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ANALOGICA SELECTION 15 /// PR 2 /// 52' |
13 NOV h 21.30 > WAAG |
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IN MY HEAD
by Irina Tempea 16mm, super8 / 2024 / Canada / 6’ 15’’ In My Head is an experimental first-person short film about the filmmaker's multiple sclerosis through magnetic resonance images. This film-journal sketches the movement of life that persists with the disease. |
Irina Tempea is a Romanian-born filmmaker and cultural worker based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her diary-like artistic practice revolves around the analog process she uses to reveal herself. In the process, she questions the materiality of film while filming her daily life and those close to her. Dans ma tête, about her multiple sclerosis, is her first film. Irina holds a bachelor's degree in film studies from the Université de Montréal. She now wishes to open up a dialogue with other cinematographic devices, and bring them together in a second work entitled Bica.
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AUGMENTED
by Raymond (Ray) Rea 16mm / 2024 / USA / 8’ 27’’ AUGMENTED is an experimental short, shot completely on 16mm that analyzes the commonalities between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment. |
Raymond Rea is a filmmaker and writer. Ray's work often challenges assumptions, hints at theatricality, and uses a raw LoFi aesthetic to address complexities.
He is distributed through Canyon Cinema and Frameline Distribution. https://raymondrea.com |
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SERENE HUES
by Rita Tse 16mm / 2024 / Canada / 4’ 24’’ Hand-processed, solarized, tinted, and toned, is a meditative journey into the tranquility and vibrant beauty of nature. The surprising and unexpected images created through process-driven filmmaking, which is improvisational and interactive, embody the wabi-sabi aesthetic of impermanence, incompleteness, and imperfection, emphasizing the creative process of producing the work. |
Rita Tse, born and raised in Hong Kong, received a BFA in Film with a minor in Art & Culture Studies from Simon Fraser University, and an MFA in Film Production from York University. She is an experimental filmmaker based in Toronto, with specific interests in gender, ethnicity, and memory. Her latest works have mainly explored artisanal manipulation techniques on celluloid.
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VOICE NOTES ON DEATH
by Romy Persaud Drennan, Harry Crampton super8 / 2025 / Germany / 21’ 16’’ A film about mortality. We asked friends and family about their relationship with death, a topic we had not openly discussed with them before. A collection of voice notes are woven together with Super 8 footage. Filmed over the course of one month during winter in Berlin. |
Harry Crampton is a photographer, filmmaker and musician from the UK , currently based in Berlin.
Romy Persaud is an artist from the UK, currently living in Berlin. She works primarily with analogue photography and textiles. |
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RADIANCES
by Evantias Chaudat super8 / 2024 / France / 4’ "Radiances" explores how the dead haunt us with their light. The director's voice, evoking her own ghosts, blends with Super 8 shots of sparkling light, which act as a symbol of the link between what fades and what endures. By revealing the silent, peaceful, and secret transmissions that occur from one individual to another, "Radiances" offers an intimate reflection on the place of the dead in the world of the living. |
Multidisciplinary artist graduated from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (Strasbourg, FR), Evantias Chaudat places Nature as « what we are made of, what we are mixed with » (Maurice Merleau-Ponty) at the center of her artistic approach.
Her video art work has been projected in various festivals and public institutions in France and abroad, such as the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, FR) and the InScience Film Festival (Nijmegen, NL). |
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WHERE ARE THE WILD THINGS?
by Benjamin Clement 16mm / 2023 / USA / 3’ 17’’ WHERE ARE THE WILD THINGS? (2023) combines screen printed 16mm film with footage of the Oslo Fjord and the Nordmarka wilderness, north of Oslo. Video elements depicting everyday interactions with modern technology and cyberspace are assembled from digital snippets captured on an iPhone, then screen printed onto film. These screen printed overlays are placed onto untouched forest and fjord landscapes, free from human presence. |
The title plays on Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, inspired by a childhood fascination with escaping into pure, unspoiled nature. The film seeks to depict an idyllic, romanticized landscape subtly disrupted by elements of modern life.
Ben Clement (b. 1994) is a New York based director and animator from Rhode Island. He works with a process of direct animation that uses the technique of screen printing onto strips of 16mm film. His work specializes in film installation, visuals, and music videos. |
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SUNSPOTS
by Abinadi Meza 16mm / 2025 / Mexico / 5’ 44’’ Sunspots is a handmade 16mm film in which pulsing solar forms dissolve into retinal architectures. Without mediation of a camera the film collapses distance between observer and observed, macro and micro. |
Abinadi Meza is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in Austin, Texas.
He creates multisensory works that explore the intersection of spatial poetics, memory, and perception. www.meza.work |