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*This Week [July 18 - 26, 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://us.list-manage.com/o4qixboiiLR?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 07.22.2026 Grand Canyon Artist in Residence Program <https://us.list-manage.com/5pbZU5cgEZS?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 07.22.2026 Media Archaeology Lab (MAL) Practitioner-In-Residence <https://us.list-manage.com/16_k3AUCwv3?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 07.31.2026 Images Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/3jftFIbp0Fs?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 07.31.2026 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/ZsOnqHdM72u?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 07.31.2026 Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinéma (RISC) <https://us.list-manage.com/pkAM6rGahZ6?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 08.10.2026 Slamdance Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/IYTYQIRAmVG?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 08.14.2026 Coney Island Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/yyaxuubWbp5?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 08.15.2026 Science New Wave <https://us.list-manage.com/TuZsml4Eqyz?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Late Deadline) 08.15.2026 Revolutions per Minute Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/AQdAk7zyIMa?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Extended Deadline) 08.16.2026 Altered Images – Experimental Film and Music Fest <https://us.list-manage.com/cOpFkrw3taJ?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 08.31.2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam <https://us.list-manage.com/WZJh9R_A_KT?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 09.18.2026 accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/al5oqJHs_vj?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10.15.2026 Punto de Vista Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/5aMH0CLdHhq?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 03.15.2027 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://us.list-manage.com/CKd7P1GZjwj?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://us.list-manage.com/voclqExOYsN?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - Overexposed: Art, Technology, And The Body <https://us.list-manage.com/1A8m5AZjdXY?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [March 14-Jan 3, Astoria, NY] - Experimental Westerns, Part 1: Avant-Garde Westerns <https://us.list-manage.com/OfTfQwCp_g2?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 3-26, New York, NY] - One Minute Volume 3 <https://us.list-manage.com/ko4cWnyMzhe?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 19, London, England, UK] - Experimental Filmmaker Karaoke Hosted By Roger Beebe <https://us.list-manage.com/bQm_hxckqP5?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 22, Portland, OR] - Mary Oliver: Saved By The Beauty of The World <https://us.list-manage.com/2DHpy_Jf_NK?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 23, Chicago, IL] - Certain Women: Born In Flames + Mutiny <https://us.list-manage.com/iFRx3Kg7bd0?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 23, Orinda, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://us.list-manage.com/17d3Jjf6_EL?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://us.list-manage.com/yAu2iDiRyZc?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2026* *March 14 - January 3* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Museum of the Moving Image <https://us.list-manage.com/1CzdweFVfdk?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> times vary, see website, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106 *Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body* The advent of cinema in the late 19th century allowed artists and scientists to record motion for the first time. Developed concurrently, X-ray technology extended vision beneath the skin, allowing people to view the body’s interior. Together, these tools produced spectacular new images that shaped modern conceptions of the body. Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body brings together research-based and educational films with contemporary artworks by 16 American and international artists to examine the historical, medical, and sociopolitical implications of seeing inside the body. The works on view were created between 1891 and 2025. *** Works included by Panteha Abareshi, Peggy Ahwesh, Zuza Banasińska, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, Theo Cuthand and Ruth Cuthand, Anna Kipervaser, Liz Magic Laser, Barbara Hammer, Ana Mendieta, Donald Rodney, Courtney Stephens, Agnes Questionmark, and Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter. *** The show is organized into three overlapping sections. “Technology and Power” explores how film and X-ray technologies shaped Western claims to scientific objectivity. “Limits of the Gaze” features artists who engage with archives and found footage, and investigate their own bodies to expose and challenge the normative assumptions embedded in medical images. “Care and Control” examines how imaging tools have transformed practices of care. Overexposed invites visitors to reflect on how visualizing the inside of the body shapes medical knowledge and human experience. Organized by Sonia Epstein, Curator of Science & Technology Lead support for Overexposed was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional generous support was provided by Romy Cohen, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Elaine Goldman, May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and Doug Pugh. ___________________________________________________________________ *July 3 - 26* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/yY5LCdB9Mwf?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> times vary, see below (ET), 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EXPERIMENTAL WESTERNS, PART 1: AVANT-GARDE WESTERNS* Throughout this summer Anthology will be exploring the (for better and for worse) quintessentially American genre of the Western. Once ubiquitous in U.S. culture, adopted and adapted by cinemas throughout the world (most famously in Italy but in reality throughout almost every corner of the globe), left for dead towards the end of the 20th century, but stubbornly and perpetually revived, revised, coopted, and critiqued, the Western has proven uniquely resonant, astonishingly elastic, and profoundly productive for filmmakers and artists of many different stylistic sensibilities and political persuasions. As Anthology’s (cracked-mirror) contribution to this year’s widespread cultural reckoning with the nation’s Semiquincentennial, Anthology has organized a two-part series devoted to the remotest frontiers (so-to-speak) of experimentation and revisionism that have taken place within the Western genre over the decades. The first part of the series – taking place throughout July – focuses on those relatively rare but fascinating instances in which genuinely avant-garde filmmakers have engaged with the genre: countercultural parodies or subversions like *GREASER’S PALACE*, Adolfas Mekas’s *THE DOUBLE-BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY*, Warhol’s *HORSE* and *LONESOME COWBOYS*, or the last section of Bruce Baillie’s *QUICK BILLY*; found-footage works such as Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s *COWBOY AND “INDIAN” FILM*, Peter Tscherkassky’s *INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE*, Holly Fisher’s *BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST*, or Craig Baldwin’s *WILD GUNMAN*; and films that evoke the genre by focusing on the landscapes or figures of the West, including Kevin Jerome Everson’s *TEN FIVE IN THE GRASS*, James Benning’s *DESERET* and *UTOPIA*, and Matthew Barney’s *CREMASTER 2*. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to Ramin Afshari (Walt Disney Studios); Miguel Armas (Light Cone); Craig Baldwin; Dennis Bartok & Billy Ray Brewton (Deaf Crocodile Films); Brian Belovarac (Janus Films); Bret Berg, Jenny Nulf, and Tiernan O’Rourke (American Genre Film Archive); Michal Brezovský (National Film Archive, Prague); Elizabeth Childress (Walter De Maria Archive); Rebecca Cleman, Karl McCool, and Jooyoung Park (Electronic Arts Intermix); Hanan Coumal (LUX); Kevin Jerome Everson; Erin Farrell (Film Movement); Holly Fisher; Anthony Flores (Gladstone Gallery); Walter Forsberg; Matthew Gray (Warhol Museum); Maggie Greenwald; Agnes Iski (National Film Institute Hungary); Brett Kashmere & Zachary Epcar (Canyon Cinema); Lloyd Kaufman & Jaden McKnew (Troma); Lydia Kinloch (Oscilloscope); John Klacsmann; Blackhorse Lowe; Kristin MacDonough & Emily Martin (Video Data Bank); Edda Manriquez (Academy Film Archive); David Marriott & Ei Toshinari (Arbelos Films); Edward McCarry (Cinema Guild); Madeleine Molyneaux (Picture Palace Pictures); Philippe Mora; Sarah Moustakim (Institut Français); Sandrine Neveux (Villa Albertine); Adison Norbury; Sheila Paige; Julia Petrocelli (Film-Makers’ Cooperative); Ben Rivers; Elena Rossi-Snook (NYPL); Germana Ruscio (Cinecittà); Ben Russell; Frieder Schlaich & Viviana Kammel (Filmgalerie 451); George Schmalz (Kino Lorber); Hiltrud Schulz (DEFA Film Library); Eglė Šinkūnaitė & Jana Mikulevič (Lithuanian Film Centre); Michelle Lee Svenson; Wanda vanderStoop (Vtape); Kazu Watanabe (Grasshopper); and Todd Weiner & Steven Hill (UCLA Film & Television Archive). In July, our neighbors at Metrograph will be hosting “The Worldwide West”, a related series surveying Western offshoots across international cinema. For more info visit: https://metrograph.com/ <https://us.list-manage.com/10Kwgf3TpZM?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> Upcoming Screenings Ben Rivers THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS <https://us.list-manage.com/ZV7Ez_GXUEV?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 22 at 6:30 PM July 23 at 9:00 PM Oliver Laxe MIMOSAS <https://us.list-manage.com/buBZ3_fkr8F?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 22 at 9:00 PM July 23 at 6:30 PM FOUND FOOTAGE PROGRAM <https://us.list-manage.com/ruvLQ0BEmia?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 24 at 6:45 PM Robert Downey Sr. GREASER’S PALACE (DCP) <https://us.list-manage.com/oHaawfWuk96?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 24 at 8:45 PM CRAIG BALDWIN + CHARLES I. LEVINE <https://us.list-manage.com/1BpbKIFnENC?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 25 at 6:15 PM Andy Warhol LONESOME COWBOYS <https://us.list-manage.com/1B8zEv2l39i?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 25 at 8:00 PM CREMASTER 2 + ARABESQUE <https://us.list-manage.com/5YQX7W8Fot2?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 26 at 5:45 PM MOUSTAPHA ALASSANE + KEVIN JEROME EVERSON <https://us.list-manage.com/TtqgkKSTDbl?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 26 at 8:00 PM *SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Close-Up Cinema <https://us.list-manage.com/ydLDhvRXTvr?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 16:00 (GMT), 97 Sclater Street, London E1 6HR, England, UK *One Minute Volume 3* Curated by artist / filmmaker Kerry Baldry, One Minute Volume 3 is the third in the series of programmes of experimental works which thoughtfully engage with the concept of time in cinema, challenge traditional narratives and explore how much can be conveyed within sixty seconds. Since August 2024, Close-Up Cinema has been presenting these 12 volumes in reverse order, offering a unique retrospective that invites viewers to explore the evolution of this extensive project. As the series moves closer to its origin, Volume 3 reveals the breadth of approaches artists bring to the one-minute format, demonstrating how constraint can inspire invention, experimentation and poetic reflection. Together, these concise works offer a rich and varied meditation on duration, memory, observation and cinematic possibility. One Minute Volume 3 includes work by: Marty St.James, Louisa Minkin, Martin Pickles, Eva Rudlinger, Emily Richardson, Gordon Dawson, Nick Jordan, Richard Tuohy, Alex Pearl, Hollington & Kyprianou, Kayla Parker, Katharine Meynell, Gary Peploe, Rose Butler, Leister/Harris, Kerry Baldry, Stuart Pound, Samantha Clark, Tansy Spinks, Tony Hill, Steven Ball, Virginia Hilyard, Dave Griffiths, Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore, Daniela Butsch, Alex Pearl, Nynke Deinema, Tony Hill, Claire Morales, Nicolas Herbert, Matthew Rowe, Tina Keane, Mark Wigan. *WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Boathouse Microcinema <https://us.list-manage.com/4oMZjf7RP3v?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7:30pm PT, 822 N River Street, Portland, Oregon 97227 *Experimental Filmmaker Karaoke hosted by Roger Beebe* In 2008, Boathouse Microcinema was not even a glint in founder Matt McCormick’s eye, but he was running the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (PDX Fest), and that year they debuted their Experimental Filmmaker Karaoke Throwdown. Filmmakers were invited to make their own karaoke videos, and attendees could sing along. Now in 2026, filmmaker Roger Beebe still has all the original files and he is following the lineage and bringing them to Boathouse Microcinema. The selections run from classic karaoke jams (Hall & Oates, They Might Be Giants) to borderline un-karaoke-able experiments (Gertrude Stein, Steve Reich). The program includes several dozen recent videos made by Roger Beebe and Jesse Malmed as well as the original roster of avant-garde all-stars from the fabled 2008 & 2009 PDX Film Festivals including Bill Brown & Sabine Gruffat, Michael Robinson, Jeanne Liotta, Matt McCormick, Bryan Boyce and more. And yes, this is really karaoke, so come prepared to sing! *THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Siskel Film Center <https://us.list-manage.com/135gjZPCvJL?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 8:30pm CT, Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60601 *MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD* 2026, Sasha Waters, USA, 91 mins, in English, format: Digital “An entertaining bio-doc that puts due emphasis on Oliver’s writing, in all its elegant and empathetic simplicity….makes an affecting case for her work and gives us a vivid look at her world.” – Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly 50 years in order to open herself – and her readers – to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, Oliver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention, presence, and the human relationship with the natural world – issues that feel especially pressing in an era of climate crisis, digital distraction, and social fragmentation. Featuring interviews with her close friends, including John Waters, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, *MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD* considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Certain Women <https://us.list-manage.com/mAFseK00NEs?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7:30pm PT, Orinda Theatre, 2 Orinda Theater Square, Orinda, CA 94563 *Certain Women: Born in Flames + Mutiny* Certain Women is a film series at the Orinda Theater highlighting women directors, with shorts to precede each feature Selected and Introduced by your local programmers/projectionists... Linda Izcali Scobie & Chloe Ginnever *BORN IN FLAMES*, (1983) Directed by Lizzie Borden A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden's explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revolution that supposedly transformed the country into a social-democratic utopia. In reality, racism, sexism, and economic inequality are as virulent as ever, and a band of radicals—led by Black, lesbian, and working-class women—join forces to fight back. Told through a furiously fractured, kinetically edited flurry of television news broadcasts, pirate radio transmissions, agitprop, and protests shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York City, *Born in Flames* is a shock wave of feminist futurism that's both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it. Preceded by: *MUTINY*, (1983) Directed by Abigail Child - 16mm "This movie is a new kind of classic, it has invented once and for all the machine-gun sound of explosives and composed sentences with speeded-up speech and wild singing, laughter, hardly [at] all understandable, with violins screeching like falling bombs and a Hispanic grind dance .... There are tender closeups in interviews with women, and marvelous documents of dancers, street performers, all races & styles. These are brave and straight-talking people; this is a feminist film, and it is important. All the sound makes a talky song of many voices." - Anne Robertson, X-Dream "Plastically a marvel, a discerning powerhouse performance." - Ken Jacobs *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://us.list-manage.com/16_LDUFGm66?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 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://us.list-manage.com/h5C72V8N5Yb?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 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://us.list-manage.com/EBsgB6ZSmNC?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> . 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