DATE: DeCeMber 13th, 22 pm.
Expanded Cinema performance + experimental 16 mm Projection
Light and sound form the hidden architecture of the cinematic space, where static images are mysteriously brought to life, slipping into our world and blurring the boundaries of time and reality. This illusion reaches deep within, stirring emotions and responses we can’t fully explain. In the Expanded Cinema program, we step beyond the surface, becoming witnesses to the secrets of the cinematic realm. Prepare for an immersive journey into the depths of your own subconscious — and the subconscious of cinema itself. What lies beneath the moving image? A realm of primal forces waiting to be uncovered. Let the magic of cinema draw you in.
Sophie Watzlawick, Sans Lune mit Präludium, 12′
The storm rises. In the distance, on a boat with hoisted sails, the litanies of passengers join in with the cussing of sailors. The sea vomits onto them and they vomit onto the sea. Ode with prelude to the precariousness of a barbaric world.
Laurence Favre with Live Music by Olivier Richard, “F(r)ictions, 30′
“F(r)ictions is an improvised dialogue between sound and music, between analog and digital instruments. An electric guitar, a 16mm projector and their fellows invite us for a journey into the forest, an encounter with atemporal creatures”.
Sophie Watzlawick is a Berlin-based film artist. Her film and sound work is based on sociopolitical issues viewed through the prism of philosophical and poetic concepts. The strong contrast between rigid social structures and the human dimension, also inseparable from life path, is of particular interest to her. She is interested in the hidden, in the signs that emerge in the dark, in those places whose ground is still unknown, and in seeing events that are commonly perceived as static in a new way.
Laurence Favre is an artist, filmmaker and researcher working with still and moving images – mostly analog – sounds and writings. Her films have been shown internationally in film festivals such as Locarno film festival, Rotterdam IFFR, Hong Kong HKIFF, Ann Arbor Film Festival and others, in art spaces as well as in informal spaces and in the frame of symposiums. She has been awarded several artist grants and residencies. Favre’s research based work takes the shape of experimental films, installations and film performances, looking for ways of triggering epistemic changes through sensory perception. She creates poetic sound-and-image-driven spaces where temporalities are blurred, and conceptual binary opposition (presence/absence, visibility/invisibility, memory/oblivion, still/moving, real/fictional) are diverted.Focusing on notions such as de-centering and un-othering, she develops the concepts of Expanded Spetropoetics and the Anarchive, in the field of decolonial ecology. She is an active member of the artist-run filmlab LaborBerlin, and co-funded SPECTRAL, an initiative of six artist-run filmlabs for the creation and diffusion of Expanded Cinematic Arts.
Olivier Richard is a Geneva based classical guitarist. Alongside his activity dedicated to the historical and contemporary classical repertoire, he has for several years been developing the practice of free improvisation, whether as part of his teaching or his creative research. He teaches at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique Danse et Théâtre in Geneva.
Content Note: flickering lights
