Microscope welcomes Roger Beebe back to the gallery for the last Event of our 2014-15 Season. For the evening, Beebe has curated a night of selections from a decade of FLEXFest by filmmakers working outside of the tradition epicenters of experimental film New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago.

With works by Drew Christie, Lauren Cook, Christopher Harris, Jason LaRay Keener and J. Ledbetter, Jesse McLean, Jodie Mack, Kristin Reeves, Kelly Sears, Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, Scott Stark, Robert Todd.

Curated by Robyn Farrell

Tele-novela is a genre of limited-run drama series popular on Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television networks. The term combines tele, short for televisión or televisão (Spanish and Portuguese words for television), and novela, a Spanish and Portuguese word for “novel”. Symbolic, social, or technological, Tele-novela mimics the serial and structural nature of the pop cultural programs, but moves from linear story to abstracted narrative, and experimental play by electronic means. Arranged in three-part acts and ranging in media–video, sound, animated GIFs–and durational formats, the sequential productions on ACRE TV present a departure from their operatic tradition in favor of abstracted realities and dispersed fictions that simultaneously explore and avoid the notion of formal narrative on screen.

The 12th edition of AVANT goes natural and approaches nature in various ways. The invited filmmakers and artists are: Chris Welsby (Canada), Dagie Brundert (Germany) and Mox Mäkelä (Finland).

AVANT begins on Friday evening at Kristinehamn Art Museum with a film developing performance by Dagie Brundert after which follows an artist's talk by Chris Welsby and the opening of his installation At Sea. Saturday opens with a screening of Welsby's films including a grand premiere, Momentum, Welsby's latest work. After this follows two extensive programs: Dagie Brundert's ode to super-8 film and Mox Mäkelä's unique take on nature.