ANALOGICA SELECTION 13 /// PR 4
/// 52'
> 10.NOV h 21.00 WAAG
Q&A Michael Fleming
Reconstruction by Igor Polikarpov 
16mm / 2023 / Russian Federation / 10’ 45’’

The short film "Reconstruction" traces the experience of a mentally ill person by juxtaposing an archival audio recording of his story with an unvarnished depiction of actual events.


Igor Polikarpov was born on January 2, 2000, in a remote metallurgical town in Siberia and raised in a multicultural environment between two major cities of Europe and Asia – Moscow and Istanbul. He received his first education in film directing at the Moscow Film Institute, where he completed several award-winning works in collaboration with Kodak Film. After completing his studies in Russia, Igor enrolled in the Film Production Department at the Los Angeles Film School, from which he will graduate this year with his thesis short film "The Porter," shot on 16mm film in the Andean Mountains of Peru.




Bird Woman by Lilith Kugler 
35mm / 2022 / Germany / 4’ 32’’


The Bird Woman lives in a modest garden house in Berlin and has dedicated all her energy to her lifetime's work: In endless days she takes care of injured wild birds. The musical short film describes this balancing act between curse and blessing in magical black and white images.
Lilith Kugler is currently living in Berlin and is enrolled in the Master program in Documentary Directing at Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. After her Bachelor in Audiovisual Media at Stuttgart Media University she has worked as a Freelancer and independent film maker.
This Line Connects The Void by Tram Quynh Nghiem 16mm, super8 / 2023 / Canada / 15’ 48’’

Filmed in the artist’s family apartment on the edge of Parkdale in the city of Toronto, this work explores the poetics of grief and precarity for the family around the time of death and dying regarding the artist’s sister. With non-linear storytelling and fragmented images, the work moves between speculative fiction, documentary, and experimental film. Referencing Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee (1982) and Anne Carson’s poem On Walking Backwards (1995), it considers the space and metaphor of a void and the desire that moves between the dead and living.
Tram Nghiem (they/them/she/her) is a queer Southeast Asian cultural programmer and artist working with stills and moving images. Trained in digital video, their art practice uses process-based inquiries, digital/analog methods, and explores the relationship between people and their environments




They rise, these sponge fortresses
by Guillaume Vallée / 35mm / 2022 / Canada / 7’ 13

The cameraless animated short ''they rise, these sponge fortresses'' is made from a 35 mm trailer of the feature film ''Water Lilies'' (2007) by Céline Sciamma. Experimental filmmaker Guillaume Vallée explores and questions his sensory memory as a teenager, partially lost.
Guillaume Vallée is an experimental filmmaker, video artist and independent curator. He works mainly on Super8, 16mm and VHS. His audiovisual performances have been presented in a multitude of festivals across Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and Austria.
Showtime! By Michael Fleming
35mm / 2022 / Holland / 14’

Our consumer society is dominated by show, the "outside world" passes us by as a long stream of images without much meaning. We have become passive spectators of pictures from popular culture, the media and advertising, we are swallowed up by them and experience less and less difference between image and reality, yearning for sovereignty, wanting to be transcendent, for liberation and looking for cohesion, justice, reason, coherence and like-mindedness. In short; control versus loss. Entangled in this dichotomy, the intertwining, the intermingling of waste and utility brings us into a supplementary tension; drowning in this void in search for an eternal present!
Michael Fleming is an Amsterdam based visual artist. In essence his work appropriates iconic cultural images, altering them to highlight underlying issues. His ‘moving paintings’ are primarily made out of found footage, using feature films, advertising and pop-cultural scenes completed into a mesmerising montage of images. Flemings work has been featured in exhibitions and film festivals internationally.