THE SILVER RECORD | LANDSCAPE(S) RECONSIDERED
Polar Film Lab and Tromsø Kunstforening present two experimental film programs at Verdensteatret as part of their ongoing festival The Silver Record at Tromsø Kunstforening:
Foto credit: Claes Söderquist, Landskap, 1987, 36 min. Courtesy of Filmform.
Curated by Martin Grennberger, Landscape(s) Reconsidered presents four 16mm artworks
Landscape(s) Reconsidered looks at how the notion of landscape, from a broad variety of cinematic perspectives, has been renegotiated, altered and processed by experimental filmmakers. In Gunvor Nelson’s Light Years Expanding, a road movie of sorts, a primarily horizontal movement, live-action animation and meticulous sonic experimentation create a playful, intense and multilayered rendering of the Swedish rural landscape. In Jun'ichi Okuyamas multi-image film Movie Watching, shot on 35mm and projected on 16mm, we see a horizon and a seascape undergoing transformations via the use of vertical shifts and an intricate collage method. In Impromptu Rose Lowder rewound the reel several times in the camera while filming, creating a distinctive temporal fluidity in relation to the locations she visited. In the last film, Landskap, Claes Söderquist examines the flows and densities of water and vegetation in the southern Swedish countryside, stressing duration, variation in light and seasonal shifts, and ultimately the primordial act of looking: “I didn’t want to create any natural poetry; rather I attempted to undress nature, to examine it.”
Light Years Expanding
Gunvor Nelson, 1988, 16mm, 23 min
Movie Watching
Jun'ichi Okuyama, 1982 , 16mm, 12 min
Impromptu
Rose Lowder, 1989, 16mm, 8 min,
Landskap
Claes Söderquist, 1987, 16mm, 36 min
total: 80 min.
Free admission.