small encounters

Thursday 4 May 2023
7pm doors open / 7:30pm screenings

"small encounters" presents 10 experimental films all presented on 16mm. By utilizing the materiality of celluloid film, each artist pushes to rupture the mundane to reveal the potential for the mystical within daily life. Whether shot in urban, institutional, or domestic environments, each film maneuvers around the rigidness of these spaces to explore a more poetic encounter with place. With works spanning from 1980 through 2023 the programme charts a canon of analog filmmaking which centres tactility and lyricism in the study of the everyday.

Programme:

Fall (AKA Wall Street) - Jim Jennings, 1980, 6 min.

Close Quarters - Jim Jennings, 2005, 9 min.

Libation - Kobby Adi, 2022, 1 min.

Kennington Study - Matt Feldman, 2023, 4 min

Rehearsal - Nina Porter, 2023, 4 min

Music for Skeletons - Kobby Adi, 2023, 4 min

Intimate Archives - Rambisayi Marufu, 2022, 5 min

Gestures of Intimacy, Shirine Shah, 2023, 4 min

Minor Matter - Nina Porter, 2022, 3 min

Beijing 1988 - Rose Lowder, 1988 - 2011, 12 min