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Focus: arc 1

Focus: arc 1

Combined programme |

| IFFR 2023

A linchpin in the Bay Area experimental film scene, arc is an ongoing project by the filmmaker known as tooth. This programme is a combination of single-channel films, multi-projector expanded cinema with live projector and sound performances from 2011-2023, bringing them into conversation with films by influential filmmakers and peers.

In this combined programme

conical signal
Focus: arc
Dual 16mm projector performance that uses image to investigate sound.
year of the rabbit
Focus: arc
A New Year ritual.
palms
Focus: arc
A closer look at the non-native palm which has become an emblem of California.
No Land
Focus: arc
A film by Emily Chao, a fellow member of the Black Hole Collective.
Parcelle
Focus: arc
Shot frame-by-frame and edited in-camera to obfuscate the real image and reveal the imaginary.
s/x
Focus: arc
A portrait of two trans Bay Area artists: Saturn Rising and Xara Thustra.
field
Focus: arc
Live projector performance reflecting on the unseen forces of resonance and magnetism that surround us.
(sans)(image)
Focus: arc
Revisiting a work on movement and language.
the arc of the sun
Focus: arc
The lens of the artist captures the combustible and colourful Sun Ra Arkestra performing live.
broken symmetry
Focus: arc
Expanded cinema performance for four to six 16mm projectors and a home-built, light-triggered square wave synthesizer.