ANALOGICA SELECTION 8 // program 3 / 72'
Please step out of the frame by Karissa Hahn
4'10'' / super8 / experimental / 2018 / USA From your desk(top) mistrust the manufactured image distrust the assembled picture give no credence to the massed account discredit the aggregate narrative defame the corporate chronicle denigrate the collective annals doubt the constructed copy- consider the clone. accept the dismantled vision exalt the forged now brain subscribe to the ditto fuel the doodad delusion nourish the gizmo nightmare incite the idiot box prophecy inflame the dingbat phantasm a film burn becoming pixels as band-aid a manufactured reinforcement in the empire of computer and you feeding machine-vision the partition of screen |
Karissa Hahn is a visual artist based in Los Angeles who works between film and video to accumulate a storm of ‘spectra ephemera.’ Hahn has shown around the planet Earth in various cinemas, galleries, and institutions such as the New York Film Festival, Wavelengths, Crossroads, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Anthology Film Archives.
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For All Audiences by Josh Weissbach
2' 36'' / 35mm, found footage / experimental, animation / 2018 / USA A trailer of an experiment searches for meaning in a moldy montage. The detritus of the movie industry swims in organic material. Emulsion and its cracks, its crumbles, and its fades. Is it ready for all the audiences? |
Josh Weissbach is an experimental filmmaker. He lives in a house next to an abandoned village with his wife, two daughters, and three cats. His films and videos have been shown worldwide in such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Mono No Aware, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 25 FPS Festival, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. He has won jury prizes at Videoex, ICDOCS, $100 Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, and Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
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As Tides Go By by Stefanie Weberhofer
12' 25'' / super8 / experimental / 2018 / Austria and Italy With the death of her grandmother, the desire of the filmmaker for a family vacation was seemingly unfulfillable. By combining Super8 film footage from five decades, the filmmaker fulfills this wish nonetheless. The change of generations seems to be stopped by the continuity of the film technology, blurring the limits of time in the Bay of Lignano, Italy. |
Stefanie Weberhofer is an Austrian filmmaker and media artist working with Super8, 16mm
and 35mm film. She explores various DIY techniques in order to create short films and works for the realm of Expanded Cinema. |
I Think You Should Come to America
by Kamila Kuc 20' 25'' / super8,16mm, found footage / experimental, documentary / 2018 / UK Using 16mm archival footage, excerpts from my letters from a Native American prisoner, documentation of my own involvement with the Movement for the Supporters of Native American Indian Rights in Poland, the film explores a paradoxical fascination of the Poles behind the Iron Curtain with the ideal of America as a ‘land of freedom.’ I Think You Should Come to America investigates the cultural conditions in which memories are created. While critically evaluating my own enchantment with America, as a teenage girl from Communist Poland, I interrogate various patterns of perception in order to produce a form of reflection that is personal and political. The film uses numerous American educational films to expose the patterns of cultural (mis)representation. Thus the film brings together a network of complex cultural forces that wish to find their expression in the act of historical and personal self-inscription. |
Kamila Kuc, Ph.D., MFA, is a filmmaker, writer and curator. Her films have screened in venues and at film festivals nationally and internationally. She is the author of Visions of Avant-Garde Film (Indiana University Press, 2016).
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Light Coins
by Caryn Cline, Jon Behrens, Luke Sieczek 03' 24'' / 16mm / experimental, documentary / 2018 / USA Inspired by the landscape in and around Seattle, three filmmakers, using three different coin-hole-crafted mattes, shot one roll of 16mm film three times to create a unique city/country symphony, edited in-camera. |
Caryn Cline is a filmmaker, curator and teacher, originally from the Missouri Ozarks. Her films change the scale of the natural world for the viewer, using botanicollage, in-camera and optical effects. Her films have been curated at national and international festivals and venues. She is co-founder and co-curator for the Engauge Experimental Film Festival. She lives and works in Seattle, WA.
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. |
From zoom #1 by Tiziano Doria
02' 37'' / 16mm / experimental / 2018 / Italy A life under fire. A view through military crosshairs Facts that happened come back regardless of the historical moment. victims hold the same postures. dust of dry heat covers lifeless bodies. music: Lavorazioni Carni Rosse |
Tiziano Doria has investigated for long the nature of media and the possibilities of photographic and cinematographic material through the re-mediation of devices and images. He lives and works in Milan.
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Nuova Zita by Antonio Di Biase
11' 05'' / 16mm / experimental / documentary / 2018 / Italy During one full day in the middle of the sea off Pescara, the eye of the Bolex 16mm sways on the fishing boat Nuova Zita, immortalizing fragments of an ancestral universe, out of time. |
Antonio Di Biase (Pescara, 1994). In 2016 he graduated at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Since 2011 Antonio has made more than ten films ranging from videoart to documentary and fiction, with attention placed on the popular peasant universe. At the moment he’s attending the third year at the ZeLIG documentary film school in Bolzano.
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Where We Stand by Lindsay McIntyre
05' 12'' / 16mm / experimental / 2015 / USA Where We Stand is a haunting portrait of theaters shot on handmade 16mm emulsion. With a strong commitment to retaining the language of film, Where We Stand takes a good hard look at the fragile future of films made on film in this digital age. |
Lindsay McIntyre (MFA/Inuk/Settler) is a Canadian film artist with a process-based analog practice which deals with themes of portraiture, place, form and personal histories.She is interested in the apparatus of cinema, representation, and bridging gaps in collective experience. She applies her interest in film chemistry, emulsion and analogue technologies to make award-winning short 16mm films and expanded cinema performances.
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Membrana Mortis (Dead Film) by Kyle Whitehead
5' / super8 / experimental / 2016 Canada Membrana Mortis is a meta-film, a chaotic assemblage of re-photographed and chemically manipulated image fragments culled from a damaged roll of film that was nearly un-projectable. The films title suggests a two-fold intention - here process and existence pre-suppose one another, at once an elegy to a dead film and observance of new genesis. |
Kyle Whitehead is Canadian artist working primarily with small-format film to create experimental and
expanded cinema projects. He prefers a careful and considered approach to image making; which should not be confused with best practices, as his work is about embracing the potential of indeterminate process. What he wants is the definitive by chance - leveraging trailing-edge technologies often with unusual or startling effect. |
-+=Oo. By Lívia Sá
04' 33'' / 16mm / experimental / 2014 / USA Minus plus equals the integration of different shapes, which transform themselves while becoming one and many. This is a hand made 16mm dual projection that explores the negative and positive spaces as well as the reuse of residual film material, which eventually turn into underwater particles. |
Lívia Sá is a multimedia artist, originally from São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently based in Brooklyn and just finished her masters degree in Media Studies at The New School. Lívia's personal work range from human rights issues to experimental narratives by using both documentary and experimental filmmaking. Often times, her work goes beyond conventional approaches to cinema as she is interested in altering the viewer's perception while stimulating different senses in her storytelling.
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