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*This Week [July 25 - August 2, 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/133jdRuen4t?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 07.31.2026 Images Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/m__Raa8QDfK?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 07.31.2026 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/zFM6lLLLw3d?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 07.31.2026 Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinéma (RISC) <https://us.list-manage.com/7_vK6aPeEfb?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 08.10.2026 Slamdance Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/qgvdi_WRY4B?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 08.14.2026 Coney Island Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/12LpYZEA620?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 08.15.2026 Science New Wave <https://us.list-manage.com/rugnXYrEOIs?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Late Deadline) 08.15.2026 Revolutions per Minute Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/23W7XDQyPsW?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Extended Deadline) 08.16.2026 Altered Images – Experimental Film and Music Fest <https://us.list-manage.com/e3wqP_x9z7U?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 08.31.2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam <https://us.list-manage.com/ntnYPRtFAe4?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 08.31.2026 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/NuoSHl3fx4n?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 09.18.2026 accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/7KvKfj4WZjH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10.15.2026 Punto de Vista Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/mEy6r20kH3a?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 03.15.2027 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://us.list-manage.com/1467B7S0VG2?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://us.list-manage.com/19vyIPWe1WN?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/x8MCnKpfBkC?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [March 14-Jan 3, Astoria, NY] - Experimental Westerns, Part 1: Avant-Garde Westerns <https://us.list-manage.com/14NekCzmuV6?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 3-26, New York, NY] - Film Screening With Rich Fedorchak <https://us.list-manage.com/dQ8fvgM3_Q5?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 28, Lebanon, NH] - Al carajo con Hollywood <https://us.list-manage.com/9nhqLF1yxIc?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 28, Mexico City, MX] - Aztlán, Túnel Del Tiempo: Pintura y Arte <https://us.list-manage.com/1CoZleRSh4c?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 29, Mexico City, MX] - Aztlán, Túnel Del Tiempo: The Past is a Foreign Country <https://us.list-manage.com/hOI6_afAZQo?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 30, Mexico City, MX] - Marcel Duchamp On Film <https://us.list-manage.com/OZZUglAQfFt?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 30-August 3, New York, NY] - Aztlán, Túnel Del Tiempo: Indigenous Experiments <https://us.list-manage.com/13De4csMVVH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [July 31, Mexico City, MX] - Aztlán, Túnel Del Tiempo: We Didn't Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Us <https://us.list-manage.com/QoMjJbsmvKr?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [August 1, Mexico City, MX] - EC: Buñuel / Dalí <https://us.list-manage.com/6C41s5J_aks?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe>[August 1, New York, NY] - EC: L’Âge d’Or <https://us.list-manage.com/RAPkVrFOHhO?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [August 1, New York, NY - EC: Los Olvidados <https://us.list-manage.com/PRpDQWJkmmb?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [August 2, New York, NY] - A. Rimbaud <https://us.list-manage.com/dAm8okfFGWO?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [August 2, Oakland, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://us.list-manage.com/1BfcKdep13H?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://us.list-manage.com/DHYIEVCtRD9?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2026* *March 14 - January 3* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Museum of the Moving Image <https://us.list-manage.com/PS9oUJ2BPPF?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/eA7N10mJodJ?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/10V6WCSzG5R?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/_frnpx1lk1_?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 22 at 6:30 PM July 23 at 9:00 PM Oliver Laxe MIMOSAS <https://us.list-manage.com/esqJX5vgNv4?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 22 at 9:00 PM July 23 at 6:30 PM FOUND FOOTAGE PROGRAM <https://us.list-manage.com/Y4khXFBTXYx?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 24 at 6:45 PM Robert Downey Sr. GREASER’S PALACE (DCP) <https://us.list-manage.com/XBM2zonoYd8?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 24 at 8:45 PM CRAIG BALDWIN + CHARLES I. LEVINE <https://us.list-manage.com/as37Foy0Mmk?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 25 at 6:15 PM Andy Warhol LONESOME COWBOYS <https://us.list-manage.com/JQr18xcz0Cq?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 25 at 8:00 PM CREMASTER 2 + ARABESQUE <https://us.list-manage.com/gIAtS2_7gv7?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 26 at 5:45 PM MOUSTAPHA ALASSANE + KEVIN JEROME EVERSON <https://us.list-manage.com/11xW4Vq88cH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 26 at 8:00 PM *TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* AVA Gallery and Art Center <https://us.list-manage.com/pw8a1PFxXqM?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7pm ET, AVA Gallery and Art Center, 11 Bank Street, Lebanon, NH *Film Screening with Rich Fedorchak* Part of an occasional art film screening hosted by AVA member Rick Fedorchak. Films selected for the July 28 include short experimental films by Rich and a film by the musician and composer Reagan Padula who will perform a live piece of music to accompany her film. Rich Fedorchak is a retired RN who has had an art practice in collage, assemblage and experimental film since the mid-1970's. He has been a longtime AVA exhibiting artist and volunteer. His films have been selected for screening at numerous film festivals devoted to experimental film in the US, Canada, and Italy. Reagan Padula is a composer, instrumentalist and sound organizer whose ears are moving as microphone and speaker. Right now she is investigating sympathetic resonance sonic- collage and the disruption of memory-time, body-space, self-other. She feels fulfillment from creating and studying queer art spaces in the underground and how they heal communities.For the past 2 years she has been the Post-Baccalaureate Intern and teaching assistant in the masters program in Sonic Practice at Dartmouth College. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cineteca Nacional Mexico <https://us.list-manage.com/KtHSkMA5O2N?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7:00pm CT, Av. México Coyoacán 389, Xoco, Benito Juárez, 03330 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico *Al carajo con Hollywood* In their manifesto “Enough with Yankee Imperialist Documentaries!”, the Cine-Aztlán collective declared: “La Raza is fed up with the demeaning lies, slanders, and racial stereotypes that the bourgeois film barons have tried to embed in the minds of the rest of the world regarding us.” This program contrasts Hollywood’s distortions of Mexico and Mexican-American communities with the sharp, categorical rejection that Chicanx cinema has articulated in response to those stereotypical representations. En su manifiesto “¡Ya basta con los documentales imperialistas yanquis!”, el colectivo Cine-Aztlán declaró: “La Raza está harta de las mentiras denigrantes, las calumnias y los estereotipos raciales que los barones burgueses del cine han intentado incrustar en la mente del resto del mundo sobre nosotros”. Este programa contrapone las tergiversaciones de Hollywood sobre México y las comunidades mexicano-americanas con el rechazo tajante y categórico que el cine chicanx ha articulado frente a esas representaciones estereotipadas. *WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cineteca Nacional Mexico <https://us.list-manage.com/vHQh6d8hOfd?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7:00pm CT, Av. México Coyoacán 389, Xoco, Benito Juárez, 03330 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico *"Pintura y Arte" part of "Aztlán. Túnel del tiempo"* The dialogue between Chicano film and painting, theater, and performance is a rich, dynamic, and lasting one. David Alfaro Siqueiros's censored murals in Los Angeles, painted in 1932, have been a point of reference for generations of Chicanos interested in public art. The pioneering documentarian Jesús Salvador Treviño chronicles this historical context of the murals' production, the controversy that they provoked, and their restoration and legacy. After meeting as students at Garfield High School, and at protests against the US war in Viet Nam, the artists' collective Asco organized performances, photo shoots, murals, and film and video productions that rejected easy categorization. Inspired by the emergent "New American Cinema," and especially by the films of Stan Brakhage, the late El Paso-based Willie Varela developed a unique cinematic language of gestures and fleeting glimpses, seen here in two of his super-8 shorts. *THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cineteca Nacional Mexico <https://us.list-manage.com/x8xuvvHmj_b?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7:00pm CT , Av. México Coyoacán 389, Xoco, Benito Juárez, 03330 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico *"The Past is a Foreign Country," part of "Aztlán, Túnel del tiempo"* Taking its title from David Lowenthal's landmark work of historiography, this program looks at episodes of Chicano history as treated in film and television. From a reconstruction of a moment in the Mexican Revolution, displaced onto the streets of today's Los Angeles, to experimental films and documentaries, this program addresses key moments of Chicano history and the ways in which these are represented. Curated by Jesse Lerner. ___________________________________________________________________ *July 30 - August 3* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/ne4WzzDpuKY?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> times vary, see below, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *MARCEL DUCHAMP ON FILM* By some accounts, the great Dada artist Marcel Duchamp created only a single film: *ANÉMIC CINÉMA* (1926), a short experimental work that alternates between vertiginous rotating spirals and erotically charged typographical text. This contention is highly misleading, however, since Duchamp in fact created several moving-image works over the course of his career, including the (now-lost) collaboration with Man Ray, *ELSA, BARONESS VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN, SHAVING HER PUBIC HAIR* (1921), and a collaboration with John Cage called *DISCS* (1947). Additionally, Duchamp drafted numerous ideas for films that were never actually realized, such as *TO INFINITY*, which involves projecting a film on a balloon that slowly inflates until the “screen” finally bursts. Furthermore, Duchamp’s relationship to cinema is not exhausted by analyzing the films he made (or conceived of making) – he also appears as a performer in numerous experimental films by artists like René Clair, Maya Deren, and Andy Warhol. And this is not to mention the dozens of films that have been inspired by Duchamp’s oeuvre, including films by Joseph Cornell, Hannah Wilke, and Hollis Frampton. As the found footage filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky put it, “We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and in the case of Marcel Duchamp, on very broad shoulders!” This series is presented on the occasion of the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “Marcel Duchamp” (on view through August 22), and has been co-curated by Jed Rapfogel and Justin Remes. Remes is the author of “Found Footage Films: A Work of Experimental Scholarship,” “Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing,” and “Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis.” Remes is currently working on a book project about Duchamp’s relationship to the cinema. Special thanks to Miguel Armas (Light Cone); Dianna Barrie & Richard Tuohy; Abigail Child; Rebecca Cleman, Karl McCool, and Jooyoung Park (Electronic Arts Intermix); Matthew Gray (Warhol Museum); Ivan Grifi; Brett Kashmere & Zachary Epcar (Canyon Cinema); Carla Subrizi (Fondazione Baruchello); and Gerald Weber (sixpack). Upcoming Screenings DUCHAMP PGM 1: DUCHAMP IN/ON FILM <https://us.list-manage.com/cL39ZMNrsOg?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 30 at 7:30 PM DUCHAMP PGM 2: FOUND FOOTAGE <https://us.list-manage.com/4zLj3wAgTiJ?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> July 31 at 7:30 PM DUCHAMP PGM 3: READY-MADE FILMS <https://us.list-manage.com/12BA9jPwGHI?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> August 1 at 6:15 PM DUCHAMP PGM 4: NUDES DESCENDING <https://us.list-manage.com/13Zjxohe7W7?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> August 1 at 8:15 PM DUCHAMP PGM 5: ANÉMIC CINÉMA <https://us.list-manage.com/qQrAABULaQ8?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> August 2 at 5:15 PM DUCHAMP PGM 6: HOMAGE <https://us.list-manage.com/1D1ZhwP7dDm?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> August 2 at 7:30 PM DUCHAMP PGM 7: MERCE AND MARCEL <https://us.list-manage.com/uyC7oTdJzOW?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> August 3 at 6:45 PM Jean-Marie Drot DUCHAMP PGM 8: MARCEL DUCHAMP: A GAME OF CHESS <https://us.list-manage.com/vxMwslbnzV2?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> August 3 at 8:30 PM *FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cineteca Nacional Mexico <https://us.list-manage.com/jvsBIkyCrpM?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7:00pm CT, Av. México Coyoacán 389, Xoco, Benito Juárez, 03330 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico *"Indigenous Experiments," part of "Aztlán. Túnel del tiempo"* While some historians take the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the resultant creation of a irredentist population of Mexican descent as the origin of the Chicano community, the relations between Mexico's Central Valley and what is now the Southwest of the United States can be traced back centuries before the European conquest. With short films by Yolanda Cruz, Rancho Shampoo, John Jota Leaños, Lourdes Portillo, and others. Curated by Jesse Lerner. *SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Cineteca Nacional Mexico <https://us.list-manage.com/kJG7Aio29bp?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7:00pm CT, Av. México Coyoacán 389, Xoco, Benito Juárez, 03330 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico *"We Didn't Cross the Border, The Border Crossed Us" part of "Aztlán. Túnel del tiempo"* Artists have taken the US-Mexican border as a fraught arena for public art production. From 1984 to the beginning of this century, the Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo pioneered a public-facing program of performance and exhibitions that centered on the international line. This program surveys some of the expressions of this border cinema, from a documentary on a Poblano community divided by the border to historical representations of binational families, marked by intergenerational tensions, systematic racism, and uncertain futures. With films by Ana Marchado, Alex Rivera, and others. Curated by Jesse Lerner. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/kJykxMyZYil?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 4:15pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: BUÑUEL / DALÍ* Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí *UN CHIEN ANDALOU* (1928, 22 min, 35mm, b&w) Twenty-two minutes of pure, scandalous dream-imagery, a stream of images from which anything that could be given a rational meaning was rigorously excluded. It remains the unsurpassed masterpiece of the surrealist cinema. Luis Buñuel *LAND WITHOUT BREAD / LAS HURDES: TIERRA SIN PAN* (1932, 28 min, 35mm, b&w. With English narration.) “A documentary describing, matter-of-factly, a region of Spain so ravaged by epidemic poverty that there our worst fantasies find their objective correlative.” –Raymond Durgnat Total running time: ca. 55 min ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/16xXGunJmfu?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 6pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: L’ÂGE D’OR* by Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, in French with English subtitles, 1930, 73 min, 35mm, b&w “The story is a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy.” – Luis Buñuel *SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Anthology Film Archives <https://us.list-manage.com/zNKUELZt6XL?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 3:30pm ET, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY *EC: LOS OLVIDADOS* (aka *THE FORGOTTEN ONES / THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED*) by Luis Buñuel, in Spanish with English subtitles, 1950, 88 min, 35mm Fusing social realist and surrealistic elements, Buñuel’s film unflinchingly portrays the lives of a gang of juvenile delinquents on the destitute streets of Mexico City, led by the ruthless Jaibo (Roberto Cobo). Edging against neorealism but devoid of its sentimentalism, Buñuel zeroes in on the brutalities of life lived in poverty without any undercurrent of redemption. In 1951, Octavio Paz wrote of the film, “The world of *LOS OLVIDADOS* is peopled by orphans, by loners who seek communion…the quest for the ‘other,’ for our likeness, equals, is the other side of the search for the mother. Or the acceptance of her definitive absence, that knowledge that we are alone.” *LOS OLVIDADOS* was among Barbara Loden’s favorite films. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Vital Signs Film Series <https://us.list-manage.com/Lu4UG12Ne8T?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 2pm PT, Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *A. Rimbaud* by Patrick Wang, 2026, 175 minutes The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry. “I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all the poisons, keeping only their quintessences.” So wrote the teenaged Arthur Rimbaud, that visionary enfant terrible of 19th-century French poetry, on his quest “to find a language” for what proved an enduringly outsized creative ambition. You can imagine the temptation, and the peril, of trying to express this cinematically. Perhaps with a not-famous actor alone in a black box for nearly three hours? Of Patrick Wang’s very experimental biopic, starring Blake Draper, critic Jonathan Rosenbaum writes, “A. Rimbaud has been touring this country slowly and unpredictably, picking up fans and momentum en route. Once again, like his previous masterpiece, it was turned down by every film festival it was submitted to, in effect punished for its uniqueness.” Siddhant Adlakha’s Variety review meanwhile notes “the kind of maverick indie spirit that demands a complete re-orientation of audiovisual language in a way few modern experimentalists would attempt with traditional technology.” *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://us.list-manage.com/wisBzOtQ4yH?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/SW3aBjD5laG?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/MJyRCWv90Q7?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> . 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