ANALOGICA HOSTS // Michael Fleming

    // Live streaming // 30 APRIL 8 PM - CET -  (eng)  // Screening + Q&A with Michael Fleming and the composer Aaron Michael Smith
  
ANALOGICA HOSTS // is a series of live streams dedicated to the filmmakers we’ve met in the first ten years of activity.

A journey through the independent scene of experimental and alchemic cinema, which often arises in small autonomous labs, collectives of filmmakers, spaces of analog resistance.

The live streaming series is accessible from Analogica's website.
Each stream lasts about 60 '.
ANALOGICA HOSTS // è una serie di incontri dedicata ai filmmakers che abbiamo avuto la fortuna di incontrare in questi primi dieci anni di attività.

Un percorso nella scena indipendente del cinema di ricerca e sperimentale, che nasce spesso in piccoli laboratori autonomi, collettivi di filmmakers, spazi di resistenza analogica.

Gli incontri sono in live streaming, accessibili dal sito di analogica, ogni incontro dura circa 60'.
Michael Fleming is an Amsterdam based visual artist.
In essence his work appropriates iconic cultural images, altering them to highlight underlying issues. His ‘moving paintings’ are primarily made out of found footage, using feature films, advertising and pop-cultural scenes completed into a mesmerising montage of images.
Fleming's work has been featured in exhibitions and film festivals internationally.
Michael Fleming has been part of the Analogica Selection program several times.
Michael Framing è un artista visivo che vive e lavora ad Amsterdam.
I suoi film trasformano, o meglio trasfigurano, l'immaginario pop e culturale per mettere in evidenza i tanti limiti che questo immaginario rappresenta.
I suoi 'quadri animati' nascono principalmente dal found footage come trailer di film, pubblicità e scene pop montate e tagliate con diverse tecniche per ogni singolo frame.
Michael ha partecipato a diversi festival internazionali, ed è stato presente ad Analogica in diverse Selezioni, oltre ad aver tenuto un fantastico workshop nel 2018.
I suoi film sono presenti nella selezione VOD.
the Rapture / 5' 3'' /  2014
Music: Christian Marclay and A finely-tailored Jitbag.
A pulsating bombardment of images about our insatiable pursuit of perpetual happiness and freedom from fear. A frame by frame hand manipulated 35mm celluloid collage film, the found footage is augmented by stills that were taken from various magazines, then distorted and deformed.

Avalanche / 11' /  2013
Music:Huk Don Phun - 3 Kung Fu Pieces / Corporal Blossom - Plastic Job.
Natasha Spencer - The house she flew in on. / Stock, Hausen & Walkman -  Fistucuffs. / Bee Gees - Staying Alive / Toshio Kajiwara, Dj Olive, C. Marclay, Erik M.
Dummy Run - Blast Avoidance Mix / Realistic - Trademark Messaging.
A found-footage, hand manipulated, cameraless 35mm celluloid film.This collage film is about the perpetual image flood we receive daily. Loaded with iconographic images of consumerism and amusement .
The film releases an overflow of our own popular culture to the viewer.

Over&Over / 8' 1'' /  2015.
Music composed, recorded, mixed, and edited by: Aaron Michael Smith.
A 35mm found-footage hand-manipulated collage film focusing on the depiction of fear and revenge seen in commercial cinema. Manipulating our fear of mortality, it suggests we decimate what threatens us. The surface of the film material has been treated in the same way: peeling, scalping, cutting, and burning the image.

Never Never Land / 9' 13'' min, 2018.
Music by: Aaron Michael Smith.
Never Never Land is about our obsession with physical perfection, our domination and wanting to control everything. Not only being the perfect human being but also creating him. Chance is replaced by choice.
This idea that all is possible and engineerable arises the belief that even our fantasy is realizable. ‘Shaping my life’ this becomes our individual main goal; our life as a project.
In our greedy 'me-itis' we want to fully explore ourselves, create our ultimate dream. Our demand to be 'Homo Perfectus', being Superman, the DIY-made Uber-God 3.0!

the Garden of Delight / 11' 36'' / 2017.
Music composed, recorded, mixed, and edited by: Aaron Michael Smith.
Musicians: Timothy Paek – Cello, Yeji Oh - Piccolo, Elisabeth Shafer - Trombone
John Demartino - Double Bass, Shanon Rubin - Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
Janny Joo - Violin, Sean Gill - Percussion
Three scenes reflecting on paradise, lust and hell.
In ‘the Garden of delight’ beauty and evil go together like in a dream. We
dive into a world of erotic derangement, inhabited by dancing lovers,
lustful mutated baboons, tropical birds, deformed pin-ups, butterflies and body-builders.
This hand-manipulated collage film, made entirely out of 35 and 8mm found-footage, explores the marriage between heaven and hell, our irresolvable endless conflict that goes with human nature.
Inspired on the triptych ‘the Garden of Delight by Jheronimus Bosch.
Screening + Q&A // 8 PM Central European Time // 30 April 2021 // ENG