ANALOGICA SELECTION 8 /// Program #4 > 55'
Pink Sari by Alina Tretinjak
2' 50'' / Super8 / experimental / 2017/ Austria/India A piece of pink fabric is dancing wildly in the wind symbolizing the struggle of Indian women against discrimination. “Pink Sari” is inspired by Kim Longinotto's documentary "Pink Saris" and shows an experimental approach to this resistance in pink. |
Alina Tretinjak is a Vienna-based visual and performance artist, working internationally on the interconnection between analogue film(making) and dance. She has also made several documentaries focusing on social issues and is presently researching on dance documentation and visualization.
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_galore by Bernd Lützeler
8' 30'' / 16mm / experimental, documentary / 2018 / Germany The streetscapes of contemporary Indian metros are largely dominated by products. The typical local shop can be described as a windowless, rectangular box. Stepping into such a shop can be like entering a new world: Filled with products galore up to the ceiling. The product itself serves as the interior design. Shopping galore. Products galore. Profits galore. |
Artist and filmmaker Bernd Lützeler lives and works between Berlin and Mumbai. In his work he explores moving image techniques in relation with their form and perception. He is an active member of the artist-run analogue filmlab LaborBerlin. His films have been shown at prominent locations around the world - such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Berlin International Film Festival or at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
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Grabados del Ojo Nocturno
by Jean-Jacques Martinod 6' 40'' / super8, 16mm / experimental, documentary / 2016 / Ecuador, Morocco A collage of collected imagery turned ritual travelogue: from the Sahara to the oceans of South America, passing through an old ancestors abode. |
Jean-Jacques Martinod is a filmmaker from Guayaquil, Ecuador. His films oscillate between traditions using experiments in celluloid film, analogue tape, digital media, and archival footage. He currently resides in Montreal, Canada, where he is a member of both the Centre for Expanded Poetics and the Global Emergent Media Lab.
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As Tides Go By by Stefanie Weberhofer
12' 25'' / super8 / experimental / 2018 / Austria and Italy With the death of her grandmother, the desire of the filmmaker for a family vacation was seemingly unfulfillable. By combining Super8 film footage from five decades, the filmmaker fulfills this wish nonetheless. The change of generations seems to be stopped by the continuity of the film technology, blurring the limits of time in the Bay of Lignano, Italy. |
Stefanie Weberhofer is an Austrian filmmaker and media artist working with Super8, 16mm
and 35mm film. She explores various DIY techniques in order to create short films and works for the realm of Expanded Cinema. |
I Think You Should Come to America
by Kamila Kuc 20' 25'' / super8,16mm, found footage / experimental, documentary / 2018 / UK Using 16mm archival footage, excerpts from my letters from a Native American prisoner, documentation of my own involvement with the Movement for the Supporters of Native American Indian Rights in Poland, the film explores a paradoxical fascination of the Poles behind the Iron Curtain with the ideal of America as a ‘land of freedom.’ I Think You Should Come to America investigates the cultural conditions in which memories are created. While critically evaluating my own enchantment with America, as a teenage girl from Communist Poland, I interrogate various patterns of perception in order to produce a form of reflection that is personal and political. The film uses numerous American educational films to expose the patterns of cultural (mis)representation. Thus the film brings together a network of complex cultural forces that wish to find their expression in the act of historical and personal self-inscription. |
Kamila Kuc, Ph.D., MFA, is a filmmaker, writer and curator. Her films have screened in venues and at film festivals nationally and internationally. She is the author of Visions of Avant-Garde Film (Indiana University Press, 2016).
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The Equatorial Calms by Derek Taylor
3' 37'' / 16mm, found footage / experimental / 2018 / USA Optical ruminations on an unpredictable region of Earth where raging storms and calm waters coexist. Seafarers are not only contained within this indeterminate state, but also within the film frame. |
Derek Taylor's moving image work focuses on the intersection of documentary and experimental filmmaking, particularly as it relates to history and landscape, with a clear focus on the investigation of both the ephemeral and the permanent in the human experience. His work has been screened at numerous film festivals and screening spaces both nationally and internationally. He currently lives and works in Connecticut (USA).
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