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ANALOGICA SELECTION 9 ///
6 DEC // BOLZANO FotoForum /// Via Weggenstein, 3 h 14 - 21 |
> program 3
> 46' /// |
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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.
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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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Recycled Realizations
by Jon Behrens 3:24 / USA / 201? / 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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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 |
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Inverno 1219
by Manuele Cecconello 7' 20'' / Italy / 2019 / super8 / exp – doc The performance of the artist Fiorenzo Rosso. He reconstructs in miniature the construction site of the Basilica of Sant'Andrea in Vercelli (1219). |
Manuele Cecconello (b. 1969) is a visual artist.
He makes esperimental film since 1989. |
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A l'ombre du jasmin
by Charbel KAMEL 6':14'' / 2015 / Lebanon / super8 / exp- doc Un psychologue, un acteur, un producteur. Une ville. Tous sous le même deuil. |
Charbel KAMEL, graduated with a Master’s degree in art therapy in Paris Descartes, he gives several therapeutic workshops through video and theatre. A graduate of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and a BA in clinical psychology from the Lebanese University in Beirut, he works as a freelancer in front of and behind the camera, between France and Lebanon.
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Frazada
by Eduardo Filippi 4':53'' / España / 2018 / 16mm / exp Color / Sonido Oscar Taylor Nature and culture. Jesuits and shamans. Exploitation and slavery. Conquerors and colonized. Captains and beheaded. America. Spain. The strategic war games fought by pathogens. The infected frazadas (blankets) which Spaniards distributed to indigenous communities knowing that they would be their end. |
Eduardo Filippi is an architect, performer and filmmaker, dedicated to combining his creative work with the different fields of architecture, art, design and cinema. Currently, in Barcelona he works as project coordinator of the Crater-lab laboratory, as well as multidisciplinary architect and artist.
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