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23—26 Nov 2023

FRACTO
2023 


FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter announces its seventh edition and invites Berlin audiences to immerse themselves in 4 days of film screenings and talks, taking place between the 23rd and the 26th of November 2023 at Kunsthaus ACUD, in Berlin Mitte.

The Selection for the 7th edition of Fracto spans nineteen titles, curated in four programs, gathered from an International open call of approximately nine hundred submissions, two Worldwide, one European, eleven German, and three Berlin Premieres, from the USA, France, Canada, Germany, Austria, Japan, Spain, Poland, Italy, the UK, Scotland, Finland, The Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Iceland.

The selection program echoes enchanting forces from the uncanny, where through vertiginous light spinning and spatiotemporal expansion, we are thrown inside out onto liminal spaces as if being devoted to imaginary islands and drawn cities. Here, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, littleness assumes the vastness of an ephemeral universe, and the archive appears reduced to a secret inconsistency of ashes. Now, presence and absence dance seduced by death as spectral appearances replace disappearance. (G.B.)

The line-up of the 7th edition includes Alexandre Larose, Anna Marziano, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy, Emmanuel Piton, Eve Heller, Ewelina Rosinska, Frédérique Menant, Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado, James Edmonds, Justin Jinsoo Kim, Lewis Klahr, Mika Taanila, Michael Lyons, Milena Gierke, Raquel Vermunt, Shiho Kano, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Wenhua Shi.

The 2-day all analog focus of Fracto 2023 is dedicated to Milena Gierke, a significant and established figure in Berlin's experimental film scene since the 90s, both as a filmmaker and independent curator. Her work, often considered part of feminist cinema, has its roots in the long tradition of diary film. But, as Gierke studied fine arts and cinema with Peter Kubelka and Robert Breer, for her, the editing in camera is not just a tricky joyful experience of the camera as a toy, but a precise tool to explore with rigour the world as filtered through her inner and phenomenological feelings. Gierke's world is a canvas where constructivist architecture is rebuilt and sculptured by light and shadows, where simple gestures of daily life become rituals, and where walk-scapes and travels become adventures of perceptions. Her art belongs to painting (the Dutch school) and music (Debussy), and it has that subtle and beautiful power of the revelation of the inner secret of life and human beings. (F.R.)

The focus presents all films in their original analog formats, super8 silent, projected directly by the filmmaker.

Last but not least, a workshop will be presented as an open discussion between Paris-based film historian Federico Rossin and German filmmaker Milena Gierke on how a film festival can be the place for interchanges between disciplines, addressed to a young audience coming from the art universities of Berlin, with particular attention to practical and intellectual interaction between French, German and an international audience. The workshop will take place at the ACUD Kunsthaus Studio on Saturday afternoon, November 25.





27—29 May 2022

FRACTO
2022 Focus


Fracto announces the focus of the 6th edition that will run between May 27-29, 2022 at Acud Kunsthalle, in Berlin. We are also extending the submission deadline for the selection!

For the upcoming edition we focus on Paris-based filmmaker Emmanuel Lefrant, along with an homage to the Light Cone 40th Anniversary, in a 2-night all-analog screening.

Emmanuel Lefrant lives and works in Paris, where he self-produces his films exclusively on celluloid. His films are compounded on ideas of the paradoxes of realism and representation, wherein he focuses on the materiality of celluloid to investigate the means by which images are revealed; unveiling the secret forms of emulsion and the invisible world therein.

In 2000, he founded with Nicolas Berthelot, Alexis Constantin and Stéphane Courcy the collective Nominoë. Together they created performances that have been presented in many international venues including the Pompidou Centre (Paris, France), the Serralvès Foundation (Porto, Portugal), as well as at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) and the international festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), among others.

He is also the director of Paris-based experimental film distributor Light Cone.

Fracto is also glad to announce the extension of the deadline for submissions to the International Selection.
The deadline is now the 1st of April 2022. Please send us your films!





21—24 October 2021

FRACTO
2021 Edition


Fifth edition of FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter

FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter announces its fifth edition and invites Berlin audiences to immerse themselves in 4 days of film screenings, talks and performances, taking place between the 21st and the 24th of October 2021 at Kunsthaus ACUD, in Berlin Mitte.

The underlying theme of the 2021 edition is Appropriation, where we explore how our contemporary realities and their environment are lensed, configured, contextualised and re-contextualised.

The Selection for 2021 comprises nearly 30 films curated in 5 programmes which reflect the diverse terrain of contemporary filmmaking practices associated with Experimental film. The upcoming line up includes artists Alexandra Cuesta, Blanca García, Bruno Delgado Ramo, Charlotte Pryce, Clara Pistner, Collectif Rébenty, Daniel A. Swarthnas, Deborah S. Phillips, Distruktur (Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn), Doplgenger, Erica Sheu, Eva Giolo, James Edmonds, Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas, Josef Graßl, Lena Ditte Nissen, Mika Taanila, Nicky Hamlyn, Pablo Marin, Pablo Mazzolo, Philipp Fleischmann, Ralitsa Doncheva, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Ross Meckfessel, Ryan Marino, Ute Aurand, Vicky Smith, Yan Wai Yin, Zachary Epcar.

The special programme focuses on the austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky, in conversation with curator and historian Federico Rossin, around the idea of Found Footage as a peculiar film technique to explore media imagery as a resource to be raided and reused. Fracto presents it in a 2-night all analog program.

In addition, the finnish artist and curator Kari Yli-Annala, presents Scorched Ground - Appropriation and Found Footage in Finnish Artists’ Moving Images, a compilation where the original materials have been given a new life, and the use of technology by humans as well as the scars or scorched marks of history are paid special attention. The program includes works by Miia Rinne, Mika Taanila, Seppo Renvall, Sami van Ingen, Saara Ekström, Elina Oikari, Juha van Ingen and Jarkko Räsänen. Q&As will be held with attending filmmakers Mika Taanila, Seppo Renvall, Saara Ekström and Sami van Ingen.

The digital project textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes makes landfall at FRACTO 2021 as a performative space where facts and fictions about textile artifacts and practices can be reclaimed from an archipelago of alternate worlds and spun anew.


Finally the Labor Berlin Workshop The Banal Image Re-envisioned Appropriating Home Movies, held by members Maja Milic and Christin Turner, aims to create a collaborative film assembled from fragments, in which each participant projects their personal memories onto found images of the collective. This process utilizes analogue editing of super8 film material using the tools of projectors, viewers, and splicers.

The 2021 edition of FRACTO is funded by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, AVEK, TAIKE Arts Promotion Center Finland, the Finnland-Institut in Deutschland and the Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin, in cooperation with ACUD, Lightcone, LaborBerlin and Occulto.





7 - 8 May 2021

DREAM-DELIRIUM-APPARITION

A program of found footage films

On Friday, May the 7th, 19:00 (CET),  Fracto is glad to present a special streaming program of found footage films by Joseph Cornell, Matthias Müller, Cécile Fontaine, Naomi Uman and Martin Arnold: ‘DREAM-DELIRIUM-APPARITION’. The program notes can be found here.
We would like to remind you that the special programs in the forthcoming edition of Fracto (held on-site in Berlin this October) will focus on the found footage films of Peter Tscherkassky and a survey of the experimental film landscape in Finland.
We are still accepting film submissions through the 1st of June. We would like to thank the filmmakers who have already submitted their films.
We look forward to thematically diverse works that embody an experimental fervour in keeping with the tradition of the festival.





FRACTO 2020


Fracto Experimental Film Encounter announces its fourth edition and invites the Berlin audience to immerse themselves in 4 days of film screenings, sound installation and talks, taking place at Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin-Mitte from the 22nd to the 25th of October 2020.

The main programme gathers 58 film and video works by artists and filmmakers selected from an international open call that has received more than 1000 submissions. The selection will be presented in a series of curated programmes providing diverse and critical perspectives on contemporary media ecology through a wide range of non-narrative approaches to filmmaking: poetic and political reflections on topical issues, sensuous investigations of landscapes and bodies, excavations of personal and collective memories, explorations of the thresholds between human and non-human worlds. Though intended for collective viewing in a cinema space, the programmes will also be available for online viewing within a limited time frame.  

The special programme Gioli-Eizkyman will be dedicated to the italian artist Paolo Gioli and the french filmmaker Claudine Eizykman, in a 2-night all analog programme that celebrates cinematic agitation.

Paolo Gioli is one of the most important Italian experimental filmmakers. He is an internationally renowned painter and photographer, who, in his films, deconstructs and often invents techniques, retracing, reproducing and reinventing the history of cinema and pre-cinema. Under the guise of a multidisciplinary artist, Gioli occupies a unique position in avant-garde cinema.

Claudine Eizykman, who passed away in June 2018, was the co-founder of Paris Films Coop in 1974 and Cinédoc in 1979. She played a key role in the evolution of French experimental cinema in the 70s: the extreme originality and esthetic power of her work is marked by a complexity of the very sophisticated construction of images. Eizykman was also an important film theorist and a great curator. A true re-discovery.

Occulto Magazine’s editor Alice Cannava presents Glaring Sounds (2020), a collaborative installation and musical score by Marta De Pascalis and Filippo Vogliazzo that explores the weaving of collective and individual memory through an investigation of the monumental and historical significance of bells. Since 2019, Vogliazzo and De Pascalis have been working together on the mechanism of unconscious memory generated by music. Glaring Sounds is the recipient of the Movin’UP/GAi Funding 2020.

Filippo Vogliazzo is a Berlin based artist. His research focuses on space and its agency. With an interdisciplinary practice that spans from investigations into materials, symbols and architectural forms to questions of poetical nature, he attempts to explore how we act according to the space we move in.

Marta De Pascalis is a Berlin based Italian composer. Her solo works employ analog synthesis and tape loops, incorporating free playing into steady, repetitive patterns. She has produced three solo albums – the self-released Quitratue (2014), Anzar (The Tapeworm, 2016), and Sonus Ruinae (Morphine Records, 2020), and she is a 2020 Shape Platform artist.


LINE UP 2020

Alee Peoples / Allan Brown / Anna Kipervaser / Ben Balcom / Benjamín Ellenberger / Carl Elsaesser / Charlotte Clermont / Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu / Christine Lucy Latimer / Dianna Barri / Ei Toshinari & Duy Nguyen / Emily Drummer / Emmanuel Piton / Emma Piper-Burket / Fakhri El Ghezal / Gabby Sumney And Hogan Seidel / Gautam Valluri / Grace Mitchel / Inger Lise Hansen / Jacques Perconte / Jimmy Schaus / Jon Behrens / Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas / Josh Weissbach / Juliana Kasumu / Karissa Hahn / Kathleen Rugh / Kathryn Ramey / Ken Jacobs / Leandro Varela / Lydia Nsiah / Matt Shaw / Matt Whitman / Maxime Jean-Baptiste / Michael Lyons / Michael Woods / Mike Hoolboom / Mike Rollo / Mike Stoltz / Monteith McCollum / Niyaz Saghari / Nour Ouayda / Olivier Cheval / Phillip Andrew Lewis & Michael Robinson / Rhys Morgan / Richard Tuohy / Robert Orlowski / Roger Deutsch / Samira Guadagnuolo & Tiziano Doria / Simon Liu / Sofia Theodore-Pierce / Stefano Canapa / Stéphanie Lagarde / Talena Sanders / Tomonari Nishikawa / Victor Arroyo / Wenhua Shi / Zachary Epcar

The 2020 edition of Fracto is funded by IIC Italienisches Kulturinstitut Berlin and Institut Français Berlin


With the support of the French Institute's Bureau des arts plastiques
and the french Ministry of Culture.
Links: website | Fb | Ig




Covid-19 Rules
The use of a mask is mandatory while circulating in the festival. Masks can be taken off while sitting during the screenings.
There will be 30-minute breaks between screenings to ensure the rooms are properly ventilated.
Disinfectant dispensers will also be provided.
In light of the ongoing pandemic all venues have also introduced distancing and hygiene rules.
Please inform yourselves beforehand about the rules of the specific venue and the Fracto Festival.
Stay healthy!

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March 2019

Filmmakers Selection


Fracto Experimental Film Encounter announces its third edition and invites the Berlin audience to immerse into four days of film screenings, live performances and talks taking place at Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin-Mitte from the 23rd to the 26th of May 2019.

List of selected filmmakers:   
Adrián Canoura, Alisa Vostiklap, Allan Brown, Amanda Justice & Hogan Seidel, Amanda Katz, Anamika Singh, Anna Kipervaser, Bernd Luetzeler, Bill Brown, Brittany Gravely, Bruno Delgado Ramo, Carole Thibaud, Carolina Charry Quintero, Chris Paul Daniels, Curtis Miller, Dan Browne, Daniel Murphy, David Gómez Alzate, Derek Jenkins, Ei Toshinari & Duy Nguyen, Eric Ko, Greg Marshall, Gregg Biermann, Guillaume Mazloum, Jacques Perconte, James Edmonds, Jean-Jacques Martinod, Jiehao Su, Jon Behrens, Josh Weissbach, Julia Goodlife, Karel Doing, Laurence Favre, Laurids Andersen Sonne, Leandro Varela, Lena Ditte Nissen, Lichter Péter, M. Woods, Markus Maicher, Matthew Ripplinger, Mauro Santini, Micah H. Weber, Michael Fleming, Michael Lyons, Mike Hoolboom, Mirelle Borra, Nelson MacDonald, Niyaz Saghari, Paul Echeverria, Pauline Pastry, Philip Widmann, Rajee Samarasinghe, Rhea Storr, Richard Ashrowan, Rita Tse, Robert Orlowski, Roger Deutsch, Ross Meckfessel, Rowland Hill, Sara Suarez, Sarah Bliss, Scott Kiernan, Shane Eason, Shona Masarin, Sílvia das Fadas, Simon Liu, Simon Payne, Stephanie Barber, Tessa Garland, Timothy Hodkinson, Tivon Rice, Tiziano Doria & Samira Guadagnuolo, Toby Tatum, Zachary Epcar.

The main programme gathers more than 70 film and video works by artists and filmmakers selected from an international open call that has received more than 800 submissions. The selection will be presented in a series of curated programmes addressing topical issues that pertain to an ethical and aesthetic understanding of the contemporary media ecology. The programmes weave together a varied corpus of poetic and political inquiries that delve into the thickness of material reality, employing the medium to investigate the thresholds of perceptual landscapes, interrogate the set of power/knowledge structures permeating the social body and re-imagine its possible configurations.

The special programme “Expanded Painlevè”, conceived with guest curator Federico Rossin, will celebrate Jean Painlevè, scientific documentary pioneer and surrealist poet of aquatic life, comparing his visionary explorations of the animal world with those by filmmakers from the American and European avant-garde. An all-analogue programme that will bring insights into the animal–human–technology entanglements and show interspecies encounters as catalysts for magnificent hysteria, electric unconscious flow, hypnotic ecstasy.

Continuing their practice of Horrorism, described as “a simulated method of inner and outer transformation”, the Berlin-based duo OJOBOCA (Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy) will premiere their new work “External Shudders”, a live performance for slide projectors.

Occulto Magazine’s editor Alice Cannava will curate the Club Night – featuring a live set by Ongon and dj sets – and the Cross-discipline Meeting Point with special editions and guests. Ongon https://loupeditions.bandcamp.com/album/exuviais a recently started solo project by the multi instrumentalist Antonio Bertoni where ancestral sonorities meet electronic music and psychedelia.

As a young event growing in the lively Berlin scene, Fracto aims to offer a novel and unique focal point dedicated to experimental and avant-garde film, gathering a worldwide community interested in art film-based research processes. Fracto is conceived as an encounter embracing the cinematic medium as a membrane for intersubjective exchanges: a compound eye merging multiple perspectives into an embodied and shared experience where the primordial and the critical actively unfold in the enjoyment of endless interpretation.


The 2019 edition of Fracto is funded by Bezirkskulturfonds Berlin-Mitte.


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March 2019

Fracto: Announcement



Fracto Experimental Film Encounter announces its third edition and invites the Berlin audience to immerse into four days of film screenings, live performances and talks taking place at Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin-Mitte from the 23rd to the 26th of May 2019.

The main programme gathers more than 70 film and video works by artists and filmmakers selected from an international open call that has received more than 800 submissions. The selection will be presented in a series of curated programmes addressing topical issues that pertain to an ethical and aesthetic understanding of the contemporary media ecology. The programmes weave together a varied corpus of poetic and political inquiries that delve into the thickness of material reality, employing the medium to investigate the thresholds of perceptual landscapes, interrogate the set of power/knowledge structures permeating the social body and re-imagine its possible configurations.

The special programme “Expanded Painlevè”, conceived with guest curator Federico Rossin, will celebrate Jean Painlevè, scientific documentary pioneer and surrealist poet of aquatic life, comparing his visionary explorations of the animal world with those by filmmakers from the American and European avant-garde. An all-analogue programme that will bring insights into the animal–human–technology entanglements and show interspecies encounters as catalysts for magnificent hysteria, electric unconscious flow, hypnotic ecstasy.

Continuing their practice of Horrorism, described as “a simulated method of inner and outer transformation”, the Berlin-based duo OJOBOCA (Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy) will premiere their new work “External Shudders”, a live performance for slide projectors.

Occulto Magazine’s editor Alice Cannava will curate the Club Night – featuring a live set by Ongon and dj sets – and the Cross-discipline Meeting Point with special editions and guests. Ongon is a recently started solo project by the multi instrumentalist Antonio Bertoni where ancestral sonorities meet electronic music and psychedelia.

As a young event growing in the lively Berlin scene, Fracto aims to offer a novel and unique focal point dedicated to experimental and avant-garde film, gathering a worldwide community interested in art film-based research processes. Fracto is conceived as an encounter embracing the cinematic medium as a membrane for intersubjective exchanges: a compound eye merging multiple perspectives into an embodied and shared experience where the primordial and the critical actively unfold in the enjoyment of endless interpretation.

The 2019 edition of Fracto is funded by Bezirkskulturfonds Berlin-Mitte.



24 January 2019

Fracto at transmediale/CTM Vorspiel @ ACUD Studio Berlin




Fracto will be taking part to the 2019 edition of Vorspiel, a program created by transmediale - festival for art and digital culture berlin and CTM Festival.
FRACTO is an annual Experimental Film Encounter inviting artists and filmmakers to present works that explore today’s perceptual landscape and interrogate its set of technological configurations. During Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM, FRACTO will present the German premiere of "Ettrick" by the French filmmaker Jacques Perconte and a selection of films featured during last year’s edition of the festival.




24 - 27 May 2018

ACUD Cinema & Studio Berlin


 

FRACTO is an annual Experimental Film Encounter inviting artists and filmmakers to present works that explore today's perceptual landscape and interrogate its set of technological configurations. The second edition will be held at ACUD MACHT NEU Cinema & Studio in Berlin from the 24th to the 27th of May 2018, with four days of screenings, artist talks and workshops. The official selection curated by Giuseppe Boccassini and Tommaso Isabella will be presented in a series of 15 programmes presenting 70 international titles of recent artist moving image works and experimental films, including 11 World premières, 17 European premières and 30 German premières.

FRACTO 2018 OFFICIAL SELECTION:

3 (from ZERO) by Jimmy Schaus, 3' 55'', 2017 USA, European première
7FF on¢idia by Ж, 8', 2016, Bolivia/Brazil/Cape Verde/Mexico/Germany, German première
17-17 by Gonzalo Egurza, 5', 2018, Argentina, World première
Ab Ovo by Luca Ferri, 24', 2017, Italy, European première
Amusement Park Home Movies Inspire the Algorithm by Caleb Foss, 7', 2017, USA, European première
Anche in paradiso non è bello essere soli by Lorenzo Gattorna, 8', 2017, Italy/USA, European première
And By The Night by Anna Kipervaser, 10', 2017, USA, European première
O aproveitamento da água na ilha da Madeira by Bruno Delgado Ramo, 12', 2017, Spain, World première
Le Bal by Annaëlle Winand, 3' 21'', Canada 2016, German première
Black Hillsmilk by Timon Meyer, 8' 20'', 2018, USA, German première
Buried in Light by Gautam Valluri, 8', 2016, India/France, Berlin première
Cactus Raptus by Maxime Hot, 6' 41'', 2018, France, World première.
Catalyst by Kent Tate, 3' 30'', 2018, Canada, European première
Circles of Confusion by Jason Britski, 5', 2017, Canada, German première
CODE VIRUS – Interactive Omni-Augmented Family Encyclopedia For Transhumanist Adaptability by Frederick Maheux, 11', Canada, 2017, World première.
Comfort Stations by Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, 26', 2018, Germany, German première
Dog in the Shade by Ei Toshinari, 11', 2016, Japan/USA, Berlin première
ÉLÉMENTS 1, 2, 3 by Tomaž Burlin, 7' 30''. 2017, France, Berlin première
An Empty Threat by Josh Lewis, 7', 2017, USA, German première
Esmark – Husby-klit Bk by Robert Seidel, 5', 2017 Germany, Berlin première
An Exercise In Exercise by Ethan Weinstock,9', 2016, USA, European première
Farewell Transmission by Mike Rollo, 14', 2017, Canada, German première
Film Loop 34: Shisendo by Michael Lyons, 1' 30'', 2017, Japan/Italy, German première
Flowing (for Naruse) by Ross Meckfessel, 2', 2018, USA/Japan, German première
Froom Zoom by Tiziano Doria, 3' 24", 2018, Italy, World première
FUGUE, A Light's Travelogue by Els van Riel, 27', 2017, Belgium, German première
Grabados del Ojo Nocturno by Jean-Jacques Martinod, 7', 2016, Ecuador/Morocco, Berlin première
An Infinite Loop for Resistance by Michael Woods (feat. Aldo Tambellini), 5' 41'', 2017, USA, German première
In a Free Sound Field by Monteith Mccollum, 10' 40'', 2017, USA, German première
In Film / On Video by Ignacio Tamarit, 3', 2018, Argentina, German première
It by Anouk De Clerq, Tom Callemin, 13', 2017, Belgium
Last Train by Dianna Barrie,12', 2016, Australia, German première
Love Canal by Elsa Brès, 18', 2017, France, European première
El Meraya by Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn, 19', 2018, Egypt/Germany/Brazil, German première
The Method by Gregg Biermann, 4', 2017, USA, European première
Missing Toes by Ian Bawa, 2', 2017, Canada, European première
Monelle by Diego Marcon, 16', 2017, Italy, German première
Moments from the Fall by Christina Hunt, 5' 28'', 2017, USA, European première
Mountain View by Markus Maicher, 3', 2018, Austria, International première
The Night in All Things by Alexander Girav, 10', 2017, USA, German première
Nutsigassat by Tinne Zenner, 20', 2018, Denmark/Greenland/Canada, German première
Off-line Situation by Antoine Larocque, 11' 30'', 2017 Canada, World première
Onward Lossless Follows by Michael Robinson, 17', 2017, USA
The Open Window by Lynne Siefert, 7', 2017, USA, German première
Palmerston Blvd. by Dan Browne, 15', 2017, Canada, German première
Pancoran by Richard Tuohy, 9', 2017, Australia/Indonesia, German première.
The Place I Will Have Left by Lena Ditte Nissen, 15', 2017, Germany, German première
Plus Ultra by Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado, 13', 2017, Spain, German première
Point of No Return by Zachary Finkelstein, 10', 2016, Canada, European première
Pumping With Skyscrapers by Georgie Flood, 3', 2017, USA, World première
Quiet, Walnut by Juana Robles, 8', 2018, Switzerland, German première
Recycled Realizations by Jon Behrens, 4' 30', 2017, USA, German première
Return to Forms by Zachary Epcar, 10', 2016, USA
Rodez by Stefano Miraglia, 3', 2017, France, World première
Senses of Time by Wenhua Shi, 5', 2018, USA/China, World première
Shape of a Surface by Nazli Dincel, 9', 2017, Turkey, German première
Sneyd Green by Simon Liu, 11', 2017, UK/USA, Berlin première.
Sounding by Carl Elsaesser, 6', 2017, USA, European première
The Spectre Watches Over Her by Rajee Samarasinghe, 14', 2016, Sri Lanka/USA, European première
Tente não existir by Amanda Devulsky, 10', 2018, Brazil, German première
UpCycles by Ariana Gerstein, 7', 2016, USA, Berlin première
UUFO by Yun Chen, 20', 2017, China/USA, European première
Viewfinder Material by Baptiste Jopeck, 16', 2017, France, German première
We All Live in the Blue Image Forever by James Edmonds, 6' 31'', 2018, Germany, German première
What Is Beyond the Hellraiser? by Guillaume Vallée, 2' 38'', 2017, Canada, European première
Wishful Thinking by Allan Brown, 13', 2017, Canada, German première
The Words Are Not What You Meant by Jiayi Chen, 13', USA, 2017, European première
Work with Stone by Andrew Gannon, Alex Hetherington, Oliver Mezger, 4' 26'', 2017, Scotland, World première
XCTRY by Bill Brown, 6', 2018, USA. World première
Zombie, Pt. 1 by Scott Fitzpatrick, 4', 2017, Canada, Berlin première




24 - 27 May 2018

ACUD Cinema & Studio Berlin




FRACTO is an annual Experimental Film Encounter inviting artists and filmmakers to present works that explore today's perceptual landscape and interrogate its technological configurations.
The second edition will be held at ACUD Cinema & Studio in Berlin from the 24th to the 27th of May 2018: four days of screenings, artist talks and workshops.
The main selection will be presented in a series of curated programs dedicated to recent artist films and videos, including several world and German premières. The selected titles will be announced in the beginning of May.
Cristina Baldacci, Federico Rossin and the Re-framing the home movie project (Karianne Fiorini and Gianmarco Torri), are the guest curators for this edition with two special programs and a workshop.
ICI Berlin fellow Cristina Baldacci invites artists Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo to discuss their practice and present their film APPUNTI DEL PASSAGGIO (2014-16). Reconstructing forgotten episodes related to migration from Italy to Switzerland in the 1960s, the film introduces a minor perspective into the ways in which the historical phenomenon of migration from southern to northern Europe is represented today.
Federico Rossin selects titles from Paris distributor Lightcone for the program DISSOLUTION(S): disintegrations and repetitions in search of a possible incarnation of the cinematic (glorious) body. A program of four films as a ritual sacrifice of the photochemical matter and a cupio dissolvi of the digital palette.
Karianne Fiorini and Gianmarco Torri present RE-FRAMING THE HOME MOVIE, a workshop that will introduce the audience to home movies and amateur films as specific archival materials in the field of film heritage and as a creative source for filmmakers and artists. It will examine their peculiar characteristics (in terms of history, film formats, aesthetics) and address specific issues related to their preservation and their use in new works of art.

Maria Iorio / Raphaël Cuomo
www.parallelhistories.org

Lightcone Distribution
lightcone.org/

Re-framing the home movie
http://www.residenzeinarchivio.it/