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ANALOGICA SELECTION 11 /// PR5
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Film Tattoo by Caryn Cline
3' 10'' / 16mm / Usa / 2020

A handmade-in-quarantine botanicollage camera roll film: 16mm black emulsion leader, the length of my garden bed, was sprayed with water and scratched between two garden stones. The scratched frames were then filled with plants from my yard and re-photographed on an optical printer using 50D film at 3 frames to 1. I shared the digital transfer with the bassist and composer Alexis Cuadrado, who used a structuralist methodology based on plant names and colors to create the soundtrack.

Caryn Cline is a filmmaker, curator and teacher, originally from the Missouri Ozarks. Her handmade 16mm films have been curated at national and international festivals and venues. She is co-founder and co-curator for the Engauge Experimental Film Festival. She lives and works in Seattle, WA.

Expo Film (this film is my memory)
by Penny McCann
9' 26'' / 16mm + Super8 / Canada / 2020

Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo ’67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform the mythic landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory. Sound design by Edmund Eagan.
I completed Expo Film (is my memory) during lockdown in May 2020. Using anonymous home movie footage bought from Ebay, I set out to recreate a non-existent memory of visiting Expo ’67 in Montreal as a child. Expo Film features the exquisite work of local sound designer Edmund Eagan. With a nod to experimental American composer Alvin Lucier, he rerecords my voice until it is decayed beyond understanding.

Canadian media artist Penny McCann's body of work spans thirty years and encompasses both narrative and experimental films and video. Since 2000, she has been engaged in creating a body of experimental films that journeys through an abstract and poetic terrain marked by half-glimpsed memories and fragments of the past, forming a sustained poetic meditation on landscape, place and time. According to Cecilia Araneda in her essay commissioned by Gallery 101 to accompany her 2020 exhibition, Land Lines (of time and place) in no particular order: “McCann intervenes with our sense of the familiar with her use of hand-crafted analogue filmmaking approaches … purposefully setting it back into a kind of suspension that we immediately associate with the dream state of processing memories.”

1934 by Michele Bellio
13' 55'' / Italy / 2021

Composition for twenty photographs, sound effects and narrating voice. Twenty pictures taken between spring and summer 1934. A moving love story lost in the past. Mountains as a place of the soul, between Trentino and Südtirol. The photographs come from the director’s family archive, kept by his father Carlo, a retired professor.
The female protagonist of the story is the director’s grandmother, Alessandra Buffatto, who was 21 at the time of the pictures. The short film is dedicated to her memory.

Michele Bellio was born in 1985 in Cles (TN - Italy), where he lives. Cinema lover since he was a child, he started producing short films in 2005. In 2006 he founded the
Sguardi Cultural Association and created the European Independent Short Film Night, nearing its
15th edition. Graduated in Art and Entertainment Techniques in Venice, he obtained a master’s
degree in Cinema Events in Milan.
His works have been selected at many national and international
film festivals.

Narciso by Julio Fermepin
29' 35'' / 16mm / Argentina / 2021

Narciso lives amongst mountains, he is in charge of water distribution in the aboriginal community of Hornaditas.
His days go by between personal stories, working the land and his vision of contemporary world and nature.

Julio Fermepin studied cinematography in the Universidad del Cine, where he got a degree as a teacher.
Since 2005 he makes experimental works on reduced formats. He took part in the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 29* Mar del Plata International Film Festival amongst others.

Are you haunted, daddy? (about anxiety)
by Guillaume Vallée
2' 7'' / super8 / Canada / 2020

A depiction of various anxious states of mind during isolation. Fragmented anxiety and existential thinking. Hand-processed Super8 reversal and black & white film. Based on an interesting discussion with my son about the possibility of being haunted.

Experimental filmmaker, video artist and independent curator, Guillaume Vallée graduated from Concordia University with a Major in Film Animation and MFA in Studio Arts - Film Production option. He works mainly on Super8, 16mm and VHS. His experimental films and videos, distributed by Vidéographe (CA), Light Cone (FR) and Winnipeg Film Group (CA) have been screened internationally in many festivals, including ExIS (South Korea), Festival Int. du Film sur Art (Canada), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Canada), Int. Kurzfilmwoce Regensburg (Germany), Regards (Canada), Crossroads (United States), Oodaaq (France), Animatou (Switzerland).

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