ANALOGICA SELECTION 16 / PR 1
GIOV / 12 / WAAG / h. 20.00
46min
Melencolia 2: Destitution Signs
by M Woods
super8 / 2025 / United States / 7’ 51’’
A nostalgic retread through the 4th plateau of New York City followed by a short polemic against ethnography and hipsters.
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M. Woods (He/Him/They/Them) is a multidisciplinary artist implementing avant-garde strategies under the studio name “Disassociative Productions”. M uses immersive time-based spectacle and constructed trances to navigate the internalized socio-political topographies of addiction, mental and physical disability, malignant nihilism, and white supremacy. M’s work deconstructs the post-911 acceleration of hyperrealism and (media)drug dependency, documenting the spread of solipsism in a media environment dominated by corporate neo-fascism.
Lament
by Jeffrey Langille
16mm / 2025 / Canada / 4’ 19’’
This film offers a lament for this world by means of a cardboard model of the Earth as seen from space.
Lament, 16 mm film transferred to 4K video, including plant-based, hand-processed film, colour and black-and-white, 2025, 4:20 min.
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Jeffrey Langille is a Canadian artist whose work is rooted in material practices with a focus on sound. He began filmmaking in the 1990s using super 8. His work has been exhibited internationally.
Balancing Act
by Federica Foglia
16mm / 2025 / Canada, Italy / 6’ 46’’
A self-portrait in the mirror, although there is neither a portrait nor a mirror. The film explores the boundaries of what can and cannot be said through the remediation of a 1930 home movie, where a dance between body and hypertext unfolds.
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Federica Foglia is a visual artist and PhD researcher in Cinema & Media Studies at York University in Toronto. Her practice revolves around tactile cinema, recycled and amateur filmmaking, archives, ecofeminism, and materialist cinema. Working within the domestic space, she reworks found footage and orphan films, intervening directly on the body of celluloid through a sculptural approach, particularly through 16mm emulsion lifting.
Seeds
by Elisa Gonzalez
16mm, digital / 2025 / Canada / 1’ 30’’
A conversation between mother and child about what happens after death. Comprised of phytograms and hand-processed 16mm film made in collaboration with organic matter, the film dives into the soil taking us underground and leading us back into an altered state of the garden, unearthly and in between.
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Elisa González is an artist and filmmaker whose practice is centred with in creative nonfiction exploring our personal and cultural relationships with the natural world.
Working between analogue experimentation and digital form, process-based making and collaboration are at the root of her practice.
Audry Lornacle or 14 Days in DJ's House
by Dagie Brundert
super8 / 2025 / Germany / 8’ 16’’
So now I've landed here. A bump of flat land at the tip of England with the most beautiful and roundest pebbles in the world. They're called shingles here.
A cottage full of memories and ghosts, perhaps. I'm allowed to stay for 2 weeks. I have the cottage all to myself.
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Dagie Brundert is a Super 8 filmmaker whose practice moves between the tactile and the intangible, part particle-finder, part wave-catcher, part storyteller. Her work draws on the strange and beautiful fragments of the world around her, reworking them into something new through process and material. She has developed a particular expertise in eco-processed Super 8 film, a practice that reflects her broader interest in the relationship between image-making and environmental consciousness.
Explant / Implant
by Josh Weissbach
16mm / 2025 / Usa / 3’ 16’’
A lifetime of surgeries continues with an upgrade in battery life and a downgrade in scar tissue
when the filmmaker has his original pacemaker replaced after sixteen years.
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Josh Weissbach is an experimental filmmaker. His films have been shown worldwide in such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Light Field, Courtisane Festival, European Media Art Festival, 25 FPS Festival, First Look at Museum of the Moving Image, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Festival dei Popoli, and Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris.
Last Evenings On Earth
by Ralitsa Doncheva
found footage / 2026 / Canada / 13’
Drawing on images from Alexander Sokurov's first feature and the filmmaker’s recollections of post-Soviet Bulgaria, Last Evenings on Earth meditates on the invisible traces of history in both image and body.
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Ralitsa Doncheva is a Bulgarian artist and filmmaker based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal.
Her work blends 16mm experimental film traditions with nonfiction and poetic approaches, often drawing on her Balkan heritage and mythology.