ANALOGICA SELECTION 9 /// Program #4 > 46'
In the Autumn Before the Winter Comes
Man's Last Mad Surge of Youth by Jon Behrens 2:51 / USA / 201? / 16mm / experimental This film was made in response to seeing some of Caryn Clines films. Caryn re introduced me to shooting my films outside. |
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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No Personal Checks
by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster 04':52'' / USA / 2018 / super8 / exp Made from a Super 8mm diary film that I shot long ago and recently found in the basement. I hand-baked, rephotographed, hand-processed, re-edited, and otherwise distorted my footage and added layers of audio. |
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an artist, educator, author and curator. Foster creates handmade experimental films working with small gauge (Super 8mm and 16mm film) and from archival 35mm "found footage" and video. Foster's documentary on early pioneering women film directors, "The Women Who Made the Movies" is distributed by Women Make Movies. Foster is Willa Cather Professor of English & Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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Petting Zoo
by Daniel Robin 11' / usa / 201? / found footage / exp- doc In 1974 the local TV news station came into the filmmaker’s (as a young boy) home to document and learn about Jewish rituals. A narrative evolves about the formation of American Jewish identity, and transforms into an analogy for the current rise in anti-Semitism and nationalism in America and the world. |
Daniel Robin makes short experimental non-fiction work including: my olympic summer which won the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking, Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the Florida Film Festival, Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival, Director’s Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival, and the Onda Curta Award at IndieLisboa Film Festival. His film All The Leaves Are Brown won Best Director at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Jury Award for Personal Vision at the Oxford Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at the Sidewalk Film Festival, and screened at many festivals including: Analogica 7, EDOC, Curtas Vila Do Conde. Daniel Robin is an associate professor at Georgia State University, teaching documentary production and fiction production.
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Lucidity
by Jeff Zorrilla 08:13 / 2019 / Argentina /16mm / documentary An illusory meditation on the street culture of New York City, represented through a collage of overlaid events and characters that collide at chance during the filming, chemical development and digital scanning process. Through this method, the artist embraces accidents and coincidence in favor of uncontrolled artistic expression. |
Zorrilla was born in 1984 in the United States. He studied film at the University of Santa Cruz (California, USA), and the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). He currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s directed numerous short films in Super 8.
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Malvaceae
by Juana Robles 10:40 / 2018 / Switzerland / super8 / exp The boxes for the return into her home country are packed and stand around her bed since years. But will she ever know again, if it’s day or night, if she’s awake or asleep, if she’s breaking out or just running into a trap? |
Juana Robles (*1983 Tortosa, Spain) is an experimental filmmaker based in Dublin, Ireland. Having grown up in Switzerland she studied Visual Communication, Spatial Design and Film. Her recent work is focused on analogue filmmaking and the use of 16 and 35mm celluloid film for animation and picture making. She has also worked as an editor in video art post production and still works as freelance graphic designer and film programer for experimental film festivals.
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Beautiful young ladies
by Roger Batteault 8'28'' / 2019 / France / super8 / doc This is an observation in the nature. Not far from a pond live many different dragonflies. At a time where insects disappear one after another, why don't just take a break, contemplate those beautiful young ladies and realize how we will miss nature... |
NOTE from Roger's son
My father Roger Batteault, a former pork butcher, is now 79 years old and still makes Super 8 films. His films are shown here and there : in Brazil, London or during the Cannes filmfestival, thanks to 3 Straight 8 selections... My dad admires nature, he's a contemplative and his patience is rewarded by beautiful images (far more beautiful in a S8 screening than in this digital. |