ANALOGICA SELECTION 9 /// Program #1 > 48'
Recycled Realizations
by Jon Behrens 3:24 / USA / 2017 / 35mm / experimental Short description This film was made from 35mm film trailers from 1990's Hollywood movies. Hand painted and manipulated . |
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. .
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Landscape Becoming Landscape
by Pamela Breda 02:49 / 2019 / United Kingdom / 16mm / exp A woman folds some pictures representing natural landscapes and place them into a real lanscape. Fiction and reality blur into each other. |
Pamela Breda is an artist and researcher living between London and New York.
Her films have been screened internationally at festivals and art venues such as “Ecra Film Festival” (Rio de Janeiro, BR), Cyprus Contemporary Film Centre (Lefkosia, CY), Pugnant Film Series / Bideodromo film festival, Bilbao (ES), “Revolutions Per Minute Festival” (Boston, USA), “Digital Film Library”, Clermont- Ferrand Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, F), Cite Internatinale Des Arts, (Paris, F), “Hazel Eye Film Festival” (Tennesse, USA), “The Bomb Art Factory Film Festival” (London, UK). |
Princesa morta do Jacuí
by Marcela Ilha Bordin 17' 21'' / Brasil / 2018 / 16mm / fiction The archaeologist Margot Moreira returns to his place of birth, the exclusion zone called Central Depression, in southern Brazil. There, the sun never stops shining. PRINCESA MORTA DO JACUÍ [Dead Princess of Jacuí] tells the tale of the contemporary adventurer: the one who explores the abandoned landscapes of doomed cities and discovers how nature has reclaimed them. Places that are now graveyards for what was once progress in action. Places that are no longer suitable for humans but that still carry their marks. Shot in 16mm in the now idle rice mill complexes of Cachoeira do Sul, a town that was so rich and prosperous that it was called ‘The princess of Jacuí’. |
Marcela Ilha Bordin has an academic background in Journalism and Literature. As a screenwriter, Marcela has participated in documentaries, TV series, as well as short and feature films. Those include O TETO SOBRE NÓS (The Roof Above Us, 2015), directed by Bruno Carboni, which had its world premiere at 68th Locarno Film Festival and was selected for festivals such as 57th Zinebi Bilbao (Best Latin American Film Award), 48th Gramado Film Festival (Best Director, Best Sound Design), 26th Cine Ceará (Best Film), 17th Festival de Santa Maria da Feira (Special Jury Award), 26th São Paulo International Short Film Festival, 56th Festival Internacional de Cartagena de Indias, among others; and O ACIDENTE (The Accident), also directed by Bruno Carboni, which was selected for ScriptLab 2018 (Torino Film Lab) and is now in the post-production phase. The short film PRINCESA MORTA DO JACUÍ (Dead Princess of Jacui), is Marcela’s debut as a director.
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Landing
by Sabina Maselli 7' 33'' / Australia / 2019 / 16mm / exp ‘Landing' is a ritual in film that performs the return of the celestial body to the terrestrial body, through the act of spinning, mirroring and altering time. Hand processed colour reversal film, accompanied by a soundtrack composed of a single fragment of a woman’s voice that is replicated and modulated, circling around the image at different speeds. Part of a series of works that are concerned with the nature of time, memory and magic. Through the act of repetition (both the camera and the body), an animist transformation can occur. A merging of the female and celestial body. Soundtrack by Erkki Veltheim. |
Sabina Maselli is an artist and filmmaker who makes multilayered works that are presented as films, installations and live performances. She uses both analogue and digital processing, through a very physical engagement with her materials. She sees her works as sites for transformation between body, memory and technology, and how they manifest in the physical, material, mystical, and mythological realms.
She also directs music videos, and collaborates regularly with musicians and performance arts companies in audio-visual shows and expanded cinema works. Sabina is core member of the film collective AFW (Artist Film Workshop) based in Melbourne, Australia. |
Scenes from a Transient Home
by Roger Horn 13' 09'' / 2019 / South Africa / super8 / doc Filmed on Super 8mm, "Scenes from a Transient Home" presents a fractured portrait of life for Zimbabwean migrants when they travel back home to visit. Christmas dancing, New Years Eve celebrations, house floods, and illegal gold panning are just a few of the events filmed by Roger Horn who bookends the film with a major life event for his family. |
Roger Horn is a lecturer and filmmaker who recently completed his PhD titled, "Memories, material culture, and methodology: Employing multiple filmic formats, forms, and informal archives in anthropological research among Zimbabwean migrant women".
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Reencuentro
by Andrea Montanari 3' 28'' / 2016 / Italy / 35mm / footage / exp The film comes from the manipulation of 35mm film material, of old very different movie trailers each other. During the making of the film it showed the need to intervene with pictorial elements and perforations for enhanced images in sequence. With an assembly were cut and reassembled on movie film pieces that have given rise to a sort of "dream epiphany" of pre-existing material. The narration is defined by an "internal gestures" that is contextually develops to become music. |
Andrea Montanari was born in Urbino -1970-. Since 2005 teaches Animation Cinema at the Art School " Fortunato Depero "in Rovereto. In addition to teaching he creates short films using different animation techniques.
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