Designed in collaboration with Crater-Lab, this session presents three recent works by members of the collective, and one by Mexican Elena Pardo, one of the artistes participating in SCREEN, the international residency programme of the Spectral project. These four performances with multiple 16mm projectors, slides and other image-making artifacts and handcrafted effects demonstrate the type of work this independent collective produces in our city.

Dirk de Bruyn’s cinema has always revolved around trauma and abstraction. Much of his work can be seen as a form of cinematic investigation into the effects of trauma based on his own personal experience. This session presents three films from different periods by the Dutch-born Australian filmmaker that form part of his search for an experimental, reflective audiovisual language to bring together ideas related to the construction of the self, the body and memory.

Based on an imaginary philosophical conversation by Diderot, Michael Snow made this treatise on different ways of looking and listening in the cinema, adopting a tone of satire similar to that of the French encyclopaedist. This extensive work comprehensively addresses many of the perceptual problems raised by sound film.

George Kuchar materialized camp sensibility like no other filmmaker, with equal measures of precision and excess. Made on the fringes of both independent and avant-garde cinema, his hundreds of films and videos, of which this session features a selection, represent an essential chapter in the history of gay cinema and the beginnings of queer cinema.