This page lists several Expanded Cinematic Art works showcased or created within the SPECTRAL project.
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Morfologias Fluctuantes
This piece slowly expands into a triptych that, through pendulum movements, evokes not only a temporality without beginning or end, but also a state of transition. This perpetual movement reveals traces of human activity in the form of post-industrial landscapes that did not survive the passage of t...
Chance versus Causality: The New Realists
In Chance Versus Causality: The New Realists filmamker Babeth Mondini-VanLoo uses the principle of chance the visualise the European art movement Nouveau Réalisme, which emerged in Milan in 1960s. The film follows one of its main protagonists, Daniel Spoerri, and his work in San Francisco, Paris,...
Horror Film 1
Horror Film 1 is a performance that features three film projectors and a body. The projections overlap three loops, generating constantly changing color effects. The performer's body, positioned in front of the screen, gradually moves towards the projectors, executing a series of movements that prod...
Imagem Latente
Imagem Latente is built on various exercises aimed at creating moving images using film, including mourning the "lost" image of what was filmed. In a learning process, the work explores direct animation on film, phytograms (cafenol, mint and boldo), performative projection, the macro universe and th...
Artifício I - VI
Texture, detail and color, as well as the ability that images have to summon and re-frame reality, stimulate attention and desire, allowing for a distinct experience of the world. From its development as a craft, to its growth as an industry, film reminds us of its technical dimension - its quality...
p~r~o~j~e~c~t~o~r
A projector has never again emitted rays of red, green or blue, yellow, pink light… The day before, it got jammed in a frame: hand-painted with a permanent black marker.
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Residency PRIMAL LIGHT #03 at TORRE (Porto, Portugal). December 2023.
Nanacatepec
The Nanacatepec rock is traversed by a network that extends without a defined shape. It communicates both below and above the earth with living and dead beings. Its fruits, in the form of mushrooms, are creators and transformers of everything in the world.
Nanacatepec was part of Alud #3 LineUp on 2023
Y no poder...
Multilayer screening in 16mm with images recovered from previous works in which different emulsions and processes are mixed.
Images that are part of the attempt to close a failed creative process. They finally accept their inability at the very moment when they find their capacity.
A work that a...
Desterra (Vint-I) Tres
DESTERRA VINT-I TRES is a work focused on a decentralization of the projection apparatus.
Emulsion, film, loop, screening and sound amplification seen as an immense diagram consisting of a series of waves and vibration. By the scratching of the emulsion the air and void in the space constitutes an invitation to be immersed in the basis of projection and the generation of live image and sound.
Primal Light
Karel Doing is an independent artist, filmmaker and researcher whose practice investigates the relationship between culture and nature by means of analogue and organic process, experiment and co-creation.
During his residency at Laia-Torre he has taken a close look at the plants, flowers and trees...
Eye Ardentia
Ardentía is a word used by spanish seamen to refer to noctiluca in biology, a luminescent plankton that reproduce on the sea surface and is seen at night. It glares on darkness like burning water or stardust. Here acts as an allegory to hypnagogic vision, a free interpretation of pulsating phosphene...
Isentropic
White noise is a type of acoustic signal that is characterized by having equal amount of energy across all frequencies in a specific spectrum. As such, it contains the most information about this spectrum. If you apply this character to the human hearing spectrum, it is a way of hearing all the freq...
KALK'IIN
(the place of the throat of the sun)
SYNOPSIS Focused on the essence of fire as the center of the common, the gathering, the sharing, and the enlightening (physical and spiritual), Kalk'iin takes the audience into a singular cinematic experience. Other than been surrounded, the spectators become the surrounders of the projection, ackno...
Man With Mirror
Man With Mirror
A historical expanded cinema piece with filmmaker's live interaction with his on-screen image which is projected onto a hand-held mirrored screen.
The screen is white one side and mirrored the other, and is used by the performer to either 'catch' the projected image, or reflect it...
Patterns
Patterns is an experimental handmade film created by printing on a 60mm film base. It is intended to be screened as a live film performance using a special projecting apparatus called the Archeoscope created by the artist himself. The film examines the cinematic potential of patterns. What regular,...
Underground Pulses
Pulsos Subterráneos
An expanded cinema performance that observes and listens to visible and underground territories, both physical and intangible, in two regions of Mexico that currently experience or resist mining activities: Zacatecas and Oaxaca.
Performers:
Elena Pardo (Mexico) is a visual artist and director of...
Smokeshow
A collective smoke screen session. Is this the screen that is burning or the speakers? A wake around the fire, a cinephile rite in which some 16mm ghosts and remnants of pop culture will emerge from the smoke.... The tangible medium revealed by the dematerialized surface. Turning around the fire to...
Stromboli Left Hand
Performance for a 16mm projector
In the black beating of shutters things penetrate, ghostly, as islands which have not received their name yet.
A 30 minutes performance in which Riojim plays with his 16mm projector in an instrumentist gesture, creating deep breath out of a frenzy chromatic flush of celluloïd, the projector singin...
Paper Landscape
Paper Landscape is one of a series of self-portrait performances that see Sherwin as a kind of film magician interacting in the live moment with a pre-recorded version of himself. Here, the artist stands behind a transparent screen onto which he applies white paint. This white surface makes visible...
Plant Time
Plant Time relates analog filmmaking processes with a trash heap made of ancient Roman amphorae and is framed by concepts of time drawn from the poet J.H. Prynne’s “Plant Time Manifold” transcripts of 1972.
Part of the program curated by Ricardo Brunn for LaborBerlin for Internationale Kurzfilma...
Inscription, Enduring, Potential
An improvisational, loop-based, expanded cinema and sound performance, part of Maja Milić's long-term project Other which uses found footage as experimental (auto)ethnography. The central aspect is the conceptual idea of gesture as holder or container of subtle cultural history, as well as the body...
Distant Feeler
Distant Feeler was a contraption created by the artist duo Goliatus & Carabida as the result of their attempt at creating a telepathic cinema; a project they worked on from 1977 to 1997. What is left of their project are the remnants of a device called: “Distant Feeler” and a manifesto.
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HRZNT
In nineteenth-century panoramas, viewers were placed in a central, ideal position, each one turning their gaze (and body) in order to be immersed in the illusion of presence before a painted landscape. Movie camera panning is problematic. It does not present utility applied to visual narration. As a...
Fantasmas Cromáticos
A performance executed by recreating the primitive systems of colour photography, not to reconstruct its result but to decompose it – obtaining, on the same screen, sectors in black and white that are immobile and the chromatic separation of the figures seen in movement. The images suggest a critiqu...
hic&nunc
an installation about analog reproduction
hic&nunc is about materiality and reproduction, reconstruction and metamorphosis. The film records an action that crystallises the gestures of the artist at work into a multitude of impressions. We discover details of materials, drips, surfaces and human appearances, creating surprise effects. We wi...
The Mirror Egg
Being home during lockdown inspired me to make this miniature sitcom set where every day something new happens; and to take the camera on walks. The absurd situations for the inhabitants of the filmset and myself result in this layered stream of images. The middle part is an uncut 3 minute roll of f...
Umbráfono
Optical sound performance
An optical reader capable of transforming light stimuli that are projected onto a photosensitive cell into sound. These luminous stimuli are generated by a beam of light passing through celluloid films which are designed from a scheme of relationship between wave frequency ofthe notes and repetition...
Tiny Explosions Up Close
An intimate exploration of the smallest of fireworks: the clac-doigt / point fulminant, via 16mm black & white film projection, lathe-cut vinyl on turntables and live sound.
Melanie Clifford and Matt Davies bring a new work created specifically for Prisme 5 using photochemical film and analogue so...
An Infinite Line Blurring Time
An infinite line blurring time shows how image and sound can be intimately interlinked in a turbulent circularity that can lead to confusion. To achieve this premise, we built a device that helps us to recreate a space in constant change. Out of the frame, we’ll always find another frame to get rid...
Porto, Passagens, Exu
The project “Porto, Passagens, Exu” was developed to study filmic possibilities within the city of Porto, and explore its imagetic and geographic “encruzilhadas” (road crosses, a magical space in the Candomblé tradition in Brazil).
In order to do so, 16mm B/W reversible and negative films were used...
Eon Solar
EON SOLAR is an immersive experience designed for a 360o panorama screen. Its images and sounds explore Nature and man’s cosmovision in its necessity of giving the world a meaning to understand its creation, in order to control it and then, destroy it.
“What happens when our perception is in an in...
