ALMOST BACK TO THE FUTURE

4 - 5 DECEMBER @ WORM Rotterdam

Almost Back to the Future is a 2-day festival that is all about analogue moving images and optical sound; a celebration of the ‘real’ film medium with a programme of audio-visual performances, films, presentations and installations.

Almost Back to the Future focuses on the future of the film medium, with a focus on contemporary artistic developments embedded in a historical context.

Saturday, 4 December & Sunday, 5 December 2021

Film programmes

Performances

Sunday, 5 December 2021 (11.30-17.00)


Photographic Garden (12.00-13.45)
Presentation & Film program #4
Mothlight - Stan Brakhage - 16mm, 4min
Stadt in Flammen - Schmelzdahin/Jürgen Reble - 16mm, 5min
To the Beach - Robert Schaller - 16mm, 10min
Rhus Typhina - Georgy Bagdasarov & Alexandra Moralesova - 16mm, 3min
Konrad & Kurfurst - Esther Urlus - 16mm, 7min
The Secret Garden - Phil Solomon - 16mm, 23min
Noisy Licking, Dripping & Spitting - Vicky Smith - 16mm, 4min

Film program #5 (14.00-14:45)
Psychedelia program
“Your Favorite Flower” Guided Meditation by Laura Huxley - LP (20min)
Radiance: the Experience of Light 1978 (16mm film) + Live sound by Dalin WaldoOooOoo & Joakim Moesgaard (20min)

Film program #6 (15.00-15.45)
Slow Action - Ben Rivers - 16mm cinemascope (40min)

Performance #4 (16.00-16.45)
Ebb and flow - Visual by Lichun Tseng + Sound by Robert Kroos (40min)

Installation 11.30 - 17.00
Adele Dipasquale - Cyanotype

Installations

Almost Back to the Future is initiated by the members of Filmwerkplaats and is supported by WORM, Gemeente Rotterdam and Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht.

MORE ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHIC GARDEN:

Saturday, 4 December 2021 (12.00-17.00)


Opening (12.00-12.30)
Installations
Grand Finale - 16mm film panorama - Esther Urlus & Nico Komen
Adele Dipasquale - Cyanotypes

Performance #1 (12.45-13.15)
Moord - Music: Cinzia Nistico; Visual: Esther Urlus; Flutist: Klaasje Nieuwhof (20 min)

Film program #1 (13:15-13:45)
EarthEarthEarth - Daïchi Saïto - 35mm, 30min

Film program #2 (14.00-14.15)
Alfred - Esther Urlus - 16mm, 6min
Migrating film - Ana Bravo Perez - 16mm, 3min
Intertropical Vision - Adriana Vila Guevara - 16mm, 5min

Film program #3 (14.30-15.15)
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon - Tomonari Nishikawa - 16mm, 10min
The Sound Drifts - Stefano Canapa - 35mm, 8min
The Exquisite Corpus - Peter Tscherkassky - 35mm, 19min

Performance #2 (15.30-16.15)
IMPROV session - Live sound by Ji Youn Kang; 16mm visuals by Filmwerkplaats members

Installations (16.15-17.00)
Grand Finale - 16mm film panorama - Esther Urlus & Nico Komen
Adele Dipasquale - Cyanotypes

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