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ANALOGICA SELECTION 11 /// PR3
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> 1/12 h 17 2/12 h 18 > FotoForum / screening
> 4/12 h 14 5/12 h 15 > Waag / screening > 8/12 > streaming available 24h |
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VEGA by Rocio Mesa
2' 8'' / 16mm / Spain / 2020 The land gives. The land traps. The land calls. VEGA (*Spanish): flat, low and fertile land. VEGA: It is the fifth brightest star in the night sky, and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus. |
Rocio Mesa is a Spanish filmmaker, programmer and producer based in California. Mesa’s debut feature as a director, ORENSANZ, premiered at SEFF (Festival de Sevilla) in 2013. Her upcoming feature project as a writer-director, TOBACCO BARNS, has been selected in some of the most prestigious screenwriting workshops, like Sundance Faliro House 2017 or Sources2 2018, among others. Rocio Mesa is the founder of the production company MY DEER films, she has produced titles Mbah Jhiwo by Álvaro Gurrea, premiered at Berlinale Forum 2021. Mesa is the director of "LA OLA - Independent Films from Spain", an organization focused on the promotion of the Avant-guard Spanish cinema in North America.
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Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun by Ella Morton
9' 52'' / Super8 / Canada / 2020 Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun (2020) is a short experimental film about the Svalbard Archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. Narrated by wilderness guide Marte Agneberg Dahl, the film features altered Super 8mm film footage of the region. Dahl speaks about her travels in the Arctic, climate change, walruses and the region’s history. |
Ella Morton is a Canadian visual artist and filmmaker. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to residencies and projects across Canada, as well as in Iceland,
Denmark, Norway and Finland. She uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes. |
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Lightmare by Josh Drake
6' 56'' / Super8 / Usa / 2020 Music by Wes Filer / Sound by Josh Drake Final mix by Emeen Zarookian Lightmare was inspired by a group of youths who used to race motorcycles by my house. They would sometimes ride when I was trying to get my young daughter to sleep and caused great aggravation for me. The neighbors became quite worried as well and eventually the police were engaged to stop the racing, unsuccessfully. Stories began to spread about who the youths were and what poor conditions their parents were raising them in. The film attempts to capture the anxiety of the neighborhood, using negative space as a mask to subvert the audience’s expectations of horizon and depth. |
In contrast, much of the content underscores the triviality of the perceived threat. High levels of film grain enhance the effects of pareidolia, paralleling the human impulse to create stories for the unknown riders.
Lightmare was shot on Fomapan R100 Super8 with in-camera double and triple exposures using the Zenit Quarz 1x8s-2 camera with Kaccema reloadable cartridges. A mixture of lab and home-processing techniques were used. Further matting effects were added in post-production. Josh Drake is an artist, filmmaker, and curator for the Moviate Underground film festival in Harrisburg, PA. Primarily working in Super 8 film, his most recent works attempt to express internal anxieties using techniques such as visual layering by multiple in-camera exposures, optical printing, hand-processing, and experimental electronic sound collage. |
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Le occasioni by Mattia Biondi
5' 30'' / found footage / Italy / 2021 A photogram is what remains of the dream experience: an image that goes beyond an image. From the submerged region we recover residues that we do not understand yet. Borges wrote: «I will be all or none. I will be the other I don't know I am, the one who contemplated that other dream, my wakefulness. He judges it, resigned and smiling.» |
Mattia Biondi is an italian independent filmmaker who works at the end of the images. His research is based on the use of minimal and essential technical instruments and it is oriented at the development of creative processes concerning the fusion of archival material and autobiographical elements.
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A conversation with the ocean
by Mike Krishnatreya, Livia Vonaesch 9' 50'' / Super8 / Switzerland / 2020 The ocean is the origin of creation. We simply wouldn't be here without it. In this poetic short film, we explore our relationship with it, allowing the ocean to speak to us, while wondering how we can best respond to the questions it makes us ponder. Will we ever be able to change our destructive behavior towards its environment? Perhaps we can only do so by understanding our relationship with it and remembering the deep connection we seem to have forgotten about. |
Livia Vonaesch is a documentary filmmaker, who loves unchartered waters and adventurous journeys, in form and content. In her documentaries she explores social and environmental issues.
Mike Krishnatreya grew up with short feature films and later founded his own film production company for commissioned films. Every now and then he devotes himself to his passion, analogue film material, and lets moving moments shine on celluloid. |
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Traffic III by Malte Bartels
3' 5'' / 8mm / Germany / 2021 Traffic III means about 150 Adox Scala slides and 8.5m of FPP Cine8 BW40 Regular-8 film, hand-developed in "Chromaflex" process inspired by Richard Tuohy and Kathryn Ramey. Main feature of this film is the interaction of positive and negative images, superimposed by an increasing physical and chemical distortion. The film shows the Göttingen townhall ("Neues Rathaus"), a horrible concrete block of the 70s and the motorway A7 nearby Göttingen. |
Malte Bartels ''I started working with 8mm film (Regular-8, Super-8 and Single-8) in 2020. A lifetime of visits to contemporal art exibitions made it clear: I can and will do experimental stuff myself. I'm still experimenting with filming, developing, physical and chemical ways of changing film. I haven't reached my goal and hopefully never will. One experiment will lead to the next''.
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Lunar Studies by Giuseppe Boccassini
16' / Germany / 2019 - Study•ies (n.) From c. 1300 as "a state of deep thought or contemplation, of the not-yet-so-opaque, mental perplexity or anxious thought, amazement, wonder or reverie" - Lunar (adj.) from Latin lunaris "of the moon," Luna "moon" from the greek word "Lùnca" same root of Lux and leuk, a proto-Indo-European root meaning "light, brightness." |
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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The Flame of the Spent Hour by Roger Deutsch
8' / 16mm, 8mm, super8 / Hungary / 2021 Hour by hour the ancient face of repeated Beings changes, and hour by hour, Thinking, we get older. Everything passes, unknown, and the knower Who remains knows he knows not. But nothing, Aware or unaware, returns. Equals, therefore, of what isn’t our equal, Let us preserve, in the heat we remember, The flame of the spent hour. Ricardo Reis (Fernando Pessoa) |
Roger Deutsch has been making experimental, narrative and documentary films for over 40 year. His films have been awarded at film festivals worldwide.
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