arc
Still: (sans)(image)arc, an ongoing project by the filmmaker known as tooth (USA), has been a mainstay in the Bay Area experimental scene for many years. They run a free and open-to-the-public cinema (Black Hole Cinematheque), helped found a new lab (Black Hole Collective Film Lab) and a celluloid-only film festival (Light Field). They’re continuously shooting and making new work, often shown at packed venues at various in-the-know, small, experimental theatres. Favouring analogue-only screenings, their work is often performance-based expanded cinema and single screen 16mm films, where they run layered multiple 16mm projectors, and create a live accompanying score through various instruments and feedback. Their work encourages trance-like meditative spectatorship that relies heavily on the sensation of light reflecting in a darkened room full of vibrating tones.
Filmography
arc at IFFR
(sans)(image)
Revisiting a work on movement and language.
7'
United States
IFFR 2023
the arc of the sun
The lens of the artist captures the combustible and colourful Sun Ra Arkestra performing live.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023
ascensions
An internal radiation of the elements absorbed, image and afterimage.
8'
United States
IFFR 2023
breathing
The projector is the machine whirring back to us, the mechanics of the camera reflecting on the rhythms of automated labour.
11'
United States
IFFR 2023
broken symmetry
Expanded cinema performance for four to six 16mm projectors and a home-built, light-triggered square wave synthesizer.
20'
United States
IFFR 2023
conical signal
Dual 16mm projector performance that uses image to investigate sound.
7'
United States
IFFR 2023
field
Live projector performance reflecting on the unseen forces of resonance and magnetism that surround us.
10'
United States
IFFR 2023
hexagram
The occurrence of chance collisions in form through the intervention of the xerox machine on emulsion-less film.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023
infinite column
“…to perceive the shape of light which has been stretched forth.” – The Chaldean Oracles
20'
United States
IFFR 2023
katabasis
A parallel descent/ascent/descent in search of a miraculous unknown.
11'
United States
IFFR 2023
palms
A closer look at the non-native palm which has become an emblem of California.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023
s/x
A portrait of two trans Bay Area artists: Saturn Rising and Xara Thustra.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023
window
Colour, light and sound in contrapuntal layers of patterns and rhythm.
7'
United States
IFFR 2023
year of the rabbit
A New Year ritual.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023