ANALOGICA SELECTION 10 YEAR /
Retrospective / Part 1 /// 62' |
Analogica nasce come evento spontaneo a Roma nel 2008, attraverso una serie di proiezioni di film in super8 e 16mm. Queste prime proiezioni erano organizzate in risposta alla progressiva scomparsa della produzione in pellicola, da anni in grande crisi economica e commerciale.
I primi eventi di Analogica sono dedicati a una vera e propria ''resistenza analogica'', all'idea cioè di mantenere in vita una tecnologia e il suo sapere che nei primi anni 2000 rischiava di scomparire in silenzio. Agli eventi di Analogica si creano contatti e reti di collaborazioni tra artisti e filmmakers, e nel giro di pochi anni si concretizza l'idea di organizzare un evento più strutturato e aperto. Nasce così la prima edizione di Analogica, che da subito propone una call internazionale per film esclusivamente realizzati in pellicola. Dal 2011 al 2021 sono stati selezionati e programmati oltre 350 film. Il cinema di ricerca e sperimentale è quello che da subito ha rappresentato al meglio l'identità di Analogica. Un cinema che esplora le tante possibilità che il processo chimico offre, e allo stesso modo recupera e ricicla fotogrammi, pellicole e conoscenze che contribuiscono a creare una nuova e interessante scena artistica. ANALOGICA SELECTION 10 YEAR / Retrsospective è un programma dedicato alla memoria e ai cambiamenti. 20 film che in modo diverso esplorano il tema della memoria e della trasformazione, film che nascono da una ricerca sulla materia stessa della pellicola, e che esplorano narrazioni e linguaggi estremamente personali e intimi. |
Analogica was born as a spontaneous event in Rome in 2008, through a series of super8 and 16mm film screenings. These first screenings were organized in response to the gradual disappearance of film production, which had been in a significant economic and commercial crisis for years. The first events of Analogica were dedicated to ''the analog resistance'', the idea of keeping technology and its knowledge alive, that in the early 2000s risked disappearing silently. At the Analogica events, networks of collaborations were created between artists and filmmakers. Within a few years, the idea of organizing a more structured and open event takes shape. Thus was born the first edition of Analogica, which immediately proposes an international call for films exclusively made in celluloid.
Over 350 films were selected and scheduled from 2011 to 2021. Research and experimental cinema is the one that immediately represented the identity of Analogica at its best. A cinema that explores the chemical processes and the many possibilities recycles old footage offers, creating a new and exciting art scene. ANALOGICA SELECTION 10 YEAR / Retrospective is a program dedicated to memory and changes. 20 films that explore the theme of memory and transformation differently arise from research into the very material of film and explore extraordinarily personal and intimate languages and narratives. |
Britomarti by Samira Guadagnuolo
1' / 2017 / Italy / 16mm – found footage Animation with found footage shot in 16mm . No sound |
Samira Guadagnuolo was born in Tanzania and is currently based in Milano where she graduated in Painting at Brera’s Fine Art Academy and at Civica Scuola di Cinema.
She is presently working on a series of perpetual animation films and poems: images born of a symbiosis of personal and collective imaginary. |
In Focus Memories by Danilo Torre
5' 30''/ 2010 / Italy / super8 found footage The video is the re-actualization of a memory, the reproduction of an image that in turn reproduces the reality of an event stuck in memory: when we bring into focus the memory from that moment on it vanishes, leaving only a sense of melancholia and emptiness of the soul. The video is inspired by unknown people’s personal memories and attempts to put them into focus crystallizing the very moment in which everything burst into flames and the memory vanishes. The technique used is the film combustion. |
Each combustion is natural and is a unique and unrepeatable act, because the burned frame, even if similar to others, it is none other than itself and represents the instantaneous shot of an unrepeatable moment.
Danilo Torre in 1999 starts working in the audiovisual field as an editor with the newborn digital systems. In 2003 he graduates in editing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Cinematography Experimental Centre) of Rome, where at the moment he teaches editing techniques, and startes working as an editor for cinema and the audiovisual industry. |
All The Leaves Are Brown by Daniel Robin
11' / 2017 / Usa / super8 A short film about memory, loss, family, and a sugar maple tree. |
Daniel Robin’s films have screened internationally including 3 shorts at Sundance with my
olympic summer winning the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize. The film was also selected to screen at the prestigious New Directors/New Films Festival at MoMA and Lincoln Center in New York. Robin is currently an Associate Professor at Georgia State University teaching documentary and fiction production. |
Reencuentro by Andrea Montanari
3' 28'' / 2016 / Italy / 35mm footage The film comes from the manipulation of 35mm film material, of old very different movie trailers each other. During the making of the film it showed the need to intervene with pictorial elements and perforations for enhanced images in sequence. With an assembly were cut and reassembled on movie film pieces that have given rise to a sort of "dream epiphany" of pre-existing material. The narration is defined by an "internal gestures" that is contextually develops to become music. |
Andrea Montanari was born in Urbino -1970-. Since 2005 teaches Animation Cinema at the Art School " Fortunato Depero "in Rovereto. In addition to teaching he creates short films using different animation techniques.
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The Islands by Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh
9'50'' / 2016 / Taiwan - USA / 16mm The Islands is an experimental documentary which consists of mundane objects and 35mm film photographs I took in three islands: Inishimore (Ireland), Staten Island (United States) and Tsushima Island (Japan). By constructing, re-filming and hand animating the photographs and objects, island is no more an geographical term, but a state of mind. |
Hsuan-Kuang is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker, born and raised in Taiwan, currently living and working in Los Angeles. This dislocation from her homeland deeply influences the narrative of her work, in which she explores the complexity of multicultural identity, with particular
attention to landscape as a source of identity. Hsuan-Kuang's work has been shown in both national and international venues, ranging from theatres and festivals to galleries and museums. |
The Pit by Jona Gerlach
10' 51'' / 2019 / USA / 16mm + found footage 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. |
It Matters What by Francisca Duran
9'03'' / 2019 / Canada / 16mm Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway. A fragment from Haraway’s essay Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene is reworked here as a poetic manifesto. |
Enigmatic found-footage calls into question human violence over animal species. Plant life is both the subject matter of the images and assists the means of photographic reproduction.
The techniques used include in-camera animation, contactprints and phytograms created by the exposure of 16mm film overlaid with plant material and dried for hours in direct sunlight. Francisca Duran is a Chilean-Canadian experimental media artist who creates films, video installation, and 2D, photo-based, mixed-media works about history, memory and violence. |
Over&Over by Michael Fleming
8' / 2016 / the Netherlands / Found Footage 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. |
Michael Fleming is a visual artist and a VJ. He ‘paints’ with manipulated film and found footage
from kitsch, cult and news broadcasts. Fleming has shared his work on festivals, in clubs, during live performances, in galleries and several museums all over the globe. |