ANALOGICA SELECTION 8 // program 1 / 66'
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Blending and blinding
by Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie 11' / 16mm / experimental / Australia / 2018 Screens and partitions; windows and shutters; grids, curves and arches. Three peoples, one country: Malaysia. |
Richard Tuohy is one of the most active experimental film artists currently working on celluloid in Australia.
He runs Nanolab in Australia – the specialist small gauge film processing laboratory. He actively encourages other artists to work with cine film through his Artist Film Workshop initiative (see artistfilmworkshop.org). He is also a founding director of the Australian International Experimental Film Festival. Dianna Barrie is an experimental filmmaker. She found her way into filmmaking as a middle ground between the pursuit of abstract music and philosophy. Together with Richard Tuohy she established Nanolab, which is a hand-processing lab for super-8 black-and-white and colour reversal film. This exploration has spread beyond individual work to the establishment of the Artist Film Workshop. |
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New Woman 新女性 by Rita Tse
26' 16'' / 16mm / Experimental / B&W and Color / Canada / 2017 New Woman is a meditative journey that investigates the look of the “New Woman” in Chinese silent screen. Through using archival film footage with intertitles also derived from the Chinese silent films, the film explores patriarchal perspectives in the portrayal of women in Chinese silent cinema, and deconstructs their appearances in order to reveal the impressive talent and outlook of the “New Woman”, which have been largely ignored and forgotten. The film features four thematic sections, Virtue, Modeng Woman, Unbound Feet, and New Woman. The footage of each section has been re-worked differently by using relevant hand processing and manipulation techniques, including toning, reticulation, solarization, contact printing, and coffee processing. |
Rita Tse, born and raised in Hong Kong, began her career in graphic design. She then
earned a BFA in Film with a minor in Art & Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her graduation film, EastBound (2004), was selected for a number of film festivals and was given the Norman McLaren Award offered by the National Film Board of Canada. After having worked in different positions for the Hong Kong International Film Festival for a few years, she recently completed her MFA in Film Production at York University in Toronto. |
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Clarabóia by Michael Lyons
1' 30'' / super8 / experimental / 2018 / Japan A poetic look, filmed in Super 8 over three days, at a skylight in Porto. |
Michael Lyons (born Thurso, Scotland) is based in Kyoto, Japan.
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Anche in paradiso non è bello essere soli
(Even in paradise it is not good to be alone) by Lorenzo Gattorna / 8' 6'' / normal8 / experimental / documentary / 2017 / USA - Italy In memory of Nonno Pierino |
Lorenzo Gattorna is a filmmaker, instructor and programmer from New York. His films have screened with ARKIPEL, CUFF, FRACTO, Image Forum, LOOP, Microscope Gallery and NYFF.
He has programmed screenings for Anthology Film Archives, Antimatter, Maysles Cinema, Sight Unseen, The Nightingale and UnionDocs. |
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Freiluft by David Avelino
7' 20'' / super8, 16mm / fiction / 2018 / CANADA While waiting for Niko’s arrival, Brian views slides. The time gets away from him and he burns dinner. FREILUFT: open air, the space between. |
David Avelino is a recent graduate from Simon Fraser University’s BFA in Film Program. Freiluft is the Grad Project for Vancouver-based director David Avelino. His debut short Seldom Looked Upon (2016), premiered at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival in 2016 in nomination for the Best Canadian Short Award.
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Here I Breathe by Linda Fenstermaker
8' / 16mm / experimental / 2017 / USA Here I Breathe is a tender exploration of memory and the passing of time. Through the use of landscape imagery and found photos, the film focuses on the embodiment of nostalgia in youth and old age. Issues of domesticity and interdependence trail throughout the narrative of a woman looking back on her life. |
Linda Fenstermaker is an experimental filmmaker and graduate of Hampshire College, in Massachusetts. She works on celluloid film formats, including 16mm and Super 8mm. In her work, she explores interactions and relationships between body and landscape, in discovering new avenues for female representation.
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Intertropical vision by Adriana Vila Guevara
4'40'' / colour, sound, 16mm / 2018 / Spain-Venezuela Contrary to the standardization of a single hegemonic point of view, the “center” in the tropics is not the whole. It is the starting point of a powerful range of visions. This is a trip into the core of its multiple indomitable condition. |
Adriana Vila Guevara Venezuelan filmmaker, artist and anthropologist. Her work moves between the realms of documentary creation, ethnographic studies and experimental filmmaking. Focused on the materiality and immateriality of film in diverse forms (as screening, performance, and installation). She has screened her film work at relevant festivals and art centers, in Europe, North America and Latin America. Is co-founder of the independent analog film lab Crater-Lab, were other than developing her creative film work she teaches and curates experimental film programs and workshops. +info: www.adrianavilaguevara.com
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