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08.11.2024
Hundred Years Gallery
We’ll be showcasing a series of contemporary experimental shorts from a whole host of exciting fimmakers and artists from around the world.
Expect a kaleidoscopic night where a ideas, themes, textures, and filmmaking techniques collide.
Programme:
DON’T KNOW WHAT
Thomas Renolder, 2019, Austria, 8’20 mins
Sat behind a table in an otherwise empty space, Renolder addresses the viewer and proclaims, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing.’ His words, breaths, and mannerisms are transformed into repetitive and rhythmic slapstick sequences. While drawing humour from the mundane, the film explores the creative potentials found in explorative play.
Marina Aleksander
NOW AND TOMORROW, 2022, Denmark/UK, 12’31 mins
Marina Aleksander explores the fragmented memories of Andrei Tarkovsky’s sister, Marina, and her husband, Alexander, through a collection of photographs taken since the 1950s. By layering and intertwining these images, the film delves into the multiple dimensions of memory—those that endure, those forgotten, and those both joyful and burdensome. As the past collages with the present, viewers are invited to reflect on how memories shape and inhabit our lives. Originally created in 2018 under a different title, the film was re-edited and retitled in 2022 after further development.
so come the storms of winter (+ other musings)
Alexis Parinas, 2024, UK, 5’00 mins
A mixed-media ode to cycles, communal making, play, and nurture. The film features self-portraits, collages, a game of mahjong, and the creation of two dyed fabrics: made by many hands from plants, flowers, food waste, and other natural and sustainable materials.
Empty House
Ben Kujawski, 2022, USA, 5’29 mins
Empty House explores the filmmaker’s experience of visiting their foreclosed childhood home; the abandoned structure still containing a stark yet decomposing layer of familiarity. Memory and reality splinter one another and that which was sought to be comprehended quickly becomes indecipherable.
Brackets
Cuttfruit, 2024, UK, 1’27 mins
Brackets explores the intertwined nature of memory and technology and the notion that viewing the past through a digital lens can corrupt, transform, and erase the truth of memories.
Everything Turns...
Aaron Zeghers, 2016, Canada, 12’32 mins
A study of the mythology of numbers, from 1 to 12, captured in a year-long record of space, movement, and the passing of time in historic locations around the world. Everything turns, everything revolves, and everything feels the deep score of time.
Great Sale Wood
Michaela Davis, 2024, UK, 2’02 mins
Taking half a year to complete, this animated short comprises over 2,800 hand-printed cyanotype frames. The film explores themes of ecology, climate crisis, and spiritualism.
Advice for Light Baring Frogs
A'isha Odera, 2024, UK, 2’02 mins
In this film, the filmmaker harnesses dance in an active veneration of their ancestry, emulating the Engungun dance of Nigerian Masquerade culture. The piece seeks to honour Nigerian history, exploring dance as a practice of freedom and revolution.
Yesterday and Yesterday
Michael Dietrich, 2021, Austria, 5’45 mins
A film about observations made in the spring of 2020 and 2021, in which the filmmaker observes a marked change in his natural surroundings, brought on by the global pandemic.
Wolf
Luke Casey, 2021, Hong Kong, 3’11 mins
In this short film — the second in a series that explores the filmmaker’s dreams — we follow the strange movements of a mysterious woman.