<http://www.hi-beam.net/now.gif> <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=9f2226258f&e=f36020cad0> <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=6bc6aab2e8&e=f36020cad0> This week [February 16 - 24, 2019] in avant garde cinema Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=48ecbbe70a&e=f36020cad0> . 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This week's programs (summary): * Jonas Mekas's Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches <> [February 16, Brooklyn, NY United States] * Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival'S Hoboken Museum Gala <> [February 16, Hoboken, NJ United States] * Valentine's/Narcsissister <> [February 16, San Francisco] * Malcolm Le Grice, Here and Now <> [February 17, Los Angeles, California] * Tomorrow Tripoli Au Studio Galande, Avec Florent Marcie <> [February 18, Paris, France] * Mariano LlinÁS On Hugo Santiago'S the Wolf of the West Coast <> [February 19, Brooklyn, NY United States] * Ismo Ismo Ismo <> [February 20, Madrid] * Ismo Ismo Ismo <> [February 22, Madrid] * Subway Cinema Presents: the Hong-Kong-A-Thon ii: Electric Boogaloo! <> [February 23, New York, NY] * Cinema Quema: Program 2 <> [February 23, New York, NY] * Best of Punto Y Raya 2018 <> [February 23, San Francisco, California] * John Law's Cacophony + Burning Man + Blf <> [February 23, San Francisco] * Kelly Gallagher - Resistance Made visible. <> [February 24, Kansas City, Missouri] * City Symphonies: Suite Habana <> [February 24, New York, NY] * Best of Punto Y Raya 2018 <> [February 24, San Francisco, California] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2019 2/16 Brooklyn, NY United States: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=bf0b452940&e=f36020cad0> 7:00 PM, 155 Freeman St JONAS MEKAS'S WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches, Jonas Mekas, 1969, 16mm, 180 mins "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don't get it at all. To go back and shoot it later, it would mean restaging, be it events or feelings. To get it now, as it happens, demands the total mastery of one's tools (in this case, Bolex): it has to register the reality to which I react and also it has to register my state of feeling (and all the memories) as I react. Which also means, that I had to do all the structuring (editing) right there, during the shooting, in the camera. All footage that you'll see in the Diaries is exactly as it came out from the camera: there was no way of achieving it in the editing room without destroying its form and content. Walden contains materials from the years 1965-69, strung together in chronological order. For the soundtrack I used some of the sounds that I collected during the same period: voices, subways, much street noise, bits of Chopin (I am a romantic), and other significant and insignificant sounds." - JM Reel 1 "New York in spring; Tony Conrad; Bibbie in Central Park; A Wedding; Breakfast in Marseilles; Cassis; Sitney leaves New Haven; Fire on 87th Street; Brakhage crosses Central Park; Carl Th. Dreyer; A trip to Millbrook; Flowers for Marie Menken; Gregory Markopoulos shoots Galaxie; Notes on the Circus." Reel 2 "Kreeping Kreplachs meet (Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Tuli, Warhol, Barbara Rubin, etc.) / Hare Krishna walk; autumn scenes; Sitney's Wedding; New Year's Evening in Times Square; Goofing on 42nd Street; Uptown Party; Velvet Underground; Deep of Winter; Naomi visits Ken & Flo Jacobs; Amy stops for Coffee; Coop Directors meet; Dreams of Cocteau; In Central Park; What Leslie saw thru the Coop window; Olmsted Hike." Reel 3 "Barbara Rubin shoots a movie; Christmas Eve; A visit to Brakhages (Colorado); A Visit to Hans Richter; In Central Park; Peter's Wedding." Reel 4 "Autumn scenes; Mel's children; A trip to New Jersey; Wendy's Wedding; In Central Park; Skating rink; Winter scenes; Sunday Morning Snowstorm on 8th Avenue; Martha; Anthology Cinema meets; Yoko Ono and John Lennon; Central Park." FREE Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 6:30pm. 2/16 Hoboken, NJ United States: Black Maria Film Festival 7:00 PM, 1301 Hudson St THOMAS EDISON BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL'S HOBOKEN MUSEUM GALA On Saturday night, February 16th, at 7:00PM, the Black Maria Film Festival and the Hoboken Historical Museum will screen a program of Stellar Award-winning films from the Black Maria’s 2019 festival tour with filmmakers joining the Q & A. Featured works include "The Velvet Underground Played at My High School" with filmmakers Tony Jannelli and Marina Donahue present; and "What Aristotle Said" a portrait of the painter, art director, illustrator and teacher, Bill Curran of Hoboken, who will also be present for Q & A. 2/16 San Francisco: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=afe32133c7&e=f36020cad0> 8pm, 992 Valencia Street VALENTINE'S/NARCSISSISTER After-glowing from Valentine’s, this orgy of audiovisual pleasure is anchored by Lori Varga’s multile-projection of a pair of sex-positive pieces--Don’t Stop Doing It and Your Flesh Is My Flesh, the latter premiere accompanied by Colleen Kelly on looped cello! Lori’s multiple screens leads us to the polymorphous Narcissister, the acrobatic chameleon who masks her face and bares her breasts in an ever-transforming body-art burlesque (seen in a 10-min clip from the Dirty Looks Roadshow). ALSO a rare look at Barbara Hammer’s SFSU-period Dyketactics, and the debuts of Natalie Tsui’s Images of Rapture, Lana Caplan’s Mating Call and Josh Harper’s Fertility. PLUS Mark Street’s Blue Movie, Julia Ostertag’s SexJunkie, and a clip of John Holmes in the ultra-cult Aphrodisiac--one of 4 Sex-Ed cine-tracts that we’re drawing from tonight! Come early for lab out-takes from Broughton’s The Bed (and Jack Smith in bed with Gerard Malanga)...and of course--beefcakes, cheesecakes, and free condoms, and champagne galore! SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2019 2/17 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=dd621f10a5&e=f36020cad0> 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. MALCOLM LE GRICE, HERE AND NOW Malcolm Le Grice in person! Los Angeles Filmforum, in collaboration with REDCAT and USC School of Cinematic Arts, welcomes UK legend Malcolm Le Grice for his first California screenings in decades. One of the most compellingly original and radical artist-theorists in the history of the post-war moving image, Le Grice has been innovating at the center and the fringes of time-based media for over fifty years, embracing and exploring the signification of images, multiple projection, and the materiality of media. Le Grice’s body of work functions as an illuminating and rigorous investigation of the fundamental form, essence, and politics of cinema, and this program will span and celebrate the breadth and richness of his singular career. Malcolm Le Grice’s visit made possible by a generous grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Tickets: $10 general; $6 for seniors; free for students (with ID) and Filmforum members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at https://legrice.bpt.me or at the door. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2019 2/18 Paris, France: Studio Galande 7pm, Studio Galande, 42 Rue Galande TOMORROW TRIPOLI AU STUDIO GALANDE, AVEC FLORENT MARCIE Aux premières heures de la révolution libyenne, pendant que le monde entier a les yeux rivés sur Benghazi, un petit groupe d’insurgés défie la dictature à l’autre bout du pays, dans les montagnes du Nefoussa. Coupés du reste du monde, assiégés par l’armée de Kadhafi, les montagnards vont, contre toute attente, infliger une série de revers aux troupes du régime et parvenir aux portes de Tripoli. De la guérilla du djebel jusqu’au rivage de la Méditerranée, "Tomorrow Tripoli" relate le combat de ces hommes simples et généreux, emportés par le tourbillon révolutionnaire. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2019 2/19 Brooklyn, NY United States: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=b330ecaa63&e=f36020cad0> 7:00 PM, 155 Freeman St MARIANO LLIN&AACUTE;S ON HUGO SANTIAGO'S THE WOLF OF THE WEST COAST The Wolf of the West Coast, Hugo Santiago, 2002, digital projection, 132 mins Introduced by Mariano Llinás There’s an American who crosses the Atlantic; an American who seems to have come out of the 19th century: a ship's captain from Nantucket, or a Presbyterian shepherd from Nathaniel Hawthorne. There’s a murder: A man dies in a garden, like a poem. There’s the voice of an old woman, who tells the story, and who sounds like a lament, or like a litany, or like those prayers heard at noon from the mosques. There is a woman who harasses a man, almost like dancing. There is a girl who is also a song; there is a photo in which appears, as in an ideogram of the I Ching, the tragedy of a Nation and a Century. There are the words of Hollywood, the accents of Hollywood, the way of talking from the old movies, Film Noir and Ross Macdonald. There they are, but wrapped in a maze of violins and mysteries from which they would hardly escape. Hugo Santiago, one of the last filmmakers to think of films as objects of thought and beauty, gives us here his version of the Other Coast, complex and luxurious as a landscape. - ML WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019 2/20 Madrid: Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia https://www.museoreinasofia.es/actividades/ismo-ismo-ismo <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=f95ad5bfd9&e=f36020cad0> 7:00 P.M., Calle de Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid, Spain ISMO ISMO ISMO Programa 6 Estética Bilingüe. Negociaciones entre lenguas Duración: 82 min Vincent Carelli y Dominique Gallois. Meeting Ancestors / A Arca dos Zo'é 1993, 22 min, color, sonido, VOSE, digital, Brasil Sérgio Péo. Ñanderu Panorâmica Tupinambá 1991, 8 min, color, sonido, VOSE, 16mm transferido a digital, Brasil Chiapas Media Project. La tierra es de quien la trabaja 2005, 15 min, color, sonido, digital, México Felipe Esparza. Pawqartampu 2015, 8 min, b&n, sonido, digital, Perú Bruno Varela. Estela 2012, 8 min, b&n/color, sonido, Super 8 transferido a digital, México Poli Marichal. Dilemma I: Burundanga Boricua 1990, 18 min, color, sonido, Super 8 transferido a digital, Puerto Rico Ximena Cuevas. Estamos para servirle 1999, 3 min, color, sonido, vídeo, México Mostrar menos Este programa explora el movimiento entre idiomas como una manifestación de las pluralidades identitarias en América Latina. Estas películas revelan el lenguaje como una voluntad de poder. La sesión abarca desde negociaciones explícitas sobre la propiedad de la tierra en La tierra pertenece a quienes la trabajan (Chiapas Media Project, México, 2005), en la que el diálogo cambia entre español y tzeltal, hasta una exploración más abstracta de una celebración religiosa inca sobre el cambio y los nuevos comienzos como Pawqartampu (Felipe Esparza, Perú, 2015). El jefe de la tribu Guaraní Mimbiá narra la extinción de la tribu Tupinambá en el Ñanderu Panorâmica Tupinambá de Sérgio Péo (Brasil, 1991). Vincent Carelli y el Centro de Trabalho Indigenista han utilizado durante muchos años el vídeo como una herramienta para el activismo y la comunicación intercultural en remotas regiones amazónicas, como lo ilustra vívidamente el corto documental A arca dos Zo'é. La vídeo-artista mexicana Ximena Cuevas adopta un enfoque humorístico con una lección de idioma para un turista norteamericano junto a una ociosa piscina. El humor sarcástico de la artista puertorriqueña Poli Marichal en Dilemma I: Burundanga Boricua convierte la representación oficial de Puerto Rico de una estrella brillante a una brillante cicatriz, combinando animación, filmaciones documentales y películas pintadas a mano. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 2/22 Madrid: Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia https://www.museoreinasofia.es/actividades/ismo-ismo-ismo <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=72df173879&e=f36020cad0> 7:00 P.M., Calle de Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid, Spain ISMO ISMO ISMO Programa 7 Superficies alteradas Duración: 107 minutos Eduardo Darino. Cocktail de rayas 1964, 2 min, 16mm transferido a digital, color, sonido, Uruguay Enrique Pineda Barnet. Cosmorama 1964, 5 min, color, sonido, 35mm transferido a digital, Cuba Claudio Caldini. Vadi-Samvadi 1981, 6 min 40 seg, Super 8 transferido a archivo digital, color, sonido, Argentina Teo Hernández. Nuestra señora de Paris 1981-1982, 22 min, color, sonido, 16mm transferido a digital, México/Francia Pablo Mazzolo. El Quilpo sueña cataras 2012, 11 min, color, sonido, Super 8 transferido a digital, Argentina Willie Varela. El ojo de Becky 1977, 3 min, Super 8, color, silente, Estados Unidos Manuela de Laborde. As without so within 2016, 25 min, 16mm transferido a digital, color, sonido, México/Estados Unidos/Reino Unido Mostrar menos Durante el siglo pasado, y con frecuencia en diálogo con artistas de otros lugares, numerosos artistas latinoamericanos han explorado la abstracción, tema de esta sesión. En Cocktail de Rayas (1964), la película es pintada y rayada a mano por el cineasta uruguayo Eduardo Darino. Cosmorama (1964) de Enrique Pineda Barnet utiliza las esculturas cinéticas del artista rumano-cubano Sandú Darié Laver como punto de partida para producir una experimentación de ilusiones visuales y texturas sonoras. Algunos cineastas trabajan con referentes urbanos y arquitectónicos, como la catedral de Notre Dame en Nuestra señora de París (1981-1982) de Teo Hernández, y los transforman en modos que se mueven entre la abstracción y representaciones reconocibles, mientras que otros hacen referencia a percepciones sensoriales alteradas y la exagerada paleta de colores de las experiencias psicodélicas. Claudio Caldini en Vadi-Samvadi (1981) realiza una operación sinestésica entre la gramática de la música clásica india y el espacio-tiempo cinematográfico. Una nueva generación que fusiona una compleja experimentación formal y una extática exploración espiritual se materializa en el Super 8 del Argentino Pablo Mazzolo, profundizando la visión de los Henia/Kamiare o comechingones, en donde el río Quilpo sueña con cataratas al menos una vez al año. En Becky's Eye, el prolífico cineasta y videasta chicano Willie Varela realiza un estudio de la luz del sol refractado a través de vasos, bajo la influencia de Stan Brakhage. A través de un viaje abstracto hacia el espectador teatral, las imágenes en As Without So Within de Laborde, documentan esculturas reflectantes, transformadas en herramientas para crear campos visuales. En conjunto, estos cineastas –así como los diversos enfoques de abstracción concreta, neoconcreta o geométrica, el “grupo Madí”, “grupo Ruptura”, y otros movimientos en las artes visuales- procuran el color, la luz, las sombras y las formas como bases de su obra. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2019 2/23 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=40c8a3c312&e=f36020cad0> 12:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue SUBWAY CINEMA PRESENTS: THE HONG-KONG-A-THON II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO! People are still talking about last year's Hong-Kong-a-Thon and this year we've spent even more money, to bring even rarer movies, to blow your mind even harder! This 12-hour, six-film marathon showcases the movies that shot first, hit hardest, kicked highest, took the hardest falls, the biggest jumps, delivered the fastest punches, and left the audience with two smoking holes where their eyeballs used to be. We won't reveal the titles until they appear onscreen, but rest assured that these six 35mm prints are deep cuts that haven't played in New York City in at least 18 years. Out of print on DVD, or never available uncut and in their original language, these movies ask the big questions: what if Evel Knievel was a serial killer? How many floors can you drop a child and have them survive? Why does everybody die on Christmas? If you want answers, don't miss this marathon! All tickets: $30. Advance tickets are now available here: https://hongkongathon2.brownpapertickets.com/Ends when everybody is dead. 2/23 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=0e2a42ce3c&e=f36020cad0> 5:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue CINEMA QUEMA: PROGRAM 2 Raymundo Gleyzer & Jorge Prelorán IT HAPPENED IN HUALFIN / OCURRIDO EN HUALFIN (1965, 50 min, 16mm-to-digital) IT HAPPENED IN HUALFIN adopts a tripartite approach to diagnose the poverty suffered by the Figueroa family, cane-cutters and potters in Argentina's northwestern Catamarca province. The Figueroas describe harsh working conditions and express their hopes of breaking the poverty cycle, while their misery is testament to the contortion of big-government populism, embodied by a mechanical loom given to the family by Eva Perón during a publicity visit in the 1950s, then taken back after the Perons went into exile. Raymundo Gleyzer QUILINO (1966, 16 min, 16mm-to-digital) Gleyzer's first color film was his final collaboration with his old classmate Jorge Prelorán, who preferred a less polemical approach to documenting poverty. QUILINO details the Cordoba villagers' reliance on the railroad that brings them customers from the cities, and the looming likelihood that the route will be shut down. Raymundo Gleyzer OUR MALVINAS ISLANDS / NUESTRAS ISLAS MALVINAS (1966, 30 min, 16mm-to-digital) Working on assignment for the news program "Telenoche," with permission from the Queen of England, Gleyzer was the first Argentinean to shoot in the Islas Malvinas (known to their English occupiers as the Falklands, later cause for the 1982 conflict that expedited the end of the military dictatorship). Skirting the boundary between wry travelogue and econo-graphic survey, this is perhaps the least polemical of his films - but like the earlier shorts, it makes obvious Gleyzer's empathy for his collaborators on the other side of the camera. Total running time: ca. 100 min. 2/23 San Francisco, California: Exploratorium https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/saturday-cinema-punto-y-raya-2019 <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=5e9df45ade&e=f36020cad0> 3:00 p.m., Pier 15 BEST OF PUNTO Y RAYA 2018 The eminent minimalist animation festival, Punto y Raya (Dot and Line) has been dubbed “the most abstract festival in the world.” The biennial festival fosters experimentation in visual arts through the use of pure form, color, motion, and sound, with no direct representation. Crossing traditions of dancing images, abstract art, and minimalism, the Punto y Raya festival highlights eye-catching animations from around the world. The program comprises the 18 finalist and award-winning films shown in 2018 at CeTA (Audiovisual Technology Center) in Wroclaw, Poland. 2/23 San Francisco: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=6b80c4ac34&e=f36020cad0> 8pm, 992 Valencia Street JOHN LAW'S CACOPHONY + BURNING MAN + BLF An opportunity to honor and give a hand to THEE man who’s been the beating heart of the radical prank community in SF for over 4 decades! Mr. Law gets his due recognition in the Fine Art world with a major show planned for Pro Arts Gallery in June. But prep for that expansive exhibition will require a whole lotta money and time, so that John can collect his materials and ready them for the walls and screens--tho of course he’s not able to work his neon-signman jobs for next 4 months. So, come on, we’re calling in all his friends and fans to step up and get his career-retro into forward-gear. John himself opens the party with a visual review of his major activities: Suicide Club, Cacophony Society, Burning Man, Survival Research Labs, Head Trip, Urban Exploration, not to mention his neon installations for the Ferry Bldg., Hills Brothers Coffee, and Tribune Tower. After intermission, OC itself steps forward with the best of its rich documentation of local and national culture-jamming and intervention art.*$9-20 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2019 2/24 Kansas City, Missouri: Stray Cat Film Center http://straycatfilmcenter.com <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=7abbca15a8&e=f36020cad0> 7:00pm, 1662 Broadway KELLY GALLAGHER - RESISTANCE MADE VISIBLE. Join Stray Cat Film Center in welcoming radical animator Kelly Gallagher to Kansas City for a one-night-only screening. Her beautiful animated short films and videos address topics ranging from radical feminism, labor history, friendship, sexuality and police brutality with a vibrant hand-made aesthetic and an exciting use of sound and music. “[Her] bold and colorful montage aesthetic incorporates paper cut-out collages from magazines or thrift store bookshop finds, 16mm found or confiscated footage, oil painting animation and hand-drawn rotoscoping. Images explode onto the screen in a carnival of color and iridescence: glitter, thick and sumptuous paint, or purple-tinted translucent oil on clear 16mm leader draw attention to the tactility of the hand-made process involved.” -Sophia Satchell-Baeza for La Furia Umana, International Journal of History and Theory of Cinema 2/24 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=580fb97078&e=f36020cad0> 4:45 PM, 32 Second Avenue CITY SYMPHONIES: SUITE HABANA by Fernando Pérez. A poetic homage to the city of Havana, this breathtaking film is a lovely and melancholic portrait of Cuba's capital. Following in the tradition of the city symphony by adopting a "day-in-the-life-of" structure, it follows ten ordinary Habaneros as they go about their daily routine. There is no dialogue and no need for it either; music and natural sound accompany the multiplicity of images that weave a unique and intimate picture of a city full of contradictions and contrasts, a city of accomplished and frustrated dreams. Edited like a musical composition, SUITE HABANA oscillates between documentary and fiction. The ten characters range in age from 10 to 97, and represent the diversity of groups that form the city's social fabric. Each of them follows a narrative, and we follow their transformations as the workday ends and they prepare themselves to welcome the night. 2/24 San Francisco, California: Exploratorium https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/cinema-arts-punto-y-raya-2019 <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=0cc0eb398a&e=f36020cad0> 3:00 p.m., Pier 15 BEST OF PUNTO Y RAYA 2018 The eminent minimalist animation festival, Punto y Raya (Dot and Line) has been dubbed “the most abstract festival in the world.” The biennial festival fosters experimentation in visual arts through the use of pure form, color, motion, and sound, with no direct representation. Crossing traditions of dancing images, abstract art, and minimalism, the Punto y Raya festival highlights eye-catching animations from around the world. 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