Collecting & Recycling
These films take photographic material as their starting point: From public and private collections and archives, old negatives rescued from a recycling plant, or from the thousands of images stored on internet platforms and databases. Their authors explore the photographic material by developing filmic methods and strategies for appropriating, accessing and scrutinizing them, and thus returning them to the surface of visibility.
A Place I Have Never Been / Adrian Flury / Switzerland / 2014 / 5 min / no dialog
Nijuman no Borei (200,000 Phantoms) / Jean-Gabriel Périot / France / 2007 / 10 min / English
Cinza (Ashes) / Micael Espinha / Portugal / 2014 / 10 min / Portuguese
Calling Mr. Smith / Stefan & Franciszka Themerson / Great Britain / 1943 / 10 min / English
Photograph of Jesus / Laurie Hill / United Kingdom / 2008 / 7 min / English
Very Nice, Very Nice / Arthur Lipsett / Canada / 1961 / 7 min / English
(If I can sing a song about) Ligatures / Abigail Child / USA / 2009 / 6 min / English
Recycled / Lei Lei, Thomas Sauvin / China / 2013 / 6 min / no dialog
Kurashi Ato (Vestige of Life) / Maki Satake / Japan / 2009 / 12 min / Japanese