Impakt Event Reynold Reynolds: Reynolds unable to attend due to Iceland's volcanic ash cloud ! Alternative program. Seeing that all flights from and to Schiphol Airport have been cancelled, Reynold Reynolds will not be able to attend Wednesday's Impakt Event revolving around his work. At a later date this spring, we will organize a new Impakt Event at which the maker will appear in person to tell us all about his work and sources of inspiration. On Wednesday 21 April, an alternative program will take place at the same time and location as announced: 19.00 hours in cinema 1 of film theater 't Hoogt. The program will consist of a selection from Reynold's work and two 16mm films by Stan Brakhage.
Program: Secret Machine, Germany 2009, 10 min (Reynold Reynolds)''In this piece I was thinking of the first filmmaker, Muybridge, and his motion studies and relationship to science. He began analyzing horses running and then dedicated his life to his motion studies of humans and animals. (...) Time is about movement and change, like our experience of reality. Without change life does not exist. Photography does not capture this experience. In Secret Machine I compare different filming techniques to the motion of the body. The film camera becomes another measurement tool in a way a video camera cannot. My intention was to make an art piece from the point of view of a machine, specifically a camera.''
Six Apartments is a poetic document of decline and deterioration -both physical and conceptual. Six isolated residents of six different apartments live their lives unaware of each other. They eat their food, wander between rooms, bathe, watch television, and sleep. For them, this is life.
A young woman descends into madness or that is what seems to happen, as the film's nonlinear narrative and mix of grainy black-and-white and lucid color tend to confuse what is real and what is hallucinated or dreamed. It immerses you in a harrowing dark night of the soul.
“Burn” is a narrative collage, with people and allegorical creatures. A house burns from the inside while its occupants focus on the emotional issues of their lives. The inhabitants serve life sentences with no remission in a structure of insecurity - while impending disaster is ignored. An absent minded couple sit calmly reading as fires erupt in their clothing, books and furniture. They nonchalantly swat at he flames with a stoic inattentiveness. “Burn” embraces an anti-narrative structure yet intense drama is found in the conflagration about to envelope the couples' abode. Finally a decisive act is taken leading to the possibility of a miraculous event.
"A sequence of domestic vignettes from the sunken suburbs. In the house, the stagnant atmosphere has slowly thickened to liquid. The inhabitants try to carry on as normal but beyond the borders of asphyxiation; communication is limited and expression difficult. Filmed entirely underwater in a submerged house to create an atmosphere unlike any other film.”- Shot in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
5 short loops transferred from S8mm film, 10 min. An autonomous symphony of falling bodies. A succession of image sequences shows the human figure falling through the cityscape towards violent annihilation by the natural forces of fire and water.
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Stan Brakhage - Mothlight, 1963 Brakhage's most radical exploration into the inflection of light through his raw materials initially occurred in response to his oppressive economic situation. When he had no money to buy film stock, he conceived the idea of making a film out of natural material through which light could pass... Brakhage collected dead moths, flowers, leaves, and seeds. By placing them between two layers of Mylar editing tape, a transparent, thin strip of 16mm celluloid with sprocket holes and glue on one side, he made Mothlight (1963), 'as a moth might see from birth to death if black were white.' The structure of Mothlight is built around three "round-dances" and a coda. Three times the materials of the moths and plants are introduced on the screen, gain speed as if moving into wild flight, and move toward calm and separation; then in the coda a series of bursts of moth wings occurs in diminishing power, interspersed with passages of white .
Stan Brakhage - Night Music, 1986 Part of Three Hand-Painted Films. The other parts are Rage Net (1988) and Glaze of Cathexis (1990).
--- Datum: Woensdag 21 april 2010, 19:00 uur Locatie: Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt, zaal 1, Hoogt 4, Utrecht Entrée: 8,- Euro (CJP/U-pas, 65+, student: 7,- Euro) Reserveren: via ‘t Hoogt: 030 - 232 83 88 / info@hoogt.nl Meer info: www.impakt.nl 
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