Emerald Transmutations is part of the EYE on ART program curated by the FIBER FESTIVAL

image: Afronauts (Frances Bodomo, 2014)

International Film Festival Rotterdam 25 Jan - 5 Feb 2017) - what a great line up of films, installations and events, such as the Balck Rebels program:

Many democratic societies are facing the implications of the cultural divide and emerging racism. In film history there is no other movement that has been investigating and addressing these issues as thoroughly as black cinema. Filmmakers throughout the African diaspora have been commenting on this divide, since the birth of cinema up until this very day. In Black Rebels IFFR presents films about and predominantly by black people resisting this divide. The programme features Dutch and European premières and classics in all genres. There is plenty of variety from feature films, short films, drama, (music) documentaries to experimental films, science fiction and video art. Barry Jenkins, the director of Moonlight will give a masterclass, there will be exhibiting art installations from Keith Piper (Robot Bodies) and Tirzo Martha (Testament of Hope and Failutre) and there will be various talks with filmmakers. The Black Rebels programme will also host a vibrant four-hour talk show, Minding the Gap, that will not only discuss the cultural divide, but also the rich influence of black culture on the arts. The talk show will feature guests including prominent director Charles Burnett of the L.A. Rebellion film movement.

Emerald Transmutations

An experiment in digital alchemy inspired by the surrealist parlour game Exquisite Corpse and by the Emerald Tablets, the foundational hermetic text in Western alchemy. Starting with the “prima materia” of two scenes from celluloid film history, the combined scenes were passed along between seven “digital alchemists” who each performed a process of transmutation on the material in an attempt to turn base metal into gold. By Ian Magor, D.N. Rodowick, Jacques Perconte, Polly Stanton, David Verdeure, Rosa Menkman & Patricia Pisters. / 00:19:00 / 2016 / United Kingdom / World Premiere at the Alchemy Film Festival. I will also present at the artist' filmmaking symposium.

Necsus # Home is online now.

Film from Victor Kossakovsky from 2005. Discovering a sense of self captured in a mirror. Director Kossakovsky covered for two years all mirrors from Svyato. His two year old son Svyato is now going to discover himself in the mirror. 

Moonlight and The Day of Perpetual Night (2012). More about this beautiful art from  Yang Yong Liang on his website.