Calendar

I did report that I might be popping in to update the Renzi calendar for those who check in, live in the right location or just want to be in the know. Here's November and what I know of December 2025, annotated.

Cathy & Harry      November 7 @5:30    Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center

There's a show up now at the Hopper House in Nyack of painters Jon Imber & Jill Hoy who, like Cathy & Harry, were an artist couple. And of course there's Edward Hopper and his (lesser known) wife Jo.

Inter Library Loan    November 9 @ 2:00    44th Asbury Short Film Concert   Phoenicia, NY

I was delighted to be invited to join the longest-running non-competitive touring exhibition of globally honored films. Curator Doug LeClaire who saw it at the Vero Beach Film Festival this past June. Hopefully, Library will be included in more venues in 2026.

Replica AND Blow Me Down     November 15 at noon    YoFiFest     Yonkers, NY

Two very different Renzi shorts in the same program in one of my favorite local fests, which has shown Renzi work 12 times in its 13 years - not bad, since my first submission was Honeymoon in 2015. That was also when Patty Schumann first discovered this genre of movement and camera which YoFi calls "dance through a lens". Patty & I have a long-running conversation about how even though my work can be seen as dance through a lens, I'm happiest when it's screened alongside other shorts.

Inter Library Loan    November 21   Dancers' Short Film Festival    London, UK

This is the first year of this festival's existence, so I can't do the frequently-screened game yet. But I'm delighted to help inaugurate yet another "dance through a lens" festival - especially since there are many long-established, rather costly ones I don't even bother with anymore!

Guardians of the Flame   November 22 Awards Gala Nat'l Ass'n for Multicultural Education

Because I was "only" the editor on the hour-long documentary Guardians of the Flame directed by Daniel Wolff, you don't hear much about it in here. Its festival run is just about over, but I'm proud to report that it won NAME's Multicultural Film Award this year. 

Replica AND Inter Library Loan   December 13-16      Athens Video Dance Project       

Not Athens, Ohio where I've also screened, nor Athens, Georgia where I haven't, this Greek fest is another where Renzi work has shown frequently over its ten-year  - 890 Broadway (2012) Wildwood (2014) and Kata (2023). In all humility, I think it might have happened even more often, except that AVDP is not listed on FilmFreeway, the site for film submissions, so in  many years I forgot to submit.  In the future maybe I can submit "old" work. I love it when fests don't prioritize recent work, because as we all know, it sometimes takes me a while to love the one you're with.