Das Suchende Bild/The Searching Image
Co-Presented with Experimental Film Festival Portland
2522 SE Clinton St.
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About This Screening
The camera is furtively searching: mechanically, lyrically, inside and outside. What is it searching for? This program of short films from Germany, spanning the years 1974 to 2012, brings together a mix of work by artists who experiment and who search for new and personal ways to create moving-images. In Heinz Emigholz’s Arrowplane, the camera scans the horizon using a single-frame shooting technique, showing us rooftops and rocky beaches devoid of humans; time at times seems ambiguous. But briefly we are grounded by the image of the rising sun. The camera also searches for that missing thing in a familiar place, looking for an imprint of the past. This is the case in Deborah Phillip’s Herman(n), a sweet and kaleidoscopic portrait of a now trendy neighborhood in Berlin. Similarly, Ute Aurand’s Neubrandenburg describes a September day in the small German city of the same name. Perhaps wandering more than searching, the camera captures the graphic and poetic qualities of the environment. With work presented entirely on 16mm film, Cinema Project is excited to bring this curated program to the third annual Experimental Film Festival Portland. For more information about the festival, please visit effportland.com.
Program Details
June 1st
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Ritournelle
Germany, 2012, 16mm, b&w, sound, 3.5 min.
by Christopher Becks and Peter Miller -
Herman(n)
Germany, 2011, 16mm, color, silent, 8 min.
by Deborah Phillips -
Arrowplane
Germany, 1974, 16mm, color, silent, 23 min.
by Heinz Emigholz -
Neubrandenburg
Germany, 1995, 16mm, color, silent, 5 min.
by Ute Aurand -
Noor
Germany, 2003, 16mm, color, silent, 6 min.
by Deborah Phillips -
Fokus
Germany, 1987, 16mm, b&w, sound, 3 min.
by Lutz Mommartz