It is with great enthusiasm that prisme is back at Pol-n, for the 3rd consecutive edition !
On the menu of this tasty program, bubbling films that we wanted to decontextualize – fun, subversive, musical – combined with live cinematographic expansions playing with the singular architectural space of the venue. A certain festive sentiment pervades this program : a firework of colors, eye and ear candy, grating humour and offbeat dance-floor, all of it sparkled with a good hint of girl power.
PROGRAM :
Light, Noise, Smoke And Light, Noise, Smoke by Tomonari Nishikawa, US/JP,
2023 / 16mm / color / sound / 6’ /suggested by Mire
“The alternation of the shots of fireworks filmed at a summer festival in Japan, producing a distinctive yet organic rhythm, as well as a gap between the visual and sound, both of which are produced by the photographic images on the 16mm filmstrip.”
Om by John Smith, GB
1986 / 16mm / color / sound / 3’30/suggested by Mire
“A film about haircuts, clothes and image/sound relationships.” – J.S.
“This four minute film explores our response to stereotypes – aural, visual and ideological. Smith signals these stereotypes to the viewer through a chiefly associational system, which deftly manipulates the path of our expectations. The structure is stunningly simple and deceptively subtle. We are taken on a journey from one concrete stereotype to its diametric opposite, as images transform and juxtapose to, ultimately, invert our interpretation of what we see and hear.” Gary Davis.
Portland by Greta Snider (US)
1996 / 16mm to digital / black&white / sound / 12’ / suggested by LaborBerlin
“The film is a documentary road movie about travel, the fallibility of photographs, and the merging of memory and imagination. (…) Portland reconstitutes the trip in a humorous mixture of footage from the journey (taken with a run-down Super 8 camera), interpreted re-enactments, and interviews with the involved parties. The result is a spirited look at independent women and fearless travelers.” – Canyon Cinema Catalog
Sciopticon by Hanne van Asten (NL)
2004 / 16mm / color / sound / 6’ / suggested by Filmwerkplaats
Spacy by Takashi Ito (JP)
1981 / 16mm /tinted BW / sound / 9’ / suggested by MIRE
“A film whose subject is the place (A gymnasium), the time, (the 10 minutes the film runs), and the unconformity of the reality (the gymnasium), and the illusion (the representation of the gymnasium). All the components are strictly combined in an endless cycle, a Möbius stripe, an Escher’s film in a japanese tempo, from Slow to Fast, from Pianissimo to Fortissimo.”
Magic Lantern, magic lantern performance by Petra Graf & James Edmonds, (AUST/UK/DE/FR)
2024 / magic lantern projection with found objects by Petra Graf live soundtrack by James Edmonds/ 10′ / suggested by MIRE
“With a playful and curious approach Petra Graf explores the diverse properties of discarded objects in different combinations/formations and appearances/transformations. In her Magic Lantern performance she examines found materials, their qualities and abstraction in combination with light and projection. James Edmonds provides a live sound counterpart, extracting sounds from various objects and environments to assemble a seemingly abstract field of texture and tone.”
Performance developed during Petra Graf & James Edmonds SPECTRAL Wandering Residency, organized by Mire and the P9 in Saint-Nazaire in September 2024.
? de Betija Zvejniece (LV)
2021 / 16mm>numérique / sonore / 2’40 / suggested by BAL
What would you do if a look from an old man told you that being young is the coolest thing possible?
Spiders in love : an arachnogasmic musical de Martha Colburn, US,
1999 / Super 8>16mm / color/ sound / 2’35/ suggested by MIRE
“This is a very complex animated film of the world of the she-spiders. They dance and dash about with ghoulish and gorgeous expressions of lust and consuming hunger. Parts of this film could appear as if Busby Berkley made a nature film as there are so many fabulous legs and complex dance routines.
Indications of death and life abound. Musical soundtrack by Red Balune and Jad Fair and J. Willett.”
Synchromie de Norman McLaren, CA/GB, 1971, 35mm>numérique, sonore, 7’ suggested by Filmwerkplaats
“This animated short by Norman McLaren features synchronization of image and sound in the truest sense of the word. To make this film, McLaren employed novel optical techniques to compose the piano rhythms of the sound track, which he then moved, in multicolor, onto the picture area of the screen so that, in effect, you see what you hear.”
Removed de Naomi Uman (US)
1997 / 16mm / color / sound / 7’ / picto Mire
“REMOVED is a short film made up of pictures from porn films. The naked woman, an object of desire, is removed from the image with bleach and nail varnish. The viewer is forced to think about man-woman relationships.”
San Francisco by Anthony Stern, GB
1968 / 16mm to digital / 15’ / proposé par MIRE
The film shows various pictures of San Francisco in the psychedelic era with rapid cuts and freeze-frames and Pink Floyd’s music.
Devotion. Object to Observe Life, a performance by Renata Daguerre , NL/DE ,
live film performance / 16mm & video / lights, mirror ball, mirrors, smoke / 30’ / suggested by LaborBerlin
‘Devotion..’ is an exploration into beauty, wildness, ravers, dance floors, music and animal – human relations. Materials and sensations are assembled in a galactic aquarium – shaped space where the limits between screen – surrounding and spectator – creator are dissolved.
An invitation to dance with joy and enchantment and observe how precious and sacred our freedom of body expression sparkles vividly when the space and conditions are given for them.
Direction – Renata Daguerre
Collaboration – Pat Janeiro
Costume & set design – Cindie Popper
Music – Djs Pareja, track ‘Spanish is Beautiful’
Performers – Görkem Ulumeriç, Oguçan Karabulut, Onur Aygüneş, Tseng Chih Wei.
Technical support – Pilar Falco, Jules Leaño, Victor Moïse