Autopoiesis will be screened twice:
– Thursday the 16th of April at 19:00
– Sunday the 19th of April at 15:00
POSTPONED
VARSITY THEATER
123 E Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Program 6: Autopoiesis
March 6, 9pm
http://www.cosmicraysfilmfest.com/
OVER AND OUT
THREE YEARS OF CINEMATIC RESISTANCE
including #YouAreASystem, aka Autopoiesis
Experimental Response Cinema presents OVER AND OUT, its third celebration of resistance to the policies of United States president #45! Cathartic as well as a call to action, this screening of short films will address the current political landscape in ways both playful and incisive. With it, we affirm creativity as a vital and needed clapback to lies, greed, bigotry and ignorance.
You’ll laugh
you’ll cry
you’ll vote him OUT November 3rd…
Image: KNEE JERK, Kerry Laitala and students in her Advanced Processing Workshop at the San Francisco Art Institute
January 17-19, 2020
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton Street
Portland, OR 97202
Including Autopoiesis and Patches of Snow in July
Screening Sunday January 19, 2:45pm
Space Time is happy to present an evening of contemporary, experimental Science Fiction videos.
Screening of works by James Fotopoulos, Lana Z Caplan, and Michael Trigilio
January 17th, 2020
at Bread & Salt
1955 Julian Ave., San Diego, CA 92113
Doors: 7:30pm, Screening: 8pm
Dignity, James Fotopoulos, (2012, 82 min.)
Autopoiesis, Lana Z Caplan, (2019, 7:20 min.)
Glimmer Exodus Overture, Michael Trigilio, (2019, 12:31 min.)
January 16-19, 2020
Including Lana Z Caplan’s Autopoiesis in the special program “Digital Detox”.
Friday 17th of January 2020 at 5:30 p.m.
“For over 30 years, the Festival has been devoted to crossing the border between cinema and media art with an adventurous international programme comprising films, workshops, Expanded Media exhibition and performances for people of all ages. The Festival’s core are the international competitions for short film, Media in Space and Network Culture – flanked by a comprehensive programme. This year’s thematic focus is “Absence”. The Festival edition is located at the interface between a media-dominated society in all its facets and all of the things falling through or getting blurred by the grid of such a society: what is not said or depicted, the things pushed aside or rejected. We are longing for absence and its traces. Like a test strip, our Festival delves into the big house of absence – placing it at the macro focus.” https://filmwinter.de/en
December 22nd and February 5th 2020
Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh
Including Lana Z Caplan’s Maelstroms and Patches of Snow in July
OPEN SSA+VAS, is presented in partnership with Visual Arts Scotland and will be the largest exhibition of contemporary art and craft to be held in Scotland this year giving an audience of over 30,000 people the opportunity to discover and enjoy artworks across all mediums.
http://cutlog.co.uk/
New Museum of Networked Art & The Wake Up! Memorial
Launching 25 December 2019
curated by Agricola de Cologne, artvideoKOELN
Lana Z Caplan’s Canaries in the Mine is included in the collection “Wake-up – Climate Change!”, part of The Wake up! Memorial project.
“NewMediaFest 2020 – an event structure to take place in an exchange between virtual and physical space – starting on 25 December 2019 in Ethiopia – running until 31 December 2020 – will honour and include all artists, curators and other cultural instances like festivals, museum , galleries etc which were collaborating with Agricola de Cologne during the past 20 years since 2000 – in the basic program online – there will be at least 12 physical venues- each month another one in another country presenting an individual Jubilee program – to be complemented by monthly features online in video, netart and soundart.” http://retro.newmediafest.org/
View the videos here: http://wake-up.engad.org/
Fri., Dec. 6, 2019
at the Small World Music Centre
180 Shaw St, Toronto, ON
Lost and Found in Late Capitalism, Curatorial Statement:
In recent years, with the election of right-wing and fascist politicians around the world, the link between fascism and capitalism has become impossible to ignore. As profit overtakes happiness as the endeavour of humanity and austerity becomes the way of the land, the citizens of the modern nation have no choice but to go with the pack or get trampled in the process. Of course, since it was left to fester for so long, capitalism has reached its inevitable zenith, reaching that time that we have been warned about for decades, the age of late capitalism. Existing somewhere between apocalypse and parody, the age of late capitalism has brought about dystopian ideals presented to its subjects as standard societal practices. No longer will people fight for their own rights, because their rights have been established as unrealistic, their fighting as criminal. Late capitalism is the current state of affairs. It cannot be stopped, unless people wake up to it, become aware of it. Perhaps the response from the art world could help that occur.
That is the idealistic background for Pleasure Dome’s Lost and Found in Late Capitalism, a response to this stage of late capitalism by using its own products. While capitalism continues to destroy our environment, wage wars on our people, and destroy our social fabric, this program will attempt to speak truth to power by speaking power’s language. This program consists of a series of short videos constructed from found footage, coming from a variety of formats, sources and levels of legality. These videos use footage from Hollywood films, business promotional videos, public domain artefacts and military footage to tell stories of life under the thumb of capitalism. It is through this re-appropriation of the products of capitalism that today’s artists can attempt to come to terms with the struggle of living under an unquestionable dictatorial system.
Beyond Human, Pete Burkeet (Ohio, USA), 2018.
Mad as Hell, Emily Pelstring (Kingston, ON, CND) and Meg Remy (Toronto, ON, CND), 2017.
Gone Sale, Matt Meindl (USA), 2018.
Public Domain, Jason Britski (SK,CND), 2018.
A Feverish Fascination, Imogen Clendinning, (Windsor, ON, CND), 2018.
Music of Desire, Kristin Reeves (KY, USA), 2016.
Painting with the Man, Freya Björg Olafson (Toronto, ON, CND), 2017.
What is an Object, Stephanie Deumer (NY, USA) 2015.
Maelstroms, Lana Z Caplan (CA, USA), 2015.
Flat Pyramid, Kevin Doherty (NY, USA), 2017.
Lost and Found in Late Capitalism
including Lana Z Caplan’s play and repeat
‘Connect’ Video arts program
November 22nd, 2019
at the In Absentia Digital Pavilion
Cineporto Foggia, Italy
sponsored by Apulia Film Commission
https://www.facebook.com/InAbsentiaDigitalPavilion/
including Lana Z Caplan’s Patches of Snow in July and Maelstroms
program details here
more information: http://www.mobius.org/aevents/2019/10/31/manifest-dismantling-boston-cyberarts
facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1061362700861472
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY 1
curated by the magical Craig Baldwin
Other Cinema
@ ATA Gallery
992 Valencia St, San Francisco
November 2, 2019
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY 1
SCOTT STARK + TOMMY BECKER + BILL BAIRD + LANA Z CAPLAN +
A Live A-V luv-fest fer sure, with distinctive, daring demonstrations of creative expression from four of Cali’s leading media-artists! Prodigal son Scott Stark proffers a para-cinema set featuring the premiere of CLYPPS and his in-house 35mm scope projector, while twinkling SLO satellite Lana Z Caplan orbits back with the NorCal launch of her 35mm piece Apollonian Light and her Autopoiesis short. SF stalwart Tommy Becker sets up screen-left with the debut of his Side Two of Tape Number One–music and poetry exploring our entangled relations with auto-mobile machines. AND here’s the unveiling of The Cube by ex-Austinite Bill Baird–musical performance-art inside a projection-mapped tent! PLUS a sprinkling of cine/sonic tricks by Ryan Worsley, Bruce Haack, Brett Ingram, et al. Dizzying documentation of Brown/Gruffat’s Unsettling Texas film–performance follows Russ Forster‘s theremin busking.
“Other Cinema is a long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in San Francisco’s Mission District. We are inspired and sustained by the ongoing practice of fine-art filmmaking, as well as engaged essay and documentary forms. But OC also embraces marginalized genres like “orphan” industrial films, home movies, ethnography, and exploitation, as media-archeological core-samples, and blows against consensus reality and the sterility of museum culture.” http://www.othercinema.com/
We are delighted to welcome multimedia artist Lana Z Caplan to present a Canyon Cinema Salon screening at 16 Sherman Street in San Francisco. Caplan has curated a program that elegantly weaves films from Canyon’s deep catalog along with her poignant and visually rich work.
“Chosen from subconscious memories and deep influences, the films in this program relate to the ideas and approaches that I have been wrestling with in my own work: harmony and disharmony with the rhythms and gifts of earth — persuasive and abusive use of media — ritual, ceremony, mysticism — and the fleeting preciousness of it all. ” – Lana Z Caplan
As always, this event is free and open to the public, with refreshments served beginning at 7:00 and the doors closed for the start of the show at 7:30. An informal conversation with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
Program includes:
Kalendar by Naomi Uman (2008, 12 min, 16mm)
A Depression in the Bay of Bengal by Mark Lapore (1996, 28 min, 16mm)
My Name is Oona by Gunvor Nelson (1969, 10 min, 16mm)
HedonHeathen 1 by Lana Z Caplan (2013, 2 min, HD)
Aspect by Emily Richardson (2004, 9 min, 16mm)
Patches of Snow in July by Lana Z Caplan (2017, 8 min, HD)
http://canyoncinema.com/about/canyon-cinema-salon/1112019-a-salon-with-lana-z-caplan/
16 Sherman Street, SF, CA
Facebook Event
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image
October 18 – 19, 2019
including Autopoiesis
Spool Contemporary Art Space
138 Baldwin Street
Johnson City, NY 13790
United States
http://www.transientvisions.org/
22nd Annual Festival
Victoria, BC, Canada
October 16 – 26, 2019
including Autopoiesis
October 23, 6-9pm
Reeves Theater
University of Tampa
At the intersection of art and technology the artists selected for CONNECT 2019 are experimenting with space, time, form and sound while re-examining the way we communicate ideas and tell stories.
The eighteen artists represent thirteen countries and a variety of styles and processes. The results range from sensual abstraction to the strange visual effects of computer coding.
The work addresses personal, social and political issues relevant to our times.
Our common thread is an interest in expanding the concepts of art/film/technology and exploring the medium itself. We initially connected via Internet – Facebook / YouTube / Vimeo.
Most of us have never met in person but we have established a strong camaraderie through shared screenings around the world and/or our common love of the moving image.
Dee Hood, Curator, CONNECT 2019
http://www.videoartes.org/lana-z-caplan/
AGITATE:21C on FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/2964836420208278/members/
Sept 20-21, 2019
624 North Victory Boulevard
Burbank, CA 91502
Including Autopoiesis
http://vastlab.org/experimental19/
Including Patches of Snow in July
COMMUNITY
curated by Lili White
Anthology Film Archives
2nd and 2nd, NYC
July 17, 2019. 6:00 PM
with works by Lana Z Caplan, Evelin Stermitz, Giselle Chien, Meredith Moore, Sarah Harbridge, Caryn Cline & Linda Fenstermaker, Morrison Gong, Lisa Danker, Karissa Hahn, Maureen Zent
including Autopoiesis (still above) – US Premiere!
Tuesday, July 16th at Böttgerstraße 13, Berlin
Artists Without a Cause invites you to join us for our film screening “Consciousness of Changing Climate”! Featured films surround the topic of climate change and human relationships with this issue. This screening aims to explore, familiarize, and bring awareness to the environments around us. Along with this, AWAC and featured artists hope to show both abstract and direct examples of how climate change is effecting humans and other ecological functions.
– “Oro Blanco” by Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez
– “Questions for a Dinosaur” by Rachel Garber Cole
– “Panorama Panik Botanik” by Vera Sebert
– “Techno Inferno” by Farhanaz Rupaidha
– “Patches of Snow in July” by Lana Z Caplan
– “Totem” by Alex MacKenzie
video still from Patches of Snow in July
San Diego Art Institute
Curated by Carlos Castro Arias & Sarah Trujillo-Porter, Deviate / Landscape revolves around contemporary approaches to artmaking that deal with the idea of landscape as a constructed and deconstructed space. The selected artists use painting, video, installation, photography and other mediums to explore landscape. The selected works use landscape as a metaphor for time and transformation but also highlight contemporary political and environmental issues.
Exhibiting Artists
Miguel Arzabe, Lana Z Caplan, Carolina Caycedo ,Remi Dalton, Ashley Fenderson, Jessica Ling Findley, Eleanor Greer, Richard Keeley, Adam Manley, Carolina Montejo, Hillary Mushkin, Arzu Ozkal, Scott Polach, Rachelle Reichert, Jon Rodley, Daniel Ruanova, Ali Silverstein, Eva Struble, Bradley Tucker, Cesar Vasquez, Jevi Joe Vitug
Image: Daniel Ruanova, History of Manimals III, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist and Parque Galería CDMX
May 1-4, 2019
Prague
Including Autopoiesis
more information: http://echofluxx.org/ECHOFLUXX19/PressReleaseE19.pdf
May 24 to 27, 2019, at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
UK premiere of Autopoiesis
Viernes 29 de marzo, 18:00 hrs.
Atletas No. 2 (Estudios Churubusco).
Bodega D, PB.
Colonia Country Club.
México, D.F. 04220
Presentados por Anarchivia A.C. y ULTRAcinema
Facebook Event Page
San Antonio de Ibarra, Imbabura. Ecuador
March 21, 22, 23, 24 – 2019
FESCIASA website
Screening Maelstroms
March 15-17, 2019
Minsk, Belarus
Maelstroms is included in
Experimental Section
March 16, 2019, 18:50
Cinema Theatre «Belarus»
Ramanaŭskaja Slabada, 28
Boston, Feb. 2 & 3, 2019
Program 8: The Inner Life of Space
Lumen, Richard Ashrowan, 16mm, 2018
Girl Becomes Snow, Ryan Betschart, SD, 2017
The Future, Pamela Breda, HD, 2017
The Symphony of Names: No Man is and Island, Elizabeth Withstandley, 16mm, 2018
Re-entry , Pierre Yves Clouin, HD, 2017
Boral Pather Panchali, Alex Cunningham, HD, 2018
Gibraltar Point (transformed), Penny McCann, 16mm, 2018
Anxiety, Muge Yildiz, Super8/16mm, 2016
Gede Vizyon, Marcos Serafim, Jefferson Kielwagen and Steevens Simeon, HD, 2018
Winter’s First Moons, Kathleen Rugh, 16mm, 2018
In front of the Sea, Yaniv Touati, SD, 2017
Farewell Transmission, Mike Rollo, 16mm, 2017
Maelstroms, Lana Z Caplan, HD, 2017
Valentine’s Day at Other Cinema with “Love, Erotica and Porn”…
including Mating Call a 16mm found footage film made while an Artist-in-Residence at MCLA/MassMoCA
February 16, 2019
Other Cinema
@ATA Gallery, 922 Valencia, SF, CA
SDSU Gallery
November 15 – January 27, 2019
curated by Tina Yapelli
Reception: Downtown at Sundown
in conjunction with Musuem of Contemporary Art San Diego
November 15, 2019
including Welcome to Suzhou
“The second half of our Focus on Locus double-header features two world premieres—exquisite expanded cinema/retinal rivalry pieces by the Mission’s own Greta Snider, plus a timely revival of her epochal 16mm diary Portland, train-hopping with Ivy McClelland and Iggy Scam!
Lana Caplan breaks away from her SLO college gig to unspool a NorCal debut, Patches of Snow in July (Hawaii volcano), as well as her earlier Maelstroms (Mexico border).
In his farewell appearance, long-lost ally Alex Coppola flies in from Philly to not only open the show, but close it as well, with his world-class World Music vinyl selections, set to an absolutely sublime sampler of mid-20C personal travelogues—Glimpses of the Global South, glorious Kodachrome shot in four sites, moving east around the planet—Hong Kong, Tahiti, the Andes, and the Amazon.
As to marginal spaces in the US interior: Brea Weinreb debuts Framing History, a collective S8 remediation of home movies from Japanese internees in the Amache, Colorado camp.
PLUS: Matt McCormick’s cautionary America Nutria, on a Southern mammal now munching on Coast rhizomes!” … othercinema.com
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco
Boston Cyberarts Gallery
November 10 – December 16, 2018
Reception Friday November 16, 6-8pm
The Future of History is the second in a series of two exhibitions that present works that pair art and technology in a thought provoking and visually engaging manner. Works that address, rather than use, technology on a conceptual level are featured as well. The Future of History features work by nine artists from as far away as Pakistan to local Boston based artists. From video montage saturated with contemporary media, to uncanny landscapes imaged with a scanning electron microscope, to delicate 3D printed butterflies the works in this exhibition leverage art and technology to delve into questions about culture and the environment.
more information: https://bostoncyberarts.org/future-of-history-a-group-exhibition-of-art-and-technology/
Patches of Snow in July
Saturday November 17, 2018
Program curated by Théo Deliyannis and Collectif Jeune Cinéma
AVANT TO LIVE
DEC.22: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
“For over 30 years now, the OC season has been consummated with an energized evening of radical expression and film form, with many of the artists in person (7!). Spot-lit on this round are Jeremy Rourke’s performance may two thousand and eighteen, Bryan Boyce’s Fake but True, Tim Johnson’s March of Tim, and David King’s Male Men, all world premieres with makers present. ALSO Greta Snider’s A Small Place, Julie Murray’s Wind Wire Wound, Sabine Gruffat’s A Return to the Return to Reason, Lana Caplan’s Play and Repeat, Haley McCormick’s Dancer, Mark Street’s ZOOM, Montgomery Cantsin’s Smythe, Anthony Buchanan’s I, Chris, and the No. American debuts of Michael Fleming’s Never Never Land and Bori Mate’s Silent Spring Seahorse. A Robert Todd short is also included, in memory of this lovely gentleman who has passed from our world. Closing this colossal group show is Alex Cruse and Kevin Lo (Drought Spa), with a new performance A Fume, on fractured pressures in volatility’s mouth. Fruitcake and free pencils!!” Other Cinema
Other Cinema
@ATA Gallery, 922 Valencia, SF, CA
October 11-22, 2018
Victoria, BC, Canada
Canadian Premiere of Patches of Snow in July
Program: Imperial Valley
Tuesday October 16, 7pm
Program details here
October 9-14, 2018
www.cjcinema.org
French Premiere of Patches of Snow in July
October 11, 22:00
Program Notes
Reception
September 7, 2018, 6-8pm
Gallery NAGA
67 Newbury Street, Boston
GalleryNAGA.com
Listen to podcast interview about this show
‘EMPIRICAL IDEOLOGIES September 2018 Issue‘ includes a selection of 30 films that explore activism, policy and politics around scientific and social issues.
Maelstroms available to watch for the month of September as part of the 26th issue of Labocine titled “Empirical Ideologies”.
For free access to the issue use the code: SCINEMA18
Lafayette City Center, Boston
June 10 – November 17, 2018
Reception November 17, 4 – 6pm
August 23-26, 2018
Your milage may vary
Sunday August 26, 2018, 2:30 – 4:15 pm
facebook event page
Showing Patches of Snow in July
https://www.sdundergroundarts.org/
