…… Trash [Andy Warhol's Trash] is the second film in a trilogy, written and directed in 1970 by filmmaker Paul Morrissey. Probably the most original film and the freest of this trilogy, Trash is an icon, a cult object that reflects the climate of American culture immortalized by the famous New York underground cinema scene. Trash has destroyed classic Hollywood conventions while adopting a new style itself full of clichés……STILLS FROM TRASH is on view January 14 to February 25 at the Galerie Françoise Paviot.

Catherine Deneuve will receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 39th Chaplin Award on Monday, April 2, 2012 in New York City. The annual gala is the Film Society’s largest annual fundraiser, benefiting the ongoing programs of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. At an Alice Tully Hall ceremony, an array of notable guests and celebrities will salute Catherine Deneuve. The evening will include films clips and a party to celebrate Deneuve’s career in cinema.

a film by Dawid Pietraszewski & Aga Turowska, starring Jeany Kicz

Los Angeles Film Forum presents Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles 1945 – 1980, an exploration of the community of filmmakers, artists, curators and programmers who contributed to the creation and presentation of experimental film and video in Southern California in the postwar era. This website is the culmination of three years of research into the archives of film venues and organizations, the recording of 35 oral histories, and the creation of a database, the first of its kind, which catalogs the films, exhibitions, organization, and people active during this prolific era in experimental film and video making. Alternative Projections is part of Los Angeles’ sweeping exhibition of art in Los Angeles called Pacific Standard Time. Upcoming screenings of note include Strange Notes and Nervous Breakdowns: Punk and Media Art, 1974-1981, a collection of rarely screened performances by punk bands of the era, performance art, and D.I.Y. works by the Screamers, X, Suburban Lawns, Black Flag, Los Plugz, Johanna Went, and more (MOCA Ahmanson Theater, MOCA, 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012) on view January 12 at 7 p.m.

A fashion film for PREEN by Thornton Bregazzi PRE-FALL 2012/2013 directed by Nick Dorey and starring Marique Schimmel.

A fashion film by Carrie and Carl entitled Film 02 about Twincest or twins who are in a physical incestuous relationship.

Sex, eroticism and Judaism – Israeli artist Jacque Katmor, who is all but forgotten today, is the subject of a retrospective of sorts at the Nachum Gutman Museum of Art in Tel Aviv starting January 13. Katmor, who died in 2001, will undoubtably be an artist posthumously appreciated for his genius.  Somewhat of a Kenneth Anger of the Israeli unground cinema movement in the 1960s, Katmor was a leader of the artist collective Third Eye. Erotically charged, drug induced, and psychedelic, Katmor’s art and films dealt with not only a rapidly changing zeitgeist, but also Jewish identity and Kabbalistic mysticism. “Jacque Katmor is Wishing You a Good Death” is on view at the Nachum Gutman Museum of Art from January 13 to May 19, Shimon Rokach st 21, Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv.

Film still by Adarsha Benjamin