Starting from Scratch IV: Light Light … and Action
Combined programme
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IFFR 2006
Ever since its foundation in 1982, the non-profit distributor Light Cone, based in Paris, has built up what is now an extensive collection of experimental films. A large number of these have been sidelined in recent years as a result of the changing approach of both artists and screeners: the collection of experimental Super-8 films. The films selected for these two programmes were primarily made in the 1980s and in most cases reveal a typically cinematographic approach, such as investigating the material of the film medium or looking for the most beautiful light. See also: www.lightcone.org
In this combined programme
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The Exquisite Hour
Sublime Super-8 contemplation is reminiscent of a complex layered dreamscape. -
Palme d’Or
Using the Super-8 camera as a brush, the film maker sketches waving palm trees in a golden glow. -
Pluie de roses (à Rose Lowder)
Two ships in the Canal St. Martin in Paris, immediately recorded in a direct way on Super-8. -
Abstract film en couleurs
Colourful film made without a camera, with the unexposed film material processed with pieces of film in the window of the original Super-8 cassette an -
Numéro 4
The film maker uses a photo camera to film and a Super-8 camera to take photographs and reconnoitres the boundary between photography and film. -
Nuestra señora de Paris
Lyrical film about light, shot in a well-known cathedral with a free role for the lightweight Super-8 camera. -
L’irréversible chapitre III d’un roman 3 dimensionnel
Is it a film, or is it a book? -
Track Moss Bypass
New textures emerge in deliberately out of focus stroll recorded on Super-8, taking place on the reduced scale of leaves and twigs.