Growth Spurt (2021), dir. Ivor Almásy (Hungary, 2022, 7’)
The film draws on fears and anxieties about childhood. The objects and drawing elements in it are cinematic references to the system of motifs associated with my work, which, together with ordinary sequences of images documented in cinematic notes, come together into a string of scenes without a story. The series of pictures randomly exposed to each other also resulted in new meaning combinations for myself, thus emphasizing the dreamlike nature of the film’s composition.
Shot on standard 8 mm film, hand colored.
Flyby Kathy, dir. Pedro Bastos (Portugal, 2023, 10’)
In 1981, English actress Kathy Harcourt mysteriously disappeared from the United States.
40 years later, this story unfolds, from an old 35mm copy of the last film Kathy Harcourt starred in.
This film retraces this brief episode of the golden age of adult cinema.
Land Changes Hands, but the Bees Remain in the Hive, dir. Roger Horn (South Africa, 2022, 11’)
“Land Changes Hands, but the Bees Remain in the Hive” is a short, found footage film which delves into the controversial Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) initiated by former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 2000. The program aimed to redistribute white-owned farmland to Zimbabweans across cultural boundaries and was often accompanied by violence. Two decades later, a young white Zimbabwean woman reflects on her childhood experiences during the primary years of the land invasions and the lasting effects on her family, as well as the persistent racism within the white farming community.
Through contemporary Super 8mm footage and found home movies from colonial Rhodesia, filmmaker and anthropologist Roger Horn provides a seldom-discussed perspective on the ongoing land grabs. The film sheds light on the reluctance of the white farming community to openly discuss the FTLRP and its consequences, marking a crucial step in acknowledging and healing the scars of Zimbabwe’s recent past.
Layering found Super 8mm home movies from colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and contemporary audio, filmmaker, anthropologist, and Professor Roger Horn offers a rarely publicly discussed perspective on the still ongoing, “land grabs.”
Turbulence, dir. Telemach Wiesinger (Germany, 2022, 15’)
The film poem TURBULENCE stands in the field of tension between surreal fantasy and multi-layered reality. Telemach Wiesinger’s photographic recordings of airplanes from the perspective of the traveler encounter kinetic wing objects by the composer Alexander Grebtschenko.
In the congenial collaboration of the two artists, the electronically controllable “Chimera’s” – elegant bird wings with megaphone – unfold expressive “acting” presence.
The dialogue between the sound level (Grebtschenko) and the visual level (analogue film workshop Wiesinger) opens up space for emotions, thoughts and interpretations.
(Thomas Spiegelmann, 2022)
Mafin proizvodnja audio-vizuelnih proizvoda 