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    It's been a wild time for limited-time streaming screenings--I'm curious how people are keeping track of what comes up, is there a centralized listing anywhere? Most of what crosses my radar gravitates toward arthouse/experimental stuff, but early on in the pandemic there was that amazing few days when the Spanish Film Archive put up Jess Franco's Vaya luna de miel, and now that Cinephobe.tv is back in action, they have gloriously eclectic programming.

    Just this week I came across the National Gallery of Art's NYC experimental shorts collaboration with Film-Makers' Coop and William E. Jones' The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography at the last second, and tomorrow at noon east coast US time is the rare 1971 video documentary Transsexuals.

    Oh, and UCLA Film and Television Archive had a neat hourlong set of shorts related to the 1970 Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, which I believe stays up through next Monday--modest but rare work here including a local TV show dealing with generational tension within a Chicano family, not the greatest material ever shot but historically valuable.

    I think I know of all of these only from spending too much time on Facebook and Twitter though--what else should people be looking out for, and where?

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    This thread didn't quite take off, but there's still a lot of limited-time free programming going on--Media Burn has put Transsexuals (1971) back up for two weeks, Oct. 16-30, and I really recommend it to anyone interested in trans film, it's a compelling look at how trans issues were articulated in that moment: https://vimeo.com/465133463

    Also the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern Univerity's Liberating History: Arab Feminisms and Mediated Pasts has been excellent so far--Leila and the Wolves (1984) and The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011) offered very different but thematically linked meditations on women's roles in Lebanese and Egyptian cultural/political history. This coming Thursday is a 24-hour run of the Tunisian Fatma 75 (1975), I'll be tuning in: https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern...ted-pasts.html

    Oh, and UCLA Film & Television Archive continues to highlight some amazing treasures--Efraí­n Gutiérrez's gritty, low-budget Chicano landmark Please, Don't Bury Me Alive! / ¡Por Favor, No Me Entierren Vivo! (1976) has been really rare (I had to make an interlibrary loan request to see it a few years ago), but is currently up on their Vimeo--not sure for how long, but anyone interested in 1970s independent film REALLY needs to check it out! https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2...-bury-me-alive

    Still interested in other recommendations on this front!

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    • #3
      Whit, Thank You For This Thread

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        Agreed, I don't have much to contribute, but it does make for some interesting reading/screening.

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