Screening
Skin, Inscribed: Contemporary Brazilian Hand-Processed Films
On Saturday, May 17th, at 7pm, acclaimed multimedia artist Tetsuya Maruyama presents a program of 16mm Brazilian hand-processed films at the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor), following the two-day 16mm pinhole camera workshop "Movement Imagined."
*THIS PROGRAM WAS ORIGINALLY ANNOUNCED AS HAPPENING ON SUNDAY, MAY 18th AT 7PM. IT IS NOW HAPPENING ON SATURDAY, MAY 17th, at 7PM.**
Just as a painter applies raw paint on a canvas, a filmmaker applies light(and other matters) on film strip. This hand-picked program features works produced at artist-run film labs (film laboratories by artists, for artists) scattered throughout the country, born from the vast and diverse geopolitical territories of Brazil. The relationship of physical sensations with plants and nature/ culture (humans), film-skin profaned as a tangible material, event that comes into being as ephemeral situation when it passes through a projector. This group of works, far from commercial “movies", emerge from the personal interests of each artist without expecting anything in return. Should it be called more appropriately as “photographs in action”?
Total Run Time: 45 minutes.
Program:
Typefilm an Armory Show - João Reynaldo | 4’ | color | 16mm single-projection | 2022
"Typefilm an armory show" is a cameraless animation work, entirely typed on film.
Out of Blue - Moira Lacowicz | 5’ | color/b&w | 16mm single-projection | 2023
Documents created during an artist residency led by Philipp Hoffman on the Bombinhas beach in Brazil. This film provides a glimpse into the daily life of the city, the beach community, and the vegetation of the region. This piece was developed with sunflower eco-developer and includes phytograms and other botanical techniques.
untitled(three moons) - Tetsuya Maruyama | 10’ | b&w | 16mm double-projection | 2024
a moon, two moons, three moons
*No projector runs at the same exact speed as another, even with the standard frame rate of 24 per second. There is a (d)effect that could not be counted in number and this "imperfection" is apparent to our retinal perception throughout a long transformation, as if it were the lunar orbit.”
Corpse of Water/Confined Flux - Helder Martinovsky | 14’ | b&w | 16mm single-projection | 2020
A mass of water appears as heavy clouds, which fall over the mountains and gush out of the earth in the form of springs, which become rivers. That follow their course as a flow of energy organized in the harmony of their own chaos, until they encounter morbid obstacles.
Walden Street - Duo Strangloscope | 3’ | b&w | 16mm double-projection | 2019
Nature produces vision. The gaze, like a boat, wanders, guided by the leaves of the trees against the sky. The images of an easily observable commonality, which was once commonplace at first glance, make the journey an encounter with a nature that is both close and distant. A landscape in extinction, a wandering gaze in an increasingly unlikely act: seeing what moves around. Walden Street is a road movie suspended in time by how we look at screens. In this 16mm version, it returns, another, to bring in the inscription of the film's skin the fragments of the plants that produced the chemical metamorphosis of the development of the images. We resume the path of looking at what is between us and the sky, a deviation from the blindness of Instagram = grammar of the instantaneous.
Consider - Ж | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2024
pw: consider_palestine
bombs like fireworks,
the artifice of televised war in a soft, black sky,
perforations of light in the film’s velvet
for any serious reflection,
the sidereal
CONSIDER
in memory of the fallen in Gaza, the stars.
I will remember Lucy | Maria Mion | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2022
How many times does it take to access memory to remember someone's image before it changes or disappears? This film addresses the fragmentation of memory through a sequence of reproductions of a photograph using various analog techniques.
Bleach Farm | Līgia M. Teixeira & Francisco B. Gusso | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2024
A photochemical experiment in 16mm. Film processed with eco-developer made from field sunflowers, tinted and toned manually, with the intervention of sodium hypochlorite on the film.