Welcome to the book release & film screening for Claes Söderquist and the new monograph "Claes Söderquist. The film and the passage of time" at Zita Folkets Bio, Monday 7 November at 5-8pm

Mingle and book sale in Zita's foyer from 17. The book is available for sale at a favorable price throughout the evening. At 6 pm the doors to Salon 1 open for a film program and artist talk with Claes Söderquist.

This one-hour program presents fifteen experimental shorts that focus on recontextualizing found or archival footage via algorithmic intervention. The work presented in the Retracted Cinema program use the appropriated film material itself as the site and means of auto-recontextualisation. Inspired by tendencies within conceptual art and Oulipo, the results are achieved by applying a set of rules or constraints (an algorithm) that governs a repeatable (iterative) array of transformations.

Jodie Mack's films are some of the most fascinating experiments in animation today. Bringing together abstract colors and found objects, patterns of movement and a sense of time and loss, Mack's films burst with ideas and delights as they make us see the familiar world anew. This program of films features works from across her career. In Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2013), rapid-fire florals and morning bird songs bridge interior and exterior, design and nature.