ANALOGICA SELECTION 7 /// Program #4 > 50'
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ENOLAEMEVAEL / LEAVEMENALONE
Kathryn Ramey 7' 03'' / 2016 / US / 16mm An unfaithful remake of Man Ray’s 1926 "Emak Bakia" made without the use of a motion picture camera, ELONA EM EVAEL/LEAVE ME ALONE is a nonsensical response to brutality alongside a celebration of silver process. |
Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work engages both experimental film processes and ethnographic research. Her award winning and strongly personal films are characterized by manipulation of the
celluloid. Her scholarly interest is focused on the social history of the avant-garde/experimental film community, the anthropology of visual communication and the intersection between art and anthropology. |
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Mandres
Cassandra Celestin 7' 06'' / 2016 / Greece / Usa / 16mm / exp Traces of a body draw a camera across a landscape of stone and walls. |
Cassandra Celestin is a filmmaker and material culture researcher based between New York and Greece.
She has worked on various film projects in the film collective mas sketo and is a co-founder of the Syros Int'l Film Festival in Syros, Greece. |
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All Flesh Is Grass
Caryn Cline 12' / 2017 / Usa / 16mm / Exp "All Flesh Is Grass" experimentally documents a prairie restoration site in rural Missouri. |
Originally from the Missouri Ozarks, Caryn Cline is a filmmaker and teacher who has been making films and videos for 20 years. She works with found footage, shoots 16mm film, creates handmade direct animation “botanicollage” film and often combines these elements on an optical printer. The haptic qualities of the materials and the process are important aspects of her filmmaking. She lives and works in Seattle, WA.
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Debris
Giuseppe Boccassini 11'/ 2017 / Germany - Italy / Foundfootage / experimental Debris" is a travelogue of a shipwreck which tries, through decomposed memories, to grab onto new flesh. |
Giuseppe Boccassini is an Italian filmmaker mainly working in Germany and Italy.
He graduated in film theory at the University of Bologna and in film direction at The New University of Cinema and Television located in Cinecittà, Rome. His work has been shown at several international film festivals and exhibitions. His entire film production is distributed by Light Cone. He is one of the curators of Fracto, a new experimental film screening event at ACUD macht neu, Berlin. |
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Film Loop 31: Shisendo
Michael Lyons 1'30' / 2017 / japan- Italy / 16mm / Experimental Photographed on 16mm film at Shisendo temple in northeast Kyoto and hand-developed using matcha (powdered green tea). The soundtrack is an excerpt from 'Eunoia' by Stefano de Ponti and Elia Moretti recorded in Torino, Italy. Images from the Film Loop Series were used in studio during the recording of this track. For more info: michaellyons.xyz/film-loops depontimoretti.tumblr.com |
Michael Lyons (Canada/U.K.) is a researcher and artist based in Kyoto, Japan.
He works as a professor of Image Arts and Sciences at Ritsumeikan University, and likes to remind students that there is (much) more to life than digital technology. |
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Framelines
Sabine Gruffat 10' 14'' / 2017 / Usa / 35mm / experimental Framelines is an abstract scratch film made by laser etching patterns on the film emulsion of negative and positive 35mm film. The strips of film were then re-photographed on top of each other as photograms then contact printed. The soundtrack filters and layers the noise made by the laser etched optical track. |
Sabine Gruffat is an artist who works with experimental video and animation, media-enhanced performance, participatory public art, and immersive installation. She is also a filmmaker with a special interest in the social and political implications of media and technology. Sabine's films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide. She has also produced digital media works for public spaces as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General, Devotion Gallery, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, and Hudson Franklin in New York. Currently she is Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
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