ANALOGICA FILM SELECTION 2015
// extra screening  //  Oct 2-4 / h 19.30

All That Is Solid
by Eva Kolcze / Canada 2014 / 16mm / 16'

All That Is Solid investigates Brutalist architecture through the surface of black and white celluloid.
The film features three locations: Robarts Library, The University of Toronto Scarborough campus (UTSC) and the Ross building at York University. Footage of the buildings has been degraded using a number of chemical and physical processes.
The film explores the utopian visions that inspired the Brutalist movement and the material and aesthetic connection between concrete and celluloid.

Eva Kolcze is a Toronto-based artist and filmmaker whose work explores themes of landscape, architecture and the body.  Her work has screened at venues and festivals including Anthology Film Archives, The International Rotterdam Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and The Images Festival.

Cotton Sugar
by TsenChuHsu / Taiwan 2010 / 16mm / 3' 30'' 

By working with film as a medium, I have discovered a way to implement my interest in weaving both concepts and materials; integrating different elements into one work.  In this piece, I covered the film with cotton and tinted it with dyes.  The textures of cotton adhered to the film create a new layer; the original emulsion and the added textures coexist, cover and uncover each other at the same time.  The differentials of color tones, the positive and negative footage, and the alternations of abstract and recognizable imagery introduce a dialogue about the possibilities of opposite characters.

HSU Tsen-chu was born in Tainan. She is an experimental moving image filmmaker who loves film as material. She obtained a BS in Atomic Science at Taiwan and an MFA in Film from San Francisco Art Institute.

Enlighten
by Giusi Pirrotta /2012 UK / 16mm / 6'45''

This short film is an experiment that aims to show light as an abstracted component in the paradox of its consistence and ephemerality. The work plays on the ambiguity of what was shot and what was made on celluloid and during the printing process in postproduction. The film is processed and printed by hand. A spotlight is recreated manually frame by frame as if the main character is running toward it. Moreover, the printer gate was modified in order to recreate a hole which cuts the frame as if a spotlight is enlightening the space.

Giusy Pirrotta is an Italian born artists who lives and works in London. Her work focuses on the study and the manipulation of moving image and its representation codes. A particular aspect of her research is related to the analysis of the ephemeral aspect of light and perception in relation to sculpture and architecture intended as exhibition context.

Rhus Typhina
by Alexandra Moralesova, Georgy Bagdasarov / 2014 Armenia / 16mm / 2'44''

One of the series of labodoble experiment of the natural(organic) film
developers. The structure of the film is based on the chemical formula
of the Rhus Typhina's developer. The main protagonist of the film is a
species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae which leaves
and berries have been mixed with tobacco and other herbs and smoked by
Native American tribes. We tried to apply the properties of the Rhus
Typhina in the photochemistry. The film catches the research, experiments, harvesting and preparation of the film developer in which latter original negative was developed. The nonlinear structure of the chemical formula as well as nonlinear research of the process reflected in a order of the frames. There is no post-production except sound all editing work is made while film was loaded in camera before chemical development.


Georgy Bagdasarov was born in Kazahstan to an Armenian family. He studied Cybernetics at the Technical University in Kaluga, continued in composition at the
Music Academy in Moscow, and graduated from the St. Petersburg Film
School. His work explores the space between analog and digital, and
merges them together. His works are created under strong influence of
structural films, cooking recipes and syntax of computer codes. He combines different media: digital and film stock as well as music and
food.

Alexandra Moralesová was born in 1989 to Czech mother and Argentinian
father. She studies at FAMU (The Film faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). Her interest lies mainly in film footage
uses in live performance – the remediation of existing material (8mm
film, photography, diary and correspondence) and its possibility of de/construction through various ways of viewing and cross the frontier
between analog and digital media.

California Picture Book
by Zach Iannazzi / 2014 / Usa / 16mm / 12'

I climb memory of image

Zach Iannazzi is a filmmaker who lives in Oakland, California.