Alpha Channel
Saturday
Izibene Oñederra / Spain, 2013, 5’25’’, Spanish subtitles
“I said I was a filmmaker… and nothing has changed. Amid those landscapes roams the soul, now sure, now uncertain of its own existence, while the body is and is and is, and has nowhere to go.” Animated short film based on the poem “Torture”, by Wislawa Szymborska.
Dora García / Belgium, 2013, 53’, Spanish subtitles
Every week, a group of people have met up to read the same book by James Joyce for the last 30 years. They have read it over and over, and every time they reach the final word, an enigmatic “the”, they go back to the first word, “riverrun”. The text appears inexhaustible, its interpretation endless, the inconclusive nature of the reading exciting. The world seems to cease to exist outside the reading room—or does it exist because of it?
Csaba Gellár / Hungary, 2013, 6’ 36'', Catalan subtitles
In this animated short based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story, an ambitious young journalist strikes out into Blackwood in search of terrifying inspiration for her new article.
Percy Stow and Cecil M. Hepworth / UK, 1903, 9’32’’, Original version
Restored in 2010 by the British Film Institute, this is the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book. The narrative, with an aesthetic based on the drawings of Sir John Tenniel, the original illustrator of Carroll’s book, aims faithfully to relate the adventures of Alice as told by her author.
Charlie Paul / UK, 2014, 89’, Spanish subtitles
Johnny Depp pays a visit to his friend and hero, the cartoonist Ralph Steadman, last of the gonzo original visionaries and one of the leading British radical artists of our times. In conversation with the actor, Steadman unravels his life and work, with stories like those about Hunter S. Thompson, and shares his primary aim: “I learned to draw […] to try and change the world.”
Daniel Sax / Germany, 2014, 2’18’’, Catalan subtitles
Inspired by the short film by David Shiyang Liu and created using the recorded words of Ira Glass, Daniel Sax puts images to this talk about overcoming creative doubt and awareness of the existence of a threatening gap that lies between our taste and our abilities.
TEDGlobal 2009 / UK, 2009, 18’ 49’’, Catalan subtitles
Our lives, our cultures, are made up of many superposed stories. Writer Chimamanda Adichie explains how she found her true cultural voice, while warning of the danger of listening to a single version.
Thibault de Fournas / France, 2013, 2’28’’, Original version
In this graduation project, graphic designer Thibault de Fournas reviews the evolution of typeface, from paper to the screen, in a poetic animation. Starting with possible variations in style, type and shape of letters on paper, Fournas goes on to summarise the history of typeface in the cinema, from static posters to the more artistic innovations introduced by Saul Bass.
James W. Griffiths / UK 2014, 4’33’’, Catalan subtitles
With this adaption of excerpts from five works by H.G. Wells (The Time Machine, 1895; The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1896; The First Men in the Moon, 1901; In The Days of the Comet, 1906; The World Set Free, 1914), James W. Griffiths pays tribute to the writer in this work of great cinematographic poetics.
Fabrizio Bajec and Elsabeth Produccions / Presentation and screening
“Poetry is capturing the sea in a bowl.” With this Italo Calvino quote as a title, the members of Elsabeth production company, together with the poet Fabrizio Bajec, present a look at the tradition of poetic cinema and contrast what they have coined the “hungry viewer” with the classic film buff. They close the session by explaining the experience of trying to film poetry with an excerpt from their latest project, L’esilio e la nube, featuring Bajec.
WITH: Fabrizio Bajec / Elsabeth Produccions
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