Catalogue International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013

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Spectrum Shorts

Spectrum Shorts

Blind Colour

Filme para poeta cego

How free are we really? Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Suddenly you can see colours. Lots of colours.

Gustavo Vinagre

Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 17:00 LantarenVenster 2 Mon 28-1 14:45 LantarenVenster 2

Releasing Human Energies Mark Toscano

Releasing Human Energies brings to life an iconic image that has come to symbolise the human face of disappearing analogue film culture, in the shape of an old-fashioned instructional on human capital and profit maximisation. Voiced by film artist Morgan Fisher. USA, 2012 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 6 min, English

Film for Blind Poet

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties for the work of the young director. In an ambiguous way the film reveals the fine line between high literature and fag-end vulgarity. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Brazil/Cuba, 2012 | colour, DCP, 25 min, Portuguese Prod: Juliana Vicente | Prod Comp: Preta Portê Filmes e Produções Culturais | Sc: Gustavo Vinagre | Cam: Thais Taverna | Ed: Rodrigo Carneiro | Prod Des: Carla Comino | Sound Des: Raymi Morales-Bres | With: Glauco Mattoso, Akira Nishimura | Print/Sales: Preta Portê Filmes e Produções Culturais

Twice Over Simon Payne

Prod: Mark Toscano | Print/Sales: Mark Toscano

Two Russians in the Free World Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager

Simon Payne’s Twice Over features layers of re-filmed video, from which the texture and noise of analogue decay, combined with the artist’s authoritative colour mixing, recalls antecedents such as the work of David Hall and Paul Sharits but allows the piece to enter a territory of its own. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

UK, 2012 | colour, video, 12 min, no dialogue

A dialogue between two men which poses a deeper question: Why and for whom do artists create? The narrative telescopes out to include the story of its own making, as the artists depict themselves debating plot-line and meaning as well as the virtues (or lack thereof) of their collaboration. Wonderful. WORLD PREMIERE

USA, 2013 | colour, video, 30 min, English Prod: Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager | Prod Comp: American Trance Productions | Sc: Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager | Cam: Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager | Ed: Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager | Prod Des: Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager | Sound Des: Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager | Music: Erik Moskowitz, Amanda Trager | With: Joshua Mack, Sasha Jampolsky, Amanda Trager, Erik Moskowitz, Robert Janitz | Print/Sales: American Trance Productions | www.americantrance.com

Prod: Simon Payne | Sound Des: Simon Payne | Print/Sales: LUX | www.simonrpayne.co.uk

Bust That Paradigm Paradigms are made to be broken! A programme that brings you Persian pickles, new ways of looking at familiar habitats and an Elysian electric toothbrush. Public SCREENINGS Fri 25-1 12:30 LantarenVenster 2 Sat 26-1 19:45 LantarenVenster 2

Rear Window Timelapse

Persian Pickles

Jeff Desom

Jodie Mack

Fitting epilogue to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic with a reconstruction of the actual view on the courtyard, created using modern technology. An all-encompassing image littered with plot elements. Winner of the Golden Nica at the Ars Electronica festival.

During the psychedelic 1960s, paisley patterns – originally Iranian – became immensely popular. In Persian Pickles, Jodie Mack ups the ante by editing the colourful motifs on 16mm into a dazzling visual experience. Highfrequency cut and paste.

Luxembourg, 2012 | colour, DCP, 3 min, no dialogue

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Prod: Jeff Desom | Print/Sales: Jeff Desom | www.jeffdesom.com

USA, 2012 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, no dialogue Prod: Jodie Mack | Cam: Jodie Mack | Sound Des: Jodie Mack | Print/Sales: Jodie Mack | www.jodiemack.com

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