NANACATEPEC
9.8.2024 kl(o) 18
Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo
16mm loops and slide projections
45 min.
2024
This cinematographic performance integrates analog materials in 8 and 16 mm film and pre-cinema imagery with an electroacoustic music soundtrack. Inspired by Nanacatepec—a rock permeated by a mycelium network without a defined shape—its mushrooms are portrayed as agents of creation and transformation of everything in the world.
Azucena Losana (MX) practice encompasses experimental filmmaking, installation, and video art. She pursued multimedia arts at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Argentina and earned a diploma in audiovisual preservation and restoration from the Cinemateca y Archivo de la Imagen Nacional de Argentina, in collaboration with the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her work has been featured at prestigious festivals including the Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen, Germany, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in La Coruña, and VIDEOEX in Zurich. She currently splits her time between Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
Elena Pardo (MX) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Mexico City, specializing in documentary, experimental, and animation films. Her work shows the potential of photochemical films for image preservation and creation, with a focus on laboratory techniques. Since 2005, she has been a member of the extended film collective Trinchera Ensamble. Additionally, she co-founded and currently directs the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC), an artistic initiative established in 2013. LEC is dedicated to the dissemination, production, education, and programming of various cinematic formats.
HYPNOS THEATRE: offering to the spirits of Juniper
10.8.2024 kl(o) 17
Ellen Vikström and Henrik Sørlid
16mm projector, juniper
30 min.
2024
Plant flesh slowly and purposefully penetrating mineral flesh, drawing out of it subterranean babies 3 years in the making - maturing and ripening with the revolving seasons - cycles of yellow, green and blue-black elixirs. The discipline of evergreen needles and the gentle protection of smoke. All is fixed by the inscrutable gaze of the sun - all except the slow desire eternally transforming earthly and celestial bodies. This slow and sluggish desire which is pleased to present to you this cinematic ceremony and offering to the spirits of Juniper.
Hypnos Theatre is an ongoing project initiated by Ellen Vikström, exploring the alchemical transformation of terrestrial and celestial bodies through plant developing of 16mm film, as well as the social and ceremonial aspects of collaborative and independent filmmaking. For this expanded cinema performance, Hypnos Teater consists of Henrik Sørlid and Ellen Vikström.
Henrik Sørlid (b. 1989 in Oslo, living in Tromsø, Norway/Sápmi) is an artist and writer, and studied at the Art Academy in Tromsø. He was part of the artist-run space Kurant Visningsrom in Tromsø from 2014 to 2018. He has also been involved in a number of other artist-run initiatives and groups, including Como_clube, Pantheon Bar & Grill and SASUSU Radio. In 2018, he contributed to the creation of the local artist’s union KIT - Kunstnerne I Tromsø, and has also been a board member of UKS - Unge Kunstneres Samfund. He writes art criticism for Hakapik and Billedkunst, and edited the anthology Dream Academy (Archive Books, 2023) together with Camilla Fagerli.
Ellen Vikström (b.1994) is an artist and filmmaker based in Tromsø, Norway/Sápmi, with a bachelor in moving images from Nordland Kunst- og Filmhøgskole (Nordland College of Art and Film). In her artistic praxis she explores tematics around sexuality and gender through a camcorder in real life situations and the cosmic potentials of the body through the creation of other worlds, with a focus on the material aspects of cinema such as scenography, costume, installation and 16mm film material. An important part of her praxis is collaborative processes and the creation of social spaces. She was part of the artist run space Kurant9000, hosting queer meeting spaces in Tromsø, and is currently part of the artist run collectives and initiatives SASUSU Radio, Pantheon Bar & Grill and Polar Film Lab.
I CAN'T SEE THE SIXTH SUN
10.8.2024 kl(o) 18
Luis Macias
3 x 35mm Slide Projectors, 1 x 16mm Projector
Sound: Alfredo Costa Monteiro
18min.
2019
I can't see the sixth sun” is a film performance which explores nature, man's cosmovision and the need of living meaning of the world to understand how it was created and thereby control it... and destroy it. Then...is the sixth sun coming?
Luis Macias (ES) is an artist, filmmaker, and image-moving composer. His work explores the formal and spectral properties of moving images, focusing on the cinematographic device and the photochemical nature of the film. Using Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, and video formats, he creates pieces for projection, performance, and installation, often emphasizing the experimental and procedural analog practices.
His films have been featured at prestigious festivals, art centers, museums, and other art contexts worldwide. Luis is a co-founder of independent analog CRATER LAB in Barcelona.
He conducts workshops on experimental film and teaches at art-film schools like EQZE.
PULSOS SUBTERRANEOS
11.8.2024 kl(o) 17
Elena Pardo
3 16mm projectors
35 min.
2019
An expanded cinema performance that observes and listens to visible and underground territories, both physical and intangible, in two regions of Mexico that currently experience or resist mining activities: Zacatecas and Oaxaca. This project seeks to understand the struggle to protect the territory through the stories told by its inhabitants and the experiences evoked by its landscapes.
Elena Pardo (MX) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Mexico City, specializing in documentary, experimental, and animation films. Her work shows the potential of photochemical films for image preservation and creation, with a focus on laboratory techniques. Since 2005, she has been a member of the extended film collective Trinchera Ensamble. Additionally, she co-founded and currently directs the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC), an artistic initiative established in 2013. LEC is dedicated to the dissemination, production, education, and programming of various cinematic formats.
EBB AND FLOW
11.8.2024 kl(o) 18
Lichun Tseng
Multiple 16mm projectors
Sound: Robert Kroos
40 min.
2021
‘Ebb and flow’ is inspired by the I-Ching, the book of change, Chapter 42 – Yi (Increase). Yi is a message about expansion and fullness. It is simply another cycle of life as it flowers, decays, and achieves rebirth. Ebb and flow, darkness and light, life and death… ‘What is’ springs from ‘what is not. Lichun and Robert use 16mm film projectors and analog generated waveforms to create an immersive, trance-inducing journey. Through layering, constructing, and deconstructing visual and auditory textures they strive for a sense transcending experience where the spectator is no longer consciously watching nor listening. Just being.
Lichun TSENG (TW/NL) is a Taiwanese artist based in the Netherlands. She is interested in exploring the experience of the vital dimensions of life, absorbing and partaking in it, grasping its wholeness; in which reflective contemplation are profound mental drives. She approaches her research and practice mainly with 16mm film, installation, and performance in the last years. She is a member of Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam.
https://www.beyondthebeyond.nu/
Robert KROOS (NL) is a musician, sound designer, and field recordist based in Rotterdam. He explores music and sound in all its manifestations and prefers to use his skills to support film, animations, and installations. His interests focus on sine-waves, the proximity of sound, binaural recording, and brainwaves.
