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*This Week [September 6 - 14, 2025] 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=5f95ec861d&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 09.15.2025 Punto de Vista Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9a56bab3c1&e=857b71a9cb> 09.15.2025 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e4295e17d0&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 09.17.2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c20dac4500&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 09.30.2025 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ae9f0a28c0&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 09.30.2025 Pollen: Video Spells <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=10d80f66cd&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.01.2025 PRISME #8 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5cb6b759e7&e=857b71a9cb> 10.15.2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=301811a6e0&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.01.2025 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2921eab1b3&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2025 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=72d72216da&e=857b71a9cb> 11.07.2025 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1307df1bd1&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.16.2025 Cosmic Rays <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e26bc9fcca&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2646da16be&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=248bb2c152&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Chris H. Lynn <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=24f1dd44fb&e=857b71a9cb> [August 22 - September 14, Berlin, Germany] - Elevation Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=431c00d1e2&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6 - 7, Cornwall, UK] - EC: Maya Deren <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=df08d0c612&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6, New York, NY] - Archive Fever <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=30238ef60b&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6, San Francisco, CA] - Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 1) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3a6b35739f&e=857b71a9cb> [September 6, Los Angeles, CA] - Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 2) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3ab882ef17&e=857b71a9cb> [September 7, Los Angeles, CA] - Both Sides Now 10: video Works From The Uk And Hong Kong <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c47c5f71c4&e=857b71a9cb> [September 7, Portland, OR] - Vjoltron <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3120e60edc&e=857b71a9cb> [September 8, Brooklyn, NY] - Desire & Dystopia: Personal Cinema of Lisa Crafts <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0fa48c8fa8&e=857b71a9cb> [September 12, Brooklyn, NY] - Rotating Signals: The Contemporary Korean Avant-Garde <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cab2cc8df0&e=857b71a9cb> [September 12, Oakland, CA] - Budva Video Art Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=beec70c7ee&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13, Budva, Montenegro] - Tomonari Nishikawa PGM 1 + 2 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15ed087f07&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13-14, New York, NY] - Kino Critters <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ef2dd4a2c9&e=857b71a9cb> [September 13, San Francisco, CA] - Coral & Florida-Structuralism: New Works By Matt Town <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6cf552110f&e=857b71a9cb> [September 14, Los Angeles, CA] - You Don’T Know Me <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=703da2e94b&e=857b71a9cb> [September 14, Ridgewood, NY] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2025* *August 22 - September 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Switchboard Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4fa2831011&e=857b71a9cb> 18:00 (UTC), Heidelberger Straße 37, 12059 Berlin, Germany *Chris H. Lynn* Chris H. Lynn's digital work will be exhibited at the Swithcboard Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Chris H. Lynn is a filmmaker and sound artist 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, BFI Southbank, UK Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano Habana, Cuba, Goethe Institut, Washington D.C., The Anthology Film Archives, NYC, Heritage Film Festival, MD, and a variety of venues internationally. His work was featured in the book Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination by Robert Robertson. Since 2021, he has collaborated with Japanese sound artist Hiroko Komiya on sound projects and audiovisual live performances with dancers ( Vienna, Austria 2022, Warsaw, Poland, 2023, Barcelona, Spain, 2023, Mexico, Mexico City 2024, Hong Kong, Athens, Greece, Kumano, Japan). He currently hosts the monthly radio program Beyond Encounters on Camp Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d5451980c9&e=857b71a9cb> His sound works have been published on Impulsive Habitat, Verz Imprint, Green Field Recordings, Kandala Records, Plus Timbre and Echomusic and have appeared on radio programs worldwide.Chris curated the Experimental Film Program Urban/Rural Landscapes for the Utopia Film Festival in Greenbelt, Maryland from 2005 until 2015. He also curated the 2010 Takoma Park/Silver Spring Experimental Film Festival. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2025* *September 6 - 7* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Maker Heights <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9df9752785&e=857b71a9cb> see above link for times + locations, *Elevation Film Festival* Elevation Film Festival is a celebration of experimental film and artists’ moving image from around the world. In our second edition, we'll be screening over 55 films, installations and expanded cinema performances from 14 countries over one weekend, including a dedicated programme for filmmakers based in Cornwall and Devon. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=521d71c100&e=857b71a9cb> 3:45PM (EST), 32 2nd Ave, New York, NY *EC: MAYA DEREN* All films in this program have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives. *MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON *(1943, 14 min, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959.) *AT LAND *(1944, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander Hammid.) *A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA *(1945, 3 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty.) *RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME *(1946, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook.) “*MESHES* is, one might say, almost expressionist; it externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external one. *AT LAND* has little to do with the inner world of the protagonist, it externalizes the hidden dynamics of the external world, and here the drama results from the activity of the external world. It is as if I had moved from a concern with the life of a fish, to a concern with the sea which accounts for the character of the fish and its life. And* RITUAL* pulls back even further, to a point of view from which the external world itself is but an element in an entire structure and scheme of metamorphosis: the sea itself changes because of the larger changes of the earth. *RITUAL* is about the nature and process of change.” –Maya Deren Total running time: ca. 55 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=78a7c593b7&e=857b71a9cb> 8PM PST, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 *ARCHIVE FEVER* BALDWIN's 222 BOOK-LAUNCH/AUCTION + 16MM ANOMALIES Well hello!! OC is back, jes' shaking with the excitement of a case of Archive Fever...a wide-eyed, full-bodied embrace of our own kind of Cultural Anthropology, a sub-pop group-grok of both outsider cinema and street-savvy fashion!! Yes, BOTH the astonishing surprises in secret 16mm industrial-film collections, AND the marvelous milieux opened and at hand in the instance of an actual public auction of vintage Tees!! Craig Baldwin's limited-edition *222 T-SHIRTS*– in this, his fourth book's inaugural launch--serves as a irresistible invitation to a cinemascopic display of thee most curious clothing artifacts...on tables, on the walls, and on live models!..scheduled so that the bidding plays as prologue to a delirious evening of gobsmackin' celluloid core-samples. The two lineages— both from the cotton plant!--here understood as precious traces of particular sensibilities oh-so-at-risk of disappearing forever into the black hole of forgotten cultural history. Come in to browse for free for the afternoon's silent auction; we'll deliver the garments to the winners at our 8PM showtime. Titles include: A 1953 tribute to the rescue of *Treasures in a Garbage Can* (the veritable theme of tonight's event!)...IBM's mid-50s proto-techno-utopian *Piercing the Unknown*...a '56 personal-travelog on a Carnivalesque Caribbean cargo cult, in Kodachrome...an early-70s Christian rant on ''cults”, with Eldridge Cleaver(!)...a mid-70s Oscar Mayer *Wienermobile* ride into a funk-fueled factory overflowing with fatty cow flesh...a '68 educational-TV explication of human sexual intercourse...a late-70s Mormon fantasia of Jesus Christ preaching amongst the Mayan pyramids... an early-80s human-potential confessional on celebrity bed-wetting...a mid-70s doomed-date/tsunami-apocalypse cautionary...and of course mid-century trailers, TV commercials, and Russ Forster on the Califone! PLUS free books, films, albums, cassettes, even laserdiscs...and open bar! *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Academy Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a108ca45f8&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30pm PT, Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 *Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 1)* Guest programmed by Madison Brookshire, explores a poetic vision of the world through the sensuous work of Vincent Grenier. Brookshire writes: Artist, programmer, and professor Vincent Grenier was a mentor and friend to many, including myself. He was beloved by both students and peers, and, for those of us lucky enough to experience them, his sensuous experimental films and videos have had a deep and lasting impact. Over his fifty-year career, Grenier created a body of work unlike any other in contemporary experimental cinema. Utilizing many approaches, his 16mm films and videos move fluidly between modes of abstraction and documentary, sound and silence, spectral superimposition and stark clarity. He often uses the frame in a painterly way. Whether deftly layering images, as... in *Time’s Wake* (1978) and *Watercolor (Fall Creek)* (2013), or creating documentary portraits such as *Out in the Garden* (1991), his use of space and emphasis on the everyday recall both Mondrian and Muqi. While many of his best-known works are silent, his use of sound is sensitive and complex as well, deepening and extending the visual field to reveal the world around the frame. There is a delicacy to his work, as well as an openness that is profound. In the end, I believe it presents us with a poetic vision of the world, at once formal and deeply felt, whose beauty is not superfluous, but vital. Programmed and note by Madison Brookshire. All films directed by Vincent Grenier. *Light Shaft* 1975. 7 min. USA. Black-and-White. Silent. 16mm. *Time’s Wake* 1978. 14 min. USA. Color. Silent. 16mm. *Out in the Garden* 1991. 15 min. USA. Color. Sound. 16mm. *Waiting Room* 2012. 9 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital. *Watercolor (Fall Creek)* 2013. 12 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital. *Pending* 2016. 9 min. USA. Color. Sound. Digital. *Commute* 2018. 6 min. USA. Color. Sound, Silent. Digital. *Wishbone* 2021. 1 min. USA. Color. Silent. Digital Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3ee4ad7e65&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA *Vincent Grenier: In Focus (Program 2)* Curated by Madison Brookshire. Artist, programmer, and professor Vincent Grenier was a mentor and friend to many, including myself. He was beloved by both students and peers, and, for those of us lucky enough to experience them, his sensuous experimental films and videos have had a deep and lasting impact. Over his fifty-year career, Grenier created a body of work unlike any other in contemporary experimental cinema. Utilizing many approaches, his 16mm films and videos move fluidly between modes of abstraction and documentary, sound and silence, spectral superimposition and stark clarity. In many of Vincent Grenier’s films, there is a distinct rhythm. A thing appears, flashes, disappears, then returns for a long time. It is not the same as foreshadowing, exactly; it is more like a stutter or a stammer. It happens again and again, across time, in different periods, in films as well as videos, in silent abstractions and documentary portraits alike. You can see it in *Tabula Rasa* (2004) and in *You* (1990): a stop-start. It’s as though the image first has to haunt the screen before it can inhabit it, has to flicker before it runs. Deleuze says of Proust that he has a way of writing that makes language stammer. Likewise, I think Grenier makes time stammer. And in that interruption, that break, is an irruption. There is time in that time, in those layers. And these films are always deeply layered. Grenier divides up the screen, always flat (but deeper still for its flatness), in a painterly way, like a composition by Mondrian or Muqi. And, as with these painters, while some of Grenier’s works may at first appear austere, with time and attention, they give. That is, they reveal themselves to be giving. This is true in the works where he so deftly, fluidly uses superimposition (again, like *You* and *Tabula Rasa*), but it’s true in *Back View* (2011) as well. The frame is complex, almost cubist, even when it is direct, clear, without any superimposition. It is magic: a transformation. Something ordinary first becomes strange and then opens. If there is any formalism here, it is never for itself, but always for this transformation. *Closer Outside* (1981) shows me this, and of course *Intérieur Interiors (to A.K.)* (1978), which cannot be surpassed, only entered. With its incredible grain, there is so much movement, even in stillness, so much sound, even in silence. Every frame is rich with differentiated movements—not just contrasting, but differentiated (a difference in potential, as Deleuze says). When Grenier does use sound, it is as delicate and considered as his framing. Whether the image is abstract or empty of people, which it often is, the sound, always concrete, creates a world. The sound transforms the film, transforms the frame. As above, the frame is already deep, layered, even when it is flat, but the sound reveals everything around it. It creates / reveals a whole world inside / outside the frame. In over twenty films, Grenier created many such worlds, though never by the same approach, not exactly. You almost wouldn’t think it is all the work of a single filmmaker. Across his work, certain familiarities or themes emerge—like water, for instance, ever present; there is a river running through these films, a river made of film, of images—but most especially there is a rhythm that is all Grenier’s, unlike any other that I know. A thing appears, flashes, disappears, then returns. Like a stutter, or a stammer. There is time inside of time—and these films are nothing if not multiple. —Madison Brookshire Vincent Grenier (1948–2023) was born in Quebec City, Canada and lived largely in the United States. In the early 1970’s, he began making films in San Francisco where he worked as the programmer for Canyon Cinema. After moving to New York City, he was a frequent contributor to both the Montreal and New York art scenes of the 1970’s and 1980’s and was a programmer with the Collective for Living Cinema. Grenier made over two dozen films and videos during his life. His work has earned numerous awards; screened internationally at major museums, showcases, and festivals; and has been the subject of multiple retrospectives. In 2010, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, in 2019, the Stan Brakhage Vision Award. He lived in Ithaca, NY and taught generations of students at nearby Binghamton University. *Closer Outside*, 1981, 16mm, color, silent (24fps), 9min *You*, 1990, 16mm, color, sound, 12min *Surface Tension #2*, 1995, 16mm, color, sound, 5min *Tabula Rasa*, 2004, digital, color, sound, 7min *Straight Lines*, 2009, digital, color, silent, 5min *Backview*, 2011, digital, color, sound 17min TRT 70 min *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Boathouse Microcinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=187e6aef5d&e=857b71a9cb> 8:00PM (PT), 822 N River St. Portland, OR 97227 *Both Sides Now 10: Video Works from the UK and Hong Kong* 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 program 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 Choi Sai Ho, *The 1960s For Me*, 2015, 5:23 Jake Elwes, *Zizi & Me – Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)*, 2020, 4:55 Linda Chiu-han Lai, *Doors Medley*, 2014, 7:00 Lawrence Lek, *Play Station*, 2017, 7:50 Rachel Maclean, *The Lion and the Unicorn*, 2012, 12:00 Ellen Pau, *Diversion*, 1990, 5:30 Heather Phillipson, *Splashy Phasings*, 2013, 2:39 Marianna Simnett, *The Udder*, 2014, 15:30 Angela Su, *The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers*, 2017, 14:35 TRT. 78 mins Both Sides Now 10 is an international program 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. For more information about the program, artists and films: videoclub.org.uk <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d09ac3af0d&e=857b71a9cb> *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5c293e851f&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (EST), 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY *Vjoltron* Vjoltron is a Monthly Experimental Audio-Visual Performance series based at @Millennium_Film in Brooklyn, NY! For the past 3 years, Viz_Wel & Mike VideoPunk have assembled a ragtag band of Video Artists, Sound Explorers, and Multimedia Experimentalists of all stripes. . . Each month, they give (at least) 3 video artists 30 Minutes to perform whatever they want, either solo or with another artist. They’ve hosted Analog Glitch Artists, Live Coders, Videodroners, and everything in between. Each event is a combination of DIY show, Workshop, and Hobbyist Hang-out - everyone is welcome! There’s always time & space to check out the gear, talk to the artists, and get super weird. After the performances, all of the video artists connect up all of their assembled gear, and the great VJOLTRON JAM commences! It’s Wild, It’s Wooly, and it’s Weirder than you can imagine! Lineup: Analog Mannequin Non-binary Jakepaul & Reatham Latinacroft *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a41643a77c&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (EST), 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY *Desire & Dystopia: Personal Cinema of Lisa Crafts* Millennium Film Workshop is proud to present a rare evening devoted to the films and animated works of visionary artist Lisa Crafts. Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel, the program surveys nearly five decades of groundbreaking work that spans erotic cel animation, ecological poetics, and multidisciplinary experiments in moving image. >From her infamous 1979 debut *Desire Pie*, a bold erotic cartoon seized by Cambridge police the very day it opened, now housed in the Museum of Modern Art, to her most recent animated installations exploring environmental precarity, Crafts has continually redefined the very language of animation. Her practice refuses boundaries: cel and cut-out animation, live performance collaborations, installations, and hybrid works that blur still life, landscape, and dream worlds. The result is a cinema that is as sensual as it is dystopian, where humor coexists with chaos, beauty with collapse, and desire is a profound expression of liberation. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4034aabd84&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Rotating Signals: The Contemporary Korean Avant-Garde* A program of 10 short films, curated and organized by Joshua Kim, highlighting the current landscape of experimental film in Korea, as well as from those in the Korean diaspora around the world. SCREENING: *A Dark Room* (2025, b/w, silent, 10 mins) by Heehyun Choi, *Spoken Word* (2023, b/w, silent, 4 mins) by Hyoin Kwak, *Rotating Signals* (2025, color, sound, 10 mins) by Chae Yu, *Shadow-Forest* (2025, color, sound, 28 mins) by Go-Eun Im, *Long Sand and Water* (2023, color, silent, 5 mins) by Hyeisoo Kim & Luuk Schröder, *Bye, Snark, Boo-Jum! *(2024, b/w, silent, 8 mins) by Jiyong In, *Geomeunyeo* (2025, b/w, sound, 3 mins) by Kyujae Park, *Pyohaerok* (2025, color, silent, 14 mins) by Il-hwan, *Buseok* (2024, b/w + color, silent, 18 mins) by Kyujae Park, *Lord* (2024, color, silent, 14 mins) by Chul-woong Jang *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Budva Video Art Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be9d0ff166&e=857b71a9cb> 21:00 (CEST), Cultural Center Auditoria - Budva, Montenegro *Budva Video Art Festival* The first Budva Video Art Festival's theme is contemporary nomadism and a glimpse into a new reality. Films chosen for selection have in common a certain sense of wandering, artistic pilgrimage. Works showcased at the first edition are in search of a certain cinematic language and common ground in times of crises. An attempt to observe and describe the rapidly changing context we are placed in as artists and spectators. Evgeny Granilshchikov *Artist’s Film*, 2025, 29 min. Like one of the characters in a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, the character in the film is an artist who wanders through the empty village and listens to voice messages sent by his friend, a well-known journalist from The New York Times. From these monologues, we learn that both of them left their country and are now living in exile in different parts of the world. They don't know if they will ever come to see each. Vladilen Vierny *Exil*, 2013, 16 min. A young African migrant's first couple of hours on a European beach. Stanislav Dorochenkov *Iliazd*, 2023, 91 min. It occurred to me that the cruellest thing that the film inflicted on us was immortality. In October 2021, in Saint-Petersburg, the city becomes a theatre for intimacy, and the thoughts become music. It was a good moment to think of death. Death looked like a world without words. Something pure, made invisible by its absoluteness. Fedor Koptsev *Can You Be Real*, 2025, 9 min. We have all been hearing stories about ghosts. What if they are still alive and still living in places where we are afraid to go? This film is about one of these ghosts. She is alone and forgotten, but wants to be heard, to find her identity and establish a connection, but can’t reach anyone who visits the place she calls home. All that remains for her is to wander there, look at the views that are already boring, and gradually die from the fact that she was forgotten and left there. Ruth Kazanovich, Miroslav Churin *The Original Sin*, 2025, 5 min. When a person is left alone in a room, with nothing there but their consciousness, their desires gain power. In the silence, their thoughts amplify, leading them into the depths of their mind. Every wish, fear, and regret surfaces, trying to break free. The mind becomes both a sanctuary and a battleground, where inner conflicts grow stronger and unresolved dreams haunt. Investigate the boundaries of the human temper; watch how our own desires destroy us little by little. Follow us on this absurd yet sincere journey. (There is no end). Yasha Vetkine *Le syndrome de la page blanche*, 2025, 10 min. The fear of a blank page is a basic challenge for every artist facing a personal crisis. To overcome this, the artist must be in a constant search for a visual language that can reflect on a changing reality. Art is necessary to revive our perception and to reset our vision. *___________________________________________________________________* *September 13 - 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a2e3c62adb&e=857b71a9cb> 5:30pm & 8pm ET both nights, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *Tomonari Nishikawa, PGM 1 + 2* This year brought the tragic news of the untimely death of experimental filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, who passed away in April at the age of 55. Nishikawa came relatively late to avant-garde cinema (after first studying Economics, and then working odd jobs in Japan, Australia, Canada, and the U.S.). But, as the countless testimonies that have emerged in the wake of his death attest, he quickly became an indispensable, invaluable, and widely admired figure in contemporary experimental cinema, thanks both to his extraordinary body of work – which ranks among the truly exceptional contributions to 21st century avant-garde cinema – and to his role as a teacher, colleague, and mentor at Binghamton University, where (following in the footsteps of earlier faculty members such as Larry Gottheim, Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, and Vincent Grenier) he proved to be equally gifted at supporting and nurturing students and fellow teachers alike. It's his body of work, though, that will live on most vividly. Shot mostly on Super-8 and 16mm, his films’ rich textures, rhythmic dynamism, and evocative imagery create a quality of quiet rapture, while his mastery of film technique – and in particular his astounding facility for in-camera editing and superimposition – is worthy of filmmakers like Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, and Stan Brakhage. Nishikawa continued to expand his practice over the years, turning to digital media as well as live projector performances, proving himself to be an artist whose search for new formal discoveries was ever ongoing. To celebrate Nishikawa, Anthology joins forces with Tomonari’s wife, Miki Nishikawa, his friends and colleagues Sofia Theodore-Pierce and Daïchi Saïto, and Prismatic Ground, for a comprehensive survey of his film and video work. Co-presented by Prismatic Ground. --- PGM 1 - September 13 + 14 at 5:30 PM --- *APOLLO* (2003, 6 min, 16mm) *MARKET STREET* (2005, 5 min, 16mm, silent) *CLEAR BLUE SKY* (2006, 4 min, digital) *SKETCH FILM #1-5* (2005-07, 15 min, Super-8mm, silent) *INTO THE MASS* (2007, 6 min, double projection 16mm, silent) *16-18-4* (2008, 2.5 min, 35mm, silent) *LUMPHINI 2552* (2009, 3 min, 35mm) *TOKYO – EBISU* (2010, 5 min, 16mm) *SHIBUYA – TOKYO* (2010, 10 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min. /// --- PGM 2 - September 13 + 14 at 8:00 PM --- *45 7 BROADWAY* (2013, 5 min, 16mm) *SOUND OF A MILLION INSECTS, LIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS* (2014, 2 min, 35mm) *MANHATTAN ONE TWO THREE FOUR* (2014, 3 min, Super-8mm, silent) *LUMINOUS VEIL* (2016, 6 min, Super-16mm-to-digital) *TEN MORNINGS TEN EVENINGS AND ONE HORIZON* (2016, 10 min, 16mm) *AMUSEMENT RIDE* (2019, 6 min, 16mm) *TRAFIC* (2021, 6.5 min, 16mm-to-digital) *MAGNETIC POINT* (2023, 6 min, Super-16mm-to-digital) *LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE, AND LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE* (2023, 6 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 55 min. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d0d1cfa9f5&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *KINO CRITTERS* KORNELIA BOCZKOWSKA's THE ANIMAL SHOW Ever wondered how experimental films represent animals? Our international cinema sister Kornelia personally introduces a global program that challenges the representation of animals in mainstream media, highlighting non-anthropocentric modes of seeing, being, and movement. These home movies, diaries, animations, found footage, and music videos--both handmade and digital--deepen our understanding of the complex relationship between humans, animals, media, and environment: *Becoming*, Jan van Ijken (Netherlands, 2018), the miraculous genesis of animal life seen in a great microscopic detail--a salamander in its transparent egg from fertilization to hatching; *Not (A) Part**,* Vicky Smith (16mm, UK, 2019), in reference to the rapid decline of flying insects, dead bees found on walks were positioned directly onto negative film and contact-printed; *Jamal [A Camel] *(16mm, 1981), Ibrahim Shaddad's report from the life of a Sudanese camel plays out in a dreary, small room--a sesame mill; *buffalo lifts*, Christina Battle (16mm, Canada, 2004), a herd of buffalo desperately try to hold on as they cross the film frame; *a b* *movie*, Lindsay McIntyre (Canada, 2005), in-camera S8 film about a dog named *b*; *Laika**,* Deborah Stratman (USA, 2021), homage to the spirits of Space Test dogs, with music by Olivia Block, Michael Morris (16mm, USA, 2023), cine-poem for Black Taffy’s song *Riding Day* and a loving nod to LeGrice’s 1970 *Berlin Horse*;* PATTAKI*, Everlane Moraes (Cuba, 2019)--in the dense night, when the moon lifts the tide, water beings are hypnotized by the powers of Yemaya, goddess of the sea; *The Fourfold*, Alisi Telengut (Canada/Mongolia, 2020), based on ancient shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, and against the backdrop of modern existential crisis and human-induced environmental change, an exploration of indigenous worldviews and wisdom--a reclaiming of the ideas of animism for planetary health; *HORANGI*, Lynn Kim (USA/Korea, 2024), based on a dream of laying in a field of tigers, wrapping around each other, existing in union...a moment of tenuous harmony and myriad tactile feelings and emotions;*Cuban iMAL* (world premiere, USA, 2025), shot by both Dominic Angerame (here in person) when in Cuba and Alanna Zrimsek when on African safari; TBA, by Toney Merritt (USA), also a 2025 world premiere, and also with artist in person! *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4c163ce992&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PDT), 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA *Coral & Florida-Structuralism: New Works by Matt Town* In person: Artist Matt Town and programmer Jorge Ravelo Los Angeles Filmforum welcomes local artist & experimental filmmaker Matt Town to screen films and videos from his latest show “Coral”, as well as select older works. Town, who frequently addresses social issues in his work, turns his attention in “Coral” to themes of chemical addiction in the US, drawing upon the experiences of and at times collaborating with his family members. His new 16mm and video works form a strikingly intense, poetic, and personal response to the opioid epidemic, alcoholism, and methods of addiction treatment. The works being screened are the result of his own process of grieving and healing following the sudden death in 2018 of his older step-sister from opioids. Los Angeles Filmforum will screen *Coral*, a structuralist 16mm film, referencing both the marine organisms and the first name of Town’s sister, who was in her thirties when she died in her home on the Florida Gulf, where the artist is also from. For the film, which is shot underwater, Town spent over a year learning about, training for, and getting certified in open water scuba diving. The purpose was to create a living, ocean memorial by planting a “gravestone” sculpture within a coral reef, the act of which appears in the film. The circular stone — with the letters CORAL in capital letters on its surface— now rests at an undisclosed location off the coast of California and is made with environmentally friendly concrete into which Town mixed his sister’s ashes. “Bleached coral can regain its health and can return to life after bleaching, which the film proposes by placing the concrete tombstone I made with my sister’s ashes on a reef in the ocean, to enable new growth and new life.” — MT The artist’s use of black and white film stock connects the dangers of the unfriendly Pacific waters he dives in, the condition of the coral reefs — which experienced their worst global bleaching event in the years just prior to his sister’s death — and the solemness of his actions. While, at times, the unsettling figure of Town in his scuba gear reminds us of the precariousness of life and breath. *SOAP*, 2014, 16mm film, black & white, silent, 11 minutes. West Coast premiere! *TRAP*, 2018, Hi8 to digital video, color, sound, 4 minutes 24 seconds. West Coast premiere! *ROOF*, 2020, HD video, color, sound, 2 minutes 50 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Gravemaking*, 2024, Hi8 to digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes 17 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Needles*, 2024, HD video, black & white, sound, 15 minutes 14 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Rehearsal*, 2024, 16mm film, black & white, silent, 48 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Nod*, 2024, HD video, color, silent, 1 minute 12 seconds. West Coast premiere! *Training*, 2024, HD video, color, sound, 5 minutes 49 seconds. West Coast premiere! *CORAL*, 2024, 16mm film, black & white, silent, 11 minutes. West Coast premiere! *Bimini*, ON VIEW LOOPING IN THE LOBBY, 2024, Hi8 to digital video, color, sound, 24 minutes 56 seconds Matt Town (b. 1989, Sarasota, Florida) is a Los Angeles-based artist working with moving image, photography, painting, installation and sculpture. His work is primarily concerned with a sense of community and one’s role within it and has appeared at Microscope Gallery, New York; eyes never sleep, New York; Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Box, Los Angeles, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; and The Horse, Dublin, Ireland, among others. His works have screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY; Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY; UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; among others. His works have been discussed in Millennium Film Journal, ARTnews, ArtObserved, Hyperallergic, and others. Matt Town received a BA in Film & Media Studies from the University of Florida in 2013 and an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2017. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* UnionDocs <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de2dab2388&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (EST), 352 Onderdonk Ave, Ridgewood, NY *You Don’t Know Me* With Sabine Gruffat, Bill Brown, Karen Yasinsky, Susanna Wallin. In Partnership with Cosmic Rays Film Festival. Doors 7:30p, Program 8:00p We’re so excited to bring back and work alongside Cosmic Rays Film Festival for their 2025 Touring Program! Cosmic Rays celebrates work that extends the artistic possibilities of cinema and new media technologies; that explores the lyrical and poetic dimensions of media; that speaks with a personal voice; that challenges audience expectations of cinema form and content; that arises from a diversity of life experiences, identities, and communities; and that questions conventional models of production, exhibition, and distribution. The program features films which are a visual examination of the roles of our bodies, the information that they generate, the identities that are adopted, and the records they leave behind. They are films that ask if we’re evolving into something new, or just heading for extinction. You won’t want to miss it! *I’m Not Your Monster* by Karen Yasinsky, 4:33 mins, 2024 *Lizzy* by Susanna Wallin, 14 mins, 2024 *Exo Gestus #2* by Yvette Granata, 4:30 mins, 2024 *Listening In, Resounding Out* by Eislow Johnson & Dominic Bonelli, 11:23 mins, 2023 *Night Music* by Edwin Rostron, 3:25 mins, 2024 *Species of Analogy* by J.M. Martínez, 13 mins, 2023 *File No. 2304* by A. S. M. Kobayashi, 5:22 mins, 2024 *an egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains* by Mohamed Thara, 3:50 mins, 2023 *ESP* by Laura Kraning, 2:45 mins, 2024 *The Big Day of Coloane* by Keng U Lao, 17:30 mins, 2023 Program Duration: 82 mins *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c0e687f0de&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=b364ec5051&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=052ba33c7f&e=857b71a9cb> . 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