25.11 // h.20.00 // AUR-ORA piccolo teatro della stazione // via Stazione 45
ANALOGICA SELECTION was created to show selected film works collected by an international open call that attracts dozens of productions every year. After the festival, the Selection Program travels on an international screening tour until the following edition of the festival.
ANALOGICA SELECTION 2016 // part 2
program / 53'
In Light, In! / Ken Paul Rosenthal / 12' / 2014 / Found Footage / USAA haunting, visual essay about the awkward and angry junctures where our culture struggles to manage its emotional distress. Images recycled from 1950’s-era educational films are accompanied by original compositions by world-renowned cellist, Zoe Keating.
Ken Paul Rosenthal is a cinema artist and mental health advocate whose current work explores the geography of madness through the regenerative power of nature, urban landscapes, home movies, and archival footage from social hygiene films. His films are visually sensual, emotionally intelligent works of art that also function as tools for personal and societal transformation.
Yapi / Aaron Khandros, Nathaniel Draper / 09:08 / 2015 / 16mm / Greece
Greece is covered in concrete tumors — yapi, half-finished buildings left in permanent limbo, skeletal structures like temples to some obscure future gods.
People don’t explicitly speak of them or really even seem to see them. They’ve just grown from the landscape, a symptom of European change.
Emerging from their obscurity, the yapia grow to take on a life of their own. The future of their meaning, and their moment, are up for grabs.
TRiplete Plástico / Ignacio Tamarit / 1' 36'' / 2015 / found footage /Argentina
Over the years I painted super 8 film strips that for some reason I discarded and stored in boxes. After a while I wanted to give a new use to this material, or at least recycle it. So I started to view and select only the parts that interested me the most of all this footage. I ended up taking 3 frames here, 5 here and collected an entire folder of small frames.
Ora d'aria / Francesco Fei / 6' 53'' / 16mm / 2015 / Italy
(Yard time) Ex Prison of Sant'Agata in Bergamo.
Francesco Fei was born in Florence and lives in Milan. In 2004 he shoot and produce his first feature film, “Onde”. The movie has been selected for many festivals worldwide and has been recognized by critics as one of the most interesting Italian first movies of the last few years. With the documentary in 16mm "Armenia!" he participated at the Trieste Film Festival, 2016 and the Bellaria Film Festival, Red House Art Doc 2014.
He is teaching at the Academy of Fine Art in Bergamo and at IED in Milan.
HARBOUR / Eric Stewart / 15' 33'' / 16mm / 2016 / USAHARBOUR is a 16mm film focusing on the English Fascination with the Pacific Northwest. It evaluates ecological simulation and historic recreation to find in Landscape a stage for the enactment of the Other. In the 19th century English aristocrats where especially fascinated with the large evergreens of the Pacific Coast. Entrepreneurs and naturalists began importing spectacular trees, such as the California Redwood, throughout the United Kingdom. This importation of fauna was part of a circuit of appropriation through recreation; where the English simulated, in garden and greenhouse, the ecology of colonial landholdings while exporting English culture and architecture to said colonial locales.
Eric Stewart is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist and educator. Working predominantly with 16mm film his artistic practice invokes photochemical and darkroom processes to investigate landscape, place and cultural identity in the American West. Before moving to Colorado in 2013, Eric lived in the San Francisco Bay Area where he taught a biweekly analogue filmmaking workshop called “The Elements of Image Making”. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Photography at Adams State University in the beautiful San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado.
Over&Over / Michael Fleming / 8' / Found Footage / 2016 / the NetherlandsA 35mm found-footage hand-manipulated collage film focusing on the depiction of fear and revenge seen in commercial cinema. Manipulating our fear of mortality, it suggests we decimate what threatens us. The surface of the film material has been treated in the same way: peeling, scalping, cutting, and burning the image.
Michael Fleming is a visual artist and a VJ. He ‘paints’ with manipulated film and found footage from kitsch, cult and news broadcasts. Fleming has shared his work on festivals, in clubs, during live performances, in galleries and several museums all over the globe.
LOOP SCREENING
Katagami / Michael Lyons / 03:10 / 2016 / Super8 / Japan/Canada/U.K.
Stop-motion animation made by photographing and re-photographing antique kimono resist-dyeing stencils in positive and negative. Small variations in the repeating pattern elements generate apparent motion. Developed in Matchanal (powdered green tea, vitamin C, washing soda)
Michael Lyons is a researcher and artist based in Kyoto, Japan. He works as Professor of Image and Arts and Science at Ritsumeikan University, and
is currently enjoying a nearly 100% analogical sabbatical in Barcelona, Spain. He hold an artistic residency at Hangar, where he is building a new optisonic modular synthesizer and is also a visiting member at Crater Lab.
ANALOGICA SELECTION was created to show selected film works collected by an international open call that attracts dozens of productions every year. After the festival, the Selection Program travels on an international screening tour until the following edition of the festival.
ANALOGICA SELECTION 2016 // part 2
program / 53'
In Light, In! / Ken Paul Rosenthal / 12' / 2014 / Found Footage / USAA haunting, visual essay about the awkward and angry junctures where our culture struggles to manage its emotional distress. Images recycled from 1950’s-era educational films are accompanied by original compositions by world-renowned cellist, Zoe Keating.
Ken Paul Rosenthal is a cinema artist and mental health advocate whose current work explores the geography of madness through the regenerative power of nature, urban landscapes, home movies, and archival footage from social hygiene films. His films are visually sensual, emotionally intelligent works of art that also function as tools for personal and societal transformation.
Yapi / Aaron Khandros, Nathaniel Draper / 09:08 / 2015 / 16mm / Greece
Greece is covered in concrete tumors — yapi, half-finished buildings left in permanent limbo, skeletal structures like temples to some obscure future gods.
People don’t explicitly speak of them or really even seem to see them. They’ve just grown from the landscape, a symptom of European change.
Emerging from their obscurity, the yapia grow to take on a life of their own. The future of their meaning, and their moment, are up for grabs.
TRiplete Plástico / Ignacio Tamarit / 1' 36'' / 2015 / found footage /Argentina
Over the years I painted super 8 film strips that for some reason I discarded and stored in boxes. After a while I wanted to give a new use to this material, or at least recycle it. So I started to view and select only the parts that interested me the most of all this footage. I ended up taking 3 frames here, 5 here and collected an entire folder of small frames.
Ora d'aria / Francesco Fei / 6' 53'' / 16mm / 2015 / Italy
(Yard time) Ex Prison of Sant'Agata in Bergamo.
Francesco Fei was born in Florence and lives in Milan. In 2004 he shoot and produce his first feature film, “Onde”. The movie has been selected for many festivals worldwide and has been recognized by critics as one of the most interesting Italian first movies of the last few years. With the documentary in 16mm "Armenia!" he participated at the Trieste Film Festival, 2016 and the Bellaria Film Festival, Red House Art Doc 2014.
He is teaching at the Academy of Fine Art in Bergamo and at IED in Milan.
HARBOUR / Eric Stewart / 15' 33'' / 16mm / 2016 / USAHARBOUR is a 16mm film focusing on the English Fascination with the Pacific Northwest. It evaluates ecological simulation and historic recreation to find in Landscape a stage for the enactment of the Other. In the 19th century English aristocrats where especially fascinated with the large evergreens of the Pacific Coast. Entrepreneurs and naturalists began importing spectacular trees, such as the California Redwood, throughout the United Kingdom. This importation of fauna was part of a circuit of appropriation through recreation; where the English simulated, in garden and greenhouse, the ecology of colonial landholdings while exporting English culture and architecture to said colonial locales.
Eric Stewart is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist and educator. Working predominantly with 16mm film his artistic practice invokes photochemical and darkroom processes to investigate landscape, place and cultural identity in the American West. Before moving to Colorado in 2013, Eric lived in the San Francisco Bay Area where he taught a biweekly analogue filmmaking workshop called “The Elements of Image Making”. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Photography at Adams State University in the beautiful San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado.
Over&Over / Michael Fleming / 8' / Found Footage / 2016 / the NetherlandsA 35mm found-footage hand-manipulated collage film focusing on the depiction of fear and revenge seen in commercial cinema. Manipulating our fear of mortality, it suggests we decimate what threatens us. The surface of the film material has been treated in the same way: peeling, scalping, cutting, and burning the image.
Michael Fleming is a visual artist and a VJ. He ‘paints’ with manipulated film and found footage from kitsch, cult and news broadcasts. Fleming has shared his work on festivals, in clubs, during live performances, in galleries and several museums all over the globe.
LOOP SCREENING
Katagami / Michael Lyons / 03:10 / 2016 / Super8 / Japan/Canada/U.K.
Stop-motion animation made by photographing and re-photographing antique kimono resist-dyeing stencils in positive and negative. Small variations in the repeating pattern elements generate apparent motion. Developed in Matchanal (powdered green tea, vitamin C, washing soda)
Michael Lyons is a researcher and artist based in Kyoto, Japan. He works as Professor of Image and Arts and Science at Ritsumeikan University, and
is currently enjoying a nearly 100% analogical sabbatical in Barcelona, Spain. He hold an artistic residency at Hangar, where he is building a new optisonic modular synthesizer and is also a visiting member at Crater Lab.