Wenhua Shi pursues a poetic approach to moving image making, and investigates conceptual depth in film, video, interactive installations and sound sculptures. His work has been presented at museums, galleries, and film festivals, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival, Athens Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, West Bund 2013: a Biennale of Architecture and Contemporary art, Shanghai, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism, and the Arsenale of Venice in Italy.
Archivo Shub is made up of two programs of short films that present the born traces from individual and collective creation in film laboratories and workshops; fragile and imperfect, they reveal their status as artisanal and processual cinema. This curation invites you to experience a compost cinema, which recycles images and sounds turned into waste to formulate new powers of life from the territory today called Colombia.
Where do the Old Ignored Gods Go? (Giulia Mazzone & Giuseppe Spina, 2022)
Laser Drawing - see the Sound and hear the Light Personalized modular synthesizer, sound and laser light, +/- 40 min. Analog audio-visual improvisation by Alberto Novello aka JesterN
Dates:
Thursday, June 15, 2023 (All day) to Saturday, June 17, 2023 (All day)
Joseph Plateau, who invented the phenakistoscope, the first device capable of producing the illusion of a moving image from a sequence of still images, provided a definition of the persistence of vision in 1829. In his research into visual physiology, he described the effects of light stimuli and colors on the retina, determining their duration to equal one tenth of a second. Yet this value is not constant: it increases as the eye adapts to darkness, hence the sensation of movement which is characteristic of a film projection. Plateau thought that the eye sees at a rate of ten images per second and that, when they are superimposed, the brain links them into a single, continuous, moving image.
Mire’s annual festival, PRISME, highlighting an inventive and engaged contemporary analog cinema, interacting with other practices such as photographic, visual, sound & performative arts, will take place from Wednesday December 6th to Sunday December 10th 2023 in Nantes and around (France).
To make up the program of this 6th edition, we are looking for : – recent films shot on celluloid (2020 and later) – moving image installations – expanded cinema performances.
