Tone Glow is excited to present "He Never Dies," a showcase of nine films from Kalil Haddad and Luther Price. Haddad is one of the most expressive and imaginative experimental filmmakers today, drawing on a wide variety of influences—1970s gay porn magazines, vaporwave aesthetics, Italian exploitation films—to explore queer life in raw, radical fashion. His short films blend the archival and personal to rework the visual language of gay desire, uncovering deep material truths about sex, labor, and class.
Tone Glow is excited to announce “Little Histories: The Films of Greta Snider,” a career-spanning retrospective of the Bay Area filmmaker. Since the 1990s, Snider has weaved found footage and documentary into stirring montages rife with hand-processed footage, optical printing, and diaristic narration. Inspired by the modest portraiture of Curt McDowell’s Ronnie (1972), she felt empowered to make works that could transform small, personal stories into history.
Tone Glow and Employees Only are excited to present “Grin and Bear It: Cinema of the Dark Clown,” a multimedia event centered on the figure of the dark clown in experimental moving image.
Tone Glow is excited to announce “So Lovely to Be,” a seven-film retrospective of the works of Sandra Davis. Based in San Francisco, the avant-garde filmmaker has spent the past 50 years constructing works of arresting beauty and elegant poeticism. Her approach to editing was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach, taking influence from the harpsichord’s short decay and the fugal form to ensure that her every successive image shapes one’s understanding of all previous ones.
Tone Glow is excited to announce “Unknown Nostalgia,” the first complete retrospective of Will Hindle’s filmography. Will Hindle (1929-1987) was an American filmmaker whose striking and innovative use of experimental film techniques led to the creation of a small but mighty body of work. Born in Louisiana and later relocating to Los Angeles, he grew up with an actress mother, which led to him having various stints as a child actor. He would attend Stanford University, live in San Francisco, and then relocate to rural Alabama.
Tone Glow is excited to announce “On the Move,” two programs of avant-garde dance films and road movies that will take place on Sunday, October 13th at 2PM and Monday, October 14th at 7PM. Screenings will be held at Sweet Void Cinema in Chicago. These films showcase a wide range of styles and ideas regarding the notion of a “dance film” and “road movie,” finding ways to complicate and expand their meaning. The intent is to further encourage contemplation of these works through their juxtapositions.
Dates:
Sunday, October 13, 2024 (All day) to Monday, October 14, 2024 (All day)
Tone Glow is excited to announce “You Wouldn’t Steal a Movie,” a program featuring 10 found-footage experimental films. The event will be held at Sweet Void Cinema in Chicago on Saturday, September 14th at 7pm. Throughout history, avant-garde filmmakers have recycled, repurposed, and reimagined older images into their own liking. In culling from a diverse array of sources—advertisements and educational films, newsreels and major motion pictures—they’ve constructed novel works that prove spellbinding in their new contexts.
Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on FRIDAY, MAY 26th, at 7pm, for an engaging program of films relating dance, color, and movement by Tone Glow's Joshua Minsoo Kim!
