heath,
Exciting discussion and film suggestions on this thread...am following!
I am interested in yoga philosophy, breath poetics as relates ot
experimental cinema and have been writing and curating some programs
<https://kalpanasubramanian.com/curation>around it. Would love to discuss
more with you!
My best,
Kalpana
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> 1. Re: Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice (Ж)
> 2. Re: Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice (Albert Alcoz)
> 3. Re: Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice (Dave Tetzlaff)
> 4. Re: Avant Garde Film and Yoga (CVM Programs)
> 5. Re: Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice (Heath Iverson)
> 6. This Week in Avant Garde Cinema: October 25 - November 2,
> 2025 (This Week)
> 7. Re: Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice (Seth Mitter)
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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:55:47 -0300
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice
> Hello,
> how are you all frameworkers?
>
> I just remembered that Claudio Caldini himself was/is deeply connected
> with both yoga and others spiritual practices, and in some of his works
> like *Rolf Gelwski, spiritual dancer *(2016) this body-mind relation is
> really explicit.
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> Best,
> Ж
> ______________________________
>
> [ele-dele/he-him]
> *film( )s & + *kkinema.com.br
> *publicações /editions **& +* textodecinema.com
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>
>
> Em dom., 26 de out. de 2025 às 12:33, Jonathan Walley <walleyj at denison.edu>
> escreveu:
>
>> James Broughton might be worth looking into with respect to yoga and
>> meditation. He makes references to both in *Seeing the Light*, later
>> re-printed as *Making Light of It* (easy to find online). *The Golden
>> Positions* (1970) references yoga positions, and if I’m not mistaken he
>> practiced yoga. But a steak of meditative, Zen philosophy runs through the
>> book, which is also just a delight to read.
>>
>> JW
>>
>> Dr. Jonathan Walley
>> Associate Professor and Chair
>> Department of Cinema
>> Denison University
>> https://denison.edu/people/jonathan-walley
>>
>>
>> On Oct 26, 2025, at 10:09 AM, Heath Iverson <heathiverson0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the thoughts all!
>>
>> I am indeed curating a program around this concept. The Sharits and
>> Whitney catalogs are already in the mix--especially Whitney's work as it
>> relates to sacred number and geometry. There's also Jordan Belson's
>> SAMHADI. I've got the formal, abstract/metaphoric angle covered; now I am
>> looking for films with literal ("pro-filmic" like they say in the biz)
>> instances of these practices and their material culture and expression. Im
>> interested not just in the formal representation of subjective
>> yogic/meditation states, but how these practices are metabolized by a
>> largely western avant-garde form. Given the strong counter-cultural overlap
>> of the mid century underground/experimental/artist film world and the
>> adjacent new age/new spiritualist movements I expect there'd be some good
>> examples but, not much comes to mind... there are some hare krishnas
>> accidentally in Mekas' films...
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM Gabriele Jutz <gabriele.jutz at uni-ak.ac.at>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I suggest *Transit(ive)* by Canadian filmmaker Sarah Bliss (HD video
>>> created from 16mm projection performance with digital sound, recorded on
>>> digital video. 06:36. 2017).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In her artist statement, Sarah Bliss describes herself as “a filmmaker,
>>> artist, educator, and Buddhist practitioner who facilitates presence and
>>> attunement with the sensate, desiring body.”
>>>
>>> *Transit(ive) *is the result of the artist’s manual interaction with
>>> the projector lens, while the soundtrack presents a cell-phone
>>> recording of her father’s dying breath. The act of expiration,
>>> literally “breathing out,” is associated with death. *Transit(ive) *is
>>> a video document of death and loss, as well as a techno-spiritual reunion
>>> with the artist’s father following his death.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here you can find more about Transit(ive):
>>> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3775230/3775231
>>>
>>> (chapter “Lungs to Ears”)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> *Hon. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriele Jutz*
>>> Universität für angewandte Kunst
>>> Abteilung für Medientheorie
>>>
>>> T +43 699 12 10 81 44
>>>
>>> dieangewandte.at
>>>
>>> medientheorie.ac.at
>>> Postsparkasse
>>>
>>> Georg-Coch-Platz 2
>>>
>>> HP Raum 022
>>> 1010 Wien / Austria
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://dieangewandte.academia.edu/GabrieleJutz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Von: *Frameworks <frameworks-bounces at film-gallery.org> im Auftrag von
>>> Dave Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com>
>>> *Antworten an: *Frameworks posts <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>>> *Datum: *Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 06:23
>>> *An: *Frameworks posts <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>>> *Betreff: *Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Yoga
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, there are a fair number of avant garde films that ARE
>>> yogic/meditative/spiritual practices in form somehow without PHOTOGRAPHING
>>> such practices as they exist in the real world [or as we say in the biz
>>> (sic) "the pro filmic event"]
>>>
>>> Paul Sharits: Mandala Films
>>>
>>> Ernie Gehr: Serene Velocity*
>>>
>>> John and James Whitney
>>>
>>> (and others germane to The Center for Visual Music)
>>>
>>> Scott Bartlet: Off/On
>>>
>>> Anthony McCall
>>>
>>> Several shorts in The FluxFilm anthology, though 'Zen for Film' might
>>> not qualify depending on how you take it. 😉
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In some cases the artists expressed some meditative/spiritual intent. In
>>> others, it kinds works out that way regardless. The cited above are just
>>> what comes to my mind at the moment. There are more for sure...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you were curating a program on your stated theme, you might mix these
>>> formal examples with representational ones in interesting ways an audience
>>> might appreciate.
>>>
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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:29:30 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice
> Some films comes to mind:
>
> *Omega* (1970) by Donald Fox, a sort of new age psychedelic trip with
> visual music effects and references to *2001*:
> https://archive.org/details/archiveomega
> The *MA* series by Takahiko Iimura, in the Zen tradition:
> https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-159-takahiko-iimura
> Some videos by Toni Serra / Abu Ali like *Entremundos* (2015), concerning
> the sufi tradition of meditation: https://al-barzaj.net/entremundos/
> *The Breathing Lesson* (2001) by Dora García could be closer to *OM* by
> John Smith, mentioned earlier:
> https://www.hamacaonline.net/titles/the-breathing-lesson/
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM Ж <kkotik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> how are you all frameworkers?
>>
>> I just remembered that Claudio Caldini himself was/is deeply connected
>> with both yoga and others spiritual practices, and in some of his works
>> like *Rolf Gelwski, spiritual dancer *(2016) this body-mind relation is
>> really explicit.
>>
>> Hope it helps!
>>
>> Best,
>> Ж
>> ______________________________
>>
>> [ele-dele/he-him]
>> *film( )s & + *kkinema.com.br
>> *publicações /editions **& +* textodecinema.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Em dom., 26 de out. de 2025 às 12:33, Jonathan Walley <
>> walleyj at denison.edu> escreveu:
>>
>>> James Broughton might be worth looking into with respect to yoga and
>>> meditation. He makes references to both in *Seeing the Light*, later
>>> re-printed as *Making Light of It* (easy to find online). *The Golden
>>> Positions* (1970) references yoga positions, and if I’m not mistaken he
>>> practiced yoga. But a steak of meditative, Zen philosophy runs through the
>>> book, which is also just a delight to read.
>>>
>>> JW
>>>
>>> Dr. Jonathan Walley
>>> Associate Professor and Chair
>>> Department of Cinema
>>> Denison University
>>> https://denison.edu/people/jonathan-walley
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 26, 2025, at 10:09 AM, Heath Iverson <heathiverson0 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the thoughts all!
>>>
>>> I am indeed curating a program around this concept. The Sharits and
>>> Whitney catalogs are already in the mix--especially Whitney's work as it
>>> relates to sacred number and geometry. There's also Jordan Belson's
>>> SAMHADI. I've got the formal, abstract/metaphoric angle covered; now I am
>>> looking for films with literal ("pro-filmic" like they say in the biz)
>>> instances of these practices and their material culture and expression. Im
>>> interested not just in the formal representation of subjective
>>> yogic/meditation states, but how these practices are metabolized by a
>>> largely western avant-garde form. Given the strong counter-cultural overlap
>>> of the mid century underground/experimental/artist film world and the
>>> adjacent new age/new spiritualist movements I expect there'd be some good
>>> examples but, not much comes to mind... there are some hare krishnas
>>> accidentally in Mekas' films...
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM Gabriele Jutz <
>>> gabriele.jutz at uni-ak.ac.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I suggest *Transit(ive)* by Canadian filmmaker Sarah Bliss (HD video
>>>> created from 16mm projection performance with digital sound, recorded on
>>>> digital video. 06:36. 2017).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In her artist statement, Sarah Bliss describes herself as “a
>>>> filmmaker, artist, educator, and Buddhist practitioner who facilitates
>>>> presence and attunement with the sensate, desiring body.”
>>>>
>>>> *Transit(ive) *is the result of the artist’s manual interaction with
>>>> the projector lens, while the soundtrack presents a cell-phone
>>>> recording of her father’s dying breath. The act of expiration,
>>>> literally “breathing out,” is associated with death. *Transit(ive) *is
>>>> a video document of death and loss, as well as a techno-spiritual reunion
>>>> with the artist’s father following his death.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here you can find more about Transit(ive):
>>>> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3775230/3775231
>>>>
>>>> (chapter “Lungs to Ears”)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Hon. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriele Jutz*
>>>> Universität für angewandte Kunst
>>>> Abteilung für Medientheorie
>>>>
>>>> T +43 699 12 10 81 44
>>>>
>>>> dieangewandte.at
>>>>
>>>> medientheorie.ac.at
>>>> Postsparkasse
>>>>
>>>> Georg-Coch-Platz 2
>>>>
>>>> HP Raum 022
>>>> 1010 Wien / Austria
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://dieangewandte.academia.edu/GabrieleJutz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Von: *Frameworks <frameworks-bounces at film-gallery.org> im Auftrag von
>>>> Dave Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com>
>>>> *Antworten an: *Frameworks posts <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>>>> *Datum: *Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 06:23
>>>> *An: *Frameworks posts <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>>>> *Betreff: *Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Yoga
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, there are a fair number of avant garde films that ARE
>>>> yogic/meditative/spiritual practices in form somehow without PHOTOGRAPHING
>>>> such practices as they exist in the real world [or as we say in the biz
>>>> (sic) "the pro filmic event"]
>>>>
>>>> Paul Sharits: Mandala Films
>>>>
>>>> Ernie Gehr: Serene Velocity*
>>>>
>>>> John and James Whitney
>>>>
>>>> (and others germane to The Center for Visual Music)
>>>>
>>>> Scott Bartlet: Off/On
>>>>
>>>> Anthony McCall
>>>>
>>>> Several shorts in The FluxFilm anthology, though 'Zen for Film' might
>>>> not qualify depending on how you take it. 😉
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In some cases the artists expressed some meditative/spiritual intent.
>>>> In others, it kinds works out that way regardless. The cited above are just
>>>> what comes to my mind at the moment. There are more for sure...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you were curating a program on your stated theme, you might mix
>>>> these formal examples with representational ones in interesting ways an
>>>> audience might appreciate.
>>>>
>>>> -- Frameworks mailing list Frameworks at film-gallery.org
>>>> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:44:54 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice
> Heath:
>
> In addition to the more abstract Whitney/Belson/CVM/etc. etc. I mentioned
> FluxFilm thinking of the pieces made with the super high-speed camera,
> which turn brief bits of banal pro-filmic events into meditative
> experiences, whether or not that was the intent. Specifically "Disappearing
> Music For Face" and "Smoking".
>
> Maybe that's the metaphoric angle you already have covered, but that's
> where your inquiry struck my memories of films I've seen.
>
> To expand on why those Fluxfilms seem to fit: don't long takes where very
> little "action" occurs typically have a meditative quality, and one quite
> different from the abstractionists who are relatively busy by comparison?
> The possibly paradigmatic film popping into my head sparking that thought
> is *Skagafjordur *by Peter Hutton, but again there are numerous very
> 'slow' experimental films that leave viewers little choice but to focus in
> and concentrate on things our vision normally skims over. Not that all of
> that is necessarily meditative in a yogic "go with the flow" way. But maybe
> there could be interesting discussions on how a film might be liminal,
> maybe a kind of meditation, maybe not, depending, maybe even meta about the
> question, again intentionally or not.
>
> Film generating that thought: Sky Blue Water Light Sign by JJ Murphy. Hmm,
> interesting compare/contrast with *Skagafjordur:*
> lockdown shots of moving elements of nature vs. lockdown shot of a fake
> nature panning slowly mechanically through the frame. To advertise 3.2
> beer. That could land as a joke, or exactly as expanding the ethos Hutton
> found in a Nordic field into a universality that embraces neighborhood bars
> in Minnesota and Iowa. (Not that J.J. may have anything that metaphysical
> in mind.) I wonder if anyone has ever programmed those two films together.
>
> Not that I'm trying to make any pragmatic suggestions for your program in
> any of the ramblings above. I'm just taking time to do some creative
> thinking out loud, on the possibility there might be some distant value in
> sharing it. And, frankly, as a bit of respite from thinking silently about
> the current national hellscape and the ongoing geriatric failings of my
> body and mind.
>
>
>
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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:05:55 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Yoga
> Jordan Belson, Meditation and Chakra. Both restored by Center for Visual
> Music and available on 16mm.
>
> www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belsonfilmo.htm
>
> Cindy Keefer
> CVM
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM Heath Iverson <heathiverson0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Frameworkers,
>>
>> Hit me with your suggestions for work that sits at the intersection of
>> experimental filmmaking and yogic/meditative physical and
>> spiritual practices. I'm interested in anything from ethnographic to
>> choreographic approaches to the subject. I'm especially interested in work
>> available on 16mm.
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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:40:32 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice
> Thanks for the suggestion Fred. I actually have a note on Brakhage talking
> a bit like a Yoga teacher in a workshop flagged from Film at Wit's End "Sit
> wherever your eyes feel most awake — floor, chair, corner — it doesn’t
> matter. You see differently when your spine is your own tripod.” Thanks for
> that too.
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com> wrote:
>
>> Brakhage would not normally be associated with any of this, but you might
>> consider his two minute silent film* Angels' — *no specific reference to
>> your topic, but almost empty of images, almost emptying of the viewer
>> too.
>> On 10/26/2025 9:09 AM, Heath Iverson wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the thoughts all!
>>
>> I am indeed curating a program around this concept. The Sharits and
>> Whitney catalogs are already in the mix--especially Whitney's work as it
>> relates to sacred number and geometry. There's also Jordan Belson's
>> SAMHADI. I've got the formal, abstract/metaphoric angle covered; now I am
>> looking for films with literal ("pro-filmic" like they say in the biz)
>> instances of these practices and their material culture and expression. Im
>> interested not just in the formal representation of subjective
>> yogic/meditation states, but how these practices are metabolized by a
>> largely western avant-garde form. Given the strong counter-cultural overlap
>> of the mid century underground/experimental/artist film world and the
>> adjacent new age/new spiritualist movements I expect there'd be some good
>> examples but, not much comes to mind... there are some hare krishnas
>> accidentally in Mekas' films...
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM Gabriele Jutz <gabriele.jutz at uni-ak.ac.at>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I suggest *Transit(ive)* by Canadian filmmaker Sarah Bliss (HD video
>>> created from 16mm projection performance with digital sound, recorded on
>>> digital video. 06:36. 2017).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In her artist statement, Sarah Bliss describes herself as “a filmmaker,
>>> artist, educator, and Buddhist practitioner who facilitates presence and
>>> attunement with the sensate, desiring body.”
>>>
>>> *Transit(ive) *is the result of the artist’s manual interaction with
>>> the projector lens, while the soundtrack presents a cell-phone
>>> recording of her father’s dying breath. The act of expiration,
>>> literally “breathing out,” is associated with death. *Transit(ive) *is
>>> a video document of death and loss, as well as a techno-spiritual reunion
>>> with the artist’s father following his death.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here you can find more about Transit(ive):
>>> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3775230/3775231
>>>
>>> (chapter “Lungs to Ears”)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> *Hon. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriele Jutz*
>>> Universität für angewandte Kunst
>>> Abteilung für Medientheorie
>>>
>>> T +43 699 12 10 81 44
>>>
>>> dieangewandte.at
>>>
>>> medientheorie.ac.at
>>> Postsparkasse
>>>
>>> Georg-Coch-Platz 2
>>>
>>> HP Raum 022
>>> 1010 Wien / Austria
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://dieangewandte.academia.edu/GabrieleJutz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Von: *Frameworks <frameworks-bounces at film-gallery.org> im Auftrag von
>>> Dave Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com>
>>> *Antworten an: *Frameworks posts <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>>> *Datum: *Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 06:23
>>> *An: *Frameworks posts <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>>> *Betreff: *Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Yoga
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, there are a fair number of avant garde films that ARE
>>> yogic/meditative/spiritual practices in form somehow without PHOTOGRAPHING
>>> such practices as they exist in the real world [or as we say in the biz
>>> (sic) "the pro filmic event"]
>>>
>>> Paul Sharits: Mandala Films
>>>
>>> Ernie Gehr: Serene Velocity*
>>>
>>> John and James Whitney
>>>
>>> (and others germane to The Center for Visual Music)
>>>
>>> Scott Bartlet: Off/On
>>>
>>> Anthony McCall
>>>
>>> Several shorts in The FluxFilm anthology, though 'Zen for Film' might
>>> not qualify depending on how you take it. 😉
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In some cases the artists expressed some meditative/spiritual intent. In
>>> others, it kinds works out that way regardless. The cited above are just
>>> what comes to my mind at the moment. There are more for sure...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you were curating a program on your stated theme, you might mix these
>>> formal examples with representational ones in interesting ways an audience
>>> might appreciate.
>>>
>>> -- Frameworks mailing list Frameworks at film-gallery.org
>>> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=54fad76622&e=857b71a9cb>
> (Super Early Deadline)
> 11.07.2025 Coney Island Film Festival
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=96923dda79&e=857b71a9cb>
> (Regular Deadline)
> 11.16.2025 Cosmic Rays
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f57434fc80&e=857b71a9cb>
> 11.30.2025 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f127e1cca1&e=857b71a9cb>
> 12.15.2025 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d14a1fc9d&e=857b71a9cb>
> (Regular Deadline)
> 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e6e42dbdf4&e=857b71a9cb>
> 05.01.2026 Media City Film Festival
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>
>
>
> *EVENTS*
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> ___________________________________________________________________________________
> *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!*
>
> This week's programs (summary):
>
> - Rose Lowder (In Person!) Screening + Master Class
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=078adef2e4&e=857b71a9cb> [October
> 24 - 25, Hamilton, ON, Canada]
> - Rewind, Replay: Vidéographie
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f0f355825e&e=857b71a9cb> [October
> 25 - December 21, Brussels, Belgium]
> - Sergio Hernández Francés
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=947502ef55&e=857b71a9cb> [October
> 25, New York, NY]
> - Body Modification
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6e7a5ccb50&e=857b71a9cb> [October
> 25, San Francisco, CA]
> - Forgotten Formats: Odd Corners In The History of Image Making
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ddfd81d05&e=857b71a9cb> [October
> 26, Chapel Hill, NC]
> - Punk Rock Docs - Crime 1978 & Outsider Artists
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5364c2e1e5&e=857b71a9cb> [October
> 26, Oakland, CA]
> - Expanding Cinema Presents: Laborberlin
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9ea2db7571&e=857b71a9cb> [October
> 30, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK]
> - Both Sides Now 10
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=69f6ac7a76&e=857b71a9cb> [October
> 30, London, England, UK]
> - Remote Viewing
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2d8819d1a8&e=857b71a9cb> [November
> 1, New York, NY]
> - Halloween Horror Auteur
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b1ef5be7f5&e=857b71a9cb> [November
> 1, San Francisco, CA]
> - Xcèntric: My Tongue Is Lesbian
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c3b58b8a50&e=857b71a9cb> [November
> 2, Barcelona, Spain]
> - Larry Gottheim: Entanglements
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=937bf5b4a8&e=857b71a9cb> [November
> 2, Los Angeles, CA]
>
>
> *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025*
>
> *October 24 - 25*
> Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Dandelion Film Collective
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c30d552777&e=857b71a9cb>
> times vary, see below (all times in ET),
> locations vary, see below
> *Rose Lowder (in person!) Screening + Master Class*
>
> --- Screening - October 24, 7:30 PM ET - Selected Works by Rose Lowder ---
> L.R. Wilson Concert Hall
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de3243fa94&e=857b71a9cb>,
> McMaster University, 1280 Main St W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8
> Programmed by Tara Nelson. Presented in partnership with McMaster School
> of the Arts
>
> --- Master Class - October 25, 1-5 PM - Lecture and Demonstrations by Rose
> Lowder ---
> McMaster Continuing Education
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ccc280f7d9&e=857b71a9cb>,
> 1 James St N., Hamilton, ON L8R 2K3
>
> Born in 1941 to British parents in Lima, Peru, Rose Lowder now lives and
> works in the bucolic municipality of Avignon in southeastern France. She
> has composed more than fifty experimental films exploring the beauty of the
> botanical world, scenes of daily life in various towns and villages, and
> extraordinary moments of ordinary existence. Her films are methodically
> composed entirely in camera, using a precise, frame-by-frame technique
> which, when projected, culminates in an astonishing perceptual experience
> of light, color, form, and motion. Originally trained as a painter and
> sculptor in Lima and London, Lowder turned to filmmaking as both an
> artistic practice and method for research in photographic and visual
> perception. In focusing her research on visual perception in relation to
> the cinematographic means of expression, Lowder concentrated on the
> different ways one can modify the graphic and photographic visual features
> of the image as it transforms in time. This work led her to compose the
> image in the camera, usually by interweaving the frames as the film strip
> passes the lens several times. This way of working is relatively meticulous
> and complex as it means recording a succession of images, frame by frame,
> in the camera, so that they appear simultaneously when seen projected on
> the screen.
>
> Active since 1977 programming rarely shown films, Lowder was co-founder of
> the Archives du film expérimental d’Avignon (AFEA, 1981) an archive that
> collected hundreds of 16mm films and paper documents, and published several
> books, including The Visual Aspect, Canadian expérimental films (AFEA,
> 1991), L’Image en mouvement (AFEA, 2002), and Images / discours (AFEA,
> 2006).
>
> *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025* *October 25 - December 21*
> Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> argos
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e4ff8f351&e=857b71a9cb>
> ongoing,
> argos centre for audiovisual arts, Werfstraat 13 Rue du Chantier, 1000
> Brussels, Belgium
> *Rewind, Replay: Vidéographie*
> argos is pleased to welcome you for the official opening of *Rewind,
> Replay: Vidéographie*, an exhibition revisiting the revolutionary Belgian
> television programme *Vidéographie*, aired on RTBF between 1976 and 1986.
>
> *Vidéographie* transformed public television into a space for artistic
> experimentation, cultural debate, and social critique. The exhibition
> brings together archival episodes, thematic compilations, and contemporary
> works inspired by the programme’s legacy. Throughout its ten years,
> *Vidéographie* featured pioneering local and international artists who
> shaped the beginnings of video art.
>
> Join us for the festive opening evening on October 25, be among the first
> to discover the exhibition, and celebrate with us at argos.
>
> With works by: André Romus, Anne-Françoise Perin, Anne-Marie Miéville,
> Annie Lummerzheim, Antonio Muntadas, Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Ben
> Vautier, Bernard Secondini, Bill Viola, Boris Lehman, Brigitte Fontaine,
> Carole Roussopoulos, Charlotte Moorman, Christiane Philippe, Danièle Nyst,
> Delphine Seyrig, Dominique Castronovo, Eddy Luyckx, Edmondo Za, Ed
> Emschwiller, Enrique Ahriman, Eva L’Hoest, Frank Van Herck, Fred Forest,
> Giuseppe Chiari, Henri Vaume, Herbert Wentscher, Ioanna Wieder, Jacques
> Charlier, Jacques Delcuvellerie, Jacques Lederlin, Jacques Lizène,
> Jacques-Louis Nyst, Janos Urban, Jean Otth, Jean-Claude Riga, Jean-Luc
> Godard, Jean-Paul Tréfois, Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Jean-Pierre et Luc
> Dardenne, Joan Jonas, John Cage, Joëlle de La Casinière, Koen Theys, Laurie
> Anderson, Léonce Wapelhorst, Marcelle Imhauser, Marie André, Marie-Jo
> Lafontaine, Michael Klier, Michael Laub, Michel Bonnemaison, Michel
> Jaffrennou, Michèle Blondeel, Monika Funke Stern, Nadja Ringart, Nam June
> Paik, Nan Hoover, Nicole Widart, Patrick Van Antwerpen, Patti Smith, Paul
> Paquay, Pierre Schaeffer, Ronald Dagonnier, Theo Naniot, Thierry Michel,
> Vincent Blanchet, Vito Acconci, William Wegman, Wolf Vostell
>
> Co-organisor: SONUMA - Les Archives audiovisuelles: Virginie Vandeputte,
> Sandra Bettiol, Maria Dias Pereira, Laurent Golia
>
> Partners: Space Collection: Aurélie Frankenne, Genaro Marcos, Alain De
> Clerck. With contributions from Marc-Emmanuel Mélon. Beaux-Arts de Liège:
> Ronald Dagonnier, Dominique Castronovo. De Vlaamse Overheid, de VGC Vlaamse
> Gemeenschapscommissie
>
> Thanks to: Electronic Arts Intermix: Rebecca Cleman, Kelly Filreis, Karl
> McCool, Jooyoung Park, Matos Museum: Pascal Becker
>
> *___________________________________________________________________*
>
> Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Anthology Film Archives
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78a329dd93&e=857b71a9cb>
> 7:30pm ET,
> 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
> *SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ FRANCÉS*
> This program showcases the hallucinatory video work of Mexican artist
> Sergio Hernández Francés (1964-95), whose experimentation across theater,
> cinema, music, and new media influenced a generation of artists in Mexico.
> Making ample use of chromakey, collage, and a psychedelic sensibility,
> works like *SUEÑO DE SERPIENTE* and *LOKOPHONIA* helped establish Mexico
> City’s experimental video scene and are among the most striking early
> artistic responses to the AIDS crisis in Mexico. Despite his influence,
> Hernández Francés’s work has rarely been seen since his death from
> AIDS-related complications in 1995. The work in this program was rescued by
> video art pioneer Ximena Cuevas as part of her acclaimed compilation Los
> Archivos X and is being reintroduced today through the efforts of artist
> Jorge Bordello.
>
> This screening is presented in collaboration with Visual AIDS, in tandem
> with the Third Annual Visual AIDS Research Symposium at the Museum of
> Modern Art on October 24.
>
> With an introduction by Jorge Bordello.
>
> *SERPENT’S DREAM / SUEÑO DE SERPIENTE* 1991, 8 min,
> analogue-video-to-digital
> *DEADLY SINS / PECADOS CAPITALES* 1993, 9 min, analogue-video-to-digital
> *AH CABALA VIDA* 1993, 6 min, analogue-video-to-digital
> *LOKOPHONIA* 1991, 11 min, analogue-video-to-digital
>
> Total running time: ca. 40 min
>
> *___________________________________________________________________*
>
> Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Other Cinema
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=39d7faa178&e=857b71a9cb>
> 8pm PT,
> ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
> *BODY MODIFICATION*
> ANGELO MADSEN: A BODY TO LIVE IN
>
> Arguably America's most prominent trans maker, Angelo (*North by Current*)
> Madsen has placed their West Coast theatrical premiere here in thee feisty
> microcinema that, for almost four decades now, has stood up for queer
> empowerment, sex-worker rights, and the Modern Primitive movement. In fact,
> *ReSearch*'s V Vale, Paul King, and Cleo Dubois--widow of the subject of
> tonight's doc--are all on hand tonight to introduce Madsen's masterwork, a
> feature-length exploration of the huge human community who find erotic,
> psychic, and spiritual satisfaction in binding, piercing, and tattooing
> their bodies as they please...a subculture aptly represented by the life
> and career of recently deceased Fakir Musafar. Dubois gave Madsen free rein
> to bring to light more than a hundred hours of previously unseen
> recordings, to be stitched together with Musafar's stunning photographs and
> the voices of performance artists Annie Sprinkle and Ron Athey. While
> Madsen's provocative profile questions assumptions about
> “masculine/feminine”, and considers issues of BDSM control and consent, it
> also acknowledges the complexity of other ethical issues surrounding the
> practices, faces the charges of (Native) cultural appropriation, and forces
> audiences to think critically about the line(s) between free individual
> expression and reckless self-harm.
>
> *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Photo Farm
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c3c574d21c&e=857b71a9cb>
> 10am - 12pm ET,
> Photo Farm, 722 Sumner Spring Lane, Chapel Hill, NC
> *Forgotten Formats: odd corners in the history of image making*
> Join experimental filmmaker, film collector, and analog media historian
> Tom Whiteside for his first-ever coffee talk at PHOTO FARM. Tom takes us
> through an idiosyncratic discussion and demonstration of unusual
> photographic formats and gadgets, both still and moving, that were once
> common but are not widely used or understood today. This journey through
> history includes stereoscopy, flipbooks, magic lanterns, the Kodak
> Autographic camera, various home movie formats, the Minox and other
> subminiatures, microscopic photographs, Polaroids, Polavision, Pixelvision,
> and more. The morning includes hands-on inspection of several of these
> devices and images that they made, plus a display of "Bonne Fete," a unique
> 35mm slide presentation.
>
> Tom has been creating and presenting film programs under the Durham
> Cinematheque moniker since 1991. His work has been exhibited at the North
> Carolina Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Full Frame
> Documentary Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, and many other
> venues. He was a Visiting Artist in the North Carolina Community College
> system and taught silent film history at Duke. Tom lives in Hillsborough
> where he currently runs Eno House Movie Nights.
>
> One RSVP per vehicle is required; each individual in the vehicle does not
> have to RSVP separately. Parking is finite; please carpool. There is a $10
> minimum charge for each reservation, but please consider contributing more!
> Bring your own mug, coffee is provided.
>
> *___________________________________________________________________*
>
> Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Shapeshifters Cinema
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dbf40efada&e=857b71a9cb>
> 5pm PST,
> 567 5th St., Oakland, CA
> *Punk Rock Docs - Crime 1978 & Outsider Artists*
> Presented in partnership with Nixed
>
> Join us for the first of a series of punk rock documentary films
> highlighting the origins and legacy of DIY/punk music and culture in the
> Bay Area and beyond.
>
> We start with *San Francisco's First and Only Rock'n'Roll Movie: CRIME
> 1978* directed by Jon Bastion, a short film built primarily around one,
> well-documented performance of the San Francisco punk band Crime in June
> 1978 at Mabuhay Gardens.
>
> Following that we will screen the new feature film *Outsider Artists* made
> by Dave and Greg Clifford which looks at the 40-year history of the Irish
> punk band Paranoid Visions as well as the political and cultural climate
> from which they emerged and the legacy of the subcultures which surrounded
> and sustained them.
>
> *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Expanding Cinema
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c55e7f8dbd&e=857b71a9cb>
> 19.30 GMT,
> Screening Room (G.04) 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LH, Scotland, UK
> *Expanding Cinema Presents: Laborberlin*
> The University of Edinburgh's Expanding Cinema research group, in
> collaboration with Goethe Institute, presents a programme of eight
> short-form works made by members of collective, artist-run filmlab,
> LaborBerlin. Here, artisanal, photochemical practices are actively explored
> and engaged by members, as well as subverted, remixed and hacked with
> modern technology in order to explore and expand the boundaries of the
> medium.
>
> The programme brings together work crafted on small-gauge film, across
> 8mm, 16mm and 35mm, and a number of the works will be projected from 16mm
> prints. We are thrilled to be welcoming Jules Leaño and Sophie Watzlawick
> from LaborBerlin, to speak about their work at the collective, and the
> creative possibilities of working with analogue film in a time of digital
> prevalence.
>
> *___________________________________________________________________*
>
> Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Barbican Cinema
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2b4aa10642&e=857b71a9cb>
> 19:00 (GMT),
> Cinema 2, Barbican Cinema, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS, England, UK
> *Both Sides Now 10*
> Curated and produced by videoclub (UK) and Dr. Isaac Leung (HK), Both
> Sides Now 10 presents a dynamic compilation of artists’ film and video
> works from the UK and Hong Kong.
>
> This milestone 10th edition reflects on a decade of creative and cultural
> exchange, showcasing works that explore identity, heritage, queerness,
> speculative futures, and digital storytelling. With bold aesthetics and
> experimental approaches, the programme captures the diversity and
> complexity of our times, while remaining accessible, thought-provoking, and
> visually compelling. From poetic reflections on digital identity to
> insightful examinations of power and national symbolism, Both Sides Now 10
> offers audiences the opportunity to experience a rich spectrum of moving
> image practices.
>
> Joseph Chen, *Copy is Right!*, 2016 – 3:27 mins
> Choi Sai Ho, *The 1960s For Me*, 2015 – 5:23 mins
> Jake Elwes, *Zizi & Me – Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)*, 2020 –
> 4:55 mins
> Linda Chiu-han Lai, *Doors Medley*, 2014 – 7:00 mins
> Lawrence Lek, *Play Station*, 2017 – 7:50 mins
> Rachel Maclean, *The Lion and the Unicorn*, 2012 – 12:00 mins
> Ellen Pau, *Diversion*, 1990 – 5:30 mins
> Heather Phillipson, *Splashy Phasings*, 2013 – 2:39 mins
> Marianna Simnett, *The Udder*, 2014 – 15:30 mins
> Angela Su, *The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers*, 2017 – 14:35 mins
>
> Total running time: 1hr 18 mins
>
> For more information about the programme, artists and films:
> videoclub.org.uk
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f211bedc6f&e=857b71a9cb>
>
> Both Sides Now 10 is an international programme of events, with an
> exhibition at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley, CA), and screenings in
> the UK, USA and Hong Kong. Supported by Arts Council England.
>
> *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Anthology Film Archives
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cf02a91fc2&e=857b71a9cb>
> 7pm ET,
> 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
> *REMOTE VIEWING*
> “Remote Viewing” is a screening program that examines how contemporary
> artists employ moving images to render psychic phenomena, altered states of
> perception, and metaphysical dimensions of consciousness. Grounded in the
> strategies of experimental cinema, the selected works draw on trance,
> telepathy, memory fracture, and ritual transformation, reconceiving the
> screen not as a passive surface, but as a psychic interface through which
> time, voice, and identity are disassembled and reconfigured into new
> perceptual architectures.
>
> The title references “remote viewing,” a Cold War-era term for
> extrasensory perception conducted across distance. While formalized within
> military and parapsychological research during the 1970s, its conceptual
> lineage extends further, entwined with modern psychology, hypnotic trance,
> spirit communication, occult practice, and early scientific inquiries into
> the unconscious. Reframed here as both historical reference and curatorial
> metaphor, it positions consciousness as a medium that traverses spatial,
> temporal, and affective thresholds.
>
> This program presents a focused selection from the forthcoming exhibition
> at MoNTUE, Taipei (2026), featuring works by Tony Oursler, Ho Tzu Nyen, Sky
> Hopinka, Jeremy Shaw, and Hsu Che-Yu, among others.
>
> Guest-programmed by Alice, Nienpu Ko.
>
> Tony Oursler *HELENE SMITH* (2024, 8 min, digital)
> Ho Tzu Nyen *O FOR OPIUM* (2023, 12.5 min, digital)
> Sky Hopinka *I’LL REMEMBER YOU AS YOU WERE, NOT AS WHAT YOU’LL BECOME* (2016,
> 12.5 min, digital)
> Jeremy Shaw *LIMINALS* (2017, 31.5 min, digital)
> Hsu Che-Yu *CATASTROPHISM* (2025, 13 min, digital. In Mandarin with
> English subtitles.)
>
> 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=4af52e6ab9&e=857b71a9cb>
> 8pm PT,
> ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA
> *HALLOWEEN HORROR AUTEUR*
> AN EVENING WITH RODNEY ASCHER
>
> Many of us came to know and love Rodney a couple decades back when he
> moved from Miami to San Francisco, and proceeded to impress larger and
> larger audiences with his sharp wit, his emotional range, and his
> outrageous cinematic talent. But it wasn't long before his special fusion
> of genre savviness and contemporary pop-cult dread took him to Hollywood,
> which he similarly awed with even more masterful re-animations of classic
> narrative modes into the up-to-date stylizations of psychological horror
> seen in his *Room 237*, *The Nightmare*, and *A Glitch in the Matrix*.
> The time has finally come when the dark visionary's woefully underseen
> art-films are readily available and appreciated in an incredibly rich
> program of the mature auteur's shorts...in fact perfect for our annual
> Halloween haunting. Here in the flesh, Mr. Ascher himself leads the
> evening's deep dive over the edge of modern film angst, including his
> infamous *The S from Hell*, *Visions of Terror*, *Primal Screen*, *The
> First Ventriloquist*, a music video, a collaboration with Doris
> Wishman(!), and our own 16mm monster mash. Come in costume for Tricks AND
> Treats!!
>
> *SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event*
> Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
> <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e03dc3bda0&e=857b71a9cb>
> 18:30 (CET),
> Carrer de Montalegre, 5 08001 Barcelona, España
> *Xcèntric: My Tongue is Lesbian*
> Beyond their differences, the cinematic poetics of Barbara Hammer and
> Sandra Lahire share the same radical question: how do we position the body
> in the struggles (and care) running through the intimate and the shared?
> This programme runs alongside the two Aula Xcèntric talks, aimed at the
> publics of Barbara Hammer (4 November) and the cinema of Sandra Lahire (18
> November).
>
> In the seventies, Barbara Hammer was a pioneer in exploring radically
> lesbian and feminist themes, sensibilities and forms in cinema. Along with
> films that document the struggle for the political, psychological and
> sexual emancipation of women, her cinema takes the body (her own and that
> of friends, colleagues and lovers) as a starting point for empathetic,
> affirmative and intensely lyrical meditations on intimacy and lesbian
> pleasure (as in *Sync Touch* and *Double Strength*), and female
> communities (which in *Sappho* take the mythological form of collective
> prayer). By way of an intermission in the session, the reactions of
> different spectators to Hammer’s films, documented in *Audience*,
> consider whether the cinema can be a space for recognition, contact and
> shared desire.
>
> In the Conservative England of the 1980s and ‘90s, Sandra Lahire also
> worked with her own body to expose the polymorphic violences of the
> capitalist patriarchy. Her first film, *Arrows*, is an eclectic
> exploration of anorexia and the obsessive awareness of the body’s
> fragility, while *Night Dances* adapts Sylvia Plath’s poem of the same
> name to create a meticulous musical montage that evokes the spectral nature
> of death, family, religion and love. An excerpt from an unfinished project
> by Lahire, *Eerie* is the briefest evocation of an interplay of glances
> and desires.
>
> *Sappho*, Barbara Hammer, 1978, 16 mm, 7 min
> *Sync Touch*, B. Hammer, 1981, 10 min
> *Double Strength*, B. Hammer, 1978, 15 min
> *Audience*, B. Hammer, 1983, 32 min
> *Arrows*, Sandra Lahire, 1984, 16 min
> *Night Dances*, S. Lahire, 1995, 16 min
> *Eerie*, S. Lahire, 1992, 1 min
>
> Digital screening, original version with Catalan subtitles. Copies of
> Hammer courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, and copies of
> Lahire by LUX, London. A programme by Carlos Saldaña with contributions by
> Mireia Montané. Participants: Carlos Saldaña, Mireia Montané Guitart.
> Directors: Barbara Hammer, Sandra Lahire
>
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> *Larry Gottheim: Entanglements*
> Renowned filmmaker Larry Gottheim returns to Los Angeles Filmforum with a
> classic film and the LA premieres of two new digital works!
>
> Larry Gottheim taught film-making and cinema aesthetics at Binghamton
> University until 1998. This was a program he started in the late 1960’s,
> the first regular undergraduate program dealing with film as a personal
> art. His early silent films such as *FOG LINE*, *DOORWAY*, *BARN RUSHES*
> are widely known. In the 1970’s he made *ELECTIVE AFFINITIES*, a set of 4
> long films that explore complex relationships between sound and image.
> While still formal and concerned with sound and image, some later films
> include material that would ordinarily be seen in a documentary mode (*MACHETE
> GILETTE*.... *MAMA*.) His many years’ involvement with Vodou in Haiti led
> to a video work *CHANTS AND DANCES FOR HAND*. His works have been
> included in numerous museums, festivals and other venues throughout the
> world.
>
> *Natural Selection* 1983, 16mm transferred to digital, color, sound, 35
> min
> *Entanglement* 2022, video, color, sound, 24 min. Los Angeles premiere!
> *A Private Room* 2024, video, color, sound, 10 min. Los Angeles premiere!
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> THE LONG CONVERSATION with Xav Leplae and Stephanie Barber is on
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> streaming!!!
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Seth Mitter <seth.mitter at gmail.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:51:20 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice
> Maybe tangentially related to this thread is Scott Bartlett's *The Sound
> of One* (1976) <https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=164>, which
> supposedly came about through Scott's study of T'ai Chi applied to handheld
> camera cinematography. Like a proto-steadicam achieved through disciplined
> body movement and balance.
> Only exists as one or two fading prints so far as I'm aware. It is sorely
> in need of someone to champion preservation before it disappears forever.
>
> Robert Fulton was mentioned before, *Path of Cessation* (1974)
> <https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=952> might be a good place to
> start with Tibetan monastery footage (and chanting, if I'm remembering
> correctly). Robert also had a special handheld shooting style with some
> affinity to the Scott Bartlett T'ai Chi film, especially notable in
> *Starlight* <https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=953> and *Vineyard
> IV <https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=955>*
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM Heath Iverson <heathiverson0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion Fred. I actually have a note on Brakhage
>> talking a bit like a Yoga teacher in a workshop flagged from Film at Wit's
>> End "Sit wherever your eyes feel most awake — floor, chair, corner — it
>> doesn’t matter. You see differently when your spine is your own tripod.”
>> Thanks for that too.
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Brakhage would not normally be associated with any of this, but you
>>> might consider his two minute silent film* Angels' — *no specific
>>> reference to your topic, but almost empty of images, almost emptying of
>>> the viewer too.
>>> On 10/26/2025 9:09 AM, Heath Iverson wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the thoughts all!
>>>
>>> I am indeed curating a program around this concept. The Sharits and
>>> Whitney catalogs are already in the mix--especially Whitney's work as it
>>> relates to sacred number and geometry. There's also Jordan Belson's
>>> SAMHADI. I've got the formal, abstract/metaphoric angle covered; now I am
>>> looking for films with literal ("pro-filmic" like they say in the biz)
>>> instances of these practices and their material culture and expression. Im
>>> interested not just in the formal representation of subjective
>>> yogic/meditation states, but how these practices are metabolized by a
>>> largely western avant-garde form. Given the strong counter-cultural overlap
>>> of the mid century underground/experimental/artist film world and the
>>> adjacent new age/new spiritualist movements I expect there'd be some good
>>> examples but, not much comes to mind... there are some hare krishnas
>>> accidentally in Mekas' films...
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM Gabriele Jutz <
>>> gabriele.jutz at uni-ak.ac.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I suggest *Transit(ive)* by Canadian filmmaker Sarah Bliss (HD video
>>>> created from 16mm projection performance with digital sound, recorded on
>>>> digital video. 06:36. 2017).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In her artist statement, Sarah Bliss describes herself as “a
>>>> filmmaker, artist, educator, and Buddhist practitioner who facilitates
>>>> presence and attunement with the sensate, desiring body.”
>>>>
>>>> *Transit(ive) *is the result of the artist’s manual interaction with
>>>> the projector lens, while the soundtrack presents a cell-phone
>>>> recording of her father’s dying breath. The act of expiration,
>>>> literally “breathing out,” is associated with death. *Transit(ive) *is
>>>> a video document of death and loss, as well as a techno-spiritual reunion
>>>> with the artist’s father following his death.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here you can find more about Transit(ive):
>>>> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3775230/3775231
>>>>
>>>> (chapter “Lungs to Ears”)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Hon. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriele Jutz*
>>>> Universität für angewandte Kunst
>>>> Abteilung für Medientheorie
>>>>
>>>> T +43 699 12 10 81 44
>>>>
>>>> dieangewandte.at
>>>>
>>>> medientheorie.ac.at
>>>> Postsparkasse
>>>>
>>>> Georg-Coch-Platz 2
>>>>
>>>> HP Raum 022
>>>> 1010 Wien / Austria
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://dieangewandte.academia.edu/GabrieleJutz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Von: *Frameworks <frameworks-bounces at film-gallery.org> im Auftrag von
>>>> Dave Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com>
>>>> *Antworten an: *Frameworks posts <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>>>> *Datum: *Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 06:23
>>>> *An: *Frameworks posts <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>>>> *Betreff: *Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Yoga
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, there are a fair number of avant garde films that ARE
>>>> yogic/meditative/spiritual practices in form somehow without PHOTOGRAPHING
>>>> such practices as they exist in the real world [or as we say in the biz
>>>> (sic) "the pro filmic event"]
>>>>
>>>> Paul Sharits: Mandala Films
>>>>
>>>> Ernie Gehr: Serene Velocity*
>>>>
>>>> John and James Whitney
>>>>
>>>> (and others germane to The Center for Visual Music)
>>>>
>>>> Scott Bartlet: Off/On
>>>>
>>>> Anthony McCall
>>>>
>>>> Several shorts in The FluxFilm anthology, though 'Zen for Film' might
>>>> not qualify depending on how you take it. 😉
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In some cases the artists expressed some meditative/spiritual intent.
>>>> In others, it kinds works out that way regardless. The cited above are just
>>>> what comes to my mind at the moment. There are more for sure...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you were curating a program on your stated theme, you might mix
>>>> these formal examples with representational ones in interesting ways an
>>>> audience might appreciate.
>>>>
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