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*This Week [October 3 - 11, 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/NONmp_SfYd8?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 10.06.2026 Slamdance Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/ZJh7iv3sfzc?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Extended Deadline) 10.14.2026 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/T8WBLh1JXcE?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Extended Deadline) 10.15.2026 MONO NO AWARE XX : EXHIBITION OF EXPANDED CINEMA <https://us.list-manage.com/EKLEkH14k0s?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10.15.2026 Punto de Vista Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/1BFKJLqIers?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10.23.2026 Coney Island Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/ucP3niY0ktM?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 10.30.2026 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/JJZUeKe9xHp?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 10.31.2026 dresdner schmalfilmtage <https://us.list-manage.com/kWFmkc7Vz97?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10.31.2026 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/mlgteK2k5jB?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Regular Deadline) 10.31.2026 Laterale Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/YxEmv2Jvghn?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (First Deadline) 11.16.2026 Cosmic Rays Film Festival <https://us.list-manage.com/Y_PBTIR3PMX?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 11.30.2026 ICS Grants <https://us.list-manage.com/K5GtcPgUcKR?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 12.04.2026 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS) <https://us.list-manage.com/5MFcN9UPY6x?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> (Early Deadline) 03.15.2027 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://us.list-manage.com/1AnZYZGxm5d?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://us.list-manage.com/BDXebbmx_xH?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/WY8i2lmM6C9?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [March 14-Jan 3, Astoria, NY] - Long Live The Underground! <https://us.list-manage.com/PNZN1CSl95V?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [September 23 - October 8, New York, NY] - Incredibly Strange Music <https://us.list-manage.com/kbPCijgSaMU?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 3, San Francisco, CA] - Vital Signs Film Series Presents The Currents + By The River <https://us.list-manage.com/_TiPzqd9r6a?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 4, Oakland, CA] - Ute Aurand / Robert Beavers: Architecture And Dwelling <https://us.list-manage.com/3jWRh0fyum2?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 5-6, Toronto, ON, Canada] - Films by the COUSIN Collective and Christophe Katrib <https://us.list-manage.com/JkwrbZttOFq?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 7, Berkeley, CA] - VISIONS : Christian Flemm <https://us.list-manage.com/jqIPeXau1Xg?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 7, Montreal, QC, Canada] - *Gises* (2026) & *When The Sun Is Eaten *(2025) Film Screening & Talk with K. J. Everson <https://us.list-manage.com/152UKKdeNv7?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [Oct 8, Detroit, MI] - UFO PSY-OPS <https://us.list-manage.com/pOdEG13g5yf?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 8, San Francisco, CA] - Connectivity Through Cinema Presents: *To Alexandra* by Yi Cui <https://us.list-manage.com/oHf894dckvy?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe>[October 9, Brooklyn, NY] - Starshine & Clay: The Films of Kevin Jerome Everson at Abrams Planetarium <https://us.list-manage.com/10649pzxSuq?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 9, East Lansing, MI] - Light Waves & Sound Forms, PGM 1 <https://us.list-manage.com/ufv5jFqNf2W?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 9, Vallejo, CA] - Shapeshifter's Benefit <https://us.list-manage.com/Yney8Hgb9BZ?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [October 10, San Francisco, CA] - The Long Conversation <https://us.list-manage.com/n5hd9Uu96wp?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] - 6x6 Project: Artists' Moving Image Works <https://us.list-manage.com/wpwvLoLFJ6P?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> [ongoing, online] *STARTING BEFORE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2026* *March 14 - January 3* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Museum of the Moving Image <https://us.list-manage.com/faRa81TEoRx?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/52JKY1ytktk?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, OCTOBER 3, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://us.list-manage.com/zRS9PibBdhZ?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/EaWNxuR1x7G?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. *MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2026* *October 5 - 6* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Daniels Faculty U of T, Innis College, Cinema Studies Institute <https://us.list-manage.com/tHI02kkv7OB?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 10/5 @ 6:30pm ET + 10/6 @ 7pm ET Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto ON, M5S 1J5 Canada *Ute Aurand / Robert Beavers: Architecture and Dwelling* Join Ute Aurand and Robert Beavers in person for a two-day program of screenings and discussion exploring affinities between cinema and architecture through their work. Partners of twenty years and two of experimental cinema's most distinctive voices, Aurand and Beavers have rarely had their films presented in dialogue. "The Built Metaphor" (Oct. 5) focuses on urban architectural space, ornament and construction, while "At Home" (Oct. 6) explores domestic space and interior life. Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. --- Monday, Oct 5 @ 6:30pm ET - PGM 1 - “The Built Metaphor” --- *Amor* (Beavers, 1980), 15 minutes *In die Erde gebaut* (Aurand, 2008), 42 minutes silent *The Stoas* (Beavers, 1991-1997), 24 minutes --- Tuesday, Oct 6 @ 7:00pm ET - PGM 2 - “At Home” --- *Zu Hause* (Aurand, 1998), 2.5 minutes *Halbmond für Margaret *(Aurand, 2004), 18 minutes silent *Listening to the Space in My Room* (Beavers, 2013), 19 minutes *Renate* (Aurand, 2021), 6 minutes *“Der Klang, die Welt…” *(Beavers, 2018) 4.5 minutes Presented by U of T's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Cinema Studies Institute, and Innis College, in partnership with TIFF. “Aurand / Beavers: Architecture and Dwelling” coincides with “The Sparrow Dream with Robert Beavers” at TIFF Cinematheque on October 7. *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Pacific Film Archive <https://us.list-manage.com/EK8sSvtYlpd?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7pm PT, BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA *Films by the COUSIN Collective and Christophe Katrib* Alternative Visions — Program 5 Introduction: Mark Minch-de Leon Presented in Association with SF Cinematheque Founded in 2018 by Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, Alexandra Lazarowich and Adam Piron, COUSIN was created to support Indigenous artists expanding traditional definitions of, and experimenting with with, moving image form and genre. This program offers a selection of works made by COUSIN collective artists, including Hopinka's 2017 consideration of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and Lindsay McIntyre's film about caribou and lichen—made using those materials in the photographic process. A short film by Lebanese artist Christophe Katrib reflects on the dissonance he experiences living on the stolen land of the United States as “US-backed Israel commits genocide and ethnic cleansing on Palestine and my homeland of Lebanon.” SCREENING: *The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter's Moon* (2025) by Adam Piron (US); DCP, color, 14 minutes. Source: Video Data Bank. *Dislocation Blues* (2017) by Sky Hopinka (US); DCP, color, 17 minutes. Source: Video Data Bank. *Reclamation* (2018) by Theo J. Cuthand (Canada); DCP, color, 13 minutes. Source: Video Data Bank. *Tonalli* (2021) by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Mexico); DCP, color, 16 minutes. Source: Video Data Bank. *This Dissonance* (2024) by Christophe Katrib (US); digital, color, 6 minutes. Source: Christophe Katrib. *Tuktuit* (2025) by Lindsay McIntyre (US); DCP, color, Inuktitut and English with English subtitles, 15 minutes. Source: Tiny Moving Pictures. TRT: 81 minutes /// This fall BAMPFA's long-running annual series of historical and contemporary experimental film includes the work of dozens of artists across ten programs, beginning with a program of cinematic investigations into automation and AI with Gibbs Chapman in person. The series continues into November with a program of films made by members of the Oakland-based Black Hole Collective Film Lab. Brydie O'Connor is in person with her archival portrait of queer experimental film pioneer Barbara Hammer. The late Marjorie Keller's intimate 16mm films have a rare screening to mark the publication of a new book about her work. Artist Naeem Mohaiemen presents and discusses *A Missing Can of Film*(2025) in conjunction with BAM's exhibition Private Frontiers. A selection of works made by COUSIN collective artists, including Sky Hopinka's 2017 consideration of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and Lindsay McIntyre's film about caribou and lichen—made using those materials in the photographic process—screen with Lebanese artist Christophe Katrib's *This Dissonance* (2024). Harun Farocki's influential 2003 essay film *War at a Distance* and Gazan artist Mahmoud Alhaj's recent videos examine how perception can be limited in the context of war and/or conflict. (Kate MacKay, Film Curator) ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* VISIONS <https://us.list-manage.com/KpK3ojLR8xH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 6:30pm EST, 1300 Rue Gilford, Montreal, QC, Canada *VISIONS: CHRISTIAN FLEMM* VISIONS, Hors Champ and la lumière collective present CHRISTIAN FLEMM *PRINTER *| Christian Flemm | 2025 | 16mm | 11 mins *II (Above) *| Grace Baggott | 2023 | 16mm | 4 mins *IN LIMBO *| Daniel Romphf | 2025 | 16mm | 3 mins *DANIEL *| Christian Flemm | 2024 | 16mm | 5 mins *A Study in Choreography for Camera *| Maya Deren | 1945 | 16mm | 3 mins *LETTER FROM A COLOMBIAN SOLDIER *| Christian Flemm & Max Parnell | 2026 | 16mm | 11 mins *EDDY *| Christian Flemm & Max Parnell | 2026 | 16mm | 11 mins *Arnulf Rainer *| Peter Kubelka | 1960 | 16mm | 7 mins *DOORWAY *| Larry Gottheim | 1971 | 16mm | 8 mins -- Christian Flemm is an independent filmmaker, curator, film restorer, and lab technician based in Berlin. Working primarily with 16mm film without digital intermediaries, he practices what he calls "Medium Intimacy," a devotional approach to the moving image that opposes the acceleration and disembodiment of the digital age. Through small-scale, handcrafted works, generally projected in domestic settings, Flemm highlights the tactile, temporal, and relational properties of cinema, suggesting that it can be a place of genuine encounter rather than simply an object of remote consumption. His works on paper are published by Eckstein in Berlin (EU) and by Grotesk Press (USA). *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Media City Film Festival & Trinosophes Projects <https://us.list-manage.com/X9Rd6JRJIbH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 3pm ET, Clara Stanton Jones Friends Auditorium, Detroit Public Library, Main Branch, 5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 *GISES (2026) & WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (2025) Film Screening & Talk with Kevin Jerome Everson* Introduction by Media City Film Festival. Film screening curated by MCFF Artistic Director Oona Mosna. Conversation between Kevin Jerome Everson and Yasmina Price. Partners: Warren Astronomical Society & NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival. Media City Film Festival and Trinosophes Projects, in cooperation with the Detroit Public Library, present a special in-person event with director Kevin Jerome Everson, celebrating a new celestial artwork commissioned by MCFF with support from the Knight Arts Foundation. This screening is curated by Media City Film Festival Artistic Director Oona Mosna. Globally recognized for his prolific body of work featuring over 300 films, Kevin Jerome Everson has developed a distinctive moving-image practice attentive to labor, gesture, duration, and the textures of everyday life. *Gises* (2026) is Everson's newest celestial film, shot from the unique vantage point of metro Detroit, and is the ninth work in his ongoing body of films devoted to celestial phenomena. Created at the Stargate Observatory in southeastern Michigan with generous assistance from the Warren Astronomical Society, this new film extends Everson's decade-long engagement with all things superlunary: the sun, the moon, eclipses, and other stellar phenomena. Working with Super 8 and 16mm Bolex cameras fastened to Stargate's Kalinowski-Khula telescope, Everson observes the heavens through the material and optical possibilities of photochemical film, tracing the sun's movement through changing registers of light, duration, and perception. The title *Gises* comes from the Potawatomi language, referring to the sun but also encompassing the moon and seasonal changes tracked through celestial cycles that have guided traditional harvesting and life in this region for millennia. Also screening as part of this engagement is Everson's *When the Sun Is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin)*(2025), which takes its title from a Mayan expression for the solar eclipse, and captures 100% totality across three time zones—Mazatlán, Mexico; Carbondale, Ill.; and Cleveland, Ohio—during the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse. This pairing of films extends a conception of the sun and moon not as distant objects of observation but as presences intimately bound to the measurement of time and human ways of understanding the world. Both films are scored by Virginia-based composer David Dominique, recipient of a 2026 Creative Capital State of the Art Prize. The event is followed by a discussion with the artist and visiting film scholar Yasmina Price. Kevin Jerome Everson's visit to Detroit is made possible by many funders and partners, including Media City Film Festival, Trinosophes Projects, the Knight Arts Foundation, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University, Warren Astronomical Society, Abrams Planetarium, Detroit Public Library, and NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival. *Gises* (2026) is a production of trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures. All films appear courtesy of the artist, trilobite-arts DAC, and Picture Palace Pictures. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://us.list-manage.com/sdDucuUNglH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@21st), San Francisco, CA *UFO PSY-OPS* TREVOR PAGLEN ON DOTY Special Thursday Other Cinema presents show! Former military investigator Richard Doty is hated in parts of the UFO community, mainly for his role and mastery in spreading lies. Acclaimed conceptual artist, geographer, and MacArthur Fellow Trevor Paglen uses photography, science, and Errol Morris' interview to expose hidden military and corporate surveillance networks centered on Doty. Paglen, Kal Spelletich, and Craig Baldwin will all be on hand to introduce, and answer questions about, Paglen's infamous interrotron session with our arch enemy Richard Doty. Come early for a bucket full of collateral material...much of it untrue! *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* MONO NO AWARE <https://us.list-manage.com/_Lj_fOb3zTH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7PM ET, 33 Flatbush Ave 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY *CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS: TO ALEXANDRA by Yi Cui* A feature-length experimental non-fiction film by Cui, Yi (崔誼) * IN PERSON * *To Alexandra* / digital / b&w and color / digital sound / 71min / 2025 / Filmed in Tibet / co-production countries: China, Canada, USA Two travelogues intertwined. A collage. A correspondence. Through text, researcher-writer Alexandra David-Néel’s journey across the Himalayas a century ago unfolds via her letters home. In audiovisual spaces, the filmmaker's experiences in eastern Tibet are reflected via her own lens and those of native Tibetan people. Meandering between past and present, the work invites viewers into a meditative space open to contemplation on life, death, history, remembrance, the self, and more. Additional time for discussion / Q & A with Cui, Yi (崔誼) *IN PERSON * MONO NO AWARE: CINEMA ARTS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION - LIMITED ATTENDANCE TO 40 - MASKS AVAILABLE ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Media City Film Festival & Trinosophes Projects <https://us.list-manage.com/tIZj9ffwFI5?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 5pm ET, Abrams Planetarium, Michigan State University, 755 Science Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824 *STARSHINE & CLAY The Films of Kevin Jerome Everson at Abrams Planetarium* Introduction from Media City Film Festival and Broad Underground, followed by a conversation between filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson and film scholar Yasmina Price. Media City Film Festival (MCFF), Trinosophes Projects, and the Broad Underground Film Series at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum and the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University present Starshine & Clay: The Films of Kevin Jerome Everson at Abrams Planetarium. This screening is curated by Media City Film Festival Artistic Director Oona Mosna. Starshine & Clay features ten films by celebrated African American artist and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, exploring the space where the celestial meets the earthly, the cosmic meets the bodily, and the everyday meets the miraculous. This program maps the astonishing scale between solar totality and the intimate worlds of human experience, bringing together two of Everson's early celestial films, *Polly One* (2018) and *Condor* (2019), with works that traverse sonic and spiritual worlds, acts of illusion, vernacular knowledge, rituals of performance, aging, care, and the inevitability of death. Throughout, Everson's cinema finds the extraordinary not by leaving the everyday behind but by attending to it with precision, returning to ordinary objects and experiences as sites of possibility. A gesture becomes choreography, ritual becomes apparition, and voices become living archives. Starshine & Clay evokes a continual movement between worlds, asking us to look upward, outward, and again at what is immediately present to consider what might become visible when the familiar is seen in its place among the stars. Kevin Jerome Everson will be in attendance to celebrate the completion of *Gises* (2026), a new celestial film created in the metro Detroit region, commissioned by Media City Film Festival with support from the Knight Arts Foundation. *Gises* is having its limited world premiere as an installation at the Detroit Public Library's Main Branch in the Clara Stanton Jones Friends Auditorium (October 15–November 14). Everson's events in the region unite many partners, including the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University, Warren Astronomical Society, Abrams Planetarium, Detroit Public Library, NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council. *Gises*(2026) is a production of trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures. All films appear courtesy of the artist, trilobite-arts DAC, and Picture Palace Pictures. Images © Kevin Jerome Everson, courtesy the artist, trilobite-arts DAC, and Picture Palace Pictures. Starshine & Clay is dedicated to the Everson family and to the memory of Kim Duane Elliott. *Polly One* , 6 min, 16mm > digital, 2018 The film is about 99% totality. Filmed in Saluda, North Carolina, during the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. *The Wood Thrush and the Bobwhite Quail* , 4:30 min, 16mm > digital, 2025 A film about birdwatchers in Washington DC and in Tennessee being summoned by Glenn Goins and George Clinton. *IFO* , 9.5 min, 16mm > digital, 2017 In Everson's hometown of Mansfield, Ohio, multiple UFO sightings yield both passionate firsthand accounts and detailed reflections; meanwhile, suburban youths raise their arms toward the heavens in becalmed surrender. *Three Quarters* , 4 min, 16mm > digital, 2015 Two Philadelphia magicians, Donald E. Camp and Ran'D Shine, practice sleight of hand tricks. *Ears, Nose, and Throat* , 10.5 min, 16mm > digital, 2016 “This short documentary of a young African American woman is made of two parts:—the titular doctor's visit, and the woman's oral history interwoven together in image and sound. This clean portraiture offers a lucid approach to an idea of considerable force. Everson both stretches and collapses the distance between the human body as a site for perception and the body as a physical thing that can be damaged.” –Daniel Kasman *Condor* , 8 min, 16mm > digital, 2019 The July 2, 2019, solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality over the Chilean coast. The condor is the national bird of Chile. *Traveling Shoes* , 7 min, 16mm > digital, 2019 Based on the hit record by the Ohio-based gospel group, The Brown Singers. *Ninety-Three* , 3 min, 16mm > digital, 2008 A man blows out 93 candles on his birthday. *Rita Larson's Boy* , 11 min, 16mm > digital, 2012 Ten actors audition for the role of Rollo Larson in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son. One of a series of films based on famous people and objects from Columbus, Mississippi. The actor Nathaniel Taylor, raised in Columbus, portrayed Rollo (Rita Larson's boy) in the television series. *Grand Finale* , 5 min, digital, 2015 The end of a lovely evening, July 4th weekend, Detroit. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue type: *Live, physical event* Micro Spells: Expanded Cinema & New Music <https://us.list-manage.com/QiUVYvul6g2?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 7:30pm PT, Odd Fellows San Pablo Lodge #43, 342 Georgia St, Vallejo, CA *Light Waves & Sound Forms, PGM 1* Presented in association with Vallejo Experimental Arts No one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to pay the artists. Note that tickets for this event are available at the door only. This venue has 250 seats — it will not sell out! Micro Spells: Expanded Cinema & New Music Performance is a quarterly series of live collaborative exchanges between artists working within the areas of performance cinema and the sonic arts, curated by John Davis & Steve Polta and presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and Vallejo Experimental Arts. Each live event will offer audiences an opportunity to share in the multisensory integrations and temporal shifts unique to the juxtaposition of moving images and sound, featuring artists from California and beyond. *Music In The Air* by Scott Stark; sound/music performed by Mabbie Bug. *Persistence of Vision No Longer Exists *by Anna Geyer; sound/music performed by Transient. *EROSION IS THE MASTER PLAN* by Zack Parrinella; sound/music performed by Josh Wismans. *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2026* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Other Cinema <https://us.list-manage.com/1Ow3I4YxKLl?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> 8pm PT, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@21st), San Francisco, CA *SHAPESHIFTER's BENEFIT* MAGICK~REALISM~PSYCHO~GEOGRAPHY A colossal collab...of microcinemas!! Other Cinema takes a knee to Oakland's SHAPESHIFTERS project, with a party-hardy program of Bay Area magick! Anchoring the Psycho-Geo line-up is none Other than stage magician extraordinaire Michael Nguyen, and his bunny Houdini! This master's mind-blowing visual delights are then answered by very different versions of “reality”, local truth and archival Psycho-Geographies bearing on our shared space and sensitivity: Playland, Berkeley mudflats, DIY solar ovens, Bullitt production shorts, James Hong's cine-poems, sidewalk-busking DJ Beau Dayshus, and the Bay Area premiere of Bill Morrison's *Sawyer Ave, Sunday Afternoon* . AND on sale: Not only Maya's charm bracelets, but also GILBERT's CRAFT BEER! *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://us.list-manage.com/Z1i7lpbs_Qo?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/13JtXtmncNi?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/17hLgIAAcBH?e=857b71a9cb&c2id=0d67e0aba7fa6a8c62b4e960fe7a49fe> . 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