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> PROGRAM 2 /// 52'
> first screening: April 8th WED // 9PM (CET) > second screening: April 8th WED // 7PM (PT) Coda MCMLXXXV
by Alex Faoro / 04:15 / USA / 2018 / super8 / found footage / exp / no sound Water runs under a bridge. A church looms overhead. A couple films each other on the shoreline. Walking into a sea of chaotic filmic decay. Super 8mm Kodachrome shot by my parents in 1985, and buried by myself in late summer of 2018. Alex Faoro is a teacher, curator and moving image artist. His films and videos utilize 8mm, and involve concepts of home, memory and decay. His work has been exhibited at festivals, galleries, museums and small cinemas including Anthology Film Archives, Dobra - Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental, Circuito Nomadica and Family Film Project. In addition to screening his own work, Alex directs and programs a small theater space - Al’s Cinematheque - where he shows a variety avant-garde films No Personal Checks by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster / 04':52'' / USA / 2018 / super8 / exp Made from a Super 8mm diary film that I shot long ago and recently found in the basement. I hand-baked, rephotographed, hand-processed, re-edited, and otherwise distorted my footage and added layers of audio. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an artist, educator, author and curator. Foster creates handmade experimental films working with small gauge (Super 8mm and 16mm film) and from archival 35mm "found footage" and video. Foster's documentary on early pioneering women film directors, "The Women Who Made the Movies" is distributed by Women Make Movies. Foster is Willa Cather Professor of English & Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Petting Zoo by Daniel Robin / 11' / USA / 2019 / found footage / exp- doc In 1974 the local TV news station came into the filmmaker’s (as a young boy) home to document and learn about Jewish rituals. A narrative evolves about the formation of American Jewish identity, and transforms into an analogy for the current rise in anti-Semitism and nationalism in America and the world. Daniel Robin makes short experimental non-fiction work including: my olympic summer which won the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking, Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the Florida Film Festival, Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival, Director’s Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival, and the Onda Curta Award at IndieLisboa Film Festival. His film All The Leaves Are Brown won Best Director at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Jury Award for Personal Vision at the Oxford Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at the Sidewalk Film Festival, and screened at many festivals including: Analogica 7, EDOC, Curtas Vila Do Conde. Daniel Robin is an associate professor at Georgia State University, teaching documentary production and fiction production. The Pit by Jona Gerlach / 10' 51'' / 2019 / USA / 16mm + found footage / exp + doc A portrait of the past and present of the Berkeley Pit, an former copper mine in Butte, Montana, and the largest body of contaminated water in the United States. Through handmanipulated original and found footage, the film shows the destructive consequences of mine waste though a variety of photochemical processes using the same contaminants found in the water of the pit. Jona Gerlach is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores history, memory and place. He works in film, video, and installation to explore the relationship between landscape, people, and systems of power. Landing by Sabina Maselli / 7' 33'' / Australia / 2019 / 16mm / exp ‘Landing' is a ritual in film that performs the return of the celestial body to the terrestrial body, through the act of spinning, mirroring and altering time. Hand processed colour reversal film, accompanied by a soundtrack composed of a single fragment of a woman’s voice that is replicated and modulated, circling around the image at different speeds. Part of a series of works that are concerned with the nature of time, memory and magic. Through the act of repetition (both the camera and the body), an animist transformation can occur. A merging of the female and celestial body. Soundtrack by Erkki Veltheim. Sabina Maselli is an artist and filmmaker who makes multilayered works that are presented as films, installations and live performances. She uses both analogue and digital processing, through a very physical engagement with her materials. She sees her works as sites for transformation between body, memory and technology, and how they manifest in the physical, material, mystical, and mythological realms. She also directs music videos, and collaborates regularly with musicians and performance arts companies in audio-visual shows and expanded cinema works. Sabina is core member of the film collective AFW (Artist Film Workshop) based in Melbourne, Australia. Inverno 1219 by Manuele Cecconello / 7' 20'' / Italy / 2019 / super8 / exp – doc The performance of the artist Fiorenzo Rosso. He reconstructs in miniature the construction site of the Basilica of Sant'Andrea in Vercelli (1219). Manuele Cecconello (b. 1969) is a visual artist. He makes esperimental film since 1989. Recycled Realizations by Jon Behrens / 3:24 / USA / 2017 / 35mm / experimental This film was made from 35mm film trailers from 1990's Hollywood movies. Hand painted and manipulated. 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. |
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