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*This Week [December 3 - 11, 2022] 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=7d52c5fc49&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) 12.05.2022 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e40128f6b5&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 12.13.2022 LMCC Arts Center Residency & 2023 SU-CASA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc572bb68c&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2022 Light Field <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0ba5b85796&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2022 Onion City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6ddced6a9f&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 12.16.2022 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fd8ce8c0c6&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 12.30.2022 Translunar Formations <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f4ecf8ccd0&e=857b71a9cb> 12.30.2022 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a55f62019a&e=857b71a9cb> (Half-time Deadline) 12.31.2022 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=56e7f8469e&e=857b71a9cb> (Third Deadline) 12.31.2022 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1316f23b47&e=857b71a9cb> 01.01.2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1297cf89df&e=857b71a9cb> 01.15.2023 Video Art Miden <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c19fe66420&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2023 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=104c67f396&e=857b71a9cb> 02.01.2023 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6a2d256f87&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2023 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bee74e00de&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 02.01.2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c06dd3c506&e=857b71a9cb> 02.28.2023 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1b5ee43ad1&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.01.2023 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a60c735579&e=857b71a9cb> 03.01.2023 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=37fd85ab19&e=857b71a9cb> 03.26.2023 Magmart international videoart festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=34b366d3ca&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1f09289ad4&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Jonas Mekas 100! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9a83d8c923&e=857b71a9cb> [November 1, 2021-January 25, 2023, worldwide] - Refresh <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=da36a0568d&e=857b71a9cb> [March 2022 - Fall 2022, Denver, CO] - VISIONS: HÁ TERRA! By Ana Vaz <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=606fa8c59c&e=857b71a9cb> [November 3-December 3, online] - MONO NO AWARE XVI <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3d5cae91d0&e=857b71a9cb> [November 30-December 4, New York, NY] - Ukrainian Benefit <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=92362bcd66&e=857b71a9cb> [December 3, San Francisco, CA] - EC: George Landow, AKA Owen Land <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b3623c7a7e&e=857b71a9cb> [December 3, New York, NY] - Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6d15d1154e&e=857b71a9cb> [December 3-13, New York, NY] - Smears, Tears, and Thumbprints: Queer Coming of Age <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ff052e1982&e=857b71a9cb> [December 4, Los Angeles, CA] - Gearwax: Old Vinyl, Repurposed <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=beceff2a4c&e=857b71a9cb> [December 4, online] - EC: Christopher Maclaine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b370cf80d3&e=857b71a9cb> [December 6, New York, NY] - EC: Léger & Murphy / Picabia & Clair / Man Ray & Duchamp <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=82edc16af4&e=857b71a9cb> [December 6, New York, NY] - EC: Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=92b42015c8&e=857b71a9cb> [December 7, New York, NY] - EC: Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=eaa1be46a8&e=857b71a9cb> [December 8, New York, NY] - Jonas Mekas: A Small Table, With A Bottle of Wine, Garlic, Sausage, Bread <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=74f67ed142&e=857b71a9cb> [Dec 8-Jan 21, New York, NY] - Edge of Presence <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=72f98d2bc2&e=857b71a9cb> [December 10, Vienna, Austria] - No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a606f51aa6&e=857b71a9cb> [December 10, San Francisco, CA] - Perceiving In Insects <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bc215f1cc2&e=857b71a9cb> [December 10, Paris, France] - A Curt McDowell Double Header 1: Peed Into the Wind <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c080278968&e=857b71a9cb> [December 11, Los Angeles, CA] - A Curt McDowell Double Header 2: True, Blue, & Very Taboo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c74fd2884a&e=857b71a9cb> [December 11, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f5d5aeaf0c&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=023e1b270a&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE DECEMBER 3, 2022* *November 1 - January 25, 2023* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Jonas Mekas 100! <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=bfc9918848&e=857b71a9cb> times and locations vary, see below Event URL: https://jonasmekas100.com/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c9316f80c0&e=857b71a9cb> *Jonas Mekas 100!* In 2022, the world and Lithuania celebrate the life and work of Jonas Mekas, one of the country’s most prominent cultural figures of the 20th and 21st centuries and a global cultural phenomenon in his own right, considered by many to be the “godfather of avant-garde cinema”. Throughout his life, Mekas always emphasized and cherished his Lithuanian roots. After fleeing the foreign occupation of his native land, he arrived in New York City, in his own words “at exactly the right moment”, joining thousands of others escaping the devastation wrought by destructive ideologies and tyrannical regimes in Europe. One might say that Mekas left one village, his native Semeniškiai in northern Lithuania, and immersed himself in the life of another – the Village thriving in and around lower Manhattan, and in its landmark publication, the Village Voice, helping to shape American and global culture so profoundly in the latter half of the 20th century. This centennial celebration, Jonas Mekas 100!, seeks to expand global recognition of his work and encourage a deeper exploration of Mekas’ prolific contributions to cinema, film criticism, cultural organization, and, in particular, his body of poems and prose, now published in Lithuanian, French, German, English, Japanese, Hebrew, and many other languages. The centennial program features over 50 events in an expanding list of countries, including: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The vast scope of Mekas’ contribution to global cultural is examined through film screenings and retrospectives, exhibitions, readings, workshops, new publications and translations of Mekas’ writings, and concerts celebrating the spirit of his work, among other events. The centennial program is a joint international collaboration between leading art and cinema organisations, curators, publishers, the global network of Lithuanian cultural attachés, the Estate of Jonas Mekas, and the Lithuanian Culture Institute. *___________________________________________________________________* *March 2022 - Fall 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Denver Museum of Nature & Science <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f7f57d357a&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. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 3 - December 3* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* VISIONS <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e100b628e6&e=857b71a9cb> streaming 24/7, Event URL: https://visionsmtl.com/2022/ana-vaz/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7eceb5fe41&e=857b71a9cb> *VISIONS: HÁ TERRA! by Ana Vaz* As part of its new online cinema series, VISIONS presents *HÁ TERRA!* by Ana Vaz with a text by Ralitsa Doncheva | 2016 | 16mm to digital | 12 mins 37 secs In *Poetics of Cinema*, Raul Ruiz writes that “films are like human beings, you look at them and they look back at you”. I think about this idea while watching *HÁ TERRA!* imagining the film’s body as a wild animal that preys on me as much as I glimpse at it. Does it sense my shame, my fear? I experience *HÁ TERRA!* as a choreography of gestures and gazes that hits like a rock. A bodily cinema where the eye blurs into the ear, ending in the shape of a mouth. Where one gazes at an animal, animal-like, and listens to the stories vibrating in the landscape while touching it. Where am I in this dream? Perhaps under the hand, hiding. Without a sense of self, levitating. Like a piece of clothing, floating at sea. There is no understanding without feeling, no justice without poetry. There is no encounter without a loss. No moving forward without paddling back to a fractured past that, like the swollen foot of the girl in the film, changes with the moon’s phases. Before language, before language. Back to the land. *___________________________________________________________________* *November 30 - December 4* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MONO NO AWARE <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1491cce1b7&e=857b71a9cb> times and locations vary, see below *MONO NO AWARE XVI* Our 16th anniversary exhibition of expanded cinema, performance, installation and sculpture that incorporates the moving image. The five night program is free, all ages and open to the public thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Our year-round partners, Festival sponsors-in-kind and every person who takes a workshop, rents equipment, purchases film, printed publications or services from our organization. *NOV 30 : OPENING NIGHT* 7 PM EST, 718 Studios * 130 Thames Street Brooklyn New York US Premiere screening of two commissioned works on film: *THE MEADOW*, 2022 / 16MM HAND DRAWN CELL ANIMATION by MAYA EDELMAN (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) & *FOR CYNTHIA*, 2022 / 16MM 2-D CUT OUT & HAND DRAWN ANIMATION by NORA RODRIGUEZ / (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) *DEC 1 : "STEPPING INTO THE FRAME" by Lauren Noelle Oliver* 7 PM EST, CPR - Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Ave Brooklyn, NYC RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cpr-mono-no-aware-stepping-into-the-frame-tickets-467631306827 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aa7306a30a&e=857b71a9cb> *STEPPING INTO THE FRAME*, 2022 / 16MM TRIPLE PROJECTION PERFORMANCE by LAUREN NOELLE OLIVER (QUEENS, NEW YORK) ALL AGES, FREE TO ATTEND, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC VERY LIMTED SEATING * MUST RSVP - MASKS MUST BE WORN, PROOF OF VAX & BOOSTER WILL BE MANDATORY *DEC 2 : INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ONE : "SELF-REFLECTING PROPHECY"* 7 PM EST, 718 Studios * 130 Thames Street Brooklyn New York US INSTALLATIONS: *BEAM* / 16MM DUAL-PROJECTION INSTALLATION BLINN & LAMBERT (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *BIRTHDAY SONG* / 16MM TRIPLE-CHANNEL INSTALLATION ERICA SHEU 徐璐 (LOS ANGELES, CA UNITED STATES), *COAL* / 16MM SINGLE-CHANNEL INSTALLATION JANIKA HERLEVI (OSTROBOTHNIA, VAASA, FINLAND) PERFORMANCES: *THREE FACES SCRATCHED IN CLOTH* / 16MM TRIPLE-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH OPTICAL SOUND PEACHES GOODRICH (PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES), *AND SO SHE WORKS... 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AS DOES SHE* / 16MM DUAL-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH OPTICAL SOUND SIMONE BARROS (DURHAM, NC, UNITED STATES), *THREE CITIES WINTER ‘19* / 16MM PROJECTION W/ STEEL GUITAR PERFORMANCE CONNOR KRAMERER (QUEENS, NY, UNITED STATES), *DUST IN THE WIND* / 35MM SLIDE PROJECTION WITH LIVE NARRATION HSUAN-KUANG HSIEH (LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES), *THE FOLLY* / 16MM SINGLE-PROJECTION WITH LIVE NARRATION HASABIE KIDANU (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *PULSOS SUBTERRANEOS / UNDERGROUND PULSES* / 16MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND ELENA PARDO (MEXICO CITY, MEXICO) MILLIE WISSAR ((LIMA, PERU & VANCOUVER, CANADA) MISHA MARKS ((WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND & MEXICO CITY, MEXICO), *OPTIPUS: THE MUSHROOM ARCHIVE* / 16MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND & POETRY BRADLEY EROS (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LARY 7 (MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) SCOTT KIERNAN (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) RICHARD SYLVARNES (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) RACHAEL GUMA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) GABRIEL GUMA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) MASAMI TOMIHISA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LELE DAI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) AVA WITONSKY (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LINH VU (MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) BENJI SANTOS (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LILY SAROSI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *INTER-PROGRAM DJ / HOUSE *DJ SPAWTR (BROOKLYN, NY, US) & MARCO ENRI ( BROOKLYN, NY, US)* Free, All Ages & Open to the public *DEC 3 : INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM TWO : "OUT OF SHADOWS CAST"* 7 PM EST, 718 Studios * 130 Thames Street Brooklyn New York US INSTALLATIONS: *TOUCHING THE RUMBLE OF MELTING* / 16MM INSTALLATION NUNG-HSIN HU (LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES), *EVERYTHING COMES FULL CIRCLE* / 16MM INSTALLATION LILAN YANG (PROVIDENCE, RI UNITED STATES), *INTO THE NIGHT* / KINETIC SCULPTURE RAY CHANG (BURBANK, CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES) PERFORMANCES: *MERE DIL MERE MUSAAFIR */ 16MM SINGLE-PROJECTION WITH LIVE NARRATION JULIA ZANIN DE PAULA (BENTO GONÇALVES, BRAZIL) IMAN SELACHII (LAHORE, PAKISTAN), *WHEN THE SEEDS SAY ENOUGH* / S8MM DUAL-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND & NARRATION DOMINICK RIVERS (BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, UNITED STATES), *NOWADAYS* / MULTI-FORMAT MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE TESSA HUGHES-FREELAND (NEW YORK, NEW YORK UNITED STATES), *DEVOTION* / 16MM SINGLE-PROJECTION WITH LIVE SOUND SARA SCUR (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) HUGO WAI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *THE LOVESICK SERPENT* / 16MM SINGLE CHANNEL-PROJECTION WITH LIVE SOUND CHAE YU (SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA), *CONTENT WARNING* / 16MM SINGLE-CHANNEL PROJECTION WITH SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE AYANNA DOZIER (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES), *SEVEN SINS OF MEMORY* / 16MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND IEVA BALODE (RIGA, LATVIA) MAKSIMS ŠENTEĻEVS (RIGA, LATVIA) Free, All Ages & Open to the public. *DEC 4 : **"DEPRIVATION" by Caity Arthur* 7PM & 8:30PM EST, The Wythe Hotel Cinema, 80 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn NY RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eRrl_Yyi2P5xMFTK5Hm7P4BhXszN7EAqIRGSTYDVmBg/viewform?edit_requested=true <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00c7192665&e=857b71a9cb> *DEPRIVATION* / 16MM FILM WITH OPTICAL SOUND - CAITY ARTHUR (BROOKLYN, NY, US) & CHANDLER ARTHUR (BROOKLYN, NY, US) Just a year after losing their partner, Chuck is still battling nightmares and paranoia, leading them to believe that what appears in the shadows is all in their mind. They quite quickly find themself unable to explain the unusual hauntings and surreal visions that seem to keep intervening. Are these delusions of sleep paralysis a product of repressed grief, or are they actually real? Centered on the repercussions of trauma, *Deprivation* asks what limitations there are when it comes to blurring reality from personal fear. Free, All Ages & Open to the Public *SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5f6dd8052b&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *UKRAINIAN BENEFIT* CURTIS' *TRAUMAZONE* + STONE's *UKRAINE ON FIRE* + In our ongoing collaboration with our fave non-profit Humanity Now, benefiting international war refugees, here's a program of mostly docs on Ukraine and Russia. Featured is the new and utterly astonishing *TraumaZone* (*Ep.7*) by UK comp-doc master Adam Curtis! The last of his 7 hours on the “Fall of Democracy” in Russia contextualizes Putin's rise and posits Ukraine as a casualty of the Old Empire's political and economic implosion. The first hour of our program is constituted by hefty excerpts from a pair of provocative histories of the past decade of Ukrainian upheaval: Eugeny Afineevsky's *Winter on Fire *and Oliver Stone's (!) *Ukraine on Fire*, the latter offering a little-seen perspective on Ukrainian antisemitism and that nationalism for which the Kremlin reserves the word “Nazism”. Comparing Stone's lighting-fast editing style to the decidedly elliptical leaps of Curtis proves a special treat, especially with our added exemplar of Dziga Vertov, whose *Enthusiasm* pops up. AND the downright jaw dropping *Playing Apocalypse*, by UCB grad Aleksandra Simonova (in person), which parlays her documentation of Odessa's historical role-players in scary Cold War tunnels into a larger allegory on dystopian subcultures in the beleaguered country. *$8-$100 (out-of-towners can donate *here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8bb8399317&e=857b71a9cb>* ). *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=25c84cbb9a&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND* “The unique contribution of Land’s work lies in the fusion of intellectual reason and, significantly, the humor that distances it from the supposedly ‘boring’ world of avant-garde film. Having explored the basic properties of the celluloid strip itself in early works such as FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR…, his attention turned to the spectator in a series of ‘literal’ films that question the illusionary nature of cinema through the use of word play and visual ambiguity. His work often parodies experimental film itself by mimicking his contemporaries and mocking the solemn approach of film theorists and scholars.” –Mark Webber, TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND *FLEMING FALOON* (1963, 6 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR EDGE LETTERING, SPROCKET HOLES, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC.* (1965-66, 5 min, 16mm, silent) *DIPLOTERATOLOGY* (1967/78, 7 min, 16mm, silent) *THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER* (1968, 9 min, 16mm) *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY* (1969, 5 min, 16mm) *REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION* (1970, 5 min, 16mm) *WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?* (1972, 13 min, 16mm) *THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT* (1973, 6 min, 16mm) *A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA* (1974, 11.5 min, 16mm) *FILM IN WHICH…*, *INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY*, and *FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR…* have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Total running time: ca. 70 min. *___________________________________________________________________* *December 3 - 13* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ce1e7aac0b&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *JEAN-LUC GODARD (1930-2022)* To mark the passing of one of the titans of cinema, we present two of Jean-Luc Godard’s most rarely-screened series of films: the politically and aesthetically radical works he made between 1968-71 – including those produced as part of the Dziga Vertov Group, in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Gorin and others – and his later, magisterial collage-work, *HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA*, which is often cited as one of the finest achievements of the second half of his career. Special thanks to Bret Berg (American Genre Film Archive) and Louise Paraut (Gaumont). THE DZIGA VERTOV GROUP Upon the completion of *WEEKEND* in 1967, Jean-Luc Godard shifted gears to engage more directly with the radical political movements of the era – thus creating a new kind of film, or, as he eventually put it: “new ideas distributed in a new way.” This method involved collaborating with the precocious young critic and journalist, Jean-Pierre Gorin. Both as a two-person unit, and as part of the loose collective known as the Groupe Dziga Vertov (named after the early 20th-century Russian filmmaker/theoretician), Godard and Gorin would realize “some political possibilities for the practice of cinema” and craft new frameworks for investigating the relationships between image and sound, spectator and subject, cinema and society. These films, long out-of-circulation except in film dupes and bootleg video copies, represent one of the least-known chapters in Godard’s extraordinary career. They provide a crucial glimpse of his radicalization, and of the aesthetic dialogue between Godard and Gorin that, in essence, invented a modern militant cinema. As Godard told an English journalist of the era, film is not a gun, but “a light which helps you check your gun.” For this series we present screenings of three of the Dziga Vertov Group films (*WIND FROM THE EAST, STRUGGLE IN ITALY, and VLADIMIR AND ROSA*, as well as two preceding films that led directly to the formation of the group (*A FILM LIKE ANY OTHER and BRITISH SOUNDS*). “Are these films ready for a second chance? It would be quite something if they finally joined the great Godardian corpus. They have been the gaping wound in the man’s authoritative canon for so long, the films that are allegedly ‘better read about than seen.’ […] It’s possible that time and history have caught up with the Dziga Vertov Group, in the sense that two of the discourses that permeate the films – socialism and fascism – are now once again very much on the table. This is not to say that ‘Godardian pedagogy’ will find its rightful place as the aesthetic mode of the 21st century, but the films’ handmade, declamatory style does fit nicely with the age of rampant amateur media production and a younger generation for whom activism and technology are entirely coextensive.” –Michael Sicinski, MUBI NOTEBOOK Upcoming Screenings Jean-Luc Godard A FILM LIKE ANY OTHER / UN FILM COMME LES AUTRES <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93c377bdaa&e=857b71a9cb> December 3 at 5:15 PM December 5 at 7:00 PM December 8 at 7:30 PM Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger BRITISH SOUNDS (aka SEE YOU AT MAO) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3e60e1d1b9&e=857b71a9cb> December 3 at 8:00 PM December 6 at 7:00 PM December 12 at 8:45 PM Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) WIND FROM THE EAST / LE VENT D’EST <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fdd7c0300d&e=857b71a9cb> December 4 at 4:00 PM December 6 at 8:45 PM December 12 at 6:30 PM Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) STRUGGLE IN ITALY / LOTTE IN ITALIA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=66aaddd1e5&e=857b71a9cb> December 4 at 6:15 PM December 7 at 7:00 PM December 13 at 8:45 PM Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) VLADIMIR AND ROSA / VLADIMIR ET ROSA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fd4017c33a&e=857b71a9cb> December 4 at 8:15 PM December 7 at 8:45 PM December 13 at 6:15 PM Jean-Luc Godard HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c27f13e4b3&e=857b71a9cb> December 10 at 5:30 PM December 11 at 5:30 PM *SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=35c7683d13&e=857b71a9cb> 1:00 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *Smears, Tears, and Thumbprints: Queer Coming of Age* What does it mean to have a body? Why does the concrete feel so soft under my fingers? Animation is uniquely positioned to examine the intangible and constructed. From here, above the peg bar, artists sketch a pysche imagined and a world redeemed. The films in this program contain a colorful, earnest languidity through a queer lens exploring family, the body, and the ebbings of the afternoon tide. Utilizing the inherent reflexivity of animation, these films create spaces to inhabit both comfort and consolation. Featuring a variety of animation techniques, these films each live in different sections of the mind and body united in their explorations of comfort, hope, and satisfaction. *Torrey Pines*, 2016, Directed by Clyde Peterson *Lemon Lime*, 2022, Animation by Mara Ramirez, Music by AC Crowley *Olive & Otis*, 2022, Directed by James Leong Holston Pre-recorded introduction of Torrey Pines by filmmaker, Clyde Peterson. Q&A to follow with James Holston and Mara Ramirez, hosted by curator Sam Gurry. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* GearWax <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=615776cd35&e=857b71a9cb> 6pm-8pm PT, *GEARWAX: OLD VINYL, REPURPOSED* A bi-weekly online radio program featuring old LPs, 45rpm and 78rpm records. Hosted by Kathleen and Scott from San Francisco. Every other Sunday, 6-8pm PT! *TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=42ae7e3a50&e=857b71a9cb> 7:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE* “The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield, California. These films, along with Ron Rice’s, are clearly the most significant work to come out of the beat period.” –J.J. Murphy All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD* (1957, 14 min, 16mm) *BEAT* (1958, 6 min, 16mm) *SCOTCH HOP* (1959, 5.5 min, 16mm) *THE END* (1953, 35 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 65 min. [*THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD*, *BEAT*, and *SCOTCH HOP* are not part of the Essential Cinema collection, but they are included here as a special bonus.] *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05237ebffc&e=857b71a9cb> 9pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: LÉGER & MURPHY / PICABIA & CLAIR / MAN RAY & DUCHAMP* Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy *BALLET MÉCANIQUE* (1924, 19 min, 35mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) “The two fundamental works of the graphic cinema from the 1920s made without animation were Fernand Léger’s *BALLET MÉCANIQUE* and Marcel Duchamp’s *ANEMIC CINEMA*. By extending a metaphor from several of his paintings into film, Léger compared a universe of human actions and everyday objects to the functions of a machine.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM René Clair & Francis Picabia *ENTR’ACTE* (1924, 22 min, 35mm) One of the indisputable masterpieces of Dada cinema, *ENTR’ACTE* was created, as its title suggests, to function as a diversion in between the two acts of Francis Picabia and Erik Satie’s avant-garde ballet RELÂCHE. Man Ray *LE RETOUR À LA RAISON* (1923, 2 min, 16mm, silent) *ÉTOILE DE MER* (1927, 13 min, 16mm, silent) *EMAK BAKIA* (1927, 18 min, 35mm, silent) “All the films I have made have been improvisations. I did not write scenarios. It was automatic cinema. I worked alone. My intention was to set in motion the compositions I made in photography. As for the camera, I use it to capture something I do not want to paint. But I am not interested in producing ‘beautiful photography’ for the cinema.” –Man Ray, “All the Films I Have Made” (1965) Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray *ANEMIC CINEMA* (1926, 7 min, 35mm, silent) “Duchamp alternates head-on views of his illusion-producing roto-reliefs with similarly turned discs of words, elaborate French puns printed spirally, creating a fluctuation of illusory depth within a very narrow spectrum (from the slightly convex or slightly concave illusions) to the flat readings. In this, his only film, Duchamp typically crystallized the significance of the graphic film.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM Total running time: ca. 85 min *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4171733d6c&e=857b71a9cb> 7:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: WALDEN (DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES)* by Jonas Mekas, 1968-69, 180 min, 16mm “Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it’s a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don’t get it at all.” –Jonas Mekas *THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d4f9e28a43&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA* by Jonas Mekas, 1971-72, 82 min, 16mm-to-35mm Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. “The film consists of four parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania. The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter Kubelka, [Hermann] Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with home, memory, and culture.” –Jonas Mekas *___________________________________________________________________* *December 8 - January 21* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=263ade3496&e=857b71a9cb> 12:00-6:00pm ET, 525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001 *Jonas Mekas: A small table, with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread* “A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread,” a solo exhibition of works by Jonas Mekas, opening on December 8 and taking place in connection with 100th anniversary of his birth on December 24, 1922. “A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread" features Mekas’ final work *Requiem* (2019), an 84-minute video piece that, after its debut as part of a live visual/orchestral performance at The Shed in 2019, is being exhibited for the first time in its final single-channel video form. Additionally, the show includes a selection of the artist's 4-channel video installations, know as “quartets,” as well as multi-projector 35mm slide, sound, and photographic installations made between 2000 and 2018 — most of which have rarely, if ever, been presented in the United States. Associated events will also be taking place during the course of the exhibit. *SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Vienna Butoh Fest <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3958687187&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 GMT+1 Absberggasse 31 1100 Vienna, Austria *Edge of Presence* Audio visual performance with dancers Silent images on the screen A Dancer pauses sounds and notes linger on the edge of presence Super 8 film: Chris H.Lynn (US) Field recordings, sounds, objects, music: Chris H.Lynn & Hiroko Komiya (JP) Dancer: Carla Rihl & David Gazsi Duration: 20 minutes Chris H. Lynn is a filmmaker, sound artist, educator, and curator from the United States. His digital images and Super 8 films explore the subtle rhythms of movement, light, and sound in urban and rural landscapes that vary from the Eastern shores of Maryland, U.S. to Nanjing, China. His work has been shown at the Librairie Avant-Garde, Nanjing, China, UNZALAB in Milan, Italy, American Film Institute (AFI) in Silver Spring, Md, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano Habana, Cuba, Goethe Institut, Washington D.C., The Anthology Film Archives, NYC, and a variety of venues internationally. His work was featured in the book Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination by Robert Robertson. His sound works have been published on Impulsive Habitat, Verz Imprint, Green Field Recordings, KandalaRecords, Plus Timbre and Echomusic and have appeared on radio programs worldwide. https://framingsounds.com/ http://vimeo.com/chrishlynn http://chrishlynn.bandcamp.com Hiroko Komiya plays object sounds; stone, water, seashell, toys, etc. and percussion, zither, shrutibox, voice. Inspired by the air, space, movements, inner body, memory, she expresses the sound without bound melody or rhythm. Since 1999, she accompanies Atsushi Takenouchi's JINEN Butoh as a musician, all his works and live performances are created and played by her live music. Apart from dance, she collaborates with film, sculptor, painter, poet, story teller, costume designer, various artists for exhibition, installation, etc. Released first solo album “Eau Nouvelle” ( sometimeStudio, France 2009 ) Released Butoh performance music album " Pendulum Sea" ( SBENG! Dischi, Italy 2017) Also released 2 albums in collaboration with French experimental band LENA CIRCUS ( 2008, 2011) http://www.jinen-butoh.com/hiroko_profile_e.html https://sonore.exblog.jp/ *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17457ecacf&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *NO NAME CINEMA* RHODY/SMITH/KUJAWSKI's *MINIMAL EXPANDED CINEMA* + We are not only thrilled that a former Bay Area artist-hero is is returning to share new work, but in fact triply so that in that he brings with him a pair of creative cohorts from their ambitious new microcinema, seeded in the the high desert of Santa Fe! Yes, Justin Rhody, thee gutsy and ingenious guy behind the marvelous series of Lake Merritt pop-up slide shows a few years back, is visiting with Abigail Smith and Ben Kujawski with a full program of of motion pictures made by each of them, climaxing in sensational expanded cinema pieces...with live musical accompaniment!—violin, flute, accordion, harmonica, and Fender Rhodes stylins’ to double-16mm projections!! Other movies feature work that is hand-sewn, xeroxed, painted-on, and abstracted from S8 and mini-DV, plus digital narratives and found VHS anomalies, including the world premiere of Justin’s 16mm/S8/DV *Bruised Fruit & Underfed Flora*, the world premiere of Ben Kujawski’s S8 *Empty* *House*, and the West Coast premiere of Abigail Smith’s hand-sewn 35mm* thread.*. AND: The West Coast debut of Justin’s visionary *Potemkin* collab, splicing back together 35mm sections of Eisenstein’s masterpiece, after some 100 comrades near and far have made their personal, distinctive direct-animation marks in the emulsion! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Light Cone <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1ff1775d90&e=857b71a9cb> 3pm GMT+1, National Museum of Natural History Auditorium of the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution - 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 75005 Paris, France *PERCEIVING IN INSECTS* In the presence of Elio Della Noce and Benoît Grison, biologist and sociologist of science, specialist in behavioral neuroscience, ethnozoology and epistemology of life sciences. After having explored the intimacy of the gaze of pets, the filmmakers focus here on the complexity of the perception of insects. Experimental cinema and its "synaesthetic" penchant offer the possibility of playing with a vast perceptual repertoire: shooting devices (home-made pinhole cameras, magnifying glasses), "cameraless" animation techniques (film collages, "phytography") , environmental sound recordings, etc. This set of techniques designed by the filmmakers visits the wide perceptual field of insects and expresses their strange way of creating a mesh of living things. These films therefore translate, through their own craftsmanship, the frequencies, shapes and colors of images perceived by a bee, the electromagnetic radiation captured by the eyespots of a caterpillar, the photoluminescence of fireflies and the dreamy cosmology of a moth. Note that Karel Doing's film, *The Mulch Spider's Dream* (2018), leaves the exclusive kingdom of insects and opens up the molecular perception of a "mulch spider". *CHRYSALIS* by COLECTIVO LOS INGRÁVIDOS / 2020 / HD / color / sound / 5' 36 *MY LIFE AS A BEE* by Robert SCHALLER / 2002 / 16mm / color / silent / 6' 00 *LOOKING GLASS INSECTS* by Charlotte PRYCE / 2012 / 16mm / b&w / silent / 4' 00 *PARABLE OF THE TULIP PAINTER AND THE FLY* by Charlotte PRYCE / 2008 / 16mm / color / silent / 3' 50 *PHOTURIS* by Peter MILLER / 2013-2014 / 16mm / color / silent / 6' 10 *MOTHLIGHT* by Stan BRAKHAGE / 1963 / 16mm / color / silent / 4' 00 *NOT (A) PART* by Vicky SMITH / 2019 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / 6' 00 *THE MULCH SPIDER'S DREAM* by Karel DOING / 2018 / 16mm / color / sound / 14' 01 Free admission within the limit of available places (reservations recommended: https://www.jardindesplantesdeparis.fr/fr/au-programme/agenda/cycle-nature-elargie-percevoir-insectes-4339 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68c88eb06d&e=857b71a9cb>). Doors open: 2:45 p.m. *SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2022* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=513647b237&e=857b71a9cb> 1:00 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *A Curt McDowell Double Header 1: Peed Into the Wind* Featuring Melinda McDowell in person, and Los Angeles premieres of 16mm restorations from the Academy Film Archive! Dirty, playful, bawdy, freaky, raunchy, sexy, brilliant, campy, punky, puerile, gross, glamorous…there are not enough evocative adjectives to accurately encompass the innumerable pleasures of Curt McDowell’s resolutely queer and radically multi-sexual body of film work in all its florid fecundity. A contemporary of John Waters and the Kuchar brothers, San Francisco-based McDowell produced a stimulating body of films between the late 1960s and his death in 1987 from HIV/AIDS, drawing vividly on his obsessions with sex, pop music, performance, comedy, melodrama, and the delicious dichotomy of the gorgeous and the grotesque. Most notorious for his nearly three-hour horror/comedy/porno/melodrama/cult classic *Thundercrack!* (1975), McDowell also created numerous hilarious, intimate, audacious, and unexpectedly profound short films over his tragically short career. The Academy Film Archive has been home to Curt McDowell’s films since 2014, and since then has been actively working to restore his entire body of work. Along with a third accompanying showcase of restorations at the Academy Museum on December 9 at 10pm, these programs of restored McDowell films will offer an extensive introduction to an artist his dear friend and frequent collaborator George Kuchar once described as “cute, controversial, and not celibate. He was a barrel of laughs and a roller coaster ride to hell and back. Life for him was a fast track to fast times that included devilish detours into forbidden erogenous zones.” All films restored by and courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, with thanks to Melinda McDowell. Programs and notes by Mark Toscano. Melinda McDowell in person! McDowell’s first short feature *Peed Into The Wind* is a hilarious satire on stardom and desire, steeped in comic intrigue and DIY melodrama. Starring a whole cavalcade of his regular company of performers, *Peed* anchors a program that also features the metatextual *Truth for Ruth*, his beloved musical short *Boggy Depot*, and the wonderfully charming and nearly-never-seen absurdity *The Mean Brothers “Get Stood Up”*. “*Peed Into The Wind* smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and unusual looking people that make this epic resemble a clogged toilet. Unfortunately, since several of the performers were not as loyal as Ainslie Pryor and John Thomas, the plot is difficult to follow but in no way hinders the sewer-like sequences. It’s quite enjoyable and possesses the releasing power of an enema.” - George Kuchar *Truth for Ruth* (1972) 4m *The Mean Brothers “Get Stood Up”* (w/ Mark Ellinger) (1973) 3.5m *Boggy Depot* (w/ Mark Ellinger) (1973) 16.5m *Peed Into The Wind* (1972) 54m TRT = 78m Note: This program contains explicit content. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4d51aad1ab&e=857b71a9cb> 3:30 PM PST, 2220 Arts & Archives - 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 *A Curt McDowell Double Header 2: True, Blue, & Very Taboo* Melinda McDowell in person! LA premieres of 16mm restorations from the Academy Film Archive! McDowell’s short feature *Taboo (The Single & The LP)* is easily one of his most complex and fascinatingly ambitious films, as it interweaves several narrative and conceptual threads, which include board games, erotic obsessions, and an extended rumination on (and dramatization of!) some mysterious bathroom graffiti. Long thought lost, this singular, memorable film will be preceded by McDowell’s hilarious and unexpectedly tender home movie excursion *A Visit to Indiana*, and the surrealist and romantic fantasia *True Blue & Dreamy*. Note: This program contains explicit content, including some autopsy footage. *Kathleen Trailer* (alternate take) (1972) 1.5m *A Visit to Indiana* (1970) 10.5m *True Blue & Dreamy *(1974) 12.5m *Taboo (The Single and the LP) *(1981) 53m TRT = 77.5m *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1d885d120&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=c8781031fb&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=96f671fa09&e=857b71a9cb> . 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