DOC /// program
sabato 27 h 21.00
The Bags, Probably 1971* by Joshua Yates
5'10'' / Super8 / 2013 / USA
A southern family of four is reincarnated during this hand-processed assemblage of their previously unearthed audio/visual keepsakes.
Yates is a human being originally from Fayetteville, North Carolina (USA). His film/video work and photography have been shared internationally in film festivals, photo publications, and fine art exhibitions. He really likes Patsy Cline and White Russians.
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Ghost Syndrome by Rita Piffer
7' 10'' / 16mm / 2013 / USA
A film about the emotional resonances of living in-between cultures of a Moroccan lesbian who immigrated to the United States. This experimental short documentary is an intimate portrait of a young woman’s sense of belonging, identity and culture. The experimental film making process further emphasizes these themes, with parts of the film manually burned to evoke the depths of a fragile surface.
Rita Piffer is a Brazilian filmmaker who had lived for 10 years in San Francisco (CA, USA), where she made a few short movies that screened in a variety of local Bay Area Art Film Screenings and International Film Festivals. She is a MFA in Cinema canditate at San Francisco State University, where she also taught film production classes. She is currently living in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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The Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler
9 min 35 sec / super8 + 16mm / 2011 / India & Germany
a melo-dramatic docu-drama with voice-over in stop-motion and long-time exposure.
if God would come down to earth and try to earn a living in Bombay, most probably he would very soon become successful as a voice-over artiste, lending his voice to thousands of Hindi movies and even more documentaries and public service films in India.
Bernd Lützeler was born in 1967 in Düsseldorf, studied at University of the Arts Berlin, where he completed Maria Vedder's master class in 2003. Nowadays he lives and works as an artist and filmmaker between Berlin and Düsseldorf. In his works he often focuses on the aesthetics and perception of the moving image and sound, and their interrelation with technology and society. Several of his film- and video-projects have been produced in Mumbai, India, including his last film the Voice of God and the multimedia theatre performance K⁰. He is an active member of the artist-run, analogue film-collective LaborBerlin. Currently he works on his new experimental film Camera Threat.
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West: what i know about her by Kathryn Ramey
19' / 16mm / 2012 / USA
'WEST: What I know about her' is an experimental documentary about Elizabeth Crandall Perry: adventurer, midwife and distant ancestor to the filmmaker.
Ramey and her 5-yr old son, explore the path Perry took across the American West and film side-byside through monuments to American expansionism until they arrive at the family farm in Oregon.
Juxtaposing found footage,historical narrative and contemporary looks at the Willamette Valley, the film is a meditation on how to understand a past fraught with contradictory points of view and the role of the artist in the making of meaning.
Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work draws on the experimental processes of both disciplines.
She has exhibited her work internationally and currently teaches at Emerson College in Boston, MA, USA.
sabato 27 h 21.00
The Bags, Probably 1971* by Joshua Yates
5'10'' / Super8 / 2013 / USA
A southern family of four is reincarnated during this hand-processed assemblage of their previously unearthed audio/visual keepsakes.
Yates is a human being originally from Fayetteville, North Carolina (USA). His film/video work and photography have been shared internationally in film festivals, photo publications, and fine art exhibitions. He really likes Patsy Cline and White Russians.
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Ghost Syndrome by Rita Piffer
7' 10'' / 16mm / 2013 / USA
A film about the emotional resonances of living in-between cultures of a Moroccan lesbian who immigrated to the United States. This experimental short documentary is an intimate portrait of a young woman’s sense of belonging, identity and culture. The experimental film making process further emphasizes these themes, with parts of the film manually burned to evoke the depths of a fragile surface.
Rita Piffer is a Brazilian filmmaker who had lived for 10 years in San Francisco (CA, USA), where she made a few short movies that screened in a variety of local Bay Area Art Film Screenings and International Film Festivals. She is a MFA in Cinema canditate at San Francisco State University, where she also taught film production classes. She is currently living in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler
9 min 35 sec / super8 + 16mm / 2011 / India & Germany
a melo-dramatic docu-drama with voice-over in stop-motion and long-time exposure.
if God would come down to earth and try to earn a living in Bombay, most probably he would very soon become successful as a voice-over artiste, lending his voice to thousands of Hindi movies and even more documentaries and public service films in India.
Bernd Lützeler was born in 1967 in Düsseldorf, studied at University of the Arts Berlin, where he completed Maria Vedder's master class in 2003. Nowadays he lives and works as an artist and filmmaker between Berlin and Düsseldorf. In his works he often focuses on the aesthetics and perception of the moving image and sound, and their interrelation with technology and society. Several of his film- and video-projects have been produced in Mumbai, India, including his last film the Voice of God and the multimedia theatre performance K⁰. He is an active member of the artist-run, analogue film-collective LaborBerlin. Currently he works on his new experimental film Camera Threat.
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West: what i know about her by Kathryn Ramey
19' / 16mm / 2012 / USA
'WEST: What I know about her' is an experimental documentary about Elizabeth Crandall Perry: adventurer, midwife and distant ancestor to the filmmaker.
Ramey and her 5-yr old son, explore the path Perry took across the American West and film side-byside through monuments to American expansionism until they arrive at the family farm in Oregon.
Juxtaposing found footage,historical narrative and contemporary looks at the Willamette Valley, the film is a meditation on how to understand a past fraught with contradictory points of view and the role of the artist in the making of meaning.
Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work draws on the experimental processes of both disciplines.
She has exhibited her work internationally and currently teaches at Emerson College in Boston, MA, USA.