analogica selectioon 10 pr 4

ANALOGICA SELECTION 10 /// PR 4

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CAN'T ANSWER YOU ANYMORE (ON FACES)
by Matt Whitman
2' 20'' / super8 / 2019 / USA / Exp

This film is from a body of work that gives a textual and archival response to and
documentation of perpetual discrepancies - between living and deceased, public and
private, physical and virtual - found in moments of contemporary mourning.

Matt Whitman works with moving image, photography, installation, writing and performance.
He has taught at Parsons School of Design since 2014 and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Lui e io by Giulia Cosentino
13' 10'' / found footage / 2019 / Italy / doc

“He and I” narrates the reflections of a woman in her role as wife and mother lived between imposition and choice.
Through the editing of the shootings of a single filmmaker who portrays his wife and life, the woman narrates herself being in opposition to her husband’s world, a militant always far from home. A reworking of female status as a political act to tell that love is an act of acceptance of differences and that personal memories are part of the collective history.

Film Director and film researcher, Giulia Cosentino was born in 1990 in Catania, Sicily.
She graduated in cinema and visual arts in Rome and she get an international master in Audio-visual and Cinema Studies at La Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and the Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, with a specialization in archive research. Currently, she is based between Rome and Palermo, working as assistant director and collaborating with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Sede Sicilia.

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.

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.

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.