Claes Söderquists Landskap får äran att avsluta “Landscape(s) Reconsidered” som tillägnas fyra experimentella 16mm-filmer. Programmet ingår i festivalen The Silver Record, anordnad av Tromsø Kunstforening och Polar Film Lab. Visningskvällen inleds kl 20:30 lördagen den 10 maj på Verdensteatre, med ett annat verk från Filmforms katalog, nämligen, Light Years Expanding av Gunvor Nelson. Curaterat av Martin Grennberger och Sarah Schipschack.
Filmprogram:
Verk ur Filmforms distributionskatalog
Landskap
Claes Söderquist
1987, 00:36:00
LIGHT YEARS EXPANDING
Gunvor Nelson
1988, 00:25:00
“Landscape(s) Reconsidered” looks at how the notion of landscape, from a broad variety of cinematic perspectives, has been renegotiated, altered and processed by experimental filmmakers. In Gunvor Nelson’s Light Years Expanding, a road movie of sorts, a primarily horizontal movement, live-action animation and meticulous sonic experimentation create a playful, intense and multilayered rendering of the Swedish rural landscape. In Jun’ichi Okuyamas multi-image film Movie Watching, shot on 35mm and projected on 16mm, we see a horizon and a seascape undergoing transformations via the use of vertical shifts and an intricate collage method. In Impromptu Rose Lowder rewound the reel several times in the camera while filming, creating a distinctive temporal fluidity in relation to the locations she visited. In the last film, Landskap, Claes Söderquist examines the flows and densities of water and vegetation in the southern Swedish countryside, stressing duration, variation in light and seasonal shifts, and ultimately the primordial act of looking: “I didn’t want to create any natural poetry; rather I attempted to undress nature, to examine it.”