Filmmaterialitet.

Film Will Eat Itself

Det som filmmaterialet kan fortelle.

Fractured melodramas, generational degradation, archive fragments and home brewed emulsion, film materials become the narrative in this programme.

Program

Politics of Perception
Canada 1973
Regi: Kirk Tougas
33min
16mm to digital

«Dead sure, or dead!» A one-minute promotional film for The Mechanic (1972 Hollywood film) is reprinted time after time as the image and sound slowly disintegrate with each new cycle, until the visual and sound information have completely evolved to white light and white noise.

Liquidator
Nederland 2010
Regi: Karel Doing
8mins
35mm

Innovative use of existing dilapidated archive images from Willy Mullens silent 1922 film Harlem (1922).

Konrad & Kurfurst
Nederland 2013
Regi: Esther Urlus
7min
16mm

Made using tinted and toned home brew black and white emulsion. A beautiful fragile film surface into which the image is embedded.

Flame
Finland 2018
Regi: Sami Van Ingen
15min
DCP

A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost film from Teuvo Tulio (Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young, 1937)

Teknisk informasjon om filmen Film Will Eat Itself
Attributt Verdi
Spilletid 1t 3m (63 minutter)
Produsert Diverse 1973
Regi Diverse
Visningsformat 16mm