Experimental Animation and Video Art | From Screen to Eternity
UNIT.Verse | B.12

06.09 | 20:45

16+

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From the railway tracks taken from an animated engraving by a Ukrainian artist to the starry infinity of space. This programme invites you on a contemplative journey through diverse artistic experiments. Half of the films explore the language of moving images, the relationship between the viewer and the screen, or pay homage to Eadweard Muybridge and 20th-century avant-gardists. In other artworks, scientific phenomena and concepts inspire imaginative visual forms. The eternity of the Universe rhymes with the infinity of an animated loop, and damaged film stock takes on the appearance of an unknown planet.

Curated by Yuliia Kuznietsova.

Running time 78 min.

  • Bridge
    Mykyta Lyskov

    Ukraine | 03:10 | 2024

    Animation based on engravings by artist from Dnipro (Ukraine) Andrii Sokolenko.

  • The Looking Game
    Ann Upton

    Ireland, United Kingdom | 07:02 | 2023

    "A Two Way Mirror with the Lights Switched Off" Eyes are tracked and attentions plotted as a fictitious audience follows the narrator's orders. They are divided by the screen and though they try, neither can see through to the other side. We can't be sure if the bond they form is reciprocal, or if the audience was ever even there to begin with.

  • A Visualization of a Cut
    Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist

    Denmark | 07:19 | 2024

    A Visualization of a Cut is an experimental animated short film in three chapters exploring the connection between the cinematic cut and human relations extracted from home movies. The film is a meditation on life, love and loss explored through montage editing in home movies from six Scandinavian families, the materiality of paper and the thread that joins them together. The film is alternating between analysis and emotion and invites you to rethink the traditional conception of film and film narrative.

  • Lines
    Martin Schmidt

    Germany | 04:09 | 2024

    An aggressive battle unfolds between red and dark blue. The borderlines between the colors vibrate with tension as they fight for their lives.

  • Compre(hen)ssion of Artifacts
    Damian Anache

    Argentina | 05:52 | 2023

    Recursive pixelization and self-referencing of data within a collage. This video repeats fragmented, distorted, and faded elements over and over again, while drifting towards abstract degradations and looped simulations, circling back on itself endlessly until exhaustion, insisting on saying what it already said in the first instance (much like this very sentence). Words, sounds, and textures merge and disintegrate into noise without an apparent pattern but very present nonetheless. The subject stretches, compresses, and expands, once again showing that the possibilities of technological replication can generate subpar prints, leaving a bad impression both on paper and in our minds.

  • O/S
    Max Hattler

    Germany, Hong Kong | 05:00 | 2023

    Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image in O/S functions as an optical soundtrack. Abstract motion becomes sound. What you hear is exactly what you see.

  • The Point of Permanence
    Nana Kawabata

    Japan | 10:04 | 2024

    From the creation of the human race to its final destination of being trapped in the point of permanence.

  • Peel the dimensions
    Jaehyeon Kim

    South Korea | 02:50 | 2024

    Moments where multiple dimensions overlap, connect, and expand are collected.

  • Beautiful Figures
    Soetkin Verstegen

    Belgium, Switzerland | 04:00 | 2022

    Thoughts ripple over the pages of a personal notebook, kept during a stay at different science labs in Zürich. They float from one to another, like a mind map of unfinished ideas on memory, medical imaging, cells, and aging.

  • (D)Infinity
    Taewan Kim

    South Korea, United Kingdom | 03:40 | 2023

    (D)Infinity is a Sci-Fi animation exhibiting chaos and beauty in outer space. Using only graphite and paper the film renders the artist’s own interpretations of dimensional infinity. The universe consists from harmony and balance of the four fundamental forces of nature : Strong force, weak force, gravity, electro-magnetism. If the one of the forces is not in perfect figure relative to other three forces, the universe will collapse.

  • Orbiter
    Steven Woloshen

    Canada | 03:31 | 2023

    A short visit to the surface of a desolate planet, or an inspection of a damaged film print.

  • Chamber of Shadows
    Seyoung Ok

    South Korea | 11:20 | 2023

    <Chamber of Shadows> is a stop-motion animation using photographs of the late 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. transparent acrylic frame's different ratio metaphor materialized screens while also representing different screen ratios that vary with time and use. After printing pictures of the film, photographs, and animation pioneer Eadweard Muybridge on transparent film, It is stop motioned by inserting it into an acrylic frame, and it crosses still image, moving image, 2d and 3d, films and sculptures. It ignites the cinematic imagination and obscures the boundaries of the media. Thus, this animation asks the audience the question, 'What is a movie, an animation, a picture, and a screen?'

  • The solitude of heavenly bodies
    RV

    Belgium | 10:00 | 2024

    The path that leads from the loneliness of the child to the loneliness of the adult, from the world of dreams and magic to the world of rules and measures, is built on bridges of regret connecting the clouds to the earth.