ANALOGICA SELECTION 14 /// PR 4
/// 63'
> 15 NOV h 20.30 WAAG
En Famille by Laura Barretta
35mm / 2024 / Germany / 1’ 45’’

This Film is a visual interpretation of the poem En Famille (1979) by Irish poet Paul Duncan. It explores the complexities of aging and a yearning for the simplicity of youth.
Laura Barretta has a professional background in graphic design and visual communication. Besides her job as an art director she likes to experiment with analog film and found footage.
Crushed Between Ocean and Sky
by Ella Morton
16mm, super8 / 2023 / Canada / 24’ 39’’

In 2021, I set out on a unique sailing journey on the tall ship Bark Europa from Uruguay across the South Atlantic Ocean, towards South Georgia and Antarctica. For myself, the voyage was a long-awaited way of celebrating life again after my mother’s death in the spring of 2020. The crew and guests came from all over the world, and each had their own reasons for making the trip, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

One week into the trip, the ship ran into a massive storm and the main mast was struck by lightning. The intended itinerary was cancelled and we spent the next two weeks sailing directly to our end destination of Ushuaia, Argentina.
This story is told by crew and passengers aboard the ship during the two weeks sailing towards Ushuaia after the lightning strike.
Crushed Between Ocean and Sky speaks to the transcendent and healing power of exploring new places, as well as the brutal irony of how life can interrupt us, let us move forward, and then interrupt us again.

Ella Morton is a Toronto-based filmmaker. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to projects across Canada, Scandinavia, Greenland and Antarctica. She uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes.
My Next Door Neighbours
by Maia Torp Neergaard
16mm / 2023 / Denmark / 18’ 7’’


Two kilometers from my home is an area which has been on the Danish state's list of parallel societies for twelve years. My Next Door Neighbours reflects on equality and home, how we talk about and with each other. What does it mean to listen to voices from a stigmatized area while looking in from the outside yourself? The film is a collage of images that reflects on voices from people who live in this area in the outskirts of Copenhagen. Words and images about hope, despair, precarity and resistance.
Maia Torp Neergaard (DK, she/her, 1993) is an artist based in Copenhagen. Her practice is rooted in documentary filmmaking, using analogue techniques that include developing and editing film stock by hand. The process in the dark room is like receiving a letter; a respectful response when she further works with the material. The work is dealing with concepts of inequality and home, and tends to center around community and the creation thereof.
The Concrete River
by Nora Sweeney
16mm / 2023 / US / 15’

An exploration of how different communities spend time along the Los Angeles River, a 51 mile waterway largely channelized with concrete that cuts through various neighborhoods of Greater Los Angeles. While people fish, skateboard, paint, play music, have quiet moments to engage with the landscape, or carve out a place to live by the banks, egrets and herons roost in trees growing in the middle of the river.  I was drawn to the river as an unregulated public space where people converge with each other and nature, finding respite from the city.
Nora Sweeney is a documentary filmmaker, artist, and professor based in Los Angeles whose work focuses on cultural traditions, labor, and immigrant communities. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, she received her B.A., majoring in art, from Oberlin College and M.F.A. in Film/Video from CalArts. She taught documentary filmmaking and photography for two years at a women's college in Madurai, India. She currently teaches at Pierce College. Her work has been screened at venues and festivals such as REDCAT, Antimatter, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Echo Park Film Center, and at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, where her film, Fausto and Emilio, won a Juror’s Prize.
Riding Day
by Michael Alexander Morris
16mm / 2023 / US / 3’ 22’’

The music video for Black Taffy's Riding Day is a loving nod to British experimental filmmaker Malcom Le Grice's 1970 film Berlin Horse, an iconic work of Structural/Materialist filmmaking that featured a soundtrack by Brian Eno. Like that film, this film is an exploration of the material qualities of celluloid film in ways that are analogous to gestures in electronic music. Just as Black Taffy has sampled and reworked the soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to create a new musical composition, this film samples and reworks images from its sequel Tears of the Kingdom, translating the interactive game world into a physical form.
Similar to the way Eno's tape loops fall in and out of sync with one another, the images of Link's horse are made into loops that superimpose positive on top of negative and allow them to drift away from each other.

Michael A. Morris is an artist and educator based in Granville, Ohio. His work responds to the rapid changes in how moving images are created and experienced in the 21st century, affirming the traditional space of experiencing cinema while also exploring the implications of new media.