ANALOGICA SELECTION 14 /// PR 2
/// 67'
> 14 NOV h 21.30 WAAG
Espera y sedimento
by Tana Garrido
16mm / 2022 / Spain / 13’

I never met my grandmother, but I live now in what used to be her house: an empty wall, a doorknob, a dripping tap. As I trace the memory of those objects, my mother's voice invokes a cracked past. I film. Inadvertently, a story that was ours no longer belongs to us.
Tana Garrido, (1989) Spain. Filmmaker, visual artist and programmer. Through a multidisciplinary practice -which combines cinema and contemporary art-, she experiments with the hybridization between audiovisual formats and languages, while establishing connections between gender, memory and territory. After receiving a Bachelor in Fine Arts she completed her studies at ECAM, School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of Madrid. She is Founder and Head Programmer at BENDITA TÚ Film Festival (Argentina - Spain) since 2016.
Blue Mountain. White Cloud
by Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė
super8 / 2024 / Lithuania / 10’ 45’’

There is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the film, the filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.
Miglė Križinauskaitė (b. 1987) is a filmmaker and PhD candidate in Artistic Research, specializing in experimental travelogue filmmaking. Her work explores abstract ideas through a personal gaze, delving into themes like memory erosion, time, and the fusion of reality with imagination.
Oxygen by Karel Doing
16mm / 2023 / UK / 6’ 3’’

Blades of grass race across the screen.
Karel Doing is an independent artist, filmmaker and researcher whose practice investigates the relationship between culture and nature by means of analogue and organic process, experiment and co-creation.
He finished his PhD at the University of the Arts London in 2017. During his research he developed 'phytography' a technique that combines plants and photochemical emulsion. He has employed this technique to investigate how culture and meaning can be shared between the human and the vegetal realm. His writing about eco-literacy and cinema has been published internationally.
Kilometres per Second by Jani Peltonen
Super 8, archive material / 2023 / Finland / 23’

The seemingly random anecdotes found on the internet by the anonymous narrator, and the guidance of a cryptic physiotherapist, start to come together in surprising ways. We are exposed to a world full of gazes, rules and technologies that separate us. 30 Kilometres per Second reflects on how we can be and live in the world with each other.

Jani Peltonen is a Finnish filmmaker who has worked in the local film industry since early 2010. His short films have been screened at several international film festivals. He is currently a doctoral student at Aalto University.



Tulips are my father's favourite flower
by Nisha Platzer
16mm / 2019 / Canada / 3’ 3’’

'tulips are my father's favourite flower' was originally made as a 17-foot film loop installation, projected in a grassy field in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
Hand processed, contact printed, tinted and toned 16mm film uses the botanical subject of the work, to guide reflection and interpretation of both artist and viewer.
Notions of wandering, retreat, exploration, cycles of pain and hope are complimented by the haunting soundtrack by Apollo.
Nisha is a queer artist and filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada. Drawn to vibrant shades, her handmade super8 and 16mm films meld sounds and imagery that you can dream and drown in. She studied at the renowned Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba and released her feature documentary debut, 'back home' (Telefilm Talent to Watch), in 2022.  Currently she is  developing an adaptation of a beloved novel and teaching experimental film workshops. She is a member of Iris Film Collective.
Light, Protect Me From Oblivion
by Bill Royer
super8, 16mm / 2023 / US / 7’

Through the use of a fictional device—a portal, a sorceress—life is imagined as a moment encapsulated inside the flash of an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographic elements—a disintegrated family, rootlessness, the scar of a suicidal attempt, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—to subvert the idea of a home movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mimicking the fragile nature of memories. Originally conceived as a contemplative project to reflect on the concept of displacement and belonging, it evolved into a six-month expedition compiling images to evoke how it feels to be deprived of a place in the world while realizing life's transient beauty.

Bill Royer (b. 1973 is a filmmaker from California. Born to political activists compelled to leave their country, he experienced alienation and exile from an early age. His practice explores ideas of self-identity, belonging, the mundane, and memory through loose narrative structures emphasizing imagery instead of dialogue influenced by low-key dramas, slow cinema, and the New Topographics movement.



Glitter for Girls
by Federica Foglia
16mm / 2023 / Canada / 4’

Glitter for Girls is a handmade tattoo film that utilizes a camera-less direct-on-film animation approach to collage multiple layers of water tattoos (commonly used by children.)
Foglia, known for her tactile work on celluloid, this time intervenes on the 16mm polyester base of recycled film scraps and treats the water based tattoos as film emulsion - creating an abstract animation inspired by the playful legacy of Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren.
Federica Foglia is a transnational visual artist and writer. She holds a BA in Multimedia Languages and Digital Humanities: History of Art, Theatre, and Cinema from the University of Naples L'Orientale, an MFA in Film from York University, Toronto and is currently a Ph.D. student in Cinema and Media Studies at York University.
She works within the domestic space to remediate found-footage movies, via a sculptural approach she intervenes directly on the celluloid body. Her work engages with the physical qualities of the film medium and the politics of fragmented aesthetics. She is currently working on a project that involves eco-friendly emulsion lifting techniques to remediate 16mm archival films and developing eco-sustainable photographic processes with algae-based materials.