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.

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/

   

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

Automata presents Elemental Findings

Move screens at Automata in Los Angeles in the program Threshold to Threshold: Elemental Findings, Highlights from the Revolutions per Minute Festival.  Including films by Stephanie Barber, Karel Doing, Youjin Moon, Tomonari Nishkawa, Kathryn Ramey, Curry Tian, Silvia Turchin, and Sasha Waters.  This program is organized by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, the curator of Automata's Threshold to Threshold film series.  

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 8:00 PM.

Austrian and American Structural Film

Portrait screens as part of the program “Notes After Long Silence” On Austrian and American Structural Film, curated by Nicole Prutsch, Mike Piso, and Wenhua Shi, and presented by Revolutions Per Minute Fest and Millennium Film Workshop.  Filmmakers include Peter Kubelka, Paul Sharits, Kurt Kren, Leslie Thornton, Virgil Widrich, Philipp Fleischmann, Saul Levine, Eve Heller, Jodie Mack, Mónica Sávirón, Mike Piso, Björn Kämmerer, Dietmar Offenhuber, and Viktoria Schmid.

Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 8:00 PM

Revolutions Per Minute Festival, UMass Boston, University Hall 2300, Boston, MA

Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 7:30 PM

Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 

Supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, UMass Boston, and Millennium Film Workshop.