Programme 3 | Memento vivere

Twelve Tales Told
Johann Lurf, Austria, 2014, 4 min, digital, no dialogues.
 
more than everything
Rainer Kohlberger, Germany, 2018, 12 min, digital, no dialogues.
 
Pixillation
Lillian F. Schwartz, United States, 1970, 4 min, digital, no dialogues.
 
The Day Was a Scorcher
Ken Jacobs, United States, 2009, 8 min, digital, silent, no dialogues.
 
2012
Takashi Makino, Japan, 2013, 30 min, digital, no dialogues.
 
*May affect photosensitive viewers.
 
 
3D cinema has been repeatedly linked to, and held back by, expectations that it offers a heightened sense of realism. “A lion in your lap! A lover in your arms!” promised the tagline of Hollywood’s first 3D feature, Bwana Devil —1952—. Story-telling, diary-keeping, world-traveling spectacle — cinema, the ultimate empathy machine, finally delivering the world to us in coherent temporal and spatial depth. In truth, of course, 3D movies distance us from real experience even more than regular cinema does. The distorted scale and grotesque, volumetric renderings of reality render the visible into something veritably alien and abstract, reminding us that life is for living. Cinema is for anything else.
 
This programme is dedicated to dispelling this myth of 3D realism. We begin with structuralist filmmaker Johann Lurf’s triumphant Twelve Tales Told, which compounds the barrage of movie studio logos that greet any well-funded motion picture, creating a musical composition of corporate orchestral jingles and roaring lions to underscore the all-encompassing bombast promoted by Hollywood capitalism. We then get lost in more than everything, the first stereoscopic film by celebrated “noise” artist Rainer Kohlberger, wherein optical patterns and abstractions ripple across our eyes with alarming disparity, which move in conflict with the human brain’s efforts to forge coherent images from its surroundings.
 
Blake Williams
Programme 3 | Memento vivere
Promoted by
Gobierno de Navarra
Organized by
NICDO
With the aid of
Con la financiación del Gobierno de España. Instituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales Acción Cultural Española Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia Financiado por la Unión Europea. NexGenerationEU
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