Поддержка и дистрибуция фильмов Light Cone
- Майкл Мазьер, Untitled (1980)
- Мартин Арнольд, Pièce Touchée (1989)
- Томонари Нисикава, Apollo (2003)
- Рэй Хаяма, A Child Goes Burying Dead Insects (2009)
- Шихо Кано, Landscape (1998)
- Джером Хайлер, Words of Mercury (2010-2011)
This program is dedicated to the phenomenon of flicker — one of the most radical techniques of experimental cinema, which changes conventional ways of perceiving image and sound, transforming them into a liminal cinematic experience. The historical starting point here, of course, was Tony Conrad’s structural film The Flicker (1966), which opened up a new field of possibilities for the authors of experimental cinema, who subsequently used this technique with varying degrees of intensity.
However, it was important for me to intentionally expand the notion of flicker itself and to trace how this principle manifests across a variety of examples: in the pulsation of sound, ultra-rapid editing, phase repetition, color mixing, the duplication of text, and the layering of abstract imagery.
All of this makes it possible to address the potential fragmentation of film — its capacity to break apart into discrete impulses, ruptures, and intervals. Yet it is precisely through the rhythm and tension of these ruptures that filmmakers reassemble their works, transforming fragmentation into a unified sensory experience.
Куратор: Марк Петровицкий
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Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema
WORDS OF MERCURY is a silent film projected at 18fps. It has many layers of super-impositions which were all shot in the camera. It moves from a stark Wintery world and slowly develops into a place of overgrowth and richness that is almost suffocating and which re-invites death.
A Child Goes Burying Dead Insects
The ‘Single-8’ is a film standard developed by Japanese photography company Fujifilm in 1960. (Width: 8 mm, polyester) Single-8 was widely used as a general home-movie, recording media for enterprises and used by many independent filmmakers. After reached its peak in 70’s, the film was giving way to the video. There were some movements for the continuance of Single-8 by people in the film industry and cultured person when Fujifilm announced the end of its developing service in 2008 subsequently to the end of sales of Single-8 in 2007. The film A Child Goes Burying Dead Insects (2008–2009) was made in this struggle. The film was completed in 2009, it is still missing the magnetic body for sound recording on film. Repeated sequence of “a child buries dead insects, and she’s running away,” was duplicated directly by hand. This film is only one thing, copy does not exist.
You can see the woman sitting still and the landscape in turn. In this film, the character is not the heroine, and is equated with the landscape.As the subject is equated with the existence of a film too, the difference of time each having is presented in this film. (S.K.)
"It shows my interest in materials, medium, and apparatus of cinema. The sound will be produced from the visual on the optical soundtrack – for some parts, I used a 35mm still camera to expose the soundtrack area, and I scratched off the film emulsion directly for other parts. This is my senior thesis project at Binghamton University, and Julie Murray was my advisor." — T.N.
Based on a single, 18-second shot from a relatively unknown 1950’s hollywood movie, this classic film constructs a new narrative out of the choreographies and emotions that lay hidden in the source material. Using the optical printer as a microscope, Arnold re-animates the individual frames from the original film and amplifies the inadvertent movements and hesitations of the actors. By insisting on these cracks that appear in the hyperscripted world on the screen, Arnold acts out an almost physical excorcism of gender codes.
UNTITLED explores two adjacent spaces; a room and the street outside as seen from the room. Through an exhaustive use of focus-pulls, dolly zooms, pans and superimposed zooms, Maziere draws out, with great clarity, the numerous ways of seeing these two spaces and their various interpretations. Sometimes the room is an interior world illuminated with light from the single window. At other times the room is a blackened void and the window a screen. At other moments the window permits a view out and we see the outside as a view from the window. Then we 'are' outside and the camera teases out the infinity of ways in which the space may be experienced. The camera manipulations successfully redefine the exterior space, reminding us that seeing is relative; since each sweep of the camera displaces its predecessor, the notion of a cardinal viewpoint is undermined. The relativism of the viewpoint is not to be confused with something apparently similar, namely the subjective expression of an individual's vision. The film sets up a system of elements; room, window, view out, exterior, camera, light, and darkness and sets these in motion. UNTITLED is a positive film. It stresses that seeing is a creative process, an act by which we construct and define ourselves in relation to our surroundings. The distinction between self and surroundings, observer and observed are blurred.” – Nicky Hamlyn, ‘From Structuralism to Imagism’, Undercut n. 19.