This program focuses on the cinema dispositive and the interpretive process of images.
The films apply different perspectives on how we see images, and what we see in them: The screen
– invisible when projected onto – is staged as a sculpture in the midst of vast landscapes; in
an experimental approach, the standard projection system DCP is intended for subversive
filmmaking without success; technical and operative visualizations show the geometric
fluctuation of Mount Vesuvius while sensor images and images from cultural history give it a
voice; online communities, conspirations, and amateur detectives question the validity of images
and interpret reality at will.
Schmid focuses upon the filmic dispositive as an interrelationship between the filmic work, its production and reception within the context of media history, and she frames this in new terms. The film not only constitutes the recording of a landscape but also a documentation of artistic intervention. In midst of trees and bushes the camera reveals a CinemaScopic movie screen the filmmaker placed in a poetically sparse Lithuanian costal landscape for nature to casts its play of light and shadow upon over the course of a day. (Bettina Brunner)… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
- Director: Viktoria Schmid
The film explores the creative possibilities of the Digital Cinema Package (DCP) – the new global infrastructure for film projection in cinemas. By 2015, this digital standard had completely replaced analogue film projection around the world. Could one upset the default behavior of the DCP system and unearth its artistic potential? Or is the system designed to exclude any possibility of human intervention? If so, what happens to the history and the future of experimental cinema and the renegades who refuse to play by the rules?… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
“Insolite“, sounds like a name of a stone but it isn’t, it means odd, unusual. A series of images, from today and 1944’s last eruption from Mount Vesuvius mingle together, following no specific narrative. It becomes an enumeration of places in high tension, under surveillance and covered in lava. Is the mountain living or is it fear that creates the illusion of underground tremors?… >>>
After watching the film "Watching the Detectives" by Chris Kennedy, a young researcher traces the manhunt conducted on the reddit.com forum after the 2013 terrorist attacks in Boston. Examining archival media from the newspapers at the time as well as fictional reinterpretations of the events, she compares how FBI agents, journalists and Internet users analyzed a mass of amateur footage that led to the identification of the terrorists. As she becomes fascinated by the spectacle of their different forms of expertise and authority, she herself gradually loses sight of the gap between what the images actually show and what she wants to see in them.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Chloé Galibert-Laîné
