The Unforeseen 2017 / 17-18.11.2017. /
International experimental film festival THE UNFORESEEN is conceptualized as a support for reflection, development and production of experimental film. This festival is envisaged as opening a space for articulating a new politics of public support and of providing infrastructure, educational and production models in the development of experimental film. It is going to be achieved through discussing the meaning of the experimental film today as well as its possible practices. The format will be the one of educational, special and competition film program as well as of discussions and lectures.
CINE-SCOPE – Competition 8/16mm
This curated program is brought to you in collaboration between Center for Cultural Decontamination / Medijska arheologija and the analog film lab and audio-visual initiative from Belgrade, Kino Pleme. Aim of this selection is to showcase the most exciting works of analog cinema today, coming both from the circuit of international film labs and filmmakers who work independently on 8 and 16mm. Marko Milićević (Kino pleme) will present four subprograms : Stuctural Take-Off, Perished (Film), Visual Music and Film Diary. while members of the lab/ initiative (Jelena Dunić, Miloš Dimitrijević, Adrijan Vučković) will award two or more films with Grand Prix and Special mention award.
SHOWCASE – Digital film
This program is a continuation of last year’s festival edition, drawing its attention to contemporary international experimental film production in digital formats, which incorporates the achievements of modern technologies in the development of the film language and its forms. Program is curated by Ivica Đorđević and Adam Ranđelović (CZKD), while audience will vote the award.
This year's edition of The Unforeseen is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of Serbia. The entrance to all of the programs is free of charge.
E-mail: nepredvidjeni@gmail.com
Artistic advisor: Aleksandra Sekulić
Editors: Ivica Đorđević, Adam Ranđelović, Marko Milićević
PR: Luna Đorđević
Design of the poster: Adam Ranđelović, Ivica Đorđević
Technical production: Medijska arheologija, Kino Pleme
CZKD Team: Adam Ranđelović, Aleksandra Sekulić, Ana Isaković, Borka Pavićević, Dejan Pantić, Dragan Škorić, Ivica Đorđević, Lola Joksimović, Ljubica Slavković, Luna Đorđević, Slavica Vučetić
Photos by Nebojša Petrović and Srđan Veljović
The Unforeseen 2017 / Film Program
C I N E - S C O P E 1 : S T R U C T U R A L T A K E - O F F
EVERYTHING TURNS
director : Aaron Zeghers
Canada, 2017, 12', Super 8mm
GRAND PRIX AWARD
Everything Turns... is an open investigation into number mythology on Super-8 film. Long exposures and various animation techniques process and restructure the science behind it. This results in a type of almanac of time, space and place that humorously references Hans Richter.
165708
director : Josephine Massarrella
Canada, 2017', 6'51'', 16mm
Exploring the capacity of the medium to express various notions of time, the film begins with a woman looking out from the shoreline. This acts as a point of departure to disparate yet interconnected sequences which prompt the viewer to engage in a structurally unique mode of inquiry and experience. A dynamic original score by the acclaimed composer Graham Stewart accompanies the film.
SAND
director : Brice Bowman
USA, 2015, 8'48'', Super 8mm
The manner and persistence of the sociological collective unconscious being forwarded through time by way of the surviving generations that preceded us all and which will survive in some manner as a personal contribution to the collective unconscious.
NON-PLACES (BEYOND THE INFINITE)
director : Peter Lichter
Hungary, 2016, 6', Super 8mm
Marc Augé's essay (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity) meets with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in some Hungarian highway rest areas.
GIRASOLES
director : Jeff Zorrilla
Argentina, 2015, 5'34'', Super 8mm
The form of the sunflower divides our view of city life, juxtaposing three moments in time that create a dialogue with one another.
Karl-Marx-Allee
director : Azucena Losana
Argentina, 2015, 3'50'', Super 8mm
Overlapping of the monumental structures of communist East Berlin architecture.
C I N E - S C O P E 2 : P E R I S H E D ( F I L M )
PLUS ULTRA
director : Samuel L. Delgado & Helena Girón
Spain, 2017, 13', 16mm
The ancient Greeks believed that the world ended at the Straits of Gibraltar, as reflected in the Latin admonition Non terrae plus ultra (No land beyond here). When this proved too tempting a warning and explorers began conquering new lands, the Spanish State adopted a suitably trimmed version as its national motto: Plus ultra.
SLEEPING WATERS
director : Emmanuel Piton
France, 2016, 17', 16mm
Under the lake, the earth draws the ways you can take. In the depth of the sleeping waters, a roar sounds, probably a coming revolt
GRABADOS DEL OJOS NOCTURNO
director : Jean-Jacques Martinod
Ecuador, 2016, 7', 8mm, 16mm & 35mm
A collage of memories turned sensory vision.
FAREWELL TRANSMISSION
director : Mike Rollo
Canada, 2017, 14', 16mm
SPECIAL MENTION AWARD
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation opened the doors of the CBK Transmitter Station in 1939 to serve the prairie region of Canada. Farewell Transmission is equal parts indexical record of the demolition of CBK in 2015 and subjective response to the residual media documenting the event. The building is framed with tension preceding its destruction: emulsion pulsates as if with decades of radio transmission, creating an unsettled eulogy for a cultural institution.
A IS CID
Director : Mauricio Freyre
Brazil, 2017, 8'45'', Super 8mm
A IS CID departs from the history of a utopian project, a prototype of a nomadic city that only existed for a few weeks. Built in community in 1971 in Ibiza, a redoubt of the counterculture of the time, passed unnoticed by the repression of the Franco dictatorship. Its architecture linked to psychedelic ideas, altered states and drop-out, emerged as a space of resistance to the capitalism, as a political and social form that rehearsed the stage for a life without objects.
STRAIGHT
Director : Emődy Botond
Hungary, 2017, 3', Super 8mm
Lost footage, meditation based on assocations and wandering in the wilderness of memories
C I N E - S C O P E 3 : V I S U A L M U S I C
LE BULBE TRAGIQUE
Director : Guillaume Vallée
Canada, 2016, 6' 08', 16mm
Ephemeral traces of nothingness
Rotoscoping farmers, crumbling churches, dying memories as hand-painted layers, decay & collage on film emulsion as incidental traces of nothingness. A work that is aware of his own mecanisms.
Street Twenty-Seven Number Ten Sixteen
Director : Josh Weissbach
USA, 2015, 2'47'', 16mm
In Street Twenty-Seven Number Ten Sixteen there is the memory of a bedroom in an apartment on the third floor of a building. There is a reverie of a melancholic love song playing on an airplane, flying towards an island, straddling an ocean and a sea. There is the soft haze of an embargo slowly lifting into the celestial blue.
GrANULAR
Director : Charles-André Coderre
Canada, 2017, 6'51'', 35mm
Reminiscence of a trip in Beirut. The sea. the palm trees, the buildings melt when my eyelids began to close. My memories now have a separate life of their own.
IN STILL TIME
Director : Leslie Supnet
Canada, 2016', 10'23'', 16mm
In Still Time is an experimental animation that investigates the catastrophic image to facilitate questions about the moral imperative to look, and our (in) ability to bear witness to unthinkable human suffering.
CASINO
Director : Steven Woloshen
Canada, 2016, 3'58'', 16mm
A film dedicated to my father, who gambled with Love
KATAGAMI
Director : Michael Lyons
Canada, 2016, 3'10'', Super 8mm
This stop-motion animation was made by photographing and re-photographing antique kimono resist-dyeing stencils in positive and negative. A joyful play with optical illusions, small variations in the repeating pattern elements generate apparent motion. Photographed on Super 8 and hand-developed using matcha (powdered green tea).
LUNA
Director : Ernesto Baca
Mexico, 2017, 8'48'', 16mm
Orbiting through the earth, a set of minerals that move (silver halures intervened), the female bodies acquire various expressions, is allowed to carry the limited of its course, stimulating abstract worlds, where the imagery is reflected in dance and movement .
C I N E - S C O P E 4 : F I L M D I A R Y
MoCCASSIN FLOWERS
Director : Ieva Balode
Latvia, 2017, 4'35'', Super 8 mm
Moccasin Flowers is a film made in collaboration and dedication to a musician and hermit Orla Wren (UK)
Film talks about letting go the loved one and reaching out for re-connection with inner-self which has been lost during the deprivation.
O TEMPO DA MAZA
Director : Miguel Mariño
Spain, 2016, 5' 35'', 16mm
In a very small Galician village there is an orchard in which grow a variety of local fruit trees. With this unique Noah’s ark of flavours, San Sadurniño’s inhabitants transmit the memory of their own land from generation to generation.
THIS BOGEYMAN
Director : Pere GInard
Spain, 2016, 3', Super 8mm
The bogeyman, the ogre… that creature without form or face that populates the nightmares of children and the threats of the parents is materialized ghostly in this movie, as minimal as evocative.
CALYPSO
Director : Annalisa D Quagliata
Mexico, 2016, 5'11'', 16mm
Inspired by Homer's Odyssey, the film creates a queer reinterpretation of the nymph Calypso who traps Odysseus on her island. This intimate and sensuous rendition unveils the characters' emotional states through subtle gestures and contemplative portraits, delving into feelings of love, longing and abandonment.
ZEITLOSS
Director : Irena Paskali
Macedonia, 2016, 3'36'', Super 8mm
Irena Paskali is seeking in her work "Timeless" for the never changing condition of mankind, the essence of human being. On the one hand, it is the human quest for meaning and wisdom, emblematised by the apple. Secondly, it is the spirituality of man, who strives for transcendence - depicted by the scenes around the historic center of Ohrid, Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock, Golgatha - it is also about loneliness and being abandoned, impressive staged through the woman, whose face is not visible - and her slow steps upwards the stone stairs
ANXIETY
Director : Muge Yildiz
Turkey, 2016, 3'17'', Super 8mm
Life goes on. And we are always like images in this life. When I was looking for my own existence in the streets, in the city that I live in, I found only one thing and that was just a feeling.And this feeling has been just an anxiety. This has been a part of my daily life, confronted me with mundane images that I encounter everyday. As an image, myself, was involved in mundaneness. I had only one chance and that was to be able to choose a companion; the poems of Henri Michaux (Waiting, Small, Cursed, A Lost Man). I read them and added them to the noise music I made.
OF CANNON AND MEN
Director : Yann Chevalier Sarris
France, 2017, 3'17'', Super 8mm
In the Tarn-et-Garonne as elsewhere, today as yesterday, men make land a battlefield against the sky.
[antikapitalistische]
Directors : Duo Strangloscope
Brasil, 2015, 3'30'', Super 8mm
Parade of intentions / tensions: what there is, what could be and what is left. In a single sequence shot in super 8, chance and irony, slogan and chaotic ordering of chance, anti-capitalism in the shouts of the protesters and blasé movement of individualism
S H O W C A S E : D I G I T A L C I N E M A
COUNTER-CHARGE
Directors : Alex Hovet
USA, 2015, 12'48'.
In the 1989 adult-oriented computer series, Leisure Suit Larry wanders the jungle of a colonized village searching for love, which he finds, after a multitude of failed romantic interactions, with Passionate Patti, a perfect and unattainable woman. In an act of cathexis, Larry's energies concentrate on Patti in a complex of libido, love, and gender expression...
THE SADNESS WILL NOT LAST FOREVER
Directors : Alexei Dmitriev
Russia, 2015, 8'18', Digital
The most beautiful paintings are those which you dream about when you lie in bed smoking a pipe, but which you never paint.
ECSTASY
Director : Di Hu
China, 2015,12'42'', Digital
This video is an analytical montage of shots extracted from more than 60 films from the Chinese Cultural Revolution period. It exclusively studies the moments of the interpellation of the Ideology (Louis Althusser) which are represented physically by music, words, gazes, gestures and situations found in these films.
PASSAGE
Director : Di Hu
China, 2016, 11'10'', Digital
This film depicts a geographical, architectural, and urban research study of a specific area in Shanghai.The reason why I chose to depict this area is that it strongly resembles the Grand Palais area in Paris. I have made this film to express my concerns regarding the urbanisation and globalisation of Shanghai, elements of which have turned Shanghai into a science-fiction like landscape through the blending of pre-industrial and hypermodern elements.
Japonica monogatari
Director : Emperor Bikutoru
Russia, 2017, 12' 32'', Digital
AUDIENCE AWARD
Emperor Bikutoru occupies the main role and introduces himself to the digital space, fully realize his idea of combining digital and virtual. It is important for him to turn to Japanese visual culture and put himself into a self-mythological story. The main principle of this work like many others from Emperor Bikutoru is to saturate his viewer.
PEPSI, COLA, WATER
Director : Tom Bogaert
Switzerland, 2015, 9'18'', Digital
Pepsi, Cola, Water? is an experimental documentary about the legendary jazz pioneer, Sun Ra. It focuses on his infamous visit to Egypt in 1971. Through a collage of computer animation, archival footage and experimental jazz, this work explores the poet-musician-philosopher’s fascination with outer space and the mysticism of ancient Egypt. The film was made in Egypt for the exhibition 1971, Sun Ra in Egypt at Medrar for Contemporary Art in Cairo.
PROJEKAT ZALUKARI
Director : Hrvoje Zalukar
Croatia, 2017, 11'02'', Digital
The Unforeseen 2017 / Klubvizija SC Showcase
Klubvizija SC is a continuous educational film workshop and film laboratory, located in Student Centre in Zagreb, Croatia. It was launched in 2009 with a mission to preserve the tradition of photochemical film making. The main goal of Klubvizija SC, being the only film laboratory in Croatia , is to provide a quality education for growing number of people interested in working with celluloid. This, we seek to accomplish through organization of variety of workshops focused on theory and practice in film making (primarily on 16mm and Super 8 material), public screenings, exhibitions and film performances. Providing our members free access to lab facilities and offering production help in film projects, we aim to create possibilites for their professional development and to stimulate them to continue working with celluloid in an innovative way.
Being part of filmlabs community, we often cooperate with international film labs and film professionals through organization of artist residencies, guest screenings and workshops,with an aim to support photochemical film-making community, as well as to encourage the exchange of specific knowledge and experiences among film labs. So far Klubvizija SC invited a number of film professionals who passed their knowledge and presented their work (Jodie Mack, Stefano Canapa, Kevin Rice, Ricardo Leite, Robert Fenz, Ivan Slipčević, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Sandy Ding, LiChun Tseng, Ingo Petzke, Pip Chodorov, ...) and hosted a decent number of guest screenings (Alexander Stewart, Kevin Rice, Filmkoop Wien, Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam, ...), through which Klubvizija SC increases public awareness of existing artist communities who passionately continue to explore and develop the possibilities of celluloid.
From the selection of recent works by Klubvizija it's possible to deduce several methods of film production : cooperation with local authors who are permanent members of Klubvizija (Maja Rezoug: DING DONG, Anita Budimir: level.303), co-production with foreign authors and artists in residence (Milica Jovčić and Nenad Ćosić: Friedrichsfelde Ost, Sandy Ding: River in Castle, Lucija Mrzljak and Aggie Lee Pak Yee: Chicken Wings) ; technical support in one segment of the film projects (Marko Tadić: Events Meant To Be Forgotten).
Branka Valjin, program coordinator of Klubvizija SC will present its film program and program activities.
K L U B V I Z I J A S C P R O G R A M w. L I V E S O U N D T R A C K S
1. Chicken Wings (with Live Soundtrack by Summer Deaths)
Lucija Mrzljak, Aggie Lee Pak Yee, 2014, colour, S8 on video, sound, 5'
Chicken Wings is a diary travelogue dedicated to friendship, filmed in February 2012 in Hong Kong, Beijing and Macau. Aggie and Lucija meet two years later in Tallinn and completed film together.
2. River in Castle (with Live Soundtrack by Nick Cosic)
Sandy Ding, 2016, bw, 16mm on video, silent, 3 '
The “River” is symbolized emotion and the “Castle” is symbolized crisis, distinction, and liberation. When the film liberates its original contact by physically weaving it and printing through dense chemistry, the malted lights speaks this transformation. Film was discovered from leftovers in the lab (Klubvizija SC, Croatia). Though reprinting it with a DIY printing foundation, the lights behind this small section poured out of its frames and expressed symbolic meanings.
3.Events Meant To Be Forgotten (with Live Soundtrack by Nick Cosic)
Marko Tadić, 2017, 16mm on video, colour, silent, 8'
16 mm stop animation made of photos from the private archive of utopian architect Voytech Delphyn. Archive is found on the garbage lot, which title of the film alludes to.
4. Friedrichsfelde Ost
Milica Jovčić & Nenad Ćosić, 2014, 16mm on HD video, colour, sound, 4'(co-production with Svetloton Belgrade)
Metro station as a place of constant moving. Play with light and reflections from abstract to concrete forms.
5. level 303
Anita Budimir, 2015, bw, 16 mm on video, sound: Nikola Kos, 3'
Short experimental 16mm film full of graphism and urban elements, hectic combination of 16 mm positive, negative and high contrast film. The degraded effect is result of photochemical Mordançage process.
6.DING DONG
Maja Rezoug, 2016, 16 mm on video, sound, 10'
Experimental poetry film based on the psychological novel Aporia, the first book of a young contemporary Croatian writer Hrvoje Milic. The book has no plot, and is completely built of interior monologues. The character’s constant and neverending contemplations create a tensive psychodrama, in which the exterior expresses his state of mind and emotions, all negative - absurdity, superficiality, bitterness, disgust. Excerpts of poetic prose, read by the author, the sound and experimental use of montage, subtitles and black screen are creating a rhythmic spiral sinking into the (un)conscious.
The Unforeseen 2017 / Live Soundtrack
Live Soundtrack is the longest running monthly audio-visual happening in Belgrade, organized by the film lab and analog film initiative Kino Pleme. Focusing on rarely seen and recently (re)discovered works of short experimental cinema and animation around the globe, we’re also leaning towards the archives of cine clubs to find some hidden jewels and to inspire their possible (re) appraisal. Along with (expanded) cinema , we’re exploring different facets of local electronic, ambient and electro-acoustic music, already historically linked to providing scores to some of the more forward thinking works of cinema.
During the Unforeseen 2017 we're celebrating 3 years of our event with our biggest line-up so far, and the special-themed animated program "Love on Other Planets".
Live OST by Summer Deaths, Nick Cosic (Klubvizija) and Kezz & Nikola Marinković, Manja Ristić / Igor Stangliczky, Lebdi, Old Soviet Dogs (Love on other Planets).
Nick Cosic : https://nickcosic.bandcamp.com
Summer Deaths : https://soundcloud.com/summerdeaths
Manja Ristić : https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/
Igor Stangliczky : https://soundcloud.com/stung
Kezz : https://kezztamara.wordpress.com/
Lebdi : https://soundcloud.com/lebdi
The Unforeseen 2017 / Unrelenting film
Continuation of our 2016. program Classroom. Dragan Dimčić, a professor of film editing on Faculty of Dramatic Arts, and author of several books, will be giving a video lecture on "Unrelenting Film".
How can a film activate the most hidden impulses and corners of our being, and detach our consciousness from the illusion of material world. Can film be some sort of alchemical catalyst for our internal transformation? Join us in this utopian vision of an artist-mystic born in the first half of 20th century, torn between two worlds, dreams and awakening, reality and illusion, insanity and normality...
The Unforeseen 2017 / Vadim Klimov retrospective
The retrospective of the russian writer (his novel "Companions" will be published in serbian next year) and publisher (Magazine "Опустошитель“) Vadim Klimov includes four short films ("Beautiful and inanimate" (2004), "Subjects of melancholia" (2006) , "Lunch" (2007) and "Grimace" (2014)) he has made during his work with the apocryphal "art-terrorist" group "Nihil". Creating a combination (and parody) of the poetics of Michael Haneke and the structural-narrative logic of "Last Year in Marianbad" (1961) by Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet, Klimov creates a post-ironic meta-perspective on the image-time-image-violence relationship. He was featured in the last year's edition of The Unforeseen with his film "Alya, Polya and the clones of Polya" (2006).
