INDEPENDENT FILM SHOW 11th EDITION
17 - 18 - 19 november 2011
Fondazione Morra Palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara, piazza Dante, 89 Napoli
Thursday november 17 WERNER NEKES h. 08:00 pm
Friday november 18 VISUAL PERCEPTIONS h. 08:00 pm
Saturday november 19 SEXUALITY h. 07:30 pm
curated by Raffaella Morra
The Independent Film Show continues to focus on artists who shun convention and transgress, subverting the rules and structures of the film system. These film/video-makers are more concerned with questions of perception, the phenomenological aspects of the filmic experience, rather than a relatively controlled emotional response, they create an alternative representation of the visible, which, albeit pre-organised in terms of nature, sequence and time, is built up within our nervous system, with the utmost freedom of interpretation.
These three programs reveal true essences of the visible; they are reached through a profound analysis of what the cinema is and the images it can produce in the complex game of interaction with the audience, who are invited to take part in an adventure of perception, freeing the mind of preconceptions and classifications.
Werner Nekes defines cinema as the difference between two frames and in particular the work of the brain in bringing about the merging of these frames. The kine is the smallest particle of the film, a construct of the relationship between space and time, and encapsulates within it two different time segments which, in turn, are associated with the next frame in a process of memorisation.
Visual Perceptions is an introspective journey into the cinema of the mind, i.e., those films that evoke alternative states of perception. Some carry a warning to those suffering from epilepsy or mild symptoms of mental disturbance. The flicker technique, which involves three states of a single process, i.e., the individual frames, their conversion for projection into discontinuous light pulses and the neural response of the eye and the mind to these stimuli, can produce diametrically opposed effects such as violent shocks or profound states of perception such as hallucination or meditation. Experimental cinema in its intimate fusion of method and message achieves the state of renewal of the image that increases the ability to see.
Sexuality demonstrates that freedom of expression that characterises independent film/video-makers, the ability to address all that is human without taboos, a victory achieved at the cost of virulent censorship and drawn out trials often ending in acquittal with no case to answer. A natural sensitive and sexuality, far removed from the exhibition of the forced pleasure of hard-core, displayed before the eye of the audience dropping the barriers of modesty.
The website www.em-arts.org will be newly updated and a colour catalogue in English and Italian will be published with texts by Raffaella Morra, Loredana Troise, and details of all 37 films in the program.
EM Arts
Fondazione Morra
Palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara, Piazza Dante 89 Napoli
Tel. +39 0815641655
info@fondazionemorra.org
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