Kinoskop 2020 Non-Competition Selection

The response to Kinoskop 2020 open call was so overwhelming that the program had to be expanded. There are three selections - Meditation Unchained, Music Videos and In the Realm of Non-Human - in addition to the first virtual edition of Live Soundtrack, encompassing twenty five films of richly textured visuals in total!

LIVE SOUNDTRACK

VENTRAL / soundtrack by Dimitar Dodovski

Juan Lorenzo Loureiro | 2020 | 10:15 | Spain | Super 8

An island, a woman and a presence, a phantom who follows her. This phantom could be me, the camera, cinema itself. But both the woman and the island could also be ghosts....

ANCIENT ALIENS / soundtrack by Balt

Jared Michael Sobotka | 2020 | 08:50 | USA | various formats

A meditation on the something lost to a contemporary society that might make us more whole, if we were to discover it. A 16mm collage of found footage and film shot by the filmmakers.

SELF PORTRAIT / soundtrack by Andria

Antonio Bértolo Vilariño | 2020 | 04:42 | Spain | Super 8

Portrait of the artist.

LUMINOUS VARIATIONS IN THE CITY SKIES / soundtrack by Exoterran

Giuseppe Spina | 2019 | 06:19 | Italy

Thirty years of research were necessary for the astronomer Guido Horn D'Arturo to invent the specchio a tasselli – also called multimirror or segmented mirror – an archetype of today's most advanced telescopes.Full of point-like shapes, Horn D'Arturo's photographic plates are now also full of spots and traces of deteriorated emulsions.

A silent film composed of digital scans and blow-ups of Guido Horn D’Arturo’s photographic plates depicting Bologna’s skies.

HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE / soundtrack by Kajaq

Federica Foglia | 2020 | 05:00 | Canada

"Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new." - Viktor Shklovsky

High Tide, Low Tide combines layers of 16mm and 35mm found footage films to create a lyrical journey to accompany the viewer into the depths of a dream of another life.

MUSIC VIDEOS

FALE - DON'T WANNA WASTE YOUR TIME

Kamila Bialkowska | 2020 | 5:18 | Poland | Super 8

Don't wanna waste your time" is an experimental film and animation made on super8 and 35 mm films to the music of the band Fale. Techniques used to produce effects are inspired by the experiments of Len Lye and Kazimierz Urbański.

UNICORN SALIVA - ОБРАЗ

Daniil Demidov | 2020 | 3:57 | Russia | Super 8

This is what happens deep in the woods while nobody’s watching.

WARSHOW - A TURN OF TIDES

Máté Konkol | 2019 | 4:25 | Hungary | Super 8

Super 8 music video for art-rock band Warshow of Budapest, Hungary.

KRISPY & THE POOCH - HOLDING ON

Parole Dure (Theresa Stritzinger & Zejna Halilbašić) | 2020 | 2:57 | Germany | Super 8

The lyrics of "Holding On" talk about holding on to a past relationship. The video searches to portray other meanings of the term "holding on".

ALETULLE - 03 / 03

Jeff Zorilla | 2020 | 3:14 | Oman | Super 8

The film uses imagery to touch upon themes of isolation, of seeing life passing by around you and not participating in it, of feeling left behind. The song thoroughly explores an instant, an infinite afternoon, where the singer felt the absence of her lover. This absence materialised itself in the empty room, on the millions of windows she could see through her bedroom, the empty streets of London covered in snow. The film visually explores these themes with the use of a kaleidoscope of images of cities, facades, people...

LEO CRANDALL - HOW

Vasilios Papaioannu | 2020 | 6:08 | USA | Super 8 & 16mm

Music video for Leo Crandall's "How" included in the album "Unknowable and Stunning Thing". Shot in 16mm and Super 8 film.

IN THE REALM OF NON-HUMAN

EKTADOME

Laura Trager | 2020 | 03:06 | Germany | 16mm

100 feet of 16mm Kodak Ektachrome shot at a fun fair at night. Dark forces present themselves in plain sight in this magical place of lights and colors.

EXPLOSE

Cendrine Robelin | 2020 | 04:30 | France | found footage

« Appuie sur le champignon » (« Push on the mushroom » which means in french, Hurry Up driver) speak out tipsy carnival goers. Nuclear explosions, chains reactions in a delight mood. Party Goes on !Images and sounds are always ambivalent ; landscapes can always turn from the stability to oblivion. Carnival goers and explosions are faces of switchover. After the uproar, things roll again.

AFTER PAXOS

John Barlow | 2019 | 01:00 | UK | 8mm

8mm colour footage shot on and around the island of Paxos, Greece is juxtaposed with excerpts of black and white found footage from an old 8mm film reel containing views of Tokyo, Japan. A sequence of short colour clips portray a journey from a house in the wooded interior of Paxos to the island's shoreline, and then out into the Ionian sea. They contrast with four, much slowed-down, black and white clips, and a multilayered soundtrack comprising city noise, air conditioning hum and air traffic control chatter.

HARMONIUM

Miles Sprietsma | 2020 | 04:15 | USA | 16mm

A document of the ethereal features surrounding oceanic bodies, the re-cycling of life and death through the constant flux of coastline.

EIDOLON

Mike Rollo | 2020 | 03:35 | Canada | 16mm

The seer passes beneath branches, crosses fields, observes the quiet corners of creation. Bright and dark take turns showing their faces, a two-sided phantasm, one energy shape-shifting through time. The seer makes note, gleans eidolons.

THE GARDEN

Patrick Müller | 2019 | 05:00 | Germany | Super 8

Strange blossoms, sunken pathways, Déjà Vus: A hike through H.P Lovecraft's most personal garden.

MEDITATION UNCHAINED

UNCERTAINTY

Roman Ďuriš | 2019 | 04:28 | Slovakia | 35mm

The night before the biggest decision of her life, she feels uncertain.

I WAS A FREE DOG

Yuula Benivolski | 2020 | 11:28 | Canada | Super 8

Filmed in the final days before a global pandemic and influenced by the social isolation of 2020, this film employs dream logic to reveal a lonely idyllic landscape. Unable to connect with each other, on this beach each soul is contained in its own solitary action.

Two sisters see each other on an ocean beach for the first time since childhood. Field recordings of sounds from the sisters’ home country accompany this landscape: an orchestra of sirens, ocean waves and tropical birds, all indicate that we are within multiple realities. These recordings create impossible spaces that exist simultaneously and imitate the psychic effects of a diasporic existence.

RAINBOW IN THE DARK

Ben Mosca | 2020 | 04:07 | USA | 16mm & 35mm

An apocalyptic cosmic anti-smoking PSA.

CULTURE LEAP (NON-LINEAR)

Roger Horn | 2020 | 02:35 | South Africa | 16mm

The primacy of culture.

Culture over race.

ONE SHOULD NEVER BE CURED

Vincent Guilbert | 2020 | 08:30 | Japan | Super 8

"How hopeless it is

It would be better for me to sink beneath the waves

Perhaps then I could see my beloved from the Moon Capital"

A super 8 rendition of a 19th century woodbock print by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi.

THE LOVERS

Justin Brown | 2020 | 05:30 | USA | 16mm

A chemical wedding.

CHORUS 2

Benji Edelberg | 2020 | 05:15 | Canada | Super 8

A tourist, lost in the crowds, gets caught up in the moment.

RISQUES

Thomas Gerard | 2020 | 04:36 | France | Super 16mm

Human experience spiral down when panic strikes.

In this short essay, we pictured the turmoil that goes with the experience of the downward spiral. Starting from a bad place, fleeing it and eventually being caught up again, you are unable to escape your own prison and it is wearing you down. There is some twisted sense of being your own enemy and no matter what you do to tackle it, fear condemns you before the crisis.