ANALOGICA SELECTION 12 /// PR 6
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Per Una Selva Oscura
by Emmanuel Lefrant 8' 25'' / super8 + 16mm / France / 2022 The revelation of an image, which progresses to the heart of the materia, seized in an incoercible movement: that of a dystopia in progress. A primitive entity on the verge of cataclysm, an infinite flight forward, until the complete dissolution of all forms and figures. In which dark forest have we lost our way? |
Emmanuel Lefrant has been making films since 2000, all self-produced, exclusively on celluloid. He founded with other filmmakers the collective Nominoë ; they created together performances which have been played in many places, as the Pompidou Centre (Paris), the Serralvès Foundation (Porto) or the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR). He is since 2007 the director of Light Cone, a distributor of experimental films based in Paris
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As In A Land, A Vagary
by Giuseppe Boccassini 15' / found footage / Germany / 2020 As adjustments between images rather than within them, the film roams provissorialy along the hidden folds of things, through which it slips systematically. Phagocytized by its surroundings, the film vanishes within everything that seems to be alive around it. Staring at the horizon, yet landing on the surface, such metamorphoses do not necessarily concern the intimate nature of things, out of respect for that curios dualism which somehow distinguishes them unconditionally as vague and singular cosmologies. |
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 |
L'arbre
by Chantal Partamian 2' 27'' / super8 + 16mm / Lebanon / 2021 Super 8mm and 16mm footage and expired cartridges found and shot in Quebec reflect on words written in Beirut to create a melancholic postcard between both worlds. |
Experimental and documentary filmmaker, Chantal Partamian work consists of experimental short films, film scratches as well as documentaries. In April 2020, Partamian launched an online project of temporal assemblages and found footage archives on Instagram
(@katsakh) |
Plume
by Mike Rollo 7' 20'' / 16mm / Canada / 2022 Fingers pluck fallen evidence of flight; placed and traced to make avian light. P L U M E responds to a 2019 State of Canada's Birds Report issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada alerting that the diversity and abundance of Canada's birds are in sharp decline. Thinking about this report and the effects of climate change and our interconnectedness with the natural world, I became an avid bird watcher, recording bird songs and collecting and labelling discarded feathers and down blends. |
The images in P L U M E are imprints from feathers soaked in a plant-based phenol solution, a phytogram technique developed by filmmaker Karel Doing, and reanimated using optical printing and digital editing techniques.
Mike Rollo's photochemical practice explores alternative approaches to non-fiction cinema. His films are place-based, focusing on landscape, rural industry, and communication cultures, with ecological thinking and mindfulness of the shifts, conflicts, and negotiations to themes of obsolescence, age, and decay. He is a founding member of Montreal's experimental film collective Double Negative and Independent Visions in Regina (SK). |
Shadow swells
by Karissa Hahn // sound by Andrew Kim 3'13'' / super8 / Usa / 2022 …..the moment the shadow swells is the moment the image is realized…. "....as the visitation began to manifest itself visibly in the room, at first only as a quavering illumination, like that from a guttering candle, and then as the shape of a woman. She shimmered, and her light shook. Around her the shadows trembled. And then it was Gladys-nobody else-flickering and false, like a figure in a motion picture." Denis Johnson, Train Dreams |
Karissa Hahn is a visual artist based in Los Angeles who works between film and video to accumulate a storm of ‘spectra ephemera.’ Hahn has shown around the planet Earth in various cinemas, galleries, and institutions such as the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art MoMA, Crossroads, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, among others.
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Film Diaries
by Milica Jovcic, Nenad Cosic 19' 47'' / 9,5mm footage / Germany / 2022 Based on 9.5mm found footage filmed by Belgrade cine amateur between the two world wars, this film reflects the private family history as a return of suppressed Yugoslav narrative of repetition. Following the life of the family in the country that was rebuilt to disappear again, it confirms the words of Claude Simon that although it repeats itself - history should be repeated by every individual in his generation. |
Milica Jovcic is a visual artist and filmmaker from Belgrade, Serbia. Her work is comprised of experimental films and audiovisual performances, where she often uses home and amateur movies from Yugoslavia.
Nenad Cosic is a film director from Belgrade, Serbia. His work is based on found footage and analogue films. Through the form of documentary and experimental film, he deals with the re-examination of historical documents. |