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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2016

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016

Black Box

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.

Programme

41 films · 2 reviews

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Anóme

The Chinese Moshu tribe and the Kuna tribe from Panama are interwoven in Lena Ditte Nissen's ethnographic journey.

(Country: Germany, Panama, China; Year: 2015; Director: Lena Ditte Nissen)

Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery

Aw Shucks, Segundo

Segundo has just 60 seconds to shuck as many oysters as he can.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Sean Hanley) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

Bending To Earth

Experimental short involving aerial photography.

(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Rosa Barba) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

Between the Frames

Avant garde film involving a swinging mirror.

(Country: UK; Year: 1976; Director: Sarah Child)

Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies

Breakfast (Table Top Dolly)

Breakfast items spring to life.

(Year: 1976; Director: Michael Snow)

Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies

Capital Cuba

Cuba's relationship with the sea.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Johann Lurf) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey

Chinese Checkers

Exploring the ambiguity of the game.

(Country: US; Year: 1964; Director: Steve Dwoskin)

Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies

Disporting With A Shadow

A 16mm music video for Alex Cobb’s track.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Paul Clipson)

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

Elli

Seascapes and an investigation of optical colour mixing.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2016; Director: Esther Urlus) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey

Fish Point

Impressionistic short shot in Ontario

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2015; Director: Pablo Mazzolo)

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

Footage

Experimental short.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2015; Director: Minjung Kim)

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

Here There

Short experimental travelogue.

(Country: US, Croatia; Year: 2015; Director: Alexander Stewart; Writer: Alexander Stewart) , Official site , Trailer

Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey

Inferential Current

Avant garde film concerned with the movement of film through the projector.

(Country: US; Year: 1971; Director: Paul Sharits)

Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies

In Marfa

Short shot on expired film in Marfa.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Jeremy Moss) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey

Irradiant Field

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.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Laura Kraning) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

I Don't Think I Can See An Island

"A film of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures."

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Christopher Becks, Emmanuel Lefrant) , Trailer

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

Kairos

A film poem that takes a walk along the shores of the Med.

(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Elisa Ribes, Stefano Canapa)

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

Key

Avant garde film.

(Country: UK; Year: 1968; Director: Peter Gidal)

Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies

Lampedusa

Interlinked narratives shot on high definition and Super 8, based on past and present events.

(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

Limitless

Short inspired by the landscapes and tiny inhabitants of Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Stephanie Young) , Trailer

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

Maschile - Roma

Portrait film.

(Country: Austria, Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Friedl vom Gröller)

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

The Masked Monkeys

The training of masked monkeys in Indonesia.

(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 Mess

A journey to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Peter Burr) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops

Avant garde study of an IQ test.

(Country: US; Year: 1976; Director: Owen Land; Stars: Art Gower, Gunner Piotter, Tanny Young)

Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies

Noevus

Stop-motion animation.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Samuel Yal) , Trailer

Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery

Numb

Experimental short.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Yuka Sato)

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

On The Invention Of The Wheel

A meditation on man in the mechanical age.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

Orange Trill

A cinedance in which the performance challenges the film to “match its moves”.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: G Anthony Svatek) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

Pending

Experimental 16mm short.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Bea Haut) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

Primal

Experimental short.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Vicky Smith)

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

Prima Materia

Short inspired by Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Charlotte Pryce) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

Regrouping

Film within a film following the activities of a women's group.

(Country: US; Year: 1976; Director: Lizzie Borden)

Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey

Rohfilm

Destruction of the film image.

(Country: West Germany; Year: 1968; Director: Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein)

Regrouping: Experimental Films from the Sixties and Seventies

Roundtrip

A diptych filmed on a journey between Montreal and New York City.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Philippe Leonard) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey

Sixty Six

Review preview for Sixty Six

If something like Sixty Six were 10 minutes long and repeated on a continuous loop it might have a chance with the Turner prize.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
Greek mythology meets pulp novels and 1960s iconography in this animated collage film in 12 episodes.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Lewis Klahr; Writer: Lewis Klahr; Stars: Andrea LeBlanc)

Full review

A Subsequent Fulfilment Of A Pre-Historic Wish

Film about an female artist who died in a dubious accident.

(Country: Turkey, Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Johannes Gierlinger)

Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery

Tectonic Plate (Mannerlaatta)

Review preview for Tectonic Plate

This is not a film. It is an endurance test.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
An immersive camera-less film that translates transitory states and the fear of flying.

(Country: Finland; Year: 2016; Director: Mika Taanila; Writer: Harry Salmenniemi, Mika Taanila)

Full review

Toré

Study of an aboriginal community in Brazil.

(Year: 2015; Director: João Vieira Torres, Tanawi Xucuru Kariri) , Trailer

Black Box Shorts 3: Rituals of Transformation and Discovery

Un Double Moment de Poche Saturé

Two people roam an endless day, each with a Super 8 camera.

(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Laurent Berger) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 1: In the Body of Technology

Vintage Print

A photographic landscape begins to be animated.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Siegfried A Fruhauf; Writer: Siegfried A Fruhauf)

Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters

Yapi

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.

(Country: Greece; Year: 2015; Director: Aaron Khandros, Nathaniel Draper) , Official site

Black Box Shorts 4: Reflections on a Journey