KINETIKA! - Super 8 and 16mm Film Salon

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Upstairs at the Adelphi
16 November • 8pm til late

Experimental avant-garde film in the throes of pulsing colours and fresh ideas, this event will be in a relaxed atmosphere where you can experience a collection of beautiful and unique films all revelling in the tangibility of film in some way, and bringing an amazing touchable quality to this chilled, informal séance. Live Super 8 performances, mesmerising shorts, a screening of the feature film shot on Super 8 'The Last Days Of Kodachrome' (see page 14) with director's Q&A, and some stunning experiments by Kerry Laitala on 16mm. Plus music and a bar!

Crazy Woman
Dir. Kyunghwa Lee, 2007, USA, 4 mins, DVD
"For me, the power that emerges from the unconscious of the crazy woman symbolizes the artistic and spiritual aspects of a person. Perhaps a crazy person is simply a person who cannot think in a logical way. If I were crazy I might be able to see, smell, touch, hear and taste without analyzing my sensations. That is why I want to be like a crazy woman in this video." – Kyunghwa Lee.

Hold Me, Don't Let Go
Dir. Karina Mariano, 2006, Canada, 6 mins
"Originally a Super 8 film shot on location on Statbroke Island, Australia. It's a film about life, death and the love of my life who flew away... It's a fishman's tale but mostly it's a tale about a fisherman..." – Karina Mariano.

The Way We Live
Wie Wir Leben
Dir. Nikolaus Jantsch, 2006, Austria, 8 mins, DV Cam
Inked colours mix with imagery of bullfighting and Nicolas Roeg's 'Don't Look Now'. "Sexuality provides us with energy, it´s a sign of vitality. Bullfighting is a metaphor for life and death, the arena is a scene for risks and danger, courage and commitment of violence, all aspects that can be found in existence. Life is full of barriers that everybody needs to get over." – Nikolaus Jantsch.

Bled
Dir. Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 2007, Austria, 3 mins, Beta SP
We see a head gradually changing as it seems to dissolve into grain, digitises, becoming a drawing and then an oil painting while a refrain from an Attwenger song is repeated, mantra-like. Soluble identity. The filmmaker's own gaze into the lens is visually deconstructed and taken apart, and a wonderful decomposition begins...

La Petite Illusion
Dir. Michaela Schwentner, 2006, Austria, 4 mins, Beta SP
"Michaela Schwenter's chromatically ascetic electronic manipulation of found sounds and images is a study of emotional images from the history of cinema which is carefully kept in the air." – sixpackfilm, Austria.

Energy!
Energie!
Dir. Thorsten Fleisch, 2007, Germany, 5 mins, Beta SP
"An uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approximately 30,000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organisation." – Thorsten Fleisch. Come and see for yourself!

Imprint
Dir. Cecilia Araneda, 2007, Canada, 6 mins, Digi Beta
A magnificent, haunting and utterly gorgeous crafted film, with many parts processed, coloured and printed by hand. "The transient connection of two, leaves a lingering memory on one" – Cecilia Araneda.

Adraga
Dir. Martha Jurksaitis, 2007, UK, 3 mins, Super 8
A dramatic secluded beach becomes a pulsing volcanic planet. Rocks ooze magma and the sea glows red as you explore the rocks and foam of Adraga, where the sun was shining both on the day and in the developing tank (the film is hand-processed and solarised).

Phantom Canyon
Dir Stacey Steers, 2006, USA, 10 mins, Beta SP
An exquisite film. "A curious woman encounters enormous insects and an alluring man with bat wings in a surreal recollection of a pivotal journey. Created from over 4000 handmade collages incorporating the figures from Eadweard Muybridge's Human Motion Studies of 1887." – Stacey Steers. With a soundtrack by sound artist Bruce Odland, "sonic observer of the visual culture".

The General Returns from One Place to Another
Dir. Michael Robinson, 2006, USA, 11 mins, 16mm
"Learning to love again, with fear at its side, the film draws balance between the romantic and the horrid, shaping a concurrently sceptical and indulgent experience of the beautiful." – Michael Robinson.

End Note
Antaral
Dir. Ashish Avikunthak, 2005, India, 18 mins, 16mm
A cinematic interpretation of Samuel Beckett's "Come and Go" (1967). "The play haunts me because of its intricate formal structure, cyclical in nature. Within this formalization, Beckett produces a profound sense of trauma. It is this sense of melancholic trauma that I wanted to bring out in the film. This is a very personal film for me, incredibly personal."– Ashish Avikunthak, from Cinema Prayoga: Indian Experimental Films 1913-2006 eds., Brad Butler & Karen Mirza.

Out of the Ether
Dir. Kerry Laitala, 2003, USA, 11 mins, 16mm
"What unseen forces would unscrupulous beings want to use to infiltrate our bodies and perhaps our consciousness? Who is the enemy? 'Out of the Ether' unleashes upon an unsuspecting audience septic musings about fear in the guise of microbial menace and mayhem." – Kerry Laitala.

Orbit
Dir. Kerry Laitala, 2006, USA, 9 mins, 16mm
"Candy apple light emissions create a series of photic stimulating events that tickle the retinas...Kodachrome color fields create tremulous vibrations whose flickerings hypnotize. The soundtrack is comprised of the flutterings of optical noise...We enter through the oval window, while the Gravitron spins eternally." – Kerry Laitala.

Out of the Ether
Dir. Kerry Laitala, 2003, USA, 11 mins, 16mm
"What unseen forces would unscrupulous beings want to use to infiltrate our bodies and perhaps our consciousness? Who is the enemy? 'Out of the Ether' unleashes upon an unsuspecting audience septic musings about fear in the guise of microbial menace and mayhem." – Kerry Laitala.

The evening will include a screening of the 60 minute film shot on Kodachrome: Kodachrome Super 8 Movie Film plus a Q&A with Director David Sawatzki and members of the crew.

The event will also feature Live Super 8 film performances and screenings by
Joanna Byrne, Mark Pickles, Martha Jurksaitis and Chris Hall.

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