5. İstanbul Uluslararası Deneysel Film Festivali
5. Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
8 - 12 Mayıs 2024
2023 (Yapılmadı)
https://istanbulexperimental.co/
info @ istanbulexperimental.co
5. İstanbul Uluslararası Deneysel Film Festivali Ödüllü Filmler Gösterimi!
8-12 Mayıs tarihleri arasında gerçekleşen festivalimizde ödül kazanan filmleri
ve gösterimi gerçekleştirilemeyen “Broken View” filmini izleme şansını
kaçırmayın! 19 Mayıs Pazar günü Karga Kadıköy’de siz sinemaseverlerle
buluşuyoruz.
Tarih: 19.05.2024, Pazar
Yer: Karga Kadıköy
Saat: 19:00, 20:30, 22:00
Gösterim Programı:
19:00 - Broken View
Hannes Verhoustraete. Belgium
20:30 - Ödül Alan Kısalar
Festivalde ödül kazanan kısa filmler:
Embers from Yesterday, Aflame. William Hong-xiao Wei. UK
Mechanics of Fluids. Gala Hernández López. France
A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I. Federico Di Corato. Italy
Motus. Nelson Fernandes. Portugal
Terrifying Holes Compilation. Katharina Aae. Germany
Foundations of the Work of the Sun. Jakub Štourač, Anna Luňáková. Czech Republic
22:00 - Last Things
Deborah Stratman. USA
Festivalin en iyi uzun metraj ödülü.
Ödül kazanan bu muhteşem filmleri ve festivalde gösterimi yapılamayan “Broken
View” filmini kaçırmamak için bu özel etkinlikte buluşalım!
5. İstanbul Uluslararası Deneysel Film Festivali Ödülleri Açıklandı
8-12 Mayıs tarihleri arasında gerçekleşen festivalimizde, deneysel sinemanın en
yaratıcı ve ilham verici eserlerini sizlerle buluşturduk. İşte kazananlar:
Feature:
"Last Things" - Deborah Stratman (ABD)
Shorts:
"Embers from Yesterday, Aflame" - William Hong-xiao Wei (İngiltere)
Documentary:
"Mechanics of Fluids" - Gala Hernández López (Fransa)
Special Jury Mention - Documentary:
"A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I" - Federico Di Corato (İtalya)
Animation:
"Motus" - Nelson Fernandes (Portekiz)
First Experiment:
"Terrifying Holes Compilation" - Katharina Aae (Almanya)
Special Jury Mention - First Experiment:
"Foundations of the Work of the Sun" - Jakub Štourač, Anna Luňáková (Çekya)
Tüm katılımcılarımıza, kazananlara ve bu unutulmaz festivale katkıda bulunan
herkese teşekkür ederiz!
Karşınızda 5. İstanbul Uluslararası Deneysel Film Festivali'nin Sır Gibi
Saklanan Jürisi!
8-12 Mayıs tarihleri arasında gerçekleşen 5. İstanbul Uluslararası Deneysel Film
Festivali’nde Yarışma jürisi olarak yer alarak katkıda bulunan saygıdeğer
isimlere teşekkürlerimizi sunuyoruz.
Ahmet Gürata - Sinema araştırmacısı ve akademisyen.
Serdar Kökçeoğlu - Yönetmen, film eleştirmeni ve yazar.
Esin Paça Cengiz - Akademisyen.
Elif Refiğ - Yönetmen ve senarist.
Melike Bayık - Sanat eleştirmeni ve küratör.
Bu kıymetli isimlere, festivalimize verdikleri emek ve değerli katkılarından
dolayı teşekkür ederiz!
5. İstanbul Uluslararası Deneysel Film Festivali'nin kapanış gününde, Irving
Kriesberg Estate Vakfı'nın katkılarıyla harika bir konuşmacıyla karşınızdayız!
Araştırmacı ve yönetmen Serdar Kökçeoğlu, Mimaroğlu ile başladığı ‘Ses Sineması’
serisine, Elif Dizdaroğlu ile hazırladığı 20. Yüzyılın Sesleri: Usmanbaş ile
devam edecek. Yönetmen, projesi için besteci Bülent Arel’in müziklerini yaptığı
1972 tarihli, 16MM çekilen, ünlü sanatçı Irving Kriesberg imzalı Out of Into
animasyonunun peşine düştü ve Türkiye’de gösterilmesine ön ayak oldu. Bu az
bilinen saykodelik filmin gösteriminin ardından Serdar Kökçeoğlu, özellikle Arel,
Mimaroğlu ve Usmanbaş gibi çağdaş ve elektronik müzik bestecilerinin sinemayla
olan ilişkisi üzerine bir konuşma yapacak. Usmanbaş ve Arel müziği içeren Metin
Erksan deneysel televizyon filmlerini ve Mimaroğlu’nın müziğine yer veren Ara
Güler imzalı Kahramanın Sonu ve Fellini imzalı Satyricon gibi filmleri ele
alarak; avangard seslerin sinemacılara nasıl ilham verdiğine yakından bakacak.
Irving Kriesberg Estate Vakfı'nın katkılarıyla, Serdar Kökçeoğlu, "Serüvenci
Sesler ve Filmler" isimli ücretsiz gerçekleşecek oturumuyla, festivalimizin son
günü 12 Mayıs Pazar saat 14:30'da Salt Galata'da sizlerle!
8.5.2024 | Wednesday
SALT GALATA
15:00 | First Hermanubis: Initiation | Michael Alexander Morris | 40’
8.5.2024 | Wednesday|Salt Galata |15:00
First Hermanubis: Initiation
Michael Alexander Morris
40' | 2022 | 16mm
United States
First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films
using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes
and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic
and the occult. This first episode focuses on the story of my family, Greeks who
came to the United States from Turkey in the early 20th Century, my relationship
to growing up in the Greek Orthodox Church, self-initiation into magic, and
relocation to Cairo, Egypt.
16:00 | Short Selection: Film Memory | 51’
Film Memory
8.5.2024 | Wednesday|Salt Galata|16:00
Light Leak
Nate Dorr
8' 20'' | 2021 | digital
United States
Light is information, a signal more lasting than recollection. If there’s anyone
out there to receive the message.
Isolated in a sealed apartment, a lone observer regards an outside world become
increasingly unreal or unreachable. Archaic illuminations, old slides and the
pin-lights of the camera obscura, crawl across the walls. Connections fray. Time
loses meaning. A science fictional essay film, or its inverse. A rumination on
optics, memory, data, and endings.
There, Where She is Not
Sarah Ballard
7' | 2022 |16mm, digital
United States
Echos of a time in my grandmother's life that she no longer remembers—a
fractured memory recollected through proxy figures Frances Farmer and Marguerite
Duras—a mirror is a placeless place.
El Chinero, A Phantom Hill
Bani Khoshnoudi
11' 21'' | 2023 | 16mm
Mexico
El Chinero is a rugged hill in the desert, 140 km south of Mexicali in the Baja
California region of Mexico. Nobody knows since when it bears its name, but
everyone has heard of a tragic episode that took place here in 1916… Or were
there many such episodes? A few years after the Mexican Revolution of 1910, a
massive exodus took place within the country, as deportations and violence
targeted Chinese and Asian migrants who had settled in Mexico for many decades.
Despite a lack of documentation about the site, it is thought that many people
died here while crossing the desert from mainland Mexico. Myth and identity,
reality and fiction, ghosts and memory. El Chinero can in some way be seen as a
monument to the memory of these forgotten, anonymous people while not officially
being one. A site of tragedy with no traces nor remnants to be seen. How can one
fill this memory void with images and artifacts in an attempt to construct an
archive where none exists?
Water and More Water
Francesca Svampa
6' 12'' | 2022 | 8mm
Italy
A dreamlike portrait of Barcelona, shot in double exposure on reversible 8mm
film, is interwoven with an intimate “I remember” voice, creating a collage of
memories à la Brainard and Pérec.
The director’s personal micro-memories, as a woman, filmmaker and immigrant,
evoque the spirit of a time that may never return, constructing a communal
heritage.
Idu Dani / Uploaded Memories
Igor M. Toholj
18' 27'' | 2023 | Super 8mm
Serbia
An experiment that reinterprets memory and its manifestation articulated in film
form through the method of visual automatism, defined in advance criteria
derived from the parameters of each frame in the montage sequence. In the
structure of the film, shots from the private archive, which contain fragments,
alternating and varying memories of the author, while the synergy between man
and algorithm creates their order.The film is structured from a series of frames
that are automated and computer generated algorithm that makes their order.
These are digitized Super 8 frames that are from personal archive of the author..
The footage covers a period of 25 years, and it was filmed in the territory of
the former Yugoslavia, Europe and Africa.
17:00 | Short Selection: Essays # 1 | 43’
Essays #1
8.5.2024 | Wednesday | Salt Galata | 17:00
(Un)earthing - Plant Knowledge and Dreams
Louise Boer
8' 28'' | 2022 | Digital
United Kingdom
'(Un)earthing - plant knowledge and dreams' is an ambient dream journey;
recalling memories and personal stories of healing with plants.
A lot of the once common knowledge around medicinal plants has gone lost through
the violent processes of capitalism, church and colonialism, disproportionately
affecting women.
Therefore, remembering, reclaiming and sharing this knowledge is a personal as
well as a political act. By meeting and using local, widely available plants,
often labelled as ‘weeds’, we can take control over our own health, as well as
the health of society and the environment in order to heal and re-enchant the
world.
Parallel Botany
Magdalena Bermudez
11' 08'' | 2023 | 16mm, Digital
United States
Still lives of real fruit meet botanical illustrations of plant galls to expose
the paradox of dissection: each time we cut something in two, we merely create a
new exterior.
Algorithms of Beauty
Miléna Trivier
20' | 2022 | Digital
Belgium
An experiment that reinterprets memory and its manifestation articulated in film
form through the method of visual automatism, defined in advance criteria
derived from the parameters of each frame in the montage sequence. In the
structure of the film, shots from the private archive, which contain fragments,
alternating and varying memories of the author, while the synergy between man
and algorithm creates their order.The film is structured from a series of frames
that are automated and computer generated algorithm that makes their order.
These are digitized Super 8 frames that are from personal archive of the author..
The footage covers a period of 25 years, and it was filmed in the territory of
the former Yugoslavia, Europe and Africa.
18:00 | Efficiency Exhibition | Di Hu | 53’
8.5.2024 | Wednesday | Salt Galata |18:00
The Efficiency Exhibition
Di Hu
55' | 2022 | Digital
Ireland
The Efficiency Exhibition explores a series of heterogeneous apparatuses,
procedures, techniques, and modes of representation that exist in a variety of
domains, such as management, military science, criminology, physiology and
photography through analysis of images and archaeology, in order to decipher the
traces left by these discourses, study the interlinking of these seemingly
disparate systems of knowledge, to find passages beneath and to understand them
as a network.
HOPE ALKAZAR
20:00 | Opening Night: The History Of The Civil War
Dziga Vertov | 93' | Screening + Live Performance
9.5.2024 | Thursday
SALT GALATA
15:00 | Short Selection: Analog Works | 69’
Analog Works!
9.5.2024 | Thursday | Salt Galata | 15:00
Why Are You Image Plus?
Diogo Baldaia
9' | 2023 | 16mm
Portugal
Ima is a little girl who passed away too soon. Desperate to talk to her
grandmother, she decides to possess a young boy. But an old spirit is
interfering with her plans.
And So It Came About (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy)
Charlotte Pryce
13' | 2023 | 16mm
United States
A mythological tale - the story of Persephone - is retold, recast and relocated
on the periphery of a common. The entangled intrigues of the seen and the unseen
conspire to disclose an underland at once enticing and threatening. But what are
the consequences of such trespassing between worlds?
Damp Moss
Christopher Thompson
4' 22'' | 2023 | Super 8mm
United States
Glittering illusions of vectorized providence attempt to emulate an inherited
physical realm of diminishing significance.
In Littleness
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
8' 15'' | 2022 | 16mm
United States
The film was shot on a regular 8mm camera and is presented in unslit form as
16mm, a screening format commonly referred to as double 8mm.
When I first came into contact with this medium, I was deeply attracted by its
miniature size. Eight millimeters is a very small space on which to store images.
It reminds me of all kinds of things from childhood: ephemeral, wonderful,
changeable. Recalling that as a child I spent most of my time with my nanny, I
decided to zoom in on daily life, especially trivial household chores. At the
same time, the particles and dust of the childhood world are magnified.
Here Are Some Images
Yannick Mosimann
6' 04'' | 2023 | 16mm
Switzerland
“Here are some Images” is an short film exploring the interplay between internal
and external images, using hand-processed 16mm footage and musings on perception
and memory.
Grain Cloud Atmosphere
Martin Moolhuijsen
6' 38'' | 2023 | Paint on 35mm
Germany
Many grains make a cloud. many clouds form an atmosphere. 120 meters of
handpainted 35mm film were digitized as single pictures and fed into a self
developed editing software that shuffles the individual images according to
certain parameters such as painterly technique and color. the film is the result
of one hour of improvisation with that software. grain cloud atmosphere explores
the perception of time through the eye and through the ear.
Embers from Yesterday, Aflame
William Hong-xiao Wei
10' | 2023 | 35mm, 16mm, Super 8mm
United Kingdom
A transcendental meditation on withered trees struggling to be reborn. A
fleeting glimpse into the seemingly trivial occurrences of daily life. A sheer
ecstasy of physical intimacy viewed through celluloid films, in which the life
of the emulsion is decaying: during the lockdown, film footages were
“disinfected” by disinfectant, surface cleanser and hand sanitiser gel,
specifically, household chemicals which were alleged to “kill 99.9% of bacteria
and viruses”, and which helped us prevent the spread of coronavirus. Returning
images that have shapes to the shapeless, in the physical fragility of the
cinematic medium, allows for the viewer’s hallucinatory perception of matter in
a state of continual creation and dissolution. Through the evocation of the
tension between transience and continuity, the film unfolds the dialectic of
destruction and metamorphosis.
16:30 | Short Selection: First Experiments | 40’
First Experiments
9.5.2024 | Thursday | Salt Galata | 16:30
A Disordered Dictionary
Zhouyi Ye
9' 39'' | 2023 | Digital, Super8
United States
A Disordered Dictionary portrays a young woman's journey as she struggles to
escape from a system represented by an anonymous male voice while confined to a
small room. She constructs her own language system with her dictionary from her
distressing experiences.
Anthology Of Nine Souls On Their Way To DeathPenelope Zouganeli, Giuseppe
Circelli
10' 51'' | 2022 | Digital
Italy
Andy the night watch was the cemetery gate keeper in Spoon river. He was
overseeing the burial of all Spoon river residents. He was the silent observer
of life in the small town, knowing everyone and their lives. He could see the
good and bad, usually as they were intermixed after death. Having been given a
final say following their passing, the bodies have a different story of their
lies, cheating, corruption and neglect and Andy is shedding light to the
underlying truth of the events.
Foundations of the Work of the Sun
Jakub Štourač, Anna Luňáková
14' 09'' | 2023 | 35mm, Digital
Czech Republic
The Foundations of the Work of the Sun (2023) is a short film-poem consisting of
interconnecting “micro-essays” that collectively constitute a “fictional
documentary” about the work of the sun. Inspired by (among other things) G.W.
Leibniz’s theory of a pre-established harmony and his contributions to the
science of optics, the film reflects on how the camera “translates” sunlight
into intelligible images and how a photograph might be understood as the visual
document of an embodied perspective. Based on a poetic sound composition, each
story in the film touches on themes of labor, exhaustion, and utopianism. One
chapter alludes to Andrei Platonov’s The Foundation Pit (1968), while another
follows the story of a worker whose life is recorded in photograms, snapshots,
and prints. Taken together, these “micro-essays” address the question: How to
think collectively through the individual?
Holy Blood
Jonathan Rochier
4' 58'' | 2023
France
The crowd can be seen as a sum of individualities but also as an autonomous
acting power with its own logic and structure. Holy Blood is an organic, social,
and sensitive experience of a mass of pins, its behavior crosses the three
modalities: community, communitarianism, communion.
Here Are Some Images
Altay Erlik
2' 12'' | 2023 | Digital
Turkey
Micro Battles is an experimental ant movie shot with a macro lens and dubbed
with an oscillator. It shows the brutal struggle of a group of ants against a
spider that attacks them. Realizing the danger, the ants are too late to warn
the colony. The spider's first move is to trap three ants from the colony in its
web. Among these three, one narcissistic ant prefers to save only herself,
causing the other two ants to be drawn towards the center of the web. Even
though they try with all their might to get out of the net, they will experience
all the processes that happen to another ant caught in the net. After struggling
in a glittering cocoon, they will not be able to escape being eaten by the
spider. Their dead fetal bodies slowly disappear among the macro life of the ant
colonies.
On My Way Home
ZHI XUAN LIN
4' 31'' | 2022
Taiwan
On the way back home, we’re always accelerating. The night becomes the day, and
the stars people see above, remain as they were before. It is said that in the
experiments held at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the protons only exist for
a billionth of a second. They travel at approximately the speed of light, but
can’t go any faster than that. The protons inside the collider feel life going
by a lot slower that we do. The protons can feel the vibrations as if they were
riding a motorcycle, a lot like how we feel our lives go back compared to a
universal scale. The speed represent the roads people travel back and forth. The
feelings are broadcasted as the passing of time.
Terrifying Holes Compilation
Katharina Aae
4' 54'' | 2021 | Digital
United Kingdom
A transcendental meditation on withered trees struggling to be reborn. A
fleeting glimpse into the seemingly trivial occurrences of daily life. A sheer
ecstasy of physical intimacy viewed through celluloid films, in which the life
of the emulsion is decaying: during the lockdown, film footages were
“disinfected” by disinfectant, surface cleanser and hand sanitiser gel,
specifically, household chemicals which were alleged to “kill 99.9% of bacteria
and viruses”, and which helped us prevent the spread of coronavirus. Returning
images that have shapes to the shapeless, in the physical fragility of the
cinematic medium, allows for the viewer’s hallucinatory perception of matter in
a state of continual creation and dissolution. Through the evocation of the
tension between transience and continuity, the film unfolds the dialectic of
destruction and metamorphosis.
18:00 | Short Selection: Animations #1 | 40’
Animations #1
9.5.2024 | Thursday | Salt Galata | 16:30
Lunatic
Robin Noorda
16'| 2024 | Digital
Netherlands
Lunatic tackles urgent earthly issues, as seen by a lonely astronaut, called
Antonio, who was left behind on the moon after his coming out.
In addition to the climate crisis, human waste, even in space, determines our
fate. The moon-guard, a statue of a skinned warrior, symbolises defence against
the space debris danger from above. Ultimately, collisions between space debris
and satellites will cause a cascade of collisions that will destroy all
communications. It's called Kessler syndrome.
The earth ends up with a Saturn like dust ring of metal and silicon.
Light Play (Vicious Cycles #3)
Wobbe F. Koning
3' 19'' | 2023 | Digital
United States
Light plays through translucent objects, reflects off of silvery cubes. Light
bubbles up and takes shape, makes shapes. When rigid, geometric shapes are
formed, their light is extinguished and their shape crushed.
Inspired by Brian Eno's Video: Paintings and Sculptures, ambient light plays an
important part in this 3D Printed Stop Motion Animation. With a soundtrack hard
to ignore, what transpires does however impose itself on the viewer.
Language Unknown
Janelle VanderKelen
6' 10'' | 2022 | 16mm
United States
This film embraces plant sentience as fact and speculates how beings of the
vegetal variety might approach interspecies communication with humans (who are
far more sensorially limited). Leaves, mycelium, and roots playfully examine how
humans experience the world, and the (supposedly) silent watchers consider what
language those swift blurs of human might possibly understand.
caprice x²
Claudia Ungersbäck
3' 37'' | 2021 | Digital
Austria
Forms and gestures, situations over a copy (is_t) existance. marks and notes
happening while light resounds.
Reptilian Freeze Reflex
Anna Hogg
1' 35'' | 2022 | 16m
United States
Reptilian Freeze Reflex attempts to capture the embodied experience of the
freeze reflex through the frenetic energy of a camera-less film made by
scratching directly onto 16mm black leader. The film reflects upon the way we
sometimes fail to relate to one another as individuals because of severe anxiety.
Disappearing Acts
Sarah E. Jenkins
3' 43'' | 2022
United States
On the way back home, we’re always accelerating. The night becomes the day, and
the stars people see above, remain as they were before. It is said that in the
experiments held at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the protons only exist for
a billionth of a second. They travel at approximately the speed of light, but
can’t go any faster than that. The protons inside the collider feel life going
by a lot slower that we do. The protons can feel the vibrations as if they were
riding a motorcycle, a lot like how we feel our lives go back compared to a
universal scale. The speed represent the roads people travel back and forth. The
feelings are broadcasted as the passing of time.
Labyrinth Rat
Uğur Savaş
4' 14'' | 2023 | Digital
Turkey
The story of rats being tested in a labyrinth built by Humans.
10.5.2024 |Friday
SALT GALATA
15:00 | Short Selection: Essay #2 | 58’
Essays #2
9.5.2024 | Friday | Salt Galata | 15:00
A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I
Federico Di Corato
20'| 2022 | HD Video
Italy
Set against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the fascist dictatorship, a
man of means, yet unknown to history, scrutinises the world through his small
cine camera. Guiding him and teaching him is a manual; the buds of ideology are
detectable beneath the seemingly impartial tone it uses to describe technique.
But in his films, the ineffable signs of resistance still rise to the surface.
The Film You Are About To See
Maxime Marinot
11' | 2023 | Digital
France
Please note that the film you are about to see is taken from real material of
film history, namely the disclaimers and warnings that frame the existence of
many films. However, any collusion between art and industry, any conflict of
interest between freedom of creation and the law, or any hint of moralism on the
life of images, would be purely incidental and unintentional.
Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War
Leah Loftin
12' 13'' | 2023 | Digital
United States
A woman in Kherson navigates the horrors and absurdities of daily life during
Putin’s war on Ukraine. A short film adapted from Olena Astasieva’s personal
accounts from the front lines.
March 8, 2020: A Memoir
Fırat Yücel
15'' | 2023 | Screen recording
Netherlands
We are on Taksim Square watching the aftermath of this last mass demonstration
in the city, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Two voices reflect on what they see
on the screen. A child playing with a red balloon, youngsters dancing on the
street, people taking photos, Marina Abramovic’s first exhibition in Istanbul…
As the narrative unfolds, images take new meaning: These are screen recordings
of Istanbul municipalities’ 7/24 live and open-access ‘Touristic Cameras’ taken
on the 8th of March Women’s Day 2020. March 8, 2020: A Memoir is a multi-voiced
desktop-essay/documentary attempting to find the blind spots of such images,
traveling in time via screen recordings. A desktop documentary/video essay about
the Feminist Night March protest in Istanbul in 2020, entirely created with
screen recordings of the event and its aftermath, deconstructing and repurposing
touristic and surveillance images.
16:30 | Short Selection: Found Footages | 46’
Found Footages
9.5.2024 | Thursday | Salt Galata | 16:30
36
Rezan Uğurlu
9' 24'' | 2023 | Digital
Turkey
36 consists of diapositive photo frames of a promotional catalog created for a
nuclear power plant in France in the 1980s. With thirty-five of the thirty-six
squares in the catalogue, a dialogue is established between the past, present
and future. The film takes only the feelings at its center as it takes a stroll
through the institute.
forms with space and distance and hills
Jason Moyes
3' 12'' | 2022 | 8mm
United Kingdom
Exploring the relationship between electricity pylons and the landscape. Hand
processed super 8mm film with audio from the English sculptor and artist Barbara
Hepworth.
Ill Composto
Josh Drake, James Hollenbaugh, Jeremy Moss, Caleb Smith
3' 38'' | 2023 | 16mm
United States
A collaborative Dadaist/exquisite corpse film on the theme of waste by four
members of the Harrisburg-based collective Moviate.
Process: A found, expired 100’ roll of 16mm color negative film was split into
four parts and photographed separately by each participant. Then each section
was developed in a homemade b&w developer from the participant’s own compostable
waste. The negative was then printed to 16mm color print stock on a makeshift
DIY contact printer along with found optical sound. Lastly, it was assembled in
the Dadaist poetry method by cutting the printed film into pieces, placing them
into a large wooden box with holes, randomly pulling strips of film out through
the holes one at a time and splicing them together in that order.
Long Time No Techno
Eugenia Bakurin
3' 44'' | 2022 | Digital
Germany
The footage used in the video comes from the archive of the Odesa Film Studio,
which was the first film studio established in the Russian Empire. During the
Soviet era, many films were shot there, which shaped the childhood of millions
of people. However, today the film studio, like many other cultural monuments in
Ukraine, is threatened with destruction by the Russian army.
The video features dancing moments from children's films of the 70s and 80s,
which provide a glimpse into a carefree time of adventure, fantasy trips, and
freedom. These scenes serve as illusions of a time that has since passed.
Minutiae: One Film, Two Cuts
Miljana Nikovic
6' 6'' | 2022 | Digital
Serbia
Progression of 122 words through their sound and meaning, pared with 60 found
footage clips from 1950s TV-commercials. Each of the inserts appears twice as a
pattern of déjà-vu cognitive associations, evoking a multitude of emotions from
banal dailiness, flashbacks, or behaviors, slowly leading us from one particular
feeling to its opposite.
Reversal
Diane Nerwen
6' 34'' | 2023 | Digital
United States
REVERSAL combines images and sounds from movies released or broadcast in 1973,
the year the Supreme Court decided Roe v Wade. In the strange new reality
ushered in by the Dobbs decision, the slogan "We won't go back" is recalled with
bitter irony. This collage piece evokes the spectre of regression and repression
that has followed the Court's decision.
The Big Job
John Dawson
2' | 2022 | Super 8, 16mm
United States
“The Big Job” is an experimental action/adventure film made with found footage
and direct camera less animation. It has the look and feel of a coming
attraction, TV opening for a cheap spy/cop show or a cheesy action film. Lots of
color, texture, motion and action in this one. This short film is 100% hand made
on found footage and is a one man production made in 2022. Drawing, painting and
scratching directly onto 16mm and super 8 footage is the way that this film was
produced. The music comes from Bensound.com. Norman McLaren, Len Ley and Steve
Woloshen were all great influences and inspiration for this work.
The Big Job
John Dawson
2' | 2022 | Super 8, 16mm
United States
“The Big Job” is an experimental action/adventure film made with found footage
and direct camera less animation. It has the look and feel of a coming
attraction, TV opening for a cheap spy/cop show or a cheesy action film. Lots of
color, texture, motion and action in this one. This short film is 100% hand made
on found footage and is a one man production made in 2022. Drawing, painting and
scratching directly onto 16mm and super 8 footage is the way that this film was
produced. The music comes from Bensound.com. Norman McLaren, Len Ley and Steve
Woloshen were all great influences and inspiration for this work.
Trouble with Johnny
Paul Echeverria
4' 33'' | 2023 | Digital
United States
Trouble with Johnny explores the recurrence of loop, tempo, and flicker. The
project uses found footage as a method for emphasizing the cinematic collisions
between audio and visual composition. Working within the margins of structural
filmmaking, Trouble with Johnny creates a visceral experience of fragmented
sounds and cyclical imagery.
Likewise, Trouble with Johnny functions as a parody of the mainstream movie
industry. The source material derives from the 1980’s coming of age film, The
Karate Kid. Throughout the story, the main antagonist, a bully who goes by the
name “Johnny”, is revered by a dedicated clique of subservient underlings.
Applied as an experimental technique, the repetitive use of the word “Johnny”
draws attention to the stereotypical and recurring tropes found in many teen
movies.
SALT GALATA
14:00 | Enez | 39’
15:00 | Rafael Hastings Film Project | Screening + Panel
17:00 | Last Things | Deborah Stratman | 50’
18:00 | Short Selection: From The Desktop | 52’
From The Desktop
11.5.2024 | Saturday | Salt Galata | 17:00
Newly Built Dream
Chanmin Kim
22' 38'' | 2023 | Digital
Chanmin Kim
He keeps talking about New build.
But he doesn't seem to want to clarify anything.
For him, dreams are somewhere in between middle: sleep and wakefulness, dream
and reality, virtual and real.
Or maybe it's flight, light, time, stage, and role-play.
He once told me that in a dream he witnessed the fall of a silver bird. And he
said he's always seen that bird as himself.
And that the fall was an act of entering his new world.
Now he wants to build that new world in the real world.
The five texts, written between 2017 and 2023, are broken down into sentences
and reassembled to form a single text.
The Mechanics of Fluids
Gala Hernández López
30' | 2022 | Digital
France
In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide letter on Reddit
entitled "America is responsible for my death". The Mechanics of Fluids is an
attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in
search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between our
connected solitudes.
12.5.2024 | Sunday
SALT GALATA
13:00 | Short Selection: Essays #3 | 55’
Essays #3
12.5.2024 | Pazar | Salt Galata | 15:00
6000 Lies
Simon Rieth
5'| 2023 | France
It is the story of a detail that is missing, or that never existed. The image of
a child we are looking for and trying to recreate. Thousands of lies to find the
truth.
Apoptosis
Antonio Arango Vázquez
12' 03'' | 2023 | Super 8; Digital
Mexico
Apoptosis is a pathway of cell destruction or programmed cell death, and it's
caused by the same organism. This happens when the cell is no longer needed or
is damaged; we can say that the cell recognizes that "its time to die has come"
and in this way stabilizes the functioning of the organism in which it habits.
Apoptosis is an audiovisual essay about the suicide.
The Empty Sphere
Stéphanie Roland
19' | 2022 | Mixed Media
United States
A woman in Kherson navigates the horrors and absurdities of daily life during
Putin’s war on Ukraine. A short film adapted from Olena Astasieva’s personal
accounts from the front lines.
14:30 | Adventurous Sounds and Films | Serdar Kökçeoğlu | Panel
16:00 | I 2 aye | Richard Philpott | 56’
HOPE ALKAZAR
15:00 | Elpis | Rouzbeh Rashidi | 70’
16:30 |Short Selection: Essay #4 | 59’
18:00 | Camera Obscura | Miguel Bonneville | 57’
19:30 | Short Selection: Animasyon # 2 | 45’
20:30 | Broken View | Hannes Verhoustraete | 72’
