FRIDAY OCT 4 -
SUN OCT 15
Friday Oct 4th
14:30 - 15:35 | Echoes of the Earth | 1h 5m
International short films
Each of the films in this section shares its distinctive relationship to Earth and the landscape it encapsulates. For some it is the bedrock for visual material, and others it has been used to physically manipulate the film itself.
Deformer
Ignas van Rijckevorsel / 6m / Netherlands
“An experimental 3D rendered animation made for Amsterdam based fashion house Studio Frowijn. Deformer is set in the 3D scanned cliffs of Whitsand Bay in Cornwall, UK, and features the 3D scanned clothing from Studio Frowijn’s collection.”
Ignas was born in Amsterdam NL and grew up in Plymouth - UK. Using photography, moving image & sculpture, he creates artwork that represent natural artefacts in various states between physical and digital.
forms with space and distance and hills
Jason Moyes / 3m / UK
“Exploring the relationship between electricity pylons and the landscape. Hand processed super 8mm film with audio from the English sculptor and artist Barbara Hepworth.”
Experimental film and installation artist Jason Moyes lives and works in rural Scotland and has been exploring the moving image since 2007. His work has been shown in the UK, North America, Europe and Asia.
From One Place, Another
Parlour Collective / 18m / Italy
“From One Place, Another results from discussions, overheard conversations and stories in a Tuscan village, regarding its relationship with the surroundings of olive groves, mountains, and the web of hilltop hamlets that sit around it. Moving through various shades of tension, struggle and play, the landscape hazily outlines its mysteries through images, actions and spectral moments.”
The Parlour Collective are a group of artists who use performance and film as a way of exploring relationships between the psychological and somatic aspects of landscape and the lived environment.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Panu Johansson / 5m / Finland
“This short impressionistic film documents an old forest area called Mortin männikkö in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland. As an array of glimpses and moments the film tries to summarise a decade of life next to this vivid & forested tableau vivant.”
Panu Johansson is a media artist and an experimental filmmaker from Finland. He works with moving images, photography and sound. Johansson’s work has been exhibited in various festivals, exhibitions and microcinemas since 2000.
electric moonlight & the language within the leaves
Takahiro Suzuki / 8m / USA
“A modern re-telling of the Japanese tale of a bamboo cutter and the moon princess. The moon princess listens to the untold intelligence of the cosmos as observed by the trees in order to become closer with them and eventually return home.”
Takahiro Suzuki (he/him/his) is a Maine-based artist and educator, His work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally.
it's called round like a head
Molly Pattison, Andrew Wood / 6m / USA
“A silent film about two people shooting the same horizon and the staccato experience by which we piece together knowledge of place. Informed, but jumbled, the empirical, the guidebook, a scrap of interpretation board. A half remembered history class, a transliterated place name.”
Molly Pattinson has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016) and has participated in artists residencies at Vermont Studio Center, and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. Andrew Wood’s practice spans disparate media, shifting from physical to file, performance to film. He currently lives in the midwest United States and holds an MFA from Ohio State University.
71 50
MW Crater / 9m / USA
The work is a filmed document of the remaining campus of Black Mountain College (1933-57) and a visualisation of environmental factors leading toward decay. After processing, the film was buried on the campus grounds for 55 days. The soil, temperature, and overall environmental conditions shape the emulsion of the film stock, dissolving the image as it advances.
Islands
Ignas van Rijckevorsel / 4m / Netherlands
“This experimental short film takes the traditional rules of 3D rendering, like free camera movement and digitally designed shapes, and reuses them within a physical setting. “Islands” invites the viewer to reassess our digital mindset and to remember that the binary world is all grounded in matter.”
This is the second film being screened during the festival by Rijckevorsel, the other is ‘Deformer’.
Grit
Matt Edward Davies / 4m / UK
“This film documents an 18 mile walk along Chesil Beach in Dorset, in which the film maker takes a single frame every 12 steps in order to capture the entirety of the walk/beach within a 100ft roll of 16mm film. Dedicated to Davies' late father who lived in the area and retold tales of smugglers and stories embedded in the landscape, Grit (2021) is a film that pertains to structuralist techniques to explore affective and embodied ideas about place, memory and grief.”
16mm screening.
