Ism Ism Ism- Umbrales: Experimental Women Filmmakers from Latin America Online Screening Starting Thursday April 9! View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/lafilmforum/covid-update-248266?e=a04be70c7a> Online Screenings This Week of Ism, Ism, Ism: Umbrales: Women Experimental Filmmakers from Latin America, and the Festival of (In)appropriation #11! From Copacabana Beach, by Vivian Ostrovsky (1983, 10:08 min., b&w /color, sound, Super 8 transferred to digital)) Screening online via Northwest Film Forum, Thursday April 9 - Sat April 11. See more <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=6fd6675ee1&e=a04be70c7a> Greetings all! We hope that you are staying as safe and healthy as possible.
A couple of Filmforum-originated shows, the Festival of (In)Appropriation and Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, will have streaming screenings organized by Northwest Film Forum in Seattle (no relation to us). You could buy a ticket to attend either of those wherever you are! First, a screening from our series Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, Umbrales: Experimental Women Filmmakers from Latin America will be available from Thurs Apr 09: 6.00pm Sat Apr 11: 11.59pm, with a Q&A at 2 pm on Saturday: https://nwfilmforum.org/films/ismo-ismo-ismo-umbrales-experimental-women-fil mmakers-from-latin-america-online/ <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=d5c98b0b41&e=a04be70c7a> Admission is on a sliding scale; money supports NWFF and goes to the filmmakers. ** LA Filmforum friends will be joined by Cecilia Vicuña, Ximena Cuevas and others for a Zoom Q&A at 2pm PDT on Saturday. We will send registrants a link to join the Zoom at noon on Saturday! ** HOW TO WATCH Purchase a ticket through Brown Paper Tickets <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=f2c317c6d6&e=a04be70c7a> . Your email receipt from Brown Paper Tickets will contain a link and password for viewing, under ³Ticket Details². (Don¹t see it? Check your spam filter.) The password will expire at midnight PST on the last date of the screening. If you encounter any issues logging in, please contact lo...@nwfilmforum.org for a quick follow-up. (But please, check your confirmation email!) ** Co-presented with Interbay Cinema Society! ** This program showcases female filmmakers who sought to carve out a place within the male-dominated world of Latin American independent audiovisual production. Key works, such as Argentine filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch¹s Come Out (1971), exemplify the defiant position toward gendered and essentializing aesthetics expected of Latin American women filmmakers. This program includes pioneering Uruguayan filmmaker Lydia García Millán¹s Color (1955), one of the first abstract experimental films from Latin America; the politically charged Super 8 experiments by Puerto Rican underground artist Poli Marichal; and a recent video essay by Mexican artist Ximena Cuevas. Come Out (Narcisa Hirsch, Argentina, 1971, 11 min) Color (Lydia Garcia, Uruguay, 1955, 4 min) Desnudo con alcatraces (Silvia Gruner, Mexico, 1986, 2 min, silent, b&w) Popsicles (Gloria Camiruaga, Chile/US, 1982-1984, 5 min, Spanish w/ English subtitles) Umbrales (Marie Louise Alemann, Argentina, 1967, 19 min) Paracas (Cecilia Vicuña, Chile/US, 1983, 19 min, Spanish w/ English subtitles) Devil in the Flesh (Ximena Cuevas, Mexico, 2003, 5 min, Spanish w/ English subtitles) Copacabana (Vivian Ostrovsky, Brazil, 1983, 10 min) Blues Tropical (Poli Marichal, Puerto Rico, 1982, 4 min) Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America (Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Cine experimental en América Latina) Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America is a research project and film series conceived by Los Angeles Filmforum as part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. Ism, Ism, Ism is the first comprehensive, U.S.-based film program and publication to treat the full breadth of Latin America¹s vibrant experimental film production. The screenings feature key historical and contemporary works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the United States. Revisiting classic names and forms from the experimental canon, the film series daringly places them within a completely novel scope and breadth. The film series takes both the aficionado and open-minded viewer through a journey into a wealth of materials culled from the forgotten corners of Latin American film archives integrated with recent production from across the continent. Color by Lydia Garcia (Uruguay, 1955, 4 min) Screening online via Northwest Film Forum, Thursday April 9 - Sat April 11. See more <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=c43910a1da&e=a04be70c7a> In addition, the Festival of (In)appropriation #11 will be on Friday! https://nwfilmforum.org/films/festival-of-inappropriation-11-2020-online/ <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=e0099ee023&e=a04be70c7a> Unlike the screening of Umbrales, the Festival will play once at a preset time with discussion after. Festival of (In)Appropriation #11 (2020) Fri Apr 10: 8.00pm Sliding scale admission: $025 Please pay what you can; proceeds support our move to a virtual platform! Showtime listed is Pacific Daylight Time. Northwest Film Forum is SCREENING ONLINE! NWFF¹s physical space is temporarily closed in light of public health concerns around COVID-19, but community, dialogue, and education through media arts WILL persist. HOW TO WATCH Purchase a ticket through Brown Paper Tickets in advance of the listed showtime (PDT). <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=07aabbba90&e=a04be70c7a> Registration ends 1 hour before the start time. 30 minutes before the screening, NWFF will send a link and password to your registered e-mail address! (Don¹t see it? Check your spam filter.) The password will expire at the end of the film. No late seating! If by showtime you do not receive an e-mail with details, please contact lo...@nwfilmforum.org for a quick follow-up. (But please, check your spam!) Discussion ** Co-curators Jaimie Baron and Lauren Berliner will host a Zoom Q&A following the screening at 9:30pm PDT. We will send registrants a link to join the Zoom at 6pm on Friday! ** About Curators Jaimie Baron, Greg Cohen, and Lauren Berliner present their latest edition of the Festival of (In)appropriation, with this invigorating selection of cutting-edge, moving-image appropriation art. Sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, the thrilling 11th edition of the Festival features all the remarkable variety and complexity viewers have come to expect from this pioneering international showcase of found-footage film and video. From elegant exquisite corpses with dark political undertones, to jocular YouTube mash-ups and music-video supercuts; from avant-documentary inquiries into issues that resonate with our #MeToo moment, to masterly celebrations of the craft of collage and hand-made cinema, this new program has something for every experimental cinema sensibility. The Program: She Collage by Kate Lain (US, digital video, color, sound, 2015, 9:55 min) She Collage is part response to the work of California-based collage artist Terry Braunstein, part reflection on the practice of art-making. Like Braunstein¹s art, the film is itself a collagein this case, frame-by-frame hand-manipulated images of Braunstein, paper cutout stop motion animation, archival footage, and an assemblage of sounds. (Kate Lain) The Edge of Alchemy by Stacey Steers (US, 35mm transferred to HD video, color, sound, 2017, 19 min) The actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are seamlessly appropriated from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story and an undercurrent of hive collapse. The third film in a trilogy examining women¹s inner world, this handmade film is constructed from over 6,500 collages. Music by Lech Jankowski of the Brothers Quay. (Stacey Steers) LordeSupercut (Supercut) by Duncan Robson (US, HD video, color, sound, 2017, 03:44 min) This unofficial music video for Lorde¹s ³Supercut² from the 2017 album Melodrama is made from covers found on YouTube and Instagram, revealing the diversity of Lorde¹s fans as they earnestly channel themselves through Lorde¹s song and the internet. (Duncan Robson) La Mesa by Adrián García Gómez (US, HD video, b/w, sound, 2018, 9:45 min) La Mesa explores the intersections of memory, identity and queer desire. It recreates fragmented and romanticized stories of a childhood in rural Mexico as told by the filmmaker¹s father. These disjointed vignettes are interwoven with queered reenactments of scenes from popular culture. The filmmaker casts himself in the old Mexican films and American Westerns he grew up watching with his family in California. He appears as the romantic lead opposite the male actors, including Pedro Infante, Mexican national hero and the filmmaker¹s childhood crush. The animations are laid over footage of the old family home in Mexico which now sits alone, slowly being consumed by the surrounding countryside. By centering queer desire in his family¹s history, the filmmaker validates his childhood experiences while challenging popular representations of masculinity as well as traditional notions of power and vulnerability. (Adrián García Gómez) Am I Pretty? by Jennifer Proctor (US, HD video, sound, color, 2017, 10 min) A visually silent film appropriating audio from YouTube videos uploaded by tween and teen girls primarily in 2012 as part of a meme. In these videos, the young women entreat viewers to evaluate whether or not they are pretty and post their responses in the comments. Am I Pretty? seeks to call attention to the act of spectatorship invoked in these videos, and what results when the visual basis for judgment is withheld an acousmatic reduction through the denial of the promised image. (Jennifer Proctor) Mark Zuckerberg¹s Dog by Hawk Martha (US, HD video, color, sound, 2018, 1:34 min) A very serious critique of capitalism centered on the canine-in-chief of Facebook. (Jaimie Baron) Light Plays by Anne-Marie Bouchard (Canada, 16mm transferred to HD video, color, sound, 2017, 7:17 min) Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, experimentally animated with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon, and exotic birds, but it is also about narration, experimentation, and playfulness. (Anne-Marie Bouchard) 8th October 2016 by Péter Lichter (Hungary, 35mm transferred to HD video, b/w, sound, 2017, 2 min) The title of the film is the date on which the editorial staff of Hungary¹s largest opposition newspaper, Népszabadság, was fired. The filmmaker tore up copies of that day¹s issue, layered them, and then turned them into an urgent collage expressing his yearning for the free expression of opposition viewpoints. The visible edges of the film emphasize the impossibility of presenting information in a complete context. (Péter Lichter) What Happened to Her by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (US, HD video, color, sound, 2016, 14 min) What Happened to Her is a forensic exploration of our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen. Interspersing found footage from films and police procedural television shows and one actor¹s experience of playing the part of a corpse, the film offers a meditative critique on the trope of the dead female body. The visual narrative of the genre, one reinforced through its intense and pervasive repetition, is revealed as a highly structured pageant. Concurrently, the experience of physical invasion and exploitation voiced by the actor pierce the fabric of the screened fantasy. The result is recurring and magnetic film cliché laid bare. (Kristy Guevara-Flanagan) me and my army by sair goetz (US, HD video, color, sound, 2017, 9 min) me and my army re-imagines the experiences of the actress Adrienne Corrimost famous for her role as a rape victim in Stanley Kubrick¹s A Clockwork Orangeas feminist performance art. (sair goetz) She Collage, by Kate Lain Screening online in the Festival of (In)appropriation #11 on Friday April 10. There are many online experimental and documentary film viewing resources now available. I¹m listing some below, but you can find plenty more. First, a list originated by our friend Kate Lain, called Cabin Fever, and added to by many people. <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=b592bc7531&e=a04be70c7a> This one contains the most work in an experimental vein. Cabin Fever and multiple other sources are listed at Hyperallergic <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=8d02ac52ef&e=a04be70c7a> There are more listed at Maysles Cinema. After filmmaker resources is a list of film sources. Many are the same as listed at Hyperallergic; some differ. <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=74fce4a04c&e=a04be70c7a> An interview with Carolee Schneemann, newly published in The Believer <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=9d49ac8bc8&e=a04be70c7a> The British Film Institute player is showing many films from the London Film-makers Coop for free, celebrating 50 years of the LFMC (now Lux), the ground-breaking production and distribution cooperative for artists¹ moving image. <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=f19aeeaea5&e=a04be70c7a> The SF Cinematheque has an online show, certainty is becoming our nemesis, with multiple short films. <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=2a5ed8e384&e=a04be70c7a> Northwest Film Forum has links to multiple items <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=7413387bca&e=a04be70c7a> , including the newest Pedro Costa film, Vitalina Varela. Electronic Arts Intermix and 47 Canal are streaming Trevor Shimizu: Video Paintings <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=febefd85ca&e=a04be70c7a> Video Data Bank has launched VDB TV with its Decades series of shows streaming free <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=b11bf5a061&e=a04be70c7a> : Now Instant Image Hall has things playing on its online screen <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=f7c578e252&e=a04be70c7a> Acropolis Cinema and the Lumiere Music Hall have a link to Heimat Is a Place in Time, via Icarus Films, for a fee. <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=fbdcb48a90&e=a04be70c7a> Film-makers Coop has posted some programs by different filmmakers to Vimeo On Demand for streaming. These aren¹t free. Storm de Hirsch: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/stormdehirsch <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=ab29acb84f&e=a04be70c7a> Marie Menken: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mariemenken <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=94207b647f&e=a04be70c7a> Edward Owens: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/edowens <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=a83b4c1bfd&e=a04be70c7a> Filmatique is posting a film a day this week for free. <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=ae1a316916&e=a04be70c7a> The Philosophical Research Society in LA has posted "Films to Heal" <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=f05aa10069&e=a04be70c7a> Here¹s a compendium by a professor in the UK <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=a591302b32&e=a04be70c7a> The International Doc Fest Amsterdam (IDFA) has lots of documentaries available for free online <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=a9f890e2b0&e=a04be70c7a> . POV's biweekly curated Playlist <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=5928241f2d&e=a04be70c7a> POV & America ReFramed -- documentaries that broadcast on POV or America ReFramed currently available for streaming <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=285cd41b76&e=a04be70c7a> A YouTube channel of Classic Korean Cinema. <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=8a368e18ad&e=a04be70c7a> Anthology Film Archives has curated Helter Skelter, ³movies that take place almost solely if not entirely within the confines of the protagonists¹ apartments or houses.² But the films generally live on other streaming sites. <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=7337c2a6f2&e=a04be70c7a> Individual filmmakers such as Sky Hopinka, Jodie Mack, Penny Lane, Ephraim Asili, Alexandra Cuesta, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Wheeler Winston Dixon, and more have Vimeo or personal channels Many are listed in the above links at Hyperallergic and Maysles. 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