Event "EFF Process. The World's Aperture" organizer: Biedrība "Baltic Analog Lab"
The World’s Aperture
Film programme
Curator: Tommaso Isabella
Every world comes with a view and, of course, with an end. Every idea of the world entails an opening, as well as border lines: it envelops and includes as much as it restricts and separates. So does every shot and every frame in a film. While we're surrounded by systemic crises that may suggest adopting apocalyptic views about the end of times, I tried to focus on a concept of ‘the end’ that does not concern collective expectations or apprehensions, but rather subjective perceptions and experiences: ‘the end’ as a delimitation, a constant field of forces shaping and containing our existence.
The programme starts with the horizon and ends in a canyon. These films, each one in its own way, probe existential and physical boundaries, they investigate contained spaces or explore deep historical perspectives, they show bodies that confront their own limits, and encounter architectures that restrain or enshrine. Cinema as the art of finding an aperture and measuring a distance, of establishing and testing the limits of a world.
The programme starts with the horizon and ends in a canyon. These films, each one in its own way, probe existential and physical boundaries, they investigate contained spaces or explore deep historical perspectives, they show bodies that confront their own limits, and encounter architectures that restrain or enshrine. Cinema as the art of finding an aperture and measuring a distance, of establishing and testing the limits of a world.
1. Another Horizon // Stephanie Barber
USA / 2020 / colour / sound / 9' / 16mm >> digital
USA / 2020 / colour / sound / 9' / 16mm >> digital
2. Something to Touch That Is Not Corruption or Ashes or Dust // Mike Stoltz
USA / 2020 / Colour & b/w / sound / 6’45” / 16mm >> digital
USA / 2020 / Colour & b/w / sound / 6’45” / 16mm >> digital
3. In and Out a Window // Richard Tuohy
Australia / 2021 / b/w / digital sound / 12’ / 16mm >> 16mm
Australia / 2021 / b/w / digital sound / 12’ / 16mm >> 16mm
4. Là est la maison / Here is the House // Lo Thivolle, Victor De Las Heras
France / 2017 / b/w / optical sound / 13’ / 16mm >> 16mm
France / 2017 / b/w / optical sound / 13’ / 16mm >> 16mm
5. Rost / Rust // Friedl vom Gröller
Austria / 2019 / b/w / silent / 6' / 16mm >> 16mm
Austria / 2019 / b/w / silent / 6' / 16mm >> 16mm
6. mtDNA 1Ce hg // Carlos Vásquez Méndez
Spain / 2020 / colour / digital sound / 12’ / 16mm >> 16mm
Spain / 2020 / colour / digital sound / 12’ / 16mm >> 16mm
7. Requerimiento // Andrea Bordoli
Switzerland / 2020 / colour and b/w / sound / 8’10” / 16mm >> digital
Switzerland / 2020 / colour and b/w / sound / 8’10” / 16mm >> digital
8. The Canyon // Zachary Epcar
USA / 2021 / colour / sound / 15’45” / 16mm >> digital
USA / 2021 / colour / sound / 15’45” / 16mm >> digital
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The fourth edition of Process Experimental Film Festival will take place between August 18-22 in Riga, Latvia, offering a diverse international programme of film screenings, live cinema performances, talks and other events. The festival is dedicated to analogue experimental cinema in all its personal, adventurous and uncompromising forms.
More: processfest.lv
The festival is organized by Baltic Analog Lab and supported by State Culture Capital Foundation and Riga City Council.
It is forbidden to bring into the event:
