What is the space between the self and the body? The discrete space where identity emerges holds the same mystery as the border of the image or the interstitial moments of black in a film strip. In this program we explore the sometimes obscene and hidden slippages of time-space that veer us off our prescribed timebase. What is the distance between the archive and the artist, the recording and the author, the signified and signifier? In this pursuit of expressing through a nihilistic media, what traditions, cultures, techniques and cures can we look to for warding off the malignant negation and reconvening as a whole spirit? The work in this program gives an answer, recontextualizing the facticity of physical reality as a means of expressing this despair and our temporal persistence.
Program:
On Sunday by Paige Taul & Olula Negre - 5 min
The Train is Invisible Until it Crashes by Oona Taper - 4 min
Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Djikstra - 29 min
Xiuhtecuhtli by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos - 15 min
Nightmare Loops 1-4 by Michael Mersereau - 5 min
Nothingscapes (or the Inherent Politics of Texture) by M. Woods - 13 min (World Premiere with live sound)
Programmed by M. Woods.
Total runtime: 63 min
Going on it’s third year, Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival is a yearly, non-competitive experimental showcase, which serves to highlight contemporary works of experimental film, as well as screening significant historical works for the purpose of expanding awareness and appreciation for the experimental mode of filmmaking and its contemporary practitioners, both international and domestic.
