Screening: aCinema presents Distant Messaging *IN PERSON*
aCinema presents Distant Messaging featuring film and video works by Michelle Elrick, Kathy Hinde, Aoife Desmond, James Edmonds, Anouk Chambaz, Javier de Azkue, and Shogo Nakamura.
The ____ Place [Michelle Elrick]
Created in partnership with CBC on the theme of "Happy Place." Featuring dancer Emily Solstice Tait, cinematographer Tyler Funk and poet Michelle Elrick, with music by Michael Belyea.
Searching for Melilot [Kathy Hinde]
Whilst resident on a narrow boat along the UK canals of Wigan and Leigh, Kathy searched for the wild clover Melilot, guided by a survey of the same plant made by her grandmother, Beatrice Hinde (a hobby botanist) over 50 years ago in the same area. Using the boat as a darkroom and camera-less filmmaking techniques, she has created phytograms (a technique invented by Karel Doing) by applying plants directly to film, leaving traces of plant structures, smudges and colours. This is combined with photograms created by placing pressed flowers and leaves directly onto film, including delicate leaf skeletons from Bea’s collection of ephemera, collected in Wigan during the 1960’s. The film reveals the intricacies captured from encounters between plants, flowers and photochemical film. Commissioned for Light Night Wigan & Leigh 2022.
A Boated Roof [Aoife Desmond]
This 16mm artists film sensitively portrays the making, design and context of a wooden pavilion for the community space TEST SITE on formerly disused city centre site in Cork, Ireland. The distinctive Belfast Truss roof was made collaboratively with local boatbuilders Meitheal Mara. This traditional building technique references the roof of the now collapsed R.H. Parker & Sons sawmill located on the adjacent Kyrl’s Street. Spoken context within the film are given by industrial archaeologist Colin Rynne and the Meitheal Mara workshop team. Current and historical connections of craftsmanship, timber trading and river navigation connect the sites of Meitheal Mara on Crosses Green and TEST SITE on Kyrl’s Quay. Both the pavillion and film were produced for the collaborative art and architecture project TEST SITE. TEST SITE was co-created by artist Aoife Desmond and architect Ailbhe Cunningham in 2019 in response to the potential of the then derelict site.
Configurations [James Edmonds]
The little personal myths and structures we set up to aid the survival of the psyche in times of low harvest.
Finding subtle points of reference in subject and camera movement, in the landscape, its details and the traditions of the season, I attempt to connect the outside with the embodied camera and the inward gesture of the brushmark.
Marica [Anouk Chambaz]
Marica – water nymph and master of the animals – is the portrait of Donatella di Cola, a beekeeper who became a butterfly breeder after one of them attacked the habitat of her bees. Instead of fighting the parasite, Donatella made it the engine of a new experience, transforming a failure into an opportunity. A strong bond unites the woman to her insects. These are carefully cared for and protected to safeguard their extinction, yet like every demiurge Donatella decides their life cycle: the eggs hatch, the caterpillars lose their skin and the chrysalis transform only when she decides to let them grow in her laboratory, like a modern Frankenstein.
Paisajes Repentinos (Sudden Landscapes) [Javier de Azuke]
In the middle of a frozen landscape, nature is disturbed by strange inorganic forces that cover everything. Combining video with generative art and concrete music, Sudden Landscapes is a sci-fi experimental film that meditates on creation and the encounter between natural and artificial life.
Comet [Shogo Nakamura]
Somewhere beyond time and space was a comet circling the far corners of the universe. Its path was always one of reflection.
Full program details will be available on aCinema’s website.
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