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Saturday
Mar232024

Transformations RPM 10th Anniversary Screening

Bathers screens in 16mm at Colgate University Tuesday, April 16th, 7:00 PM, in the program Transformations, Revolutions per Minute Festival 10th Anniversary Screening.  Filmmakers include Dianna Barrie, Richard Tuohy, Magical Approach, Kathryn Ramey, Tomonari Nishikawa, and Kathleen Rugh among others. 

Thursday
Mar142024

AgX Showcase at Emerson College

Friday, March 29, 2024, 4:00 PM, Portrait screens in a program at Emerson College SPC Theater curated by AgX member Yue Hua along with Emerson's Ellie Koo.  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.

In order to attend this event, guests without an Emerson ID card must RSVP by completing the registration linked on the AgX Listing  Once your registration form is completed, your name will be added to the guest list. Please bring a photo ID with you on the day of the event.  This form will close after March 27 at 11:59 PM.

Featuring work by: Kathryn Ramey, Sarah Bliss, Douglas Urbank, Michelle Trujillo, Raymond Rea, Peaches Goodrich, Wenhua Shi, Yue Hua, Kyle Joseph Petty, Ethan WL, Brittany Gravely & Ken Linehan, Alison Folland, Marie Li, and David Bendiksen.  This event is organized as part of a year-long celebration of the 100th birthday of 16mm film, organized by Malic Amalya, Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and 16mm Film Production at Emerson College. This program is sponsored by GSO, a graduate student organization for film and media art at Emerson College, led by President Claire Maske.

Poster design by Tomás Orrego

Thursday
Nov302023

Krakow Witkin Gallery AIDS Benefit Exhibition

Most years since 2010 and including this year I have donated an artwork to the Krakow Witkin Gallery for its Annual AIDS Benefit.  The Benefit goes live at exactly 10:00 AM EST Saturday, December 2.  Each work is available for a $350 donation which supports the Dimock Center’s Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS program.  I contributed a collage of ink and masking tape on paper stained with coffee.
Monday
Nov132023

Solo Artist Screening, RPM Festival

The Revolutions per Minute Festival in collaboration with the Brattle Theatre presents a dozen of my short films followed by a Q&A, moderated by filmmaker and performer, Alison Folland.

Bathers, 16mm, B&W, sound, 2019, 03:45
Oracle, 16mm, color, sound, 2014, 07:20
Portrait, 16mm, B&W, silent, 2017, 05:15
Small, 16mm, B&W, silent, 2023, 04:30
Cartoon Dream, 16mm to video, color, silent, 2023, 05:45
Hotel Cassiopeia: Algiers part 1, video, color, sound, 2013, 03:45
Splash, 16mm to video, color, sound, 2012, 02:40
Skate, 16mm to video, B&W, sound, 2019, 03:00
Cryptogram (v.5) 16mm to video, color, silent, 2022, 04:40
Move, 16mm to video, B&W, sound, 2021, 04:40
3 Notes to a Redwood Tree, 16mm to video, color, sound, 2023, 09:30
Sojourn, 16mm to video, color, sound, 2010, 01:50
   
Sunday, December 3, at 2:00 PM
The Battle Theatre | 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge Massachusetts | https://brattlefilm.org/
   

Wednesday
Sep132023

Wolff on Composition at NEC

Non-Event and the New England Conservatory present Wolff on Composition, a film by AgX member, Ernesto Livon-Grosman. This rare document of composer Christian Wolff (b. 1934) — a key figure in the history of American experimental music — traverses the compositional terrain of the youngest member of the New York School who brought the I Ching to Cage and would develop his own radical take on indeterminacy in music. 


Featuring interviews with Wolff as well as fellow experimental musicians and composers Michael Pisaro, Nicolas Collins, Michael Parsons, Robyn Schulkowsky, Amy Beal and Larry Polansky, the film is a contemplative, articulate exploration into the philosophy and politics embedded within Wolff’s composition, illustrated by his beautiful — and often intentionally cryptic — scores, the interpretation of which ensures a collaboration between composer and performer and listener. Attentively conspiring with Wolff’s synergistic, variable art, the film’s own formal experimentation threads landscape as a key narrative element of its spacious cinematography.  


Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 8:00 PM

NEC Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theater 

255 St. Botolph St. Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Film at 8 PM followed by a post-screening discussion featuring Christian Wolff, Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Susanna Bolle, Katarina Miljkovic, and Steve Drury

Admission: Free

 

Writer/Director: Ernesto Livon-Grosman  •  Director of Photography: Robert Todd  •  Drone camera: Benjamin Shumlin  •  Sound: Bill Wirasnik  •  Editor: Ramiro Antico  •  Narrator: Susanna Bolle  •  Experimental film: Douglas Urbank  •  Original soundscapes: Fernando Kabusacki  •  Graphic Design: Marto Álvarez