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GLITCH CINEMA
In the beginning there was noise – thus writes Rosa Menkman in her influential Glitch Studies Manifesto (2011), a work that laid the foundations for the critical exploration of art works that incorporate noise & error as a means to examine and interrupt the normative function of the image and the media itself.
These works do not only present pleasurable aesthetic objects (because, yes, dirty glitch can be indeed very pretty) – they also act as a magnifying glass drawing attention to the material basis of the technology used to reproduce moving images, whether it be celluloid, analogue video or digital apparatus.
Using various means to distort the recognizable imagery, they bring us exciting, vibrant & noisy alternative visions that radically challenge the dominating clean, sterile imagery of contemporary digital cinema. As such, they pose fundamental questions regarding the political nature of technology, image and the reality itself.
The selection divided in two blocks will showcase 16 eye- & mind-bending contemporary audiovisual works that offer a journey through a myriad of creative & critical uses of glitch followed by the Q&A discussion with the artists.
PROGRAM 09.10.2023.
Introspective landscapes & limits of memory in the post-internet wilderness
Duration: 50′
- Death Orgone Absorption fœtale – Pulsion panspermique (CA, 2023,6′)
- Sabato Visconti – Origin Story (Best Price USA), v01 (US, 2023, 2′)
- Sarah Lasley – Welcome to the Enclave (US, 2023, 12′)
- Autojektor – robyn (2021, UK, 4′)
- YOVOZOL – Purplenoia (Parts 1 & 2) (NL, 2023, 10′)
- le désert mauve (Charline Dally + Gabrielle HB) – dickinsonia. les archives sensibles (CA, FR, 11′)
- Niloufar Baniasadi, Farbod Hamedi – Flower of Life (Fractal Geometry of the Carpet) (IR, 2023, 2′)
- Artiom Constantinov – You Never Happened, You Never Existed (IT, 2023, 4′)
PROGRAM 10.10.2023.
Hacking, playing & (de)constructing (new) realities
Duration: 50′
- André Oliveira Cebola – ultraCritical() (BR, 2023, 1′)
- Chris Coleman with Music by George Cicci – Threaded Tracing (US, 2023, 7′)
- Josh Brown – First Wave (IE, 2023, 3′)
- Gino Battiston – Beware Spamart (AR, 2023, 2′)
- Theo Rosemffet and Rocco.FX – Descontrol (ES, 2023, 6′)
- aitso + ex_mortal – release decay (CA, US, 2023, 2′)
- Jan Swinburne – CRACKERS a brief history of code (CA, 2020, 4’20)
- Toma Ștefănescu – Entropy (RO, 2022, 25′)
Curated by:
EJLA KOVAČEVIĆ
A freelance film critic, curator and independent/experimental cinema researcher. She’s a member of the curatorial team at the International Experimental Film and Video Festival 25 FPS and a selection committee member at Belgrade-based International Analog Film Festival KINOSKOP. Since 2011 she’s been active in the film labs community dedicated to the promotion and preservation of analog film practices. In Zagreb-based filmlab Klubvizija she organized numerous workshops, screenings and held lectures on experimental and photochemical cinema. As an Erasmus scholar she spent a semester working in filmmakers’ cooperative LIGHT CONE in Paris. She earned her MA in French Language at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Zagreb
This program is part of the Fubar GLITCH FILM project, financially supported by the Kultura nova Foundation and the City of Zagreb.
