Istanbul Experimental 5th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
Salt Galata
May 8 – May 12, 2024
Still from Light Leak (2021)
©Nate Dorr
©Nate Dorr
Auditorium
Salt is hosting the 5th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, organized by Istanbul Experimental. This year’s program features selections of novel works from contemporary experimental cinema and two talks.
This free-admission program is open to everyone. All films will be screened in their original language with Turkish subtitles. For more information, click here.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 8
15.00 First Hermanubis: Initiation, Michael Alexander Morris, 2024, 40’
16.00 Short Selection: Film Memory
Idu Dani / Uploaded Memories, Igor M. Toholj, 2023, 18’27”
El Chinero, Un Cerro Fantasma [El Chinero, A Phantom Hill], Bani Khoshnoudi, 2023, 11’21”
There, Where She is Not, Sarah Ballard, 2022, 7’
Light Leak, Nate Dorr, 2021, 8’20”
Agua y más agua [Water and More Water], Francesca Svampa, 2022, 6’12”
17.00 Short Selection: Essays #1
(Un)earthing – Plant Knowledge and Dreams, Louise Boer, 2022, 8’28”
Parallel Botany, Magdalena Bermudez, 2023, 11’08”
Algorithms of Beauty, Miléna Trivier, 2022, 20’
18.00 Efficiency Exhibition, Di Hu, 2021, 53’
Thursday, May 9
15.00 Short Selection: Analog Works
Embers from Yesterday, Aflame., William Hong-xiao Wei, 2023, 10’40”
And So It Came About (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy), Charlotte Pryce, 2023, 13’
Damp Moss, Christopher Thompson, 2023, 4’22”
Why Are You Image Plus?, Diogo Baldaia, 2023, 9’
Here are some Images, Yannick Mosimann, 2023, 6’04”
In Littleness, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, 2022, 8’15”
Grain Cloud Atmosphere, Martin Moolhuijsen, 2023, 7’
16.30 Short Selection: First Experiments
Základy Práce Slunce [Foundations of the Work of the Sun], Jakub Štourač, Anna Luňáková, 2023, 14’09”
A Disordered Dictionary, Zhouyi Ye, 2023, 9’39”
Holy Blood, Jonathan Rochier, 2023, 4’58”
Anthology of Nine Souls on Their Way to Death, Penelope Zouganeli, Giuseppe Circelli, 2022, 10’51”
Micro Battles, Altay Erlik, 2023, 2’12”
On My Way Home, ZHI XUAN LIN, 2022, 4’31”
Terrifying Holes Compilation, Katharina Aae, 2021, 4’54”
18.00 Short Selection: Animation #1
Lunatic, Robin Noorda, 2024, 16’
Light Play (Vicious Cycles #3), Wobbe F. Koning, 2023, 3’19”
Caprice x², Claudia Ungersbäck, 2021, 3’37”
Language Unknown, Janelle VanderKelen, 2022, 6’10”
Labirent Faresi [Labyrinth Rat], Uğur Savaş, 2023, 4’14”
Reptilian Freeze Reflex, Anna Hogg, Lindsey Arturo, Rachel Lane, 2022, 1’35”
Disappearing Acts, Sarah E. Jenkins, 2022, 3’43”
Friday, May 10
15.00 Short Selection: Essays #2
8 Mart 2020: Bir Günce [March 8, 2020: A Memoir], Fırat Yücel, 2022, 15’
Manuale di cinematografia per dilettanti: Vol. I [A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I], Federico Di Corato, 2022, 20’
Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War, Leah Loftin, 2023, 12’13”
Le film que vous allez voir [The Film You Are About to See], Maxime Marinot, 2023, 11’
16.30 Short Selection: Found Footage
36, Rezan Uğurlu, 2023, 9’24”
Ill Composto, Josh Drake, James Hollenbaugh, Jeremy Moss, Caleb Smith, 2023, 3’38”
Forms with Space and Distance and Hills, Jason Moyes, 2022, 3’12”
Long Time No Techno, Eugenia Bakurin, 2022, 4’
Minutiae: One Film, Two Cuts, Miljana Nikovic, 2022, 6’6”
Reversal, Diane Nerwen, 2023, 6’34”
The Big Job, John Dawson, 2022, 2’
Trouble with Johnny, Paul Echeverria, 2023, 4’33”
Transmission, Nicole Blundell, 2023, 2’
17.30 Damnatio Memoriae, Thunska Pansittivorakul, 2023, 108’
Saturday, May 11
14.00 Enez, Emmanuel Piton, 2022, 39’
15.00 Rafael Hastings Film Project
The Island of the Immortals (A Legend from the Time of Ho-Chi), Rafael Hastings, 1974, 7’47”
Unconditioned Unhiding and/or An Approximation of the Act of Disappearing, Rafael Hastings, 1974, 7’37”
Legend of Two Gardens (From an Anonymous Document Collected by Octavio Paz), Rafael Hastings, 1974, 7’53”
The Four Celestial Poles (From a Stone Testimony filmed in Sechín, Casma, Peru), Rafael Hastings, 1974, 7’53”
16.00 Talk: José-Carlos Mariátegui, “On Hastings Films”
17.00 Last Things, Deborah Stratman, 2023, 50’
18.00 Short Selection: From the Desktop’
Newly built dream, Chanmin Kim, 2023, 22’38”
La Mécanique des Fluides [The Mechanics of Fluids], Gala Hernández López, 2022, 30’
Sunday, May 12
13.00 Short Selection: Essays #3
6000 Mensonges [6000 Lies], Simon Rieth, 2023, 5’
Apoptosis, Antonio Arango Vázquez, 2023, 12’03”
The Empty Sphere, Stéphanie Roland, 2022, 19’
14.30 Talk: Serdar Kökçeoğlu, “Contemporary Turkish Composers and Cinema”
16.00 I 2 aye, Richard Philpott, 2023, 56’
Salt is hosting the 5th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, organized by Istanbul Experimental. This year’s program features selections of novel works from contemporary experimental cinema and two talks.
This free-admission program is open to everyone. All films will be screened in their original language with Turkish subtitles. For more information, click here.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 8
15.00 First Hermanubis: Initiation, Michael Alexander Morris, 2024, 40’
16.00 Short Selection: Film Memory
Idu Dani / Uploaded Memories, Igor M. Toholj, 2023, 18’27”
El Chinero, Un Cerro Fantasma [El Chinero, A Phantom Hill], Bani Khoshnoudi, 2023, 11’21”
There, Where She is Not, Sarah Ballard, 2022, 7’
Light Leak, Nate Dorr, 2021, 8’20”
Agua y más agua [Water and More Water], Francesca Svampa, 2022, 6’12”
17.00 Short Selection: Essays #1
(Un)earthing – Plant Knowledge and Dreams, Louise Boer, 2022, 8’28”
Parallel Botany, Magdalena Bermudez, 2023, 11’08”
Algorithms of Beauty, Miléna Trivier, 2022, 20’
18.00 Efficiency Exhibition, Di Hu, 2021, 53’
Thursday, May 9
15.00 Short Selection: Analog Works
Embers from Yesterday, Aflame., William Hong-xiao Wei, 2023, 10’40”
And So It Came About (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy), Charlotte Pryce, 2023, 13’
Damp Moss, Christopher Thompson, 2023, 4’22”
Why Are You Image Plus?, Diogo Baldaia, 2023, 9’
Here are some Images, Yannick Mosimann, 2023, 6’04”
In Littleness, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, 2022, 8’15”
Grain Cloud Atmosphere, Martin Moolhuijsen, 2023, 7’
16.30 Short Selection: First Experiments
Základy Práce Slunce [Foundations of the Work of the Sun], Jakub Štourač, Anna Luňáková, 2023, 14’09”
A Disordered Dictionary, Zhouyi Ye, 2023, 9’39”
Holy Blood, Jonathan Rochier, 2023, 4’58”
Anthology of Nine Souls on Their Way to Death, Penelope Zouganeli, Giuseppe Circelli, 2022, 10’51”
Micro Battles, Altay Erlik, 2023, 2’12”
On My Way Home, ZHI XUAN LIN, 2022, 4’31”
Terrifying Holes Compilation, Katharina Aae, 2021, 4’54”
18.00 Short Selection: Animation #1
Lunatic, Robin Noorda, 2024, 16’
Light Play (Vicious Cycles #3), Wobbe F. Koning, 2023, 3’19”
Caprice x², Claudia Ungersbäck, 2021, 3’37”
Language Unknown, Janelle VanderKelen, 2022, 6’10”
Labirent Faresi [Labyrinth Rat], Uğur Savaş, 2023, 4’14”
Reptilian Freeze Reflex, Anna Hogg, Lindsey Arturo, Rachel Lane, 2022, 1’35”
Disappearing Acts, Sarah E. Jenkins, 2022, 3’43”
Friday, May 10
15.00 Short Selection: Essays #2
8 Mart 2020: Bir Günce [March 8, 2020: A Memoir], Fırat Yücel, 2022, 15’
Manuale di cinematografia per dilettanti: Vol. I [A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I], Federico Di Corato, 2022, 20’
Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War, Leah Loftin, 2023, 12’13”
Le film que vous allez voir [The Film You Are About to See], Maxime Marinot, 2023, 11’
16.30 Short Selection: Found Footage
36, Rezan Uğurlu, 2023, 9’24”
Ill Composto, Josh Drake, James Hollenbaugh, Jeremy Moss, Caleb Smith, 2023, 3’38”
Forms with Space and Distance and Hills, Jason Moyes, 2022, 3’12”
Long Time No Techno, Eugenia Bakurin, 2022, 4’
Minutiae: One Film, Two Cuts, Miljana Nikovic, 2022, 6’6”
Reversal, Diane Nerwen, 2023, 6’34”
The Big Job, John Dawson, 2022, 2’
Trouble with Johnny, Paul Echeverria, 2023, 4’33”
Transmission, Nicole Blundell, 2023, 2’
17.30 Damnatio Memoriae, Thunska Pansittivorakul, 2023, 108’
Saturday, May 11
14.00 Enez, Emmanuel Piton, 2022, 39’
15.00 Rafael Hastings Film Project
The Island of the Immortals (A Legend from the Time of Ho-Chi), Rafael Hastings, 1974, 7’47”
Unconditioned Unhiding and/or An Approximation of the Act of Disappearing, Rafael Hastings, 1974, 7’37”
Legend of Two Gardens (From an Anonymous Document Collected by Octavio Paz), Rafael Hastings, 1974, 7’53”
The Four Celestial Poles (From a Stone Testimony filmed in Sechín, Casma, Peru), Rafael Hastings, 1974, 7’53”
16.00 Talk: José-Carlos Mariátegui, “On Hastings Films”
17.00 Last Things, Deborah Stratman, 2023, 50’
18.00 Short Selection: From the Desktop’
Newly built dream, Chanmin Kim, 2023, 22’38”
La Mécanique des Fluides [The Mechanics of Fluids], Gala Hernández López, 2022, 30’
Sunday, May 12
13.00 Short Selection: Essays #3
6000 Mensonges [6000 Lies], Simon Rieth, 2023, 5’
Apoptosis, Antonio Arango Vázquez, 2023, 12’03”
The Empty Sphere, Stéphanie Roland, 2022, 19’
14.30 Talk: Serdar Kökçeoğlu, “Contemporary Turkish Composers and Cinema”
16.00 I 2 aye, Richard Philpott, 2023, 56’
