10 21 oct '23 50th edition

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Deren, Paci, Haut, Giolo, Salmon

Courtisane: Selection

A programme consisting of short films by Maya Deren, Bea Haut, Adrian Paci, Eva Giolo and Margaret Salmon.

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kitchen beets

Bea Haut 1min

Never-ending tidying up turned into rhythmic beat and magic trick. A brief structural film cut to the rhythm of the gap between the optical sound head and the image.

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Vedo rosso (I See Red)

Adrian Paci 12min

Vedo rosso is a polyphonic composition for color and voice; weaving together three threads of isolation, coercion, and negation, both spatial and internal, it examines limitations—physical, psychological, individual, and collective—and the longing to overcome them.

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Flowers blooming in our throats

Eva Giolo 9min

Flowers blooming in our throats is a cinematic poem in response to the worldwide pandemic of 2020.

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Home

Margaret Salmon 5min

A short film depicting a woman putting her children to sleep, cleaning dishes, then dancing with a ghost. Shot on Super 16mm film, Home uses the physical material of film, and expressive bodies, to interpret emotional and imaginative relationships between daily tasks, gendered ...

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Defenestration

Bea Haut 5min

Mixing up film and domestic structures, this film reaches beyond the frame, testing out access and escape, aperture and portal. The letraset sound also bumps its way across the frame boundary into the visible.

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Meshes of the Afternoon

Maya Deren 15min

Meshes of the Afternoon’s dream-like mise-en-scene, illogical narrative trajectory, fluid movement and ambient soundtrack invite a type of contemplative, perhaps even transcendental, involvement for the spectator.

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Untitled

Joanna Piotrowska 4min

The visual vocabulary of Joanna Piotrowska’s films Untitled builds a sort of nonverbal bodily alphabet; poses of aggression and shield collapse onto each other, blurring subjective gestures of struggle into wider narratives of conflict.

A programme consisting of short films by Maya Deren, Bea Haut, Adrian Paci, Eva Giolo and Margaret Salmon.

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