:: PUNTO Y RAYA FESTIVAL 2016
The sixth edition of Punto y Raya Festival, dubbed “the most abstract in the world” in its nine-year trajectory, arrives at the place where Absolute Cinema and Abstract Animation originated back in the early 1920s: Germany. Hosted and coproduced by one of the most relevant institutions in the fields of avantgarde art & new technologies, ZKM (Centre for Culture and Media Technology) in Karlsruhe, the event ran from October 20th through 23rd 2016 with free admittance, offering its traditional meeting point for artists and fans of the most refined experimental audiovisual art, and promising four intensive and wonderful days of pure Abstract Art in Motion. The International Short Film Competition (with a record number of 842 entries from 54 countries) featured the selected 117 films, exploring the most diverse techniques and styles. The live PyRformances section featured Yro (FR) with his intimate Eile; Robert Lippok (DE), with the most radical minimalism of his 50 cent. 50 cent., and filmmaker Dirk De Bruyn (AU) with his overwhelming session of immersive Expanded Cinema. Guest Screenings included a German Panorama curated and introduced by Robert Seidel; Dirk de Bruyn’s Retrospective (1979-2016), and FIVE: Visual Music produced by the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong and introduced by Max Hattler. Larry Cuba (USA) returned to PyR presenting his Two Space Installation. And in the Academy programme we explored the filmography and creative process of guest artists Jodie Mack, Dirk de Bruyn, Holger Lang and Max Hattler.
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:: ZKM | OUR PARTNER & VENUE
Founded in 1989, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is a cultural institution which, since 1997, has been located in a historical industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany that formerly housed a munitions factory. The ZKM organizes special exhibitions and thematic events, carries out research projects, produces works in the field of new media and offers public as well as individualized communications and educational programs. The ZKM houses under one roof two museums, three research institutes as well as a media center; in this way it groups research and production, exhibitions and events, archives and collections. It works on the interface of art and science, and takes up cutting-edge insights in media technologies with the objective of developing them further. Since the death of founding director Heinrich Klotz (1935-1999), the ZKM has been directed by Prof. Peter Weibel. In addition to the ZKM, the associated Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, as well as the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe [Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe] are likewise housed in the former munitions factory.
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: MEDIENTHEATER The Medientheater is located on the ground floor in Atrium 6, next to the Foyer. With a 345m2 surface and fully equipped, it holds 300 seats. All the Screenings and PyRformances took place here.
: VORTRAGSSAAL
The Vortragssaal (Lecture Hall) is located right in front of the Medientheater, and holds 100 seats. Here we held most of the Academy activities in the mornings of the festival.
: FOYER / BAR
The main entrance to the building, this was our daily meeting point. Also, Larry Cuba's TWO SPACE installation was located here.
:: ACTIVITIES PROGRAMME
:: INTERNATIONAL SHORT-FILM COMPETITION
For this edition we received the record number of 842 films from 55 countries. This section featured the 117 films selected for the 2016 Official Competition. Presentations and Q&A sessions with artists in attendance and open to audience participation.
>> October 21st, 2016 | 15:30h
1. Proportion (Balance 5 of 5) Daniel Iregui · Mitchell Akiyama 5'14'' · video comp. · colour · 2015 · Montréal·QC, Canada 2. Ura eta akrilikoa Aitor Onederra Aguirre 2'06'' · video comp. · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Guipúzcoa, Spain 3. Mayur Vibeke Sorensen · Kartik Seshadri 7'41'' · cgi · colour · 2015 · Singapore 4. Sto[ne]s Marcin Giz·ycki · Compagnia d'Arte Drummatica 2'20'' · stop·motion · colour · 2015 · Warsaw, Poland 5. Oneiria Jeroen Cluckers 3'52'' · cgi · cameraless · colour · 2014 · Ghent, Belgium 6. China Violet David Ehrlich 3'16'' · drawing · colour · 2014 · Beijing, China 7. Black Moves Carla Chan · Ulf Langheinrich 7'40'' · cgi · video comp. · cameraless · b&w · 2016 · Berlin, Germany 8. Polonium84b Jackson Payne · FAD 3'27'' · stop·motion · drawing · colour · 2015 · Melbourne, Australia 9. 1DDCB Raven Kwok · Karma Fields 2'05'' · cgi · b&w · 2016 · Troy, NY, USA
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10. Colored Wall XP Sq Shusaku Kaji 2'10'' · video comp. · colour · 2005 · Japan 11. Andromeda Santiago Quintero 7'23'' · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Bogotá, Colombia 12. The Stroboscope Justin Lincoln 3'58'' · cgi · video comp. · colour · 2014 · Walla Walla·WA, USA 13. Flama [Flame] Mariano Mendes Silva 1'27'' · cgi · video comp. · drawing · colour · 2016 · CABA, Argentina 14. Bach Prelude in C-sharp major Stephen Malinowski · Johann S. Bach 1'28'' · cgi · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Richmond·CA, USA 15. Magnetic Lux - Part 1 Guillaume Guérin · Jefre Cantu-Ledesma 4'59'' · video comp. · colour · 2015 · Berlin, Germany 16. Scratchorama (Cameraless Cinerama) Robert Lyons · Los Straitjackets 2'14'' · scratch · cameraless · colour · 2015 · Brooklyn·NY, USA 17. Vagina Cosmica Luca Pertegato · Otolab 4'50'' · video comp. · b&w · 2009 · Milano, Italy
>> October 21st, 2016 | 17:00h Q&A session with Eleni Ampelaklotou_Dos Plus (Germany), Aga Jarząb (Poland), Sabrina Schmid (UK) & Terry Trickett (UK)
1. Improvisation no.1: Cumulative Loops Luigi Allemano 3'20'' · drawing · colour · 2013 · Montréal·QC, Canada 2. SHAPES: Allemande Terry Trickett · Johann S. Bach 3'14'' · video comp. · colour · 2014 - 2016 · London, UK 3. Iterations Jeremy Speed Schwartz · Anton Flint 2'55'' · drawing · b&w · 2016 · Wayland·NY, USA 4. Abstract Iterations III Sabrina Schmid · Paul Fletcher 4'21'' · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2015 · Middlesbrough, UK
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5. Duel Tones Maura McDonnell · Bebhinn McDonnell 7'57'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Maynooth, Ireland 6. film for optical sound no 1 Christina Nguyen 1'43'' · cameraless · b&w · 2016 · Los Angeles·CA, USA 7. Blue DISCORD Arianna Lisette Gazca · Craig Pruitt 5'53'' · cgi · video comp. · drawing · colour · 2016 · Portland·OR, USA 8. Segovia all Over Ya Chris Casady 1'40'' · cgi · drawing · colour · 2016 · Los Angeles·CA, USA 9. Video_64 Dextro 2'17'' · cgi · colour · 2014 · Baden, Austria 10. Visitantes Concha Alonso · José María López Torres 1'06'' · cgi · colour · 2016 · Granada, Spain 11. Droplets Stephanie Porter · Moloch 7'07'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Vancouver·BC, Canada 12. letters.EHO Aga Jarząb 4'21'' · cgi · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Wrocław, Poland 13. Look Into My Eyes (Refractions) Nicolás Juárez Latimer-Knowles 1'30'' · cgi · colour · 2016 · Barcelona, Spain 14. Gyes Duygu Nazli Akova 3'11'' · video comp. · b&w · 2016 · Istanbul, Turkey 15. Is this tomorrow or just the end of time? Dos Plus 7'49'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Berlin , Germany 16. Singular Motive Mandy Wong 1'21'' · cameraless · colour · 2015 · Providence·RI, USA 17. Zdarzenie plastyczne Tymon Albrzykowski · Sebastian Ładyżyński 5'11'' · cameraless · b&w · 2016 · Warsaw, Poland
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>> October 21st, 2016 | 19:00h Q&A session with Reinhold Bidner (Ausrtia), Bonnie Mitchell (USA), Carmen Escudero & Víctor Bombi (Motion Haikus) (Spain) & Paul O'Donoghue (Ireland)
1. Line Steven Subotnick 2'00'' · drawing · cameraless · b&w · 2014 · Providence·RI, USA 2. Parametronomicon Pink Twins 8'00'' · cgi · cameraless · colour · 2015 · Helsinki, Finland 3. Falling In Rachel Arena 1'26'' · drawing · colour · 2016 · Providence·RI, USA 4. Somewhere Between Something and Nothing Paul O'Donoghue 5'38'' · video comp. · cameraless · colour · 2015 · Dublin, Ireland 5. Into the light: Film Resistance Madeleine Piller 3'45'' · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Toronto·ON, Canada 6. Offex Rebecca Ng 1'06'' · video comp. · stop·motion · drawing · b&w · 2015 · Montréal, Canada 7. Levity Hideki Inaba 1'23'' · cgi · drawing · colour · 2016 · Tokyo, Japan 8. Soaked Ruins Of A Raft Deborah Bower · Rhodri Davies 2'38'' · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 9. Triangulation Volodymyr Vlasenko 1'17'' · cgi · b&w · 2016 · Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine 10. mixolydian mantra Motion Haikus 5'26'' · cgi · stop·motion · colour · 2015 · Barcelona, Spain 11. Shadows on Lights Reinhold Bidner · Wave Canyon 3'07'' · cgi · video comp. · b&w · 2016 · Vienna, Austria 12. Quimtai Camilo Colmenares 6'05'' · scratch · cameraless · colour · 2015 | Cologne·NRW, Germany
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13. Clonal Colonies II: Soft Strata Bret Battey 8'00'' · cgi · colour · 2011 · Leicester, UK 14. Ret1na Daniel Wechsler 2'36'' · cgi · video comp. · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Tel-Aviv, Israel 15. Jazz Orgie Irina Rubina · Emanuel Hauptmann 1'15'' · drawing · colour · 2015 · Ludwigsburg, Germany 16. Paradigm Shift Bonnie Mitchell · Elainie Lillios 5'52'' · cgi · colour · 2015 · Bowling Green·Ohio, USA 17. RGB Colour Model Blanca Rego Constela 5'00'' · cgi · colour · 2016 · Barcelona, Spain
>> October 22nd, 2016 | 15:00h Q&A session with Diego Akel (Brazil), Sandra Eber (Canada), Jodie Mack (USA), John Osborne (Canada) & Thomas Stellmach (Germany)
1. Fugue Oerd van Cuijlenborg · Miho Hazama 6'00'' · cgi · drawing · b&w · 2016 · Paris , France 2. Line Dance John Osborne · Don Ross 4'20'' · cgi · colour · 2016 · Edmonton·AB, Canada 3. Analog Orange John Hawk · Fields of Ohio 3'25'' · video comp. · colour · 2015 · Agua Dulce·CA, USA 4. Aquatic Hiromi Ishii 5'51'' · cgi · colour · 2015 · Düren, Germany 5. Mobilis Diego Akel · Peter Rudenko 0'48'' · cgi · drawing · b&w · 2014 · Fortaleza·CE, Brazil 6. Dimensions Sandra Eber · Nicholas Bernier 5'40'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Montréal·QC, Canada 7. Clangs for the Speaking Body Angela Stempel · Jordan Dykstra 2'02'' · drawing · colour · 2015 · Valencia·CA, USA
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8. Longing Þóranna Björnsdóttir 4'10'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Reykjavik , Iceland 9. Kompozicija Mitja Mancek 3'34'' · scratch · cameraless · b&w · 2015 · Rakek, Ljubljana, Slovenia 10. Time of Flight Michael Pelletier · Arjen Jongeneel 3'32'' · cgi · colour · 2014 · Amsterdam, Netherlands 11. The Lost World Steven Woloshen 2'41'' · cameraless · colour · 2013 | Montréal·QC, Canada 12. Virtuos Virtuell Thomas Stellmach · Maja Oschmann · Louis Spohr 7'30'' · cgi · video comp. · drawing · b&w · 2013 · Kassel, Germany 13. Colour waterfall Clemente Calvo Muñoz 2'13'' · video comp. · scratch · colour · 2016 · San Mateo·Zaragoza, Spain 14. Passaddhi Harvey Goldman · Jing Wang 7'58'' · cgi · colour · 2015 · Dartmouth·MA, USA 15. siwz Kerim Safa 1'52'' · cgi · cameraless · colour · 2012 · Istanbul, Turkey 16. Scribble for piano and heart Mattia Biondi 4'00'' · video comp. · stop·motion · colour · 2016 · Carolei, Italy 17. Let Your Light Shine Jodie Mack 3'00'' · drawing · colour · 2013 · New Hampshire, USA
>> October 22nd, 2016 | 17:00h Q&A session with Alice de Barrau (UK), Celia Eid (Brazil) & Robert Seidel (Germany)
1. Floaters Adam Nickel · Anthony Andrade 4'57'' · cgi · video comp. · b&w · 2016 · Providence·RI, USA 2. The international photon Nikolaus Jantsch · Stefan Löwenstein 3'55'' · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2007 · Vienna , Austria
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3. Interference Oscillations Matthew Biederman · Pierce Warnecke 4'18'' · cgi · colour · 2016 · Montréal·QC, Canada 4. Erase Celia Eid · Sébastien Béranger 7'29'' · video comp. · colour · 2015 · Paris, France / Sao Paulo, Brazil 5. Scab Alice de Barrau 3'03'' · stop·motion · colour · 2015 · London, UK 6. Outflow Daniel Carvalho · José Santos 3'24'' · cgi · colour · 2012 · Petropolis·RJ, Brazil 7. Warm Pond Taylor Beldy 2'57'' · stop·motion · drawing · b&w · 2015 · Providence·RI, USA 8. Una Coreografía de Agentes Autónomos Toni Mitjanit 7'11'' · cgi · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Manacor·Islas Baleares, Spain 9. Squeezing Lines & Sound Azael Ferrer 2'50'' · video comp. · b&w · 2015 · San Francisco·CA, USA 10. vitreous Robert Seidel · Nikolai von Sallwitz 3'24'' · cgi · colour · 2015 | Minneapolis, USA / Berlin, Germany 11. Omweg Jasmijn Cedée · Maarten Westers 6'23'' · drawing · colour · 2016 · Ghent, Belgium 12. Almost 1.0 Gábor Szûcs 4'14'' · video comp. · colour · 2015 · Bratislava, Slovakia 13. Estrellita Jean Detheux · Manuel Ponce · Hilario Yáñez 3'16'' · cgi · colour · 2016 · Montréal·QC, Canada 14. animation quartet #1 Ahomeinprogressfilm 2'00'' · drawing · colour · 2015 · Barcelona, Spain 15. Escape from Cubeworld Gabor Korodi 1'38'' · cgi · colour · 2016 · Bekesszentandras, Hungary 16. Boeygen Kristian Pedersen · Erik Hedin 5'50'' · cgi · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Oslo, Norway
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>> October 22nd, 2016 | 19:00h Q&A session with Matt Abbiss (UK), Nagore Etxabe (Spain), Paul Fletcher (Australia) & Peter Muzak (Austria)
1. (Hiatus) Kenichi Yoneda · Yu Miyashita 1'33'' · cgi · colour · 2015 · Tokyo, Japan 2. Temples it knows know longer Andrew Kim 7'00'' · stop·motion · colour · 2016 · Los Angeles·CA, USA 3. Elogio del viento Chuso Ordi 4'58'' · drawing · cameraless · b&w · 2016 · Barcelona, Spain 4. Lights Peter Muzak 0'45'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Viena, Austria 5. Moth Ra Space Paul Fletcher 6'06'' · cgi · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Central Victoria, Australia 6. Chemtrails Non Stop Jordi Biendicho Vidal 2'05'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Barcelona, Spain 7. Variations (in black and white) Dennis H. Miller 7'45'' · cgi · video comp. · b&w · 2015 · Wellesley·MA, USA 8. i.a.m.s.u.r.p. Asha Tamirisa 4'54'' · scratch · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Providence·RI, USA 9. Messy flow Tina Šulc 3'16'' · cgi · video comp. · cameraless · b&w · 2016 · Ljubljana, Slovenia 10. Zuhaitza Nagore Etxabe 2'33'' · video comp. · stop·motion · colour · 2016 · Zumaia·Gipuzkoa, Spain 11. Cycles 720 Craig Ritchie Allan 2'32'' · cgi · colour · 2013 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK 12. E.j Stain · Sergey Titov 5'50'' · cgi · colour · 2015 · Moscow, Russia
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13. Point Matt Abbiss · Martins Strautnieks 1'42'' · drawing · colour · 2013 · London, UK 14. UFO Trouble Mauri Lehtonen 1'02'' · cgi · colour · 2015 · Prague, Czech Republic 15. Growing Platonics Jan Goldfuß 2'41'' · cgi · b&w · 2014 · Berlin, Germany 16. rourou Sakurako Nagano 3'53'' · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2015 · Hiroshima, Japan 17. Head Tail Rail Hugo Olim 6'39'' · scratch · stop·motion · cameraless · colour · 2013 · Madeira, Portugal
>> October 22nd, 2016 | 21:00h Q&A session with Maciek Bączyk (Poland), Aurora Gasull (Spain), Holger Lang (Austria), Michael Lyons (Japan), Ying Tan (USA) & Jan Walentek (Germany)
1. The Dancing Line Shelley Dodson · David Rose 2'25'' · drawing · b&w · 2016 · Chicago·IL, USA 2. Trans/Figure/Ground Lauren Cook 5'30'' · cgi · video comp. · scratch · drawing · colour · 2016 · Holyoke·MA, USA 3. Amoeba Shannon McFerrin · Owen Jenkins 2'08'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 3 Hertfordshire, UK 4. SusY Barbara Doser · Hofstetter Kurt 7'00'' · video comp. · b&w · 2016 · Vienna, Austria 5. Blue Movement Haruka Mitani · Michael Lyons 3'45'' · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Kyoto, Japan 6. Arbitrary Arnav Sameer 0'57'' · drawing · b&w · 2015 · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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7. Haiku.2 Ying Tan · Michael D. Fiday 2'00'' · cgi · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Portland·OR, USA 8. Sound of Uranus rings Milda Muktupavela 4'48'' · video comp. · colour · 2015 · Riga, Latvia 9. Le SoL Maciek Bączyk 4'07'' · drawing · b&w · 2016 · Wrocław, Poland 10. Verde Angela Diamos 5'02'' · cgi · colour · 2016 · Newhall·CA, United States 11. The Hum Matthias Fitz 2'57'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Berlin, Germany 12. Un Sourire Aurora Gasull Altisent 7'00'' · cgi · drawing · colour · 2016 · Barcelona, Spain 13. Transformatio Jan Walentek · Project Divinity 3'30'' · video comp. · b&w · 2016 · Stuttgart, Germany 14. Obok siebie Anna Beata Barańska · Michał Barański 2'32'' · video comp. · colour · 2012 · Lublin, Poland 15. manifesdipity.0108 Holger Lang 4'00'' · video comp. · colour · 2016 · Viena, Austria 16. 7ate9 David Daniels · John Law 8'00'' · drawing · colour · 2015 · UK
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AWARDED FIRST PRIZE
RGB Colour Model Blanca Rego Constela 5'00'' · cgi · colour 2016 | Barcelona, Spain
SECOND PRIZE
HONORABLE MENTION
vitreous Robert Seidel · Nikolai von Sallwitz 3'24'' · cgi · colour 2015 | Minneapolis, USA | Berlin, Germany
THIRD PRIZE
Vagina Cosmica [Cosmic Vagina] Luca Pertegato · Otolab 4'50'' · video comp. · b&w 2009 | Milano, Italy
letters.EHO Aga Jarząb 4'21'' · cgi · cameraless · colour 2016 | Wrocław, Poland AUDIENCE AWARD (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Point Matt Abbiss · Martins Strautnieks 1'42'' · drawing · colour 2013 | London, UK
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JURY
Dirk de Bruys 1950 | Dordrecht · Netherlands
Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films and videos over the last 30 years. He has received funding to produce a number of films, but has continued to maintain a no-budget, independent, self-funded focus for much of his work. He was a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta), been involved with Fringe Network and been a member of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group. He has written about and curated various programs of film and video art internationally and written extensively about this area of arts practice. During the late '90s he was involved in an independent weekly screening program of film and video art at the Café Bohemio. In the early '90s de Bruyn lived in Canada. Understanding Science, Rote Movie and Doubt were largely produced while teaching Animation at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver. He is currently teaching Animation and Digital Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne, Victoria. (Burwood Campus). Lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Max Hattler 1976 | Germany
Max Hattler is a London-based moving image artist educated at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art. He has had solo exhibitions and retrospectives at Playgrounds Festival, Lumen Eclipse, Media Art Friesland, Image Forum Festival Japan and International Short Film Festival Detmold, among others. His work has been shown at film festivals and exhibitions worldwide and he has collaborated with music acts such as Basement Jaxx, Julien Mier, Jovanotti, Pixelord, The Egg, and Jemapur. As an extension of his film and video work – and as an antidote to it – Max performs live audiovisual works at festivals and in art spaces, including the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo, Electrovisiones Mexico City, the European Media Art Festival, Cimatics Festival, Donaufestival Krems, Filmfest Dresden, SuperDeluxe Tokyo, The Big Chill Festival and London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. He teaches in London at Goldsmiths and Chelsea, and is studying towards a Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London. Lives in Hong Kong. http://www.maxhattler.com
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Tania Khan 1987 | Oldenburg · Germany
Holds a BA in Digital Media Sound and Music Production (h_da - Hochschule Darmstadt & CIT - Cork Institute of Technology) and is a project manager and media producer at INM - Institute for New Media in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2010, Tania is the festival organiser of the Visual Music Award, an international creative competition on Music Visualisation. Lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
Michael Klein 1960 | Wuppertal · Germany
Dr. Klein studied Physics in the Universities of Wuppertal and Tübingen, and got his doctorate in Theory of Complex Systems Chemistry from the University of Tübingen. Since 1995 he is the head of the INM-Institute for New Media in Frankfurt. He acts as mediator between business and creative professionals; as moderator between science and society, and as a promoter and developer of future-oriented projects. He manages INM-Solutions GmbH since 2010, and Stage Connect GmbH since 2007. He also works as a consultant, developer and project coordinator for Internet platforms, mobile & social media applications, and VR & AR applications. Lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
Stafan Stratil 1963 | Vienna · Austria
Stefan Stratil studied in the 1980s at the Maria Lassnig's Master Class for Experimental Design, University of Applied Arts in Vienna There he also studied Painting, and under Hubert Sielecki, Experimental animation and Animation techniques. In that same decade Stratil began his artistic career in an environment that was heavily influenced by punk, new wave and the Ligne Claire drawing style. His personal development was also shaped by regular residencies in Japan and Brazil. Since 2004 he acts as chairman of ASIFA Austria. Lives in Vienna, Austria. PyR 2016 Statuettes designed by Holger Lang and Stefan Stratil, with the support of ASIFA Austria and ZKM. "Abstract work allows the mind to project, to fantasize from a multitude of viewpoints. While the artist may have had a concrete idea during the creation process, the viewers are still provided with the freedom to understand it any way they want to. You may see bubbles rising from the bottom of the sea, planets colliding, or soap foam dripping down your skin. What matters is what inspires your imagination." 17 | www.puntoyrayafestival.com
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:: GUEST SCREENINGS
>> October 20th, 2016 | 20.00h
Max Hattler
: FIVE: HONG KONG VISUAL MUSIC
(Germany · Hong Kong)
A visualisation of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony n.5 How does the accompaniment of classical music with abstract animation affect our response to the music? How do moving images enhance or interfere with our interpretations of music? Does the combination of images and music create new meanings? Five is a collaborative visual music project created with 36 students under Max Hattler's direction at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. The result is an abstract animation visualisation of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (1904). Through the movement and rhythms of colours and shapes, Mahler’s musical world is brought to life on screen. The screening was introduced by Max Hattler in person, and concluded with a Q&A session open to audience participation.
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>> October 21st, 2016 | 21.00h
Dirk de Bruyn
(Australia)
: A TISSUE OF DENIALS
Dirk de Bruyn (1979-2016) Ever since his first experiments in 16mm film using a LOMO processing tank, working with abstract moving image gave de Bruyn a space to process the dilemmas and incongruities of daily life, and to escape its clutches. Very much like knitting. He would never throw anything away; new scratching, painting, taping or bleaching strategies could be added later, in an intensive cluster editing of single frames, which soon became an obsession. This intense retrospective encompassed most of his abstract filmography, produced from found footage film and his own archive of discarded data and unfinished sentences.
1. Feyers (excerpt) 15'00’’ · drawing · cameraltess · colour · 1979 · Melbourne, Australia 2. Migraine Particles 7'11’’ · drawing · cameraless · colour · 1984 · Melbourne, Australia 3. Vision 3'28’’ · drawing · cameraless · colour · 1985 · Ballarat, Australia 4. Frames 7'10’’ · drawing · cameraless · colour · 1988 · Ballarat, Australia 5. Knots 7'51’’ · drawing · cameraless · colour · 1990 · Ballarat, Australia 6. Traum a Dream 6'51’’ · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2007 · Canada / Australia 7. East meets West 5'30’’ · video comp · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2015 · Canada / Australia 8. Dissociation 7'50’’ · video comp. · drawing · cameraless · colour · 2016 · Melbourne, Australia
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>> October 23rd, 2016| 13.00h
Robert Seidel
: GERMAN SHORT-FILM PANORAMA
(Germany)
From the origins of the genre up to this date We closed our festival with a special selection of abstract films produced in the land where Absolute Cinema originated back in the early 1920s. Curated and introduced by artist and curator Robert Seidel, the programme offers a fascinating journey through German abstract cinema of the last 18 years. Fluctuating between fine art, pure experiments, music videos and material originally intended for video installations as well as live performances we are experiencing the diversity of the non-representational image in today’s hybrid world.
1. Feuerhaus Bärbel Neubauer 1998 2. x-x-xx—x—gewobenes Papier Michel Klöfkorn 2014 3. roi d´olivier Karø Goldt 2013 4. Måtinden Marcel Weber 2014 5. Atmosphere Chris Hoffmann 2015 6. Picture Particles Thorsten Fleisch 2014 7. Jan Mayen Michael Fragstein 2013 8. Splinezeller Michael Hoepfel 1999
12. Grinder in the Sky Lillevan 2012 13. Schwarm 2k14 Andreas Nicolas Fischer 2014 14. Odyssey II Kim Asendorf 2014 15. Who is the third that walks beside you? Bernhard Schreiner 2016 16. Melt Martin Böttger 2015 17. ABIOTISMUS 3 / Materie #1 Simona Koch 2014 18. Hattlerized Motorsaw Max Hattler · Sune Petersen 2013 19. String Bettina Munk 2010
9. Navigator Björn Kämmerer 2015
10. Silk Susi Sie 2013
11. Inner Cuts Kerstin Ergenzinger 2009
20. Blau Emilia Forstreuter 2016 21. Tosse not my soule Sebastian Buerkner 2015
:: GUEST PyRFORMANCES
>> October 20th, 2016 | 22.30h
Dirk de Bruyn
(Australia)
: MATERIAL DAMAGE
Four-projector live performance Dirk de Bruyn’s expanded cinema performances engage the æsthetics of process at a number of levels. At the core of these performances are several of three- or fourscreen, essentially abstract films of the same duration which comment upon and echo each other in a constant interplay of flicker-like positive and negative imagery. The soundtrack of the films works in a related way: the same or similar words and sound fragments are overlayed, or are repeated in an absurd call-and-answer pattern running from one speaker to another. This overall design or formal system is then set into play and relativised in the live event through a number of treatment-techniques. The light beam of each projector is filtered, distorted, split and multiplied using hand-held colour gels, plastic bottles, prisms and mirrors, or else silhouetted or blocked completely with the artist’s own hands and body. The projectors themselves can be inverted, turned around or physically transported across the space, mixing and overlaying the imagery, animating different areas of the performance environment and transforming the body of the audience itself into a screen medium.
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>> October 21st, 2016 | 23.30h
Elie Blanchard_YRO
(France)
: EILE
Experimental object cinema Eile is a live cinema performance in which Yro makes, before your eyes, the sound and the image using a camera, microphones and small objects: paper, balls, cotton, plastic, light and photos. These materials enable him to create video and sound loops, which he assembles, samples and manipulates. They are aesthetically close to abstract cinema and object theatre. In this way, manipulating, shimmering and using other synesthetic connections, he composes a land of primary and concrete forms. The process of fabrication is a part of the staging as much as the projection of the resulting film. The cinematographic form is put to the test by the arrangement, each time unique, of images and sounds, and also by the important place given to improvisation and accident. A shifting and autobiographical performance, Eile (anagram of his first name), is an exploration of childhood terrain where events and objects take on dimensions that are subjective and sometimes magical. http://www.yrostudio.com
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>> October 22nd, 2016 | 0.00h
Robert Lippok
(Germany)
: 50 CENT. 50 CENT.
The smallest step Avant-garde German visual artist and composer Robert Lippok has been an influential player in Berlin’s thriving experimental music scene from a very early age. In 1983, he co-founded dissident punk band Ornament und Verbrechen with his brother Ronald, inspired by industrial trailblazers Throbbing Gristle. Known for his expansive imagination, inventive rhythmic reflexes, and layers of fuzzy tones, Lippok’s solo work is just as wide-ranging – from funky, glitch-y, twisted techno record Redsuperstructure for Raster-Noton (2011), to stage design for operas, gallery exhibitions, and notable collaborations with Italian harpist Beatrice Martini, Canadian percussionist Debashis Sinha or brother Ronald and Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi. http://www.raster-noton.net/artists/robert-lippok
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:: ACADEMY PROGRAMME - MASTERCLASSES
>> October 21st, 2016 | 10.30h
Holger Lang
(Austria)
: ARTISTIC STRATEGIES IN AUSTRIAN ABSTRACT ANIMATION This masterclass provided a historical and conceptual context to study the realm of abstract animation produced in Austria, and the role that ASIFA has played as promoter of this type of artwork, illustrating with excerpts from various works. Coming from a background in fine arts, and active as an experimental filmmaker, curator, researcher and professor, Holger Lang also discussed his own approach to abstract film, both in his research and practice, explaining the creative process behind them.
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>> October 21st, 2016 | 12.30h
Stefan Stratil
Holger Lang
: AUSTRIAN SHORT-FILM PANORAMA VOL. 2 Complementing Lang's Masterclass, this section was curated by ASIFA Austria to help illustrate the various artistic strategies for the creation of abstract films in that country. It also included some of Lang's own works. We concluded with a Q&A open to audience participation.
1. Microscopiah Nikolaus Jantsch · Stephan Dunkelman 2016 2. re-animated sparta Holger Lang 2014 3.Ars Rata Christian Schulze · Moritz Palnsdorfer 2012 4. Hybrida Dominik Pfeffer · Hans-Peter Minihuber · Georg Wurz 2014 5. Bodymove Florentin Scheicher 2015 6. Neue Galerie Graz Norbert Trummer 2010 7. 60 seconds moiré Karoline Riha 2015 8. Enclosed Surroundings Dunja Krcek 2014
9. Grasp Eni Brandner 2013 10. Can I have 2 minutes of your time? Brigitta Boednauer 2005 11. Krikelkrakel Mirjam Baker 2014 12. spirit Holger Lang 2002 13. Track 2 Line Finderup Jensen 2015
14. Musikalisches Terrarium Alejandro del Valle-Lattanzio 2013 15. Drift Following the Seam Maik Perfahl 2015
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>> October 22nd, 2016 | 10.30h
Dirk de Bruyn
(Australia)
: A CAVALCADE OF ERASURES
Hand-made Film & Expanded Cinema Dirk de Bruyn has been creating film works for over 35 years; mostly in the hand-made, 'direct animation' mode. He also performs live with multiple projections of his films in a highly embodied mode of expanded cinema performance. His work is renowned for its intricate, suggestive layering of sound and image, and use of sumptuous, blooming fields of colour.
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>> October 22nd, 2016 | 12.30h
Jodie Mack
(USA)
: ABSOLUTE ANIMATION
Experimental animator and composer Jodie Mack has gained worldwide recognition thanks to her unique approach to handmade films, which playfully push the boundaries between genres. Mack’s peculiar perspective unleashes an irreverent exuberance for the possibilities inherent in all manner of everyday things—tie-dye shirts, wallpaper, rock posters, holographic knick knacks, junk mail… via a rigorous formalism set on exploring the cosmic wonders lurking in the space of the frame, the rhythms of cuts. In this masterclass, she submerged us into her fascinating mind and body of work, which –with only 33— encompasses over a dozen films.
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>> October 23rd, 2016 | 11.00h
Max Hattler
(Germany ¡ Hong Kong)
: MAXTERCLASS
Max Hattler is an artist interested in the space between abstraction and figuration in the moving image, where storytelling is freed from the constraints of traditional narrative. He works across the fields of experimental film, video installation and audiovisual performance, constantly seeking new formats for each of his projects. In his Masterclass, Hattler introduced us to his creative process and the impact of music, technology and new media formats in his work, illustrating with some examples of his ample abstract filmography.
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:: INSTALLATION
>> October 23rd, 2016 | 11.00h
Larry Cuba
(USA)
: TWO SPACE One of the pioneers of computer animation in art, Larry Cuba continues his exploration in the realm of Absolute Cinema by creating immersive audiovisual experiences based on seamless geometric mosaics, which can be adapted to practically any surface. 3D animation (sometimes in combination with dome projection) is also often used to transport his audience to a different dimension of thought and perception. At Academy, he presented his installation TWO SPACE, based on imagery from the multi-awarded short film created in 1979.
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:: THE ORGANISERS MAD [Moviment d’Alliberament Digital] is a non-profit association based in Barcelona. For over eleven years we've been working on cultural engineering through projects development involving art, science and technology around the globe. :: We promote all the stages in the cycle of education, production, exhibition, distribution and commercialisation of experimental works in various formats. :: We facilitate the access of general audiences to resources and tools related to experimental creation through the development of multi-sectoral networks and cross-platform applications. :: Cultural diversity and contextualization are fundamental for the better appreciation and analysis of experimental works, so we also organize guest sections from various countries, and retrospectives contrasting contemporary and classic authors in a creative and playful way. :: We digitally release documents/works through the development of a creative and collaborative platform addressed to all audiences. :: We seek to organically create a sustainable model for the creation and promotion of experimental art, working in a collaborative, multidisciplinary and international manner in ALL THE STAGES of the project. This is how we have partnered with over 40 institutions including festivals, universities, teachers, curators and artists across Europe, the US and Latin America.
Ana Santos Co-Director & Head of Production BA in Graphic Design and Photography. She works as a freelance art director and web designer. Founder member of MAD.
Nöel Palazzo Co-Director, Head of Executive Production & PP.RR.
Screenwriter and novelist. She has directed a couple of internationally awarded films and also lectures and writes essays as a film critic. Since 2008 she's been a member of the iotaCenter’s Advisory Council (Los Angeles, CA) and coordinator of the Spanish speaking community at the Visual Music Village.
Kike Ramírez Technical Producer
BA in Telecommunications Engineering from the UMA. Responsible of International Communication at vjspain.com. Author of Visual, Interactive & Augmented Reality installations. Hardware & Software Designer / Generative Graphics and Creative Coding programmer. http://vjspain.com/usuarios/kike 37 | www.puntoyrayafestival.com
:: COLLABORATORS
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:: MISCELLANEA
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