16mm film workshop and screening in collaboration with Association Braquage, with films by Moira Tierney & Masha Godovannaya, Sébastien Ronceray, Henri Storck, Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Stan Brakhage, Cécile Fontaine, and Collective Ø.
The final event of Electric Blue's Atlas season Transfigured Parables…
DUSK TRANSMISSIONS
A VHS installation evening of radical, female-directed, experimental archive film, a collaboration with archivist/technician Molly Jones @telepathic.curiosity and projectionist Esther McElwee of @126.studios
For its 10th anniversary celebration, Found Footage Magazine travels to Montreal with a screening program of found footage and collage film works made in Spain. Curated and introduced by César Ustarroz and Clint Enns.
The Flaherty Film Seminar, the USC Center for Ethnographic Media Arts (CEMA), USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Los Angeles Filmforum present: The 2025 Los Angeles Flaherty Pod.
Entering its 70th year, the Flaherty Film Seminar is revered as one of the most significant convenings around non-fiction cinema. Each year filmmakers, scholars, students, curators, critics, archivists, and cinephiles gather for an immersive, week-long program of film screenings, in-depth discussions, artist talks, installations, and/or performances around a theme.
Dates:
Thursday, June 26, 2025 (All day) to Sunday, June 29, 2025 (All day)
A prolific filmmaker with over fifty films to her credit, Marcelle Thirache (1946-2025) chose Super 8 as her preferred format, undertaking a series of experimentations with light and color that included painting on film as well as her initial practice of photography. She became interested in experimental cinema in 1982, attending the screenings organized by the newly-formed Light Cone. She joined as a member and remained loyal to the organization starting with her first films, which were made in 1987, and throughout her filmmaking career.
Of course weirdo art film languishes on the periphery of conventional film, but why has one James Otis, clearly brilliant yet oddly invisible, languished on the periphery of weirdo art film? Some fault lies in the stars, some in Otis himself, the confessed worst promoter of his own work. Contradictions emerge almost immediately with Otis, a polymath educated in math, sculpture, computer science, film studies and artistic practices he calls “gesturing” and “finger twiddling.” He’s a lucid dreamer of the mundane, a timeless anachronism, and a skeptic of certainty. Otis displayed remarkable perceptual abilities at an early age. Concerned about the seven-year-old’s description of binocular vision, his parents took him to a doctor who prescribed a series of eye exercises—exercises that only heightened his acuity. At the age of 19, too aware of his reliance on vision, he blindfolded himself for 9 days.
