Film Mutations: Festival of Invisible Cinema XIII.

Film is. 1-6

Film ist. 1-6
60 min.

Film is. 1-6

Program

Schedule:

  1. Movement and Time Bewegung und Zeit | (15 min.)
  2. Light and Darkness Licht und Dunkelheit | (10 min.)
  3. An Instrument Ein Instrument (10 min.)
  4. Material Material | (8 min.)
  5. A Blink of an Eye Ein Augenblick | (7 min.)
  6. A Mirror Ein Spiegel | (10 min.)

- films are shown on the 35mm film gauge

Film is... consists almost exclusively of sequences from existing science films. These are films about the acrobatic flight of pigeons, the testing of monkey intelligence; about the reverse worlds and stereoscopic vision; hurricanes and shock waves in the air. About breaking glass, about a child's walk, and about a Mercedes colliding with a stone wall in slow motion. The contempt with which scientific films have been received is not directed against the content, but against their conventional, unimaginative, frivolous and saturated appearance comments. Likewise, the fascination with some teaching films can be attributed almost exclusively to the power of their images - images we have never seen, not even in cinemas.

Film is... brings an abundance of such images at the same time. Not only can politics  be felt, but also the unique poetry of scientific film, which often uses experimental techniques - extreme slow motion, extreme time flow, the operation of a telescopic or microscopic camera, a solarization, X-ray film.

Film is... is a poetic film in itself. How different pieces find their place and rhythm is reminiscent of modern poetry or photographic work by American artist John Baldessari. Images that, by their source, have nothing to do with each other, which do not belong together, are compared, connected, merged with one another.

(Alexander Horwath)

featured

Border

Border

Border, France / United Kingdom, 2004., director: Laura Waddington, documentary

Film or Power

Film or Power

Film oder Macht, West Germany, 1970., director: Vlado Kristl, feature film

18

Liberty

Liberty

Liberté, France / Portugal / Spain / Germany, 2019., director: Albert Serra, feature film

12th December

12th December

12 dicembre, Italy, 1972., director: Giovanni Bonfanti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, documentary

Tommaso

Tommaso

Italy / United Kingdom / United States / Greece, 2019., director: Abel Ferrara, feature film

Women's Quarter

Women's Quarter

Qaleh, Iran, 1966., director: Kamran Shirdel, documentary

The House is Black

The House is Black

Khaneh siah ast, Iran, 1963., director: Forugh Farrokhzad, documentary

Socialism

Socialism

Film Socialisme, Switzerland / France, 2010., director: Jean-Luc Godard, feature film

Film Catastrophe

Film Catastrophe

Film Catastrophe, France, 2018., director: Paul Grivas, documentary

Brick and Mirror

Brick and Mirror

Khesht o ayeneh, Iran, 1965., director: Ebrahim Golestan, feature film

El Grito

El Grito

El Grito, Mexico, 1968.-1970., director: Leobardo López Aretche, documentary

Dražen

20:15

Dražen

director: Danilo Šerbedžija, Hrvatska, 2024.
feature film 90 min.