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*This Week [August 16 - 24, 2025] 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://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c2e4c580da&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *sorted by submission deadline* 08.22.2025 Light Matter Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=13da29d16b&e=857b71a9cb> 08.31.2025 Ann Arbor Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=909ed369c4&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 08.31.2025 Pollen: Video Rituals <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c8e6c14678&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 09.01.2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=1bf214475c&e=857b71a9cb> (Regular Deadline) 09.05.2025 Coney Island Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=920d1cd1b4&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 09.15.2025 Punto de Vista Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=68b5071f86&e=857b71a9cb> 09.15.2025 Slamdance Film Festival <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cc5910f403&e=857b71a9cb> (Late Deadline) 10.01.2025 PRISME #8 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=3e48f5912a&e=857b71a9cb> 11.01.2025 Single Frame <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be4d1e5b63&e=857b71a9cb> (Early Deadline) 11.01.2025 Experiments in Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=b7da7dd2cf&e=857b71a9cb> 03.31.2026 Fracto Experimental Film Encounter <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5335f08158&e=857b71a9cb> *EVENTS* **** Enter your event announcements here <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6d8a869b71&e=857b71a9cb> **** ___________________________________________________________________________________ *complicated sorting but a true attempt, enjoy!* This week's programs (summary): - NYC DIARY FILMS III: No World Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=00e0540f67&e=857b71a9cb> [August 16, New York, NY] - The Inheritance <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=be5fda46f1&e=857b71a9cb> [August 17, Los Angeles, CA] - Masha Godovannaya: There Is Still More To Come <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5149352601&e=857b71a9cb> [August 18, New York, NY] - Chris H. Lynn <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=f1a3873119&e=857b71a9cb> [August 22 - September 14, Berlin, Germany] - Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Program 10 <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=9614dcec58&e=857b71a9cb> [August 22, Oakland, CA] - Source x Shapes, Sound And Repetition <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=320d5b494c&e=857b71a9cb> [August 22, Singapore, Singapore] - Envisioning The Skies: A Short History of Astronomical Films <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=2d453ae9f1&e=857b71a9cb> [August 23, Los Angeles, CA] *SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* NO WORLD Project Space <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=460a69831e&e=857b71a9cb> 6-8pm, EST, Chelsea Walls Gallery, 231 10th Ave, New York, NY *NYC Diary Films III: NO WORLD CINEMA* This screening includes work by: Ricardo Areias, Jaye Bartell, Anthony Holten, Chihiro ITO, Art Jones, Junyi Min, Muriel Escalera Pale, Jeremy D. Slater, Mica Scalin, Sara C. Sun, Kazue Taguchi, Jevijoe Vitug, Joe Wakeman. Chelsea Walls Gallery is pleased to announce NYC Diary Films III, a one-night-only screening presented by New York–based artist and filmmaker Chihiro Ito, in collaboration with the NO WORLD Project Space. The event will take place on Saturday, August 16, from 6-8pm and will include a screening, artist talk, and the release of a limited-edition event zine. Drawing on the aesthetics and intimacy of the diary film tradition, NYC Diary Films III brings together a selection of recent short films that explore contemporary life in New York through personal, poetic, and observational lenses. As mainstream media platforms accelerate the pace and scale of image consumption, this program reclaims space for slow looking, physical presence, and shared experience. Ito, recipient of the inaugural Jonas Mekas Fellow Award, curates the evening as an homage to the late avant-garde filmmaker and his belief in cinema as a communal and autobiographical practice. The program centers on voices from NYC’s experimental film community and celebrates diverse artistic perspectives often overlooked in commercial circuits. The screening will be accompanied by an artist talk and a zine publication featuring images, texts, and reflections related to the films and their makers. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Chihiro Ito: @chihirohihihi <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=a8263805ae&e=857b71a9cb> NO WORLD Project Space: @noworldprojectspace <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8b97f3a3d3&e=857b71a9cb> *SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=323668c646&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm (PST) , Billy Wilder Theater, Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. (northeast corner of Wilshire and Westwood Blvd.), Los Angeles, CA 90024 *The Inheritance* Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Los Angeles Filmforum *UPDATE*: Due to travel issues, Ephraim Asili cannot make it in person. There will be a virtual conversation with him after the film NOTE THE LOCATION This series explores what it means to be housed — and to truly feel at home — in an age of ongoing displacement. In Los Angeles, often romanticized as a city of sunshine and celebrity, over 75,000 people are unhoused, the majority within the city proper. As officials struggle to implement lasting solutions, neighbors and tenant organizers fight to preserve communities made vibrant by longtime residents. This series celebrates their work and situates it within a global context, from South Central Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to Palestine, where home is under threat and the right to stay uncertain. Over four nights, the films examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory. While housing is essential to survival, it is the people, places and histories within those structures that turn a house into a home, a neighborhood into a community. The screening is part of *(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home*, series programmed and notes written by Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo and Public Programmer Beandrea July. *Kindah* Jamaica/U.S, 2016, DCP, b&w and color, 12 min. Director: Ephraim Asili. Shot in Hudson, New York, and Accompong, Jamaica, Kindah traces ancestral threads across the African diaspora, weaving a meditation on kinship, autonomy and return. Centered on the Kindah Tree — a living symbol of community among Jamaica’s Maroons — Ephraim Asili explores how land, memory and resistance shape evolving definitions of home. Blurring borders between past and present, North and South, Kindah offers a lyrical reflection on displacement, rootedness and the spiritual geography of diasporic belonging. *The Inheritance* U.S., 2020, DCP, color, 100 min. Director/Screenwriter: Ephraim Asili. With: Nozipho McClean, Eric Lockley, Chris Jarell, Julian Rozzell Jr., Debbie Africa. After nearly a decade exploring the African diaspora, Ephraim Asili makes his feature debut with this vibrant ensemble film, set almost entirely in a West Philadelphia rowhome where young Black artists and activists form a collective. “‘The Inheritance’ feels like poetry visualized,” writes Lovia Gyarkye in The New York Times. Blending scripted drama with documentary reflection on the 1985 MOVE bombing, the film reimagines home as a political and spiritual inheritance. —Public Programmer Beandrea July *MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2025* Venue type: *Both physical and online* Microscope Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=e6c26917b4&e=857b71a9cb> 7:30 (EST), 525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001 Event URL: https://microscopegallery.com/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=c9df103e75&e=857b71a9cb> *Masha Godovannaya: There Is Still More to Come* Microscope is very pleased to welcome Moscow-born, Mexico City-based filmmaker and artist Masha Godovannaya to the gallery for a screening of her works. This event is taking place both in person and online and will conclude with a Q&A with the artist. The approximately 60-minute program features seven short works by the artist completed between 2016 and 2024, and shot on 16mm film and video. Godovannaya’s subtle, introspective but defiant filmmaking assumes a variety of forms and approaches that despite the varied subject matter maintain a poetic foundation. *Only Two Words* (2018) and *a text floating on a river* (2021) are both directly built around poems by Koivo and Eileen Myles, while *What for?* (2022) addresses the Russian-Ukrainian by deconstructing televised images of Putin. *The City Bridges Are Open Again* (2020) is a tightly edited composition about a utopian “revolution-about-to-happen” made entirely with appropriated footage from the films of Sergei Eisenstein. And *tomorrow I failed completely* (2020) is a more personal work, shot in daily life, that also becomes a document of Godovannaya’s artistic practice and her lockdown experience in Vienna during the pandemic. In her most recent video *There Is Still More To Come* (2024), which is debuting in New York, the artist walks through the streets of St. Petersburg with two separate cameras shooting the parts of the city that she is permitted to by local authorities. The superimposition of the two perspectives looking at the same portion of reality — a method that is typically used to create illusions of depth — here generates a sense of destabilization and precariousness, reinforced by the sounds of interaction with law enforcement officers recorded along the walk. *FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2025* *August 22 - September 14* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Switchboard Gallery <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=8f13567d2e&e=857b71a9cb> 18:00 (UTC), Heidelberger Straße 37, 12059 Berlin, Germany *Chris H. Lynn* Chris H. Lynn's digital work will be exhibited at the Swithcboard Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Chris H. Lynn is a filmmaker and sound artist from the United States. His digital images and Super 8 films explore the subtle rhythms of movement, light, and sound in urban and rural landscapes that vary from the Eastern shores of Maryland, U.S. to Nanjing, China. His work has been shown at the Librairie Avant-Garde, Nanjing, China, UNZALAB in Milan, Italy, American Film Institute (AFI) in Silver Spring, Md, BFI Southbank, UK Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano Habana, Cuba, Goethe Institut, Washington D.C., The Anthology Film Archives, NYC, Heritage Film Festival, MD, and a variety of venues internationally. His work was featured in the book Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination by Robert Robertson. Since 2021, he has collaborated with Japanese sound artist Hiroko Komiya on sound projects and audiovisual live performances with dancers ( Vienna, Austria 2022, Warsaw, Poland, 2023, Barcelona, Spain, 2023, Mexico, Mexico City 2024, Hong Kong, Athens, Greece, Kumano, Japan). He currently hosts the monthly radio program Beyond Encounters on Camp Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=75404a2e70&e=857b71a9cb> His sound works have been published on Impulsive Habitat, Verz Imprint, Green Field Recordings, Kandala Records, Plus Timbre and Echomusic and have appeared on radio programs worldwide. Chris curated the Experimental Film Program Urban/Rural Landscapes for the Utopia Film Festival in Greenbelt, Maryland from 2005 until 2015. He also curated the 2010 Takoma Park/Silver Spring Experimental Film Festival. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Shapeshifters Cinema <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=34b1ce255b&e=857b71a9cb> 7pm PST, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA *Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Program 10: Craft, Tradition & Ritual* Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque Program 10 - Craft, Tradition & Ritual includes films that honor personal and familial legacies by focusing on activities traditionally passed down through matrilineal lines including sewing, crafting, gathering, weaving and decorating. Screening: *On the Inside We Are Color* (16mm film shown on DV) by *Elena Pardo*, *Water Ritual #1* (1979, 16mm film shown on DV) by *Barbara McCullough*, *Primitiva* (2023, 16mm film shown on DV) by *Azucena Losana*, *Thread* (2022, 35mm film shown on DV) by *Abigail Smith*, *Nana* (2021, DV) by *Kani Kamil*, *Le Tarantole Dormono Sotto Le Pietre* (2023, 16mm film shown on DV) by *Giada Cicchetti* and *Seeing Her* (2020, 16mm film shown on DV) by *Lindsay McIntyre*. *___________________________________________________________________* Venue type: *Live, physical event* The Observatory <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=5a66272490&e=857b71a9cb> 8PM SGT, Goodman Arts Centre, Blk M, 01-54, T.H.E Dance Studio, 90 Goodman Road, S439053 *Source x Shapes, Sound and Repetition* *Source* is a film, moving image, sound & music series by The Observatory. *Shapes, Sound and Repetition* features works by film practitioners Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo, with live improv by The Observatory. Guy Sherwin started off as a painter who later got involved in film through the London Film-Makers' Co-op and has since established himself in the forefront in the field of expanded cinema. He has been making films since the ‘70s along with live performances and more recently, gallery installations. His approaches film as an analytic medium, capable of uncovering truths about the world and our perception of it. Guy lives in London and has taught film and fine art in the UK and USA. He is also a guest curator of the exhibition of expanded cinema: Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre, London 2012/3. Lynn Loo was a piano teacher before making her first 16mm black and white experimental film, *Untitled One*, at The Substation in Singapore in 1997. It took 27 years before it got its first screening at Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film, where she held her first solo exhibition in Singapore, *Poetry in Patterns*. She studied 16mm film production at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. Tapping into impressionistic, poetic essay to material-based abstract forms, she works with systems and visual perceptions, often looking for connections between representational images and structural ideas. Her works have participated in international film, visual art and sound festivals, galleries and institutions. *SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025* Venue type: *Live, physical event* Los Angeles Filmforum <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=6c9d2502ce&e=857b71a9cb> 3pm (PST) Mt. Wilson Observatory, 100 Mt Wilson Circle Road, Mt Wilson, CA 91023 *Envisioning the Skies: A Short History of Astronomical Films* This showcase explores how astronomy and image‑making have shaped one another from the 19th century to the present-day. Beginning with Jules Janssen’s 1874 Passage of Venus—photographs he called “drawn by the sun itself”—the program traces how telescopes, cameras, and later computers turned observations into scientific data and cinematic art. From Bernard Lyot’s solar footage to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, these films reveal how techniques from sequential photography to digital simulation have transformed how we see, teach, and imagine the universe. Curated by Jane de Almeida, Adam Hyman, Jheanelle Brown. *Passage artificiel de Vénus sur le Soleil* Pierre Jules César Janssen, France/Japan, 1874, digital, b/w, silent, 0:30 *Solar Eclipse* By Nevil Maskelyne, 1900, digital version, b&w, silent, 1 min. *Tides and the Moon* By F. Lyle Goldman/Bray Pictures, USA, 1920, 16mm transferred to digital, b&w, silent, 5:33 *Flammes du soleil* By Bernard Lyot, France, 1935 with added commentary by Paul Couderc, 1957, b&w, sound, 11:00. From CNRS Images, France. *Mars (Russian: Марс)* By Pavel Klushantsev, USSR, 1968, digital transfer, color, sound, 10 min excerpt from 48 min. *Powers of Ten* By Charles and Ray Eames, USA, 1977, digital, color, sound, 9:00 *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* By Carl Sagan/Ann Druryan, USA, 1980, digital, color, sound, 10 min. *Brilliant Noise* By Semiconductor, 2006, digital, b&w, sound, 5:47 *Cosmic Cycles 5: Planetary Fantasia* By James Tralie, Wade Sisler, and Henry Dehlinger, USA, 2023, color, sound, 12:36, Courtesy NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center *Venus Transit 2012 Composited Visuals* By Tom Bridgman, USA, 2012, digital, color, silent, 3 min. **** Access to Mount Wilson is via the Angeles Crest Highway (CA Hwy 2) from the 210 Freeway at La Canada Flintridge. Directions given by apps on your phone can be incorrect. We recommend downloading and printing our PDF map with directions here: https://www.mtwilson.edu/1map/ <https://www.mtwilson.edu/1map/> DO NOT USE Apple Maps for directions; it sends you to a fire road that you can’t actually use. There are two parking lots up on the hill, and you can walk to the auditorium, or there will be a shuttle cart as well for those who need it. The Auditorium is next to the Astronomical Museum, “B” on the campus map. ** Allow at least 45 minutes from La Canada-Flintridge to the Mt. Wilson campus.** **Be aware you will need a U.S. Forest Service Adventure Pass to park at the Observatory, as it is located on U.S. Forest Service land. The $5 day pass or the $30 dollar annual pass may be purchased at the Cosmic Cafe on weekends, or at many locations around Los Angeles before you head up. The U.S. Forest Service website has more information and purchase locations. https://www.mtwilson.edu/1map/ <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=fc04192932&e=857b71a9cb>* *ONGOING* Venue type: *Virtual, online event* Riverwest Radio <https://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=58e36abfbd&e=857b71a9cb> 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://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=cf8c9b4c02&e=857b71a9cb> 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://list-manage.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4b83d0e66f4638a082b103d27&id=85046c914f&e=857b71a9cb> . 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