25.11.2016 // Lungomare Bolzano.Bozen // h.19.00
DOUBLE NEGATIVE // Montreal, Canada
Founded in 2004, Double Negative is a Montreal-based group of moving-image artists dedicated to the creation and exhibition of experimental and avant-garde cinema. Through its sustained grassroots efforts and DIY approaches to revitalize the independent filmmaking scene, Double Negative occupies a unique position in the local and national artistic communities. Besides organizing various screening events, members of the collective maintain individual artistic practices ranging from film and video to live projection performance and installation.
Double Negative situates film in the wider context of contemporary art practices and actively promotes cross-disciplinary imagination to redefine the importance of the tradition of film art.
VARIOUS POSITIONS: WORKS FROM DOUBLE NEGATIVE
Total Running Time: 45 min.
Screening Format: 16mm and QT file
Roundtrip (Philippe Leonard / 16mm / 3 min. / color / silent / 2014)
A diptych filmed on a journey between Montreal and New York City. My last roll of Ektachrome to commemorate
an important day when two became unified in the act of giving.
Granular Film - Beirut (Charles-André Coderre / 16mm / 6 min. / color / 2016)
Reminiscence of a trip in Beirut. The sea, the palm trees, the buildings melt when my eyelids begin to close. My
memories now have a separate life of their own. Granular Film - Beirut is a work in progress.
Traces (Erin Weisgerber / 16mm / 5 min. / b&w / 2014)
Trace
n.
1.
a. A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.
b. Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something; a vestige.
2. A barely perceivable indication
Lunar Almanac (Malena Szlam / 16mm / 4 min. / color / silent / 2013)
“ Lunar Almanac initiates a journey through magnetic spheres with its staccato layering of single-frame, long
exposures of a multiplied moon. Shot in 16mm Ektachrome and hand processed, the film’s artisanal touches are
imbued with nocturnal mystery.” – Andréa Picard
Quiet Zone (Karl Lemieux and David Bryant / 35mm / 14 min. / color / 2015)
Through the use of complex imagery and sound, filmmakers Karl Lemieux and David Bryant take us deep into the
world of those who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Combining elements of documentary, film essay
and e xperimental film, Quiet Zone defies genres, weaving together an unusual story in which sound and image
distort reality to make the distress of these “wave refugees” palpable.
Lacuna (Shannon Harris / 16mm / 9:30 min. / color / 2008)
Different textures of grief and acceptance emerge and the camera eye becomes a lens into the interior. Space is
inhabited by memory; memory becomes a gesture that seeks the past. Lacuna is a poetic meditation that navigates a
landscape of absence, memory and transformation though image and sound.
The process of shooting and editing this film was an intuitive one that was very attached to the process of working
through a loss. In the summer of 2007 my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly from cancer. My connection to
her is strong; it is one between mother and daughter and between place and home. This film is an image/sound poem
as well as a document of the experience and grief of the loss of my mother.
P.O.P. (Eduardo Menz / Super 8mm / 3:20 min. / b&w / 2013)
Film portraits that capture a different state of mind.
DOUBLE NEGATIVE // Montreal, Canada
Founded in 2004, Double Negative is a Montreal-based group of moving-image artists dedicated to the creation and exhibition of experimental and avant-garde cinema. Through its sustained grassroots efforts and DIY approaches to revitalize the independent filmmaking scene, Double Negative occupies a unique position in the local and national artistic communities. Besides organizing various screening events, members of the collective maintain individual artistic practices ranging from film and video to live projection performance and installation.
Double Negative situates film in the wider context of contemporary art practices and actively promotes cross-disciplinary imagination to redefine the importance of the tradition of film art.
VARIOUS POSITIONS: WORKS FROM DOUBLE NEGATIVE
Total Running Time: 45 min.
Screening Format: 16mm and QT file
Roundtrip (Philippe Leonard / 16mm / 3 min. / color / silent / 2014)
A diptych filmed on a journey between Montreal and New York City. My last roll of Ektachrome to commemorate
an important day when two became unified in the act of giving.
Granular Film - Beirut (Charles-André Coderre / 16mm / 6 min. / color / 2016)
Reminiscence of a trip in Beirut. The sea, the palm trees, the buildings melt when my eyelids begin to close. My
memories now have a separate life of their own. Granular Film - Beirut is a work in progress.
Traces (Erin Weisgerber / 16mm / 5 min. / b&w / 2014)
Trace
n.
1.
a. A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.
b. Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something; a vestige.
2. A barely perceivable indication
Lunar Almanac (Malena Szlam / 16mm / 4 min. / color / silent / 2013)
“ Lunar Almanac initiates a journey through magnetic spheres with its staccato layering of single-frame, long
exposures of a multiplied moon. Shot in 16mm Ektachrome and hand processed, the film’s artisanal touches are
imbued with nocturnal mystery.” – Andréa Picard
Quiet Zone (Karl Lemieux and David Bryant / 35mm / 14 min. / color / 2015)
Through the use of complex imagery and sound, filmmakers Karl Lemieux and David Bryant take us deep into the
world of those who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Combining elements of documentary, film essay
and e xperimental film, Quiet Zone defies genres, weaving together an unusual story in which sound and image
distort reality to make the distress of these “wave refugees” palpable.
Lacuna (Shannon Harris / 16mm / 9:30 min. / color / 2008)
Different textures of grief and acceptance emerge and the camera eye becomes a lens into the interior. Space is
inhabited by memory; memory becomes a gesture that seeks the past. Lacuna is a poetic meditation that navigates a
landscape of absence, memory and transformation though image and sound.
The process of shooting and editing this film was an intuitive one that was very attached to the process of working
through a loss. In the summer of 2007 my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly from cancer. My connection to
her is strong; it is one between mother and daughter and between place and home. This film is an image/sound poem
as well as a document of the experience and grief of the loss of my mother.
P.O.P. (Eduardo Menz / Super 8mm / 3:20 min. / b&w / 2013)
Film portraits that capture a different state of mind.