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Free Radicals

Monday 10th \| 4.30pm \| Kino Cinema

The Free Radicals programme, is intended as a space in which films of creative and innovative challenge can be explored thoroughly and without boundary. This is not to corral such films, more an opportunity to allow them breathe outside of the usual parametres. Importantly, it allows an adventurous audience enjoy films that strive to create their own reference points - often using sound, image and narrative in surprising and radical ways.
Restored Weekend Ger Gockell, Kirsten Winter Switzerland \| 2004 \| 5mins \| 35mm \| Colour A fake discovery based on Walter Ruttmann's audio play Weekend from 1930 - the first ever abstract sound collage. Conceived originally as a sound collage with simultaneous projection of black film, in its Ôrestored' version the film documents the traces of time. The question whether Walter Ruttmann ever thought about adding images to his sound collage remains open.
Fall Studien 2 / Fall Studies 2 Gabriel Pielke Germany \| 2004 \| 4mins \| Beta \| Colour Jacques Offenbach's Can-Can played by regular objects falling to the ground, and the noise they make.
Legal Errorist Chris Haring, Mara Mattuschka Austria \| 2005 \| 16mins \| Beta \| Black & White A performance of transformation, a transformance, changes its medium and encounters a camera, which plays dance music - under the secret eye of a room that bends and twists along with it.
Rush Claude Luyet, Xavier Robel Switzerland \| 2004\| 3mins \| 35mm \| Colour Sudden movement of a crowd in the same direction. The final effort of a runner. Print of a film before editing.
The Lovers / Die Liebenden Johannes Hammel Austria \| 2004 \| 7mins \| Beta \| Colour An old super-8 porn film is transformed into both a tragic love story and a horror movie, and finally into a memory, that is being destroyed in the inner world.
_grau Robert Seidel Germany \| 2004 \| 10mins \| dvd \| Colour and Black and White _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally.
Mirror Mechanics Siegfried A Fruhauf Austria \| 2005 \| 8mins \| 35mm \| Black & White A report on cinema and the processes with-in it that attempts to transfer what we do in the cinema, and what also can be relevant outside of film into a visually stimulating and captivating event.
Bitcrusher Harald Holba Austria \| 2004 \| 12mins \| Beta \| Colour In a fragmented apartment, spaces seem to lead a life of their own.
Optical Sound / Optinen Aani Mika Taanila Finland \| 2005 \| 6mins \| 35mm \| Colour and Black & White Obsolete office technology transforms into musical instruments of the future.The film is based on The Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers composed by [The User].
Textism Isamu Hirabayashi Japan \| 2003 \| 11mins \| DVD \| Colour \| Subtitled The great writer Motojiro Kajii once wrote that underneath the cherry trees, bodies are buried. Grand Prix - Image Forum Festival, 2004
Instructions For A Light And Sound Machine Peter Tscherkassky Austria \| 2005 \| 17mins \| 35mm \| Black & White Walking down the street, our hero realises he is at the mercy of the filmmaker! An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.

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