Acousmatic Echoes of Ruchový archiv, 1968 – 1989.
A composition curated by Jonáš Kucharský, NFA Prague. Commissioned by ARSENAL ASSEMBLY #3, Berlin. Soon available online.
Program note:
Sara Pinheiro’s composition, curated by Jonáš Kucharský of Prague’s Národní filmový archive, explores Barrandov Studios’ long considered lost Foley archive. Established in the late 1950s, the archive had a major influence on the sonic landscape of Czech cinema into the 1990s. Pinheiro’s piece presents digitized sounds from tapes recently found in the archive, offering a glimpse into this vast sonic treasure. Using the sounds acousmatically, Pinheiro investigates how we perceive mediated sounds when taken out of their original context and explores sound’s translation between cultures. The work raises questions about the boundaries between sound and music, particularly in the realm of Foley and sound effects. It is also a contribution to debates around the preservation of transient actions and reflects on the epistemology of sound in the age of recorded media. By presenting the heterogeneous contents of the Foley archive, the composition attempts to answer the question: What does Czech cinema sound like? This work-in-progress offers a unique perspective on Czech film history, sound preservation, and the nature of mediated sound in audiovisual art.
Full composition available here.
Picture by Florent Laplace, Národní filmový archive, thanks to Jonáš Kucharský.
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2023 – 30′ – UK
a film by Michelle Williams Gamaker.
premiered at South London Gallery
More info here.
2022 - 33' - AT
A film-essay by Olena Newkryta.
2021 – 18′ – NL/UK
a project by Dan Walwin for David Dale Gallery
Like clock is a work made up of multiple borrowed and familiar aspects, assembled on its own terms. The essential premise would seem to be about staging a gathering-together in a place that appears to have its own rules.
Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Creative Scotland.
Selected for and supported by Glasgow International 2021 Across the City.
2021 – 8′ – AT
a video by Katharina Swoboda.
2020 – 10′ – UK
a project by Michelle Williams Gamaker.
producers: Lara Goodband (RAMM, Exeter) and Teresa Grimes (Tintype, London).
The Silver Wave is a 10-minute film based on an Iñupiak woman named Ada Blackjack who was the only surviving member of an ill-fated mission to Wrangel Island in 1921. Themes of ecology, the precarity of the environment we live in and what isolation feels like will be recounted through the diaries of Ada Blackjack. Her words echo our current experiences of being faced with long-term isolation and social distancing.
a project by Katharina Swoboda and Kamen Stoyanov
a short-fiction and exhibition
“A film about an unusual encounter in front of the Monument to Alyosha on the Bunardzhika hill in Plovdiv and some archival photographs. Through the means of the song, the film shows two different points of view on the monument, its prehistory and how mythologies are born. The main characters Vasil and Katarina respond to the Alyosha song, created in 1966 and enjoying great popularity, with the Alexey Skurlatov song, specially composed for the film.”
Please visit the project’s website. Trailer below.
2017 – 14′ – AT
A project by Katharina Swoboda.
“”Marguerite’s Desires” is a video work about French Feminist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936). The work makes a connection between two places founded by Durand: the pet cemetery Cimetière des Chiens and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris. Durand, a former actress at Comédie-Française, became interested in politics after the Congrès féministe international in 1896. She then founded the journal “La Fronde” (The Sling), a journal solely written and edited by women. Marguerite had a lion, which she lovingly called tiger and which brought her also publicity for her political campaign. In 1899 she founded the pet cemetery Cimetière des chiens in Asnières-sur-Seine, close to Paris. Although an animal lover, she founded the cemetery for purely hygienic reasons. In 1932, she donated her extensive collection of journals and literature to the government, and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand was founded. It was the very same place where Durand died in 1936 of a heart attack.” (by k. s.)
2013 – NL/FR/FL
madame b. is a project by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker, based on Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary.
It has been shot in Åland and in Paris and it has several forms:
For more information, pease visit the project’s website.
2012 – 8′ – NL
An installation by Dan Walwin.
HD video installation, continuous loop, stereo sound, flatscreen monitor, speakers, microphones, amplifiers, specific seating arrangement for room dimensions.
The whole soundtrack is Foley.