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1 2 contents 3 Starting From Scratch Introduction Introduction ...................................3,4 The (Lab) Collectives ......................5 Lafoxe ................................................6 Starting from Scratch has been the place where lovers Metamkine ........................................7 and makers of ‘old-fashioned celluloid’ have been able to The Wooden Lightbox ................... 8 meet for several years now. The umbrella festival theme Fellini G. Mastorna ......................... 9 Free Radicals, with its focus on independent lab collec- De Un Vastisimo Mar ....................10 tives, may be applicable more than ever in this edition. Le Point Aveugle ............................ 11 Super 8 Game Arcade ...................12 In many places in the world, people work with film as if Okuyama Jun’ichi - film 16mm is Regular8 Japanese 8mm kicks ass ....13,14,15 there has never been a digital revolution. Countless dedi- Destra O Sinistra ...........................16 cated film makers consciously choose the ‘old-fashioned’ Paradiso Stills - Stil Levens .........17 medium, just because film turns out to be the best way to Ways To Walk.............................18,19 express their ideas. In this case, focus, grain, contrast or Let’s Make A Film .................... 20,21 colour are not only technical building blocks of the final From Niagara To Japan ....... 22,23 image, but also elements with which you can manipulate The Filmfarm Touch ..............24,25 an experiment to your heart’s content – important is- of colours can reflect just as many moods. And that is Sfs Artists In Residence ............. 26 sues if you want to construct a world entirely of your one of the beautiful things about working with film ma- Cucinema Di Genzano ................. 27 own with your films that do not have to obey the normal terial: If you are not afraid of getting your hands dirty Sfs Portraits Project ....................28 laws of film and in which the imagination plays a promi- with chemicals, there is so much more in the image than Sfs Workshop by Metamkine .....28 nent part. can be seen at first sight. According to this philosophy, Scratching From Start Party ....29 Maybe comparisons with a cloudy sky could be applica- the film lab is the place where film is really created. Af- Schedule .......................................... 30 ble, in which many figures are recognisable for those ter many preparations, film acquires its final form in the Colophon & Adresses ....................31 who want to see them and of which the infinite number dark, under the hands of the film maker himself. Le point aveugle - Burstscratch 4 5 The lab collectives Many unique film makers like this have united in col- For this edition three special projects were initiated of The (lab) collectives lectives who share cameras, optical printers and their which the results can be seen during the festival: the include: own developing equipment – and the knowledge needed Starting from Scratch artist in residence programme, to use them. a 16mm live performance workshop (by the influential Atelier MTK – Grenoble France In Rotterdam, the WORM.filmwerkplaats is a case in Metamkine) and a collective film project entitled Por- Ad Libitum – Cras France point. After two years of successful cooperation on the traits Project that will put in an appearance at unexpect- LABO – Brussels Belgium Starting from Scratch workshop, this year we joined ed places. On top of that Starting from Scratch presents Sector 16 – Hannover Germany forces and made a programme in which several of these many screenings, live performances, lab activities and No.w.here – London UK collectives and free radicals will present their work to a Super 8 event (Super-8 Wednesday) plus the installa- L’Abominable – Paris France audiences. WORM will be the meeting and screening tions of Mobileskino and the Cucinema happening. Don’t Burstscratch – Strasbourg France venue for Starting from Scratch (alongside Lantaren/ forget to join the SFS dinners (Tuesday 29nd Jan. till Atelier Libusin – Libusin Czech Republic Venster) and will therefore also be a fully-fledged fes- Friday 1st Feb. at 18.00 5 euro) and meet Starting from Niagara Customs Lab – Toronto Canada tival venue for the first time. WORM will also serve suit- Scratch filmmakers in the creative habitat of WORM. Filmfarm – Mount Forest Canada able daily dinners and afterparties. Enjoy the festival, Space Cell – Seoul South Korea Erwin van ‘t Hart LIC / MVD – Montevideo Uruguay Cucinema di Genzano – Rome Italy Mobileskino – Basel Switzerland Cellule d’Intervention 6 Lafoxe 7 Etienne Caire & Gaëlle Rouard Metamkine The do-it-yourself film lab Atelier MTK The influential collective Metam- in Grenoble, France is the cradle of the kine was founded in 1987 and performance group Metamkine, but also come from Grenoble, France. for instance of Lafoxe. Etienne Caire and Using mirrors, music and several Gaëlle Rouard are the driving forces be- projectors, they manage to put hind the lab and have developed a 16mm together a unique live perform- performance with its very own signa- ance each time, in which the ture. The basic material for Lafoxe came sound enters into a confrontation from old Hollywood films. After extensive with the image, without being processing in the lab, these bits and pieces subservient to it. Manipulating are put on the silver screen again using the Revox tape recorders and several film projectors at once. The result analogue synthesisers is Jerome is a dynamic form of widescreen, which Noetinger, who manages to improvise an exciting electroacous- they have dubbed hyperscope. The sound tic sound landscape. Christophe Auger and Xavier Querel are is a live mix of the original optical sound- responsible for the image and manipulate the 16mm projectors tracks. using filters and visual tricks. This leads to a stimulating form of live improvised cinema. The presenters are not hidden, but take a prominent place in the project, like musical instruments, and the SFS LIVE PROJECTIONS film collective is the band. Lafoxe & Metamkine Saturday 26th January 21.45 Lantaren/Venster 8 The Wooden Lightbox- 9 Fellini G. Mastorna A secret art of seeing, Alex MacKenzie Olivier Dutel Alex MacKenzie perfected the art of film projection. Exuberant double-screen 16mm film, in which very var- At the core of this approach is the use of a homebuilt ied elements of the Fellini-esque universe are forged hand-cranked projector in an expanded cinema format into a whirling and variegated whole. A virtual copro- to present a striking array of handmade and processed duction between the Gran Lux Collective (St. Etienne) emulsion. Presented here is the first of an extended and Cinecitta made with countless processed and re-ed- cycle of films that use the early development of cinema ited film scenes, some well-known others less so, juxta- as a marker for cultural, technological and economic posed with shots made by the makers in their own studio. change. Hypnosis, panorama, motion studies, expecta- St. Etienne, Rome and America are rolled into one while tion, magic, the dream world and sleight of eye conspire Fellini, Mastroianni, Welles and Rossellini look on. in this intimate and immersive framework. Film speed is varied manually by cranking more quickly or more Fellini G. Mastorna, Olivier Dutel, 2007, 33 min slowly, while direction of the action is controlled by winding forward and backward. Colour gels are used to tone the black and white images while lens and hand interference are used to distort or partially obscure the image. MacKenzie is throwing us back to a time when audience expectation was open. We recommend seating yourself where you can keep an eye on both screen and SFS LIVE PROJECTIONS projector. Wooden Lightbox & Fellini G Mastorna Sunday 27th January 16.30 L/V & Tuesday 29th January 20.00 WORM 10 De un Vastisimo Mar 11 Le Point Aveugle Stefano Canapa, Yoana Urrozola, Josefina Rodriguez, Julien Tarride Collectif Burstscratch De un Vastisimo Mar is the result of a first working finding a structure, possibly even the contingency of visit during two months, which took place in Montevideo a failure. The purpose is also to show what is missing, With Le Point Aveugle we propose a session (Uruguay) and in the area of Rio de la Plata. During a hole, a loss of live cinema, visual and sound perform- this period the film and sound mate- ance using several projectors 16mm. The rial was recorded, and at the same original images are manipulated and mod- time a small 16mm laboratory was ified by various means: variations of focal, established. LIC/MVD (Laboratorio superimposing, rehearsals of sequences, de Investigacion Cinematografica/ partial maskings, additions of colored fil- Montevideo) is the first lab of its ters or transparent objects... Conceived as kind in the region. a dialogue between several film-makers, What is shown here is a film in this performance considers the film im- the making, in the real time of a age as material and light, as a spouting out performance, about exile as a re- visual stream of the darkness, destroyed lationship. This exile is a way to and reconstructed permanently. By aban- fill space, a way to lie or to search doning the story to redefine us on the nature of the film a truth. The performance has the medium, we try to create something of the order of a construction of a story as well contemplative journey, leaving to every spectator the as its doubts and the difficulty of care of leading its own investigation. (Burstscratch) SFS LIVE PROJECTIONS De un Vastisimo Mar & Le Point Aveugle Thursday 31st January 20.00 WORM 12 Super 8 Game Arcade 13 Japanese 8mm kicks ass beautiful Mobileskino collective Curated by Ken Okubo Playful interactive Super 8 machines made with 8mm- 8mm is very important for film culture in Japan. Along The Shepherd Boy’s Coronation filmloops, slide projectors, cardboard and custom-build with Super 8 from Kodak, Japanese original format Sin- (Bokudou no Taikansiki), 2003, 3 min.
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