ANALOGICA SELECTION 13 /// PR 1
/// 44'
> 9.NOV h 18.30 WAAG
Q&A Ieva Balode
Lost paradise in two reels 
by Luca Ferri, Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa  super8 / 2023 / Italy / 7’ 23’’

Franco Piavoli is one of the most important directors among Italian independent panorama.
Through the years, he built one unique and authentic cinematographic grammar. Born in 1933, he spent his whole life in Pozzolengo, a small village near Garda’s lake. There, he imagined, wrote and - for the most part - shot his own works. We visited him in his house, with us only two reels in super 8mm, and asked him to tell us about his next movie. The result is the story of a lost paradise that vanishes into Adam and Eve, the reminiscence of a walk and an eternal desire of love.
Luca Ferri (Bergamo, italy, 1976), self-taught, since 2011 has been dedicating to the writing, photography and direction of films presented to italian and international festivals. Morgan Menegazzo, 1976 Lendinara, Italy. Director, author and editorial coordinator, since 2001 he has been involved in the making of documentaries and experimental works presented at many festivals, expositions and broadcast on television.
Mariachiara Pernisa, 1981 Lugo, Italy. Author and movie editor, since 2001 she has produced documentaries, photographic projects and experimental films presented at many festivals, expositions and broadcast on television.
Education Lost by Francisco Álvarez Ríos
super8 / 2022 / Ecuador / 12’ 31’’

Education Lost forges an adverse portrait of Ecuador and its social distances. The film introduces a subjective wandering through out the turbulent paths of an unfortunate nation.
Francisco Álvarez Ríos (Ecuador) is the director and curator of the Cámara Lúcida International Contemporary Film Festival. In his work as an film artist, he investigates reality and its fugues, approaching it from different explorations around the demystification of the image.
Thanatophobia by Ieva Balode, Michael Higgins
Latvia, Ireland / 2022 / 11' / sound / 16mm to digital

Fear of the unknown, fear of the dark, fear of the enemy, fear of death since the beginnings of mankind have been both a driving force of humanity as well as a stumbling block. It is an instinctive force that has made humanity join up in communities in search of safety and shelter from a danger lurking in the darkness, however the finality of things is always inevitable. How does one overcome fear of their own fatality?
Ieva Balode (born in 1987, Riga, Latvia) is an artist and film activist working with analog, photochemical film. With her works she takes part in international exhibitions and festivals presenting her work both in installation, as well as cinema and performance situation. As a curator she is a founding member of Baltic Analog Lab - artists collective She is also a director of experimental film festival Process happening in Riga from year 2017.
La noirceur souterraine des racines 
-The subterranean blackness of roots-
by Charles-André Coderre / 16mm / 2022 / Canada / 10

Shot in Quebec (Canada), La noirceur souterraine des racines (The subterranean blackness of roots) is a 16 mm film triptych which uses several processes specific to analog cinema. The film seeks to show the sensory experience of the invisible life of stones, plants, and the nature that surrounds us.
Charles-André Coderre lives and works in Montreal. He makes films and works on 16mm live projections for several film and music performances. His films are distributed by Light Cone (Paris), CFMDC (Toronto) and Vidéographe (Montréal). Since 2017, he co-organizes the OK LÀ! music & expanded cinema series in Verdun (Canada).
Thread by Abigail Smith
35mm / 2022 / Usa / 2’ 6’’

thread uses machine sewn techniques to create abstractions on film that explore the medium’s relationship to motion and mechanics, the relationship between passing film through a sewing machine and film passed, or “threaded” through a camera or projector.

Abigail Smith is an experimental filmmaker, collage artist, field recordist, archivist and master librarian based in Santa Fe New Mexico. Smith is also a co-founder of No Name Cinema and performs flute and percussion in free-improv ensembles.