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*This Week [October 11 - 19, 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=73b4272533&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 10.13.2025 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e45fdfe86&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 10.14.2025 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc83cfa050&e=857b71a9cb> (Extended Deadline) 10.15.2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9c35903162&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 10.15.2025 The Lighthouse Works Fellowship Program <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a40b4309f6&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2025 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c733e5273f&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2025 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=65eff4f582&e=857b71a9cb> 11.07.2025 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=aa63b07a20&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 11.16.2025 Cosmic Rays <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8ea08ce5e9&e=857b71a9cb> 11.30.2025 Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cb2dc58741&e=857b71a9cb> 12.15.2025 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1774a16c42&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=65d46c3f7e&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=925cb3158a&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Celluloid Now <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=23faa1fe26&e=857b71a9cb> [October 9 - 12, Chicago, IL] - Quick Billy <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=93b14a8568&e=857b71a9cb> [October 10 - 12, New York, NY] - *O*PTRONICA <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2ebc0bb5c7&e=857b71a9cb> [October 11, San Francisco, CA] - Santiago Torres <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=84b8a7a393&e=857b71a9cb> [October 12, Los Angeles, CA] - Vjoltron <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3513cf4b9f&e=857b71a9cb> [October 13, New York, NY] - Newfest X The Film-Makers' Cooperative: Shorts: Avant Queer <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=505fa4e0ac&e=857b71a9cb> [October 15, Brooklyn, NY] - Between Neighborhoods, Free Screening + Q&A <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=69d551c73d&e=857b71a9cb> [October 17, Long Island City, NY] - Science New Wave Festival XVIII <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2f2d7a07cb&e=857b71a9cb> [October 17-19, New York, NY] - Phytography Workshop With Karel Doing <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4f5a3d734f&e=857b71a9cb> [October 17, Paris, France] - The Short Films of Dicky Bahto <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=15962450cc&e=857b71a9cb> [October 17, Santa Fe, NM] - Made By Hand: Thirty-One Years of Film-Farmmaking <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=de50be3c9a&e=857b71a9cb> [October 18, Los Angeles, CA] - ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fd66ee74de&e=857b71a9cb> [October 18, San Francisco, CA] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025* *October 9 - 12* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Chicago Film Society <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dc52063492&e=857b71a9cb> various times (CT) & locations, see below Chicago, IL *Celluloid Now* The Chicago Film Society is proud to present a third edition of Celluloid Now: four days of screenings, workshops, expanded cinema performances, and other events showcasing the recent work of analog filmmakers and artists, alongside archival rediscoveries and restorations. --- October 9: Program 1: Light & Noise, 8:00 PM, Constellation Chicago --- This program begins with its namesake film, the last completed by the dearly missed Tomonari Nishikawa. Its title, Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke, elegantly describes the forms each of the film’s Super 16 image takes as it moves through the projector. First: the light which projects towards the screen as the film runs through the projector gate. Second: the noise which the projector’s sound reader translates from the variance in opacity between bursts of sparks and the night’s sky. Third: smoke, open to interpretation but ideally not something related to the projector. Since time immemorial, small gauge film artists like those in this program have made do with a paucity of resources by finding novel, unexpected, and exciting ways to work with film stock, cameras, and projectors. In this program, you’ll find a poetic interpolation of the instructions printed on the side of a darkroom thermometer, a somnambulist tour through the modern inferno of digital screen life in sumptuous 16mm, two brand new 16mm preservation prints of work by Chicago experimental filmmaker and postal worker JoAnn Elam, and a multi-projector performance by arc, catching a wave on the visible spectrum. *A Country Mile and [Garden & Joe] were preserved by Chicago Film Archives, thanks to an Avant-Garde Masters Grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation.* *Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke* (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2023, 6 min.) - 16mm *Estuary* (Ross Meckfessel, 2021, 12 min.) - 16mm *Skeyesee* (Jimmy Schaus, 2024, 3 min.) - 16mm *Cycladic Thermometer *(Kate Dollenmayer, 2017/2023, 8 min.) - 16mm *Genesis 38:14-15* (Ayanna Dozier, 2025, 5 min.) - 16mm *Doing It For Daddy *(Ayanna Dozier, 2025, 3 min.) - 16mm *Marooned* (Ben Kappitt, 2024, 3 min.) - Super 8 *the circle game* (Blanca García & James Devine, 2025, 3 min.) - Super 8 *A Home of Clouds and Trees no. 2 (Returning Cloud)* (Michael Metzger, 2025, 3 min.) - Super 8 *A Country Mile* (JoAnn Elam, circa 1973, 3 min.) - 16mm *[Garden & Joe]* (JoAnn Elam, circa 1980, 3 min.) - 16mm *Holographic Will* (Mike Stoltz, 2023, 6 min.) - 16mm *INCHOATRACIES OR EVERYTHING IS AS IT GOES IN ANTEROGRADE* (Zack Parrinella, 2024, 2 min.) - 16mm *infinite column *(arc, 2022–2025, 12 min.) - artist-operated 2x16mm Total: 90 min. + intermission --- October 10: Program 2: Notes & Threads, 6:00 PM, Gene Siskel Film Center --- Film has proven such a remarkably durable medium for artists that in recent years it’s started to feel like “film is dead” is finally becoming a minority opinion again. We’ve only been able to get to this point through the efforts of artists who have demonstrated analog cinema’s viability by continuing to make work on film, and the growing network of analog exhibitors and community-driven skill sharing initiatives that have supported them. While the films in this program take a diverse set of artistic approaches, all of the artists behind them share a stubborn unwillingness to just let film go. Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu’s SEA 404 is perhaps the grainiest film we’ve ever seen, a shimmering procession of greyscale abstractions, with a howler of a punchline for the medium specificists. Known for his bombastic approach to found footage filmmaking, Peter Tscherkassky reengineers scraps of vintage pornography into a visceral, psychosexual nightmare mosaic in The Exquisite Corpus. One of two films in this program made by a filmmaker in their 70s, Saul Levine’s On Another Note is a pleasantly nagging, amicably confusing late entry in his career-long practice of scribing personal notes in celluloid. The other featured septuagenarian here is Rose Lowder with Jardin du sel, a technical one-off that counts as Lowder’s only film to date shot on reversal stock, as well as one of the very last films shot on commercially processed Kodachrome. *SEA 404 *(Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, 2019, 3 min.) - 16mm *RUN! *(Malic Amalya, 2019, 10 min.) - 16mm *On Another Note* (Saul Levine, 2019, 5 min.) - 16mm *Jardin du sel* (Rose Lowder, 2011, 16 min.) - 16mm *Obey Your Air Raid Warden* (Robert Davis & Harry Hilfinger, 1942, 3 min.) - 16mm *La Grande Dame (étude)* (Alexandre Larose, 2005/2011, 3 min.) - 35mm *Thread *(Abigail Smith, 2023, 2 min.) - 35mm *June* (Leopoldo Bloom, 2012, 6 min.) - 35mm *The Exquisite Corpus* (Peter Tscherkassky, 2015, 19 min.) - 35mm Total: 90 min --- October 11: Program 3: To the Lamphouse: Light & Lenses for Projection Explained, 12PM, Chicago Film Society Office --- Free admission with RSVP <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=62dd4a8b9f&e=857b71a9cb>; space is limited. The following works will screen in tandem with an interactive workshop on projector light sources, lenses, and optics: *Castle One *(1966, Malcolm Le Grice, 18 min.) — 16mm w/ light bulb *Anna* (2024–2025, Chae Yu, 15 min.) — artist-operated 16mm Runtime: Approx. 90 minutes --- October 11: Program 4: Revolvey & Bullwinkle, 6:00 PM, Gene Siskel Film Center --- While a significant number of the screenings we’ve presented across the three Celluloid Now editions to date have not followed a specific theme, throughlines often assert themselves, connecting films made under totally different circumstances with totally different aims. For the films in this program, the bonding agent is a unique, spectral strangeness tethered to the acts of shooting and projecting film. In a series of lengthy, observational takes, Ayanna Dozier’s Nightwalker distills its titular occupation to the very act in its name, constantly moving with its main character as she hustles ever-forward through the night. Adam Paradis’s Damage Control slices, dices, scrambles, and repeats a ten second sequence originally used in the hit animated television program Rocky and His Friends, transforming moose and squirrel alike into flicker film icons. Perhaps the most perverted object in all of Celluloid Now this year, Christine Lucy Latimer’s Assets flagrantly discards celluloid’s indexicality in favor of a kitschy simulation, a visual stack of hundreds of chintzy, digital “film” filters placed on top of one another, which Latimer prints to 16mm Ektachrome reversal stock and processes herself in a triumphant moment of reification for film. Beginning with a slow, gliding shot across a field, Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik’s Revolving Rounds travels forward with steady purpose, moving through strange agricultural spaces, observing strange projection equipment, taking a few metaphysical twists and turns, and getting enmeshed in what appears to be the silver halides in the universe’s film emulsion. *Assets *(Christine Lucy Latimer, 2025, 2 min.) - 16mm *Nightwalker* (Ayanna Dozier, 2022, 7 min.) - 16mm *Limited Sight Distance* (Curt Heiner, 2016, 5 min.) - 16mm *Damage Control* (Bullwinkle film) (Adam Paradis, 2010, 4 min.) - 16mm *Flowers for an Old Shrine* (Long Pham, 2025, 6 min.) - 16mm *The Last Train* (Dianna Barrie & Richard Tuohy, 2016, 12 min.) - 16mm *Zero Length Spring *(Ross Meckfessel, 2021, 16 min.) - 16mm *Revolving Rounds* (Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik, 2024, 11 min.) - 35mm Total: 90 min --- October 12: Program 5: Celluloid City Seoul, 2:30 PM, Gene Siskel Film Center --- For most of the commercial film industry, the “digital transition” was treated as a foregone conclusion. This trajectory hasn’t been quite so clean when it comes to independent film artists. The 21st century has witnessed the rise of small, cooperatively run film labs, and dedicated showcases for working artists still exhibiting on film (like Celluloid Now). Korean artists have been making experimental films since at least the 1960s, but for the last twenty years especially, Seoul has been home to one of the most exciting analog filmmaking scenes in the entire world. The Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (widely known as EXiS) was founded in 2004, significantly expanding exhibition opportunities for artists in the city and bringing their work into conversation with the greater international film community. The same year, filmmaker Jangwook Lee opened Space Cell, a site initially designed to accommodate experimental filmmaking workshops and related screenings, which expanded in 2006 to include an artist-run film lab. These developments have been transformative for film in Seoul, providing the spaces necessary for a community to form around analog filmmaking and facilitating access to the resources necessary for artists to learn, exercise, and share related technical skills. This program brings together a sampler of 16mm films by Korean filmmakers made across this still-young century, illustrating how each wave of young artists in this scene has benefitted from the work of their analog predecessors, and subsequently built upon this foundation for the benefit of the next generation. This isn’t to say this is a homogenous group of artists. Each of these six filmmakers has developed a unique sensibility, spanning structuralist one-liners, austere narrative tableaus, and several different and distinct flavors of visual abstraction. Considered individually, every filmmaker here is an immense talent in their own right. Taken collectively, they’re even better. *1998* (Sungsuk Suk, 2002, 5 min.) - 16mm *The Dark Room* (Minyong Jang, 2001, 5 min.) - 16mm *The Breath *(Minyong Jang, 2007, 10 min.) - 16mm *Tide* (Jang Eunju, 2007, 8 min.) - 16mm *Footage* (Minjung Kim, 2015, 3 min.) - 16mm *(100ft)* (Minjung Kim, 2016, 3 min.) - 16mm *Count Footage* (Minjung Kim, 2016, 3 min.) - 16mm *Study for Three Streams (silent version) *(Park Kyujae, 2024, 5 min.) - 16mm *Chang Gyeong* (Jangwook Lee, 2024, 17 min.) - 16mm Total: 60 min --- October 12: Program 6: Celluloid City Chicaho, 5:00 PM, Gene Siskel Film Center --- Since the first Celluloid Now in 2022, we’ve seen an explosion of activity around analog cinema among young filmmakers. While it has been heartening to see new artists embrace film on an international scale, we’re especially excited that in recent years, Chicago has quietly fostered a sizable and immensely talented pool of analog filmmakers. For this edition of Celluloid Now, we’re closing with a selection of works made by filmmakers we’re claiming for the city of Chicago, all of whom are under 40 years of age. Some filmmakers featured here will be screening their work publicly on film for the very first time. Others have already built impressive analog corpuses and screened in multiple Celluloid Now programs. (Chicago Film Society has also hosted recent “Celluloid Now Presents” solo programs for Kioto Aoki and Sara Sowell.) The artists in this program come from a diverse set of backgrounds and artistic traditions, and the array of technical and creative approaches they take speaks to just how flexible the medium of film is. As evidenced by Julian Antos’s GD2, photochemical A-and-B-roll traditionalism is still very much alive, but the recent popularity of affordable “direct positive” digital-to-film printing has made possible work like josh brainin’s Shed, which condenses an unnerving accretion of selfies, surgery photos, and phone conversations into a dissonant soup of abstract analog and digital textures. Eschewing commercial labwork altogether, Tristen Ives opted to process the exhibition print for cloud film themself, a decision which contributes significantly to the film’s unique look. Other films here feature DIY computer graphics, optically printed effects work, and simultaneous 16mm and 35mm projection. These examples only hint at the litany of creative approaches taken by the artists in this program, whose collective work has made Chicago our favorite city for film in the entire world. *Mounds Above the Earth* (Jiayi Chen, 2025, 7 min.) - 16mm/35mm *Green Today [fragment] *(Cameron Worden, 2025, 3 min.) - 35mm *Shed* (josh brainin, 2024, 7 min.) - 35mm *Olympic Order* (Kioto Aoki, 2025, 15 min.) - 16mm *Camera Roll 3 (2018-2022)* (Charles Cadkin, 2023, 3 min.) - 16mm *Color Negative* (Sara Sowell, 2023, 6 min.) - 16mm *Paloniya *(Ashley Dequilla, 2024, 3 min.) - 16mm *Guarita *(Lua Borges, 2025, 3 min.) - 16mm *Home without organs* (Yao Song & Zihan Mo, 2025, 2 min.) - 16mm *cloud film *(Tristen Ives, 2024, 11 min.) - 16mm *GD2 *(Julian Antos, 2021, 11 min.) - 16mm *Giddy Up Cowboy* (Justin Dean, 2024, 2 min.) - 16mm Total: 90 min *___________________________________________________________________* *October 10 - 12* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=06d3c5fc66&e=857b71a9cb> nightly @ 6:45 PM + 8:45 PM ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *QUICK BILLY* by Bruce Baillie, 1970, 56 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives Anthology recently became the repository and rights-holder for the moving-image work of Bruce Baillie, whose body of work represents one of the towering achievements of postwar American experimental cinema. Over the course of the last few years, we’ve been gradually preserving and striking new prints of his films, including classics (and crucial parts of Anthology’s Essential Cinema cycle) such as *CASTRO STREET* (1966) and *ALL MY LIFE* (1966). Now we’ve created new prints of Baillie’s magnum opus, the four-reel masterpiece QUICK BILLY (1970), in which Baillie synthesized his previous work to conjure up a breathtakingly ambitious, visually exquisite meditation on the cycle of life. Purporting, for its first three reels, to represent anadaptation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, *QUICK BILLY* embodies Baillie’s unsurpassed camera eye, his mastery of editing and superimposition, his profoundly philosophical sensibility, as well as his mischievous sense of humor and bold sense of play. The latter qualities manifest most dramatically in the fourth and final reel, which – in a dramatic stylistic about-face – morphs into a kind of Beat parody of a melodramatic silent-era Western. While Anthology has shown *QUICK BILLY* annually as part of the Essential Cinema since time immemorial, our existing prints had become worn and faded. Restored now to its full glory, *QUICK BILLY* has never looked better! To celebrate, we’ll be presenting the film over the course of a long weekend accompanied by the six uncut “Rolls” – also newly restored – that Baillie distributed alongside the feature. “The essential experience of transformation between Life and Death, death and birth, or rebirth in four reels…” –Bruce Baillie “One of the masterpieces of the American avant-garde…a rare ‘synoptic’ film that tries to construct an entire cosmos. [It] immerses viewers in a timeless flow of indistinct forms that nearly obliterates self and place – the clarity of an erotic encounter ends when the woman leans forward into darkness. The finale is a parody western in which Baillie satirizes the aggression therest of his film abjures.” –Fred Camper, CHICAGO READER “Baillie identifies all forms of the Self with the cinema. *QUICK BILLY*’s first two reels present a first-person cinema (offering a document of a delirious consciousness becoming adapted to the actual world), Reel Three offers a second-person cinema (with Baillie looking at a family album and observing pictures of himself as though they were of another with whom he has an intimate relation), and Reel Four offers a third-person narrative. Through this taxonomic organization, Baillie suggests that cinema evolved out of consciousness and over time assumed forms increasingly distant from the deep Self. In presenting these cinematic modes in reverse chronology, Baillie suggests that the cinema’s original and true nature is as a document of consciousness.” –Bruce Elder, LA FURIA UMANA Followed by: Bruce Baillie *QUICK BILLY: SIX ROLLS (Numbers 14, 41, 43, 46, 47, and 52)* 1968-69, 16 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives “The ‘rolls’ took the form of a correspondence, or theater, between their author and Stan Brakhage, in the winter of 1968-69. They’re kind of the magic cousins of the film.” –Bruce Baillie Total running time: ca. 75 min *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=311350a477&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *OPTRONICA* 99 HOOKER + ELLINGSON + LIGHTS OUT + Our semi-annual Live A/V eye-and-ear-popper unveils an all-star line-up of seven inter-media magicians, interlaced amongst an equal number of single-channel shorts. Headlining is the much-loved visual poet 99 Hooker, a sho' nuff mad genius on a mission to unleash his beatnik-in-a-box-of-bits-and-bytes *Moloch Scat Chant*. Local light Josh Ellingson displays analog video of “Pepper's Ghost” illusions--floating figures that re-animate Sid Davis' retro “educational” *oeuvre. *Donovan (Lights Out) Drummond makes the/a scene as a direct liquid-lightshow descendant of the Belson/Abrams arc, complete with color wheels, clock faces, and the artful aid of Madam Varga and Lx Rudis' amazing audio FX. PLUS OC fave Thorsten Fleisch's *Astrogolem*, speculating on Tesla, Turing, and interdimensional demons, Francois Miron's optically-printed hallucination *Quest*, Moog Music's synth history *Back to the Future Sounds*, Kara Blake's wowzer on *Dr. Who* sound-designer Delia Derbyshire, and Russ Forster on the street and in the house with his *Theremin Plays Theremin*. Tallboy Tim Johnson trundles in his '87 Atari rig for its so-called *Psychedelia*, as if our venerable Dream Machine weren't enough! *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3dc4b00bdb&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA *Santiago Torres* The films of Santiago Torres observe the urban harmony inherent in the chaos, while also engaging the painful sprawl embedded within its cacophony. His films are an inventory of various sociological-ecological investigations into loneliness, isolation, the way we remember and see the world around us, and how media and cinema find their way as interventions into our consciousness and reality. Please join us for the World Premieres of *Sobre el amor y la soledad* & *Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park*, and the US Premiere of *Habitantes*, *Of Time and Memory*, and *Embodied Knowledge* - and in welcoming Santiago Torres from Mexico with his films from 2008-2022. *Habitantes*, 2008, 16mm to digital, color, sound, 11.5 minutes. US Premiere! *Mundo Flotante*, 2008, S16mm to digital, color, sound, 16 minutes. US premiere! *Of Time and Memory*, 2012, S16mm to digital, color, sound, 23 minutes. US premiere! *Uyway (The Seed)* Co-directed with Gabriel Herrera, 2016, HD, color, sound, 14.5 minutes *Comipems 2017 Atención Aspirantes con Discapacidad Sub*, 2017, HD, color, sound, 12 minutes *Sobre el amor y la soledad*, 2019, HD, color, sound, 3 minutes. World Premiere! *Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park*, 2020, HD, color, sound, 10 minutes. World premiere! *Embodied Knowledge*, 2022, HD, color, sound, 4 minutes. US premiere *MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Millennium Film Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=16777afe9f&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (EST), 167 Wilson Ave, New York, 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!\ Marzipan Joyner Preston Spurlock Cable_Visions Free / $15 Suggested Donation (Cash or Venmo) / NOTAFLOF Original #Vjoltron Robot Designed by @actually_preston_spurlock VJOLTRON is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature through the Media Arts Assistance Fund a regrant partnership of NYSCA and Wave Farm. *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Filmmakers Coop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2e338cdf64&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (EST), BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY *NEWFEST x The Film-Makers' Cooperative: Shorts: Avant Queer* The Film-Makers' Cooperative co-presents NEWFEST's program of queer avant-garde short films, titled SHORTS: AVANT QUEER. These films will also be available to stream starting on October 9th, through to October 21st. We are honored to be a community partner for NEWFEST for the second year in a row. The Film-Makers' Cooperative is thrilled to be a community partner for NEWFEST: The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, for the second year in a row! Since our founding in 1961, the Coop has been committed to amplifying the work of filmmakers on the margins, especially artists within the LGBTQIA+ community. We're honored to co-present the program SHORTS: AVANT QUEER, which will also be available to stream from October 9th to October 21st. These bold films offer inventive visions that expand the possibilities of cinema while illuminating the spectrum of queer experience. Through experimental narratives, striking aesthetics, and complex queer characters, each work pushes the medium forward with daring originality. Themes of family, connection, and transformation are woven throughout, showing how emotion and innovation can converge to re-imagine both storytelling and queer life. *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* LaGuardia Peforming Arts Center <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cda4470eaf&e=857b71a9cb> 6:30pm EDT, 31-10 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101 *Between Neighborhoods, free screening + Q&A* *Between Neighborhoods* (2024, 110') contemplates histories that orbit Robert Moses's Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, since it went up as the "theme center" for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. Sixty years to the day after that fair closed on October 17, 1965, LPAC screens Seth Fein's 2024 reboot of his prize-winning documentary essay, which works in split-screen between original and archival footage to consider the presents and pasts –– of imperialism and immigration, corporate and social globalizations, democracy and authoritatarianism –– that surround the last NYWF's singular architectural legacy , between the age of Moses and that of Trump and AOC. Based in years of independent filming and multiarchival research, Fein completed this major revision in honor of Unisphere's sesquicentennial. A conversation with the filmmaker follows the screening. *___________________________________________________________________* *October 17 - 19* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Labocine <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=992e46baca&e=857b71a9cb> Various times, visit link above, 87 Lafayette Street, New York City *Science New Wave Festival XVIII* Now in its 18th year, the Science New Wave Festival will be held at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema in New York. The Science New Wave Festival, presented by Labocine, is an annual celebration of science cinema. Each year it presents the latest crop of films from around the world—works that boldly experiment with form and style, redefining how science is seen and told on screen. "This year’s festival is all about looking (and listening) closely, getting beneath the ground and beyond the visible cosmos, perceiving that which confounds and intrigues in search of deeper truth, gathering information through senses not our own. What secrets will be revealed to those who can tune in to soil and moss?" Nate Dorr, Director of Programming. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The Film Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=09851d8ff3&e=857b71a9cb> 11:00 am (CEST), 43, rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, Paris, France 75010 *Phytography Workshop with Karel Doing* The Film Gallery is delighted to welcome back artist and filmmaker Karel Doing for a new Phytography Workshop. Phytography is a technique invented by Karel Doing that makes it possible to create detailed chemical traces of plants directly on photographic emulsion. The process takes place in full daylight and makes use of biodegradable chemistry. During the workshop, Karel will provide a hands-on demonstration. After this introduction, participants can create their own images and see the results in projection. No prior knowledge of photographic processes needed. Materials Included. Maximum participants: 8. Fee: €50 (covers materials, chemicals, artist's remuneration, and a donation to the gallery). For any questions, please contact Tatiana Moise at: [email protected] *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* No Name Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4cb86d3815&e=857b71a9cb> 19:00 (MDT), 2013 Pinon St 87505 Santa Fe, New Mexico *the short films of DICKY BAHTO* filmmaker in attendance from Los Angeles! post-screening Q&A! "His varied and complex engagement with moving image and photographic media is steeped in a deeply felt humanity and empathy, manifesting through his inspired photographic eye and frequently direct interaction with and appreciation of the material vitality of film and cinema. His films achieve heightened emotional states of great intimacy and poetry, often channeling the uniquely aleatory qualities of film to carry a sensuality and spirituality hovering in the space between loving depiction and vaporous abstraction." -Mark Toscano, Film Preservationist, Academy Film Archive Artist Dicky Bahto will make his first appearance in Santa Fe with a program of mostly recent digital works. The program will feature an excerpt from his recent three-hour long collaboration with musician Sarah Davachi, *Music for a Bellowing Room, an exercise in resolution*, inviting the audience to shift their concentration and perception through gradual changes in sound and image. The piece was originally commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and received its premiere performance in September 2023. Bahto will also screen a three-projector Super-8mm work titled *Cave Creek. Winter canon. 2011.* in a digital presentation, his film *A play in black & white (for baba)* (which was commissioned by Canal180 TV in Portugal & features a score by Matmos), and several video works that accompany music by some of the artists he regularly collaborates with, including Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada. Dicky Bahto has exhibited work utilizing still and motion picture photography, sound, and performance at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, and scenic locations spanning the Northern Hemisphere, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to a series of nooks, crannies, and underbrush along and under Sunset Boulevard. He frequently collaborates with musicians, both as a performer and as a visual artist, including Sarah Davachi, Liz Harris, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada, as well as with his lover, Patrick Londen, and their cats Simone and Katoosh. *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=129c0e9902&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (PST), Whammy! 2514 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA *Made by Hand: Thirty-one Years of Film-Farmmaking* Join LA Filmforum and TAPE Los Angeles as we all celebrate Film Farm coming through Los Angeles to celebrate their 31st year of existence and integral contribution to the experimental film world! For 31 years, between the greenery and the rivers near Mount Forest (Ontario, Canada), a unique retreat for filmmakers takes place at the Film Farm, conducted by Philip Hoffman and a dedicated staff of innovative film artists (Rob Butterworth, Christine Harrison, Deirdre Logue, Scott Miller Berry and Terra Jean Long). Founded in 1994 as the Independent Imaging Retreat, Film Farm is an artist-driven, intensive, week-long analogue filmmaking workshop and is a central part of Canada’s experimental film scene. The Film Farm has initiated and enhanced the work of local, national and international filmmakers and has expanded the traditions of experimental filmmaking in Canada and beyond. The workshop concentrates on hand-processing of 16mm film, most recently (since 2008) working with cafenol and various botanical developing processes. Works of the Film Farm are influenced by the methodology of Process Cinema, developed over many years through Hoffman’s own filmmaking and the Process Cinema course he has taught since 2007 at York University. In Process Cinema, artists replace the usual protocol of the script (planning), with a direct engagement with the world through the hand-cranked Bolex camera and hand-made analogue filmmaking processes. The first part of the program presents earlier works using methods of hand -processing celluloid in buckets, utilizing conventional photo chemistry, tinting with dyes and using photo and filmmaking techniques like solarisation, in-camera superimposition, pixilation, and optical printing for expression. The later films in the program reflects ecologically friendly processing practices, using local flowers and plants to develop and tint the films. As well in the second part of the program, Film Farm-Saugeen First Nation collaboration is represented. The Saugeen Takes on Film project has been conceptionalised by Adrian Kahgee, Debbie Ebanks Schlums and Phil Hoffman since 2018, in conjunction with artists, storytellers, knowledge keepers and youth from the Saugeen community. As well, the program includes two films by Hoffman, both shot and edited at the Film Farm which will close out the program. At Film Farm, participants are asked not to come with an idea; that they will find it during their stay. Having now produced almost 300 participants (of whom almost two-thirds are women) and over 100 completed works, the Film Farm has helped sustain a spirit of discovery and risk in contemporary experimental filmmaking. For many of the participants of Film Farm, the workshop has been a catalyst as they embarked on a practice of analogue artist-filmmaking. *Gathering (a sketch)* By Janis Cole (Canada), 2004, 16mm, silent, 1:20 min. Los Angeles premiere! *Self Portrait #1*, By Michèle Pearson Clarke, 2016, 2:30 min. Los Angeles premiere *Minus* By Chris Chong (Malaysia/Canada), 1999, 16mm to HDV, sound, 3 min *Scratch* By Deirdre Logue (Canada), 1999, 16mm, optical sound, 3 min. *A Day in the Shint* By Clint Enns (Canada), 2013, 16mm, silent, 1:15 *The Shape of the Gaze* By Maïa Cybelle Carpenter (USA), 2000, 16mm, silent, 7 min *We Are Going Home* By Jennifer Reeves (USA) 1998, 16mm, sound, 9:30 min *Film-Landscape-People *By Marcia Connolly and Angela Joosse (Canada), 2008, 16mm, sound, 3:30 min. Los Angeles premiere! *Kokoro is for Heart *By Philip Hoffman (Camera, Optical Printing and Editing), 1999, 16mm optical printed, sound, 7 min. Los Angeles premiere! *Your New Pig is Down the Road* By Helen Hill (USA/Canada), 1999, 16mm to digital, silent, 4:45 min *Dandelion* By Karel Doing (Netherlands/U.K.) 2018, 16mm to HDV, silent, 2:15 min. Los Angeles premiere! *Everything is Right Here* By Adrian Kahgee (Saugeen Nation/Canada), 2021, 16mm to HDV sound, 5:45 min. Los Angeles premiere! *Flying Geese* By Adrian Kahgee (Saugeen Nation/Canada), 2022, 16mm to HDV, sound, 2:45 min. Los Angeles premiere! *Something to Treasure* By Annapurna Kumar (USA), 2018, 16mm to HDV, sound, 2:15 min *endings* By Philip Hoffman and Isiah Medina, 2024, 16mm Color Reversal and B&W Flower-Processed to HDV, silent & sound, 9:30 min. Los Angeles premiere! Run time: 64:20 *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e903a75605&e=857b71a9cb> 20:00 (PST), 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA *ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY* *PLAYING WITH FIRE *Directed by Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, 2025, USA, 71 mins Lightning ignites a devastating firestorm, forcing Bay Area artist/activists Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens from their redwood forest home. But the wildfire is just the beginning of their transformative journey, as they craft a cinematic reckoning with the power of fire--with its capacity to destroy and renew. Created through an ecosexual lens (imagining the Earth as a lover), and narrated by a mythic white peacock, their compelling story weaves a tale of resilience, queer love, and environmental awakening. Instead of fighting fire, can we learn to live with fire? This vibrant feature, introduced by Annie and Beth in person, documents the couple’s adventures in the wake of disaster, while also honoring the broader communities impacted by ecological and social fires. Enlisting a collective of artists, witches, Indigenous elders, and formerly incarcerated firefighters, Sprinkle & Stephens examine the ways in which queers--and all humans--can support the health of the Earth. The film sports an electric score by experimental composer Guillermo Galindo, Lady Monster’s tassel-twirling burlesque, a dangerous full-body fire stunt by the artist Cassils, a volcanic fire-play massage with sex educator Barbara Carrellas, and an impassioned ritual by performance-poet Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Shapeshifters suds on tap! *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d575190ee1&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=03a2b11296&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=00ea46edee&e=857b71a9cb> . 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