ANALOGICA SELECTION 14 /// PR 1
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> 14 NOV h 20.30 WAAG
Ottu by Sandra Ignagni
16mm / 2023 / Canada / 20’

A filmmaker searches for the eight winds of the Mediterranean on the island of Corsica. Using found footage and employing 16mm hand-processing experiments that attempt to expose its ethereal subject, the film brings audiences to abandoned churches, cemeteries, and ravaged beaches in its quest to find meaning in that which is invisible and has neither source nor end.

Sandra Ignagni is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker, a recent graduate of the MFA program in Film Production program at York University, and an alumna of the summer fellowship program at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn, NY. She also holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master of Arts in Indigenous & Canadian Studies. Her previous short films have screened at festivals around the world and are currently streaming on CBC Canadian Reflections, Knowledge, En Route/Air Canada, and on the National Film Board of Canada website (NFB.ca). She is an occasional contributor to Documentary Magazine.
This art will never die by Léo Malek
16mm / 2024 / Belgium / 2’ 42’’

A cassette and CD shop in a street of Beirut stands the test of time.


Léo Malek is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brussels. Focusing on people and places, his films are often portrayals of circumstantial marginality, happenstance, or precarity within the everyday ordinary.

Abgad Hawaz by Robin Riad
Cameraless, 16mm / 2024 / Canada / 1’ 24’’

Learn how to pronounce the Arabic Alphabet in 28 easy steps!
Direct animation, laser-printing, and synthetic/animated sound.
Robin Riad is an Egyptian-Canadian Toronto-based experimental filmmaker and animator. Robin works primarily with analog mediums, specifically 16mm and Super8. She experiments with different modes of processing and direct animation for her films. An avid filmmaker, she devotes her time to many local Toronto film organizations.
Ripple Effect by Niyaz Saghari
super8 / 2023 / UK / 9’

The diver plunges into the sea (death), but also into life (eternity), where he will rediscover the primordial waters of life. This quote from Pierre Lévêque about the illustrations in Tomb of the Diver resonated when I watched the viral video of a young man who was executed in Iran in 2020.Few days after his death, the grainy mobile video of him was released .He ran in slow motion and dived in a pool. I watched the wave of his hands, the kick of his foot and crossing the border between air and water just as he leaped beyond fear when he spoke the truth, transitioned from life and became eternal in people’s memory. Like an act of preservation, I filmed the video with a super 8 camera. The camera became a tool of magnifying and grieving. 3 years later, men and women still chant his name in protests. Like the waves after a dive, injustice has a ripple effect.
Niyaz Saghari is a Bristol based filmmaker. Graduating from Film Directing from Art University of Tehran ( Iran), she continued her studies on the MA Animation at Newport. Besides following professional work in animation, she has been directing short documentaries and making experimental films.
Questioning the Existence of Alec
by Roger Horn
8mm / 2023 / US / 4’ 34’’

"Questioning the Existence of Alec" is comprised of found footage utilizing stop motion and additional in camera effects recorded on the beaches of South Africa during the 1940s. In this dreamlike journey, two or three friends, one of whom may be Alec are presented from adolescence through adulthood. The surreal journey blurs the boundary between the past and present, reality and fantasy, and invites viewers to question for themselves the nature of reality, dreams, and the existence of the protagonists on both sides of the camera.
Roger Horn is a filmmaker, anthropologist, and film professor. He has over 25 years of moving image experience in Berlin, Cape Town, Los Angeles, and Nashville. He obtained his PhD at the University of Cape Town in Cultural Anthropology and holds an MA in Visual & Media Anthropology.
Hết by Santiago Torresagasti
16mm, digital, found footage
/ 2023 / Italy / 20’ 33’’

Hết is a 20-minute short film that uses archive footage, digital and film footage to tell a cross-section of the life of Ho Chi Minh: president of Vietnam and symbol of its independence. Ho Chi Minh changed many identities, held the most menial jobs and traveled the world. The film is a work about representation and iconography, following the immanence of an image in the places where it is evoked. In this case it is the image of a historical character, which is diluted in images of the past and present of those places that he contributed to modifying.
Santiago Torresagasti was born in Buenos Aires (Ar) in 1991, he studied in Milan at the Luchino Visconti School of Cinema. After graduating in directing, he began his professional career in Bolzano making documentaries, short films and installations.