Expanded Space
Friday, 20:00 – 00:00 (doors 19:30), Paradiso
The Expanded Space programme revisits the heyday of Expanded Cinema. The 1970s saw a short-lived flourishing of artists and filmmakers who literally thought outside the box when it came to filmmaking, and who discarded the established rules about film (re)presentation and investigated all possible approaches to screening films. These ranged from projections on multiple screens to projections void of imagery that only used the light source from the projector as the subject. With performances and films by Paul Sharits, Lis Rhodes, Takashi Ito, Yann Beauvais, Daïchi Saïto, Bruce McClure, Greg Pope, Optical Machines, Gill Eatherley and László Moholy-Nagy.
László Moholy-Nagy
Lichtspiel Schwarz-Weiß-Grau
Light flashes, moving, blinding. Whirling spirals, which always return. All solid shapes dissolve into light.
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Jewish-Hungarian painter, sculptor, designer, photographer, filmmaker, teacher and theoretician, as well as a professor of the Bauhaus school. Influenced by constructivism, he was an advocate of the integration of technology into the arts.
Yann Beauvais
RR
The viewer sees two images functioning as each other’s reflected image, constituting a panoramic and abstract film.
Yann Beauvais (FR) is a filmmaker, teacher, film critic and co-founder of the experimental film distributor Light Cone. His work is deeply influenced by Russian formalism and minimal structuralism.
Gill Eatherley
Hand Grenade
A short, energetic extravagant three-screen colour film, based on B&W source material that is orchestrated to accompany the music.
Gill Eatherley (UK) studied at various art academies in Britain. Her Expanded Cinema performances and film installations have been widely exhibited.
Optical Machines
(SHIFT)
(SHIFT) is true live performance, an abstract play of light images that are generated, manipulated, mixed and projected on the spot using homemade equipment.
Optical Machines (NL) consists of Rikkert Brok (visuals) and Maarten Halmans (audio) who work with an open set-up that invites the audienceto their laboratory-like playground. Their tools include modified record players, pattern models, lamps, lenses, cameras, customized projectors and self-made analogue synthesizers.
Takashi Ito
Spacy
A Möbius strip, an Escher film at Japanese tempo, from slow to fast, from pianissimo to fortissimo.
Takashi Ito (JP) is one of the leading experimental filmmakers of Japan. His intention is to draw the audience into a vortex of supernatural illusion by exercising the magic of film.
Paul Sharits
Color Sound Frames
Color Sound Frame is a film about a film and the kind of illusions that can result as the film’s concrete properties create abstractions.
Paul Sharits (1943–93) was an avant-garde filmmaker noted for manipulating film stock itself to create a variety of fascinating, abstract interplays of light and colour when projected on the screen.
Bruce McClure
PIE PELLICANE JESU DOMINAE: And After Several Rapid Strokes of Their Wings
As each projector sets bi-packed film loops into motion, achronicity is chronicled away. Footage from Birds of Northern Places, a 1950s nature documentary is centrifuged, drawing out sequences in space that evidence time displacement as a primary agent in dimensional perception.
Bruce McClure (US) works with sound and film technologies such as experimentation with spinning discs. He is best known for his groundbreaking multi-projector performances that interrogate the very substance of film and its mechanical supports.
Daïchi Saïto
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis
Entirely hand-processed, Saïto’s Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, with contrapuntal violin by Malcolm Goldstein, seeks perceptual insights and revelations through a syntactical structure based on patterns, variations and repetition.
Daïchi Saïto (JP) turned to filmmaking in Montréal after studying philosophy, Hindi and Sanskrit. He is a co-founder of the Double Negative Collective, a Montréal-based group dedicated to experimental cinema.
Greg Pope & Gert-Jan Prins
Light Trap
Light Trap is a live performance using four prepared 16 mm projectors to create a voluminous and spatial sound/light sculpture that is in constant flux and explores the raw elements of cinema. Gert-Jan Prins will join this Light Trap performance.
Greg Pope (UK) founded the Brighton based Super 8 film collective Situation Cinema in 1986 that evolved into Loophole Cinema (London 1989–99), which used 16 mm multi-projection techniques.Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video installations, live art pieces and single screen film works since 1996. Gert-Jan Prins (NL) is one of the most challenging sound artists in the Netherlands. He focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise.
Lis Rhodes
Light Music
A thorough investigation into the relationship between the shapes and rhythms of lines, and their tonality when printed as sound. The optical soundtrack ‘makes’ the music.
Lis Rhodes (UK) is an avantgarde filmmaker and artist. While firmly rooted in the history of experimental film, her films cross into performance, photography, writing and political analysis.
DISCO 3000 Sonic Acts Out in Space Special
Paradiso’s Disco 3000 and Sonic Acts present a heavyweight Out in Space Special Night. Far-out house, techno, electro and italo in the Big Hall, with Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir, the legendary underrated techno-producer from Detroit; Dutch electro and italo frontman I-F from the Hague Bunker Records scene. Theo Parrish will play a 5-hour set in the Small Hall.
