Swish Sway Swish (2026) by TT Takemoto
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 7:00 pm
Black Hole Collective Film Lab
Presented in association with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Admission: $18 General / $12 Cinematheque Members
Event tickets here
Alternative Visions
September 9–November 18, 2026
This fall BAMPFA’s long-running annual series of historical and contemporary experimental film includes the work of dozens of artists across ten programs, beginning with a program of cinematic investigations into automation and AI with Gibbs Chapman in person. The series continues into November with a program of films made by members of the Oakland-based Black Hole Collective Film Lab. Brydie O’Connor is in person with her archival portrait of queer experimental film pioneer Barbara Hammer. The late Marjorie Keller’s intimate 16mm films have a rare screening to mark the publication of a new book about her work. Artist Naeem Mohaiemen presents and discusses A Missing Can of Film (2025) in conjunction with BAM’s exhibition Private Frontiers. A selection of works made by COUSIN collective artists, including Sky Hopinka’s 2017 consideration of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and Lindsay McIntyre’s film about caribou and lichen—made using those materials in the photographic process—screen with Lebanese artist Christophe Katrib’s This Dissonance (2024). Harun Farocki’s influential 2003 essay film War at a Distance and Gazan artist Mahmoud Alhaj’s recent videos examine how perception can be limited in the context of war and/or conflict. (Kate MacKay, Film Curator)
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Alternative Visions, program 10: Black Hole Collective Film Lab
In Person: Members of Black Hole Collective Film Lab
Black Hole Collective Film Lab (BHCFL) began in 2014 as an effort to provide an affordable community photochemical lab in Oakland (situated on unceded Chochenyo and Ohlone territory). It is part of a growing international network of artist-run film labs working toward the reclamation of the means of production from a rapidly disappearing industry in order to preserve and make accessible an endangered tradition of art making. This screening brings together films made by collective members past and present, footage from group workshops taught by members and visiting artists, and documentation of the lab’s evolution through multiple moves over more than a decade. (Black Hole Collective Film Lab)
SCREENING:
Contact Printer Film (2023) by Black Hole Collective Film Lab (U.S.); B&W, silent, 3 minutes. Source: Black Hole Collective Film Lab. Auricon Test Film (2019) by Black Hole Collective Film Lab (U.S.); 16mm, B&W, 2 minutes. Source: Black Hole Collective Film Lab. Arapadaptor (I Feel So) (2003) by Anna Geyer (U.S.); 16mm, color, 5 minutes. Source: Canyon Cinema. Light Isle (2019) by Matt Hidy (U.S.); 16mm, color, 4 minutes. Source: Matt Hidy. ailleurs (2026) by tooth (U.S.); 16mm, B&W/color, 8 minutes. Source: tooth. Make America Go Away (2026) by Kate Dollenmayer (U.S.); 16mm, B&W/color, 2 minutes. Source: Kate Dollenmayer. three feet to the left (2026) by Zack Parinella and Seth Neill (U.S.); 16mm, color, 3 minutes. Sources: Zack Parinella and Seth Neill. Untitled Bee Film (2019) by Nicky Tavares (U.S.); 16mm, B&W/color, 5 minutes. Source: Nicky Tavares. Flow Attachment (2026) by Tijana Petrovic (U.S.); digital, B&W/color, 9 minutes. Source: Canyon Cinema. 100 Years (2023) by Emily Chao (U.S.); 16mm, color, silent, 3 minutes. Source: Canyon Cinema. torsion (conservation of momentum 4) (2025) by Vaibhav Sutrave (U.S.); 16mm, B&W, silent, 1 minute. Source: Vaibhav Sutrave. Shadow Film (2026) by Silvia Turchin (U.S.); 16mm, B&W, silent, 3 minutes. Source: Silvia Turchin. Tulip Trestle (2008/21) by Seth Mitter (U.S.); 16mm, B&W, 5 minutes. Source: Seth Mitter. Untitled Lab Film (2019) by Patricia Ledesma Villon (U.S.); 16mm, B&W, silent, 1 minute. Source: Patricia Ledesma Villon. Workshop Footage by Black Hole Collective Film Lab (U.S.); 16mm, color, silent, 2 minutes. Source: Black Hole Collective Film Lab. J’adore Venise (2026) by Carter Hiett (U.S.); B&W, silent, 3 minutes. Source: Carter Hiett. Film Quilt (2026) by Amy Reid (U.S.); digital, color, silent, 2 minutes. Source: Amy Reid. GIVE ME THE MONEY (2025) by Vida Behar (U.S.); digital, color, 8 minutes. Source: Vida Behar. Battery Eupocalyptus (2025) by Clare Schweizer (U.S.); digital, color, 3 minutes. Source: Clare Schweizer. Pepper Tree (Palos Verdes)/Siberian Elm (Amache) (2026) by Corey Ohama (U.S.); digital, B&W/color, 2 minutes. Source: Corey Ohama. Swish Sway Swish (2026) by TT Takemoto (U.S.); digital, color, 7 minutes. Source: Canyon Cinema.
TRT: 82 minutes