Six films about the sensual experience of space and bodies in time. Black lets us (newly) experience the movie theater as a place of assembly and a time of concentrated perception. Optic Nerve combines the fragility of the filmic medium with the fleetingness of our sensations to a contemplation on memory and empathy. UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS navigates the limits of what can be perceived: How can we show what our eye doesn’t see, and how can we narrate what we don’t remember? Ears, Nose and Throat reconstructs a crime at night from the memories of a female witness. At the center of Losing Sleep is a programmer and his inability to turn his back on the world in sleep. Walled Unwalled provides evidence of the political implications of sound and the resistance of hearing.
 
ANOUK DE CLERCQ, Black, BE 2015, s/w, 35mm, 5' (stumm)*                                       
BARBARA HAMMER, Optic Nerve, US 1985, Farbe, 16mm, 16'30'' (o.D.) 
VIKA KIRCHENBAUER, UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, DE 2020, Farbe, digital, 12'30'' (Engl. OF, Engl. UT)
KEVIN JEROME EVERSON, Ears, Nose and Throat, US 2016, s/w, digital, 11' (Engl. OF)                                                                     
DOUG PORTER, Losing Sleep, CA 1996, Farbe, digital, 14'30'' (Engl.OF)                                                                            
LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN, Walled Unwalled, DE 2018, Farbe, digital, 21' (Arab. und Engl. OF, Engl. UT)

 *This film is presented only as a 35mm film and therefore cannot be shown at this online edition of the film series.