Contacts
FESTIVAL ORGANISERS:
Kultivera
Storgatan, 17
57332 - Tranås (Sweden)
Contacts
FESTIVAL ORGANISERS:
Kultivera
Storgatan, 17
57332 - Tranås (Sweden)
SATURDAY,
10th OCTOBER 2020
18:00 - 19:30
online masterclass
Archeo-Salvage Filmmaking
by Georg Koszulinski
20:30 - 22:30
opening of online screening
Experimental FIlms and Videopoems - Part I
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Selection #1
ENCOUNTERS WITH YOUR STRANGER
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Selection #2
THE UNIVERSE AND I
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Selection #3
DANCE OF MATTER, DANCE OF VISION
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Selection #4
ANIMAL AND HUMAN
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Selection #5
SUNDAY,
11th OCTOBER 2020
11:00
online talk
A talk with Ian Gibbins>>
18:00
online talk
19:00
online talk
A talk with Georg Koszulinski >>
20:00 - 22:30
opening of online screening
Experimental Films and Videopoems - Part II
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Selection #6
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Selection #7
AMERICAN TALES
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Selection #8
MONDAY,
12th OCTOBER 2020
14:00
online talk
A talk with Aylin Gökmen >>
14:30
online talk
18:00 - 19:00
opening of online screening
Poetry + Video: A touring program of international video poetry
curated by Marie Craven
PROGRAM of SCREENINGS and EVENTS
ALL THE FILMS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO WATCH ONLINE UNTIL
Sunday, 18th October 2020
ENCOUNTERS WITH YOUR STRANGER
Who is more stranger to you than your own self? Sometimes a solitary encounter takes place.
Feast
Canada | 6' 12"
directed by Mike Hoolboom
poem "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott
synopsis
Using subtle repeats and rest stops for reflection, the poem’s 15 lines are a narration of self-care, an invitation to do the deep dig of meeting that most unwanted of all visitors. The film is framed by a writer/stand-in who is in search, waiting in the pause between faces. Her writing brings her to a temporary oasis where she can reboot and refresh, invite her many personalities to arrive, and allow old encounters with friends and familiars to flow through her, to become again a living memory.
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
Belgium | 25'
directed by Juliette Joffé
synopsis
Anxious of not currently acting, an aging actor embarks on a seemingly aimless road trip. He confides in a young British hitchhiker who understands almost nothing of his French. Mixing documentary scenes, impressionistic monologues and absurdist dialogues the film focuses on a protagonist who only feels comfortable in fictional roles, struggling to live with himself and his past.
THE UNIVERSE AND I
A selection of first-person films, where the subjects turn their gaze to the vast Universe to find something of themselves.
Solstice Sol Invictus
UK | 2' 57"
directed by Sarah Tremlett
poem by Lucy English, Sarah Tremlett
synopsis
Light, hope, faith – regeneration and solar time. As the unconquered sun rises from the winter solstice, it also descends from the summer solstice to winter again; moving through two parallel equinoxes. This poetry film is a pair to Summer Solstice for The Book of Hours poetry film project by Lucy English.
New Mexico Deathwish Diatribe
USA | 11' 55"
directed by Georg Koszulinski
synopsis
Three narrators converge in the deserts of New Mexico, each with a separate story to tell. One narrator is J. Robert Oppenheimer, another is a visitor from outer space, and the other is me.
WARNING: THIS FILM COULD TRIGGER SEIZURES IN PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY
Huo Zhe
Taiwan | 3' 6"
directed by Kino Lee
synopsis
Hands are us, water is how the life is treating us, and we as audiences are watching life from afar. "Huo Zhe" means "living" in Mandarin.
Moss
UK | 1' 13"
directed by Jane Glennie
poem by Natalie Whittaker
synopsis
The film captures the unsettling nature of the poem in claustrophobic close-ups.
WARNING: THIS FILM COULD TRIGGER SEIZURES IN PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY
DANCE OF MATTER, DANCE OF VISION
Abstract dances made of matter, still images revived by the dance of a body. Movement and stillness, intangible and physical are meeting in a dance.
Cineplasto
Norway | 4' 49"
directed by Thor Sivertsen
synopsis
An abstract experimental art film. Organic and geometric shapes drifting and making constantly new pictures.
The Immortality Of The Crab
Italy | 2' 20"
directed by Giacomo Manzotti
synopsis
Experimental animated short film shot on super 8 film, made with in-camera editing and no post production. In this movie, the synaesthetic research between sound and image is accomplished by connecting the animations, made on 1125 cardboard frames, with an original soundtrack produced using only sounds sampled by handling pieces of cardboard.
Against
UK | 5'
directed by Sally Waterman
synopsis
The 'Translucence' series reflects upon mortality, bereavement and remembrance through an interpretation of Donna McKevitt’s musical score (Warner Classics, 1998) and the writings of the British filmmaker Derek Jarman. 'Against' (2014) plays with the perception of family memory through a series of repetitive gestures, performed by the artist in response to Mckevitt's score. The desire for attachment, coupled with an unsettling sense of separation is implied as Waterman attempts to embody the projected images she took of her grandmother, just before she died twenty years ago.
Selection #4
ANIMAL AND HUMAN
Killed, captured, catalogued, observed through the lenses of our technological devices - animals are undoubtedly the protagonists of these films. But there is a second character - hiding offscreen, appearing in the corners of the frame or as an army of identical members - a human with no face.
Butterfly Disaster
USA | 6' 50"
directed by Caryn Cline
synopsis
“What looks like agricultural success, purging bean and corn fields of milkweed... turns out to be a butterfly disaster.” –Verlyn Klinkenborg. Inspired by Klinkenborg’s essay, using four found footage sources, I edited, optically-printed, superimposed, scratched on and bleached the film to highlight, lament and challenge the butterfly’s dilemma.
Il Sentire Dell'Occhio (The Hearing Of The Eye)
Italy | 5' 30"
directed by Alessia Cecchet
synopsis
An experimental piece that explores death through a post-humanist lens. Our understanding of the animal other changes once it has died. We look away, no longer in awe and the wonder becomes horror. The film re-centers the animal in its passing, compelling the viewer to linger on death, reconsidering its value and opening the possibility for empathy.
Passerine In Time
Denmark | 7' 53"
directed by Laurids Andersen Sonne
synopsis
A study of the gestural encounter between the hand of man and the entrapment of birds in it. The film investigates the haptic encounters between man and bird, where the hand becomes an embodiment of man’s desire for knowledge about something other, through the methodical labor of the hand as it repeatedly captures, inspect, measure, band and logs migratory birds before their release. Something other in nature which by a mere flick is capable of something man has reached for in eternity; the freedom of flight.
Lack Of Light
Spain | 7' 32"
directed by Pere Ginard
synopsis
Created after the musical work "Tangible" composed by Raquel García-Tomás, the film "Lack of light" is a phantasmagoria that explores life and death and the things in between.
Freeze Frame
Belgium | 5'
directed by Soetkin Verstegen
synopsis
Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop motion film, identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside.
Selection #5
LIVING IN FILMS
Characters come out of the images of their time.
Entre Les Images
Belgium | 4'
directed by Vito A. Rowlands
poem by Vito A. Rowlands
synopsis
A young woman laments the loss of her innocence and mourns her lover as Europe is ravaged by war in the summer of 1914.
New Woman
Canada | 26' 16"
directed by Rita Tse
synopsis
A meditative journey that investigates the look of the “New Woman” in Chinese silent screen. Through using archival film footage with intertitles also derived from the Chinese silent films, the film explores patriarchal perspectives in the portrayal of women in Chinese silent cinema, and deconstructs their appearances in order to reveal the impressive talent and outlook of the “New Woman”, which have been largely ignored and forgotten. The film features four thematic sections, Virtue, Modeng Woman, Unbound Feet, and New Woman. The footage of each section has been re-worked differently by using relevant hand processing and manipulation techniques, including toning, reticulation, solarization, contact printing, and coffee processing.
Selection #6
LAND(E)SCAPES
Inner and outer landscapes, always in motion - flickering, burning, moving, appearing and disappearing with light and changing through time and space. Landscapes escaping a definitive portrait.
Mountain View
Austria | 2' 40"
directed by Markus Maicher
synopsis
Three continuous zooms towards a landscape are deconstructed into a discontinuous appearance of single frames. The panoramic view is obstructed, the organic movement of the hand dissolved into structural variation of the basic units of film. Indexical content is inevitably present on the physical film strip and yet lost in the structure of the film.
WARNING: THIS FILM COULD TRIGGER SEIZURES IN PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY
L'Outremer
France | 6' 55"
directed by Florian Maricourt
synopsis
L'Outremer is a poem filmed on the phone. It is diurnal, coastal, it advances on the rocks, in front of the sea, it hurts the eyes, it's all in the sun, all in waves, all in sand.
Tale Of The High Twinkler
Belgium | 8' 48"
directed by Aylin Gökmen
synopsis
This tale explores the tumultuous relationship that sailors and monks have had with “Hoge Blekker", the highest sand dune in Belgium, over the course of several centuries.
Murmur
Belgium | 10' 21"
directed by Jan Locus, Stijn Demeulenaere
synopsis
Brussels was built on a swamp, today there is only one tiny part of Brussels that is still officially a swamp. Although continually threatened by development the area stayed intact largely due to being ensnared between two railroad tracks. As the morning light slowly rises, so does the dawn chorus. The city drone permeates the sound of the swamp, and a strange mix enfolds between the sound of an awakening nature and a human presence. Urban drone and bird song merge to an unfamiliar murmur.
Dog Daze
Australia | 4' 3"
directed by Ian Gibbins
poem by Ian Gibbins
synopsis
"as cool as marrowbone jelly, I'm on to you... I can track the droplets of fear, bare-boned on your long and solitary road... too late now to call for your doctor... I have all the time in the world..." Inspired by David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs”.
Douro - Symphony Of A River
Portugal | 15'
directed by Virgilio Oliveira
synopsis
From high up in the glacier-carved mountains of Northern Spain, towards the Atlantic Ocean in the cities of Porto and V.N.Gaia in Northern Portugal, "Douro - Symphony of a river", presents a reflexive journey through one of the most important water highways in the Iberian Peninsula. From the seeming quietness of the natural world into the noise of human presence, this sensorial experience celebrates the Douro’s importance to the sustainability of life since the dawn of human history.
One Little Tiny
USA | 31' 58"
directed by Brandon Wilson
synopsis
Aches and desires on the surface of the mind and beneath it. Memories in fragments. Layers at rest and unrest. The mind as metaphor. A woman laments to her mother about her wish to escape what she has come to perceive as a plodding and banal life, full of irritating events and characters. One Little Tiny travels through her mind into collaged and mirrored layers of memory and the present, through realms perhaps unknown or forgotten.
Selection #7
AMERICAN TALES
American dreams yesterday and today.
Jeano
USA | 15'
directed by Peter Coccoma, Anna Roberts-Gevalt
synopsis
A visual and sonic exploration of this American folk song: “Oh, if i were queen of France, or still better Pope of Rome / I’d have no fighting men abroad, nor weeping maids at home. / All the world should be at peace and the might should be the right / I’d have those that made the quarrelling, the only ones to fight”. Circling around two figures - a New England housewife, the wisher - and a character in a more mythic waiting space, perhaps collecting all the wishes - the film considers the potential power in the wishes of those waiting for the war to end. An imaginative exploration into how we engage with the dreams of the past.
Willpower
USA | 15' 7"
directed by Max E. Barnes Herrlander
synopsis
Three distinctly different pairs of lives collide into each other during the Indy 500 race. Renowned Swedish rappers Joy M'batha & Frej Larsson star in this pulse thumper alongside American rapper, Debra Danielsen, better known as the mother of original MTV teen mom, Farrah Abraham.
Selection #8
SO LONG
Three films about leaving your home country.
Da-Dzma (A Sister And A Brother)
Belgium | 15' 25"
directed by Jaro Minne
synopsis
Winter. A fifteen-year-old girl in a remote Georgian village tries to get closer to her older brother, just as he decides to leave home in search for work abroad.
At Home But Not At Home
USA | 10' 15"
directed by Suneil Sanzgiri
synopsis
An essayistic exploration of identity, cinema, and liberation through Skype interviews with my father growing up under Portuguese colonialism in India. Utilising various methods and modes of seeing at a distance, this film questions the construction of artifice and memory through the moving image.
International Voice Memo
South Africa | 1' 51"
directed by Roger Horn
synopsis
A short voice memo sent from South Africa to the U.S.A. reveals the economic struggles and reliance on parental assistance for the fortunate among the Xennial generation (1977-1983).
This masterclass could just as well be considered a 'disasterclass', as it considers the necessity of media making in times of crises, not limited to global pandemics, droughts, wildfires, rising sea levels, dangerously high greenhouse gas levels, and the ongoing mass extinction event that threatens all life on Planet Earth. Artmaking in the Anthropocene will be increasingly difficult but increasingly vital, and this session will prepare filmmakers of any experience level to make meaningful work with the resources at hand.
Participants will be invited to consider the ways in which poetry, music, microfiction, sound, and early photographic processes can all be combined to create radical cinemas of limited means. Participants will also be introduced to the vast digital archives available from anywhere in the world, and how these audio-visual materials can be repurposed in found footage and collage filmmaking practices.
Georg has been making films and videos since 1999. His recent work engages issues of the Anthropocene and merges his interests in science, poetry, and radical forms of non-fiction filmmaking. His award-winning works have been presented at hundreds of film festivals around the world. His feature documentaries, White Ravens: A Legacy of Resistance, and America is Waiting are available through Docurama. Fandor distributes his Florida Trilogy (2007-14) and his experimental film essay series, Frontier Journals #1-8 (2013-15). His work has also appeared on the Documentary Channel, Docurama, GuideDoc, Streampix/Xfinity, and the Journal of Short Film.