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*This Week [February 28 - March 8, 2026] 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=47080c5bf0&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 03.01.2026 VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a191b0f666&e=857b71a9cb> 03.08.2026 Mimesis Documentary Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=326a515cbb&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 03.13.2026 NeuroVisions Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=389bc78400&e=857b71a9cb> 03.20.2026 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d0fe7306ff&e=857b71a9cb> 03.21.2026 Moviate Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=37e709a153&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.22.2026 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0f3f340941&e=857b71a9cb> 03.23.2026 BAL Artist Residency <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=94bf55459b&e=857b71a9cb> (Summer Residencies) 03.25.2026 Chicago Underground Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f537d552a1&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.23.2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b660e5d37c&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be35ec681e&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2026 Crossroads <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4000eb9b7a&e=857b71a9cb> (Final Deadline) 03.31.2026 Laterale Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2323f10a5d&e=857b71a9cb> (Sixth Deadline) 03.31.2026 Braziers International Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=126fb466bd&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 04.02.2026 What’s Your Flavor? <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=05aa41ed2a&e=857b71a9cb> 04.12.2026 Elevation Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8c79ffc0fc&e=857b71a9cb> 04.24.2026 Fugue State <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c1fc13eced&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.01.2026 Media City Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=18e43542fc&e=857b71a9cb> 05.15.2026 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1f9043464c&e=857b71a9cb> 05.15.2026 Edinburgh Short Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8d7104d3de&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 05.31.2026 ICS Grants <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f10089013c&e=857b71a9cb> 06.01.2026 Engauge Experimental Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f6f55e464b&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6d75929af3&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Peer Bode: Signal Into Memory <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=d28f56e698&e=857b71a9cb> [February 6 - June 6, Rochester, NY] - Scott MacDonald Selects: Birth, Earth, Screen, Sky <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=ae52f8d132&e=857b71a9cb>[February 26-28, New York, NY] - Obló Cinema Presents The Death Spiral Tour By M. Woods <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=562c727275&e=857b71a9cb> [February 27-28, Lausanne, Switzerland] - Glimmers And Ghosts: The Cinema of Tomonari Nishikawa <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7a23d2d868&e=857b71a9cb> [February 28, Los Angeles, CA] - SF Psycho-Geo <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dfeeeca40e&e=857b71a9cb> [February 28, San Francisco, CA] - Eve-Lauryn Lafountain: Conversation Pieces <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c32295dd5b&e=857b71a9cb> [March 1, Los Angeles, CA] - Lost & Found: Cine(Ma)S Latinoamericanos Re-Unidos <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6b0575147c&e=857b71a9cb> [March 5, New York, NY] - Gravitational Lensing, Program 13: Memory, Archives & Reclaiming History <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=558e6ebd76&e=857b71a9cb> [March 6, Oakland, CA] - ARCHIVE FEVER1 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cfbd582aa3&e=857b71a9cb> [March 7, San Francisco, CA] - Femme Grotesquerie <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=636b72b3dc&e=857b71a9cb> [March 8, Los Angeles, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9b0a686366&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9a45be65cf&e=857b71a9cb> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2026* *February 6 - June 6* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Visual Studies Workshop <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=dd75436dda&e=857b71a9cb> Wed–Fri: 11am – 6pm ET, Sat: 12 – 4pm ET, VSW 36 King Street, Rochester, New York 14608 *Peer Bode: Signal into Memory* Opening Reception: Friday, February 6, 6-9pm ET Curator Talk: Saturday, May 30, 2-3pm ET Closing Party: June 5, 6-9pm ET In a career spanning over five decades, video artist Peer Bode has created an extensive body of work that investigates electronic media events, active perception systems and the cultural impact of media tools and technologies. His earliest works were made at the Experimental Television Center, where he worked with video processing tools and innovative engineers to expand upon the possibilities of the emerging field of video. This exhibition will feature an extended selection of Bode’s “Process Tapes”, many of which were recorded as real time events at the Experimental Television Center between 1975-83. *Signal into Memory* traces the origins of Bode’s inquiry into the electronic signal as both a source and a substance in the video field, decoding the nature of video art and its ongoing impact as an interactive social system. *Signal into Memory* includes projections and installations of recently digitized videotapes from the artist’s archive which have never been shown publicly, as well as prints that reflect his work with video in material form. Throughout the exhibition there will be a series of events featuring video artists and toolmakers as part of the VSW Salon. *Signal into Memory* is curated by Tara Nelson and Nilson Carroll of Visual Studies Workshop, where Bode’s tapes have been preserved. Video artist Peer Bode (pronounced “Pear BOHdah”) has been working with video, performance, sound and multiple forms of printed media for over five decades. Bode is a graduate of Binghamton University’s Cinema Department, and has studied with Larry Gottheim, Nicholas Ray, Ken Jacobs and Peter Kubelka, and later with Woody and Steina Vasulka, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad and Hollis Frampton at SUNY Buffalo’s Media Study Program. Bode worked at the Experimental Television Center (ETC), which his lifelong mentor and friend Ralph Hocking established in Binghamton in 1969. At the ETC, Bode made his foundational early works while assisting and collaborating with the video artist and engineer David Jones, whose “Jones Frame Buffer” became a signature processor within Bode’s oeuvre. *___________________________________________________________________* *February 26 - 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=0b0bf72d71&e=857b71a9cb> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *SCOTT MACDONALD SELECTS: BIRTH, EARTH, SCREEN, SKY* “What and how does one see when little light is available?” –Scott MacDonald, COMPREHENDING CINEMA “Birth, Earth, Screen, Sky” commemorates the completion of Scott MacDonald’s “Avant-Doc Trilogy” and celebrates his many decades as an educator, scholar, and champion of the moving image. MacDonald’s extensive body of critical interviews and historical scholarship has been an essential education for countless admirers of avant-garde cinema, both inside and beyond the space of the classroom. This collaborative series, programmed by MacDonald and three of his former students, represents the vast and varied influences that his pedagogical approach to cinema has inspired in our lives as film workers, scholars, artists, and cineastes. These selections wander through the infinitely diverse pathways of “comprehending cinema”: beginning from birth and the development of the senses, to the discovery of our physical, material environment(s), moving to the processes of interpreting our vast screen worlds, and culminating in the contemplation of its most ineffable, affective mysteries. This series draws together filmmakers and critical scholarship from MacDonald’s books, “Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema” (2014), “The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama” (2019), and “Comprehending Cinema” (2024) (all published by Oxford University Press). Guest-programmed by Ava Witonsky, Annie Berman, and Isha Parkhi. Selected screenings will be followed by a discussion between Scott MacDonald and the curators. --- BIRTH: THE UNTUTORED EYE - February 26 @ 7:00PM ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9475ec2bdb&e=857b71a9cb> --- Stan Brakhage *WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING* 1959, 12 min, 16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Carla Simón *LETTER TO MY MOTHER FOR MY SON / CARTA A MI MADRE PARA MI HIJO (MIU MIU WOMEN’S TALES #24)* 2022, 24 min, DCP. In Spanish and Catalan with English subtitles. Agnes Varda *L’OPÉRA-MOUFFE* 1958, 16 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In French with English subtitles. Marie Menken *HURRY! HURRY!* 1957, 3 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Priya Sen *STORIES OF US: FOOTNOTES FROM EMERALD ISLAND* 2015, 12 min, DCP Kiro Russo *NUEVA VIDA* 2015, 15 min, DCP. In Spanish with English subtitles. Total running time: ca. 85 min. --- EARTH: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL: THE FILMS OF ERIN ESPELIE - February 27 @ 7:00PM ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=17a4b5a541&e=857b71a9cb> --- Erin Espelie *THE LANTHANIDE SERIES* 2014, 70 min, DCP Erin Espelie *视网膜 (A NET TO CATCH THE LIGHT)* 2016, 7 min, 16mm-to-DCP Erin Espelie *内共生 (INSIDE THE SHARED LIFE)* 2017, 9 min, 16mm-to-DCP Total running time: ca. 90 min. Followed by discussion and Q&A with Erin Espelie and Scott MacDonald. --- SCREEN: THE VIDEO ESSAY: A NEW AVANT-GARDE? - February 28 @ 5:00PM ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=efe244b137&e=857b71a9cb> --- Maryam Tafakory *IRANI BAG* 2021, 8 min, DCP Carlos Adriano *UNTITLED #4: IN SPITE OF RUIN, SING IN THE RAIN / SEM TITULO #4: APESAR DOS PESARES, NA CHUVA HÁ DE CANTARES* 2018, 27 min, DCP. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Jennifer West *FILM TITLE POEM* 2016, 67 min, 35mm-to-DCP Kevin B. Lee & Lého Galibert-Laîné *READING BINGING BENNING* 2018, 11 min, DCP Total running time: ca. 120 min. Followed by a discussion with Scott MacDonald and the curators, Annie Berman, Isha Parkhi, and Ava Witonsky. --- SKY: “THE TIMELESS CANVAS” - February 28 @ 8:15PM ET <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6bffad1fb2&e=857b71a9cb> --- Takahiko Iimura *KIRI (FOG)* 1970, 5 min, 16mm, silent Yoko Ono & John Lennon *APOTHEOSIS* 1970, 18 min, 16mm-to-digital Tadhg O’Sullivan *TO THE MOON* 2020, 76 min, DCP Lois Patiño *FAJR* 2017, 12 min, 16mm-to-DCP Total running time: ca. 115 min *___________________________________________________________________* *February 27 - 28* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Obló Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2d01f96482&e=857b71a9cb> 8:00PM Central European Standard Time, Cinéma Oblò Avenue de france 9 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland *Obló Cinema Presents the Death Spiral Tour by M. Woods* Obló Cinema in Lausanne, Switzerland hosts two nights of the Death Spiral Tour screening the feature films *Body Prop* and *Commodity Trading: Dies Irae *by radical multidisciplinary artist M. Woods. *Body Prop* (75 min, HD, English with French subtitles) is an avant-garde essay film and attack against the ontology of white imperialism. Made of mostly hand-processed super 8 film - the rejected pieces of film used in other pieces of The Numb Spiral. The piece, in five movements, takes on the subject of the Body as a prop, as a body politic, as a simulation, and as a necropolitical expense, creating a “Cadaver Decomposition Island” of discarded scraps of Super 8 and archival material reveal the shadow of US nihilism within the advanced stage of hyperreality. *Commodity Trading: Dies Irae*, (approx. 90 min., HD, English with French subtitles) described by Lucia Ahrensdorf of Screen Slate as "an immersive and hallucinatory carnival”, has been touring worldwide since 2021, most recently at the Maysles Documentary Center and the East London Experimental Film Club. The recipient of a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art and Lightcone Paris, Woods’ magnum opus is a genre-defying documentary of resistance wrapped in a nightmare chronicling the Numb Spiral, a metaphysical hell that Woods sets against the destructive first Trump presidency. Woods stars as a fictional version of themself, losing reality, and eventually collapsing into a swirling void of media overdrive. *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Academy Museum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6679dbd490&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, Academy Museum, Ted Mann Theater, 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 *Glimmers and Ghosts: The Cinema of Tomonari Nishikawa* One of the leading experimental filmmakers of the 21st century, Tomonari Nishikawa began his practice in 2003, exploring the tangible qualities and apparatus of filmmaking. “Just as an artist carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa said of his early *Sketch Film(s) #1–5*, “I carried a Super 8 camera and practiced stop-motion animation of the lines and shapes I see in public spaces,” documenting city streets in his native Japan and in New York. Using in-camera techniques and strategic masking to capture life in compounded fragments, Nishikawa creates tiny magic tricks of time and space, elegantly showcased in *Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon* (2016), a contemplative short that features bridges in his hometown of Mount Ōkawairi, Japan, and his... “slipstream city symphonies” (*Mubi Notebook*) like *Shibuya – Tokyo* (2010) and *45 7 Broadway* (2013). Nishikawa’s films have been showcased around the world; lauded at international festivals; and deeply appreciated by his students at Binghamton University in New York. When Nishikawa passed away suddenly in April 2025, at the age of 55, he left behind his influence on a generation of aspiring filmmakers and a collection of remarkable shortform works, showcased in near completion in this program. All films are directed by Tomonari Nishikawa. Special thanks to Miki Nishikawa, Canyon Cinema, and Lightcone. Program and notes by K.J. Relth-Miller. Total program runtime: approx. 70 min. *Apollo* 2003. 6 min. USA/Japan. Black-and-White. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Market Street* 2005. 5 min. USA. Black-and-White. Silent. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *16-18-4* 2008. 3 min. Japan. Color. Silent. Not Rated. 35mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Lumphini 2552* 2009. 3 min. Thailand. Black-and-White. Sound. Not Rated. Print courtesy Lightcone. *Tokyo – Ebisu* 2010. 5 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Shibuya – Tokyo* 2010. 10 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *45 7 Broadway* 2013. 5 min. USA. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Manhattan One Two Three Four* 2014. 3 min. USA. Black-and-White. Silent. Not Rated. *sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars* 2014. 2 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 35mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Luminous Veil* 2016. 6 min. USA. Color. Sound. Not Rated. *Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon* 2016. 10 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Amusement Ride* 2019. 6 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke* 2023. 6 min. Japan. Color. Sound. Not Rated. 16mm. Print courtesy Canyon Cinema. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=782f6ad15d&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *SF PSYCHO-GEO* BILL DANIEL's *MISSION BAY* + BEN WOODS' *BASTION OF MEMORY* + Our annual iteration of local work on SF locales here foregrounds the brave interrogations of changing Bayshore communities by a prodigal photog/filmmaker who's fortunately returned to roost on the City's easternmost side –Bill Daniel unspools two beauties on the Bayshore's, uh, beaches, in tandem with a sneak-peak at Greta Snider's 16mm paean to the same liminal paddlin' zone. Fort Point stalwart Ben Wood steps up with his own 18 min. essay on that same shoreline, though at its northernmost, a downright riveting account of the Irish immigrant who manned the Lifesaving Station at the promontory, who details ship-lore in the dangerous days before the Golden Gate. A Fisherman's Wharf overture celebrates those shallows between those two compass points. This focus on our proud extension into our beloved salt/fresh water pond is complicated by other supporting shorts – from Jim (Angels) Granato, (hopefully) a Thad Povey episode, and, yes, a knee-slapping send-up of Haight/Ashbury stereotypes by decidedly LA-based Damon Packard. Plus a passel of pre-show pieces by the home-team, all to illuminate possible understandings of what “San Francisco” might mean. *SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=81a5ceea40&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA *Eve-Lauryn LaFountain: Conversation Pieces* With camera in hand, Eve-Lauryn LaFountain's Experimental Films extinguish mythical ideals of history in the American Southwest, while engaging a troth of interrelated dynamics between the land and those who hear its beauty and history. The films often bind together the very layered and enchanting awareness(es) between place and space, while concomitantly living life and critiquing stereotypical media representations of Native people and cultures. At other times, the films exhibit imagery symbolizing a liberated consciousness, free from a contaminated imagination suppressing the textures and colors of our everyday experience of land and landscapes. Eve memorializes the strained and distant relationship contemporary life has to a directly connected spirit to nature. Simultaneously she heightens the reading we have of existence through audiovisual blessings and cleansings, from legacies of colonialism(s), and cycles of ecological collision and collapse. The films leaf through dynamics of heritage and generational knowledge, juxtaposing meditations on tradition(s), with, as Eve says, a "braiding" and "resurrecting", an ascending, and descending, into and beneath time, and its reality. - Diego Robles, programmer Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She was born into a family of artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she is currently based. She is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and educator. Her work explores identity, history, Indigenous Futurism, feminism, ghosts, magic, and her mixed Native American and Jewish heritage through lens based media and installations. She is a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow, and has received support for her work from the Sundance Institute, Mike Kelley Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, COUSIN Collective, Echo Park Film Center and more. She has exhibited her work in venues and festivals around the world. She holds a BA from Hampshire College, and a dual MFA in Film & Video and Photography & Media from CalArts. Smudge Series and Conversation Pieces will screen on 16mm! *THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cinema Tropical <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=97445bdd5a&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 PM (ET), Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.), New York, NY 10003 *Lost & Found: Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos* *MORICHALES *A film by Chris Gude, (USA/Colombia, 2024, 83 min. In Spanish with English subtitles), U.S. Premiere! The third feature by director Chris Gude (*Mambo Cool*) is a lyrical, immersive documentary that journeys deep into Venezuela’s Guayana region, where vast gold reserves lie hidden beneath groves of moriche palms. Guided by a fictional explorer’s voice, the film moves from remote jungle mining camps to the banks of the Orinoco River, mapping the extraction and commercialization of gold while questioning extractive practices and humanity’s fraught relationship with the land. Using evocative visuals, hand-drawn illustrations, 16mm film, and atmospheric sound, and through the voices and labors of the miners, the film explores the destructive relationship between people, land, and the global demand for resources. Juxtaposing the slow processes of geology with the urgency of extractive capitalism, *Morichales* becomes a poetic meditation on fortune, survival, ecological cost, nature, labor, and value. *FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6f2b628903&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PT, Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th Street, Oakland, CA *Gravitational Lensing, Program 13: Memory, Archives & Reclaiming History* Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque Memories and archives are not stories set in stone—their contents can be dismantled and re-configured in as many ways as there are perspectives. Sometimes they need to be reconstructed from nothing, or re-inscribed after new information comes to light, or just plain corrected. The films in this program pull threads from personal memories and experiences, weaving new stories through dominant narratives to make a fuller historical tapestry. Screening: *Crow Requiem* (2015, DV) by Cauleen Smith, *Slow wave* (2023, DV) by Pooja Kadam, *The Letter From Tomorrow* (2023, 16mm shown on DV) by Nataliya Bek-Gergard, *Why some people be mad at me sometimes* (2024, DV) by mahlet cuff, *Tracing History* (2023 DV) by Jalena Keane-Lee, *Dominion* (2023, DV) by Bea Mariano, *Agua y mas agua* (2022, double-8mm shown on DV) by Francesca Svampa, *Birthmarks* (2007, DV) by Naima Lowe and *Oolite* (1995, 16mm film) by Anna Geyer. *SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=4d751ade9c&e=857b71a9cb> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *ARCHIVE FEVER1* DAVID SHERMAN + REBECCA BARTEN + SCOTT STARK + The first of this Spring's Archive Fever Dreams is blessed by the return of two long-time pillars of the Bay Area underground scene – Rebecca Barten and David Sherman!!..and they're both bringing new works made out of archival material – Rebecca's, a crafty montage on the vagaries of her emotional life, and David's, a rare assembly of 'outs' from the legendary Dion Vigne, North Beach beatnik artiste whose box of raw footage of that community of poets and jazz musicians came as a gift from Vigne's widow herself! PLUS local light Scott Stark's 'found' collection of 3-D slides – a 50s cocktail party in Tulsa, OK!! ALSO in wait is an exquisite cosmic animation whose title must remain under wraps until showtime. AND there's a heap of other treats, intermixing both archival source material and “derivative” found-footage films: *Treasures in a Garbage Can*, Oscar Meyer Weiners, Mormons in Guatemala, and Bat-Men of Trinidad. PLUS both Hungarian fencing AND cemeteries. *SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=96945e0ecf&e=857b71a9cb> 19:30 (PST), 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA *Femme Grotesquerie* In person: Jenny Nirgends and curator Sam Gurry Desires that curdle. Ambitions that molt. Girlhood morphed into menace, myth, and power. Femme Grotesquerie is a collection of ten contemporary experimental animation short films showcasing femininity as something unruly, excessive, and emboldened. Featuring a variety of mediums including direct animation, stop motion, and digital 2D, these films depict worlds lived, imagined, subverted, or reclaimed. Here, femininity is not decorative or contained but pushed to its edges: raw, acute, tender, funny, and volatile. From the animated porcelain puppets of *On Weary Wings Go By* to the glitter-bombed 16mm of *Moon Cycle *(2023-2024), these films stage feminine aesthetics and narratives as something to be wielded, distorted, reclaimed, and reimagined on the animators’ own terms. Join us to delight in the animated image and that strange pleasure of watching light, rupture, and reform. Contemporary international animated films by Justine Lai, Alice Bloomfield, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Amy Lockhart, Victoria Vincent, Sofia Carillo, Sophie Koko Gate, Jenny Jokela, Louise Flaherty, and Jenny Nirgends. *Moon Cycle*, By Justine Lai, USA, 2024, 16mm, color/sound, 3 min *Larval*, By Alice Bloomfield, UK, 2025, Digital, color/sound, 12 min *Jessica*, By Amy Lockhart, Canada, 2014, Digital, color/sound, 5 min *On Weary Wings Go By*, By Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Estonia/Lithuania, 2024, Digital, color/sound, 11 min *The Last Wild Bird in Heaven*, By Jenny Nirgends, USA, 2024, Digital, color/sound, 7 min *Twins in Paradise*, By Victoria Vincent, USA, 2020, Digital, color/sound, 10 min *Prita Noire (Black Doll)*, By Sofia Carillo, Mexico, 2011, Digital, color/sound, 8 min *Slug Life*, By Sophie Koko Gate, United Kingdom, 2018, Digital, color/sound, 7 min *Dollhouse Elephant*, By Jenny Jokela, Finland, 2025, Digital, color/sound, 11 min *Mangittatuarjuk (The Gnawer of Rocks)*, By Louise Flaherty, Canada, 2024, Digital, color/sound, 15 min *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=7c29073d73&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=2853d96d53&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=e130418ff7&e=857b71a9cb> . 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