The 6th Braziers International Film Festival will be held Aug 30 - Sept 1, 2024 at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, UKMore details at https://www.biff.braziers.org.uk
Regular Deadline: March 30, 2024Late Deadline: May 18, 2024
Submissions are open to films of every genre - but with a focus on experimental shorts.
Outsider Lenses (15*) Visions of Haiti Thu 19 Oct 2023, 18:30,Cinema 2
This programme brings three formally different works by filmmakers based in the US, who approach Haiti as outsiders.
From the position of an outsider, each work seeks to document and understand the customs and everyday life of the Haitian communities they encounter, serving as fleeting historical glimpses of rituals and ceremonies performed on the island.
A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations between Eric Theise and The Asthmatic
Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with The Asthmatic (Sigrid Harmon), a one-woman band and sound collage artist. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Orphaned labels. Free-floating symbology. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches from crowdsourced data.
“"I've always been interested in that kind of film. That kind of window film where you place your camera and leave it, over a long period of time. Canadian Pacific took about three months. When I moved into that studio I immediately saw the window and thought there could be something done there . What interested me about the shot were the horizontals: train tracks, the water, the mountains, the sky. Very few verticals in it.
