In Person: Michael Betancourt; Karissa Hahn; Jeremy Moss and Deborah Stratman- CICATRIX (2014) by Jeremy Moss; digital video, color, silent, 7 minutes, from the maker—A textural experience in layers, scars and deterioration that combines hand processed, tinted and toned 16mm imagery. Both sight and sound ooze and emulate those tangible tremors catalyzed by increasing awareness of loss and decay. Footage created at the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Mt. Forest, Ontario, Canada.

In Person: Paul Clipson and GrouperSCREENING:- Hypnosis Display (2014) by Paul Clipson and Grouper; 16mm, color, sound, 75 minutes, from the maker bay area premiereExploring impressionistic, emotional and sensory environments found within the vast natural and urban landscapes of America. Neither image nor sound takes precedence: the two interact and combine preserving a raw sense of the discovery that field recordings and in-camera edited film rushes often yield. Hypnosis Display was commissioned by Opera North Projects.

The films of Chicago-based filmmaker/graphic artist (and co-director of Chicago’s Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation) Alexander Stewart are variously energetic and animated and oddly geological. They flirt with the legacies of structural film and psychedelic cinema while adding significantly to the obscure traditions of the hand-drawn animation and film-as-abstract-graphic-art.

In association with the festival Cinema du Reel, the film department of the Centre Pompidou pays a tribute to Robert Gardner from March 19th to March 28th. Anthropologist and filmmaker, founder of the Film Study Center at Harvard University, Robert Gardner is the author of a singular oeuvre, dedicated to distant societies – from the Dani's tribe of New Guinea (Dead Birds, 1964) to the Ika Indians of Colombia (Ika Hands, 1988) or the Hamar in Ethiopia (River of Sand, 1973) - as well as po