Cipher Screen is a 3-screen live art performance piece combining factors both random and controlled. It harnesses the mechanisms of film and cinema: the projector, the film material, the darkened room and synchronized sound – creating a live score and a visual and sonic interaction. The ‘aberrations’ on the film loops create pops, cracks, and hisses which are deftly manipulated by the sound artist Mike Cooper, who will be playing live.
Also in this combined programme
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Appunti sul lavoro a Napoli
Excerpt from a longer mixed-media film on working conditions in the region of Naples. An unconventional project for an uneasy subject.
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Birmingham Ornament
As with the Russian avant-garde of the twenties, this Russian ‘parallel cinema’ short film deals with symbols and metaphors.
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251-249 = 2
Villages on the Stara Planina Mountain used to be full of life. Now, except for two people who are still living there, only silence remains.
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Nice Movie
A personal reinterpretation of the holiday movie genre and an ironic and pungent critique of how exotic imagery is being conditioned more and more by
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Rounding Off
An anthropological film which looks at how the occupants of ‘functional’ homes have re-appropriated them through daily use and making changes.
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Celluloïd Composite
Cinema stretched to its limits. An interdisciplinary experience which paradoxically celebrates the end of celluloid!
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Rivières
We are in Marseille, the sun is rising and life seems to flow peacefully. Passers-by participate in the film, noises resound all around. With electro-
Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 30"
- Medium/Format
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