Max Ferguson & Mischa Dols - As in place of an image
€7 reduced
€5 student
*How do you breathe life into the already overused, discarded, forgotten, inaccessible, hidden, tainted, decayed image? Cinema’s answer is clear: cut it. This program consists of films that use different strategies to decentre image-production; reappropriating previous or existing material through montage or bastardisation. Working alongside a lack of material resources, doom in the face of the endless feed, inaccessible locations or (his)stories, montage proves to be a vital tool to overcome the barriers imposed by image-production. These films make do with what they have: through the condition of their situation they reflect their world.
19:30 doors
20:00 screening
22:00 drinks
23:00 bar closes
Part of the screening will be a supercut of student experiments that were made in the context of an Internet Cinema workshop. Their assignment was to make an image edit using any readily available footage (drawn from social media, shot on their phones, stored on their hard drives). Students worked in pairs, each producing video edits which they then passed onto their partners. The audio edits were then completed by their opposite partners, generating a mortuary of ‘exquisite corpses’, a relationalist aesthetic of montage techniques.
Another part of the screening stems from the overlap of experimental cinema and animation technique. The work of an animator to bring still objects or frames into motion can also be seen as a type of re-purposing of an image. In this section of the screening, it is the transformation from inanimate into animate that illustrates an ethos of resourcefulness and patchwork: another way of montage.
The screening marries these two approaches towards found footage and/or found object films. With the whole world’s wealth/overflow of images and material at our disposal, what type of cinema can handle that?
