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autrement, la Molussie / anders, Molussien 2012, Nicolas Rey PARIS 1. Anders, Molussien
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In the Traveler’s Heart 2013, Distruktur (Gustavo Jahn & Melissa Dulius) BERLIN. LaborBerlin
Screening
"The last machine". Analogue Film Centers in Berlin and Paris
17 Nov 2016 – 18 Nov 2016
Event times
Thursday, 17 Nov 2016, 8.15 pm
Friday, 18 Nov 2016, 6.30 pm & 8.30 pm
Address
- Augustinerstraße 1
- Vienna
Vienna - 1010
- Austria
As part of the Vienna Art Week, the Film Museum will focus on different settings where celluloid is not considered obsolete and is instead very deliberately chosen as a medium.
About
"No activity can become an art until its proper epoch has ended and it has dwindled, as an aid of survival, into total obsolescence," Hollis Frampton states in an essay describing analogue film as the "Last Machine." While the idea that analogue film is obsolete and outdated is mostly recited in the context of today’s media industry, a kind of counter-movement has emerged in cinephile circles and within the art world: it seems many are only now rediscovering the singularity and beauty of this last mechanical art.
LaborBerlin functions as an independent film collective revolving around analogue film and, logically, an analogue film processing lab. The structure of the Berlin group echoes that of L'Abominable, a Paris workshop and artist collective that has been supporting, accompanying and helping develop analogue film projects for the past 20 years.
"The Last Machine" highlights a representative selection of works that arose from these institutions. Through dialogue with protagonists from these groups, it also gives insight into the circumstances and frameworks that allow film to live on despite its industrial supersession, helping it unleash its unruly forces into new orbits of our worldview.
The series will include talks with guests Bernd Lützeler (LaborBerlin) and Nicolas Rey (L'Abominable).
Film and artist list:
