Directed by Various
International • 2014 • 55 mins.
Celluloid-based filmmaking is alive and well in Europe, thanks to a network of film labs dedicated to both the preservation of technology and cinematic experimentation. This two-night program features work from three artist-run cooperatives: L’Abominable in La Courneuve, France; Labor Berlin in Berlin, Germany; and Labo Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. While the artists associated with these labs produce work in a variety of styles, the films selected for these two evenings are similar in demonstrating extremes of the photographic process.
Monday night’s films:
Parties Visible et Invisible D’Un Ensemble Sous Tension
France 2009
Director: Emmanuel Lefrant
In these landscapes in fusion, it’s the logic of a world that reveals itself. A bipolar world, where invisible takes shape with the visible, where the first dissolves itself into the second and vice versa. (7 mins.— L’Abominable)
Tahousse
Directors: Oliver Fouchard, Mahine Rouhi
Co-presented by Cinema Project and Northwest Film Center.
Films in this Program
Parties Visible et Invisible D’Un Ensemble Sous Tension
Directed by Emmanuel Lefrant
In these landscapes in fusion, it’s the logic of a world that reveals itself. A bipolar world, where invisible takes …
Tahousse
Directed by Oliver Fouchard, Mahine Rouhi
“In the Alps, in Kurdistan, in Tchecheny... It all begins with a blue tree – BLACK – Then, clouds raking …
H(i)J
Directed by Guillaume Cailleau
A hand-processed film that is extremely rich in contrast. More than with standard black–and–white material, the black and white here …
Didam
Directed by Oliver Fouchard, Mahine Rouhi
“Rouhi and Fouchard set their cameras in grandiose virgin landscapes and edit their film to the rolling of thunder or …
Genres: Short