Hybridity and the Performative Hand-Made: Montreal Independent Cinema Event

Screening series filmkoop wien III/V hosted by Stefanie Weberhofer.

Hybridity and the Performative Hand-made: Montreal Independent Cinema.

Sonya Stefan presents current Montreal filmmakers and video creators who are exploring hybrid techniques and the hand-made. Each artist defines their own unique process, either by hands-on film/video manipulation or via performance-based techniques such as Hamish Fulton-esque walking trajectories shot along a man-made path leading to a lake. Experimental and animation works make up this program.

Programm:

1. Mandi Morgan/Boreal/animation/digital/color/stereo/2015 11m22

Working with paper cutout animation, Mandi Morgan creates a non-linear allegorical tale depicting the vulnerable tensions between wildlife and human destruction.

2. Alisi Telengut /Nutag-Homeland/animation/digital/color/stereo/2016 6 min

Oil pastel on one piece of paper, under-camera animation, frame by frame, shot on digital. A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.

3. Guillaume Vallée/The Yellow Ghost/16mm to digital/color/stereo/2014 3m30

Cameraless film created with found footage of a nightmarish dream.

4. Phillippe Leonard/[T]/digital/color/stereo/2015 12min

Philippe Leonard shot the footage for this remarkable work at Times Square, in New York City, during the hours of artificial illumination. Partly for this reason, it is an oneiric diary, tempted by myth and, at the same time, suffused by a melancholy sense that myth has lost its magical power.

5. Guillaume Vallée/Le bulbe tragique/16mm to digital/color/2016 6min.

Ephemeral traces of nothingness - Rotoscoping farmers, crumbling churches, dying memories as hand-painted layers, decay & collage on film emulsion as incidental traces of nothingness. A work that is aware of his own mechanisms.

6. Alexandre Larose/brouillard #14/35mm to digital/color/silent/2013 10min

a trajectory that extends from my family’s house into a lake, layered multiple times, in-camera”

7. Sonya Stefan/Echo/16mm/color/stereo/2012 9min

Separated by four sections, this dance film embraces the unpolished aesthetic of contact-printed color film stock and various re-photographic techniques such as reversal color film stock, homemade filters and light manipulations.

8. Vitalyi Bulychev & Sonya Mladenova/Lapses of Attention/Super8 /B&W/silent/2015 3min

This film was made for the One Take Super8 event; it was shot over the course of four hours. The film documents a meditation session. The participant, and co-director of the film, Sonya Mladenova recorded the audio afterwards in a hypnotic state, attempting to replicate the fleeting thoughts and impressions during her meditation.

Q&A with Sonya Stefan.