<https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3/images/c6a4b757-b14c-4ec9-b8c6-9553961a080e.gif> This week [Nov. 24 - Dec. 10, 2019] in avant garde cinema Enter your event announcements by going to the <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=71766f6471&e=f36020cad0> Flicker Weekly Listing Form. To receive the weekly listing via email: <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=3900cb567c&e=f36020cad0> Subscribe. <http://www.lightindustry.org/permutations.jpg> Theresa Hak Kyung Cha'S Permutations + Sara Driver'S You Are Not NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: That One Film Festival (Muncie, Indiana, USA; Deadline: January 15, 2020) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=2bf73d6157&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2060.ann Experimental Response Cinema (Austin, TX; Deadline: December 30, 2019) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=e2b49523cf&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2061.ann Flatpackfestival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: January 26, 2020) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=40b6890ac0&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2062.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: NOFLASH Video Show (New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2019) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=086ee0b2c2&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2047.ann Light Field (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: December 15, 2019) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=1de3b89458&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2049.ann Cosmic Rays Film Festival (Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2019) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=12f0458e19&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2050.ann Video Art Miden (Greece; Deadline: November 30, 2019) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=b6a6ca81ab&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2051.ann Microscope Gallery (New York; Deadline: November 30, 2019) <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=c7ca9c4c4a&e=f36020cad0> http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=2054.ann Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE. This week's programs (summary): * Special Screening of the Bolivian Film 'Still Burn' + Q&Amp;A [November 24, Brooklyn, NY United States] * I, Apostate - Documentary Film Screening W/ Jeremy Moss [November 24, Harrisburg, PA United States] * Films By Kerry Laitala [November 24, San Francisco, California] * Theresa Hak Kyung Cha'S Permutations + Sara Driver'S You Are Not [November 26, Brooklyn, NY United States] * Systems Cinema (In Company) [November 26, London, England] * Simon Payne: Systems Cinema (In Company) [November 29, Bristol, United Kingdom] * Ec: Tom, Tom, the Piper'S Son [November 30, New York, NY] * Ec: Larry Jordan [November 30, New York, NY] * Ec: Jennings / Kirsanoff [November 30, New York, NY] * Optron 4: Sispix 2 [November 30, San Francisco] * Ec: Kubelka / Lye [December 1, New York, NY] SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2019 11/24 Brooklyn, NY United States: UnionDocs <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=3818475b7b&e=f36020cad0> http://www.uniondocs.org 7:30 PM, 322 Union Ave SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE BOLIVIAN FILM 'STILL BURN' + Q&A STILL BURN / ALGO QUEMA A film by Mauricio Alfredo Ovando (Bolivia, 77 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) Alfredo Ovando Candia was a military general who served as Co-President of Bolivia from 1965–66 (and again from 1969–70) after overthrowing sitting President Víctor Paz Estenssoro. His political and military service connected him to the largest massacre of workers in the country’s history, as well as the military campaign in which Che Guevara was killed. Incorporating archival footage recorded during Ovando’s de facto government, home movies, and interviews with relatives, filmmaker Mauricio Alfredo Ovando’s debut feature studies the many profiles of his grandfather to juxtapose his family’s memories with the official history. Winner of the Best Director and FIPRESCI awards at the 2018 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Still Burn is a courageous, perceptive documentary about how collective and personal memories are created from—and ultimately shape—a complicated legacy. Screening to be followed by discussion with director Mauricio Alfredo Ovando and Cinema Tropical's Carlos A. Gutiérrez. Sunday, November 24, 7:30pm UnionDocs 11/24 Harrisburg, PA United States: Midtown Cinema 7:00 PM, 250 Reily St I, APOSTATE - DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING W/ JEREMY MOSS I, Apostate. A Feature Film by Jeremy Moss In Person Screening with Post Film Q&A Trailer - https://vimeo.com/272676238 A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists, scouts, hunters, church-goers, and an aspiring prophet walk and walk and walk. A pilgrimage of memory, history, ancestry, and place. An experimental documentary that interrogates and explores the seeds of the filmmaker’s own religious indoctrination and eventual apostasy. He revisits the European landscapes where his ancestors were converted to Mormonism in the 1800s. He examines the desert places they colonized in the American West. He returns to Brazil and interviews individuals he had converted to the faith twenty years ago. Part diary film and part surrealist essay, the film deals with the experience of conversion and indoctrination, the pain of apostasy, and the discomfort and contentment from never fully breaking free. 11/24 San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=a3d400fef4&e=f36020cad0> http://www.atasite.org/ 8pm, 992 Valencia FILMS BY KERRY LAITALA The San Francisco-based filmmaker Kerry Laitala is unquestionably one of the most inventive and original experimental filmmakers today. An expert in optical printing, D.I.Y practices, such as photogram and hand processing techniques, she utilizes these processes (among others) to re-shape ‘found’ materials into 16mm & 35mm handcrafted short films that embody and celebrate the phenomenon of motion pictures that made the early cinema going experience awe-inspiring. Inspired by avant-garde filmmakers like Phil Solomon and Paul Sharits, her work conveys a similar connection to the materials, but with a more unhinged sense of decay, and her works utilize hybrid strategies. Over the past decade her award winning films have played at venues in the U.S. such as the Whitney in New York and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and at festivals like Sundance, SF International and the New York International film festival (“Views from the Avant-Garde”) – . European venues such as The Tate Moderne and the Cinematheque Francaise have screened her work, as have festivals in Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Osnabrück (, Stuttgart and Helsinki’s Avanto festival. Program: Eye of the Maelstrom, sound by experimental composer/musicians The Atchleys, 16mm dual projection – 16 minutes Proxima, sound by experimental composer/musicians The Atchleys, 16mm dual projection- 8 minutes Fly EYE Fire, expanded cinema with 16mm dual projection-5 minutes Figments in Film, 8 minutes Conjuror’s Box- 5 minutes Knee Jerk- 5.5 minutes Hallowed- 7 minutes Untitled W.I.P. expanded cinema with 16 & 8mm dual projection-7 minutes TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2019 11/26 Brooklyn, NY United States: Light Industry <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=7c990e2160&e=f36020cad0> http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:00 PM, 155 Freeman St THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA'S PERMUTATIONS + SARA DRIVER'S YOU ARE NOT Permutations, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, 1976, 16mm, 10 mins You Are Not I, Sara Driver, 1981, digital projection, 48 mins Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s structural film Permutations is a portrait of the artist’s sister, Bernadette Hak Eun Cha, created from a series of three different shots: an image of her sister’s face, framed like a passport photo; the same composition, now with eyes closed; and the composition yet again, but with the subject turned around, the back of her head to the camera. Cha recombines these elements as a long string of patterns, articulated into flickering, Morse-style phrases. At times, the sequences reach the perceptual threshold of low-frame animation, awakening a kind of movement from the images. Cha punctuates the piece with a single, fleeting shot of her own face, evoking the sense, at once comforting and unsettling, that one’s sibling constitutes a dice-tossed variation of one’s self. “You are not I. No one but me could possibly be.” So begins Paul Bowles’s 1948 short story that provides the basis of Sara Driver’s featurette You Are Not I, a close adaptation of the writer’s original tale, narrated as the interior monologue of a mute woman, Ethel, on the run from a mental asylum. In Driver’s film, the character first wanders onto the site of a car accident, where she is mistaken for a stunned survivor. A man brings her to the home of her sister, who takes her in, but theirs is an uneasy reunion. The scenario, lensed by Jim Jarmusch, plays out like a minimalist Gothic drama, or a deadpan No Wave update of 1960s psycho-horror, though others, in defining this singular work, have noted still broader affinities. 11/26 London, England: Close-Up Film Centre <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=2f14dfbdae&e=f36020cad0> https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2019/simon-payne-systems-cinema 20:30, Close-Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater Street SYSTEMS CINEMA (IN COMPANY) A screening of systematic experimental cinema by Simon Payne with Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson and Jennifer Nightingale. Simon Payne has been committed to making abstract cinema for twenty years. His videos are predominantly orientated around bold graphic forms and highly structured sequences that produce unexpected colour combinations and conflicting planes. This programme, originally commissioned by Lightcone (Paris), also includes 16mm films by three friends and colleagues: Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson and Jennifer Nightingale. Despite the difference in medium, several shared principles span their work. Each of them sees explicit processes and time-based structures as the essence of cinema.Systems Cinema also celebrates the launch of a new DVD by Simon Payne that includes several works from 2010-2018. It is the second compilation of his work on the RGB label, which has published DVDs by Nick Collins, Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson and Samantha Rebello. Systems Cinema and other RGB DVDs will be available at the screening. They are also available from the BFI and LUX. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2019 11/29 Bristol, United Kingdom: BEEF - Bristol Experimental Expanded Film <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=f083b2dc72&e=f36020cad0> http://www.beefbristol.org/portfolio/simon-payne-systems-cinema-in-company/ 20:00, Cube Cinema, Dove St S, Avon SIMON PAYNE: SYSTEMS CINEMA (IN COMPANY) A screening of systematic experimental cinema by Simon Payne with Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson and Jennifer Nightingale. Simon Payne has been committed to making abstract cinema for twenty years. His videos are predominantly orientated around bold graphic forms and highly structured sequences that produce unexpected colour combinations and conflicting planes. This programme, originally commissioned by Lightcone (Paris), also includes 16mm films by three friends and colleagues: Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson and Jennifer Nightingale. Despite the difference in medium, several shared principles span their work. Each of them sees explicit processes and time-based structures as the essence of cinema.Systems Cinema also celebrates the launch of a new DVD by Simon Payne that includes several works from 2010-2018. It is the second compilation of his work on the RGB label, which has published DVDs by Nick Collins, Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson and Samantha Rebello. Systems Cinema and other RGB DVDs will be available at the screening. They are also available from the BFI and LUX. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2019 11/30 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=c5160709b9&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:45 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S SON by Ken Jacobs. "Original 1905 film shot and probably directed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer, rescued via a paper print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress. It is most reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with a new movie, almost as a side effect, coming into being." -Ken Jacobs 11/30 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=7072cad897&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: LARRY JORDAN DUO CONCERTANTES (1962-64, 6 min, 16mm, b&w) HAMFAT ASAR (1965, 13 min, 16mm, b&w) GYMNOPEDIES (1968, 6 min, 16mm) THE OLD HOUSE, PASSING (1966, 45 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (1968, 9 min, 35mm) "With a taste for nostalgic romanticism…Jordan creates a magical universe of work using old steel engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit into the subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as a prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner self." -Jackie Leger Total running time: ca. 85 min. 11/30 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=682389da71&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: JENNINGS / KIRSANOFF Humphrey Jennings LISTEN TO BRITAIN (1941, 19 min, 35mm, b&w) Jennings's film is a masterpiece of sound mixing; it creates an audio landscape of Britain during the war, with images both accompanying and conflicting with the multitude of sounds. Dimitri Kirsanoff MÉNILMONTANT (1924-25, 38 min, 35mm, b&w, silent) "[T]o a remarkable degree, MÉNILMONTANT seems an autonomous creation, as sophisticated and demanding as any narrative film of the silent period, without obvious imitators. Although Richard Abel has astutely called attention to aspects the film shares with Abel Gance's LA ROUE (1923) and Leon Moussinac's LE BRASIER ARDENT (1923)…and with Jean Epstein's COEUR FIDELE (1923)…any comparison of the film as a whole with those admirable works would have to underline the intensity, uniqueness, and exceptional rigor of Kirsanoff's achievement." -P. Adams Sitney, THE CINEMA OF POETRY Total running time: ca. 60 min. 11/30 San Francisco: Other Cinema <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=80f025e284&e=f36020cad0> http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 992 Valencia Street OPTRON 4: SISPIX 2 NOV.30: CHURCH OF COLOR AND LIGHT + KRISTIN CATO + ELLIE VANDERLIP + Concluding ATA’s Nov. Performance series, this ALL WOMEN:AUDIO-VISUAL event guarantees a garden of cinematic delights fabulously festooned by more than a dozen in-person artistes! On musical saw, Cindy Sawprano accompanies Kristin Cato’s violin in the latter’s ongoing Numbers Project, this new live-cine iteration titled L00p8L00p∞. The two women swoop through vocal, musical, biological, and psychological loops mirrored on the big screen by tip-toeing spiders, jumping ropes, planetary orbits, and gypsy curses! Ellie Vanderlip teams up with Karen Trinidad in their multi-projector Scatter, after we enjoy an animation from each. Oakland’s Church of Color and Light presents IRKALLA, invoking the myth of the Queen of Hell through projections, movement, and spoken word. Exploring themes of recovery, and the reclaiming of one’s own narrative are Eva and Phaedra Restad, Kaitlin Duffy, Laura Cohen, Ryan Cicak, Sophie Becker, and Courtney Fellion. Interpolating between the three acts are precious pressed flowers from motion-picture matriarchs Mary Ellen Bute, Daphne Oram, Lillian Schwartz, and Vicki Bennett *$8.88 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2019 12/1 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=e09f8a863c&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: KUBELKA / LYE Peter Kubelka MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN (1955, 16 min, 35mm, Made in collaboration with Ferry Radax.) ADEBAR (1957, 1 min, 35mm) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 min, 35mm) ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 min, 35mm) OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (1966, 12 min, 16mm) "Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above all else…etcetera." -Stan Brakhage Len Lye TUSALAVA (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent) TRADE TATTOO (1937, 5 min, 16mm) RHYTHM (1957, 1 min, 16mm) FREE RADICALS (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm) A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of 'scratch' or 'direct' filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film's surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms. Total running time: ca. 60 min. _____ Let us know about your alternative film/video event! Enter your event announcements by going to the <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=fbf1069fa2&e=f36020cad0> Flicker Weekly Listing Form. To receive the weekly listing via email, send a message to <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=81bc3aa787&e=f36020cad0> Subscribe. <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=c772248433&e=f36020cad0> <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=78764321d0&e=f36020cad0> Copyright © 2019 Flicker, All rights reserved. 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