Prima Materia

The Man Who Woke Up The Man Who Woke Up is a 1921 silent Western.

Sitting Still A man in a void with his screens and his thoughts.

The Movie Trail The Movie Trail is a 1921 silent Western.

Hemanter Aparanha A superannuated gentleman residing in the countryside is suddenly drawn into the world of theatre. The local group wants him in a Bengali version of a Pirandello play and he becomes involved with one of the players, a young girl in her twenties who, like him, is new to theatre. Against the backdrop of the pandemic and the imminent war in Ukraine, this story of a highly unlikely relationship unfolds even as a strictly conservative society looks on with baited breath. As the pandemic necessitates a hiatus in the rehearsals and the emptiness of his house engulfs him, the lonely gentleman gets sucked into a world of fantasy; his expectations build up and he becomes acutely sensitive to his milieu.

Rossini: Il Barbiere Di ... Ruggero Raimondi (Actor), Mara Bayo (Actor), ngel Luis Ramrez (Director)

Bandits Beware Bandits Beware is a 1921 silent Western.

Third Hermeneutic Third Hermeneutic is an expanded cinema variant of the “new aesthetic” where the performance itself becomes a microcosm of relationships between digital (machine) vision governed by algorithm and software and its manifestation in the physical world. Like all digital works, it simulates an earlier already-familiar form, that of expanded cinema; however, it is an expansion that overlays the historical field with an entirely new, different set of formal approaches, in the process suggesting a re-imagining of what “expanded cinema” entails.

Unfriened: The Movie: wi... Seven friends doing it up in a Skype call. All they want are some slushies. They all love each other and get along! Nothing bad happens and no one dies.

Second Hermeneutic In Second Hermeneutic, the visuals are created by a pair of graphic animated films projected so that they partially overlap, the animated bands and fields of color linked audibly to the soundtrack in an immediately synchronous way – as something appears on screen, there is a directly audible response. This sound emerges from his use of the video camera’s visual output run through his audioboard to the speakers: it is an analogue sonification of the video signal. As a purely audio-visual experience, the performance might seem similar to such early expanded cinema works as Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface (1975) where a series of four film projectors overlap their frames, creating juxtapositions and combinations on screen – as in Second Hermeneutic; however, the difference is instantly apparent in the performance itself – the soundtrack emerges from the interaction of projected imagery resembling the bands and bars of an optical soundtrack, but with the addition of saturated color.

The Wild Wild West The Wild Wild West is a 1921 silent Western.