ANALOGICA SELECTION 7 /// Program #3 > 44'
Screen Test 1 (self-portrait)
Scott Fitzpatrick 2'30'' / 2015 / Canada / exp Laser-printed onto recycled 16mm film in 2015. |
S.F. is a visual artist (Libra) from YWG, whose film and video work has screened at underground festivals and marginalized venues worldwide. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Film Studies at the University of Manitoba, and began conducting lo-fi moving image experiments in 2010. Primarily a filmmaker, also invested in photography, re-photography, kaleidoscope and collage. In addition to producing his own work, S.F. presents the work of others through the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival and Open City Cinema.
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All The Leaves Are Brown
Daniel Robin 11' / 2017 / Usa / super8 / exp - documentary 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. Other festivals of note: SXSW, Black Maria, Ann Arbor, IDFA, Indielisboa, True/False, Aspen, Curtas Vila Do Conde. Filmmaker Magazine named Robin one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” In 2000 Daniel created the website http://neighborhoodfilms.com/ver05/nf_main.html where he’s produced six documentary web series. Robin is currently an Associate Professor at Georgia State University teaching documentary and fiction production.
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The Islands
Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh 9'50'' / 2016 / TAIWAN/ USA / 16mm / experimental 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.
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News from the Sun
The Smyth Brothers 3' 07'' / 2016 / Usa / 16mm / experimental An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through the words of "The Sun", a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. 4000 single frames were exposed, unedited, and accompanied with the pulsing rhythms of the sun collected by NASA, resembling the Buddhist "Om", the sound of our universe. |
Brendan and Jeremy Smyth are 16mm experimental documentary filmmakers who explore the globe in search of cultural oddities. Their interest in visual anthropology has sent them from Mexico to Indonesia showcasing the economic plight of workers through unique methods of storytelling. The twins' work has won multiple awards and screened at notable festivals/venues around the world. The two are the directors/programmers of the Haverhill Film Festival- now in its 6th annual year. Currently, the Smyth brothers live in Durham, NC where they run a screening series called UNEXPOSED- dedicated to facilitating the growth of experimental/avant-garde cinema in the Triangle.
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The tide goes in, the tide goes out
Larissa Fan 5' 30'' / 2012 / canada / super8 / exp A hand-processed, black-and-white ode to the secret world of moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita). "The tide goes in, the tide goes out" revels in the material and chemical qualities of the film medium, with the fragility of the film mirroring that of the jellyfish. |
Larissa Fan is a Canadian (Toronto-based) artist who works in 16mm and Super 8 film. She is interested in the unique qualities of analogue media and uses experimental techniques to expressively document moments in the world around her. Her work has screened at venues internationally including Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, and Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival.
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the Garden of Delight
Michael Fleming 11' 36'' / 2017 / the Netherlands / super8, found footage, 35mm / experimental 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. 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. |
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. Flemings work has been featured in exhibitions and film festivals internationally. |