I’m so honoured to be part of the overview effect exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade that „explores the complexity of the ecological problematics and the inseparable links between them and issues like corporate imperialism, indigenous sovereignty, gender, different kinds of extractivisms and the importance of decolonising not just history but also our concept of nature in order to reshape an inclusive mindset akin to a post-anthropocentric world.“
Thanks so much for including Antarctic Traces, Zoran Eric!
OVERVIEW EFFECTMuseum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, June 19th – September 20th 2021 Opening of the exhibition: Saturday, June 19th at 1 pm
project and curatorial direction: Blanca de la Torre and Zoran Erić, assistant curator: Dušan Savić, production: Dragana Jovović, design: Katarina Popović, Andrej Dolinka (project logo)
blowfeld Rainer Gamsjäger. AT, 2004, DCP, color, 4 min LOSSLESS #5 & #3 Rebecca Baron, Doug Goodwin. US, 2008, DCP, bw, 3 & 10 min cityscapes Michaela Grill & Martin Siewert. AT, 2007, 35mm, bw, 16 min Twelve Tales Told Johann Lurf. AT, 2014, DCP, color, 4 min Freude Thomas Draschan. AT, 2009, 35mm, color and bw, 2 min She Puppet Peggy Ahwesh. US, 2001, DCP, color, 15 min A Movie by Jen Proctor Jennifer Proctor, US, 2010–12, DCP, color, 12 min Technology Transformation: Wonder Woman Dara Birnbaum. US, 1978–79, DCP, color, 6 min Kopierwerk Stefanie Weberhofer. AT, 2020, 35mm, color and bw, 7 min
The art of reclaiming and reworking found footage exploded into previously unimaginable dimensions with the invention of digital technology and its tools for image manipulation. „Shred, Scratch, Sync“ explores the consequences of this new vocabulary of special effects: channel combiner, curves, fill, exposure, linear wipe, noise, triton, set matte, venetian blinds, limiter effect, minimax, fractal noise, digital glitch, chromatic aberration, blur, de-noise, glow, sharpen, convert, plane to sphere, rotate, motion blur, bicubic sampling, transform, directional blur, drop shadow, fast box blur, gradient ramp, offset, find edges, mosaic, tint, invert, gaussian blur, 3D channel extract, depth matte, ID matte, EXtractoR, IDentifier, bilateral blur, reduce interlace flicker, compound blur, directional blur, smart blur, blend, compound arithmetic, remove color matting, shift channels, broadcast colors, change to color, color stabilizer, equalize, PS arbitrary map, vibrance, kernel, fit to comp width/height, scale, reduce noise, alpha, Bezier warp, bulge, corner pin, displacement map, liquefy, magnify, mesh warp, mirror, optics compensation, polar coordinates, reshape, ripple, smear, spherize, transform, turbulent displace, twirl, warp, bend, blobbylize, flo motion, griddler, ripple pulse, slant, smear, split, tiler, angle control, 4-color gradient, beam, cell pattern, checkboard, eyedropper, paint bucket, radio waves, ramp, scribble, stroke, vegas, write-on, glue-gun, light sweep, luma key, advanced spill suppressor, keylight, matte choker, roto brush, mocha shape, add grain, bevel alpha, color emboss, posterize, texturize, threshold, block load, burn, burn, burn… (Jurij Meden)
Special mention is given to edge of doom by Michaela Grill and Sophie Trudeau. An effective montage analysis shows the faces of the women in the film – and when there’s drama, women exaggerate as if the world is on the edge of doom. In addition to insights into the ways of acting in silent cinema and to the fascination with human face, viewers still have to ask themselves: why did filmmakers tell women to exaggerate in dramatic scenes as if it were the end of the world? Feminism in a three-minute found-footage movie comes when you least expect it.
I’m so thrilled to finally be able to perform with Philip Jeck and Karl Lemieux again! Watch our show tomorrow Friday 4th at 7.30pm EST/ 1.30 am MEZ at Suoni Per Il Popolo – Jour 2 / Day 2. It’s free and will be streaming on Facebook, Youtube and their website: https://suoniperilpopolo.org/…/2021-06-04-jeck-grill… It will be available in their archives afterwards. Thanks to the entire Suoni team for the invitation and all the hard work! The focus of our collaboration is the exploration of analogue-digital image worlds. More details about us can be found here: https://migrill.klingt.org/jeck-grill-lemieux I believe you can see/hear that we were burning to play life again.
Very happy that Antarctic Traces will be part of the Austrian Film Week in Manila. It will be streamed for free form June 6-12. More details at Austrian Embassy Manila
will be screened as part of this awesome program at fimav – festival international musique actuelle victoriaville
PROGRAMME 1 : TRANSIT
SATURDAY MAY 22 CARRÉ 150 11 AM – $12
This program brings together experimental films from three countries: the Netherlands, Austria and the United States. Pushed to the limit of abstraction, these works travel between the organic materials of 16mm film to the glitched pixels of digital image. The program begins with #5 by JOOST REKVELD, a 16mm triple projection, followed by Deletion by ESTHER URLUS, two well-known European analog filmmakers. After the politicized video of TELCOSYSTEMS, a multimedia duo, we will enter the world of two great Austrian video artists, TINA FRANK and MICHAELA GRILL, both of whom presented performances at the Festival in 2004 and 2017 respectively. The program will end with Another Void, a visual and musical poem shot on Super 8mm (transferred on 16mm) by the late American filmmaker PAUL CLIPSON.
