ANALOGICA SELECTION 7 ///
25 Nov // MERANO Die Filmwerkstatt – Via Scuderie, 8 h 20.00 |
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News from the Sun
The Smyth Brothers 3' 07'' / 2016 / Usa / 16mm / experimental An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through the words of "The Sun", a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. 4000 single frames were exposed, unedited, and accompanied with the pulsing rhythms of the sun collected by NASA, resembling the Buddhist "Om", the sound of our universe. |
Brendan and Jeremy Smyth are 16mm experimental documentary filmmakers who explore the globe in search of cultural oddities. Their interest in visual anthropology has sent them from Mexico to Indonesia showcasing the economic plight of workers through unique methods of storytelling. The twins' work has won multiple awards and screened at notable festivals/venues around the world. The two are the directors/programmers of the Haverhill Film Festival- now in its 6th annual year. Currently, the Smyth brothers live in Durham, NC where they run a screening series called UNEXPOSED- dedicated to facilitating the growth of experimental/avant-garde cinema in the Triangle.
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Jeux de lumière / Light plays
Anne-Marie Bouchard 7'17'' / 2017 / Canada / found footage Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, experimentally animated with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon, and exotic birds, but it is, for me, more about narration, experimentation, and playfulness. |
Anne-Marie Bouchard graduated in Film Production from Concordia University, Montréal in 1995 and earned an M.A. in Arts Visuels degree from Université Laval, Québec in 1999. Since then, she directed several experimental videos and installations. Her work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it. To sense, to feel, to be immersed, and to question: her cinema is poetry.
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Hanna
Peter Klausz 7' 49'' / 2013 / Hungary / Super8 / found footage A girl's trip to her new home. During the trip, dream-like images of the past appear. |
Peter Klausz was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1987. He is interested in experimental films, collective filmmaking and the ways of using film for therapeutic purposes.
Currently he lives in Madrid. |
Eau vive - Conversation with a Cinematographer
Khristine Gillard 4' / 2015-2016 / Belgium / super8-16mm / experimental He says: "What do you see ? I want to see what you see. From where you are." She could have said that too. She thinks just a sound would sometimes make it. (random dialogues for a film to come) EAU VIVE explores the notion of latency — like something hidden, existing in a non apparent way but which could arise anytime — and the notion of emergence. It plays with the connection between the arising of a natural phenomenon and the revealing process of silver film (as a photosensitive and chemical event). It is the echo of a conversation with a cinematographer, about an ideal and insatiable cinema attempt : to synch with a landscape's internal rhythm, to share a way of looking. It is also the story of a disappearance, sudden or perpetual, and of the possible impossibility of catching things. |
Khristine Gillard filmmaker, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Founding member of LABO Bxl, artist-run filmlab. Working with sound and image, in installations, live super 8 multiprojections, photographic and other chemical experiments, or as a documentary filmmaker. She is part of the music & visual project PRAIRIE. Her performances and documentary films are screened in various international festivals and venues. |
Film Loop 31: Shisendo
Michael Lyons 1'30' / 2017 / japan- Italy / 16mm / Experimental Photographed on 16mm film at Shisendo temple in northeast Kyoto and hand-developed using matcha (powdered green tea). The soundtrack is an excerpt from 'Eunoia' by Stefano de Ponti and Elia Moretti recorded in Torino, Italy. Images from the Film Loop Series were used in studio during the recording of this track. For more info: michaellyons.xyz/film-loops depontimoretti.tumblr.com |
Michael Lyons (Canada/U.K.) is a researcher and artist based in Kyoto, Japan.
He works as a professor of Image Arts and Sciences at Ritsumeikan University, and likes to remind students that there is (much) more to life than digital technology. |
Highview
Simon Liu 19' 30'' / 2017 / Hong Kong - UK / 16mm / Experimental "Upon the North Point a torrential downpour of instants tease their way into sight, but never fully form. Shutter-induced memories reduced to speckles, dissipating into fog. Here, my initial disappointments in a material defect morph into opportunity - satisfying an itch to melt instances together, to see any number of places as one. I want to go home. These images were meant to show us what goes where but I can't make out the path. Maybe we should lay the pieces out on the floor and try to put them back together. In another five days I'll need to leave" -- Simon Liu “Personal moments are lost in film cuttings or disappear into a coloured fog only to suddenly reappear in a new constellation. This is the visual richness of Highview: four, partially overlapping, 16mm images that fully coalesce into a colourful abstract painting but also create a narrative as an exploded montage.” — Description from the International Film Festival Rotterdam |
Simon Liu was raised between Hong Kong and Stoke-On-Trent, UK and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His work has also been presented at institutions and festivals internationally. His most recent 16mm multiple projection piece, "Cluster Click City Sundays", premiered as a part of DREAMLANDS: EXPANDED, an expanded cinema series held at Microscope Gallery in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as a part of the exhibition “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art, 1905 - 2016”.
He is a member of Negativland Motion Picture Lab, an artist-run film lab where he prints, processes and completes his films on 16mm. |
All Flesh Is Grass
Caryn Cline 12' / 2017 / Usa / 16mm / Exp "All Flesh Is Grass" experimentally documents a prairie restoration site in rural Missouri. |
Originally from the Missouri Ozarks, Caryn Cline is a filmmaker and teacher who has been making films and videos for 20 years. She works with found footage, shoots 16mm film, creates handmade direct animation “botanicollage” film and often combines these elements on an optical printer. The haptic qualities of the materials and the process are important aspects of her filmmaking. She lives and works in Seattle, WA.
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the Garden of Delight
Michael Fleming 11' 36'' / 2017 / the Netherlands / super8, found footage, 35mm / experimental Three scenes reflecting on paradise, lust and hell. In ‘the Garden of delight’ beauty and evil go together like in a dream. We dive into a world of erotic derangement, inhabited by dancing lovers, lustful mutated baboons, tropical birds, deformed pin-ups, butterflies and body-builders. This hand-manipulated collage film, made entirely out of 35 and 8mm found-footage, explores the marriage between heaven and hell, our irresolvable endless conflict that goes with human nature. Inspired on the triptych ‘the Garden of Delight by Jheronimus Bosch. Music composed, recorded, mixed, and edited by: Aaron Michael Smith. Musicians: Timothy Paek – Cello Yeji Oh - Piccolo Elisabeth Shafer - Trombone John Demartino - Double Bass Shanon Rubin - Clarinet & Bass Clarinet Janny Joo - Violin Sean Gill – Percussion. |
Michael Fleming is an Amsterdam based visual artist.
In essence his work appropriates iconic cultural images, altering them to highlight underlying issues. His ‘moving paintings’ are primarily made out of found footage, using feature films, advertising and pop-cultural scenes completed into a mesmerising montage of images. Flemings work has been featured in exhibitions and film festivals internationally. |