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Fri Aug 22 - Rotating Signals: The Contemporary Korean Avant-Garde - A program of short films curated by Chicago-based critic/programmer/educator Joshua Minsoo Kim that highlights work created 2024-2025 by some of the best Korean experimental filmmakers today.  ~  FULL PROGRAM: A Dark Room (Heehyun Choi, 2025, silent, b/w, 10 mins), Rotating Signals (Chae Yu, 2025, sound, color, 10 mins), Bye, Snark, Boo-Jum! (Jiyong In, 2024, silent, b/w, 8 mins), Shadow-Forest: Apple Tree for the Extinct Prophecy Bird (Go-Eun Im, 2025, sound, color, 10 mins), Geomeunyeo (Kyujae Park, 2025, sound, b/w, 3 mins), Buseok (Kyujae Park, 2024, silent, b/w + color, 18 mins)

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Fri Sept 12 - an historical overview of CANADIAN experimental film - guest curated by Stephen Broomer

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Fri Sept 26 - the short films of GRETA SNIDER - A retrospective of works created 1989-2025. Greta Snider has made films since discovering the art form at Antioch College in Ohio, and promptly moved to San Francisco to join a thriving low-budget experimental film scene, where she continues to make, screen, and teach about cinema. In her work, Snider utilizes a combination of original and archival material to create nonfiction art cinema of a personal nature. Her single screen films on 16mm lean heavily on the creative use of montage, interweaving the personal and historical in a number of short essay films. Her stereoscopic performances and installations take the materiality of film and family photos, to reshape themes of memory, loss, and personal histories in a more intimate, affective experience. She has screened in museums throughout the world, and also in bars, alleyways, and once, at an all-night international rave party in a penthouse in the Shibuya. Snider teaches experimental filmmaking at San Francisco State University, where she is faculty advisor to The Archive Project.  ~  FULL PROGRAM: Hard Core Home Movie (1989), Futility (1989), Blood Story (1990), Our Gay Brothers (1993), Portland (1996), flight (1997), Prayer for the Torture Memos (2015), A Small Place (2019), Cult of Compliance (2019), In The Maritime Frequencies (2025)  (filmmaker in attendance from San Francisco + post-screening Q&A)

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Sat Oct 4, 4pm - AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY (Jonas Mekas, 2000, 4hrs 48mins, color, sound) - "I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what's all about. What it all means. So when I began, now, to put all these rolls of film together, to string them together, the first idea was to keep them chronologic. But then I gave up, and I just began splicing them together by chance, the way that I found them on the shelf, because I really did not know where any piece of my life really belongs. So let it be. Let it go. Just by pure chance. Disorder. There is some kind of order in it, order of its own, which I do not really understand, same as I never understood life around me." -Jonas Mekas  ~  "As I Was Moving Ahead serves not just as a meditation on the nature of cinema, beauty, and time, but also as a monument to the bonds of family and friends. Mekas’s diaries have always quivered with the tensions between past and present. This one, created by an artist soon to enter his eighth decade, finds a secret paradise in the rich harvests of a lifetime’s memories." -Village Voice  ~  "Length and style may deter [the film's] prospects, but won’t inhibit auds bold enough to spend four hours and 48 minutes with the godfather of a key movement in the American avant-garde." -Variety  ~  "The home movie as epic" -New York Times  (25th Anniversary! ~ Marathon Screening!)

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Fri Oct 10 - TOSCA'S KISS (Il Bacio di Tosca) ~ (directed by Daniel Schmid, 1984, 87 mins, color, sound, italian language / english subtitles) - Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In this documentary, director Daniel Schmid captures a world in which octogenarian divas re-live and re-enact their triumphant roles of the glorious past. ~ "When an aging diva declares, 'You’ll find me singing two hours after my death,' the already obvious is made abundantly clear: these artists’ lives are their careers. They have defined themselves through their musical production and now are daring death to silence their melodic soundings. In fact, death is waiting patiently in the wings; it is the motor of Tosca’s Kiss, the delineator of its insistent yet fading figures... When the camera pans the ceiling of Casa Verdi, architecture and history make their presence known. Hands tensely envelop pocketbooks and the click of a door handle reveals volumes on property and Italian cultural life. Frayed costumes, diplomas, and photographs mark moments, sites, and celebrations long ago digested by a voracious memory. Casa Verdi is a kind of cranky congregation of sentiment, artistry, and death that thankfully maintains more than a touch of sharp, ironic humor." -Barbara Kruger, Art Forum ~ view trailer

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Fri Oct 17 - the short films of DICKY BAHTO - Artist Dicky Bahto will make his first appearance in Santa Fe with a program of mostly recent digital works. The program will feature an excerpt from his recent three-hour long collaboration with musician Sarah Davachi, Music for a Bellowing Room, an exercise in resolution, inviting the audience to shift their concentration and perception through gradual changes in sound and image. The piece was originally commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and received its premiere performance in September 2023. Bahto will also screen a three-projector Super-8mm work titled Cave Creek. Winter canon. 2011. in a digital presentation, his film A play in black & white (for baba) (which was commissioned by Canal180 TV in Portugal & features a score by Matmos), and several video works that accompany music by some of the artists he regularly collaborates with, including Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada.  ~  Dicky Bahto has exhibited work utilizing still and motion picture photography, sound, and performance at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, and scenic locations spanning the Northern Hemisphere, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to a series of nooks, crannies, and underbrush along and under Sunset Boulevard. He frequently collaborates with musicians, both as a performer and as a visual artist, including Sarah Davachi, Liz Harris, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada, as well as with his lover, Patrick Londen, and their cats Simone and Katoosh.  ~  "His varied and complex engagement with moving image and photographic media is steeped in a deeply felt humanity and empathy, manifesting through his inspired photographic eye and frequently direct interaction with and appreciation of the material vitality of film and cinema. His films achieve heightened emotional states of great intimacy and poetry, often channeling the uniquely aleatory qualities of film to carry a sensuality and spirituality hovering in the space between loving depiction and vaporous abstraction." -Mark Toscano, Film Preservationist, Academy Film Archive  (filmmaker in attendance from Los Angeles + post-screening Q&A)

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Fri Oct 24 - SANTET (directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra, 1988, 94 mins, color, sound, indonesian language / english subtitles) - Indonesia’s beloved scream queen, Suzzanna, stars in this decidedly demented supernatural revenge thriller which boast not just over-the-top gore set-pieces, but an abundance of slimy creatures, wild plot twists, and even impromptu musical numbers! After poisoning his wife, a local gangster blames her death on the village cleric and instigates an outraged mob to burn down his hut, killing him in the process. The cleric's wife escapes into the jungle, eventually meeting Nyi Angker, a half-crocodile half-witch who gives her diabolical powers, thus allowing her to commence a bloody revenge. (presented from a new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative!)

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Sat Nov 1 - [closing reception for MAX NORDILE: Janitor of the Seasons] SOUND + POETRY PERFORMANCES featuring the Nordile-Rhody Duo + more acts tba

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Sat Nov 15 - OPEN SCREEN v.8 - Open to all local artists working in experimental, personal, animation and/or non-fiction filmmaking. One submission per person, 15 mins max (shorter is better). No industry aspiring work, please.  (submissions open mid-October!)

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Fri Nov 21 - 16mm Film Showcase (from the collection of No Name Cinema)