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The programme includes several shorts showcases:
- Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology - Bodies transformed and reimagined through technologies of reproduction.
- Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters - From matters of the Earth to Earthly matter.
- Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery - Ethnographic explorations lead to embodied journeys of the self.
- Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey - Sensations, impressions and fragments of memory.
- Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies - Revisiting the heyday of avant-garde filmmaking.
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Sixty Six and Tectonic Plate
Anóme
(Country: Germany, Panama, China; Year: 2015; Director: Lena Ditte Nissen)
Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery
The Chinese Moshu tribe and the Kuna tribe from Panama are interwoven in Lena Ditte Nissen's ethnographic journey.
Aw Shucks, Segundo
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Sean Hanley), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
Segundo has just 60 seconds to shuck as many oysters as he can.
Bending To Earth
(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Rosa Barba), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
Experimental short involving aerial photography.
Between the Frames
(Country: UK; Year: 1976; Director: Sarah Child)
Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies
Avant garde film involving a swinging mirror.
Breakfast (Table Top Dolly)
(Year: 1976; Director: Michael Snow)
Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies
Breakfast items spring to life.
Capital Cuba
(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Johann Lurf), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey
Cuba's relationship with the sea.
Chinese Checkers
(Country: US; Year: 1964; Director: Steve Dwoskin)
Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies
Exploring the ambiguity of the game.
Disporting With A Shadow
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Paul Clipson)
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
A 16mm music video for Alex Cobb’s track.
Elli
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2016; Director: Esther Urlus), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey
Seascapes and an investigation of optical colour mixing.
Fish Point
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2015; Director: Pablo Mazzolo)
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
Impressionistic short shot in Ontario
Footage
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2015; Director: Minjung Kim)
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
Experimental short.
Here There
(Country: US, Croatia; Year: 2015; Director: Alexander Stewart; Writer: Alexander Stewart), Official Site, Trailer
Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey
Short experimental travelogue.
Inferential Current
(Country: US; Year: 1971; Director: Paul Sharits)
Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies
Avant garde film concerned with the movement of film through the projector.
In Marfa
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Jeremy Moss), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey
Short shot on expired film in Marfa.
Irradiant Field
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Laura Kraning), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
Irradiant Field is a visual and sonic portrait at the intersection of nature and machine - a desert mirage of light, wind, water, and metallic reflection.
I Don't Think I Can See An Island
(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Christopher Becks, Emmanuel Lefrant), Trailer
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
"A film of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures."
Kairos
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Elisa Ribes, Stefano Canapa)
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
A film poem that takes a walk along the shores of the Med.
Key
(Country: UK; Year: 1968; Director: Peter Gidal)
Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies
Avant garde film.
Lampedusa
(Country: Italy, France, US; Year: 2015; Director: Philip Cartelli, Mariangela Ciccarello; Writer: Mariangela Ciccarello; Stars: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Mariangela Ciccarello, Joris Lachaise, Carlo Signati), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey
Interlinked narratives shot on high definition and Super 8, based on past and present events.
Limitless
(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Stephanie Young), Trailer
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
Short inspired by the landscapes and tiny inhabitants of Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy.
Maschile - Roma
(Country: Austria, Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Friedl vom Gröller)
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
Portrait film.
The Masked Monkeys
(Country: Germany, Indonesia; Year: 2016; Director: Anja Dornieden, Juan David Gonzalez Monroy; Stars: Miranda Roszkowski), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery
The training of masked monkeys in Indonesia.
The Mess
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Peter Burr), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
A journey to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth.
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
(Country: US; Year: 1976; Director: Owen Land; Stars: Art Gower, Gunner Piotter, Tanny Young)
Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies
Avant garde study of an IQ test.
Noevus
(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Samuel Yal), Trailer
Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery
Stop-motion animation.
Numb
(Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Yuka Sato)
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
Experimental short.
On The Invention Of The Wheel
(Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
A meditation on man in the mechanical age.
Orange Trill
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: G Anthony Svatek), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
A cinedance in which the performance challenges the film to “match its moves”.
Pending
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Bea Haut), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
Experimental 16mm short.
Primal
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Vicky Smith)
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
Experimental short.
Prima Materia
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Charlotte Pryce), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
Short inspired by Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura.
Regrouping
(Country: US; Year: 1976; Director: Lizzie Borden)
Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey
Film within a film following the activities of a women's group.
Rohfilm
(Country: West Germany; Year: 1968; Director: Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein)
Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies
Destruction of the film image.
Roundtrip
(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Philippe Leonard), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey
A diptych filmed on a journey between Montreal and New York City.
Sixty Six
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Lewis Klahr; Writer: Lewis Klahr; Stars: Andrea LeBlanc)
Greek mythology meets pulp novels and 1960s iconography in this animated collage film in 12 episodes.
A Subsequent Fulfilment Of A Pre-Historic Wish
(Country: Turkey, Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Johannes Gierlinger)
Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery
Film about an female artist who died in a dubious accident.
Tectonic Plate (Mannerlaatta)
(Country: Finland; Year: 2016; Director: Mika Taanila; Writer: Harry Salmenniemi, Mika Taanila)
An immersive camera-less film that translates transitory states and the fear of flying.
Toré
(Year: 2015; Director: João Vieira Torres, Tanawi Xucuru Kariri), Trailer
Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery
Study of an aboriginal community in Brazil.
Un Double Moment de Poche Saturé
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Laurent Berger), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology
Two people roam an endless day, each with a Super 8 camera.
Vintage Print
(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Siegfried A Fruhauf; Writer: Siegfried A Fruhauf)
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
A photographic landscape begins to be animated.
Yapi
(Country: Greece; Year: 2015; Director: Aaron Khandros, Nathaniel Draper), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey
Greece is covered in concrete tumors — yapi, half-finished buildings left in permanent limbo, skeletal structures like temples to some obscure future gods. People don’t explicitly speak of them or really even seem to see them. They’ve just grown from the landscape, a symptom of European change.
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