• A Broken Mirror Still Reflects •
September 2021 Program
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The Missing Commas I & II
Niyaz Saghari • 8 min 38 sec • 2020
Synopsis
Shot during the lock down in the spring of 2020, Missing Commas combines images of our daily family life confined to the small garden and the empty train station with the sounds from 50’s Sci-Fi film and songs from old nursery rhymes that resonate other pandemics in human history. A capsule of worries and concerns about humans and animal kingdom inferences, power of nature, an extinction looming closer and parenting in times when force of nature challenges the sense of safety you are supposed to create.
Artist Bio
Niyaz Saghari is an Iranian born, Bristol based film-maker. Graduating from Film Directing from Art University of Tehran, she continued her studies on the MA Animation at Newport. Besides following professional work in animation, she has been directing short documentaries and making experimental films. Her work focuses on urban life in her home towns of Tehran and Bristol. Joining Bristol BEEF has been a sweet return to experimenting with analogue formats.
Wear & Tear
Jason Robinson • 8 min 06 sec • 2021
Synopsis
It's been a weird year.
Artist Bio
Jason Robinson is a moving image artist working primarily in video, sound, performance, and animated gifs. He is an associate professor of digital art at The University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA.
Fortuna
Laure Subreville • 25 min 50 sec •
• password – fortuna •
Synopsis
Fortuna is an island film where the border between land and water overlaps. It is an initiatory and inner journey where men face isolation and expectation. The title Fortuna refers to the myth of the wheel of fortune, famous in the Middle Ages. Symbol of changes in social conditions, this circular story teaches us that the world is constantly changing. The first part of the shooting was filmed at the CIAP on the island of Vassivière in a particular context, straddling the confinement period announced on March 17, 2020.
The film questions the geographical notion of ecumene, of land that has emerged and inhabited by man. Beyond these spaces, man more rarely ventures into the ereme, the desert. It loses its bearings, gives up a certain domination of nature and itself becomes a desert. The relationship to the surrounding space, the one that separates us from the group, then from the other and finally the living space around oneself operate on the principle of concentric circles that extend to the limits of the territory.
Artist Bio
Laure Subreville is a visual artist who lives and works in Bordeaux, France.
Graduated from the Fine Arts of Bordeaux in 2017, Laure Subreville spent a year at the Pavilion, an international creation residency in Bordeaux in 2018. She worked with Ange Leccia and developped a unique project around a first collective of men practicing wrestling. Laure Subreville then continued her work within the framework of two residences in France. The "artist in business" program enabled her to shoot in a sharpening workshop, Durousseau Outils Coupants, in Cenon and to produce the film Jean-Baptiste. She joined the traveling residence <3 with her Plein air project and exhibited her work at Confort Moderne in Poitiers, at LACS & LaVitrine in Limoges and at La Fabrique POLA in Bordeaux. Social, ethnological and political issues have become major in the artist's videos and today form the basis of her work.
She’s currently pursuing her plastic and video research around various projects. Fortuna, a fictional short film is being edited on the Vassivière islands with the help of the CIAP and with private partners at the Moulin de Constance in Charente-Maritime. The island universe fully inhabits the artist's work. This project is supported by the Support for Artists Facing the Crisis grant from the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA.
Finally, a large-scale project in French Guiana will be produced in December 2021 with a new documentary Camopi One, centered around musical and ethnological issues with the Wayãpi community in the village of Camopi. This project is in partnership with the Ensemble Variances (contemporary music), Thierry Pécou (composer), the Amazonian Park, Massala production and the ethnomusicologist Jean-Michel Beaudet.
About Maverick Laporte (camera assistant)
Maverick Laporte, Bordeaux Fine Arts graduate. He generally works on a family, friends and performative dimension, delegating for example the shooting or integrating relatives into the filming process. The film Fortuna represents an important step in his path, opening perspectives in the writing and production of more ambitious projects.
Clouds, Clouds (…) We Knew Nothing
Annemarie Cilon • 2 min 30 sec • 2011
Synopsis
The Film "Clouds Clouds (...) We Knew Nothing" is made in Amsterdam in The Netherlands in 2011. In the Film you see the image of an Urban Landscape. The camera work is taken in one shot from a static position, the moving parts of the film are the clouds, the smoke, the birds and the moving trees in the wind. The smoke clouds are from of the coal-fired power station in Amsterdam (The Hemweg Centrale). The Hemwegcentrale is closed since the end of december in 2019. The narration in the film is from the novel "The Life and Strange Surprsing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, written in 1719. The text is an excerpt from page 47: (..) We knew nothing where we were, or what country were we driven to, be it an island or the main, inhabited or uninhabited (..) The film is made from a visionary view of the landscape that has changed over time. And not knowing where we have ended up in this world. Clouds are formed by smoke, we can no longer tell the difference. The film touches on subjects such as 'the makeable world, time, change, industrialization, the ignorance of humans and the preservation of nature.
July 2021; Annemarie Cilon
Artist Bio
Works & lives in Kampen/Overijssel/The Netherlands
EDUCATION
2006-2009 Fine Arts / Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy Amsterdam
2004-2006 Fine Arts/ Art Academy Minerva Groningen
2005 Basic Course Photography Fotoacademie Amsterdam
I am an artist/researcher based in Kampen/Overijssel/The Netherlands.
I work in a variety of media, from walks to maps, from photography to film, from audio to compositions, from drawings to texts, from performances to installations.
My artworks have often a social critical layer that is performed in a poetic way.
My work area consists The Human and Non-Human World, Local Natural Places, The Urban City and The Human Personal Environment. Underlying themes are the relation between The Makeable World, Space, Language and Identity.
As part of my work I quote or use phrases of poets, philosophers and writers in the fields of philosophy, geography, architecture, anthropology, science, spiritual ecology, mindfulness and the knowledge of Traditional Wisdoms.
I studied Fine Arts at Minerva Academy Groningen, The PhotoAcademy Amsterdam & The Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam.
Annemarie Cilon
www.annemariecilon.nl
speakingland@live.nl