Program 9
curated by tooth
▴ Andrew Kim and Zack Parrinella in person ▴
Sunday, April 2, 2023 @ 7pm
The Lab (2948 16th Street, SF, CA)
Total running time: 74 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
Andrew Busti
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
Kioto Aoki
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
Cypris
Marcelle Thirache
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
N/A (Not Available)
Robert and Martha Orlowski
2022 | 5 minutes | USA | 16mm | color | sound
The innocence of a home movie is called into question when consent is unexpectedly denied by the filmmaker’s grandmother.
In an effort to challenge our obsession with the body and the notion of the director, N/A (Not Available) asks: if consent is to be respected, how do we as both filmmakers and family members navigate and cope with the desire to capture imagery of those closest to us?
-RO & MO
Instant Life
Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, Andrew Kim
2022 | 27 minutes | Germany/USA | 16mm | color | sound
The three films you will see are shot-for-shot reproductions of the compilation film Instant Life (1981). Each film in Instant Life (1981) was a remake of an earlier film also called Instant Life (1941). The earlier Instant Life (1941) was a single film, not a compilation. In 2017, we decided to recreate Instant Life (1981). We did not attempt to recreate Instant Life (1941) because that Instant Life is lost.
-AD, JDG, AK
water, clock
Zack Parrinella
2021 | 8 minutes | USA | 16mm | b&w | sound
water, clock is an interpretation of the velocity of our modern world. Through layering of images, sounds and text, the film explores how rapidly human society has been moving for the last century plus. Industry, building, and "progress" of humankind onto newer and newer frontiers of innovation never cease. At least, if anything we can seek some beauty within the absurdity of all the perpetual movement constantly surrounding us.
-ZP
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
Restored by Anthology Film Archives
(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.
Robert Orlowski is a writer, filmmaker, and cinematographer working across narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking. His most recent work has screened at venues and platforms such as Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, ICDOCS, Laterale Film Festival, Light Field, Microscope Gallery, Mono No Aware Festival, Now! A Journal of Urgent Praxis, Palm Springs Short Fest, and the Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image.
Martha Orlowski is the matriarch of the Orlowski family.
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.
Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy are filmmakers based in Berlin. They work together under the moniker OJOBOCA. Together they practice Orrorism, a simulated method of inner and outer transformation. Since 2010 they are members of the artist-run film lab LaborBerlin.
Andrew Kim is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His films have screened at a variety of festivals in Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Buenos Aires, as well as in venues such as UnionDocs, New York and Los Angeles Filmforum. He teaches filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts.
Zack Parrinella is a filmmaker based in Oakland. His work often centers around dissonance and decay, sometimes more lighthearted and sometimes more anxious. His work has shown in various venues around our planet.
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.