On the UNESCO World Day of AV Heritage, October 27, the SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana traditionally prepares a screening at the Slovenian Cinematheque. This year, it has joined forces with the Autumn Film School to extend an invitation to Light Cone. For this occasion, we have put together two programs of 16 mm and 35 mm experimental films made over a span of almost a hundred years, between 1927 and 2016. The first program "Paris, Capital of the 20th Century?" looks around the intellectual and artistic capital of the time, while the second program, entitled "Object Relations", flirts with psychoanalysis and shows the metaphorical power of objects on the screen. The curator, Mariya Nikiforova, will be present to introduce both programs.
On Friday, October 27 at 5.30 pm, she will also deliver a presentation on the hybridization of photochemical and digital practices in contemporary experimental film, based on her experience as coordinator of the Atelier 105 residency program.
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana – Department for Culture, French Institute in Slovenia, Air France
Beyond its appealing veneer, Paris has always been a site of great intellectual and artistic tensions. It has also historically been a place of political refuge, attracting many foreign thinkers and artists. Thus, the melting-pot city has been traversed by such a quantity of gazes and ideas that every corner seems to be charged with historic or symbolic significance. Presented here is just a modest promenade around 20th-century Paris and the artistic passions that have animated it.
MONTPARNASSE
by Eugène DESLAW 1929 / 35mm / b&w / sound / 15' 00 |
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DÉFENSE D'AFFICHER
by Hy HIRSH 1958-1959 / 16mm / color / sound / 8' 00 |
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ALLÉE DES SIGNES
by Luc MEICHLER & Gisèle RAPP-MEICHLER 1976 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 21' 00 |
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L'EAU DE LA SEINE
by Teo HERNANDEZ 1982-1983 / 16mm / color / silent / 11' 00 |
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TERMINUS FOR YOU
by Nicolas REY 1996 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 10' 00 |
Antonin Artaud has said, “If the cinema is not made to interpret dreams or what pertains to the realm of dreams in conscious life, it does not exist.” The link between cinema and psychoanalysis, and the metaphoric power of objects on the screen, accentuated by the close-up, have been explored and theorized throughout film history. Inspired by this idea, this program invents a psychic trajectory from object to object, metaphor to metaphor, through a chain of connections that activate powerful symbols (fire, water, house, or milk), perhaps, all the way to the revelation of a taboo.
HER GLACIAL SPEED
by Eve HELLER 2001 / 16mm / b&w / silent / 5' 00 |
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A STUDY IN NATURAL MAGIC
by Charlotte PRYCE 2013 / 16mm / color / silent / 3' 00 |
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FIRE CHILD
by Gordon MATTA-CLARK 1971 / 16mm / color / silent / 9' 47 |
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HUS
by Inger Lise HANSEN 1998 / 16mm / color / sound / 7' 30 |
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ALPSEE
by Matthias MÜLLER 1995 / 16mm / color / sound / 15' 00 |
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VENUS DELTA
by Antoinette ZWIRCHMAYR 2016 / 16mm / color / silent / 4' 20 |
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MILK AND GLASS
by Sarah PUCILL 1993 / 16mm / color / sound / 10' 00 |
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SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
by Monika SCHWITTE 1994 / 16mm / color / silent / 1' 50 |
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MUNCHEN-BERLIN WANDERUNG
WALKING FROM MUNICH TO BERLIN by Oskar FISCHINGER 1927 / 35mm / b&w / silent / 5' 00 |
address |
Slovenska kinoteka Miklošičeva cesta 28 1000 Ljubljana Slovénie |
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related links |
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana
Slovenian Cinematheque Facebook event |