Skin Inscribed: Contemporary Brazilian Hand-Processed Films [In-Person Only]
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
About
(Various Filmamkers, 2019-2025, 45min, Brazil)
Curated by Tetsuya Maruyama
Just as a painter applies raw paint on a canvas, a filmmaker applies light (and other matters) onto film strips. This hand-picked program features works produced at artist-run film labs (film laboratories by artists, for artists) scattered throughout the country, born from the vast and diverse geopolitical territories of Brazil. The relationship of physical sensations with plants and nature/ culture (humans), film-skin profaned as a tangible material, event that comes into being an ephemeral situation when it passes through a projector. This group of works, far from commercial “movies”, emerge from the personal interests of each artist without expecting anything in return. Should they be called, more appropriately, “photographs in action”?
FILMS IN THIS PROGRAM:
Typefilm an Armory Show – João Reynaldo | 4’ | color | 16mm single-projection | 2022
“Typefilm an armory show” is a cameraless animation work, entirely typed on film.
Wild Flower – Moira Lacowicz | 5’ | color | 16mm double-projection | 2025
“Wild Flower” is an expanded piece still in progress, originally projected in a double-channel format, where the process and the connection between images drive the film. Starting from delicate phytograms, it moves through negatives of flowers, subjective beach landscapes, fishermen in their daily lives, culminating in the visceral beating of a heart.
untitled(three moons) – Tetsuya Maruyama | 10’ | b&w | 16mm double-projection | 2024
a moon, two moons, three moons
*No projector runs at the same exact speed as another, even with the standard frame rate of 24 per second. There is a (d)effect that could not be counted in number and this “imperfection” is apparent to our retinal perception throughout a long transformation, as if it were the lunar orbit.”
Corpse of Water/Confined Flux – Helder Martinovsky | 14’ | b&w | 16mm single-projection | 2020
A mass of water appears as heavy clouds, which fall over the mountains and gush out of the earth in the form of springs, which become rivers. That follow their course as a flow of energy organized in the harmony of their own chaos, until they encounter morbid obstacles.
Walden Street – Duo Strangloscope | 3’ | b&w | 16mm double-projection | 2019
Video is the perfect medium for melancholic meditations on the visible and the ephemeral. How to go through good or bad dreams – a solitary journey through a world in which images bring together the imaginary and the marvelous with all their possible combinations. A space in the limits of reality, but that inevitably refers to reality. Nature reconstituted by images? We do not want to copy nature, we do not want to reproduce, we want to produce as a plant produces a fruit.
Consider – Ж | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2024
bombs like fireworks,
the artifice of televised war in a soft, black sky,
perforations of light in the film’s velvet
for any serious reflection,
the sidereal
CONSIDER
in memory of the fallen in Gaza, the stars.
I will remember Lucy | Maria Mion | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2022
How many times does it take to access memory to remember someone’s image before it changes or disappears? This film addresses the fragmentation of memory through a sequence of reproductions of a photograph using various analog techniques.
Bleach Farm | Līgia M. Teixeira & Francisco B. Gusso | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2024
A photochemical experiment in 16mm. Film processed with eco-developer made from field sunflowers, tinted and toned manually, with the intervention of sodium hypochlorite on the film.
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