Fracto Experimental Film Encounter announces its fourth edition and invites the Berlin audience to immerse themselves in 4 days of film screenings, sound installation and talks, taking place at Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin-Mitte from the 22nd to the 25th of October 2020.
ABOUT
The main programme gathers 58 film and video works by artists and filmmakers selected from an international open call that has received more than 1000 submissions. The selection will be presented in a series of curated programmes providing diverse and critical perspectives on contemporary media ecology through a wide range of non-narrative approaches to filmmaking: poetic and political reflections on topical issues, sensuous investigations of landscapes and bodies, excavations of personal and collective memories, explorations of the thresholds between human and non-human worlds. Though intended for collective viewing in a cinema space, the programmes will also be available for online viewing within a limited time frame.
The special programme Gioli-Eizkyman will be dedicated to the italian artist Paolo Gioli and the french filmmaker Claudine Eizykman, in a 2-night all analog programme that celebrates cinematic agitation.
Paolo Gioli is one of the most important Italian experimental filmmakers. He is an internationally renowned painter and photographer, who, in his films, deconstructs and often invents techniques, retracing, reproducing and reinventing the history of cinema and pre-cinema. Under the guise of a multidisciplinary artist, Gioli occupies a unique position in avant-garde cinema.
Claudine Eizykman, who passed away in June 2018, was the co-founder of Paris Films Coop in 1974 and Cinédoc in 1979. She played a key role in the evolution of French experimental cinema in the 70s: the extreme originality and esthetic power of her work is marked by a complexity of the very sophisticated construction of images. Eizykman was also an important film theorist and a great curator. A true re-discovery.
Occulto Magazine’s editor Alice Cannava presents Glaring Sounds (2020), a collaborative installation and musical score by Marta De Pascalis and Filippo Vogliazzo that explores the weaving of collective and individual memory through an investigation of the monumental and historical significance of bells. Since 2019, Vogliazzo and De Pascalis have been working together on the mechanism of unconscious memory generated by music. Glaring Sounds is the recipient of the Movin’UP/GAi Funding 2020.
Filippo Vogliazzo is a Berlin based artist. His research focuses on space and its agency. With an interdisciplinary practice that spans from investigations into materials, symbols and architectural forms to questions of poetical nature, he attempts to explore how we act according to the space we move in.
Marta De Pascalis is a Berlin based Italian composer. Her solo works employ analog synthesis and tape loops, incorporating free playing into steady, repetitive patterns. She has produced three solo albums – the self-released Quitratue (2014), Anzar (The Tapeworm, 2016), and Sonus Ruinae (Morphine Records, 2020), and she is a 2020 Shape Platform artist.
LINE UP 2020
Alee Peoples / Allan Brown / Anna Kipervaser / Ben Balcom / Benjamín Ellenberger / Carl Elsaesser / Charlotte Clermont / Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu / Christine Lucy Latimer / Dianna Barri / Ei Toshinari & Duy Nguyen / Emily Drummer / Emmanuel Piton / Emma Piper-Burket / Fakhri El Ghezal / Gabby Sumney And Hogan Seidel / Gautam Valluri / Grace Mitchel / Inger Lise Hansen / Jacques Perconte / Jimmy Schaus / Jon Behrens / Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas / Josh Weissbach / Juliana Kasumu / Karissa Hahn / Kathleen Rugh / Kathryn Ramey / Ken Jacobs / Leandro Varela / Lydia Nsiah / Matt Shaw / Matt Whitman / Maxime Jean-Baptiste / Michael Lyons / Michael Woods / Mike Hoolboom / Mike Rollo / Mike Stoltz / Monteith McCollum / Niyaz Saghari / Nour Ouayda / Olivier Cheval / Phillip Andrew Lewis & Michael Robinson / Rhys Morgan / Richard Tuohy / Robert Orlowski / Roger Deutsch / Samira Guadagnuolo & Tiziano Doria / Simon Liu / Sofia Theodore-Pierce / Stefano Canapa / Stéphanie Lagarde / Talena Sanders / Tomonari Nishikawa / Victor Arroyo / Wenhua Shi / Zachary Epcar
The 2020 edition of Fracto is funded by IIC Italienisches Kulturinstitut Berlin and Institut Français Berlin
Covid-19 Rules
The use of a mask is mandatory while circulating in the festival. Masks can be taken off while sitting during the screenings.
There will be 30-minute breaks between screenings to ensure the rooms are properly ventilated.
Disinfectant dispensers will also be provided.
In light of the ongoing pandemic all venues have also introduced distancing and hygiene rules.
Please inform yourselves beforehand about the rules of the specific venue and the Fracto Festival.
Stay healthy!