APRIL 4: OUTER LIMITS - 7:00pm
PETER FORGACS
A program featuring 2 of the key works of Hungarian found footage artist & archivist Peter Forgacs. Redeploying an extraordinary arsenal of European amateur footage, Forgács hauntingly uncovers lost worlds & ordinary lives shadowed by the cataclysm of WWII.
Wittgenstein Tractatus
(1992) 35 mins, is comprised of 7 short video essays combining the philosopher's words with now poignant home movies.
Meanwhile Somewhere... 1940-43
(1994) 52 mins, is a kaleidoscopic portrait of everyday European experience doomed by the rise of fascism.
Followed at 8.40pm by"Spatial Journeys" featuring experimental films by Pip Chodorov and Peter Tscherkassky, then at 9.45pm by Interkosmos. (7.00pm).
APRIL 4: "Outer Limits" - 8:40pm
Spatial Journeys
Charlemagne 2: Piltzer
Pip Chodorov (2002) 22 mins. A striking hybrid experiment in spatiality that combines concert documentary, flicker film, hand-processing & specific cognitive principles.
Parallel Space: Inter-view
Peter Tscherkassky (1992) 18 mins. Austrian filmmaker Tscherkassky pays homage to '60s structural filmmaking by exploring the photographic nature of cinema.
Outer Space
Peter Tscherkassky (1999) 14 mins. Tscherkassky creates a schizoid, avant-garde shocker using Hollywood found footage & strobing effects.
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APRIL 4: OUTER LIMITS - 9:45pm
INTERKOSMOS
Jim Finn (2006) 71 mins
More than pastiche, this candy-coloured mockumentary recreates an era of '70s communist idealism as a band of East Germans travel through space to colonise the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. A hilariously banal romance between two of its cosmonauts ensues. Featuring deadpan German voiceover, stop-motion animation, musical interludes, oddball flight exercises & a bonkers rendition of "The Trolley Song", Jim Finn's debut also boasts a rocking soundtrack (performed by members of Califone, The Dirty Three & We Ragazzi) & a cast & crew that reads like a who's who of the Chicago art, film and indie rock scene.
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