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*This Week [September 26 - October 4, 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/vgGVMnHYbl9?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 09.30.2026 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/ac02Uq1GG3k?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Late Deadline) 10.06.2026 Slamdance Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/SCJJ2QMoFnq?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Extended Deadline) 10.15.2026 MONO NO AWARE XX : EXHIBITION OF EXPANDED CINEMA <https://us.list-manage.com/15j1_sfwuPP?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10.15.2026 Punto de Vista Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/oxUMY8TNqt2?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10.23.2026 Coney Island Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/1APHKP80MmA?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 10.30.2026 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/FmWWsqtB5WB?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 10.31.2026 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://us.list-manage.com/cW04D0TD4Au?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10.31.2026 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/iPJdkhm5ouR?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 11.16.2026 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/Yd2UmcJEOD_?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 11.30.2026 ICS Grants <https://us.list-manage.com/bzqFJ6yaqdx?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 12.04.2026 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS) <https://us.list-manage.com/ZTOo3Xi1Fr5?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 03.15.2027 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://us.list-manage.com/Z79oGEtk2bj?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://us.list-manage.com/TdbnrmUZLOF?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/N07Okb7cwNx?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [March 14-Jan 3, Astoria, NY] - Long Live The Underground! <https://us.list-manage.com/q9bo2gIVRkc?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [Sept 23 - October 8, New York, NY] - Post-Kolonial Spectres <https://us.list-manage.com/b9RZD9p6GlU?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [September 26, San Francisco, CA] - Connectivity Through Cinema: Spacecell / Samguri: Korean Artist Run Film Labs <https://us.list-manage.com/PrNu5RX5cXA?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [Sept 27, Brooklyn, NY] - Signal Overload <https://us.list-manage.com/2l8Yer3g5Ks?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 1, Bloomington, IN] - Connectivity Through Cinema: Masa Kudo: Experimental Animations, 2020–2026 <https://us.list-manage.com/W11yp3HgKB5?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 2, Brooklyn, NY] - Incredibly Strange Music <https://us.list-manage.com/jouOnBH1clD?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 3, San Francisco, CA] - Vital Signs Film Series Presents The Currents + By The River <https://us.list-manage.com/16b7rpeTAOE?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 4, Oakland, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://us.list-manage.com/bmYMppyfuGT?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://us.list-manage.com/mnkm2VHLPuI?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2026* *March 14 - January 3* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Museum of the Moving Image <https://us.list-manage.com/sjNiLiD8010?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. ___________________________________________________________________ *September 23 - October 8* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Museum of Modern Art <https://us.list-manage.com/9Qq7a_EK4iL?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> all times ET, see below, MoMA, Floor T2/T1, The Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center, New York, NY *Long Live the Underground!* Celebrating Six Decades of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop Stan Brakhage’s 1958 silent film *Anticipation of the Night* is a kinetic study in rhythm and color, with images that evoke the passage from childhood innocence to adult angst. Now considered a milestone of the American avant-garde, it was initially rejected for screening in New York because of its seemingly formless approach. The need for distributors and exhibitors who were open to the burgeoning underground film movement—decidedly non-commercial, ultra-low-budget projects that were radical in style and content and often shot on 16mm and 8mm film—led directly to the creation of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative in 1961 and Millennium Film Workshop in 1966. Both organizations, so crucial to the growth of the underground in the 1960s, are thriving today, and continue to introduce new filmmakers while honoring cinema’s rich history of personal expression. A disparate group of filmmakers who called themselves the New American Cinema Group, led by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Gregory Markoupoulos, and others, formed the Film-Makers’ Cooperative to distribute the work of any artist who chose to deposit their films. Its spirit was captured in a manifesto by Mekas: “We believe that cinema is indivisibly a personal expression…. We don’t want false, polished, slick films—we prefer them rough, unpolished, but alive; we don’t want rosy films—we want them the color of blood.” Five years later, Millennium Film Workshop was formed, led by Ken Jacobs, who chose the name to convey what he called “an atmosphere of possibility,” a future where “people could do their own thing.” Originally based at the St. Mark’s Church, Millennium soon set up shop on the Lower East Side, offering equipment access, work space for post-production, and weekly screenings in its ongoing Personal Cinema series. Established during a galvanizing cultural moment amid deep social unrest and change, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop maintain their missions today against the currents of our own turbulent era, as vital and necessary as ever. This series reflects that continuity by celebrating just some of the thousands of filmmakers whose work they have fostered, distributed, and screened. Selections will be presented in nine thematic programs: *Anticipation of the (Opening) Night*; *Roots of the NY Underground*; *Make Love, Not War*; *Seventies Structures*; *Cinemas of Transgression*; *Quotidian Pleasures*; *New York No Story*; *Diaries, Notes, and Sketches*; and *The Material Is the Message*. Organized by Joe Wakeman, Executive Director, Millennium Film Workshop, Matt McKinzie, Artistic Director, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and David Schwartz, President of the Board of Directors, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, with Ron Magliozzi, Curator, and Carson Parish, Associate Producer, Department of Film, MoMA, and Julia Curl, Marron Research Consortium Fellow, MoMA. Thanks to Steve Macfarlane, Department Assistant, Department of Film, MoMA. *--- Anticipation of the (Opening) Night ---* Wed, Sep 23, 7:00 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Mon, Sep 28, 4:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T1 *Anticipation of the Night*. 1959. USA. Directed by Stan Brakhage. Courtesy Harvard Film Archive. 16mm. Silent. 40 min. *Green Desire*. 1966. USA. Directed by Mike Kuchar. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. 16mm. 20 min. Program approx. 60 min. Followed by a conversation with Mike Kuchar moderated by Andrew Lampert *--- Roots of the NY Underground ---* Thu, Sep 24, 7:00 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Thu, Oct 8, 4:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 *The Very Eye of Night*. 1959. USA. Directed by Maya Deren. 16mm. 15 min. *Bridges-Go-Round*. 1959. USA. Directed by Shirley Clarke. 16mm. 4 min. *Eye Music in Red Major*. 1961. USA. Directed by Marie Menken. 16mm. Silent. 5 min. *Ai (Love)*. 1962. Japan. Directed by Takahiko Iimura. 16mm. 10 min. *Award Presentation to Andy Warhol*. 1964. USA. Directed by Jonas Mekas. 16mm. 12 min. *Little Stabs at Happiness*. 1963. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. 16mm. 15 min. *Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.*. 1966. USA. Directed by Owen Land. 16mm. 5 min. *Tear/Or*. 1967. USA. Directed by Saul Levine. 16mm. Silent. 4 min. *Beatles Electroniques*. 1969. USA. Directed by Jud Yalkut, Nam June Paik. 16mm. 3 min. *Surface Tension*. 1968. USA. Directed by Hollis Frampton. 16mm. 10 min. Program approx. 83 min. *--- Seventies Structures ---* Fri, Sep 25, 4:00 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Sat, Oct 3, 2:00 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 *Blues*. 1970. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. 16mm. Silent. 8 min. *Breakfast*. 1976. USA. Directed by Michael Snow. 16mm. Silent. 15 min. *Table*. 1976. USA. Directed by Ernie Gehr. 16mm. Silent. 15 min. *Line*. 1976. USA. Directed by Alan Berliner. 16mm. Silent. 7 min. *I-94*. 1974. USA. Directed by Bette Gordon, James Benning. 16mm. 3 min. *Bertha’s Children*. 1976. USA. Directed by Roberta Friedman, Grahame Weinbren. 16mm. 7 min. *X-Tracts*. 1972. USA. Directed by Leslie Thornton, Desmond Horsfield. 16mm. 9 min. *Dirt*. 1971. USA. Directed by Amy Greenfield. 16mm. 3 min. *Water Motor*. 1978. USA. Directed by Babette Mangolte. 16mm. 7 min. *Restoring Appearances to Order* in 12 Minutes. 1975. USA. Directed by Coleen Fitzgibbon. Digital. 10 min. Program approx. 84 min. *--- Make Love, Not War ---* Fri, Sep 25, 6:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Sat, Oct 3, 4:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 *Song for Rent*. 1969. USA. Directed by Jack Smith. 16mm. 4 min. *Dangling Participle*. 1970. USA. Directed by Standish Lawder. 16mm. 17 min. *The Draft Card Burners*. 1966. USA. Directed by Hilary Harris. 16mm. Silent. 7 min. *Viet-Flakes*. 1966. USA. Directed by Carolee Schneemann. 16mm. 7 min. *Rat Life and Diet in North America*. 1968. USA. Directed by Joyce Wieland. 16mm. 16 min. *Piece Mandala/End War*. 1966. USA. Directed by Paul Sharits. 16mm. 5 min. *On*. 1972. USA. Directed by Rosalind Schneider. 16mm. 4 min. Lovemaking. 1970. USA. Directed by Scott Bartlett. 16mm. 13 min. Program approx. 73 min. *--- Quotidian Pleasures ---* Sat, Sep 26, 2:00 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Sun, Oct 4, 2:00 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 *Peace O’Mind*. 1983. USA. Directed by Mary Filippo. 16mm. 9 min. *Still Life with Woman and Four Objects*. 1984. USA. Directed by Lynne Sachs. 16mm. 4 min. *Spent Moments*. 1984. USA. Directed by Jean Sousa. 16mm. 10 min. *Fragment*. 1987. USA. Directed by Laura J. Padgett. 16mm. 2 min. *Crystal Snow*. 1973. USA. Directed by Jacob Burckhardt. 16mm. 5 min. *Autumn Leaves*. 1994. USA. Directed by Donna Cameron. 16mm. 4 min. *Moon Collage #7*. 2026. USA. Directed by Robert Mizaki. 16mm. 3 min. *Phases of the Moon: The Parapsychology of Everyday Life*. 1968. USA. Directed by Tom Chomont. 16mm. 5 min. *The Dance*. 1992. USA. Directed by Jim Hubbard. 16mm. 8 min. *She-Va*. 1973. USA. Directed by Marjorie Keller. Digital. 3 min. *Embryonic Journey*. 2025. USA. Directed by Matt McKinzie. Digital. 5 min. *Rain Painting*. 2019. USA. Directed by Ann Deborah Levy. Digital. 6 min. *Inhale/Exhale*. 2020. USA. Directed by Michèle Saint-Michel. Digital. 4 min. *Lament Poems for Neptune Ave*. 2023. USA. Directed by Sage Ó Tuama. Digital. 10 min. *How to Disappear Completely*. 2020. USA. Directed by Cameron Granger. Digital. 2 min. *Becoming Bimbo*. 2023. USA. Directed by Abygai Peña. 16mm. 1 min. *Rituals*. 2017. Brazil. Directed by Francis de Assis Abdullah. Digital. 4 min. Program approx. 85 min. *--- New York No Story ---* Sat, Sep 26, 4:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Sun, Oct 4, 4:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 *NYC Diary ’72*. 1972. USA. Directed by Howard Guttenplan. Digital. 11 min. *New York Conversations*. 2001. USA. Directed by Vivienne Dick. Digital. 21 min. *Times Square*. 1992. USA. Directed by Steve Siegel. Digital. 7 min. *Melencolia 2: Destitution Signs*. 2026. USA. Directed by M Woods. Digital. 8 min. *Everyday AF*. 2025. USA. Directed by Art Jones. Digital. 5 min. *Pedestrian Flow Zone*. 2020. USA. Directed by Gregg Biermann. Digital. 6 min. *Coney Island*. 1987. USA. Directed by Peter Cramer. Digital. 12 min. *Wallpaper 7*. 1970. USA. Directed by Jon Buchanan. 16mm. 7 min. *SSS*. 1988. USA. Directed by Henry Hills. 16mm. 5 min. Program approx. 82 min. *--- Cinemas of Transgression ---* Sat, Sep 26, 7:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Sat, Oct 3, 6:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 *The Dervish Machine*. 1992. USA. Directed by Bradley Eros, Jeanne Liotta. 16mm. 9 min. *Mayhem*. 1987. USA. Directed by Abigail Child. 16mm. 16 min. *The Scary Movie*. 1996. USA. Directed by Peggy Ahwesh. 16mm. 9 min. *Hollywood Landing: The Peg Entwhistle Story*. 2025. USA. Directed by Joe Wakeman. 16mm. 10 min. *Nymphomania*. 1994. USA. Directed by Tessa Hughes Freeland. Digital. 9 min. *The House of Water #29: The Abyss*. 2019. USA. Directed by Lili White. Digital. 5 min. *A Facile Appropriation*. 2024. USA. Directed by Preston Spurlock. Digital. 6 min. *ZEROZEROZEROZERO*. 2022. USA. Directed by Tempest Creation. Digital. 5 min. *Episode*. 1996. USA. Directed by Joey Huertas. Digital. 8 min. *The Taking of Jordan (All American Boy)*. 2022. Canada. Directed by Kalil Haddad. Digital. 7 min. *Chop Off*. 2008. USA. Directed by M M Serra. Digital. 6 min. *Palcorecore*. 2023. Palestine, UAE. Directed by Dana Dawud. Digital. 5 min. *time is a bird*. 2026. USA. Directed by Gloria Chung. Digital. 4 min. Program approx. 100 min. *--- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches ---* Sun, Sep 27, 2:00 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Mon, Oct 5, 4:00 p.m., MoMA, Floor T1 *The Male GaYze*. 1990. USA. Directed by Jack Waters. 16mm. 11 min. *Cicatrix*. 1995. USA. Directed by Liz Roberts. 16mm. 10 min. *Subway*. 1968. USA. Directed by Holly Fisher. Digital. 5 min. *Pregnancy Dreams*. 1979. USA. Directed by Barbara Rosenthal, Bill Creston. Digital. 4 min. *Providence*. 2026. USA. Directed by Erica Schreiner. Digital. 7 min. *LESPRI*. 2024. USA. Directed by Jard Lerebours. Digital. 3 min. *A Sleepless Night*. 2025. USA. Directed by Devon Narine-Singh. Digital. 8 min. *Loose Change*. 2014. USA/Haiti. Directed by Victoria Campbell. Digital. 4 min. *4 A M*. 2017. USA. Directed by Saint Piñero. Digital. 3 min. *A Body (sur)renders / Un Cuerpo (se)rinde*. 2022. USA. Directed by Anton Astudillo. Digital. 8 min. *Genomic Memory*. 2024. USA. Directed by Shahkeem Williams. Digital. 4 min. *I Don’t Have Money To Buy New Underwear*. 2024. USA. Directed by Jayson James Sloan. Digital. 2 min. *Interior Shot*. 2023. USA. Directed by Charles de Agustin. Digital. 9 min. *Inferno. I saw you on my way to the garden*. 2024. USA. Directed by Priyanka Das. Digital. 6 min. *Morsel Beach*. 1997. USA. Directed by George Kuchar. Digital. 4 min. Program approx. 88 min. *--- The Material Is the Message ---* Sun, Sep 27, 4:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T2 + Wed, Sep 30, 7:30 p.m., MoMA, Floor T1 *Children Make Movies*. 1961. USA. Directed by DeeDee Halleck. 16mm. 9 min. *Peyote Queen*. 1965. USA. Directed by Storm DeHirsch. 16mm. 9 min. *Alchemy Blues*. 1974. USA. Directed by Olga Spiegel. 16mm. 10 min. *Landfill 16*. 2011. USA. Directed by Jennifer Reeves. 16mm. 9 min. *Gently Down the Stream*. 1981. USA. Directed by Su Friedrich. 16mm. 13 min. *Alchemy of the Word*. 1975. USA. Directed by Peter Von Ziegesar. 16mm. 9 min. *Footprints*. 1992. USA. Directed by Bill Morrison. 16mm. 6 min. *Bagatelle Biologique*. 2000. USA. Directed by Joel Schlemowitz. 16mm. 4 min. *Second Notes*. 2024. USA. Directed by Julia Petrocelli. Digital. Silent. 4 min. *Seance*. 2017. USA. Directed by Mark Street. Digital. 3 min. *Hello...?*. 1975. USA. Directed by Eduardo Darino. Digital. 7 min. Program approx. 83 min. *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://us.list-manage.com/lcrXzYrpUrE?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *POST-KOLONIAL SPECTRES* A true breakthrough and international discovery!! Here in-person with *A Human Year Is Seven Earth Years*, Honduran-American Adrian Quetzal Randall has cooked up an unprecedented Meso-American mystery play, an extremely sophisticated personal cine-essay that opens up areas of speculative history in an Adam Curtis-esque stream-of-consciousness revelation on the military origins of Central American telecommunications and programming, tracing a psychedelic labyrinth across four continents. Part media archeology, part film diary, an endless montage of archival opticals support a long-form whispered confession about the electromagnetic magick that inflected the development of “modern” Honduran national sensibility. Our co-hit is Riar Rizaldi's equally paranoid *Tellurian Drama*, a sublime 25-min excavation of the colonial mythos surrounding the infamous Malabar Radio Antenna, a mysterious site of etheric conspiracy now being resurrected as a tourist destination on the Indonesian island of Java. *SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MONO NO AWARE <https://us.list-manage.com/kLz3R7ZNa2N?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7 PM, 33 Flatbush Ave 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY *CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS: Spacecell / Samguri: Korean Artist Run Film Labs at Mono No Aware* A selection of recent films from Korea handmade film labs Spacecell & Samguri Film Lab with Filmmaker Jonathan Seungjoon Lee (KOR) * IN PERSON * LIMITED ATTENDANCE TO 40 - MASKS AVAILABLE * DOORS 7 PM – STARTS PROMPTLY AT 7:30 PM – FREE TO ATTEND Spacecell and Samguri are two Korean artist-run film labs where filmmakers work with analog film often in community. This program brings together 16mm works from the labs. A structural film that dissolves as it unfolds, a short about crying and language, a music video, a quiet portrait of a summer's end, and a pinhole film shot across sacred sites in Jeju. *Mid-Air Thief, 'Moons'*, Joonhee Kim | 16mm to Digital | BW | Digital Sound | 3min | 2024 | South Korea A music video for 'Moons' by Mid-Air Thief *No landscape ever made me cry*, Sujin Lee | 16mm to Digital | B&W | silent | 5min | 2025 | South Korea I am a crier, and this film tells stories about holding back—or not holding back—tears. Words break down and often turn into crying, and the film tries to explain those tears. It is also about an ambivalent attitude: being personal while trying to maintain a distance from these emotions; wanting to talk about crying but not quite being able to. *Magpie Eye*, Jonathan Seungjoon Lee | 16mm to Digital | Color | Digital | 5:47 | 2026 | Jeju Island, South Korea An analog film work that explores the immaterial realities of our world through the lens of Korean dream journey traditions (monguyrok). Using a 16mm handmade pinhole camera, the work captures ritual sites, sacred trees, and activist sites in Jeju Island. Like the magpie's iridescent blue that appears beneath its seemingly black and white feathers, this work reveals what is invisible or dismissed as unreal, offering an alternative way of seeing and understanding the spirit world around us. *Singing Cicada*, Boyoon Choi | 16mm to Digital | BW, Color | Silent | 6min | 2024 | South Korea A film made with things collected in the summer. Between moving images of a woman shot in the summer, the wings of a dead cicada repeatedly appear. *slice of time*, Kim Hyun-su | 16mm to Digital | B&W | Optical + digital sound | 21 min | 2026 | Seoul, South Korea A slice of time moves towards the end of time. *Field Rush*, Park Kyujae | 16mm to Digital | B&W | Silent | 3 min | 2024 | Seoul, South Korea The camera rushes through a field of flowers. *Glistening Seagull*, Chae Yu / super8 to digital / color / stereo / 11min / 2023 / South Korea You moved as if shimmering and rippling water, and I danced above like a seagull. *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Retained Image Collective <https://us.list-manage.com/GL7FHnLa4oD?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7pm ET, Starlite Drive-in Theater / 7640 S Old State Rd 37, Bloomington, IN 47403 *Signal Overload* *Signal Overload* is an interdisciplinary celebration of experimental time-based media returning for its second year to the Starlite Drive-in Theater in Bloomington, Indiana on October 1st.. The festival brings together experimental film, video synthesis, live music, poetry, and other forms of time-based art in an informal, accessible setting. The drive-in provides a unique environment for experiencing experimental media. Audiences can move through the space, watch live performances up close, or relax in their cars with popcorn while experiencing the projections on screen. Rather than prescribing a single way to experience the festival, *Signal Overload *invites audiences to choose how they participate. DJ Jack Kilobyte with Special Guest DJ BB Special Screening: The Video Works of Jim Manion Ben Cartha Fowler Project with live video by Liv Arnold Film Block I: *Uneven Encounters* *is it us? *(2023) LJ Frezza 5m53s *HOWW TO WAYT* (2023) Johanna Winters 8m53s *Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий // Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy *(2023) Anna Kipervaser 4m30s *After Image I *(2026) Phil Baljeu 2m43s *Terminal Travel *(2026) cskonopka 4m03s Poetry reading by Essence London Zachary James Watkins with live video by Luke Judd Film Block II: *Here & There* *Super, Natural *(2025) Kyath Battie 7m24s *echoes of a zephyr *(2026) Josh Weissbach 3m18s *Dream Walker* (2024) Alex Pelly 3m43s *Tooborac* (2025) Richard Touhy 8m57s *Hurricane Season *(2025) Michelle Trujillo 6m22s Poetry reading by Jurion Jaffe Ortet with live video by Dave Rodriguez & Learn Not To Special Screening: *As Vid Muffle*r (2026) Gay Henry *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MONO NO AWARE <https://us.list-manage.com/WpRCtimRMdM?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7 PM, 33 Flatbush Ave 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY *CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS: Masa Kudo: Experimental Animations, 2020–2026* This selection of Masa Kudo’s experimental animations from 2020 to 2026 explores everyday spaces, objects, memories, and time through various handmade techniques. The works use drawing animation, puppet animation, cyanotype, and other material experiments. TRT, 60 minutes. Additional time for discussion / Q & A with MASA KUDO *IN PERSON* LIMITED ATTENDANCE TO 40 - MASKS AVAILABLE DOORS 7 PM – STARTS PROMPTLY AT 7:30 PM – FREE TO ATTEND *Difference and Repetition and Coffee*, Masa Kudo | digital | color | digital sound | 4 min | 2020 | Japan A pencil-drawn animation depicting the interior of a coffee shop. Through subtle variations and rotational repetition, the familiar space continuously transforms, exploring the gap between our perception of time and its actual passage *Tokyo Cyanoghosts*, Masa Kudo | digital | color | digital sound | 3 min | 2020 | Japan This animation was created in response to the temporary closure of the photographic darkroom where I worked as a workshop assistant during the pandemic. After losing access to the space, I turned to cyanotype, a photographic process that uses sunlight instead of a darkroom. The animation is composed of hundreds of hand-printed cyanotypes scanned frame by frame. *Still Life #2*, Masa Kudo | digital | color | digital sound | 4 min | 2021 | Japan An animation combining acrylic paintings and found footage. Through repetition and recombination, the film isolates the image of the coffee cup from its original context and explores new ways of perceiving a familiar object. *Tracing for Traces*, Masa Kudo | digital | color | digital sound | 6 min | 2023 | Japan This film documents my father’s century-old family home by combining live-action footage and animated frottage. It explores how traces left on its surfaces carry memories of past generations. *Jouhatsu Letters*, Johan Chang & Masa Kudo | digital | color | digital sound | 30 min | 2024 | Taiwan, Japan A cinematic correspondence between two filmmakers in Taipei and Tokyo, begun during the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing until 2024. Exchanging images and sounds, the film unfolds through animation, collage, cyanotype and 8mm experiments, quoting one another’s materials. The result shimmers with the joy of deeply personal cinema. *GARAGARA*, Johan Chang & Masa Kudo | 8mm | color | silent | 3 min | 2024 | Taiwan, Japan A collaborative film by Masa Kudo and Johan Chang. Separated by the sea, the artists exchanged a single roll of expired Single-8 film between Tokyo and Taipei, layering images of their rooms through multiple exposure. *Wait for Me at Moon Station*, Masa Kudo | digital | color | digital sound | 4min | 2026 | Estonia, Japan This music video was created in Estonia, where I am currently studying, and is my first puppet animation. The animation follows the song’s lyrics, telling the story of a girl with an 8mm film camera remembering her cat, who is no longer with her. It was inspired by scenes from Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa. *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://us.list-manage.com/MQWZ5ffPxNH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA *INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC* Here's an aggressive critical engagement with both old and new pop-rhetorical tropes, led by legendary beatnik re-mixer 99 Hooker! His much-anticipated appearance here promises both wise and wise-guy versions of the comtempo sub-pop-music scene, as well as genius patter in situ. Avatar Pit, his real-time media delirium, is supported fore and aft by a raft of utterly anomalous musical singularities---spontaneous musique concrete sessions, damaged polka fragments, Troloman, Babalu, the Blob, the Residents, Eric Burden and the Animals, Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders...rockin hard! AND Liberace, Spike Jones, the Mirror Man, Louis Prima & Keely Smith, singing ostriches, and so many Other outsiders, now centerstage in 99's upside-down musical universe!! *SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://us.list-manage.com/VENHUYdfGn2?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 2PM Pacific, 567 5th Street, Oakland, CA *Vital Signs Film Series presents The Currents + By the River* Vital Signs is a monthly film series organized by Bay Area filmmaker and curator Jonathan Kiefer to showcase new and recently-released, feature-length, contemporary, independent and artist-made films that have shown around the international film festival circuit but may or may not have been picked up by distributors and are otherwise hard to find. Films may feature obscure themes, unusual perspectives or eccentric material, but they have all been sifted through the Vital Signs filter so you can be sure they are all films worth leaving your home to see in community with like-minded art film/film art appreciators. Screenings will take place at Shapeshifters every first Sunday at 2pm unless otherwise noted. Join us for First Sunday Brunch! Our café is open 11am-2pm for brunch on first Sundays before every Vital Signs matinée film. Check our Instagram page for updates. *Las corrientes (The Currents)*, by Milagros Mumenthaler (104 minutes) and *Al lado del río (By the River)*, by Sofía Camargo (12 minutes), with Sofía Camargo in person. *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://us.list-manage.com/QFaz_8ftqPO?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/GliQWUesbAN?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/18vn0ZAfHjF?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> . 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