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ANALOGICA SELECTION 10 /// PR2
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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 |
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y un gato de porcelana by Juana Robles
- and a pocelain cat - 4' 20'' / super8 / 2020 / Spain-Ireland / exp Walking through the ruined streets and houses of Belchite and Corbera d’Ebre is like revisiting the summer of 1937 and 1938, when German aviation and Franco’s artillery devastated the towns. Today the old towns are a silent witness to the violence and the brutal consequences of Spanish Civil War. |
Juana Robles (1983 Tortosa, Spain) is a visual artist currently based in Dublin, Ireland. Having grown up in Switzerland she studied Visual Communication, Spatial Design and attended three semesters a specialist training class for camera, film editing and design.
Her recent work is focused on analogue filmmaking and the use of 16 and 35mm celluloid film for animation and picture making. She has also worked as an editor in video art post production and still works as freelance graphic designer and film programer for experimental film festivals. |
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Le long cri du train qui passe
by Anne-Marie Bouchard 7' 24'' / 16mm / 2020 / Canada / exp An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence. |
Anne-Marie Bouchard lives and works in Québec City.
She has been making videos since 1999. Her films are an experimental, avant-garde experience—impressionistic and evocative: a cinema of poetry. She is a seeker of images, a discoverer of sounds, an explorer of cinema and media art, her work intimate and eclectic and artisanal. Her films delve into the ephemeral and the fragile, gesture and disappearance. She is interested in the impact colour and sound have on the emotive body, and in revealing the aesthetic potential in images of the everyday. |
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Voyage to Morocco by Andre Lage
11' 49'' / super8- found footage / 2020 / Brazil - France / exp-fiction Voyage to Morocco is the second film of a series made from found footage on silent super 8. Combining images shot in Morocco in the 60's, texts by the writer Paul Bowles, Moroccan traditional music and a minute sound design, a narrator invents a memory for those images, rewrites its sense. A film essay about the experience of traveling, in geographical, imaginary and metaphysical sense. To travel is a pretext to speak about other cultures and look for diversity, but traveling to visit a friend may also be a farewell. |
André Lage, 1971, Brazil. Researcher, director, producer, cinematographer, cameraman and editor. Master and PhD in French Literature from Paris 8 University. In 2015 he founded the production company Relampago, based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. LOS LEONES, shot in Argentina, is his first feature film, co-produced with Les films du coquelicot (FR). Personal website: andrelage.com.br
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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. Mike teaches film production at the University of Regina. |
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Luminous variations in the city skies
by Giuseppe Spina 6' / found footage / 2019 / Italy / exp-doc / silent Between 1932 and 1957, at the Specola Tower in Bologna, a new optical technology was invented, one that would revolutionize outer space observatory methods. Thirty years of research were necessary for the astronomer Guido Horn D’Arturo to invent the specchio a tasselli – also called multimirror or segmented mirror – an archetype of today’s most advanced telescopes. This silent film, made by Giuseppe Spina, is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of Horn D’Arturo’s plates. |
Giuseppe Spina is an Italian filmmaker based in Bologna.
His films have been screened at numerous international festivals, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, EMAF, CROSSROADS, Annecy’s IAFF. He is the co-founder of Nomadica, an international network of artists and intellectuals focused on experimental cinema. |