KHLOARIS Films Screen and Stream and We Get Far From Tijuana
Hey Look! It's The Athenian Mercury, Vol. 3
Welcome to the 3rd Edition of The Athenian Mercury. This will be a shorter edition, with a longer one on the horizon. We had a several week break from the festivities due to a bit of travel and few other things we needed to take care of. We plan to try to keep these bi-weekly, but let’s see what we can pull off before we go making promises.
As usual, we stay fairly active on our Instagram, and even somewhat on Twitter, so you can keep up with us there too, although we’ve been a bit inactive in those spaces as well.
Some recent and not-so-recent KHLOARIS films have been screening around at fests and on the web:
Tonight, at www.cathodetv.com, three KHLOARIS productions, “Holy Wound,” “The Bathtub,” and “Mike Diana’s Apartment” will all be screening for free. Cathode runs in Pacific Standard Time and announces fairly late, so keep an eye on their Instagram for updates; we don’t even know the exact times yet!
We do know that the films will be screening as part of a block curated by our friend Joshua Rievel (who did the lovely art for tote bag that’s still available), and we hope to go screen this stuff in real life with Joshua in Pittsburgh, PA, sometime during 2022. This will actually be the online streaming debut of our mini-doc “Mike Diana’s Apartment,” which played at the “Mike Diana Movie Night” we curated at Mike’s NYC Superchief solo show, and as part of the noise/food/art/music/film “Freak Flag Festival,” which KHLOARIS curated the film for.“The Bathtub" and “Holy Wound” are part of the 2022 Film Maudit 2.0. “The Bathtub” is part of their Treasure Cove of Animations program, which screened in LA at Highways Performance Space & Gallery on Jan. 15th. "Holy Wound" is part of their Poetic Pictorialism program, which screened in LA at Highways Performance Space & Gallery on Jan. 16th. Both programs should still be available at Film Maudit’s website.
KHLOARIS has screened with Film Maudit 2.0 before, and they’re doing some great stuff. Quoth their artistic director:
Film Maudit 2.0 is inspired by French avant-garde filmmaker and writer Jean Cocteau who created the original Festival du Film Maudit (literally “cursed films”) in 1949 aiming to celebrate overlooked, shocking and experimental films.“There is a connecting spirit to all of the works in Film Maudit 2.0, each selected to engage a different facet of the cinematic imagination,” says Festival Artistic Director Patrick Kennelly. “These radical “cinema-sations” are guaranteed to not just entertain, but to challenge the mind and shock the senses.
“The Bathtub” is now available to be screened as part of the Found Film Festival’s “Super Long Play Club.”
The KHLOARIS productions “Swallow Sperm” and “Holy Wound” were due to screen live in Nashville at the ZTV Fest, but the live screening has been postponed, and the program will move online. Check out www.ztvfilmfest.com for more details as they emerge.
“The Bathtub” was also part of the January 2022 “Scream It Off Screen” short film competition which can still be screened here.
The next edition of the Athenian Mercury coming on the heels of this one will include prose from Giuseppe Ruffo, the curator and gallerist from Naples. And in the pipeline: more work from frequent KHLOARIS collabs Josafat Concepcion and Twiggs Gorie; ruminations and sounds from the trash-digging musicologist Hefner Kliment; hopefully something from our friend Joshua Rievel; a censorship special edition; and way, way more.
Get in touch if you want to contribute, or just want to say hi.
Thanks for reading.
-Kenneth Pleasure, Editor-in-Chief, The Athenian Mercury
Greetings from Tijuana, Chapter 2: Far From Tijuana!
The Serialized Photo Novella Continues…
By Josafat Concepcion
To be continued…
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