Selection #5

Light and Noise

52mins

A program that proposes film as direct experience—image and sound stripped to their bare, explosive forms. Lines, colors, scratches, pulses of noise. Here, film is surface: a flickering skin, a sensuous object. Through sense perception, we no longer merely observe; we are seen, touched, turned inside out. Film here turns away from depicting the visible. Rather, it renders visible—flicker, burn, shimmering in its own matter.

– G.B.

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Sun 25 May

21:00 - 22:30 / ACUD KINO

Siegfried A. Fruhauf
MARE IMBRIUM

Austria, 2024, 12’ 00”, DCP, sound, German Premiere

Some time ago I was able to take a photograph that was as fascinating as it was ordinary: the reflection of the full moon on the surface of the sea. The allure of this double reflection of sunlight, from the moon over the surface of the water, brought me to the third level of reflection – the play of light on the cinema screen.

Richard Tuohy
THE LAND AT NIGHT

Australia, 2024, 14’ 00”, 16mm, sound, European Premiere

I used to find the dusk a very unsettling time, as though the approaching night was something to be feared. It was as if, once night fell you could not flee, and had to face unspecified consequences. Maybe the land remembers and the night will reveal what we might have done.
—R.T.

Tomonari Nishikawa
LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE, AND LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE
USA, 2023, 6’ 00”, 16mm, sound, German Premiere

Fireworks were shot at a summer festival in Japan with a Super 16 camera to obtain images on the optical soundtrack area of the filmstrip. By cutting and alternating shots from two rolls in 26-frame increments, the filmmaker creates a separation between image and sound, generating a distinct rhythm and play on cinematic temporality.

Simon Payne
INTERVALS
UK, 2023, 10’ 00”, DCP, sound, German Premiere

Stripes of primary and secondary colours in lateral motion and inverse diagonal motion, subsequently layered, divided and doubled. This has shown as a two-projector piece and it might well work for more than two. 'Intervals' can be thought of as a space between two things, a break in activity, a gap in time, the difference in pitch between two sounds, the difference between two colours etc.

Noé Grenier
L’ATTAQUE DE LA DILIGENCE
France, 2025, 4’ 00”, Super 8, found footage, DCP, sound, German Premiere

The film revisits the sequence of the attack on the stagecoach, an archetypal scene of the western film. Through a Super 8 projection device and refilming on a dismantled LCD screen, the film appears in the light of a vivid and floating flashlight. The landscapes of the American territory stretch over time, and history repeats itself.

Made from an 8mm reel of an extract from the film “Stagecoach” by John Ford (1939).

Carlos Baixauli
FLOGISTO
Spain, 2024, 6’ 00”, 35mm, sound, World Premiere

170 meters of 35mm film consumed by fire. Each meter, contact-printed back onto film stock, forms a burning portrait of a toxic relationship between a lighter and the filmstrip—a destructive yet creative material encounter.

Light and Noise

Sun 25 May

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