Joseph Plateau, who invented the phenakistoscope, the first device capable of producing the illusion of a moving image from a sequence of still images, provided a definition of the persistence of vision in 1829. In his research into visual physiology, he described the effects of light stimuli and colors on the retina, determining their duration to equal one tenth of a second. Yet this value is not constant: it increases as the eye adapts to darkness, hence the sensation of movement which is characteristic of a film projection. Plateau thought that the eye sees at a rate of ten images per second and that, when they are superimposed, the brain links them into a single, continuous, moving image.

Bloomsday Film Festival 2023 will feature XENOBLAST, an experimental short by Irish filmmaker Arran Tenzin Bradstock made in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain of Experimental Film Society and Close Watch Fil

Edge of Presence
Audio visual performance with dancers 

Silent images on the screen
A Dancer pauses
sounds and notes linger on the edge of presence

Super 8 film: 
Chris H.Lynn (US)

Field recordings, sounds, objects, music: 
Chris H.Lynn (US) & Hiroko Komiya (JP)

Guest dancer; Atsushi Takenouchi ( JP) Ola Capiga-Łochowicz (PL) Guest musician; Krzysiek Łochowicz (PL)

For the first time in Italy, a retrospective dedicated entirely to the cinema of Kenji Onishi, one of the most prolific and established authors of the Japanese underground scene.
The screenings of each evening will be held in Parma at the venue @borgosantabrigida5a from 19:00 to 21:30, 100 meters from Piazza Garibaldi.