Friday at the 25 FPS Festival

Day four of the 21st 25 FPS Festival starts with Grand Jury member and filmologist Erika Balsom’s program, The Machine That Kills Bad People, continues with a program block from the Int'l Competition, and ends with an audiovisual performance (Expanded Cinema) by the Cellule d'intervention Metamkine collective, at Histrionski dom, Ilica 90.
 

At 4 p.m., filmologist Erika Balsom will present a program that is representative of the film club at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, which she runs with her friends María Palacios Cruz, Beatrice Gibson, and Ben Rivers. The guiding idea is that the film as medium can, in the right hands, be a “fatal instrument of beauty, contestation, wonder, politics.” The program will feauture Amy Helpern’s short film Invocation, and Robina Rose’s feature film Nightshift.

The fifth competition program, 'Spectres', commencing at 6 p.m., brings together four films dealing with sudden changes and breaches of memory into contemporary spaces of thought and action. The screening will be joined by Alejo Franzetti, the maker of a film nocturne The Whole Night, and Johan Opstaele, an actor in Dorian Jespers’s absurdist Loynes. The same program will feature Buseok by Kyujae Park and The Garden of Electric Delights by Billy Roisz.

At 9 p.m., the Cellule d'intervention Metamkine collective will give their audiovisual performance as part of the Expanded Cinema program at Histrionski dom. In this open group, the performers – musicians and film artists – explore the relationship between image and sound. Using the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and ingenious live editing, Metamkine direct a completely new film during each of their performances.