As part of the Uppsala Short Film Festival.
Mattijn Seip (b. 1940) has since the 1960s been a important actor in Amsterdam's alternative film scene along with Barbara Meter, among others, and this 16mm program looks at Seip's most formally exploratory period from 1969–1972, spanning experimental animation, the use of extended camera- and shutter techniques and flicker effects. At the fore here is an interest in the structural and materialistic aspects of film, evident in After the Colours and Double Shutter, both from 1972; the former a study in colour and grid patterns, the later shot from a swing with a secondary shutter, which led filmmaker Malcolm Le Grice to acknowledge the estab- lishment of a new, time based “cubist” space. In Retour d'enfance (1970), the film is painted and scratched, a procedure that recurs in Rubbish (1972), but where the first is without sound, the chaotically shifting sound here creates a tangible emphasis. Seen as a whole, this is a highly inventive, intense and sensuously challenging program featuring an undeservedly underrepresented experimental filmmaker of the highest caliber.
Curator: Martin Grennberger
Priogram:
- Salad (Netherlands 1972, 5:00)
- Retour d’enfance (Netherlands 1969, 14:00)
- Color Slidings (Netherlands 1972, 14:00)
- Double Shutter (Netherlands 1970, 13:00)
- After The Colours (Netherlands 1972, 5:00)
- Rubbish (Netherlands 1970, 12:00)
- Positive Negative Light Vibration (Netherlands 1971, 9:00)