VIDEOAKTION #6

5 December // 9:30 pm

Projection II

Ana Edwards, La Partida de las Imágenes [The Departing Images], 16 mm/digitised, 2022, 11 mins.

Between ethnography and reverie, “La Partida de las Imágenes” immerses itself in-between the spaces of dreams; the light and dark, the visible and the invisible, matter, spirits and images. An ecological reflection alongside a Mapuche family in the south of Chile that observes the human and nonhuman social maps that arise through dreaming.

Chloe & Emily Charlton, Stair Hole, 16mm/digitised, 2025, 6 mins.

“Stair Hole” bears witness to a landslide where, in the fall of the earth, it becomes unclear whether it’s the land that’s descending or the viewer. Shot on location at Stair Hole, Lulworth, a site of natural coastal erosion which has exposed folded limestone strata.

Lilia Li-Mi-Yan & Katherina Sadovsky, When the Hawk Comes, HD Video, 2023, 6 mins.

“When the Hawk Comes” by Lilia Li-Mi-Yan (Yerevan) and Katherina Sadovsky (Moscow) is a sad, poetic metaphor for what is happening in the world today. The plot and melody of an Armenian lullaby are taken as a starting point, where a mother tries to calm her son by offering to make a symbolic choice of a destiny bird. The boy does not choose peaceful birds, nightingale, or magpie. His predictable choice is a warlike hawk.

Jean-Yves Roy, Wrecks of the Day, 8 mm/digitised, 2025, 9 mins.

Mysterious blue lights have spread across the city, depriving the living of sleep. They wander through the nightlessness like spectres. But some plants, the last sustenance of the wild and the dream, are developing curious abilities.

Mélissa Faivre, Sandia, HD Video, 2025, 8 mins.

“Sandia” is an exploration of the multiple facets of the Sandia mountain range located in New Mexico. It reveals the mountain’s cold and hostile peaks and slopes in contrast to the warm and arid desert at its base. Aesthetically, the digital image is altered and mystified by techniques reappropriated from the tradition of experimental films, such as frame by frame printing, painting, collage and scratching.

Laure Giappiconi, La sortie se trouve à l’intérieur [The Exit Is Located Inside], Lomokino 35mm/digitised, 2024, 15 mins.

On the small stage of a theater, a woman begins a strange dance while her memories, feelings and thoughts are revealed. What lies beneath the surface of things? “La sortie se trouve à l’intérieur” poetically explores the complexities of a changing, elusive world.

Ani Schulze, Cinema House Oliveira, 16 mm/digitised, 2014, 5 mins.

For a brief endless while, someone is moving backwards around a mysterious building. Two large windows looking like television screens, or film camera lenses, reflect the sky and the neighbouring constructions. A strange feeling of time emerges, both travelling back and forth. This short piece was filmed in Porto in a building conceived to become the archive of film director Manoel de Oliveira (1908-2015). Despite its construction was completed in 2003, the building remained empty and never welcomed its planned function. It has since become an expectant ruin.

Cos Ahmet, A Light Pinkish Brown, HD Video, 2023, 7 mins.

In his ongoing studies of body and material, with skin playing the lead role in particular, this performance video sees Ahmet exposing his own body surface, placing it within the familiar backdrop of non-human materials that appear in his practice, featured here as peripheral membranes, posing as integuments. Captured within a set of mirrors, both the human and the non-human facades manifest the choreographic space; they are reflected back as a blend of veneers in this juncture.

Bernd Lützeler, Vintage Wisdom from the Ether, 16mm, 2025, 8 mins.

It’s the year 2023. Unnoticed by the rest of the world, a small group of artists, enthusiasts and academics celebrate a 100 years of 16mm film. Meanwhile, the TV tube, the eponym for YouTube, but now incapable to receive even a single frame of moving image, has become a mere fetish for retro fans. Gone are the days when one could be lulled to sleep at night by the soothing white noise. But the echoes of neoliberal wisdom from the 80s and 90s will continue to reverberate in the ether forever…