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arc | USA | 2016 | 3' |

| IFFR 2023

A portrait film of two trans Bay Area artists: Saturn Rising and Xara Thustra. Shot inside a large scale installation/immersive art show by painter and performance artist Xara at The Lab in San Francisco. Body movements, light and colour of the painted surroundings bridge into an almost non-objective abstraction through single frame pixellation.

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Also in this combined programme

year of the rabbit

A New Year ritual.
Focus: arc
Parcelle

Shot frame-by-frame and edited in-camera to obfuscate the real image and reveal the imaginary.
Focus: arc
palms

A closer look at the non-native palm which has become an emblem of California.
Focus: arc
No Land

A film by Emily Chao, a fellow member of the Black Hole Collective.
Focus: arc
field

Live projector performance reflecting on the unseen forces of resonance and magnetism that surround us.
Focus: arc
conical signal

Dual 16mm projector performance that uses image to investigate sound.
Focus: arc
broken symmetry

Expanded cinema performance for four to six 16mm projectors and a home-built, light-triggered square wave synthesizer.
Focus: arc
the arc of the sun

The lens of the artist captures the combustible and colourful Sun Ra Arkestra performing live.
Focus: arc
(sans)(image)

Revisiting a work on movement and language.
Focus: arc