ANALOGICA SELECTION 9 /// Program #2     > 45'
Unless You're Living It
by Sarah Bliss 8' 22'' / Canada – USA / 16mm / doc
An edgy, unsettling portrait of place and power in rural white Ontario that challenges the correlation between seeing and knowing, and the ravages of late-stage capitalism. Hand processing, contact printing, tinting and toning engage the film as a body that, like the residents of Mt. Forest, sustains injuries, wounds and burdens, but also has the capacity for delight, revelatory pleasure, and transformation.

Sarah Bliss is a white, owning-class filmmaker and artist of Northern European descent.  She engages personal and social history to facilitate deep encounter with the sensate, desiring body.  She received a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, teaches cameraless filmmaking, and is a member of Boston’s AgX Film Collective.


Sometimes All of Summertime
by Linda Fenstermaker 8' 34'' / USA / 2019 / 16mm / exp
This film explores the innocence, beauty and energy in the natural rhythms of a season. The focus on summertime is a metaphor for the process of combining lives with another person and the tugging feelings of that union.
Linda Fenstermaker is an experimental filmmaker and graduate of Hampshire College. She works primarily on 16mm film. Her work explores interactions and relationships between body and landscape with a focus on representing organic food systems and empowered women
It Matters What
by Francisca Duran 9'03'' / Canada / 201? / 16mm / exp
Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway. A fragment from Haraway’s essay Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene is reworked here as a poetic manifesto. Enigmatic found-footage calls into question human violence over animal species. Plant life is both the subject matter of the images and assists the means of photographic reproduction. The techniques used include in-camera animation, contactprints and phytograms created by the exposure of 16mm film overlaid with plant material and dried for hours in direct sunlight.
Francisca Duran is a Chilean-Canadian experimental media artist who creates films, video installation, and 2D, photo-based, mixed-media works about history, memory and violence.
Monte Carmelo
by Eden Bastida Kullick 2' 53'' / 2018 / Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico / 16mm / experimental
A picture-film tells the story of the day that Felix’s family bees expelled the US Navy from their land. A story that is kept alive in Vieques, Puerto Rico and serves as an embers of the resistance to the colonial status of the island.
Edén Bastida Kullick lives andworks between Buenos Aires and México City.
Visual artist, video producer and researcher. Work the crossings of art and politics, video in multiple formats and interventions in public space. Doctor in Theory and History of the Arts from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). His personal work has been exhibited in a dozen countries in various exhibitions and festivals. He has been a CONICET and FONCA Fellow
The Pit
by Jona Gerlach 10' 51'' / 2019 / USA / 16mm + found footage / exp + doc
A portrait of the past and present of the Berkeley Pit, an former copper mine in Butte, Montana, and the largest body of contaminated water in the United States. Through handmanipulated original and found footage, the film shows the destructive consequences of mine waste though a variety of photochemical processes using the same contaminants found in the water of the pit.
Jona Gerlach is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores history, memory and place. He works in film, video, and installation to explore the relationship between landscape, people, and systems of power.
Kites at the Kamogawa (for Jonas Mekas)
by Michael Lyons 3' 15'' / 2019 / japan / super8 / exp
Black kites soar on thermals along the Kamo river in Kyoto. Flags billow. Cacti spin. Plum trees blossom. Pigeons make love atop a clock. Friends chat by the riverside. Filmed February/March 2019 on a single 40 year old cartridge of Kodachrome Super 8 and hand-developed in Caffenol. The film was heavily fogged, but there are some (real) images.
Michael Lyons (born Thurso, Scotland) is based in Kyoto, Japan.
The immortality of the crab
by Giacomo Manzotti 2' 20'' / 2019 / Italy / super8 / exp - animation
"The Immortality of the crab" is an experimental animated short film shot on super 8 film, made with in-camera editing and no post production. In this movie, the synaesthetic research between sound and image is accomplished by connecting the animations, made on 1125 cardboard frames, with an original soundtrack produced using only sounds sampled by handling pieces of cardboard. The title refers to the time spent between the birth of the embryonal idea and the production of the short. "The Immortality of the crab" is a south american expression, almost no longer used, which indicates the act of daydreaming. This film symbolizes the director's release from the spectre of procrastination, a condition he sistematically faced when daydreaming about possible ways to give shape to his idea.
Giacomo Manzotti is an Italian animator, motion designer and teacher. He likes to work with different animation techinques and started experimenting also with celluloid. He loves to simplify complex things.