Patterns

Patterns is a handmade film created by printing on a 60 mm film base. It is intended to be screened as a live film performance using a special projecting apparatus called the Archeoscope. The film examines the cinematic potential of patterns. What regular, repetitive structures on film can do when being screened in various ways. It is an audiovisual struggle between chaos and order. The live projection of this film is technically irreproducible, so the only way to experience it, is to witness it with the naked eyes.

Archeoscope is an analog hand operated special projecting apparatus for live film performances. It was designed for a film understood as an "articulation of light", in order to examine and experience the essential aspects of film as a live luminous phenomenon and our perception itself. To reconsider the established tradition and technology. It can project all standard film formats, but also materials like transparent tapes, bandages, laces, etc.

Jan Kulka (1985) is a Prague-based experimental filmmaker dedicated to analog film who explores the fundamental principles of the film medium, its phenomenology and physiology of perception in contemporary context. He incorporates the creation of own instruments in the creative process and his primary focus is on inventing special projection apparatuses for live performances. Rather than telling a story, he tries to target the very senses of each spectator directly with light and sound to reveal some of the foundations of our perception, which makes our being.