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To unsubscribe see the link at the bottom of this email. *DEADLINES APPROACHING* **** Enter upcoming calls for entry here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=98a99d7a37&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* Ongoing Films for Ukrainian Border Crossings <bccffpol...@gmail.com?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%0a?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes%20?subdir=calls&filename=2.ann&accepts=yes> (No Dialogue + PG) 02.26.2023 Moviate Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1400f5b9d1&e=857b71a9cb> 02.28.2023 Live Soundtrack <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=66e897223b&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Birds) 02.28.2023 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=746b97ce6f&e=857b71a9cb> 02.28.2023 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=26d325b9d5&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 02.28.2023 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1c9cbc09d6&e=857b71a9cb> (3rd Deadline) 03.01.2023 EXIS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6660835803&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Prismatic Ground <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e59f10e2f&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b34472c91e&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0f968433b5&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Found Footage Magazine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=35825eb392&e=857b71a9cb> 03.03.2023 Festival de Cannes <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=34ec11b7c6&e=857b71a9cb> 03.10.2023 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7935e5adbc&e=857b71a9cb> 03.10.2023 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fa899e9681&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 03.11.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d416566c71&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 03.17.2023 New Orleans Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1f65b07e8&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.23.2023 Reeling The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ea9b0ba21&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c6696f00fb&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2023 Experimental Film Festival Process <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9bf32a3a95&e=857b71a9cb> 04.01.2023 Crescent City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=49c4501afa&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 04.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d942bde03&e=857b71a9cb> (90 second ultra shorts) 04.02.2023 VSW Project Space Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78b2e5fb55&e=857b71a9cb> 04.07.2023 Buffalo Int’l Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68cf83fee0&e=857b71a9cb> 04.09.2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3aef20ddca&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 04.30.2023 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9d2f89aac0&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.19.2023 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a4a6284215&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 06.01.2023 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e98fcb88aa&e=857b71a9cb> 06.15.2023 Revolutions Per Minute Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c37baf51a&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 07.10.2023 Affective Intermediality International Conference <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78a2d69912&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a73b74e19d&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05cb187443&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Spring 2023, Denver, CO] - Split Screen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2d81946397&e=857b71a9cb> [January 27-February 25, Victoria, BC, Canada] - Dominic Angerame: A Complete Retrospective: Program 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=19fe28c2cc&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25, Oakland, CA] - Psycho-Geo: San Franciskino <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=81fd3565dd&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25, San Francisco, CA] - EC: Bruce Baillie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cb457825c8&e=857b71a9cb> [February 25-26, New York, NY] - Simon Payne In Person <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6b01b0c40d&e=857b71a9cb> [February 26, Brussels, Belgium] - EC: Baillie / Belson <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3a64bc33af&e=857b71a9cb> [February 28, New York, NY] - A Synesthete's Atlas - Eric Theise & Headboggle <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8341bccda3&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1, San Francisco, CA] - A Synesthete's Atlas - Eric Theise Solo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a4934fd682&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2, San Francisco, CA] - Exhalations: Films By Kalpana Subramanian <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8759303ecc&e=857b71a9cb> [March 3, Buffalo, NY] - EC: Stan Brakhage (Multiple Programs) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=765b881a1b&e=857b71a9cb> [March 3-5, New York, NY] - OR119 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ed6efd4b8&e=857b71a9cb> [March 3-7, New York, NY] - The Films of Bretta C. Walker & Jean-Jacques Martinod <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e803a2155a&e=857b71a9cb> [March 4, Santa Fe, NM] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5cdf087bb7&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=70fdb8dc11&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE FEBRUARY 25, 2023* *March 2022 - Spring 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Denver Museum of Nature & Science <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5d3eccfb0c&e=857b71a9cb> open during Museum hours, The Summit Stage and Expedition Health, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO *REFRESH: *CYANOBACTERIA OFFER PERSPECTIVE ON OURSELVES This art-science collaboration looks at the microscopic ways cyanobacteria move, on an individual level and in colonies. If we study these organisms and their varied forms, we might discover ways to improve our future. On display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in the Summit Stage and Expedition Health, March 2022 - Fall 2022 The cells in your body take in oxygen and sweep out waste products like carbon dioxide (CO2). Microscopic cyanobacteria use photosynthesis to work in reverse, breathing in CO2 and pumping out oxygen. Three billion years ago, cyanobacteria created Earth’s oxygenfilled atmosphere, supporting the evolution of creatures like us. Today, they provide one-quarter of the planet’s oxygen, and cyanobacteria like spirulina provide us with food. Researchers believe that cyanobacteria —which need only sunlight, CO2, and water to thrive— could offer solutions to our changing climate. They might help reduce CO2 on a grand scale, contribute to biofuel production, and support long-term space travel. This diverse group of organisms offers a symbolic warning as well: when colonies of cyanobacteria become too dense or stressed, they can run out of nutrients or be destroyed by their own air pollution. Made with the collaborative efforts of filmmaker Erin Espelie and the Jeffrey Cameron Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder, which created a customized microscope system specifically tailored for long-term growth and quantitative imaging of cyanobacterial cells; with special thanks to microbiologist and cinematographer Evan Johnson and artists Nima Bahrehmand, Travis Austin, Will Alstetter, as well as NEST Studio for the Arts. *___________________________________________________________________* *January 27 - February 25* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Deluge Contemporary Art <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0e9a92cf26&e=857b71a9cb> Wed/Fri/Sat noon to 4pm PT, Thurs 1 to 5pm PT., Deluge Contemporary Art, 636 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, Canada *Split Screen* Leslie Bauer Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Todd Lambeth Kate Shults OPENING FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 @ 7PM Split Screen is an experiment in encouraging language and conversation between 2D (in this case painting) and media artworks while expanding experiential possibilities for viewers. Less a situation of work coexisting alongside other work in aid of a specific set of ideas, appositions or overarching theme, the exhibition loosely harnesses syncopations—visual, audial, kinetic—to imagine a larger composition within which infinite possibilities for comprehension exist and from which infinite numbers of questions arise, much like abstraction itself. In Leslie Bauer’s *Fahren 7* velocity deforms our understanding of static objects, effecting surfaces into recondite dynamic shapes. “Traffic, as something very essential and characteristic of a particular time, is presented as a pattern of order and a perceptible form of structuring space and time. Locomotion makes a holistic view impossible. In the state of movement, speed and distance determine the perception of the landscape traversed. The road network itself is a pattern, a space-rastering construct, which in turn offers a reservoir of patterns, images and narratives." Gwendolyn Audrey Foster’s film *Dada Ship* wrests itself away from the homogeneity of the historical movement to set sail for other, queerer shores employing disrupted stereoscopy and collaged détournement of archival imagery. In his paintings, Todd Lambeth has long been interested in optically challenging unfixed areas of interest by flipping figure and ground. Like the moving image artists in Split Screen, Lambeth understands the actions of fracturing, splicing and splitting in order to animate lacunae between seeing and recognition, between “this” and “that.” Kate Shults has created a video portrait of a disaster—2017’s Hurricane Irma—from the precarious safety of her home in inland Central Florida. Through anticipation, impact and aftermath, *Irma* explores the fragility of digital images and landscapes while deftly challenging the politics of looking. While the artists in Split Screen engage with varying approaches and concerns, they often utilize similar techniques and processes—layering, montage, chroma shifting and hybrid analog/digital workflows—to enrich the vocabulary of contemporary abstraction across disparate media. *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=47a256583f&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Dominic Angerame: A Complete Retrospective (Program 2, The City Symphony Series)* This is the second in a series of monthly screenings comprising a complete retrospective of the work of Dominic Angerame. Since 1968 Angerame has produced more than 30 films on 16mm and several newer works in digital format. Some of these films have never had a public screening. Many of Angerame’s films show San Francisco, the city he has lived and worked in since 1979, and its varying cityscape as it looks and changes over time. He has also created short comedies, short-form documentaries and many diary films. Angerame has taught film in many schools and universities in the Bay Area as well as at the University of Nevada, Reno. He was Executive Director of Canyon Cinema from 1980-2012. For this second program we will present the five original films of the highly-acclaimed City Symphony series, made between 1984-1997, projected in their original 16mm film format, including: *Continuum* (1984) with live guitar by Kevin Barnard, *Deconstruction Sight *(1990), *Premonition* (1995), *In the Course of Human Events* (1995) and *Line of Fire* (1996). TRT: 75 mins. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=46d0932179&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *PSYCHO-GEO: SAN FRANCISKINO* BUCHANAN's 16th ST. POETS + SPOTO's TL + WOOD/WNP's CLIFF HOUSE + Evermore secret histories and critical insights about our DAMN fair City!..here's a dozen smart shorts and slide-shows--all pathos, no bathos! Showcased is Anthony Buchanan's LIVE-NARRATED(!) 16mm(!) 'zine film' *Memory is Resistance*, a hand-held half-hour of the Mission's ground zero, at the legendary poetry readings at 16th St. BART, including precious footage of street artist Ronnie Goodman (RIP). ALSO: SFAI *grad emeritus* Ben Wood enlightens us to another crucial cultural intervention on the very western edge of our peninsula: his year long-residency at Cliff Moving Pictures, turning the abandoned Cliff House into a pop-up museum! Teamed with Wood, Nicole Meldahl (in person) of the Western Neighborhoods Project has sourced a treasure trove of visual records, from tin-types to digi-vids, that serially illuminate the 6 House windows, with a special focus on Sutro Baths, Playland, and the Kelly's Cove surfers! PLUS Alex Spoto in the flesh for an overdue celebration of his energized Tenderloin center of tenant history and art-making. AND Steve McQueen's *Bullitt* promo, our fave Gay Riots reel, and a NorCal Tsunami scare-film that delivers the *schadenfreude*! Free postcards. *___________________________________________________________________* *February 25 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1909dbc166&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: BRUCE BAILLIE* --- February 25, 7pm --- *MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX* (1963-64, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) *QUIXOTE* (1964-65, 45 minutes, 16mm) “In *MASS* and *QUIXOTE* [Baillie] subtly blends glimpses of the heroic personae with despairing reflections on violence and ecological disaster. […] Despite his sophistication, Baillie remains an innocent; the whole of his cinema exhibits an alternation between two irreconcilable themes: the sheer beauty of the phenomenal world (few films are as graceful to the eye as his, few are as sure of their colors) and the utter despair of forgotten men. It is in QUIXOTE alone that these two themes emerge into a dialectical form, an antithesis of grace and disgrace.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 70 min. --- February 26, 7:15pm --- *QUICK BILLY* 1971, 56 min, 16mm “The essential experience of transformation, between Life and Death, death and birth, or rebirth. In four reels, the first three adapted from the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The fourth reel is in the form of a black and white one-reeler Western, summarizing the material of the first three reels, which are color and abstract.” –Bruce Baillie Followed by: *QUICK BILLY: SIX ROLLS; 14/41/43/46/47/52* (1968-69, 16 min, 16mm) Six uncut camera rolls to be shown with *QUICK BILLY*. The ‘rolls’ took the form of a correspondence, or theater, between their author and Stan Brakhage, in the winter of 1968-69. Total running time: ca. 75 min. *SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cinema Parenthèse <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=172615b66f&e=857b71a9cb> 19.00 CET, iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages Koolmijnenkaai, 1080 Brussels, Belgium *Simon Payne in person* Simon Payne has been making abstract cinema for over twenty years. His videos are predominantly orientated around bold graphic forms and highly structured sequences that produce unexpected colour combinations and conflicting planes. Sometimes there are contingent elements in his work, which correspond with incidental indications of the artist’s hand. The systems that underpin his videos involve the entirety of the screen and every edge. Their effects spill out of the screen, to illuminate the cinema in remarkable ways. He will show and discuss a selection of nine works made between 1998 and 2018. *EDGES: WAVES* 2018, video, b/w, sound, 6'00 *MAY* 1998, video, color, sound, 1’45 *MONITOR* 2002, video, color, silent, 4’00 *NEW RATIO* 2007, color, sound, 1’40 *IRIS OUT* 2008, video, color, sound, 10’00 *CUT OUT* 2013, video, color, sound, 3’33 *YES NO* 2021, video, b/w, silent, 1’00 *NOT AND OR* 2014, video, b/w and color, silent, 18’00 *EDGES: LADDERS* 2018, video, b/w, sound, 4’00 *TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=88890d0716&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: BAILLIE / BELSON* Bruce Baillie *CASTRO STREET* 1966, 10 min, 16mm *ALL MY LIFE* 1966, 3 min, 16mm *VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS* 1968, 10 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. “In [Baillie’s late 1960s films], the eye of the film-maker quiets his mind with images of reconciliation; the dialectics of cinematic thought become calm in the filming of the privileged moment of reconciliation.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Jordan Belson *ALLURES* 1961, 9 min, 16mm *RE-ENTRY* 1964, 6 min, 16mm *SAMADHI* 1967, 6 min, 16mm *COSMOS* 1969, 5 min, 16mm *WORLD* 1970, 6 min, 16mm *MEDITATION* 1971, 7 min, 16mm “Our greatest abstract film poet: he has found how to combine the vision of the outer and the inner eye.” –Gene Youngblood Total running time: ca. 65 min. *WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Luggage Store Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93c0ae7d71&e=857b71a9cb> 8p Pacific, 1007 Market St (@ 6th), San Francisco, CA *A Synesthete's Atlas - Eric Theise & Headboggle* Real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in live collaboration with Derek Gedalecia (Headboggle) and his layered keyboard compositions. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Saturated colors. The subtlest of tints. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Jittery zooms and pans. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology. The performance will last 40 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers. The first set (8p) features Lenny Gonzalez - electric guitar/effects, Erik Ellestad - tenor saxophone. *THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Prelinger Library <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5f34a27493&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30p Pacific, 301 8th St (@ Folsom), #215, San Francisco, CA *A Synesthete’s Atlas - Eric Theise solo* Artist/software engineer Eric Theise will perform *A Synesthete’s Atlas*, an improvised cartographic salon piece using projected maps based on OpenStreetMap data. Since the premiere performance in Lisbon, April 2022, Theise has collaborated with improvising musicians across the US; this will be his first solo performance, with maps being manipulated to a soundscape inspired by the Library's cartographic and geographic holdings. The performance will last 55 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers. *FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Squeaky Wheel <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5227f15b8d&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, Journey's End Refugee Services @ 2495 Main Street, Suite 530, Buffalo, NY Event URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhalations-films-by-kalpana-subramanian-tickets-532349931977 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f6d80ce611&e=857b71a9cb> *Exhalations: Films by Kalpana Subramanian* This solo screening by the celebrated film and media practitioner brings together work made from 2002 to the present day. *event RESCHEDULED FROM FEBRUARY 24 due to inclement weather* For over 20 years, Kalpana Subramanian has created a remarkable body of work spanning films, media art, children’s books, scholarship, and curatorial work. Her recent work is invested in a cinema of breath: a framework for radical cinema grounded in intersectional-feminist and decolonial thought, alternative approaches to embodiment, and what Achille Mbembe calls “the universal right to breathe.” This solo screening by the celebrated film and media practitioner brings together recent and older short films from 2002 to the present day, including the entirety of her Light Mediated series. The filmmaker will be present for a Q&A following the screening. This online and event will take place in the theater of Journey's End Refugee Services, located at the 5th floor of Tri-Main Center. Please note that the online screening will only have the films, not the Q&A with the artist. The online films will be available for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive extended access for 72 hours. Please note that some of the films contain flickering imagery. *___________________________________________________________________* *March 3 - 5* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f70a2ef9d3&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: STAN BRAKHAGE (multiple programs)* --- March 3 @ 6:30pm ET - EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 1 --- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *DESISTFILM* (1954, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) *REFLECTIONS ON BLACK* (1955, 12 min, 16mm, b&w, sound. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *THE WONDER RING* (1955, 4 min, 16mm) *FLESH OF MORNING* (1956, 25 min, 16mm, b&w) *LOVING* (1956, 4 min, 16mm) *DAYBREAK AND WHITEYE* (1957, 8 min, 16mm) *WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING* (1959, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) Films made during the early, “psychodramatic” period of one of modern cinema’s greatest innovators, including two of his early experiments with sound. Total running time: ca. 75 min. --- March 3 @ 8:30pm ET - EC: *DOG STAR MAN* --- by Stan Brakhage, 1961-64, 74 min, 16mm, silent “*DOG STAR MAN* elaborates in mythic, almost systematic terms, the worldview of [Brakhage’s] lyrical films. More than any other work of the American avant-garde film, it stations itself within the rhetoric of Romanticism, describing the birth of consciousness, the cycle of the seasons, man’s struggle with nature, and sexual balance in the visual evocation of a fallen titan bearing the cosmic name of the Dog Star Man.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM “The film breathes and is an organic and surging thing…it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in every variation of color.” –Michael McClure --- March 4 @ 6:30pm ET - EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 3 --- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *THE DEAD* (1960, 11 min, 16mm) *PASHT* (1965, 5 min, 16mm) *THREE FILMS: BLUEWHITE, BLOOD’S TONE, VEIN* (1965, 10 min, 16mm) *FIRE OF WATERS* (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) *THE HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN AND THE MOTH* (1968, 19 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min. --- March 4 @ 8:30pm ET - EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 4 --- Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. *ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT* (1958, 40 min, 16mm) *CAT’S CRADLE* (1959, 6 min, 16mm) *SIRIUS REMEMBERED* (1959, 12 min, 16mm) *THIGH LINE LYRE TRIANGULAR* (1961, 9 min, 16mm) *MOTHLIGHT* (1963, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) *BLUE MOSES* (1963, 11 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) With *ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT*, Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the “closed-eye vision” period. This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a camera, *MOTHLIGHT*, and one of Brakhage’s few sound (and ‘acted’) films, *BLUE MOSES*. Total running time: ca. 85 min. --- March 5 @ 5:30pm ET - EC: Stan Brakhage *SONGS 1-14* --- 1964-65, ca. 53 min, 8mm-to-16mm, silent “*SONG 1*: Portrait of a lady. *SONGS 2 & 3*: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering. *SONG 4*: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. *SONG 5*: A childbirth song. *SONG 6*: The painted veil via moth-death. *SONG 7*: San Francisco. *SONG 8*: Sea creatures. *SONG 9*: Wedding source and substance. *SONG 10*: Sitting around. *SONG 11*: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches. *SONG 12*: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. *SONG 13*: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. *SONG 14*: Molds, paints and crystals.” –Stan Brakhage --- March 5 @ 7:15pm ET - EC: Stan Brakhage *SONGS 15-22* --- 1965-66, ca. 75 min, 8mm-to-16mm, silent “*SONG 15: FIFTEEN SONG TRAITS*: A series of individual portraits of friends and family – Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Ed Dorn, Jonas Mekas, others. *SONG 16*: A flowering of sex as in the mind’s eye, a joy. *SONGS 17 & 18*: The movie house cathedral and a singular room. *SONGS 19 & 20*: Women dancing and a light. *SONGS 21 & 22*: Two views of closed-eye vision.” –Stan Brakhage *___________________________________________________________________* *March 3 - 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c5ab3c6cdf&e=857b71a9cb> March 3-5 @ 7pm ET; March 6-7 @ 9pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *OR119* NEW YORK PREMIERE ENGAGEMENT! FILMMAKERS IN PERSON! *OR119* by Peggy Ahwesh & Jacqueline Goss, 2022, 60 min, digital In this new collaborative work, the legacy of renegade scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich gets the musical treatment it has long deserved, thanks to filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh and Jacqueline Goss, and an ensemble of co-conspirators including composer Zach Layton and performers Cecilia Aldarondo, Laith Ayogu, Lana Lin, Jennifer Montgomery, and Marianne Shaneen, among many others. A student and protégé of Freud’s, and one of the most radical figures in the history of psychotherapy, Reich famously claimed to have discovered orgone, a form of life energy pervading the universe. Shot in his home and laboratory in Rangeley, Maine, *OR119* transmutes Reich’s writings into song, while also conjuring into existence a series of impossible encounters between Reich and a selection of contemporary feminist writers. A theoretical musical that’s as playful and liberating as it is formally challenging and intellectually provocative, *OR119* is suffused with its own unique artistic life force. “The work is based in ‘quotation’ – both quotations by Reich set to song (by composer Zach Layton) and in conversation between Reich and a number of contemporary feminist thinkers including Butler, Barad, Cixous, and others. We playfully examine the unsettled legacy of Reich and his surprisingly relevant dynamic with feminist thought. Orgone was the life energy based on sex and positive expression that Reich claims to have discovered, and here we grant him the honor of the next number on the periodic chart (*OR119*) for his discovery.” –Peggy Ahwesh & Jacqueline Goss With: Erotic Psyche [Bradley Eros & Aline Mare] *ELECTRAMORPHIC* 1987, 14 min, Super-8mm-to-16mm Visions of creation & destruction: the birth of pyromania and explosive technology. Promethea’s homage to Reich & Tesla and the Orgone of Alternating Current. ‘Very Kali-graphic.’ *Plus: each night will feature additional surprise short films!* Also, don't miss WILHELM REICH AND THE CINEMA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8029dfabac&e=857b71a9cb> - As a special supplement to our screenings of OR119, we offer screenings of a variety of films that intersect, in one way or another, with the life, thought, ideas, and legacy of Wilhelm Reich. *SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2023* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ce621551a5&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm MST, No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon Street, Santa Fe, NM *the films of Bretta C. Walker & Jean-Jacques Martinod* Martinod is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, radio DJ & media artist. His works endeavor to interrogate sensory cognition in relation to the natural world, potential planes and parapoetic territories, by interlacing abyssology and ethnofiction with artisanal experimental film techniques. Walker’s work is that of a deeply personal practice grounded in healing, drawing cues from the resilience and sublimity of Nature and its intrinsic relation to the female condition and form. In her dedication to analog technologies and celluloid, alongside her personal research in eco-processing - alchemy, the hand, and a sense of locality are ever present forces and co-authors in her work. filmmakers in attendance! post-screening Q&A! *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bd11c86f8c&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=ee5195ace5&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=7c6964962e&e=857b71a9cb> . 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