ANALOGICA SELECTION 8 /// Program #3     > 51'
China not China by Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie
14'  / 16mm / experimental / 2018 / Australia

Hong Kong marked 20 years since its hand over; half way through the planned 40 year 'one country, two systems' transition. Taiwan, once imperial China, once Formosa, now ROC on the edge of the PRC. Multiple exposures of street scenes distort space and place creating a fluid sense of impermanence and transition, of two states somewhere between China and not China.
Richard Tuohy is one of the most active experimental film artists currently working on celluloid in Australia.
He runs Nanolab in Australia – the specialist small gauge film processing laboratory. He actively encourages other artists to work with cine film through his Artist Film Workshop initiative (see artistfilmworkshop.org). He is also a founding director of the Australian International Experimental Film Festival.
Dianna Barrie is an experimental filmmaker. She found her way into filmmaking as a middle ground between the pursuit of abstract music and philosophy. Together with Richard Tuohy she established Nanolab, which is a hand-processing lab for super-8 black-and-white and colour reversal film. This exploration has spread beyond individual work to the establishment of the Artist Film Workshop.


Membrana Mortis (Dead Film)
by Kyle Whitehead
5' / super8 / experimental / 2016 Canada

Membrana Mortis is a meta-film, a chaotic assemblage of re-photographed and chemically manipulated image fragments culled from a damaged roll of film that was nearly un-projectable. The films title suggests a two-fold intention - here process and existence pre-suppose one another, at once an elegy to a dead film and observance of new genesis.
Kyle Whitehead is Canadian artist working primarily with small-format film to create experimental and
expanded cinema projects. He prefers a careful and considered approach to image making; which
should not be confused with best practices, as his work is about embracing the potential of
indeterminate process. What he wants is the definitive by chance - leveraging trailing-edge technologies
often with unusual or startling effect.
Arrábida by Tinne Zenner
16' / 16mm / experimental, documentary, animation / 2017 / Portugal, Denmark

A film centred on the production of landscape and concrete in the Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Covering a vast area of coast, caves, mountains and forest, the park is inhabited by a massive concrete factory that branches through the landscape. Documenting the various layers of the sourced material, the factory body and the constructed landscape, the film looks at how time is physically embedded in the matter and how the molecular particles act in a circular reshaping of the whole. The film merges 16mm footage shot in the area of Arrábida with 3D animation of the topographic landscape as an equal analogue layer. Há só uma terra. There is only one earth.
Tinne Zenner (b. 1986, Denmark) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with analogue film and 3D-­‐animation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. Her work has been shown at a number of international film festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Projections -­‐ New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Image Forum Tokyo, Sheffield Fringe and Courtisane Festival. Zenner is a co-­‐founder and member of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London and Copenhagen working between the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual arts.
Light Coins
by Caryn Cline, Jon Behrens, Luke Sieczek
03' 24'' / 16mm / experimental, documentary / 2018 / USA

Inspired by the landscape in and around Seattle, three filmmakers, using three different coin-hole-crafted mattes, shot one roll of 16mm film three times to create a unique city/country symphony, edited in-camera.
Caryn Cline is a filmmaker, curator and teacher, originally from the Missouri Ozarks.  Her films change the scale of the natural world for the viewer, using botanicollage, in-camera and optical effects. Her films have been curated at national and international festivals and venues.  She is co-founder and co-curator for the Engauge Experimental Film Festival.  She lives and works in Seattle, WA. 
Jon Behrens is a Seattle based filmmaker/composer. His films have been screened at film festivals, colleges and museums through out the world since the early 1980’s including screenings at Antimatter Film Festival Canada, Seattle International Film Festival, TIE Film Festival Colorado, London Underground Film Festival, Crossroads Film Festival San Francisco, Festival International des Cinemas Differents et Experimentaux in Paris, Alternative Film and Video festival in Novi Beograd Serbia, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris and many many others. His work ranges from personal film diary’s to abstract hand painted optically printed works.
Freiluft by David Avelino
7' 20'' / super8, 16mm / fiction / 2018 / CANADA

While waiting for Niko’s arrival, Brian views slides. The time gets away from him and he burns dinner. FREILUFT: open air, the space between.
David Avelino is a recent graduate from Simon Fraser University’s BFA in Film Program. Freiluft is the Grad Project for Vancouver-based director David Avelino. His debut short Seldom Looked Upon (2016), premiered at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival in 2016 in nomination for the Best Canadian Short Award.
Blue Cigarette by  Ricardo Vieira Lisboa
2' 15'' / 16mm / experimental, animation / 2018 / Portugal

When filming smoke, in color, cinematographers must avoid the "blue smoke" phenomenon. "Blue Cigarette" is a direct cinema experience on 16mm film, it takes the same time of a cigarette burning and is filled with cigarette burns. The strip was tortured, scratched, punctured, erased, colored, and animated: an exploration on the volatility of the film medium, as if it was itself a cigarette and one could smoke it all the way.
Ricardo Vieira Lisboa (Lisbon, 1991) holds an undergraduate and master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, and a master's degree in Cinema - Directing and Dramaturgy. He works as a film programmer for IndieLisboa and occasionally as a curator for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is a film critic for À Pala de Walsh, a website he co-edits and co-founded.
For All Audiences by Josh Weissbach
2' 36'' / 35mm, found footage / experimental, animation / 2018 / USA

A trailer of an experiment searches for meaning in a moldy montage.
The detritus of the movie industry swims in organic material. Emulsion and its cracks, its crumbles, and its fades. Is it ready for all the audiences?
Josh Weissbach is an experimental filmmaker.
He lives in a house next to an abandoned village with his wife, two daughters, and three cats. His films and videos have been shown worldwide in such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Mono No Aware, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 25 FPS Festival, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. He has won jury prizes at Videoex, ICDOCS, $100 Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, and Haverhill Experimental Film Festival