To an observer, a flash of light in the dark would draw a kind of constantly moving arabesque that catches their eye. It does not take much more to realise what cinema is: perhaps just a projector running in a dark hall or the projection of the two films that make up this session: Lights, by António Palolo, ★, by Johann Lurf,, where abstract images and research into light are followed by figurations of the sun, constellations, stars and galaxies.

Thursday February 15th, 19:30h
Masterclass with Helga Fanderl

German filmmaker Helga Fanderl films her films in Super8, camera in hand, with no postproduction. She also carefully constructs her own programmes of screenings for each occasion and presents them in person. In this performative talk, she will explain in detail her filmic practice and illustrate it with a series of pieces that she will screen herself in Super8.

Sunday February 18th, 19:30h
Helga Fanderl. Films 2000-2016

Michele Fleming’s films bring together most of the artistic disciplines with which she worked and combine the rhythmic observation of the world around her with references to other films and, most of all, a multitude of books; they feature work with the text on screen, portrayals of bodies and the alternating superimposition of colour and black and white.

Eight recent films, partially filmed in woodland, make up a session marked by Vertigo Rush. The progressive acceleration of the work by Austrian filmmaker Johann Lurf sets the pace for a series of films in which research into the technical options of the camera interacts with a profilmic forest setting.