Events 2020-2021



Sound performers Gryphon Rue and Jenn Grossman

Monday August 9 – Thursday August 12, 11pm PT

Live Sound: Jenn Grossman / Gryphon Rue
In person and live-streamed

Still from the film Jerovi, man look at his reflection in mirror

Monday July 26, 7:30pm

“What’s Happening?: 60 Years of The New American Cinema Group, INC.”
All works on 16mm film! — In-person screening only

Still from a video performance by Erica Scourti, made with her phone

Monday July 19 – Thursday July 22, 11pm PT

Erica Scourti
8 Things to be Scared of instead of Death

A live online performance and screening

Installation view of Ezra Wube's exhibition Darkness, projections on walls

Monday July 12, 7pm ET

Artist Talk: Ezra Wube
Online via live stream

Four stills from films by Robert Orlowski and Diva Martinez

Monday July 5 – Thursday July 8, 11pm PT

YES: Diva Martinez / Robert Orlowski
Curated by Devon Narine-Singh
Screening in-person and online
Q&A with the artists follows the screening

Black & white photograph of Matteo Liberatore and Amirtha Kidambi

Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1, 11pm PT

Amirtha Kidambi and Matteo Liberatore
Opening set by Lucie Vítková

Live Sound
In person & live-streamed online

Installation view of Rachel Rosheger's exhibition Gone Before You Get There, video sculptures in gallery space

Thursday May 27, 7pm ET

Artist Talk: Rachel Rosheger

Live discussion and Q&A

– Online –

Ina Archer and Terri Francis

Monday May 3, 6:30pm ET

Ina Archer in conversation with Terri Francis
— online —

Still from videos by Joiri Minaya and Tiffany Smith

Monday March 22 – Thursday March 25, 10:30pm PT

Caribbean Revisited: Works by Joiri Minaya and Tiffany Smith
Q&A with the artists at 8:30pm ET via chat

Still from a film by Joanna Raczynska

Monday March 15 – Thursday March 18, 10:30pm PT

An Evening with Joanna Raczynska
Curated by Devon Narine-Singh

Still from a video by Ezra Wube, bananas and nature

Monday March 8 – Thursday March 11, 10:30pm PT

True Fairy Tales
Works by: Kenneth Anger, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Tomi Omololu-Lange, Jonas Mekas, Michelle Nguyen, Anne Spalter, Ziyang Wu, and Ezra Wube

Yasue Maetake in her studio

Tuesday February 23, 7:30pm ET

Artist Talk: Yasue Maetake
In conversation with Paul D’Agostino


Live discussion and Q&A

– Online –

Still from a video by Holly Fisher

Monday February 8 – Tuesday February 16, 10:30pm PT

Holly Fisher: “Deafening Silence”
Live discussion w/ Holly Fisher, Maung Zarni, Pip Chodorov

In collaboration with Re:Voir / The Film Gallery

Still from a video by Antoni Pinent, qr code made with filmstrips

Monday January 25 – Thursday January 28, 10:30pm PT

Antoni Pinent
Celluloid Strips

Q&A w/ the artist on Thursday January 28, 7pm ET

Still from a video by Wenhua Shi, diving figure

Monday January 4 – Thursday January 7, 10:30pm PT

Wenhua Shi
Senses of Time

– Online screening –
Q&A via live chat with the artist at 8:45pm ET

Still from a film by Matt Town, tunnel

Monday December 7 – Thursday December 10, 10:30pm PT

Matt Town: Online Screening & Artist Talk
In connection with his solo exhibition at the gallery
Artist Talk at 8:30pm ET

Still from Overdosed a movie by Mary Sue Connolly

Monday November 30, 7:30pm ET – Thursday December 3, 10:30pm PT

Mary Sue Connolly
Overdosed

Still from a film by Jean Sousa, woman in sea water

Monday November 16 – Thursday November 19, 10:30pm PT

Jean Sousa
Where are we going?

Still from a video by Marni Kotak, kitchen room with disco light

Saturday October 31st, 1-3pm

Marni Kotak
Samhain, The Spirit of Halloween (Ajax’s 9th Birthday Party)

Stills from films by Alee Peoples and Karissa Hahn

Monday October 19 – Thursday October 22, 10:30pm PT

YES: Karissa Hahn / Alee Peoples
Q&A via live chat with the artists at 8:45pm ET

Ina Archer, artist with headphones

Saturday October 3, 7pm

Artist Talk: Ina Archer
Live discussion and Q&A
– Online –

Still from a video by Jonas Mekas, close up of Jonas Mekas

Monday September 14, 7:30pm ET – Thursday September 24, 10:30pm PT

Jonas Mekas
TAPES

The Current Thing book

Sunday December 19, 7-10pm (Postponed)

THE CURRENT THING
Edited by Caspar Stracke and Keith Sanborn

US Launch of ISSUES ONE AND TWO

Members 2020-21

Anonymous
Carlton Bright
Jon Burris
Myrel Chernick
Rachel Chodorov
John Corcoran
Faye Corthésy
Thomas Dexter
Jacque Donaldson
Danielle Dooling
Cecilia Dougherty
Meredith Drum
Alyn Evans
Sophie Fenwick
Magda Fernandez
Sylvain Flanagan
Tim Geraghty
Leo Goldsmith
Jason Isolini
Jean Kim
Алексей Ковалёв
Barbara Lattanzi
Les Leveque
Amanda Perkins
Nathlie Provosty
Lynne Sachs
Michelle Lee Salnaitis
Josh Sender
Barron Sherer
Josh Solondz
Nicholas Steindorf
Mark Street
Richard Sylvarnes
Matt Town
Michael Town
Grahame Weinbren
Matt Whitman
Kyle Williams

Friends 2020-21

Vera Dika
Tenzin Phuntsog
Michele Pierson


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Microscope’s Event Series 2021-22 is sponsored by Re:Voir, a home video label for classic and contemporary experimental film in Paris, France.