In celebration of the publication of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-2000 the Pacific Film Archive and San Francisco Cinematheque present a landmark exhibition of experimental film and video.

Short Description: MOMA presents six programs of films inspired by the New York School in conjunction with the Abstract Expressionist New York exhibition.

The Naropa Press’ journal Bombay Gin devotes a special issue to the Anthology of American Folk Music.

For the first time a building has been designated as historic because of its connection to the Anthology of American Folk Music.

The University of Chicago presents an evening of avant-garde films from the 1960s including Heaven and Earth Magic, Peyote Queen and Third Eye Butterfly.

The Pompidou center hosts a screening of Early Abstractions accompanied by rare footage.

Anthology Film Archives presents an evening of films by Harry Smith, including Early Abstractions, Mirror Animations, Late Superimpositions and Oz, The Tin Woodman’s Dream.

Mara Goldwyn contributes the essay “Harry Smith: ‘The Paracelsus of the Chelsea Hotel” to Network Awesome.

Curated by Thomas Beard, The Unfinished Film includes works by Harry Smith, Ken Jacobs, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

The Barbican Art Gallery includes Heaven and Earth Magic in its exhibition Watch Me Move: The Animation Show.

The Northwest Film Forum, Sprocket Society and Third Eye Cinema present Visions: Animation and Abstraction, 1908 to 1994 a series of experimental animation masterworks.

APK Live presents a screening of Heaven and Earth Magic with live musical accompaniment by Ian Doig Phaneuf (A Person Disguised as People), Patrick Cahill (The riderless) and Jeremy Ive (A Priori, Exit 2012).

The Warsaw Film Festivals presents Rani Singh’s documentary The Old Weird America: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.

The BFI presents Visionary Animation, a series of films by influential American experimental animators.

Elk Creek Café and Ale Works and Chicken Tractor Deluxe host the 4th Annual Harry Smith Festival with bands performing music from Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Proceeds will benefit the Penns Valley Hope Fund.

The Filmmaker’s Cooperative hosts a benefit featuring live musical performances by Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson and a screening of films by Harry Smith, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs and others.

American Standard Time, Ball of Wax and the Seattle Folk Festival present “A Tribute to Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.”

Anthology of American Folk Music inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame.