Event is free of charge

The first evening is already here and we invite you to experience cinema as a ritual in Hofas at 21:00

Program:

21:00 𝟐𝟓 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝, 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦

The global fascination with films, which clearly includes social viewing experiences and encounters with film beyond the confines of the cinema, establishes film as ritual as a highly extended and culturally diffuse phenomenon. The concept of cinema as a ritual suggests that you see and accept that films act as a door to the awareness of the audience, affect their actions and their view of the world – essentially transforming them in one way or another. Cleansing the cinema from the lobby filled with descriptive posters and promotional displays, branded refreshments, and the ticket tearing usher to the advertisements and trailers noise, we invite you to the “Suspaustas laikas” program to study the “ritual” not around the cinema but in it by experiment

22:00 Ecopoetics I: Begin by Observing with Your Fingers – Dialogues

This program is curated by Vilnius-based cine-artist Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy. Using cinema as a form of conversation, this program suggests the possibility that humans are not the center of life, nor fully conscious of the systems they claim to rule over. While we believe language sets us apart from other life forms and that our consciousness allows us to alter our environment, the program shows that the environment shapes us just as much, if not more
The films in this program are arranged as couplets – a pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length. Each film asks questions that the one after answers or complicates further. The filmmakers’ projects begin to move away from representation and imitation, towards increasing complexity through layering and the parameters of cinema. Staging, direct interventions on film, multiple exposures, optical or contact printing are all deployed as familiar rituals of the genre.
The question to ask ourselves at the end of all this is: now has this program of ecopoetic experimental cinema offered us an alternative way of looking and being in the world?

On Narrative

– The Witch’s Cradle / Maya Deren / 1944 / 12’30”
An unfinished surrealist film assembled posthumously, featuring Pajorita Matta and Marcel Duchamp.

– Pwdre Ser: The Rot of Stars / Charlotte Pryce / 2019 / 6’35”
Inspired by visionary experiences and 19th-century photography, this film explores the mythical substance “pwdre ser.”

On Lyrical Matter (screening on 16mm)

– The Earth Song of the Cricket / Stan Brakhage / 1999 / 3’00”
A hand-painted film that echoes the movements and rhythms of a cricket through visual effects.

– Babbler, Fairy and Thrush / Karel Doing / 2022-2023 / 3’44”
An abstract experience created through superimposition, blurring the lines between near and far, detail and overview.

On Contact

– Negative\Positive Film / Federica Foglia / 2023 / 14’22”
A camera-less film collage merging erotic and nature film elements, exploring the intersection of female and insect forms.

– Bosco / Stefano Canapa & Lucie Leszez / 2023 / 8’00”
A visual breakthrough of reworked forest images, creating a hypnotic black and white experience.

On Correspondence

– DKR (4395) / Yann Beauvais / 1991-2023 / 3’23”
A decomposition of prints, exploring frame dissolution and mimetic representation over time.

– ForYannFromRose / Rose Lowder / 2014 / 2’44”
A film-poem paying homage to Yann Beauvais, highlighting life’s unforeseen connections.

Epilogue

– Dust Poetry / Nan Wang / 2013-2014 / 9’10”
A mesmerizing combination of frames, dust, and nature clips, edited into a hallucinogenic visual and auditory experience