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Fri March 14 - LUIS MACIAS "YOUR EYES ARE SPECTRAL MACHINES" (16mm & 35mm multi-projector film 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 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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Tues April 1 - [poetry reading] CHRISTINE KELLY + DAISY ATTERBURY + ERIN MICKELSON + SCOTT NICOLAY - Celebrate the release of Christine Kelly's Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025), a book the artist Luke Fischbeck describes as "Administrative kink at its ripest. Brutal and dewy, slapstick sutures to cover the boundary between having and being a body." ~ In a special No Name Cinema performance, Kelly reinterprets Allow Me under the guise of a Human Resources trickster. Peddling convoluted systems of insurance—or psychic containment and exchange—in props and "informative" posters, Kelly convinces us to buy in to not buying in.

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Fri April 4 - 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 offering 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 April 19 - K/S/R Already in Heaven (free improv trio, dual 16mm + dual 35mm slide projectors + live sound) K/S/R (the trio of Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith, and Justin Rhody) have been performing expanded cinema works and recording since 2021. The trio have previously performed at Other Cinema, Highlands University, Shapeshifters Cinema, University of New Mexico, the firehouse, and the Light Matter Film Festival. Their music was recently featured on the legendary Coast to Coast AM radio program and in 2025 they will be releasing a 2xCD, cassette, 5" record, full length LP, and play shows in the Southwest, Midwest and East Coast. + JOHNNY WOODS necropotence (doom drone + hi-con b&w film projections) Johnny Woods is an animator and musician living in Pecos, NM. Necropotence combines sundry audiovisual aesthetics from occult rituals, black metal, and new age philosophies in an attempt to summon ancient nature spirits for a liturgy of forced rebirth. + a. stone transinfinite (talking / tapes + camcorder projections) + with opening short film, Maspeth is America (new super-8 work by Benjamin Kujawski ~ filmmaker in attendance from The Catskills) A semi-fictional working class lamentation captured on the outskirt industrial areas of New York City. Photographed on gritty black and white Super 8, the film reverberates the sentiments of a worker grinding away another day in a  never-ending cycle of generational labor. + record release event for K/S/R's new 2xCD!

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Fri May 2, 5-8pm - MEGAN MIRRO [art exhibition opening reception] - Wall-hanging ceramics by Oakland California-based artist. Refreshments provided.​​​

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Fri May 30 - 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 late April 2025)

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Fri June 13 - the short films of MATT WHITMAN - Whitman has been making short works on motion picture film since 2010. Mainly silent and often edited in-camera, his films over the last ten years were largely generated in response to moments of grief and loss, both private and public – particularly as seen and felt through the mediation of digital interfaces and archives. ~ This program showcases his film work in chronological order starting with an early short shot on a now discontinued Super-8mm film stock and developed at lab on the Lower East Side that has since closed. While his films have been shown at festivals and other group screenings, this program of films is his first solo screening in the American West.  (filmmaker in attendance from NYC + post-screening Q&A)

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Fri June 27 - QUEEN OF DIAMONDS (Nina Menkes, 1991, 77 mins, Color, Sound, 35mm to Digital)  - Over the past 30 years “cinematic sorceress” Nina Menkes has produced a visually stunning and uncompromising body of work that stands alone in the landscape of American Independent cinema. Fearlessly confronting violence, female subjectivity and isolation in iconically lensed locales ranging from the American Southwest to Israel and North Africa, Menkes work only becomes more vital and relevant with the passage of time.  ~  Produced, written, directed, and shot by Menkes, Queen of Diamonds follows the alienated life of Firdaus (played by the director's sister and early muse, Tinka Menkes), as a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world unfolds as a fragmented but hypnotic interplay between repetition and repressed anger.

Shot with a beautiful compositional rigor echoing Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, Queen of Diamonds is a remarkable and demanding masterpiece of American independent filmmaking. Heralded as one of the most challenging and subversive filmmakers working today, the restoration and re-release of this film marks the start of a new critical recognition for Menkes’ groundbreaking body of work.  ~  "[Menkes’] provocative and visually arresting art films hover between experimental and narrative, fearlessly exploring the alienated feminine, the subconscious and violent patriarchal outer realities…" -Sight & Sound  ~  View trailer HERE.  (presented from a new 4K restoration!)

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Sat July 12 - Soap Opera-inspired Experimental Films co-presented by PRROBLEM Press - More info TBA

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Fri Aug 8, 5-8pm - MAX NORDILE [art exhibition opening reception] - Collage by Olympia Washington-based artist & musician. Live musical performance & refreshments provided.

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Fri Sept 26 - the short films of GRETA SNIDER (filmmaker in attendance from San Francisco + post-screening Q&A)