PATTERNSJAN KULKA
24 DE OCTUBRE. 20:00H
C. CORRAL DE CANTOS 4. MADRID
PATTERNS
Format: 60mm film (custom format) Duration: ~45min
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. The film examines the cinematic potential of patterns. What regular, repetitive structures on film can do when being screened in various ways. This film was made to present a unique opportunity to experience the essence of the fundamental nature of patterns directly in live action. It is an audiovisual struggle between chaos, and order. A Logos brought to life, set into an intensive luminous specta- cle. An immersive sensorial play in which the eye is constantly trying to catch up and the brain struggling to make sense of it all. The interference of various spatial and temporal patterns creates numerous visual creations, variations and modulations on the screen and, subsequently, in you mind. Out of all this arises something new nowhere else to be seen.
GRACIAS PABLO Format: 70mm Duration: ~16 min
Ready made piece based on a given footage of a mysterious 70mm film reel of unknown origin. This film brings together elements of an ac- tion movie, helicopters, chasing scene and rollercoaster ride into a unique immersive cinematic experience. Emphasis on the element of the space, wrapped around the twisted tracks and speed invocated by a dynamic rhythmical bursts of light reanimates the individual frames of original footage into unprecedented space-time eruption.
THE ARCHEOSCOPE
Archeoscope is an analog hand operated special projecting apparatus for live film performances. It was designed for a film understood as an “articulation of light“. Invented in order to examine and experience the essential aspects of film as a live luminous phe- nomenon and our perception itself. To reconsider the established tradition and technology. It can project all standard film formats, but also materials like transparent tapes, bandages, laces, etc. The only way to witness the projection of the Archeoscope is to attend a live projection and see it with your own naked eyes as it is technically irreproducible.
24 DE OCTUBRE. 20:00H
C. CORRAL DE CANTOS 4. MADRID
PATTERNS
Format: 60mm film (custom format) Duration: ~45min
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. The film examines the cinematic potential of patterns. What regular, repetitive structures on film can do when being screened in various ways. This film was made to present a unique opportunity to experience the essence of the fundamental nature of patterns directly in live action. It is an audiovisual struggle between chaos, and order. A Logos brought to life, set into an intensive luminous specta- cle. An immersive sensorial play in which the eye is constantly trying to catch up and the brain struggling to make sense of it all. The interference of various spatial and temporal patterns creates numerous visual creations, variations and modulations on the screen and, subsequently, in you mind. Out of all this arises something new nowhere else to be seen.
GRACIAS PABLO Format: 70mm Duration: ~16 min
Ready made piece based on a given footage of a mysterious 70mm film reel of unknown origin. This film brings together elements of an ac- tion movie, helicopters, chasing scene and rollercoaster ride into a unique immersive cinematic experience. Emphasis on the element of the space, wrapped around the twisted tracks and speed invocated by a dynamic rhythmical bursts of light reanimates the individual frames of original footage into unprecedented space-time eruption.
THE ARCHEOSCOPE
Archeoscope is an analog hand operated special projecting apparatus for live film performances. It was designed for a film understood as an “articulation of light“. Invented in order to examine and experience the essential aspects of film as a live luminous phe- nomenon and our perception itself. To reconsider the established tradition and technology. It can project all standard film formats, but also materials like transparent tapes, bandages, laces, etc. The only way to witness the projection of the Archeoscope is to attend a live projection and see it with your own naked eyes as it is technically irreproducible.
JAN KULKA
Jan Kulka (1985) is an experimental filmmaker from Prague working predominantly with analog technologies. Using the Archeoscope, a special opto-mechanical projecting apparatus he invented and constructed for live film performances, Kulka aims to find radically different ways of perceiving, understanding and working with film material, alongside new approaches to the act of projection.
His custom-made and hand-operated device can project all standard film formats (8, 16, 35, 70mm etc.), but also materials like transparent tapes, bandages, laces, fabrics and bubble wraps. It has four independent light sources and optical systems that make it possible to project four different areas of a film strip at the same time. The only way to truly witness a projection of the Archeoscope is to attend a live screening with the physical presence of the apparatus and its operator, as it is technically impossible to capture and reproduce the experience because of a common camera’s fixed frame rates, something the Archeoscope doesn’t have.
Kulka’s Archeoscope performances are a sensation along the experimental film festival circuit, including IFF Rotterdam, Alud — Barcelona, Process festival — Riga and Diffraktion — Berlin, among others.
Jan Kulka (1985) is an experimental filmmaker from Prague working predominantly with analog technologies. Using the Archeoscope, a special opto-mechanical projecting apparatus he invented and constructed for live film performances, Kulka aims to find radically different ways of perceiving, understanding and working with film material, alongside new approaches to the act of projection.
His custom-made and hand-operated device can project all standard film formats (8, 16, 35, 70mm etc.), but also materials like transparent tapes, bandages, laces, fabrics and bubble wraps. It has four independent light sources and optical systems that make it possible to project four different areas of a film strip at the same time. The only way to truly witness a projection of the Archeoscope is to attend a live screening with the physical presence of the apparatus and its operator, as it is technically impossible to capture and reproduce the experience because of a common camera’s fixed frame rates, something the Archeoscope doesn’t have.
Kulka’s Archeoscope performances are a sensation along the experimental film festival circuit, including IFF Rotterdam, Alud — Barcelona, Process festival — Riga and Diffraktion — Berlin, among others.