Filmverkstaden

True Colours

16.11.2019 19:00 - 20:30 h

Filmverkstaden is happy to present another evening of mesmerising films, that all originated on analogue film.
Most films will be shown in their original analogue format in this film programme curated by Britt Al-Busultan.

Colour is a central theme this evening with each film showing a richness in colour that is so characteristic for analogue film. Whether it be artificial, multiplied or realistic colours, they all show true colours exploding from the screen into the space.

Words of Mercury – Jerome Hiler (US)
2010-2011 / 16mm / color / silent / 25’ 00
Words of Mercury is a silent film projected at 18fps. It has many layers of super-impositions which were all shot in the camera. It moves from a stark Wintery world and slowly develops into a place of overgrowth and richness that is almost suffocating and which re-invites death.

Atomic Garden – Ana Vaz (BR)
2018 / digital projection of original 16mm / color / sound / 8’ 00
« We could say that a firework is not different from a tree, or from a big artificial flower that grows, develops, flowers and dies in a few seconds. Withered, finally, it soon disappears in unrecognizable fragments. Well, let’s take this firework and make it last for a month, and we will have a flower with all the characteristics of other flowers. Or so, inverting the order of factors, may we imagine that the seed of a plant can explode like a bomb. » – Bruno Munari

Idyll – Esther Urlus (NL)
2008 / 16mm / color / sound / 6’ 00
An attack of imagined nostalgia for childhood. The applied do-it-yourself bas-relief print technique ensures a coloured image.

Colour Separation – Chris Welsby (UK)
1974-1976 / 16mm / color / silent / 2’ 30
This film is based on the colour separation process. High contrast film stock was run three times through a stationary camera; once for each of the light primaries. In the composite image, anything moving is represented in primary or secondary colour whilst anything still, having been filmed through all three filters, is represented in “correct” colour.

When projected the film resembles a moving impressionist painting but the passing of time is not represented by the coloured marks of a painters brush but by the colored emulsion of the film stock.

High View – Simon Liu (UK/HK)
2017 /digital projection of original 16mm Quadruple Projection /colour / sound / 20’00
“Upon the North Point a torrential downpour of instants tease their way into sight, but never fully form. Shutter-induced memories reduced to speckles, dissipating into fog. Here, my initial disappointments in a material defect morph into opportunity – satisfying an itch to melt instances together, to see any number of places as one.

I want to go home. These images were meant to show us what goes where – but I can’t make out the path. Maybe we should lay them all out on the floor and try to put the pieces back together. In another five days, I’ll need to leave.” — SL

Free entrance!

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Generously supported by Taike and Svenska Kulturfonden