ANALOGICA SELECTION 15 /// PR 1
/// 54'
13 NOV h 20.00
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THE INSTABILITY OF CLOUDS
by Zazie Ray-Trapido
16mm / 2024 / USA / 15’

Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, continuous home developments creep into nature's threshold, and a community celebrates freedom.
The Instability of Clouds navigates a su burban ecosystem in decay and growth while traversing its spaces of comfort, spectacle, and disaster.
Through observing and constructing facets within a suburban neighborhood in Southern California, connections between landscape, neighbors, and environment ruminate on the American Dream and its resonances.
Zazie Ray-Trapido is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her films expand on traditional documentary and narrative formats, engaging with analog film techniques, archives, and performance. Her work has been screened at festivals worldwide, including the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, RIDM, among others. She holds a BFA from Bard College and an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
BUSES DON'T STOP HERE ANYMORE
by Penny McCann
super8, 16mm / 2024 / Canada / 7’ 28’’

A Super 8 chronicle of the closure, abandonment, and demolition of the Greyhound bus station in Ottawa, Canada.
Once an emotive epicenter for coming and going, the camera observes the building’s erasure. Optical printing translates the act of observation into a requiem for a building, once so present and vital, now a ghost of the past
Since 2000, Canadian experimental filmmaker Penny McCann has been engaged in creating a body of experimental landscape films that form a sustained meditation on memory, place, and time.

I THINK HE TOLD ME A STORY
by Harper Stone
16mm / 2025 / USA / 8’

He told me a story he thought happened. Now he says he doesn't know if it happened.
He told me this story from his past and he told me it was always in his mind. And now it is not.
Not since he told me this story.
He is not sure where it went, but it is no longer in his mind and since it is no longer there he does not know if it was ever there, he says.
Harper Stone is a filmmaker, photographer and bookmaker living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
His work deals with themes of memory and the passing of time; as an artist who experiences both aphantasia and sdam (severely deficient autobiographical memory) he engages in a life-long study of how image, video and text operate within an archive.
Stone’s work is a visual form of acceptance: rather than a search for answers it is an endurance of questions.
DU SOLEIL, QUE ÇA EXISTE
by Charlotte Clermont
16mm / 2025 / Canada, Finland / 9’

Du soleil, que ça existe examines the temporalities through which the body forms, stores, and creates what we translate as the real. Focusing on longing, distance, and language, this text-based project explores the expansiveness  of both language and landscape, by installing spaciousness in the dialogue and by considering  landscapes as bodies.
Charlotte Clermont holds a master’s in Time and Space from Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been presented in the framework of festivals and exhibitions, including the International Festival of Films on Art (Canada), Fracto (Germany), the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (France), IFF Rotterdam (Netherlands), Künstlerhaus Bethanian (Germany), and CROSSROADS (United States)). She was artist in residence at Signal Culture (United States), Shiro Oni (Japan), and Mustarinda (Finland).
FULL OUT
by Sarah Ballard
16mm / 2025 / USA / 14’ 25’’

In 19th century Paris at the Salpêtrière Hospital, patients were hypnotized on stage to reproduce the symptoms of hysteria for public audiences. Over a century later, high school cheerleaders are fainting en masse.
Full Out is the inaugural work in a suite of films investigating the intricate threads between historical accounts of mass hysteria, the body's capacity for knowing, and the ways collective resonance can both fracture and heal.
Sarah Ballard is a filmmaker currently based in Milwaukee, WI. Her work has been programmed at venues and film festivals such as Institute for Contemporary Arts London, Museum of Moving Image New York, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Images Festival, Crossroads, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, and Antimatter [Media Art].