JUNKERHAUS

Karen Russo, Germania, 2019, 16mm > digital, 7 min.

“Junkerhaus” è girato nella residenza di Karl Junker (1850-1912) che ha dedicato la sua vita alla costruzione di questa casa a Lemgo in Germania. Junker si è circondato di sculture lignee che si estendono su tutti I piani come una ragnatela. Riflessi, rifrazioni e cambiamenti di luce plasmano forme astratte che animano superfici e strutture, producendo così un ritratto psicologico che getta nuova luce sull’architettura di Junker come esperienza mistica e visionaria. In “Junkerhaus” corpi ed edifici, materia e memoria, interagiscono e si combinano costantemente, creando un rifugio psicologico che si trova al di fuori delle strutture date.

“Junkerhaus” is shot in the residence of Karl Junker (1850-1912) who dedicated his life to building his house in Lemgo, Germany. Junker cocooned himself within wood carvings which extended over all floors like a spider’s web. Reflections, projections and changes in light form abstract shapes which animate surfaces and structures, producing a psychological portrait that offers a new appreciation of Junker’s architecture as mystical and visionary experience. In “Junkerhaus”, bodies and buildings, matter and memory, constantly interact and combine, creating a psychological retreat that’s found outside of establishment structures.

DATURA’S AUBADE

Bretta C. Walker & Jean-Jacques Martinod, USA, 2021, Super 16mm > HD, 17 min. (sott. ita)
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Una contadina scopre un meteorite caduto nell’alto deserto del Chihuahuan.
La terra aliena e l’aliena terrestre si mescolano sotto l’incantesimo di una belladonna letale.

A farmer discovers a fallen meteorite in the high Chihuahuan deserts.
The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.

REFLEJO NOCTURNO (I)

Benjamin Ellenberger, Argentina, 2020, 16mm > HD, 4 min.

La luce non ha lingua perché è tutta occhio.
– John Donne

A series of short films about how the night immerses us in a world where the deepest thoughts emerge. Shot frame-by-frame with long exposure times and developed by hand before dawn.The spaces at night are transformed and intimate places are often encryptedand then they open, and a series of static images advance to leave time behind, like those dreams we don’t want to remember.

Light has no tongue but it is all eye.
– John Donne

A series of short films about how the night immerses us in a world where the deepest thoughts emerge. Shot frame-by-frame with long exposure times and developed by hand before dawn.The spaces at night are transformed and intimate places are often encryptedand then they open, and a series of static images advance to leave time behind, like those dreams we don’t want to remember.

I HAVE SEEN THE FIRE SHIP

Daniel Murphy, USA, 2021, 16mm > HD, 7 min. (sott. ita)

Per secoli, la gente ha riferito di aver visto navi in fiamme al largo della costa del New Brunswick e della Nuova Scozia. Le spiegazioni scientifiche degli avvistamenti tendono a ruotare intorno a vari fenomeni atmosferici tra i quali il più comune è il Fuoco di Sant’Elmo.

For centuries, people have reported seeing flaming ships off the coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Scientific explanations of the sightings tend to revolve around one atmospheric phenomenon or another, most commonly St. Elmo’s Fire.