Dream Sequence #2
Friday, November 8, 2024 · 7 - 10pm GMT
Hundred Years Gallery
13 Pearson Street London E2 8JD
Join us at Hundred Years Gallery for another installment of Dream Sequence.
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.
DON’T KNOW WHAT (Thomas Renolder, 2019)
Austria - 8’20”
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.Thomas Renolder is an Austrian artist and curator whose work spans music, painting, film, installation, and performance. Since 2014, he has lectured in animation studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As a film researcher, he has also authored several publications on animation. He is also the director of the One Day festival, an animation screening event in Vienna that has taken place since 2004.
Marina Aleksander (NOW AND TOMORROW, 2022)
Denmark/UK - 12’31”
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. NOW AND TOMORROW is an artist duo, founded by Sergei Sviatchenko (DK/UA) and Noriko Okaku (UK/JP) in 2014. The artists met in July 2010 and began collaborating after discovering a shared fascination with collage art. Okaku’s own practice explores the existence of impalpable reality, while Sviatchenko's explores everyday objects with the use of photography and collage elements. Their work has been exhibited internationally.
so come the storms of winter (+ other musings) (Alexis Parinas, 2024)
UK - 5’00”
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.Alexis Parinas is a London-based artist and youth arts facilitator working across moving image, eco-printing, and installation. Their practice explores the intangible cultural heritage of the Philippines, specifically the endurance and transformation of Filipino food traditions, folktales, folk dance, and spirit-based rituals. Their work has been exhibited at the Barbican Centre, Wysing Arts Centre, Millennium Film Workshop, and San Mei Gallery.
Empty House (Ben Kujawski, 2022)
USA - 5’29”
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.Ben Kujawski is a New York-based filmmaker, musician, and photographer. Having lived in the southwest, and on both coasts of the US, his work examines themes of blue collar life and the American desert as a place of unchecked freedom. Kujawski‘s work has shown at the Museum of the Moving Image, Pace Gallery, and The Woodstock Film Festival. He is also the co-founder of No Name Cinema in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Brackets (Cuttfruit, 2024)
UK - 1’27”
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.
Cuttfruit is a composer, music producer, and visual artist based in London. Their work explores gradular video synthesis and 3D modelling technologies.
Everything Turns... (Aaron Zeghers, 2016)
Canada - 12’32”
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.Aaron Zeghers is a Winnipeg-based filmmaker. He is director of the Gimli Film Festival and founder of the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival. His experimental films and expanded cinema performances explore the use of analogue film formats, obsolete technologies, in-camera effects, and various types of animation. His work has been screened at prestigious film festivals around the world.
Great Sale Wood (Michaela Davis, 2024)
UK - 2’02”
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.Michaela Davis is a London-based filmmaker whose experimental works explore nature and spirituality. Her latest film Great Sale Wood was exhibited at the William Morris Gallery in London and featured in Dazed Club Spotlight, January 2024.
Advice for Light Baring Frogs (A'isha Odera, 2024)
UK - 2’02”
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.A’isha Odera is an anti-disciplinary artist, curator, and researcher whose work explores Pan-Africanism and Afrofuturism. Her work traverses the mediums of sound design, movement, image-making, and poetics to explore art as a vehicle for freedom and emancipation.
Yesterday and Yesterday (Michael Dietrich, 2021)
Austria - 5’45”
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.Michael Dietrich is an Austrian artist who currently studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Working across photography, video, and sound, his work explores the relationship between society and space, and interventions in nature and the environment. His work has been exhibited internationally.
Wolf (Luke Casey, 2021)
Hong Kong - 3’11”
In this short film — the second in a series that explores the filmmaker’s dreams — we follow the strange movements of a mysterious woman.Luke Casey is a director and photographer based between London and Tokyo. His work blends documentary with surrealism, often incorporating stop-motion, CGI, and playful set design. His use of magical realism and off-beat humour offers tender, unexpected explorations of identity and city life. He has produced work for various brands, including Calvin Klein, Vans, Mulberry, Helmut Lang, and Marc Jacobs.