Festival Day 2 — Back at the cinema!

For the second day of the Festival, we move to the Kinoteka Cinema, with two program blocks from International Competition, a program specially curated for the Festival by film curator and Grand Jury member Stoffel Debuysere, and the first Expanded Cinema program performed by artist Enrique del Castillo.
 

Our Grand Jury member Stoffel Debuysere will open our Wednesday program with a kind of experimental-film “mixtape,” featuring the works of great filmmakers who are united by a great interest in soundscapes: Gunvor Nelson, Werner Nekes, Akiko Iimura, Rei Hayama, Frans Zwartjes, Jeff Keen, Derek Jarman & Stan Brakhage. As he himself states in his program text, “This program only gives a modest taste of some of the adventurous sonic approaches that can be found in the experimental terrain of cinema. Its composition is not unlike that of a mixtape, in that it is based on an intuitive, handpicked selection of films whose soundtrack excite me for one reason or another.” His selection is scheduled at 4 p.m at the Kinoteka Cinema.

The first competition program, entitled “Islands,” is scheduled for 6 p.m. and brings together four films tackling the concept of identity by questioning it in relation to temporal constructs – those of a distant past and future that can never be. The famous British filmmaker John Smith (Being John Smith), and filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist Sarah Lasley (Climate Control) will join us at the screening. The program also showcases Rumble by director Caroline Monnet, and Their Eyes by artist Nicolas Gourault.

The second program of films in International Competition, which will commence at 8 p.m., is tied together by the title “Surfaces,” and brings us four films which explore, distort and construct various textures, examining personal and broader political implications. Three authors will join us at the screening: experimental filmmaker Zachary Epcar (Sinking Feeling), analog filmmaker Eric Stewart (Hemispheres), and British filmmaker Rhea Storr (Okay Keskidee! Let Me See Inside). The same program will showcase The Orchards, by Antoine Chapon.

We will end the day at 10:30 p.m. with Umbrafóno, a performance by visual artist Enrique del Castillo, based on the optical-analog system used in cinemas to play film soundtracks. Using optical readers, he will transform the patterns on film into sound for the Zagreb audience.