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Join the AgX Film Collective during Waltham Mills Open Studios for an after hours screening program of recent works by AgX members, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers.
Join us for a rare opportunity to view a collection of works by visiting Estonian animator Ülo Pikkov in person, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker hosted by AgX member Bryan Parcival.
In the Abortion Clinic Film Collective series, we hear from medical directors and staff, mothers and daughters, criminal defense attorneys and advocates, about how their personal and professional lives have been affected post-Dobbs. Each portal provides a window into the broad and life-threatening ramifications of that Supreme Court decision and its devastating legacy for the health and well-being of our country.
Join us for a screening featuring 14 films from current and prior AgX Film Collective members filmed on 16mm and encompassing single-channel experimental films, animation, personal narratives, dual projection, and a multi-projector performance.
Filmmaking, like all art forms, has the ability to act as a powerful form of catharsis. This program includes a selection of six films relating to grief in various forms, made by experimental filmmakers from the French artist-run film labs L’Etna, L’Abominable, MTK, and Labo K. Visiting programmer Malo Sutra Fish will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
Films by AgX founding member Douglas Urbank. Sunday Dec 3 - 2PM @ The Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA. Post Screening Q&A with Alison Folland & Douglas Urbank.
Join the AgX Film Collective during Waltham Mills Open Studios for an after hours screening program of recent works by AgX members, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers.
AgX is pleased to present a program of films from the Paris-based experimental cinema workshop, l'Etna. Founded in 1997 with the expressed goals of keeping filmmaking accessible and sustainable for its local artists, l’Etna provides a space for creation, workshops and exchange around experimental cinema through regular screenings and discussions. This program features eight works spanning most of the organization's more than quarter century of existence, and is presented by current l'Etna member, Malo Sutra Fish, who will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A.
AgX is pleased to welcome the French filmmaking collective le Ratoire for a program of films including "Asphalt Splendor", an appoximately 30-minute work-in-progress shot during a recent canoe trip down the Hudson River and wholly processed using locally sourced plant materials. Followed by a Q&A.
AgX is pleased to welcome Berlin-based artist Sylvia Schedelbauer for a screening of four recent short films. Engaging largely with found and archival footage, her films negotiate the space between broader historical narratives and personal, psychological realms through poetic manipulations of the material.
Join us for the next monthly general meeting for current members. Prospective members welcome too!
Work-in-progress screenings are a chance for current AgX members to share their works-in-progress or recently finished works on film/video with the group for peer feedback in a supportive creative space.
An evening of expanded cinema and single-channel film work with New York-based filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa.
Presented by RPM Festival in Boston and curated by AgX members Nicole Prutsch, Mike Piso, and Wenhua Shi, this program traces the historical conversation of Austrian and American experimental film to the present day and explores the aesthetic and cultural limits pushed by filmmakers from both countries.
RPM and Brattle Theater present program of short experimental films by Boston-based filmmaker (and Agx member) Alison Folland. Program will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and her friend and mentor, filmmaker Jennifer Montgomery. The screening will take place on Sunday March 19th at 2 PM at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA.
A night of short films and discussion with legendary filmmaker Lynne Sachs featuring some of her works on/about/alongside women be they daughters, mentors, idols or friends.
Inland Cinema: A program of experimental film cultivated in the rich soil, dark forests and clear waters of the Great Inland North, featuring work by filmmakers based in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Six filmmakers from AgX will be streaming their films on Non-Event TV, Thursday Dec 29 from 6-11PM.
Robert Todd (1963-2018) was a profoundly creative and compassionate person who expressed raw emotion through the medium of film. His cinema had a profound influence on the international experimental film community, embracing the deep complexity of the natural world and reflecting his internal self, sometimes through multiple mirrors. “Attention Wonders” will include 5 short films by Robert Todd and will be hosted by the Brattle Theater in Cambridge.
Joshua Gen Solondz is an artist working in moving image, sound, and performance. His films have screened in many festivals and venues including Images, Toronto International Film Festival, Black Maria, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Light Industry, Harvard Film Archive, MoMA, and Black Hole Cinematheque.
Work-in-progress screenings are a chance for current AgX members to share their works-in-progress or recently finished works on film/video with the group for peer feedback in a supportive creative space.
AgX welcomes Los Angeles based, Sri Lankan artist and filmmaker, Rajee Samarasinghe for an evening of internationally acclaimed, formally adventurous short films, made digitally and on film, that explore the terrain of memory, migration, and impermanence.
Rajee Samarasinghe was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Much of his work examines sociopolitical conditions in Sri Lanka through the scope of deconstructing ethnographic practices and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. His practice was born out of a desire to understand the circumstances around his childhood. www.rajeesamarasinghe.com
Rajee Samarasinghe in attendance
Doors open at 7PM - Show at 7:30PM
Masks / facial coverings are required
Seating is limited, first-come first-served. Donations are encouraged at the door or at www.agxfilm.org.
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Virtual Q&A with Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr after the screening
Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr of Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles) will be sharing selected films from EPFC Members Karissa Hahn and Andrew Kim and the film center’s recurring, international city symphony project: THE SOUND WE SEE. Each film in THE SOUND WE SEE project is a 24 minute city symphony made by participants in EPFC workshops that have taken place in cities around the world.
PROGRAM:
Open Window by Karissa Hahn - 2016 - 2 minutes
The Sound We See: The COVID Chronicles - 2020 - 29 minutes
Society of Motion by Andrew Kim - 2015 - 3 minutes
The Sound We See: A Bukhara City Symphony - 2021 - 26 Minutes
DETAILS:
Doors open at 7PM - Show at 7:30PM
Donations are encouraged at the door or at www.agxfilm.org
Masks / facial coverings are required
Seating is limited, first-come first-served.
THE SOUND WE SEE
Initially developed as part of Echo Park Film Center’s free youth filmmaking program in Los Angeles, The Sound We See uses analog filmmaking techniques and the “City Symphony” genre practiced in the 1920s by Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov as starting points to explore communal creative process and contemporary environments.
Discovering and redefining techniques of past avant-garde urban documentarians, 37 teens with little or no prior filmmaking experience worked with 16mm cameras and black and white stock to create a stunning 24-hour cinematic journey with each hour of the day represented as one minute on film. The Sound We See: A Los Angeles City Symphony premiered with a bespoke live score performed by a talented ensemble of local musicians.
The project sparked a global “Slow Film” movement with youth and multi-generational communities in Vietnam, India, Canada, Europe, Mexico and Japan creating their own 16mm and Super 8 City Symphonies, not only shooting but processing (using both traditional and eco-friendly chemistry) and editing the film by hand, and presenting public exhibitions of the finished work in non-traditional venues. Each community pushes the process to new directions and discoveries; The Sound We See is an ongoing cinematic conversation on the relevance of handmade film in the 21st century.
Image Courtesy of Luis Macías
Door opens at 7:30. Masks / facial coverings are required.
Seating is limited, first-come first-served. Donations are encouraged at the door or at www.agxfilm.org.
AgX welcomes Spanish artist, filmmaker and image-moving composer Luis Macías for an evening of film and expanded cinema performance, as part of his U.S. tour.
Your eyes are spectral machines is a selection of films in which Luis Macías 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 ... These are parts of a filmic forms organized in closed structures allowing intermediate spaces that force/activate improvisation.
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.
Luis Macías is co-founder and active member of CRATER-Lab in Barcelona, an independent artist-run-film Lab for analog cinema.
This event is made possible by the Institut Ramon Llull for Catalan Language and Culture
After nearly a year and a half of relative quiet, the AgX Film Collective reemerges with an outdoor program of film and live sound, co-presented by our friends at Non-Event. Bringing together single and double 16mm projections, single-channel video and live sound, this program showcases a range of formal approaches and interests pursued by our members over the last several years.
At 3pm on Sunday November 8, join AgX for a free virtual screening + Q&A of recent films from its members, as a part of Waltham Mills Open Studios weekend.
Work-in-progress screenings are a chance for current AgX members to share their works-in-progress or recently finished works on film/video with the group for peer feedback in a supportive creative space.
Tara Merenda Nelson is an artist, programmer and curator living in Rochester NY. She is currently the Curator of Moving Image Collections at Visual Studies Workshop.
Description of screening:
Since leaving Boston in 2014, I haven't made many films, though I have continued to shoot 16mm and Super 8. These days I shoot just for myself, and often don't watch what I have shot for several months, if at all. Many films are still waiting to be processed. I'm not sure why I stopped. I don't know what happened.
Recently I looked back on the last few films I composed on Super 8, between 2012 and 2014, as a way to better understand where I was emotionally before I stopped making films to share with an audience. What I found was a body of work made in tribute to Anne Charlotte Robertson, who died in 2012. I didn't know Anne well but her work was a powerful influence on me, and when she died I felt a responsibility to respond to her films through my own. The films I made are failures for the most part, but not many people would know that because outside of Boston fewer and fewer people have seen her work. It's hard to explain my failures to an audience that doesn't understand what I'm measuring myself against. So this screening is a great opportunity for me to share my shortcomings with a community that understands where I'm coming from, and to take communal comfort in the fact that Anne's work lives on through our own, for better or for worse.All films shown on Super 8Titles include:
Flying Fish (2012)
Super 8
A portrait of my pregnant sister
A Field At Dawn (2013)
Super 8
Documents the beauty of a difficult year.
Shot in Ithaca, NY, 2012-2013
Last Day of Capricorn (2013)
A self portrait on my 38th birthday, which I spent alone in a strangers' apartment. Memories mixed with important messages and were sent through the pictures on the walls. Dedicated to Anne Charlotte Robertson.
Work-in-progress screenings are a chance for current AgX members to share their works-in-progress or recently finished works on film/video with the group for peer feedback in a supportive creative space.
The October work-in-progress screening for AgX members is hosted by Gen Carmel.
