Skin, inscribed - contemporary Brazilian hand-processed films
Curated by Tetsuya Maruyama
Just as a painter applies raw paint on a canvas, a filmmaker applies light (and other matters) on film strip. This hand-picked program features works produced at artist-run film labs (film laboratories by artists, for artists) scattered throughout the country, born from the vast and diverse geopolitical territories of Brazil. The relationship of physical sensations with plants and nature/ culture (humans), film-skin profaned as a tangible material, event that comes into being as ephemeral situation when it passes through a projector. This group of works, far from commercial “movies", emerge from the personal interests of each artist without expecting anything in return. Should it be called more appropriately as“photographs in action”?
Program:
- Typefilm an Armory Show – João Reynaldo | 4’ | color | 16mm double-projection | 2022
- Out of Blue – Moira Lacowicz | 5’ | color/b&w | 16mm single-projection | 2023
- untitled(three moons)- Tetsuya Maruyama | 10’ | b&w | 16mm double-projection | 2024
- Corpse of Water/Confined Flux – Helder Martinovsky | 14’ | b&w | 16mm single-projection | 2020
- Walden Street – Duo Strangloscope | 3’ | b&w | 16mm double-projection | 2019
- consider – Ж | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2024
- I will remember Lucy – Maria Mion | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2022
- Bleach Farm- Līgia M. Teixeira & Francisco B. Gusso | 3’ | b&w | 16mm | 2024
Dates and Venues:
Japan
April 4 – Image Forum – Tokyo
USA
April 16th – Colgate University Hamilton, New York
April 24th – Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
May 17th - Filmmaker’s Cooperative, New York
May 24th – Chicago Film Society, Chicago, Illinois
May 30th – Mirror Lab, Minneapolis
June 12th – Shapeshifters, Oakland, California
June 14th – Whammy Analog Media, Los Angeles, California
Canada
June 5th – Xinema and EPFC North, Vancouver