Istanbul Experimental
4th Istanbul International Film Festival
Salt Beyoğlu
November 23 – November 27, 2022
Still from Wander
Rosa Friedrich, 2022
Rosa Friedrich, 2022
Salt is hosting the 4th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival organized by Istanbul Experimental. This year’s program comprises the Competition section, which presents a selection of new works from contemporary experimental cinema, as well as screenings, talks, and a retrospective of Stan Brakhage.
Competition Films
Bringing together works of experimental cinema, the selection presents 58 short films from 30 countries in 5 different categories, from found footage and analog film to digital production practices and animation. Chaired by American producer and professor Gail Sonnenfeld, the jury members are Argentine curator-art historian Celina Marco, professor Elif Akçalı and video-photographer Ferhat Özgür from Turkey.
Retrospective: Stan Brakhage (1933-2003)
This year’s festival shines a spotlight on Stan Brakhage, one of the leading filmmakers of American avant-garde cinema. Curated by Florencia Incarbone, the program titled Delving Into Imagetic Immanence features selected emblematic films of Brakhage, including Dog Star Man, Eye Myth, and Mothlight. The program highlights his cinematographic and non-narrative approach, defying the cultural industry’s norms.
Talks
Rethinking the Archive organized in collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives and Media Burn Archive will focus on artists working with found and archival footage. In the first part, curator Adam Hart and filmmaker Elizabeth Coffman will tackle the history of protest videos and will continue with filmmaker Ted Hardin, followed by Davidson Gigliotti and Beryl Korot, co-founders of Radical Software and Raindance. Hardin, Associate Professor at Columbia College’s Department of Film and Television Arts, will discuss experimental film production techniques through the phrase “making strange”, which originated in Ireland to describe when “children turn from their parents.”
PROGRAM
Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Wednesday, November 23
15.00 Competition | Dust of Archives, 40’
Film Diaries, Milca Jovcic, Nenad Cosic, 19’47”, 2022, Germany
Slow Truck, Jeroen Van der Stock, 19’, 2022, Japan
16.00 Competition | Tangible Memories, 40’
Datura’s Aubade, Jean-Jacques Martinod, Bretta C. Walker, 15’, 2021, USA
Swalesong, Jacob Cartwright, Nick Jordan, 11’05”, 2022, UK
Time Crystals, Abinadi Meza, 5’33”, 2021, USA
A Wind Grazes Your Door, Jorge Castrillo, 7’31”, 2021, Spain
17.00 Competition | Found Footages, 32’
Fragments Untitled #6, Doplgenger Collective, 6’, 2022, Serbia
Mandatory Training, Patrick Tarrant, 10’15”, 2021, UK
Press Pound to Connect, Alexander Fingrutd, 2’31”, 2019, USA
The First Memory With You, Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh, 4’40”, Taiwan
Following Images Never Happened, Noé Grenier, 7’12”, France
18.00 Competition | Presage, 26’
Juliana Zuluaga, Tiagx Vélez, 26’, 2022, Colombia
Thursday, November 24
13.00 Talk: “Rethinking The Archive”
Moderator: Naz Önen
15.00 Competition | Essays #1, 40’
Everything is Hard (But Not All the Time), Francis Berry, 9’14”, 2022, USA
Other Tidal Effects, Sofia Theodore-Pierce, 6’45”, 2021, USA
Podesta Island, Stéphanie Roland, 23’24”, 2021, France
16.00 Talk: “Relevance of the Future Past Present”
Speakers: Adam Hart, Elizabeth Coffman, Ted Hardin, Davidson Gigliotti, Beryl Korot
Friday, November 25
15.00 Competition | Essays #2, 42’
Pneuma, Fanny Béguély, 29’14”, 2021, France
The Museum Visits a Therapist, Mirjam Linschooten, Sameer Farooq, 19’, 2022,
Netherlands
16.00 Competition | First Experiments, 62’
Beauty and the Best, Aggie Pak Yee Lee, 11’05”, 2022, UK
Early Stages of Carrying the Boulder, Ela Kazdal, 15’, 2022, Turkey
Heimat, Giovanni Montagnana, 20’, 2021, Italy
Incipience, Yaroslav Bulavin, 12’01”, 2021, Russia
Moments, Hurshida Sherkulova, Evgeniya Papina, Surayya Tashpulatova, 6’50”, 2022, Uzbekistan
Ode to Irregularity, Regina Quintana, 6’19”, 2022, Mexico
17.30 Cinema of Stan Brakhage, 54’
Cat’s Cradle, 1959, 6’18”
Burial Path, 1978, 8’02”
The Domain of the Moment, 1977, 14’35”
Eye Myth, 1967, 9”
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1981, 1’50”
Mothlight, 1963, 4’
The Dante Quartet, 1987, 6’
Commingled containers, 1966, 4’
Black Ice, 1994, 2’30”
Stellar, 1993, 2’20”
Chinese Series, 2003, 2’20”
Saturday, November 26
13.00 Competition | Landscapes of Resistance, 95’
Marta Popivoda, 95’, 2021, Serbia
15.00 Competition | Experimental Animations, 62’
16.30 Talk: “Expanded Cinema and Video Art”
Ted Hardin, Columbia College Chicago
18.00 Cinema of Stan Brakhage: Dog Star Man, 46’
Part I, 1962, 30’
Part II, 1963, 5’30”
Part III, 1964, 7’30”
Part IV, 1964, 6’
Sunday, November 27
13.00 Competition | Analog Works, 31’
Bitter Medicine, A Moon, 3’, 2022, USA
Into the Wild, Markus Maicher, 4’17”, 2020, Austria
Plume, Mikee Rollo, 7’20”, 2022, Canada
Pushing Through, Genevieve Bélanger Genest, 8’58”, Canada
14.00 Competition | Women Minor Speculations’, 59’
Nicole Hewitt, 59’52”, 2021, Croatia
15.30 Competition | Darkness Darkness, Burning Bright, 70’
Gaëlle Rouard, 70’, 2022, France
17.00 Competition | Anastatica, 30’
Juana Robles, 30’, 2021, Ireland
Competition Films
Bringing together works of experimental cinema, the selection presents 58 short films from 30 countries in 5 different categories, from found footage and analog film to digital production practices and animation. Chaired by American producer and professor Gail Sonnenfeld, the jury members are Argentine curator-art historian Celina Marco, professor Elif Akçalı and video-photographer Ferhat Özgür from Turkey.
Retrospective: Stan Brakhage (1933-2003)
This year’s festival shines a spotlight on Stan Brakhage, one of the leading filmmakers of American avant-garde cinema. Curated by Florencia Incarbone, the program titled Delving Into Imagetic Immanence features selected emblematic films of Brakhage, including Dog Star Man, Eye Myth, and Mothlight. The program highlights his cinematographic and non-narrative approach, defying the cultural industry’s norms.
Talks
Rethinking the Archive organized in collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives and Media Burn Archive will focus on artists working with found and archival footage. In the first part, curator Adam Hart and filmmaker Elizabeth Coffman will tackle the history of protest videos and will continue with filmmaker Ted Hardin, followed by Davidson Gigliotti and Beryl Korot, co-founders of Radical Software and Raindance. Hardin, Associate Professor at Columbia College’s Department of Film and Television Arts, will discuss experimental film production techniques through the phrase “making strange”, which originated in Ireland to describe when “children turn from their parents.”
PROGRAM
Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Wednesday, November 23
15.00 Competition | Dust of Archives, 40’
Film Diaries, Milca Jovcic, Nenad Cosic, 19’47”, 2022, Germany
Slow Truck, Jeroen Van der Stock, 19’, 2022, Japan
16.00 Competition | Tangible Memories, 40’
Datura’s Aubade, Jean-Jacques Martinod, Bretta C. Walker, 15’, 2021, USA
Swalesong, Jacob Cartwright, Nick Jordan, 11’05”, 2022, UK
Time Crystals, Abinadi Meza, 5’33”, 2021, USA
A Wind Grazes Your Door, Jorge Castrillo, 7’31”, 2021, Spain
17.00 Competition | Found Footages, 32’
Fragments Untitled #6, Doplgenger Collective, 6’, 2022, Serbia
Mandatory Training, Patrick Tarrant, 10’15”, 2021, UK
Press Pound to Connect, Alexander Fingrutd, 2’31”, 2019, USA
The First Memory With You, Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh, 4’40”, Taiwan
Following Images Never Happened, Noé Grenier, 7’12”, France
18.00 Competition | Presage, 26’
Juliana Zuluaga, Tiagx Vélez, 26’, 2022, Colombia
Thursday, November 24
13.00 Talk: “Rethinking The Archive”
Moderator: Naz Önen
15.00 Competition | Essays #1, 40’
Everything is Hard (But Not All the Time), Francis Berry, 9’14”, 2022, USA
Other Tidal Effects, Sofia Theodore-Pierce, 6’45”, 2021, USA
Podesta Island, Stéphanie Roland, 23’24”, 2021, France
16.00 Talk: “Relevance of the Future Past Present”
Speakers: Adam Hart, Elizabeth Coffman, Ted Hardin, Davidson Gigliotti, Beryl Korot
Friday, November 25
15.00 Competition | Essays #2, 42’
Pneuma, Fanny Béguély, 29’14”, 2021, France
The Museum Visits a Therapist, Mirjam Linschooten, Sameer Farooq, 19’, 2022,
Netherlands
16.00 Competition | First Experiments, 62’
Beauty and the Best, Aggie Pak Yee Lee, 11’05”, 2022, UK
Early Stages of Carrying the Boulder, Ela Kazdal, 15’, 2022, Turkey
Heimat, Giovanni Montagnana, 20’, 2021, Italy
Incipience, Yaroslav Bulavin, 12’01”, 2021, Russia
Moments, Hurshida Sherkulova, Evgeniya Papina, Surayya Tashpulatova, 6’50”, 2022, Uzbekistan
Ode to Irregularity, Regina Quintana, 6’19”, 2022, Mexico
17.30 Cinema of Stan Brakhage, 54’
Cat’s Cradle, 1959, 6’18”
Burial Path, 1978, 8’02”
The Domain of the Moment, 1977, 14’35”
Eye Myth, 1967, 9”
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1981, 1’50”
Mothlight, 1963, 4’
The Dante Quartet, 1987, 6’
Commingled containers, 1966, 4’
Black Ice, 1994, 2’30”
Stellar, 1993, 2’20”
Chinese Series, 2003, 2’20”
Saturday, November 26
13.00 Competition | Landscapes of Resistance, 95’
Marta Popivoda, 95’, 2021, Serbia
15.00 Competition | Experimental Animations, 62’
16.30 Talk: “Expanded Cinema and Video Art”
Ted Hardin, Columbia College Chicago
18.00 Cinema of Stan Brakhage: Dog Star Man, 46’
Part I, 1962, 30’
Part II, 1963, 5’30”
Part III, 1964, 7’30”
Part IV, 1964, 6’
Sunday, November 27
13.00 Competition | Analog Works, 31’
Bitter Medicine, A Moon, 3’, 2022, USA
Into the Wild, Markus Maicher, 4’17”, 2020, Austria
Plume, Mikee Rollo, 7’20”, 2022, Canada
Pushing Through, Genevieve Bélanger Genest, 8’58”, Canada
14.00 Competition | Women Minor Speculations’, 59’
Nicole Hewitt, 59’52”, 2021, Croatia
15.30 Competition | Darkness Darkness, Burning Bright, 70’
Gaëlle Rouard, 70’, 2022, France
17.00 Competition | Anastatica, 30’
Juana Robles, 30’, 2021, Ireland
