Selection #5

The personal is radical

99 mins

Gestures and movements, travels and encounters, home and nature, the objects that surround and define us: the elements of life facing the ephemerality of memories: tender, fragile and threatening to fall apart, activated through the haptic sensibility of film.

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Sun 24 Oct

20:00 - 21.40 / ACUD KINO

Erica Sheu
GRANDMA’S SCISSORS

USA, Taiwan, 2021, 6’ 00, super8, silent, digital projection, European Premiere.

Is it a reconstruction of memory in the silence, or rather, notes before the memory disappears? The voice cannot be heard again, but the heart can still feel it through the eyes. The camera turns tactile to textile. The filmmaker connects with her grandma from her own craft to hers.

Ute Aurand
GLIMPSES FROM A VISIT TO ORKNEY IN SUMMER 1995
Germany, 2020, 4’ 00, 16mm, silent, Berlin Premiere.

A homage to Margaret Tait whom the filmmaker visited in Orkney.

Josef Grassl
GIESSEN IN DIE VERLORENE FORM (CASTED IN THE LOST MOULD)
Germany, 2020-2021, 14’ 00, 16mm, Berlin Premiere .

"A visit in the Bavarian Forest, wallowing in the past - Grandmother Rita, the Bolex, Asparagus, the stone rain barrel, glass vases and casted sculptures by Grandfather Bernhard - casted in the "lost mould“.

Blanca Garcia
IPSAE I/II
Spain, UK, 2021, 6’ 00, super8, silent, World Premiere.

ipsae is the feminine plural of 'ipse', 'oneself', which relates to the concept of ipseity — an immediate, non-reflective experience of the self. Filmed over the last few years with the super 8 Ektachrome reels gifted by Katherina Thomadaki.

Bruno Delgado Ramo
SPINOZA/ONGODIST
Spain, 2021, 10’ 00, super8, German Premiere.

The film focuses on Baruch Spinoza both as a lens maker and a free-thinker ("ongodist" in old Dutch), trying to draw several associations between Spinoza's lens grinding machine (featured in Spinoza Museum in Rijnsburg), some daily objects of his time (also displayed in the museum), the film camera as a lens-based machine, an old edition of his Ethica and a set of sounds recorded on location.

Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas
EXCERPTS I [THOUGH I NOW DEPART...]
Japan, Spain, USA, 2021, 19’ 00, super8, German Premiere.

Excerpts from excerpts. A compilation, irrepressibly expanding in time and space.
Excerpts I [Though I now depart…], first chapter of this film project, is composed of shiftings, (re)encounters and partings. Records organically driven by the energy of gesture and light.
(…) Somewhere, fiction was possible.

James Edmonds
SEASONS/PATTERNS

2020, 10’ 00, super8, Berlin Premiere.

The flesh of time, strands of the present, in constant becoming and disappearance. One reel for each season, exposed between 2016 and 2017. Leitmotifs of flora, providing some unity within each season, as a reflection on its atmosphere and passing presence.

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