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Light Divides The Square
Kimberly Burleigh<p>Patterns of refracted light, cast by a virtual liquid created in 3D.</p>
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<p>Patterns of refracted light, cast by a virtual liquid created in 3D.</p>
<p>What does the world look like to those who can no longer see it? What lies in that bottomless night we all imagine? Brigitte, Danielle, Hedwige, Bertrand, and Saïd lost their sight at different stages of their lives. By exploring their worlds, the film raises questions about perception and the connections we form with our senses, the world, and others.</p>
<p>The nighttime signs of Tehran are embedded on aerial images of Los Angeles. During this flight, phone recordings recount memories that took place in Tehran. These stories take us back to the past of this city.</p>
<p>A multidisciplinary adventure created in collaboration with Les Pas Perdus and numerous residents of the city as performers. Three "mirageologists" are sent to the field to study an astonishing phenomenon: residents of a city in the west of Marseille tend to see mirages!</p>
<p>Loosely inspired by the North Korean propaganda village, Kijong-Dong. The reality of a border contrasted with its staging... A village reachable only through imagination.</p>
<p>Following Baudelaire’s verse, “The shape of a city changes faster, alas, than the heart of a mortal,” this film explores the transformations affecting Paris’s 19th arrondissement and the resulting gentrification. The director, a comedic and burlesque figure reminiscent of Tati, encounters actors or observers of this situation and wanders through what remains of its bohemian spirit.</p>
<p>In the intimacy of yellow taxis, as the city flows past us, New York's immigrant drivers share their life journeys. While shaping the contours of tomorrow’s America, their stories explore the determination to become what one desires: how to choose one's life rather than endure it? How to find one’s path, “my way”? How to steer one’s life? Together, they weave a collective fable of America and the power of choice.</p>
<p>Amor Fati (the love of fate).</p>
<p>The details of close-up portraits of over 500 men and women are assembled to create this composite portrait of the human body. The surface of the human body is revealed in a tender, elegant, and bold manner.</p>
<p>BPM 37093 is a star that was very similar to the sun and is now dead. Scientists discovered that, upon dying, the star almost completely transformed into a diamond, much like the sun will do in billions of years. The video is a fantastical representation of this scientific phenomenon.</p>
<p>An experiment on musical creation based on mathematical data.</p>
<p>A world under construction where a snowflake, Kepler's geometric shapes that build the universe, a musical score of the Miserere secretly kept by the Vatican, the gestures of the pilots of the Patrouille de France repeating flight figures, and the Pythagorean theory of the "harmony of the spheres" intersect.</p>
<p>18 4th-grade students prepare 7 recipes revealing the more or less hidden connections between cooking and mathematics. This film is the result of a workshop at Edgar Quinet Middle School, offered by Théâtre Massalia and led by the n+1 group from the Les Ateliers du Spectacle company and the Grandes Tables de la Friche La Belle de Mai.</p>
<p>Latest astronomical discovery from June 7, 2014. Shooting stars sometimes take the train. In this case, they are much easier to observe.</p>
<p>A young woman dances in a devastated forest. Then a miracle happens.</p>
<p>In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish explorer, descends the Jordan River in a canoe from its sources to the Sea of Galilee. In the summer of 2011, Effi and Amir, Israelis from "abroad" based in Brussels, follow in his footsteps and make the same journey. Amidst mythical landscapes where people and nature are shaped by politics, religion, and history, the filmmakers take us on a sunny and intense road movie. Through encounters with Israeli vacationers, they explore and question what shapes the perception of a place, prompting reflection on our own relationship with roots.</p>
<p>A 2003 short film directed by Gustav Deutsch.</p>
<p>The first embodiment of (a) concept of structural activity in cinema comes in Bäume im Herbst, where the camera as a subjective observer is constrained within a systematic or structural procedure, incidentally the precursors of the most structuralist aspect of Michael Snow’s later work. In this film, perception of material relationships in the world is seen to be no more than a product of the structural activity in the work</p>
<p>The film Im Freien (2011) by Albert Sackl is an experimental short that explores the relationship between the cinematic apparatus and an untouched, barren landscape. Through a time-lapse technique, with one image captured every three minutes, the film condenses nearly three months of footage into 23 minutes. The camera interacts with the landscape, weather, and light conditions, while sculptural elements are introduced to provoke dialogue with nature. The title "In the Open" refers both to the literal exposure of the natural world and to the way the cinematic space is constructed through these interactions. The film investigates the concepts of space, time, and movement, blending them with the unpredictable natural elements of the environment</p>
<p>The videoseries State Of Flux can be understood as a study of nature in the broadest sense. Initial point was an interest in chaotic systems and their behaviour, here especially water and waterstreams in a therefore created \"digital parallelspace\". The water keeps on flowing, but it flows somehow differently. The raw footage was exclusively shot at barrages, places where the raw power of water is utilized. Energy is transformed from one form into another. In State Of Flux a new field is emerging that moves energy through space and time.</p>
<p>Stromboli appears briefly, as though lifted by a flash from out of the darkness into which it once again disappears. We then approach the Aeolian Islands.<br /> <br /> In their cinematic representation, movement and motionlessness collide as do the materiality of Super 8 and video.</p>
<p>The film is a technical exploration of the "dolly zoom" technique, popularized by Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo. Set in a forest, it uses a complex setup of rails and computer-controlled camera movements to create a mesmerizing interplay of forward and backward motion combined with zooms. The experience gradually intensifies with faster motion and rising sound frequencies, transforming the visual and auditory elements into an abstract sensory overload</p>
<p>This is a film composed entirely of frames of solid black and solid white, which Kubelka strings together in lengths as long as 24 frames and as short as a single frame. When he alternates between single black and white frames, a rapid flicker of motion-pictures projection; during the longer sections of darkness one waits in nervous anticipation for the flicker to return, without knowing precisely what form it will take. (Fred Camper) Arnulf Rainer, an architecture built in time by cinema uses only the four essential elements of the medium: light, darkness, sound and silence.</p>
<p>The film explores the intriguing world of carnivorous plants, delving into their unique adaptations and the ecosystems they inhabit. Through a combination of stunning visuals and informative narration, the documentary highlights the beauty and complexity of these fascinating organisms, showcasing their methods of capturing prey and their role in the environment.</p>
<p>The film explores the lives and experiences of individuals facing mental health challenges, shedding light on the complexities of mental illness and the societal perceptions surrounding it.</p>
<p>Inspired by the book Of Stars and Men by astronomer Harlox Shapley, Of Stars and Men follows the quest of a child (representing humanity) to find their place in the universe, exploring themes such as space, matter, and the meaning of life. The graphic design, colors, and playful, poetic universe make this film a unique work.</p>
<p>On a slag heap where human time has come to a standstill, only the rhythm of nature still leaves its mark. Is it a mountain that has fallen from the sky?</p>
<p>Filmed with Super 8mm film, the movie is presented as a journey, a daydream along the Narmada River in India, between the myths of progress and the myths of the river. "Dams will be the temples of modern India," proclaimed Nehru at the country's independence. Soon, one of the largest dam complexes ever designed will be completed on the Narmada. A social struggle is taking place. We travel along the river to the ocean, meeting the inhabitants, beliefs, and imaginations that coexist and clash in this valley undergoing transformation.</p>
<p>I live at home. A bit like anyone else. I need to eat, I have a sense of humor, I love cinema, I need to go to the bathroom, I enjoy falling in love... A bit like anyone else. Besides, I have a disability. So, I have caregivers to help me live, to help me do things.</p>
<p>During the German occupation of France in 1944, nineteen-year-old Raymond Lévy was arrested for acts of resistance. With other deportees, he was put in a freight car bound for a concentration camp in Germany. With a few comrades, he tried to achieve what seemed impossible: escape from this car before crossing the border. At over eighty years old, he tells…</p>
<p>A member of Alain Cavalier's family, Michel Alliot recounts his escape from a train that was taking him to concentration camps during the Second World War.</p>
<p>Jean Widhoff was a lieutenant in the late 1950s in the French army engaged in the Algerian War. He recounts how, in this context, he intervened, weapon in hand, to interrupt the torture of an Algerian. He speaks of his visceral refusal of any act of torture...</p>
<p>The Point is a joyful excursion into the history of animated film, a journey through a time when newspaper images were still screened and composed of dots rather than pixels. The dot plays the main role here, in all its shapes and colors.</p>
<p>A reworked found-footage sequence. Repetition in space and time tames the free-moving particles, evoking a golden ratio of the mind's eye.</p>
<p>What does the average woman look like? Anatomical charts show us. And what do the women presented in magazines and advertisements as perfect beauties look like? Certainly not the average woman! There are some touch-ups to be done...</p>
<p>In 2009, Rachel Uyarasuk, then the elder of the Inuit community in Igloolik, talks about the ancestors whose names she received at birth. She explains how this transmission ensured their return to the world of the living.</p>
<p>"Jardin d'enfance" is a family poetry that connects the various memories surrounding the Alzheimer's patient.</p>
<p>Speculum is a symbol of moving images, an attempt to rehabilitate the present through the lens of the past. This work explores ancient theories of matter in which luminous emanations provoke physical forms.</p>
<p>The film tells the fable of Chronopolis, a vast city lost in space. Its inhabitants' sole occupation and pleasure is the creation of time. Despite the monotony of immortality, they live in anticipation: an important event is meant to occur when a particular moment meets a human being...</p>
<p>Fast forward. A camera rushes across Argentina´s stone desert toward a cactus and crashes headfirst through an opening into the plant´s interior. There, a view opens up of an eerie universe. Vibrating insect wings beat, swishing against one another, glistening with a toxic beauty, and wind themselves out from a plastic bottle top. Then they transform into little Sputniks with tender antennas, which rush around clanking in the heart of the cactus until we dive into one of their hollow bodies, and a tin can disappears into the spatial depths of the image. </p> <p>In Nikki Schuster´s stop–motion–animation Parasit, organic and non–organic, documentary and animation engage in luminuos mutations. Billy Roisz´ experimental, smoldering soundtrack accompanies the unfolding of bizarre microcosms in the depths of trees and crevices. Sizzling, the living combines with the dead, the trash with plants, producing hybrid sculptural organisms with fantastical DNA. In this, the animation has a quasi–parasitical relationship to the documentary, grasping its formations and twisting them onward in nocturnal metamorphoses. Root–like forms proliferate in the dark, transform into long, strands of hair, and wrap themselves with smacking sounds around green, red, and yellow spiral bodies. The hair, a matter, which is equally living and dead, stands emblematically for the synthesis of the natural with the artificial: like the cells of an imaginary body, plastic rings and gear wheels float chaotically, group to bone pieces and eddies, mix together with plastic hangers and pieces of grating. In the end, green caps twist like little UFOs through the image from top to bottom, swing like garlands before a black background before fading away in the dark. Afterwards, the camera pulls hastily out of the nocturnal housing back into daylight–as though having just had a forbidden look into the backside of nature. (Alexandra Seibel)</p>
<p>In this poem, Jacques Prévert critisizes the destruction of forests to make paper pulp, paper which serves to notify people on the dangers of deforestation…</p>
<p>Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity. For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal - to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge - have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist? Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, from the inspiration and initiative of producer David Kaplan and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather trilogy), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.</p>
<p><em>Soon It Would Be Too Hot </em>takes it’s title from the first line of JG Ballard’s 1962 climate-fiction novel "The Drowned World" which vividly describes a dystopic future Earth where the melted polar ice cap floods the living world. </p> <p><em>Soon It Would Be Too Hot</em>is an urgent work about the human relationship to climate change, and was originally commissioned for projection on NOAA's Science on a Sphere , a 360 degree media platform for earth science education. This work was created with a barrage of dynamic image- making tools from watercolors and digital animation to current NSIDC satellite visuals and NOAA's CarbonTracker data visualizations, to provoke viewers into an experience of the emergency our complex living environment faces. Current conditions of melting Arctic sea ice brought on by the warming of air and oceans is a direct result of our own carbon waste, and the numbers continue to rise. Humans may be as ephemeral as shadows, but carbon emissions are forever.</p> <p>A project of NOAA/ SOS, Eco Arts Connections and CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. Premiered at the Fiske Planetarium, Boulder CO in April 2014 and available to all institutions with Science on a Sphere.</p> <p>This video is the "atlas" version of the work -- a flattened version of the media which was originally designed for a spherical surface, much as a map is a flattened version of the Earths spherical shape.</p> <p>Special thanks to Marda Kirn and Shilpi Gupta of Eco-Arts Connection, to fellow SOS artist Michael Theodore, and to the following scientists and outreach specialists for the projects advisory group advisory team: Max Boykoff, Susan Buhr, Susan Lynds, Julienne Stroeve, Pieter Tans, Betsy Weatherhead, and Carol Wessman. </p>
<p>Churning rivers. Roaring bears. Powerful violence alternates with tenderness in nature, animals and humans. Périot presents a triptych that reveals life on earth in all its gruesomeness and beauty. Destruction due to natural deterioration or human intervention plays a major role.</p>
<p><em>Swallowed Whole</em> is a somber, animated, experimental film about surviving extreme isolation and physical limitations as a result of traumatic injury.</p> <p>After an acute sledding accident, a woman is forced to lie supine for an extended period of time during which she descends into a desolate, disorienting netherworld. Feeling stifled, she imagines she is trapped under a frozen lake; life continues on above her while she looks up from below.</p> <p><em>Swallowed Whole</em> weaves together photos, animations, videos and sound recordings and takes the viewer on an abbreviated jarring journey through physical and psychological landscapes of hospitalization and recovery. Some of the imagery and sounds were collected during The Arctic Circle 2013 Summer Solstice Expedition, an international research expedition for artists, writers, and scientists.</p> <p>Edited to emphasize the physical impact of dropping, crashing, and slamming, the video repeats vertical frame-rolls from analog TV to metaphorically replay the impact that literally broke her back. The bone-crushing sounds and jarring movement echo throughout the film mirroring the repetition of trauma, and the trauma of repetition, commonly associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. The recurring instability of the image reflects the fragility of her injured body while providing a palpable experience for the viewer. The piece is inspired in part by Joan Jonas’ <em>Vertical Roll,</em>(1972) which uses a common analog television set malfunction to create a shifting stage of activity. <em>Swallowed Whole</em> uses fragmentation to both tell and disrupt the story and serves as a window of empathy into PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) repetition compulsion.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px">Chloé is a young woman who lives a happy and carefree life, enjoying the pleasures it brings her. But a visceral physical suffering makes her bend little by little, disrupting her carefree life. She finds herself forced to carry the weight of her fathomless illness. Where does this mysterious illness come from? Will Chloé succeed in getting rid of it?</span></p>
<p>At the centre are takes which do not change – a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single frame shots create a storm of picturesHans Scheugl.</p> <p>"Tree again became one of Kren´s most beautiful works - although it is difficult to single out any individual work from a corpus of extraordinary density and variety which spans over thirty years and includes over 40 films. The tree, the field, the sky, in fact the entire picture radiates an unusual, almost eerie artistry, with its rapidly changing blue, green and reddish hues, sometimes brightly illuminated for the fraction of a second like the flash of lightening in a technicolor horror film. (...)An apocalyptic picture, yet one that is full of a wonderful, quiet beauty... " Hans Hurch.</p>