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BISFF2024|SIPHON虹吸:恋地、游戏和显影学/Topophilia, Play, and Developology


SESSION 1 恋地 Topophilia



“空间”(space)如何变为“地方”(place),而时间在这个过程中又有何种参与度?走进一方园林,奔向一片原野,踏过一条河流,在被位置与空间驱使的实验电影中,图像成为一种精神内外之间的牵引之力。当代社会剥夺了地理空间最后的尊严,它们被量化,是为了被更完整地开发和规划,而图像艺术似乎成为抵御其丧失最后神秘的方法,维系着我们与脚下的、与目光所及的、唯一而又柔软的精神脐带。


How does "space" transform into "place," and what role does time play in this process? In experimental films that are driven by location and space, images become a force that pulls between the inner and outer realms of the spirit. As we step into a garden, run across a field, or traverse a river, the image serves as a tether between ourselves and the world around us. Contemporary society has stripped geographical spaces of their dignity, reducing them to quantified entities for greater development and planning. Visual arts, on the other hand, seem to be the last resort to preserve the remaining mystery of these spaces, maintaining the unique and delicate spiritual umbilical cord that connects us to the ground beneath our feet and the landscapes that meet our gaze.



Zero Woods of the Wild Place, Josh Weissbach, 2023



SIPHON - 1


A Short Film About Vanishing|关于消失的短片

Davide Palella

2024|0:03:00|Italy|No Dialogue|Asian Premiere


Swells|景恒游记

Kaiwen Ren

2024|0:04:42|US, China|Chinese Dialect|Asian Premiere


Tell It to Spring|向春天诉说

Juyi Mao

2024|0:07:15|US|No Dialogue|World Premiere


When The Crows Walk Home|乌鸦回家时

Rosa Prosser

2023|0:14:14|UK|English


Point Ahto|阿赫多海岬

Kaiwen Ren

2024|0:20:15|US|Chinese Dialect, Chinese Mandarin|Asian Premiere


July Twenty-seventh, Tour of Suzhou Gardens|七月二十七日,游苏州园林

Getong Wang

2024|0:08:00|China, US|Chinese Mandarin|Asian Premiere


Zero Woods of the Wild Place|野地空林

Josh Weissbach

2023|0:12:30|US|English|Chinese Mainland Premiere





SESSION 2 游戏 Play



实验电影生产着一种直观的“延异”(différance),符号在不断开放的游戏过程中持续生成着:形成秩序或跳出秩序,迂回策略,失去和赋予,每个段落和每个图像尝试成为彼此的中间态,并由此产生了绵延的意义。烟花、雪景、版画甚至色彩本身,看似均质的材料去除了中心和根茎,去除了方向,蔓延和流动本身重新塑造了图像的身体。


Experimental film generates an intuitive "différance," where signs continuously proliferate within an open-ended play: forming or disrupting order, employing circuitous strategies, losing and gaining. Each segment and image attempts to become an intermediary state of the other, thereby giving rise to a protracted meaning. Fireworks, snow scenes, prints, and even color itself—seemingly homogeneous materials—are stripped of their center and root, devoid of direction. It is through their proliferation and flow that the body of the image is reshaped.



A Slippage in Five Movements, Valentina Rosset, 2024



SIPHON - 2


Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke|花火声影

Tomonari Nishikawa

2023|0:06:00|Japan|No Dialogue


Colostrum|Calostro|初乳

Diego Felipe Cortés

2024|0:10:00|Colombia|Castilian Spanish|Asian Premiere


Maxillae|颌骨

Pierre Yves Clouin

2024|0:02:20|France|No Dialogue|International Premiere


Projection|投射

Gevorg Galstian

2024|0:05:06|Russian Federation, Turkey|No Dialogue|Asian Premiere


2020

Tom Bessoir

2024|0:01:41|US|No Dialogue|International Premiere


Snowy Train|눈 내리는 기차|雪之列车

Kim Ji-hwan

2024|0:12:35|Korea, Switzerland|No Dialogue|Chinese Mainland Premiere


A Slippage in Five Movements|Um Tropeço em Cinco Movimentos|五段滑移

Valentina Rosset

2024|0:14:42|Brazil, US|No Dialogue|Asian Premiere


It's Called Round Like a Head|像头一样圆

Andrew Wood, Molly Pattison

2024|0:06:47|US|No Dialogue|Asian Premiere


A Monster with its Mouth Agape|大嘴怪

Steven McInerney

2024|0:10:00|UK|Japanese|Asian Premiere






SESSION 3+4 显影学 Developology



从胶片时期的“冲洗”(developing)到AI生成图像所需要的“开发”(developing),“显影学”试图从图像技术的两级出发,从化学分子到一串串代码,并试图从中间相遇,尝试从其生产性角度探讨图像的本体,及其社会属性。如果有可能,显影学应该成为一门研究图像如何“显现”的学科,究竟是什么“生成”了图像?从档案到档案,从算法到算法,从通用标准化到通用标准化……从看似总被推翻的媒介形态背后的逻辑仍有一定的连贯性。因为图像并不由于呈现了世界而成为了世界,图像本身就是世界。


From the "developing" of film in the analog era to the "developing" required for AI-generated images, "developology" attempts to bridge the gap between these two ends of image technology. It delves into the ontology of images from the perspective of their production, exploring everything from chemical molecules to strings of code. The goal is to find common ground between these two extremes. Ideally, developology should evolve into a discipline dedicated to studying how images "manifest." What, exactly, "generates" an image? From archive to archive, from algorithm to algorithm, from universal standardization to universal standardization... despite the seemingly constant overturning of media formats, there remains an underlying logic that connects them all. For images do not simply become the world by representing it; images themselves are the world.




Remote Occlusions, Utkarsh, 2024



SIPHON - 3


A Flawless Garden|Um Jardim Perfeito|无瑕花园

Enrico Piffer

2024|0:08:41|Brazil, UK|Portuguese|World Premiere


Phantasia|幻影

Jorge Moneo Quintana

2024|0:05:07|Spain|No Dialogue|Asian Premiere


BIPM|国际计量局

Hsin-Yu Chen

2024|0:02:37|France, Taiwan|No Dialogue|Asian Premiere


Remote Occlusions|远程遮蔽

Utkarsh

2024|0:15:38|India|No Dialogue|Chinese Mainland Premiere


Is All Around|无处不在

Bram Ruiter

2024|0:03:28|Netherlands|Flemish Dutch|Asian Premiere


This Is Not|这不是

Slawomir Milewski

2024|0:04:30|Poland, UK|English|Asian Premiere


Latitude Mesh|纬度网格

Agnès Hayden

2024|0:18:13|Canada, Spain|English|Asian Premiere





Diffused Surface, Yuxuan Qi, 2024



SIPHON - 4


Phantastikè|人工幻象

Liu Yewen, Liu Shuai

2024|0:07:01|China|English, Chinese Mandarin|Chinese Mainland Premiere


Tidal|潮汐

Vasilisa

2024|0:09:21|UK|English|International Premiere


Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies|奇身异体:颠覆酷儿身体监视

Benjamin Rosenthal, Eric Souther

2024|0:09:23|US|No Dialogue|Asian Premiere


Diffused Surface|弥散的表面

Yuxuan Qi

2024|0:07:32|US|No Dialogue|International Premiere


I’m About to Dream|快速动眼睡眠

Huang Siyi

2024|0:15:00|China|Chinese Mandarin


Overcome|崩溃

Guli Silberstein

2023|0:07:30|UK|English|Asian Premiere




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