OLD PARTNERS AND NEW SENSATIONS (from our friend Darko)
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Hi Folks, It's been a long time since my last post was published here. Let me
keep the reasons for that interim period under the file “private”. But I have
not been resting from making experimental movies since last spring. So I'll open
this fresh post with three links for my most recent works:
When I already decided to return to creating posts for our blog, I simultaneously dug through my personal archive of the period before the coronavirus pandemic to find something of more general interest. Five years ago, during my last days as a programmer and presenter of new experimental cinematography at the Split Cinema Club, I contacted and met in person a lot of interesting people. For this occasion, I chose three (or four as the selection includes one artistic couple) exceptional authors, which I consider to be an excellent refreshment for this film blog.
Argentinian director with USA background, his work "Impossible Flowers" from 2019. was presented on 13th of September 2019. at the Cine Club Split as a part of my weekly "Short(s) Petting" programs there (and as an introduction playlist to “Cinema Pur Archive” projection in the main term that evening, together with David King/s "Lost in a Borgesian Labyrinth" from 2018 and the works directed by Takatoshi Arai, Matt T Helme, Ivan Li and the next person that I like to mention here:
Daniel and Clara are UK based artistic couple whose video projects I have also presented at the Cine Club five years ago during Dublin based "Experimental Film Society" president Rouzbeh Rashidi 3 day's visit for his remarkable film "Phantom Islands" (2018) promotion at the same place (Daniel and Clara acted in that one).
Please visit those directors web pages to get permissions for watching their VIMEO uploaded videos. Hope you`ll like them.
And for even more new sensations in the field of experimental film and video here are three screen prints and affiliated links for three extraordinary YouTube channels:
Darko, I have no idea what you intended with the three videos 'Cold Stone Eye', 'Bouncing Apples' and 'Down the Road' so I can only give my impressions of how they came across to me. I liked the subtlety of 'Cold Stone Eye', the way the images changed so slowly, giving rise to a sense of expectation. 'Bouncing Apples' reminded me vaguely of cinematic experiments in the early 1900s, and German expressionist work of the 1920's and 30's (probably due to the Brutalist architecture) . I found a distinctly science fiction vibe to 'Down the Road', almost 'Blade Runner"-ish in parts. It would be interesting too see what impressions others had of these films.
Eat. Sleep. Dive. A simple, monastic existence for 15 days. Breakfast at 7.30am, freediving from around 10.30am to 2.30pm, return to shore, wash gear, rest and recover and maybe do some shopping in the local markets until dinner at 7.30pm. In bed, exhausted by 10.30pm. Next day, repeat. No TV, no newspapers, no social media. The only variations to the schedule were breathing and strength exercises and some pool work. The staff of Bali Reef Divers Resort were more than happy to let us drop a weight belt to the bottom of their 2m pool and do static breathholds with reflections of palm trees dancing on the surface above. This was our life in Tulamben, Bali over two weeks in July-August 2023. The diving was spectacular. Breath-taking. Mind-boggling. From six or seven metres of visibility in Port Phillip Bay to 15 – 25 metres of viz off the north-east coast of Bali where the water temperature was between 26 and 29 degrees every day. From shivering in 9 – 12 degrees on land and wearing thi
Darko has recently introduced me to multimedia artist Maria Korporal. Of Dutch origin, Maria lived in Italy for many years but she has lived and worked in Berlin since 2014 . Her artistic production includes video art, interactive projects, installations. Her multimedia work has been designed using a wide variety of techniques. The narrative aspect, both personal and social, plays a major role in her work which together with the directness of the images and the sounds leads to greater participation of the viewer. In her work she plays with virtuality and reality, with undergone and artificially generated experiences. Most of her projects deal with social and environmental issues, often with an ironic approach. A good example is her project Korporal Zoo , a series of video works made between 2010 and 2018, which observe the animal and human world from several perspectives: cultural, social, environmental. Over the last two years Maria experienced the world as extremely turbulent
Many years ago over a period of 5 years, I made 3 short films which were intended as companion pieces: "My Belle" "Hey Marcel..." "Queen of the Night" I had always hoped that one day I would show them together as a "triptych" in a public space, but that never eventuated. I did realise a sort of unification of the three under the heading " TRIPTYCH" when I remastered and released them on DVD via Artfilms . Recently I decided to create a short experimental version which would present the three separate films as panels on a single screen. Finally, forty years since I created these films, I have realised that dream with a lot of help from two people in particular. First, Bill McDonald who composed the music for each of the three original works. I was very lucky that Bill was introduced to me by our mutual friend Robert Ratti, who also starred in "Queen of the Night". Bill's music for the three separate films fitted them li
Darko, I have no idea what you intended with the three videos 'Cold Stone Eye', 'Bouncing Apples' and 'Down the Road' so I can only give my impressions of how they came across to me.
ReplyDeleteI liked the subtlety of 'Cold Stone Eye', the way the images changed so slowly, giving rise to a sense of expectation.
'Bouncing Apples' reminded me vaguely of cinematic experiments in the early 1900s, and German expressionist work of the 1920's and 30's (probably due to the Brutalist architecture) .
I found a distinctly science fiction vibe to 'Down the Road', almost 'Blade Runner"-ish in parts.
It would be interesting too see what impressions others had of these films.