Looks good, Kornelia. I wish I could be there.have a great time! Steve On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 8:07 PM Kornelia Boczkowska < kornelia.boczkow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear colleagues, > There’s a special program on animals in experimental film at the AAFF. > Perhaps it might of interest to those living in Ann Arbor or nearby. The > show’s at the State Theatre on Saturday 7PM - pls see below for details. > Best, > Kornelia > > An Animal is Not a Metaphor > Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska > > > Since the early days of avant-garde cinema, some iconic experimental > films, including Private Life of a Cat (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, > 1947), Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963), Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice, > 1970), and Jamal (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1981), have abundantly featured > animals, usually presented not as mere props or companions, but as central > characters both closely interlinked with and independent of humans. In > response to the animal crisis and the current developments of the > Anthropocene, this program will demonstrate how artist-made films bring in > the animal viewpoint so that animals become not just a subject or a > metaphor, but a real object of the film, and provide clues to reexamining > and transforming species co-existence. > > > Berlin Horse > Malcolm Le Grice > UK | 1970 | 7 | 16mm > Two sequences: one, a horse being exercised in the village of Berlin near > Hamburg in Germany; the other, an early Edison newsreel of horses being led > from a burning stable. Both were visually transformed and colored on the > printer at the London Film Makers Cooperative. The sound is an original > track by Brian Eno. > > > Jamal [A Camel] > Ibrahim Shaddad > Sudan | 1981 | 13 | 16mm > A report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, > small room—a sesame mill. > > > Cat Dance > Scott Stark > USA | 1991 | 6 | digital > Two cats become visual elements as they are playfully dragged through > fields of pattern and color, followed by a manic section of breathless > vocalizing by the filmmaker. > > > Horsey > Frédéric Moffet > Canada | 2018 | 9 | digital file > “Horses are lucky, they’re stuck with the war same as us, but nobody > expects them to be in favor of it, to pretend to believe in it.” An > allegory recycling images from the past, still relevant to the present > moment. > > > Pattaki > Everlane Moraes > Cuba | 2019 | 21 | digital file > In the dense night, when the moon lifts the tide, beings are trapped in > the daily life of water scarcity. They are hypnotized by the powers of > Yemaya, the goddess of the sea. > > > It Matters What > Francisca Duran > Chile / Canada | 2019 | 9 | digital file > Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an > exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. > The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human > relationships with other-than-human species elucidated by the theorist > Donna Haraway. > > > Stitching the Future with Clues > Allison Leigh Holt > NY / CA | 2021 | 14 | digital file > A neurodivergent-futurist manifesto, commissioned by the Ford Foundation > Gallery for the exhibition Indisposable: Structures of Support After the > ADA. Existing both as a single-channel film and as an immersive live > performance, it asks viewers to consider feedback systems as theoretical > frameworks, using animated diagrams, audio/video feedback processes, and > expanded cinema techniques. > > > Turkey Vultures > Toney Merritt > USA | 2020 | 1 | digital file > Turkey vultures in flight this morning, 4/25/2020, over Toney Merritt’s > home in Northern California. > > More info: > https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=852331~316d2c96-7be3-4c1b-82b1-d1a7143bdb35& > > Supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, under the project "An > animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American > experimental ecocinema" (grant no. UMO-2023/49/B/HS2/00653) > > -- > Kornelia Boczkowska, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > American Studies Research Unit > Faculty of English | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kornelia_Boczkowska > https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-9209 > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > Frameworks@film-gallery.org > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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