PROGRAM/8
»Perceptual Landscape«
45 min / 21st May / ACUD Cinema
22:20 - 23:05h
Instead of investing in the illusion of a transparent representation which is »free of all equipment« (W. Benjamin) the visual engagement with nature by means of exploring its various mechanical/mechanized and virtual others leads to a reproduction of a technologized reality and an intensified perceptual experience. First the photographic and indexical properties of the filmic image and the mechanisms of the camera take on a life of their own, both expanding and fracturing the landscape’s spatiotemporal continuum. Over the course of the program the very notion of a profilmic environment is challenged by wandering through an already fractured digital space.
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon
Tomonari Nishikawa
10 min/ 2016/ Japan
»It displays bridges on Yahagi River, which runs near where I was grown up in Japan. I shot each bridge twice, first in the morning and second in the evening of the day. It was exposed one-sixth of the frame at a time and the result would show the sense of the sun rising or setting.«
Everything turns…
Aaron Zeghers
12 min/ 2017/ Canada / German premiere
A shorthand study of the mythology of numbers, from 1 to 12. Scientific tradition is adopted then eschewed for rumours, legends and defunct theories from across the ages. The camera pens a year-long record of space, movement and the passing of time in historic locations around the world. This almanac of anthropomorphic numerology is recorded in-camera onto Super 8, using open exposure photography, light painting, light table animation, paper animation, hand drawn animation and more. Just like Richter nearly 100 years ago, we will discover that everything turns, everything revolves and everything feels the deep score of time.
Arrábida
Tinne Zenner
16 min / 2017 / Portugal , Denmark / German premiere
A film centred on the production of landscape and concrete in the Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Covering a vast area of coast, caves, mountains and forest, the park is inhabited by a massive concrete factory that branches through the landscape. Documenting the various layers of the sourced material, the factory body and the constructed landscape, the film looks at how time is physically embedded in the matter and how the molecular particles act in a circular re-shaping of the whole. The film merges 16mm footage shot in the area of Arrábida with 3D animation of the topographic landscape as an equal analogue layer. Há só uma terra. There is only one earth.
Maps to the In-Between
Katya Yakubov
7 min / 2016 / USA / German premiere
A mining of a digital space finds characters and forms in dialogue, and a playful hint of narrative begins to emerge in this twice-appropriated landscape. Eventually, the great Apparition lets it all fall down.