more experimenta 2005.. this time with blurbs..

Nicky Hamlyn ‘Water Water’ - 2003 16mm silent colour 11min
Reflections and refractions of lights, alternated in hard, optical flicker and gliding dissolves. basically lots of lights floating in and out of focus with reflections and refractions.. duh..

Neil Henderson ‘Polaroid Films’ - 2004 16mm silent colour 9min
This film originated out of a desire to simply capture the arrival of an image. With Polaroid photographs there is a sense of anticipation with the image coming into being out of the whiteness of the film stock. This tension or anticipation is unique to Polaroid film. The films presented here represent an attempt to capture this anticipation and turn it into a filmic event.
[Premiered at No.w.here launch 2004]
white screen to image.. 4 or 5 times.

Butler/Mirza ‘Bombay Heights’ - 2005 16mm silent [length to be completed]
A work in progress - shot in Bombay during Experimenta 2004
images of an apartment building in bombay overlapping over and over again , i 3 movements each almost identical but with only colour seperation.

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen ‘Fade to Light’ - 2004 16mm silent colour 1min
Scratches applied directly onto the filmstrip gradually obscure an image of a candle.
[Premiered at no.w.here launch 2004]
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Emma Hart ‘Skin Film’ - 2003 16mm silent colour 11min
"Going from my head to my toes I stuck strips of splicing tape to myself, taking off the top layer of my skin. I then stuck this down onto clear 16mm film leader, using 300 feet in total. It is my actual skin that goes through the projector. I have made a film of how much space I take up and this takes 11 minutes to watch" [EH]
i know it sounds like nonsense and was pretty much as far as image on screen for 11 mintues is concerned.. but the idea of this woman performing this bizarre act was always there as part of the experience of the film somewhere in the backgroud.. dont know if it was experimental film or performance art.

David Hall and Tony Sinden ‘Between 1973’ - 16mm, sound, colour, 19min
David Hall and Tony Sinden ‘This Surface 1973’ - 16mm sound colour 19min
‘Between' and 'This Surface' are two films from the series:View, This Surface, Actor, Edge and Between made by David Hall and Tony Sinden in 1973. The films explore the relationship between screen image and spatio-temporal illusion - the materiality of the screen in relationship to the image as representation.
another exploration of the screen as a space of representation.. not very exciting- both these films- one in particular was a guy carrying a camera in between a screen and projector many many many (too many) times..

Chris Welsby ‘Colour Separation’ - 1974-1976 16mm silent colour 2min
This film is based on the colour separation process. High contrast film stock was run three times through a stationary camera, once for each of the light primaries. In the composite image, anything moving is represented in primary or secondary colour whilst anything still, having been filmed through all three filters, is represented in 'correct' colour [CW]
some boats on the water. in three colours overlayed. ok, i guess..

Nicolas Rey ‘Terminus For You’ - 1996 16mm sound b/w 10min
Shot in a Paris subway with high contrast stock - the film becomes a revelry of the chemical process of reticulation.
black and white grainy shots of escalators and people on them that then distort.. dont music videos do this stuff all the time? with or without 'reticulation'

Pip Chodorov ‘Charlemagne 2: Piltzer’ - 2002 16mm sound colour 22min
A precise notation of a concert by Charlemagne through a process of visual discordance. The 6495 notes played in the concert correspond to 6923 frames of super 8 film. No frames are left out or were printed twice. The speed of notes playing controls the speed of frame succession. Discordant diminished fifths are translated into the following methods of visual discordance: flicker between negative and positive, between blue/yellow, between red/green, between different flicker frequencies, between clusters of b/w negative and monochromatic frames, between left right screen masking and mirror image printing, between crossfading between negative and positive images.
extremely tiring and not doing anything else besides whats written above.

Pierre-Yves Cruaud ‘Le Silence Est En Marche’ - France 2001 DV sound colour 3min30
“A horizontal arrangement of bands of light slowly gives way to emerging human forms, seen from above, passing through the frame. Through digital manipulation, a situation is suggested, but never seen” (Mark Webber)
like looking out of a window and watching people go by..

Ho Tam ‘In The Dark’ - Canada 2004 DV sound colour 6min
Made in the year after the SARS crisis, using video technology, but referencing the languages of experimental films, this video re-visits the images collected from the Toronto media. Through black and white re-photographed pictures, all we can see is the darkness of a time passed, a city under attacks and assaults, politicians scrambling for words of comfort, citizens living in a state of fear, distrust, paranoia and shame.
ok- we got it. the text is the movie.

Ichiro Sueoka ‘Studies for Serene Velocity’ - Japan 2003 DV sound colour 6min
This is one of the “Requiem for Avant-Garde Film” series work. It refers to Ernie Gehr's masterpiece film, “Serene Velocity” (1970, US). The rapidity of the alternation of shots, and the sense of increasing distance between represented spaces, creates images of superimposition. The disjunction between the structure of the film as discrete units, and the appearance of superimposition makes the viewer conscious of the distorting illusion which causes the transformation. Just as the film object is filtered through a distorting mechanism, so all perceptions of the exterior are mediated by the individual's consciousness.
dunno bout all that but the film worked for me cus of the staitonary interior shots that were juxtaposd with each other.

Reynald Drouhin ‘Beta Girl’ - France 2004 DV sound colour
“This is the rabbit hole into my world. I hope you all do stay a bit here in Wonderland, for I'm quite interested in visitors. I often get lonely all by my Cheshire Cat self. It's just sort of nice to know that someone is looking; here I'm defenseless, no guards, just me. In between all the spaces I touch I'm here now. There's an infinite amount of babble to be spouted but for now lets begin our broadcasting day. Stay here with me and keep me company because even if I don't see you there, I can feel you.” [Airalin]
a film about beta girl- a woman who lives perpetually on line. a stationary camera allows us ot look at her as she sleeps, eats pizza and watches tv.

Guido Braun ‘The Green House Revisited’ - Germany 2004 DV sound colour 6min22
The green house revisited is a sensitive love-story with one extraordinary colour. It is dedicated to Mrs. Marion Graef of Giessen (Germany), who died several months before Guido Braun and Stella Friedrichs had the unique opportunity to capture these pictures of her lovely, but strange, mint green world.
really interesting film about legacy, memory, space and love.

Gurvinder Singh ‘Passage’ - India 2004 DV sound colour 8min47
A Passage of time and drifting sounds through a house whose inhabitants work dexterously. intense close ups on insects in an apartment. claimed to have been influenced by tarkovsky. did absolutely nothing for me.

Mukul Kishore, ‘Snapshots from a Family Album’ - India 2004 DV sound colour 63min
“Family and home, the definitions of both were to put to test over the years when my parents were working out of different cities. Both of them were nearing retirement, while my brother and I were settling down in our respectives professions. 'Snapshots from a Family Album' is a look at my family over those five years.” [MK]
what can i say.. fabulous! the reaction from the audience was also great.. shai heredia gushed about it in the introduction and 'moving, delicate, personal yet universal' generally a hit.

Noud Heerkens, ‘Re-Action in A’ - 1976 16mm b&w magnetic-sound 6min
A man is alone in a factory. His loneliness is visualised with fascinating moving camera techniques and a mesmerising soundtrack.
music video no 2

Marie Losier, ‘Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine’ - USA 2003 16mm b&w sound 3min
“For 3 months, every day at 1pm I would hide in the copy room at work and lay my face on the Xerox machine. The result: a rhythmic animation of my face eating my fist.” ML
distorted surreal black and white faces and hands.

Amit Dutta, ‘Kshya Tra Ghya’ - India 2004 35mm sound colour 22min
A boy (who is also an old man) tries to tell a story. This film is in two parts. The first part deals with the ritual of a boy going to school, and the second part deals with the story-book. With a rhythmic structure, this abstract narrative tale is told using in-camera special effects. Mythological references have been used as puns, some of the riddles are from Somdev's book Katahsaritsagar, and some of the stories from Milord Pavic's "Dictionary of the Khazars".
the most intereting 'experimental' film i saw yesterday.. folk tales told using a non-narrative structure. stunning visuals and great sound work blurred the bnoundaries between fable and real. still dont understand what the stories were and perhaps a tad too opaque- but as he said in the q&a later 'i am not aiming for the conscious, my target is the unconscious'.. hmm.