- 14h30 – Performance
LUZ, CLARÃO, FULGOR – Augúrios para um Enquadramento Não Hierárquico e Venturoso, performance by Sílvia das Fadas, sound by Robert Blatt, PT/ DE/ AT , experimental documentary played live, 16mm, color, sound, 85’ suggested by LAIA
LIGHT, BLAZE, FULGOR — Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing”,The film “Light, Blaze, Fulgor — Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing” was sparked by the anarchist António Gonçalves Correia and his communal experiments – first, Comuna
da Luz [The Commune of Light], in Vale de Santiago/Odemira (1917-18), followed by Comuna Clarão [The Blaze Commune], in Albarraque / Sintra (1926).
Metamorphosing itself in different iterations,
this expanded film anticipates a fulgurous de- hierarchization of the act of seeing, while attempting to
offer a pedagogy of land and conviviality in the bio-region of Alentejo
« Stubbornly looking at the ruins of a commune we search for auguries.»
- 17h – Screening
A promising line-up for a mind-blowing experience : high contrast black and white alternance, immersions into chromatic density and the soft strokes of subtle shades of grey.
Warning, this screening contains a certain amount of absolute bangers of experimental film !
PROGRAM :
Où ces limites qui nous guettent se mettent à vaciller by Sophie Watzlawick (DE)
2024 / 16mm / BW / sound / 13′ /suggested by LaborBerlin
At the heart of the human being, in the air and under the sea.
Beyond these tableaux, the worst is happening.
An invisible off-screen disaster
Film Studie by Hans Richter (DE)
1926 / 16mm / BW / sound / 5’ / suggested by BAL
Hans Richter’s pioneering Dada work FILMSTUDIE was an early attempt to combine Dadaist aesthetics and abstraction. Made in 1926 Richter’s film presents the viewer with a disorientating collage of uncanny false eyeballs, distorted faces and abstract forms (none of these themes is treated constantly). It’s similar to Man Ray’s work in its ballet of motion which combines a playful tension between figurative and abstract forms, both in negative and positive exposure. FILMSTUDIE is essentially a transitional work of mixed styles. A number of devices drawing attention to the technical specificity of photography (multiple exposures and negative images) are also included and enter into a successful fusion with the remaining elements. – Marco Milone
Impresiones en la alta atmósfera by José Antonio Sistiaga, ES
1989 / 70mm to 35 mm /sound / 7 ‘ / proposé par CraterLab
« With him, painting finds its movement. Its frames move. They are cinema. God, or a creator at his level , seems to exist in this work which is edified with time. » Mariano Sanchez
Earthearthearth by Daïchi Saïto, CA
2021 / 35mm / 30’ / suggested by Craterlab
Dawn breaks where land is flesh
And bones’ echoes;
You’ve lived through extinctions –
Stars, skies, sand and seas;
Future is catching us up at last,
And all the dead are ahead of us.
Production: Daïchi Saïto, Oona Mosna
Cinematography, editing : Daïchi Saïto
Sound improvisation: Jason Sharp
Rode Molen by Esther Urlus
NL / 2013 / 16 mm / sonore / 5’ / suggested byr Mire
A research into motion picture printing techniques. Starting point and inspiration for the film are the mill paintings of Piet Mondriaan, especially Rode Molen. In the film color is created by multiple exposures through different masks during printing. Depending what developing process is used the colors mix in two ways: additive or subtractive.
Hong Kong (HKG) by Gerard Holthuis, NL
1999 / 35mm / sonore / 12’ / proposé par Filmwerkplaats
In 1998 Kai Tak airport in the middle of Hong Kong was closed. Approaching Kai Tak was a unique experience for the passengers . «One could read the newspapers in the street» one passenger exclaimed. Hong Kong (HKG) is a film about the approach and the passing by of the airplanes in the middle of a city. An observation at the end of this century.