Upcoming Events

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Thurs June 1st - Chess & Jazz club, 6-8pm - Chess playing and Jazz listening. Open to all skill levels and ages. Free herbal tea.

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Fri June 2nd - the early film work of HARRY SMITH - A full program of Smith's early hand painted abstractions and animation films. Harry Everett Smith (1923-1991) was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde. As a polymath, he's credited variously as an ethnomusicologist, artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, hoarder, student of anthropology, and a Neo-Gnostic bishop. This screening is presented in partnership with the Harry Smith Archives in conjunction with a series of events across the world celebrating Smith's centennial - including Smith's first ever solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum! (celebrating 100 yrs of Harry Smith!)

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Thurs June 15th - Chess & Jazz club, 6-8pm - Chess playing and Jazz listening. Open to all skill levels and ages. Free herbal tea.

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Fri June 16th - Moving or Being Moved: short films by Sabine Gruffat + Bill Brown - The dynamic artist-filmmaker duo of Gruffat and Brown have been making experimental films, documentaries and essay films, and performing live electronic improvisation, for over two decades. Sabine Gruffat explores different methods to generate content and images, from laser cutting/etching on 35mm film strips to 3D animation. Bill Brown is known for his nomadic filmmaking and for transporting us to various destinations. The program, Moving or Being Moved, features seven short and medium-length films and videos created 1994-2020. (presented on 16mm! * filmmakers in attendance! * post-screening Q&A!)

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Thurs July 6th - Chess & Jazz club, 6-8pm - Chess playing and Jazz listening. Open to all skill levels and ages. Free herbal tea.

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Friday July 7th, 6-8pm - opening reception for DELANEY HOFFMAN: a common knowledge

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Friday July 14th - CELLULOID SHOWCASE: Celebrating the Centennial of 16mm Film! - An eclectic night of rare films all presented on the 16mm film format, which was released by Eastman Kodak 100 years ago in 1923! The night's program will feature (but not be limited to) Castro Street (1966) by Bruce Baillie, Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, Street of Crocodiles (1986) by the Brothers Quay, a montage of title cards from B Westerns, an educational short on Fish Hatcheries, and a mysteriously "perfect" silent found footage film of a cop repeatedly shooting a shotgun from a car window. (all presented on 16mm film!)

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Thurs July 20th - Chess & Jazz club, 6-8pm - Chess playing and Jazz listening. Open to all skill levels and ages. Free herbal tea.

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Friday July 28th - Concert Parking Lot Videos - The night's program will open with the 17-minute underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot from 1986. This fun and free-wheeling short documents the tailgating scene outside of a Judas Priest / Dokken concert in Maryland. (One of many favorite quotes from the film: "Heavy metal rules. All that punk shit sucks. It doesn't belong in this world - it belongs on fuckin' Mars, man... and Madonna can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, she's a dick.") After a brief intermission, we'll then view the feature length 1995 documentary Tie-Died. This video canvasses a wide spectrum of parking lot "deadheads" during the Grateful Dead's 1994 Summer Tour, and works to portray the dynamic personal situations and interests that draw followers to the notorious blues-rock band. With a mix of joy, sadness, and empathy, we bear witness to a spirit that refuses to fade away or die - but instead continues to walk the Earth in a pastiche of bygone fashions and capitalism-lite vendor booths. (presented on VHS!)

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Thurs Aug 3rd - Chess & Jazz club, 6-8pm - Chess playing and Jazz listening. Open to all skill levels and ages. Free herbal tea.

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Fri August 11th - the short films of Janelle VanderKellen - VanderKelen is an artist, curator, and educator based in Milwaukee, WI. Her films use experimental animation processes to make the agency of plants and other "inanimate" beings visible. (filmmaker in attendance from Wisconsin! * post-screening Q&A!)

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Thurs Aug 17th - Chess & Jazz club, 6-8pm - Chess playing and Jazz listening. Open to all skill levels and ages. Free herbal tea.

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Fri Sept 1st - the personal and experimental short films of Nina Fonoroff - Central to Fonoroff's creative process is a deep involvement in almost all of the phases of a film’s production—from scripting and shooting to editing and finishing of image and sound elements. "Though I begin work on a film with a rough plan, the process remains fluid, indeterminate: partly a matter of calculation and planning, partly of serendipitous discovery. Through most phases of the process, I work to shape a story through constant revision of both sound and picture elements; so the films may be considered palimpsests that have been subjected to numerous revisions of thought and idea." Her films have screened widely in the U.S. and elsewhere, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation among others, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has been teaching courses in filmmaking at UNM for the past twenty years.  (filmmaker in attendance! * post-screening Q&A!)

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NOV (exact date tba) - Open Screen v.4 - NNC's third bi-annual night of local shorts gathered through an open call, free to submit. Open to all filmmakers local to New Mexico (or able to appear in person at the screening) who are working in experimental, documentary, animation and/or personal filmmaking. No promotional material or mainstream industry-aspiring work will be accepted. One submission allowed per person, films must be 1-15 mins in length & filmmakers MUST be able to attend the screening in person. (submissions open in Oct)