ANALOGICA SELECTION 15 // special screening
62min //
OCTOBER 2 // 8PM
ATA - 992 Valencia Street
SAN FRANCISCO
TOWARD A FUNDAMENTAL THEORY OF PHYSICS
by Victor Van Rossem
16mm / 2025 / Belgium / 12’ 48’’
Toward a fundamental theory of physics is an experimental short shot on 16mm film using a handcrafted Time-Slice camera with 293 lenses—a modern reconstruction and reinterpretation of the original device built by Tim Macmillan in the early 1980s. The title refers to the “Theory of Everything”, the holy grail of physics, a single law that would unify the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. It’s a quest in which every step forward also feels like a step backward: to know more is to understand less, a paradox that also characterises artistic creation.
As in physics, time and light are fundamental to film, and this short offers a unique, tactile study of both elements: time as the sculptor, and light as the sculpted.
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Victor Van Rossem is an artist from Ghent, Belgium, working across film, animation, and writing. Embracing an experimental and eclectic approach, he is always searching for unexpected blends of media and genres. His work includes the short documentaries Neal D Retke For President! and Homeboy, the short story collection A Man Is Not Alone, and Wereldbeïnvloederaar, a bundle of WhatsApp poetry. He also runs an experimental music label, bwaa.
ENTER ASUNDER
by Francesco Coppola
in collaboration with Salome Wu
35mm / 2025 / UK / 4’ 23’’
A balletic stop-motion performance reimagines the genesis story of humanity. Each frame of the film is printed on agar seaweed, a medium whose physical memory introduces material decay and echoes cinematic film grain. This degradation interacts with the film’s exploration of identity, performativity, and the set-of-behaviours behind the masculine~feminine archetypes.
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Francesco Coppola is a Motion Designer and Artist. His installations have shown at the ICA, Barbican, Roseberry Road Studios and the Old Truman Brewery. Ella Pileggi is a movement director, performer, and visual artist. Recently touring with Bodies in Action, and collaborating with choreographers Shelley Maxwell and Holly Blakey. Their collaboration inserts human movement into animated worlds of decay.
MARKING THE ENDS
by Mireille Tawfik
16mm + HD / 2024 / Canada / 18’ 33’’
Three women discuss the difficulties faced when trying to get over their last break up. Between experimental and documentary cinema, Marking the ends translates the emotional and intimate experience of loss, casting doubt on the belief that all wounds heal over time.
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Mireille Tawfik is making her debut as a director with the experimental short documentary, "Marking the Ends." A multidisciplinary artist, she works in the theater field as a writer, performer, and cultural mediator. She was recently seen on the stage of Duceppe Theatre in Nathalie Doummar's play "Mama." In 2019, she created "DM Me," an interactive media arts walking tour at the Boisé Library, with a group of teenagers from the St-Laurent neighborhood in Montreal.
CELLULAR RECONSTRUCTION
by Derrick Schultz
16mm / 2022 / USA / 2’
Direct manipulation of a faded educational film using traditional and digital technologies.
An exploration of themes on conservation, reinvention, and destruction, both in film and ecology..
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Derrick Schultz is a post-AI artist and filmmaker from Brooklyn, NY, USA
WHEREVER STREET PIECE
by Panu Johansson
16mm, found footage /
2024 / Finland / 8’ 49’’
“Wherever Street Piece” is a found footage film that describes impersonal and fragmented memories that cannot be directly linked to the life of one particular individual. Simultaneously the film documents the way these past realities – forgotten people in forgotten situations – blend together from the perspective of the present. Obviously not everything can be stored and passed on, but if we neglect the lessons of the past, are we also bound to repeat its mistakes?
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Panu Johansson is a media artist and an experimental filmmaker from Finland.
He works with moving image, photography and sound. His works have been exhibited in various festivals, exhibitions and microcinemas since the year 2000.
RED EARTH BLACK EARTH
by Agnès Perrais
16mm / 2024 / France / 7’
Four motifs of an insular landscape: dunes, grass, stormy skies, sea. These motifs are inflected and intertwined through various photochemical operations: successive printing generations, flat printing, bipacking, and chemical toning; unsettling the steady, desolate shots to create an imaginary landscape where elements and matter meet.
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Agnès Perrais (Paris, 1987) is a member of artist-run film laboratories L'Etna and L'Abominable/Navire Argo. As part of a varied artistic practice (including collage and rayograms), she develops her cinematographic work at the intersection between the political and the imaginary, working with both documentary and short experimental forms.
VISIONS
by Maxime Corbeil-Perron
super8, Hd / 2023 / Canada / 7’
Created shortly after going through a harrowing and transformative personal experience, Visions is a fragmentary work using a mix of stop-motion animation, analog video synthesis, Super 8 and digital video.
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Maxime Corbeil-Perron (he/him) is a Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal-based artist whose practice unfolds in a multiplicity of mediums: audiovisual performance, experimental cinema, electroacoustic composition, improvisation, sound art and installation.
LE TEMPS DU MONDE FINI COMMENCE
by Sophie Bouloux
16mm / 2025 / France / 2’ 57’’
Inspired by a quote from Paul Valéry, the time of the finite world begins, explores the end of a world once believed to be inexhaustible. Through archival footage from the 1950s, taken from the 16mm film, Pleasure for All by the National Film Board of Canada, an era of triumphant modernity where humans reshape the earth as if it were a playground, the film subtly reveals the early signs of a coming shift. By intervening directly on the film stock, scratching it, testing it, the cinematic gesture becomes a metaphor: that of a wounded, altered world, marked by human traces.
This film is a visual meditation on finitude, on the growing awareness that everything has a limit: the land, time, bodies. Between memory and material, play and disappearance, the time of the finite world begins, confronts us with our legacy and the urgent need to see it differently.
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Sophie Bouloux, aka Sophie.B, is a French artist and filmmaker. Her work includes concrete poetry, photography, video, and experimental film. She also creates sound pieces under the name Cut-Up. Her creative output is autonomous, without rules, and weaves a close link between experimentation and poetry.