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Sun Dec 15, doors at 12:30pm ~ film starts at 1pm (1hr intermission 5-6pm) - STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH (Ken Jacobs, 2004, 6hrs 42mins, color and b&w, sound)  -  In the first hour of Ken Jacobs’ biting, found-footage critique of America, text on screen declares, “With the sheeps led by the foxes for the benefit of the wolves, what chance do we have of getting out of this alive? STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH considers the astronomical odds against being alive to begin with and suggests resistance. What the hell.” Almost 50 years in the making, yet alarmingly contemporary, this avant-garde epic stitches together ethnographic footage, political speeches, film, and cartoons into a provocative exploration of race, religion, politics, war, and wealth. Deemed by the NY Times as “the ultimate underground movie, subversive and frequently hilarious,” and alternatively titled AMERICAN FAILURE, STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH is a subversive, cinematic howl.  ~  "It's a stimulating, labyrinthine experience provided by a master of the American avant-garde and an historical artifact that is nevertheless piercingly contemporary." -Doug Cummings, Filmjourney - MARATHON SCREENING!​

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Fri Jan 10, 6-8pm - FRAGMENTS: Justin Rhody (photo exhibition opening reception)

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Tues Jan 14 - ROGER BEEBE (multi-projector 16mm film performance) - Beebe returns to the Santa Fe for the first time since 2019 with a program of 16mm multi-projector performances celebrating the 25th anniversary of his first touring program.  ~   The program features several newer works (un arbre (2024, 4 x 16mm + video), Lineage (for Norman McLaren) (2019, 4 x 16mm), de rerum natura (2019, 3 x 16mm + video), Home Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (2021, 4 x 16mm), alongside some of his best-known projector performances (including the seven-projector show-stopping Last Light of a Dying Star (2008/2011).  He will also include a sampling of recent essayistic videos, presented as live-narrated documentaries. These works take on a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying [Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)] to the racial politics of font choices (The Comic Sans Video) and the real spaces of the virtual economy (Amazonia).  ~  Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos that explore the world of found images and the "found" landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including the Sundance Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, and Los Angeles Filmforum among many other venues. Beebe is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival from 2004-2014. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Art and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at the Ohio State University.  (filmmaker in attendance from Ohio + presented on film + post-screening Q&A)

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Fri Jan 24 - Palestinian Solidarity benefit screening: A FADAI FILM (2024, 78 mins, directed by Kamal Aljafari) - "In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded South Lebanon. They advanced as far as West Beirut, which had been home to the Palestine Research Center and its vast collection of photographs, films, and documents since 1965. The Israeli army seized the archive as war booty.... This history forms the departure point for Kamal Aljafari’s reconstruction of a revitalized Palestinian visual record, a sort of counter-archive that he calls “the camera of the dispossessed.” A Fidai Film is a blend of found footage and experimental cinema, with parts of the image cut out or replaced with material from the background, and title texts scratched out with red marks.... The film is a treasure trove of footage about Palestinian life before and after the Nakba, accompanied by a soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner and texts by writers including Gassan Kanafani. Each image and montage embodies history and art, longing and sadness and resistance and sabotage." - View trailer HERE

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Fri Feb 7 - VERNACULAR VISIONS - A 35mm slideshow of found amateur snapshots; an exploration and celebration of the medium and its subjects, spoken and coded in the visual dialect of the amateur practitioner. Presented in a relaxed tone alongside a custom made audio mix which offers the opportunity for meditative contemplation, as well as casual and comfortable social interaction. - (90 min mixtape by DJ Drips, aka NNC's janitor, dubbed specially for this show pay-what-you-want)

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Sat Feb 22 - ERIC LEISER - (filmmaker in attendance from NYC + post-screening Q&A)

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Fri March 14 - LUIS MACIAS YOUR EYES ARE SPECTRAL MACHINES (multi-projector performance) - A selection of films in which Luis Macias investigates the concept of what he calls spectral cinema.  Exploring each of the different components of the film spectrum: the process and structure as a challenge, the photochemical transformation in the laboratory of created and/or appropriate images, editing/manipulation and re-photography through the optical/contact printer, and the projection as an event.  The properties of the image and its forms and the modification/alteration of the mechanical structure of the projector are combined in new proposals for the exercise of a human eye that explores the images of nature and/or how it is revealed to us.  These are parts of a filmic form organized in closed structures allowing intermediate spaces that force/activate improvisation.  ~  Luis Macias (1976, Barcelona ​​Spain) is an artist, filmmaker & image composer. His work deals with the formal & spectral properties of the moving image, through the exploration of the cinematographic device itself & the photochemical nature of the medium.  Focused on experimental & procedural practices of analog image, his works in Super-8, 16mm, 35mm & video are composed for projection performance. His films and pieces of expanded cinema have been shown in prestigious film, art and music festivals as well as art centers, museums & alternative spaces around the world.  Macias is a co-founder of Crater-Lab, an independent laboratory for analog cinema, and alternates his art work with specialized teaching in experimental cinema and the exploration of analog formats.  ~  (filmmaker in attendance from Barcelona Spain + presented on 16mm & 35mm film + post-screening Q&A)

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MARCH 2025 (exact date TBA) - RANKIN RENWICK (filmmaker in attendance from Portland Oregon + post-screening Q&A)

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Fri April 18 - K/S/R "Already in Heaven" + another local expanded cinema act + new short films by Ben Kujawski (performance for four film projectors & live sound + filmmaker in attendance from New York + post-screening Q&A)

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MAY 2025 (exact date TBA) - OPEN SCREEN v.7 - Open to all local artists working in experimental, personal, animation or non-fiction filmmaking. One submission per person, 15 mins MAX (shorter is better). No industry-aspiring work, please. - (submissions open in April 2025)

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MAY 2025 (exact date TBA) - GRETA SNIDER (filmmaker in attendance from San Francisco + post-screening Q&A)