Exploratory Visions programme, from David King

Exploratory Visions

Animation + Experimental + Avant Garde

film program

26 – 27 November 2022

(weekend #1)

Echoes of war reverberate through the first weekend’s Exploratory Visions animation + experimental + avant garde film program this year.

From Finland, Eija Temiseva’s abstract but powerful Feelings of War is followed by Indian director Debraj Naiya’s Seedlings which looks at the trauma suffered by children in an unnamed theatre of war, followed by Janja Rakus’s Song For Haron (Slovenia) which evokes a ferry taking the dead across the River Styx.

 'Feelings of War' - Eija Temiseva

'Seedlings' - Debraj Maiya

'Song or Haron' - Janja Rakus

But it’s not all doom and gloom. This is the first time the program will open with a student film – Yuzuki Tachibana’s Deduce from Genjipai is a delightful and intriguing experimental animation from Japan which evokes the spirit of Rene Magritte.

'Deduce from Gejapai' -Yuzuki Tachibana

Australia’s Ian Gibbins gives us a haunting and visually seductive video poem in After Image while the USA’s Dee Hood explodes our minds with Fragments of Knowable Truth, and Canada’s Deb Ethier - Best Film award winner at the 2021 Hell Chess Film Festival – brings us her award-winning animation Once There was a Girl.

 'After Image' - Ian Gibbins

'Fragments of Knowable Truth' - Dee Hood

 'Once There was a Girl' - Deborah Ethier

There’s also a special presentation of ABODE – a series of films made by an international collective of filmmakers who took Ito Takashi’s 1985 experimental horror film GRIM as a source of inspiration for their own films about a place of residence, work or refuge. The filmmakers are Kunal Biwas (India), Camelia Mirescu (Italy), Rrose Present (Spain), Hiroshi Atobe (Japan), Anna Grigorian (Armenia-Canada), Debjit Bagchi (India), David King (Australia – also curator) and Serge Maslov-Szymarski (Stateless).

And for the trance-pumping grand finale we welcome the return of Dean Winkler and Don Butler (USA) with their eye-popping and mind-bending blend of live action, 2D, 3D and CGI animation in Our America.

'Our America' - Dean Winkler & Don Butler

And all this in just one hour. So put aside an hour over 26 – 27 November and tune in to The Screening Room at www.salto.nl/programma/the-screening-room/  for the first weekend’s edition of Exploratory Visions animation + experimental + avant garde film program for 2022.

See Trailer below.

https://vimeo.com/773141996

DJK