<https://mcusercontent.com/e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3/images/a17ae621-7e2a-49f0-9c52-84399db0732f.gif> This week [March 1-8, 2020] in avant garde cinema Enter your event announcements by going to the <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=87e957d366&e=f36020cad0> Flicker Weekly Listing Form. 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This week's programs (summary): * Super-8 Amateurs: the Local Non-School [March 1, Barcelona, Spain] * Ec: Ron Rice / Jack Smith [March 1, New York, NY] * Mania Akbari and Douglas White: A Moon For My Father [March 2, Los Angeles, California] * Affected Words (I, ii, iii) [March 3, Barcelona, Spain] * Scott Stark: Love and the Epiphanists (Part 1) [March 3, Milwaukee, WI United States] * Enrique Rosas'S El AutomÓVil Gris [March 7, Brooklyn, NY United States] * 16mm Restorations [March 7, San Francisco] * Live Performance of Reflektorische Farblichtspiele By Kurt Schwerdtfeger [March 8, Brooklyn, New York] * An Evening With Jane Wodening [March 8, Los Angeles, California] SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2020 3/1 Barcelona, Spain: Xcentric Cinema <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=418098a3c6&e=f36020cad0> http://xcentric.cccb.org/en/programas/fitxa/access-to-the-view-films-of-amy-halpern/232532 18:30, CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona) SUPER-8 AMATEURS: THE LOCAL NON-SCHOOL This session presents the recent work of six young filmmakers associated with the city of Barcelona who all use the same medium, Super-8, an anachronistic format that seems to be enjoying a revival among a new generation of artists and filmmakers. After the screening, we’ll have the chance to discuss the potential of this old home movie format with the filmmakers, looking at its virtues and drawbacks. La alegria de vivir, Miguel Rojas, 2018, Super-8 to digital, 16 min; El mar peino a la orilla, Valentina Alvarado Matos, 2019, Super-8, 2:26 min; Tropico desvaido, Valentina Alvarado Matos, 2016, Super-8 to digital, 6:09 min; Tot es un somni, Mariona Domenech, 2019, Super-8 to digital, 6:21 min;  Sin Titulo (Agosto), Blanca Garcia, 2016, Super-8, 3:15 min; Ipsae (Guillermina), Blanca Garcia, 2016-2019, Super-8, 3:18 min; Autoretrat Llum Casa, Alba Yruela, 2018, Super-8 to digital, 1 min; #002, Yonay Boix, 2019, Super-8 to digital, 3:18 min. Copies courtesy of the artists. A programme by Gloria Vilches and Diego Cepeda. 3/1 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=5d1a8009f4&e=f36020cad0> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: RON RICE / JACK SMITH Jack Smith SCOTCH TAPE (1962, 3 min, 16mm) A junkyard musical. Jack Smith FLAMING CREATURES 1963, 45 min, 16mm, b&w "[Smith] graced the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of all previous filmmakers." -FILM CULTURE Ron Rice CHUMLUM (1964, 23 min, 16mm-to-35mm. With Jack Smith, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez, Joel Markman, Frances Francine, Guy Henson, Barry Titus, Zelda Nelson, Gerard Malanga, Barbara Rubin, and Frances Stillman. Music by Angus MacLise. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.) "A hallucinatory micro-epic filmed during lulls in the production of Smith's NORMAL LOVE and one of the great 'heroic doses' of '60s underground cinema, a movie so sumptuously and serenely psychedelic it appears to have been printed entirely on gauze." -Chuck Stephens, CINEMA SCOPE Total running time: ca. 75 min. CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW! MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2020 3/2 Los Angeles, California: Redcat <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=7f8373eea0&e=f36020cad0> http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30 pm, REDCAT, 631 West 2nd Street MANIA AKBARI AND DOUGLAS WHITE: A MOON FOR MY FATHER https://www.redcat.org/event/mania-akbari-and-douglas-white-moon-my-father Los Angeles Premiere A Moon for My Father followed by the short video Lubion (2019) Iran-born Mania Akbari collaborated with British sculptor Douglas White for A Moon for My Father. Shaped as an exchange of letters—in Farsi and English—the film resumes Akbari’s self-portrayal as a cancer survivor initiated with 10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh Chahar, REDCAT, 2007). Years later, in London, the cancer is back, forcing radical changes in her body, and prompting a fascinating dialogue with White’s practice, which involves sculpting with rubber and skin-like material. Turning herself into a medical experiment, a latex sculpture, Akbari investigates the connection between her body and Iran’s political history. A painter and video artist, Akbari inspired Kiarostami to cast her as the driver in Ten (2002); since 2003, she has directed eight films that have screened internationally and received numerous awards. Tickets: $12 general; $9 for REDCAT and Current Filmforum members Available for presale at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1023313 Filmforum members contact us at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> for the discount code. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020 3/3 Barcelona, Spain: Xcentric Cinema <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=8807b67542&e=f36020cad0> http://xcentric.cccb.org/en/programas 19:30, CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona) AFFECTED WORDS (I, II, III) A three-session cycle that addresses the relationships between language, society and technology by exploring different processes and areas of communication that preceded the current post-truth era. Curated and presented by MarIa Morata. Affected Words I: Fact and fabrications (March 3). 73 Suspect Words, Peggy Ahwesh, 2001, 4 min; H is for House, Peter Greenaway, 1976, 9 min; Encyclopaedia Britannica, John Latham, 1971, 6 min; Sea-me-we (Chapter two: Of all Wired Blocks Holding a City), Virgile Fraisse, 2017, 29 min; Ayhan and Me, Belit Sag, 2016, 14 min; Ihre Zeitungen (Your newspapers), Harun Farocki, 1968, 17 min. Affected Words II: Regime of distortion (March 4). The Great Silence, Allora & Calzadilla, 2016, 17 min; Boomerang, Richard Serra, Nancy Holt, 1974, 10 min; Un crime, Jordi Colomer, 2004, 5 min; Poem #9: The Rhythm of Political Monologue, Eddie d, 1998, 50 sec; The Pressures of the Text, Peter Rose, 1983, 17 min; Learn German with Petra Von Kant, Ming Wong, 2007, 10 min; Steve Hates Fish, John Smith, 2015, 5 min; If You Say It Forty Times..., Belit Sag, 2017, 5 min; The Perfect Sound, Katarina Zdjelar, 2009, 14 min. Affected Words III: Singing Signs (March 5). The Voice as Performance, Act and Body, Valie Export, 2007, 11 min; Lament, Song for Transitions, Mathilde ter Heijne, 2014, 7 min ; Global Windshield, The Musical, Momu & No Es, 2018, 19 min; We Are the World, as performed by the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions Choirs, Samson Young, 2017, 5 min; Le jour a vaincu la nuit, Jean-Gabriel Periot, 2013, 28 min. This project was originally commissioned by IMPAKT, Centre for Media Culture, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 3/3 Milwaukee, WI United States: Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Cinema 7:00 PM, UWM Student Union, 2nd Level; 2200 E Kenwood Blvd SCOTT STARK: LOVE AND THE EPIPHANISTS (PART 1) Scott Stark in attendance! Live performance! Free and open to all! The Moving Image Society is thrilled to welcome Scott Stark back to his hometown for a retrospective program and performance of his most recent film project, Love and the Epiphanists (Part 1), a chaotic narrative and love story comprised of wide-screen anamorphic 35mm film, 35mm slides, digital video, audio recordings and live spoken text. Also screening by Scott Stark: Is It True What They Say (2015, DV, 11 mins.), BLOOM (2012, DV, 10 mins.); Traces (2012, 35mm film, 7 mins.), More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (2006, DV, 20 mins.), Shape Shift (2004, DV, 2 mins.). SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 3/7 Brooklyn, NY United States: Light Industry <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=5c551b48a2&e=f36020cad0> http://www.lightindustry.org/ 3:00 PM, 155 Freeman St ENRIQUE ROSAS'S EL AUTOM&OACUTE;VIL GRIS El automóvil gris, Enrique Rosas, 1919, digital projection, 224 mins A landmark of early Mexican cinema, Enrique Rosas’s El automóvil gris follows the notorious true-life story of the Gray Automobile Gang, a band of criminals who robbed and terrorized wealthy residents of Mexico City during the chaotic aftermath of the Revolution, gaining access to their homes by posing as soldiers with search warrants, then driving away with their jewels and cash in a gray Fiat. Rosas, who began his career as a newsreel cinematographer, based the screenplay on contemporary newspaper accounts and police casebooks, and shot many events in their actual locations. Professionals performed alongside non-actors throughout—the police chief in charge of the investigation, for instance, played himself—and in the final scene Rosas inserted his own 1915 footage of the real gang’s execution by firing squad. Beyond its remarkable mingling of fact and fiction, El automóvil gris is also renowned for its formal innovations, which advanced the development of Mexican narrative filmmaking and anticipated the Cine de Ora era that would begin in the 1930s. As historian Charles Ramírez Berg notes, Rosas’s epic is articulated in a distinctive visual style, combining the nascent strategies of Hollywood with a range of other influences: “penny press illustrations, early documentary reportage, the melodramatic strain of Italian cinema, the vitality of Feuillade’s French crime serials.” El automóvil gris was first released as a twelve-episode cycle, and remained popular into the sound era; Rosas’s heirs even recut the film into feature-length versions in the 1930s, adding spoken dialog and sound effects. While these abridgments helped make Rosas’s work one of the most widely-seen Mexican films of all time, the process effectively destroyed El automóvil gris’s initial design. In 2018, after years of tracking down lost elements and reconstructing the montage, Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional completed an ambitious digital restoration of the 1919 original. This afternoon at Light Industry will be its New York debut. 3/7 San Francisco: Other Cinema <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=6b2a94407c&e=f36020cad0> http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St 16MM RESTORATIONS In the first of three Incredibly Strange Music programs, Renaissance man Peter Conheim proudly premieres Ears, Eyes, and Throats, 1976-1981, an hour of 16mm punk shorts that he has personally restored! Among the revivals: Liz Keim's (in person) finally-fixed In the Red, on Mabuhay's heydays, Devo's Satisfaction and De-Evolution, Residents rarities Hello Skinny and Third Reich and Roll, and Richard Gaikowski's now-legendary Deaf/Punk and Moody Teenager. PLUS other pop-surreal Graeme Whifler vehicles for MX-80 Sound and Renaldo and the Loaf. ALSO the Dead Kennedys/Western Front chapter from Iggy Pop's own Punk omnibus, Stephanie Beroes' raw roll of the Avengers in action, and a glitchy glimpse of The Residents in 1971. *$9 SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2020 3/8 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=4f3bffe0fe&e=f36020cad0> http://www.microscopegallery.com 7:30pm, 1329. Willoughby Ave LIVE PERFORMANCE OF REFLEKTORISCHE FARBLICHTSPIELE BY KURT SCHWERDTFEGER Performed by Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Genevieve HK, Ray Sweeten, Stephanie Wuertz A live performance of Kurt Schwerdtfetger’s “Reflektorishe Farblichtspiele (Reflecting Color-Light-Play)†(1922/66) in connection with a solo exhibition of the work at the gallery through March 22nd. The work was first performed at the home of Wassily Kandinsky in 1922 as part of the Bauhaus lantern festival when Schwerdtfeger was a 25-year old student. The piece - which consists of up to five movements, or “Sätze†including: “Vegetativ Form,†“Bauhaus 1922,†“Streifen und Gitter†(Stripes and Grids), “Rotes Quadrat†(Red Square), and “Hommage à Oskar Schlemmer†— utilizes a large hand-built cube projection apparatus in which performers activate stencil shapes and a switchboard of colored lights to form a complex, abstract light play appearing on its screen surface. The performance at the gallery features Tessa Hughes-Freeland on the keyboard-like light system; Genevieve HK and Stephanie Wuertz manipulating the stenciled shapes, and Ray Sweeten on live sound augmentations to the 1966 soundtracks by Wolfgang Roscher, as well as offering additional visual support.A Q&A with the performers will follow the performance. More info www.microscopegallery.com <http://www.microscopegallery.com> , [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Admission $12, Members & Students $10. Jefferson L (exit Starr Street) 3/8 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=e9d571cfe1&e=f36020cad0> http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. AN EVENING WITH JANE WODENING Join us for a very special evening, a first for Los Angeles, a visit from the writer Jane Wodening, (formerly known as Jane Brakhage), featuring classic avant-garde films by Stan Brakhage, Barbara Hammer, Jonas Mekas, and new films by Nathaniel Dorsky and Mark Street! Tickets: $12 general; $8 students (with ID)/seniors; $8 for American Cinematheque members; free for Filmforum Members. Paid tickets available in advance through the American Cinematheque from Fandango at https://www.fandango.com/egyptian-theatre-hollywood-aaofx/theater-page?date=2020-03-08 or at the door. Filmforum member tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets or at the door. 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