Starting from Scratch V: Filmische Materie by Schmelzdahin and Jürgen Reble
Combined programme
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IFFR 2006
The Schmelzdahin Collective (Jochen Lempert, Jürgen Reble and Jochen Müller) from Bonn was very active in the period 1983-1989. Their no-nonsense approach to film material is still appealing. Films were buried, drowned or hung in a tree to allow the elements to do their work: In their vision, this is a purifying effect, as a result of which the film acquires a new reality that replaces the original, coloured illusion.
In this combined programme
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Aus den Algen
Intriguing document shows how a film copy (of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves), has developed into a colourful image transformation, after spending a year -
Weltenempfänger
Chemically treated Super-8 film about man’s desire to fly, free as a bird. -
Yamanoto Lightblast
Video processed as film becomes a dark journey through a world constructed from cloudy floating grains of film in a microscopic dimension. -
15 Tage Fieber
Apocalyptic Super-8 film made using solarisation technique, accompanied by a soundtrack by Gilbert & Lewis (Wire). -
Stadt in Flammen
Bacterial decay provides spectacular and innovative colours in apparently fluid classic Super-8 film.