Program 2
curated by tooth
Friday, March 13, 2020 @ 9pm
The Lab (2948 16th Street, SF, CA)
Total running time: 65 minutes
$6 - 10 sliding scale - tickets available at the door
Festival passes available for purchase here
26 Pulse Wrought - (Film for Rewinds) Vol. I Windows for Recursive Triangulation
2015 | 3 minutes | USA | 16mm | color | sound
The first in a series of 9 Films investigating subjective languages, languages of subjectivity, and
interpretive modes thru coded polyphonic articulate signals. A cinema for
illumination and reflection.
Exploring travel from east to west and from west to east. Reflecting on the setting Sun of the Winter Solstice, the crux of increasing light… seen thru apertures…setting over the Pacific.
Yes it is here…it is here, where we are…
-AB
Metric Film
Federico Lanchares
2017 | 3 minutes | 16mm | b&w | silent
Metric Film is a film that arises from the cinematic encounter between the arithmetic succession of Fibonacci (13th century) and the Method to make an infinity of different drawings with squares of two colors separated by a diagonal, of Father Dominique Doüat (18th century)..
-FL
For Bucky Fuller
2019 | 3 minutes | USA | 16mm | b&w | silent
An homage to Buckminster Fuller and his belief that one could feel the earth's rotation while standing with feet apart facing the North Star. A collaboration with Maggie Wong.
-KA
Midnight Orange
2018 | 11 minutes | France/India | 16mm | color | sound
A film about unresolved crescendos, thwarted anticipations and unmanaged escalations told through architecture gone awry.
Filmed in the tombs of the Paigah family in Hyderabad, India, noise and silence, flicker and stillness tell the tale of a tradition of architecturally outdoing your ancestors, even in death's eternal sleep.
-GV
I don’t think I can see an island
Christopher Becks & Emmanuel Lefrant
2016 | 5 minutes | France/Italy | 35mm | color | sound
A Film of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures.
-CB & EF
Line of Apsides
2015 | 12 minutes | USA | 16mm | b&w & color | sound
Filmed at Film Farm, ON, bucket-processed on site and added to over time. Objects, animate and inert, were examined through the viewfinder and under a microscope and goats were interviewed daily. Thoughts coaxed into light in about the order they were encountered.
-JM
Spacy
1981 | 9 minutes | Japan | 16mm | tinted b&w | sound
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.
-TI
Cypris
1995 | 4 minutes | France | super 8 | tinted b&w | silent
Abstract film made of moving and sensual matter. This film was made in black and white and then colored using successive turns.
-MT
Jean Luc Nancy
2018 | 5 minutes | Austria | 16mm | color | sound
“The full moon on the black night sky, a swinging pendulum, constellations, three women seen from behind, an ensemble of sparking crystals, half-transparent stripes in motion, light plays in black-and-white and in color. Images, perspectives, bodies, spaces, worlds set in relation to one another. Or, in other words: cinema. Concrete and abstract, sensual and theoretical, thought out and felt JEAN LUC NANCY the complex essence of cinema: as dispositive, as medium, as work body, as aesthetic experience, and as sensual site of encounter and tenderness – fleeting, moving, illuminating, touching.”
-Michelle Koch
Tirgu Jiu
Paul Sharits
1977 | 10 minutes | 16mm x 2 | color | sound
A two projector piece, one image projected within the larger image.
An homage to the symmetry of Brancusi’s three greatest outdoor works, which are situated across the length of the small rural town of Tirgu Jiu, Romania. Brancusi was born in the nearby tiny hamlet of Hobita and was commissioned to erect the “Endless Column”, the “Gate of the Kiss”, and the “Table of Silence”.
The screen within a screen will produce a very dynamic illusion of being Kinetic (which is caused by perceptual confusion).
-PS
(curator’s note: this rarely screened double projection color flicker film is often confused with a similarly titled, yet entirely different work of Sharits’ from 1984 titled Brancusi’s Sculpture Ensemble At Tirgu Jiu)
Andrew Busti has been making "handmade" films in various forms since 1999. His work revolves around the idea of the subjective and the languages that evolve through experience and perception. His current 16mm film series, titled: 26 Pulse Wrought- Film for Rewinds are films that approach cinema as projected data feeds, articulate signals, and loci of information to be seen, heard, intuited...and eventually interpreted.
He is the head of technical resources and an integral part of the new media preservation program for the Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts Department at University of Colorado in Boulder where he teaches classes in Alternative Process and Alchemical Cinema.
He fervently works with artists, museums, and archives through the name Analogue Industries Ltd., facilitating new works, helping to preserve works regardless of classification, while always striving to support analog cinema in all its ongoing forms. He is a founding member of Process Reversal, a nonprofit artist-run analog film initiative that currently educates, informs, supports, and outfits artist-run film labs and communities around the globe. When not working long hours and helping others make films or actually making his own, he might be found singing to his 11 month old baby boy and obsessing about the reclamation and refining of silver from the photographic process for at least .999 percent of his time.
Federico Lanchares - Born in La Plata, Argentina. He is a film programmer and filmmaker graduated from the Art Department (National University of La Plata). He is the director of Semana del Film Experimental (La Plata Experimental Film Week), since it was founded in 2010.
Kioto Aoki is a visual artist whose practice includes photography, film, books and installations to engage the material specificity of the analogue image and image-making process. Using the nuances of time, space, form, light and motion, her work explores different modes of perception as it relates to the space between the still and the moving image; as well as the human body within the device of photographic frame.
She has exhibited and screened in Chicago, Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Japan. Her work is held in Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Library. Kioto received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a HATCH Projects artist-in-resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
Gautam Valluri is an artist working with film. His work explores the relationship between architectural spaces and personal histories through the materiality of celluloid. He is the recipient of Masters Degrees in Experimental Film from Kingston University London and Université Paris VIII.
His work has been exhibited at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, Cinematek in Brussels, CCCB in Barcelona, Museu do Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, The Korean Film Archive in Seoul and at various film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück) and Images Festival (Toronto).
Christopher Becks grew up in Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. He studied Fine Art and has a a Master's degree in Philosophy. Becks is a member of the Double Negative film collective in Montreal, but he currently lives and works in Berlin where he is pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy and working with the Labor Berlin film collective.
Emmanuel Lefrant Emmanuel Lefrant lives and works in Paris, where he makes films, all self-produced, exclusively on celluloid. The films lie on the idea of representing, of revealing an invisible world (the secret forms of emulsion), a nature that one does not see.
In 2000, he founded with Nicolas Berthelot, Alexis Constantin and Stéphane Courcy the collective Nominoë. They created together performances which have been played in many prestigious places, as the Pompidou Centre, the Serralvès Foundation (Porto) or the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR).
Julie Murray has made more than twenty-five film and digital works which have exhibited widely at international festivals including the New York Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Centre George Pompidou (Paris), London Film Festival and the Flaherty Film Seminar NY.Her work was featured in the 2004 edition of the Whitney Biennial and her films are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Murray has presented her work at REDCAT (Los Angeles), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Media City Film Festival ON, Pacific Film Archives CA, Los Angeles Filmforum, the San Francisco Cinematheque and Cinematheque Ontario inToronto. Murray's early super-8 films were selected for a National Film Preservation Foundation Award in 2014.
Born in 1946 in Ivry-Sur-Seine, Marcelle Thirache begins with the practice of photography and exhibits her work as soon as 1978. First, her discovery of Marguerite Duras with the dissociation between sounds and images, and then the films of Germaine Dulac, foster a growing interest for cinema and finally lead her to choose the Super-8 in 1982. In 1987 she shows her films to yann beauvais and Miles McKane. In 1984, she develops a peculiar skill consisting in hand painting directly on a Super-8 filmstrip. To complete this cinematographic practice, she starts classical painting in 1999.
Antoinette Zwirchmayr, born 1989 in Salzburg, Austria. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her works have been featured in festivals including International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (D) Indielisboa (P), Toronto International Film Festival (CND), Media City Film Festival (CND), New Horizons Film Festival (PL), CPH: DOX (DK), Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), FID Marseille (F). She has been awarded with the Start-Up Grant for Young Film Artists (Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria 2017), Annual grant for photography (Land Salzburg 2017), Simon S. Filmaward (2016), Kodak Cinematic Vision Award (Ann Arbor Film Festival 2016), Best Innovative Film Award, Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film (2016), Annual grant for film (Land Salzburg 2014), Best short documentary Award - Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film (2014), Sponsorship Award (Salzburger Kunstverein 2014), Birgit-Jürgenssen-Award (2013).
Paul Sharits was born in Denver, Colorado and earned a BFA in painting at the University of Denver’s School of Art where he was a protege of Stan Brakhage. He also attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where he received an MFA in Visual Design. In July 1960, he married Frances Trujillo Niekerk, and in 1965 they had a son, Christopher. They divorced in 1970.He was subsequently a teacher at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Antioch College, and, from 1973 to 1993, the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Sharits is recognized internationally as a pioneering experimental filmmaker; however, he was trained as a painter and adapted strategies from both disciplines in his work. His influence on audiences worldwide was very apparent during his life.
Born in 1956 in Fukuoka, Japan, Takashi Ito is one of the leading experimental filmmakers in Japan.
"Film is capable of presenting unrealistic world as a vivid reality and creating a strange space peculiar to the media. My major intention is to change the ordinary everyday life scenes and draw the audience (myself) into a vortex of supernatural illusion by exercising the magic of films." (Takashi Ito, in Image Forum, Oct.1984)