ANALOGICA SELECTION 15 - 2025

FRAGMENTS OF
by Elena Calvo Polo
found footage / 2024 / Spain / 4’ 26’’

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The film integrates into a new audiovisual piece a set of images discarded after the digitisation of the original films. These fragments have been discarded due to a lack of exposure or veiled, because the material was damaged, or they have been discarded when glues were placed on the reels. 
The film made without a camera shows the support itself, shows the splices, works the declared montage, reveals the lateral perforations and does not limit itself to showing only the space of the frame, as well as intervening manually on the emulsion. 
The sound accentuates the material condition of the support as it is the result of the film passing through the optical sound head. All these elements emphasise the materiality of the film itself.

Filmmaker, programmer and researcher Elena Calvo combines her professional and academic activity with the cultural management of events and activities through the Algarabía Cultural Association, which she founded.
She has taken part in several festivals as a jury member, collaborates with Casa Árabe in Córdoba and participated in the 16th edition of S8 in A Coruña. She recently organised and coordinated a week of activities around Memory and Domestic Cinema.