Great program of many overlooked films. Wish I could see it. Dominic
> On Mar 27, 2024, at 11:29 PM, Stephen Anker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looks good, Kornelia. I wish I could be there.have a great time! > Steve > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 8:07 PM Kornelia Boczkowska > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> There’s a special program on animals in experimental film at the AAFF. >> Perhaps it might of interest to those living in Ann Arbor or nearby. The >> show’s at the State Theatre on Saturday 7PM - pls see below for details. >> Best, >> Kornelia >> >> An Animal is Not a Metaphor >> Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska >> >> Since the early days of avant-garde cinema, some iconic experimental films, >> including Private Life of a Cat (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1947), >> Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963), Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice, 1970), and >> Jamal (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1981), have abundantly featured animals, usually >> presented not as mere props or companions, but as central characters both >> closely interlinked with and independent of humans. In response to the >> animal crisis and the current developments of the Anthropocene, this program >> will demonstrate how artist-made films bring in the animal viewpoint so that >> animals become not just a subject or a metaphor, but a real object of the >> film, and provide clues to reexamining and transforming species co-existence. >> >> Berlin Horse >> Malcolm Le Grice >> UK | 1970 | 7 | 16mm >> Two sequences: one, a horse being exercised in the village of Berlin near >> Hamburg in Germany; the other, an early Edison newsreel of horses being led >> from a burning stable. Both were visually transformed and colored on the >> printer at the London Film Makers Cooperative. The sound is an original >> track by Brian Eno. >> >> Jamal [A Camel] >> Ibrahim Shaddad >> Sudan | 1981 | 13 | 16mm >> A report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, >> small room—a sesame mill. >> >> Cat Dance >> Scott Stark >> USA | 1991 | 6 | digital >> Two cats become visual elements as they are playfully dragged through fields >> of pattern and color, followed by a manic section of breathless vocalizing >> by the filmmaker. >> >> Horsey >> Frédéric Moffet >> Canada | 2018 | 9 | digital file >> “Horses are lucky, they’re stuck with the war same as us, but nobody expects >> them to be in favor of it, to pretend to believe in it.” An allegory >> recycling images from the past, still relevant to the present moment. >> >> Pattaki >> Everlane Moraes >> Cuba | 2019 | 21 | digital file >> In the dense night, when the moon lifts the tide, beings are trapped in the >> daily life of water scarcity. They are hypnotized by the powers of Yemaya, >> the goddess of the sea. >> >> It Matters What >> Francisca Duran >> Chile / Canada | 2019 | 9 | digital file >> Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an >> exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. >> The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human >> relationships with other-than-human species elucidated by the theorist Donna >> Haraway. >> >> Stitching the Future with Clues >> Allison Leigh Holt >> NY / CA | 2021 | 14 | digital file >> A neurodivergent-futurist manifesto, commissioned by the Ford Foundation >> Gallery for the exhibition Indisposable: Structures of Support After the >> ADA. Existing both as a single-channel film and as an immersive live >> performance, it asks viewers to consider feedback systems as theoretical >> frameworks, using animated diagrams, audio/video feedback processes, and >> expanded cinema techniques. >> >> Turkey Vultures >> Toney Merritt >> USA | 2020 | 1 | digital file >> Turkey vultures in flight this morning, 4/25/2020, over Toney Merritt’s home >> in Northern California. >> >> More info: >> https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=852331~316d2c96-7be3-4c1b-82b1-d1a7143bdb35&; >> >> Supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, under the project "An >> animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American >> experimental ecocinema" (grant no. UMO-2023/49/B/HS2/00653) >> >> -- >> Kornelia Boczkowska, Ph.D. >> Assistant Professor >> American Studies Research Unit >> Faculty of English | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań >> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kornelia_Boczkowska >> https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-9209 >> >> -- >> Frameworks mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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