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Night Reflection (I) by Benjamin Ellenberger
4' / 16mm / 2020 / Argentina / exp / silent

Light has no tongue but it is all eye. - John Donne -

A series of short films about how the night immerses us in a world where the deepest thoughts emerge.
Shot frame-by-frame with long exposure times and developed by hand before dawn. The spaces at night are transformed and intimate places are often encrypted and then they open, and a
series of static images advance to leave time behind, like those dreams we don't want to remember.
Benjamín Ellenberger (1983, Córdoba, Argentina).
He is a filmmaker and photographer. His work
includes expanded cinema and super 8 and 16mm films and video. His works have been exhibited at the Los Angeles Film Forum, Vienna Film Museum, Museum of Experimental Art ECO (CDMX), MAC Santiago de Chile, The Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Biennial of the Moving Image, among others.
He is in charge of workshops on found footage and film format experimentation in a variety of institutions and festivals. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
La Notte Salva by Giuseppe Boccassini
12' / 16mm / 2019 / Germany - Italy / exp

“La notte salva” (The night of the nature) is a path of sensations that attempts to gather around its nature without revealing it, without opening itself to any human language. Rather, as an animal’s night call, it exists vanishing in its own closure and muteness. The film reestablishes itself onto its state of unsolved, lost and forgotten space, as a world without name, experiencing itself as a simple gesture, dreamily suspended through its own electric tension, far from any sort of destination, salvation, redemption"
Giuseppe Boccassini is an Italian filmmaker mainly working in Germany and Italy. His work has been shown at several international film festivals and exhibitions. His entire film production is distributed by Light Cone.
He is in charge of the programme at Fracto, an Experimental Film Encounter at ACUD macht neu, Berlin
Eidolon by Mike Rollo
3' 35'' / 16mm / 2020 / Canada / exp

The seer passes beneath branches, crosses fields, observes the quiet corners of creation.
Bright and dark take turns showing their faces, a two-sided phantasm, one energy shapeshifting
through time. The seer makes note, gleans eidolons.
Mike Rollo’s work explores alternative approaches to documentary cinema — methods that thematize vanishing communication cultures, rural industries, and transitional
spaces through references to memory, history, religion, and autobiography. A founding member of Montreal’s experimental film collective Double Negative and Independent Visions in Regina, Mike has curated the work of prominent international and Canadian experimental filmmakers. Mike’s films have screened at prestigious festivals and galleries such as the Atlanta Film Festival (USA), Edinburgh Film Festival, Marseille Festival of
Documentary Film, Kassel Documentary Film Festival (Germany), Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (USA), Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Los Angeles Film Forum, Museum of Modern Art (Brazil) and Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Mike teaches film production at the University of Regina.
Field Resistence by Emily Drummer
15' 50'' / 16mm / 2019 / USA / exp-doc

Charging scenes of the present with dystopian speculation, Field Resistance blurs the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and science fiction to investigate overlooked environmental devastation in the overlooked state of Iowa. Footage collected from disparate locations—a university herbarium, karst sinkholes inhabited by primordial flora and fauna, a telecommunication tower job site, a decaying grain silo, among others—interlocks to evoke a narrative of present danger and future disaster, of plant expansion and humanity’s retreat.
The film rejects the human individual as the focus of narrative cinema, and, instead, adopts the perspective of a symbiotic “implosive whole” in which human and nonhumans are related in an overlapping, non-total way.
Emily Drummer (b. 1990, San Francisco, CA) is a filmmaker who uses immersive research as a starting point to investigate the dynamic between technology and the natural world. She is a Princess Grace Film Honoraria recipient and a Flaherty Film Seminar fellow. Drummer’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Black Box at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, and Aesthetica Short Film Festival.
Phenomena by Penny McCann
8' 50'' / super8-16mm / 2019 / Canada / Exp-doc

An experimental triptych filmed in 16mm and Super 8 over a four year period, Phenomena continues the artist’s evolving preoccupation with landscape and celluloid practices. Three scenes are observed: a snowstorm in downtown Ottawa, Canada, a gentle winter thaw on a bog, and the raging Ottawa river during spring run-off.
Canadian media artist Penny McCann has been making dramatic and experimental films and videos since 1990. Her work has been exhibited extensively at festivals and galleries in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
Rotating Stones by Michael Dietrich
3' 21'' / super8 / 2020 / Austria / exp

A film about walking in a certain direction, with the decision to move away from its path, thereby causing a mutation in the brain cells themselves because the pattern has been broken as humanity has been going in a particular direction, which is conflict.
Michael Dietrich (*1985) is an artist living in Vienna, Austria. Michael works with different methods: he draws, uses photographs and experimental film.