“I’m really busy during the day, but I can be free at night.” – Katie Price in Midnight Sun (2018)
This late-night screening at Kitisenranta School offers eight avant-garde samples of the explosive potential of the moving image. The selection includes musical miracles, sleights of hand and cinematic alchemy in all its glory – not forgetting classic overhead projectors and foils.
Gustav Deutsch: Tradition ist die Weitergabe des Feuers und nicht die Anbetung der Asche [Tradition is the Handing on of Fire, not the Worship of Ashes] (Austria, 1999, 1 min) 35 mm
The metaphysical trailer of the Austrian Film Museum. We see a raging fire shot on nitrate film from the early days of cinema. The burnt-looking film material is in fact damaged by water.
Music: Christian Fennesz
Maria Kourkouta: Prélude 06 (Greece, 2009, 2 min)
A series of photographs of feet of random passers-by in the New York subway.
Anthony Ing: Jill, Uncredited (UK/Canada 2022, 18 min)
50 years of life outside the depth of field. A tribute to the silent background actors of film and television history. Jill Goldston has played an extra behind the stars in over 2 000 films and television shows.
Inger Lise Hansen: Proximity (Norway 2006, 4 min)
The camera glides along the coastline in North Jutland. Flipping the image upside down turns the sand into flowing lava.
Erkka Nissinen: Vantaa (Finland, 2008, 11 min)
An artwork from the absolute zenith of moving images and contemporary art. Arnold Schönberg and Karlheinz Stockhausen have lost their yoghurt, xylophone and grip on the surrounding reality.
Kultapalmut: The Night of the Living (Finland 2023, 25 min) live
This enchanting piece of expanded cinema by Pauliina Mäkelä and Topias Tiheäsalo brings to life the precinematic magic circle.
Stefano Canapa: Jérôme Noetinger (France, 2018, 12 min) DCP or 35 mm (?)
A profile of a musician with his instrument. With his Revox open reel recorder, Noetinger conjures up a soundscape from the beyond. The elegant cinematic realization lets the miracle happen.
Gill Eatherley: Hand Grenade (UK, 1972, 8 min) 3 x 16 mm triplaprojisointi
This intuitive animation exposed with a flashlight turns out to be the artist’s eerie self portrait.
Musiikki: Neu!
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Total screening time 81 minutes
Curated by Mika Taanila
With thanks to: Jussi Eerola, Tytti Rantanen