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Coda MCMLXXXV
by Alex Faoro 04:15 / USA / 2018 / super8 / found footage / exp Water runs under a bridge. A church looms overhead. A couple films each other on the shoreline. Walking into a sea of chaotic filmic decay. Super 8mm Kodachrome shot by my parents in 1985, and buried by myself in late summer of 2018. |
Alex Faoro is a teacher, curator and moving image artist. His films and videos utilize 8mm, and involve concepts of home, memory and decay. His work has been exhibited at festivals, galleries, museums and small cinemas including Anthology Film Archives, Dobra - Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental, Circuito Nomadica and Family Film Project. In addition to screening his own work, Alex directs and programs a small theater space - Al’s Cinematheque - where he shows a variety avant-garde films
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Gibraltar Point (transformed)
by Penny McCann 6' 07'' / 2017/ Canada / 16mm / exp Erratic flashes of light spark across a flickering expanse of water and sky. The image can't be contained as light and debris spill outside the frame. The random alchemy of handprocessing techniques creates a landscape that transcends the observable, edging into the sublime. |
Canadian media artist Penny McCann's body of work spans more than twenty-five years and encompasses both dramatic and experimental films and videos. Her work has been exhibited extensively at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally.
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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. |
Butterfly disaster
by Caryn Cline 6'50'' / 2019 / USA / 16mm / exp Inspired by a newspaper article about the plight of monarch butterflies, using found footage from four different sources, I edited, optically-printed, superimposed, scratched on, bleached and otherwise altered the film to highlight, lament and challenge the monarch butterflies’ dilemma. |
Caryn Cline is a Seattle-based filmmaker. Her short films have been screened at numerous festivals and venues. She teaches handmade “botanicollage” film workshops and is the co-founder and -curator of the Engauge Experimental Film Festival.
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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. |
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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It Matters What
by Francisca Duran 9'03'' / Canada / 201? / 16mm / exp- animtion 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.
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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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QR CODE / FILM [#2]
by Antoni Pinent 3' 30'' / 2018 / Italy / 16mm / exp-animation / silent Base / Source: Plate 40, 1879. Eadweard Muybridge It has always been understood that the secret of movement lies in the decomposition of time. Aristotle was convinced that the horse in his gallop never rises completely from the ground. Only in the 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge, using a series of photographic devices operated by cables, observed the famous horse Phryne L. to reach, through the dissection of time, to understand its mystery: in an instant it is suspended in the air. QR CODE / FILM [#2] focuses on slicing time to penetrate its nature. As did the physics of the s. XX., The film-essay proposes an anatomical study of time: the montage, as in an autopsy, de-constructs the movement making emerge what we do not see and that only the magic of the whole of the work can show us -both static exposed inside of a Light Box / Plexiglass, as in motion induced by film projection-. |
Antoni Pinent (Lleida, Spain, Nov. 1975), currently lives and works between Venice (Italy) and Los Angeles (USA). Independent curator of contemporary art, teacher, film curator / programmer, and experimental filmmaker, whose work has been screened in different cinematheques, cultural centers and museums, such as the MoMA in San Francisco (2012).
His film work is in distribution at: Light Cone (Paris, France); CFMDC. Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (Toronto, Canada); Canyon Cinema (San Francisco, CA. USA); HAMACA (Barcelona, Spain). |