CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS:

SMALL NOTES ON SMALL GESTURES
A selection of contemporary Super 8 films from Brazil

THURSDAY APRIL 7TH @ MONO NO AWARE
33 FLATBUSH AVENUE, BROOKLYN NEW YORK - LIMITED ATTENDANCE TO 22 - MASKS REQUIRED
DOORS 7PM – STARTS PROMPTLY AT 8PM – $8 SUGGESTED DONATION – FILMS, DRINKS & DISCUSSION.

TRT, 44 minutes. Additional time for discussion / Q & A with artist Tetsuya Maruyama IN PERSON
Join us in welcoming Brazilian artist Tetsuya Maruyama who will be sharing a program of Super 8mm moving image work from Brazil.

PROGRAM :

Revém Natura - Ж - 7’ -s8 double-projection - silent - 2013
“Earth” (that is any something) “has no escape from heaven (that is nothing)” (Eckhart von Hochheim)
Revém Natura, formed part of a larger research called CI.NE (Natural Expanded Cinema) – an attempt to produce a bio-centered, bio-rhythmic cinema, in contact with the non-human. A practical experience of incorporation of Amerindian perspectivism in the cinema-system. The experience of situating this system – from the Super 8 film (thrown and recovered from the sea) and its devices (screen, projectors) - in a sympoiesis (doing with) with the living system, with the water, the sea, the “environment”. A simple attempt to demolish the false split nature/culture, a suggestion of anthropophagic cinema, “anthropophagy: swallowing the environment” (H. Oiticica).

A Film is a Battleground - Nikolas Candido - 5' - s8 single-projection - digital sound - 2022
First the sound over the white tip. Metallic noise. Letters. Dismembered letters. The warlike sound. The stains. Red layers on white. A fragment of sound and image textures that evoke the symbolic battle of filmmaking.

Dedentro - Mateus Rosa - 3’ - s8 single projection - digital sound - 2018
This film is an ancestral experience about the emergence of humanity, of how they moved through the mud in their first moments of life.

Visita ao Museu / Visit to the museum - Lígia Teixeira & Francisco Benvenuto - 4’ - s8 single projection - digital sound -2021
An afternoon at the museum, one soup of flowers and blueberries. Filmed while in quarantine during the covid-19 pandemic. Developed at home with blueberry, autumn flowers and herbs soup. March 2021.

Véu II / Veil II - Rodrigo Faustini - 3’ - BW s8 single projection - digital sound - 2022
“Veil” is a series that depends on chance and opportunity: access to film projection, screening venue, some mysterious roll of film as image, detuned AM radio for sound. “Veil I” was the projection of a roll of film shot on a camera revived after 40 years of rest. “Veil II” is the first public projection of a roll of film found undeveloped on the streets of Brazil, shot in kodachrome circa 1974 and processed as B&W negative in 2020: chance images of ghosts, veiled by time, codified by intimacy, void of context and color, they reassemble anew on the screen.

Ressucita-me / Resurrect Me - Coletivo Atos da Mooca - 6’ - s8 single projection - digital sound - 2017
In front of the spinning wheel, the old woman spinning. Between cocoons-skeins, the child at play. Thread, fabric, texture, text - a discourse on language, on process. "Resurrect me" is the poetic-experimental result of a collective construction filmed in Super 8, in a single shot. Cine-trance.

Metamorphosis of Narcissus or an Onion On the Head - Duo Strangloscope & Ángel Rueda - 4’ - s8 double-projection -silent - 2016

Confined Flux - Helder Martinovsky - 3’ - s8 single projection - digital sound - 2022
Brief attempts to escape from a confined flux.

Rasgos / Rips - Rosana Cacciatore - 3’ - s8 single projection - digital sound - 2022
To protect themselves from the wild chaos, human beings build amazing fortresses around themselves, but this protection suffocates them, so they paint a window to the sun, a simulacrum, a crude copy of the colorful chaos, to support life.

Ode to Young People - Natália Poli - 3’ - s8 single projection- digital sound - 2022
A distant collection of insect corpses. What's left. A distant collection of human bones. What's left. Vanitas symbols, memento mori. Finitude. Ephemerality. Impermanence.

ANTFILM - Tetsuya Maruyama - 2’ - s8 single projection - magnetic sound on film- 2021
How can one go against the system when you are part of it?

ABOUT TETSUYA MARUYAMA: 
Tetsuya Maruyama (Yokohama, 1983) is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes film, performance, sound, installation and everything between. His work departs from re-contextualization of found banal materials and textures, as a liminal record of quotidian observations. He received BS Arch from University of Buffalo(2007) and certificate in Montage and Editing of Image and Sound from Escola de Cinema Darcy Ribeiro(2016). His works have been exhibited widely at festivals, museums, and galleries, including Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, MUTA, Slavonian Biennial, Kurtzfilm Hamburg, Dobra, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Process, Mono no Aware, Kunstbezirk Stuttgart, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Cámara Lúcida, MAM Rio de Janeiro, Cinemateca Uruguaya, among others. Inspired by the Haitian folktale of the same title, his debut-feature “The Owl’s Tale”, won the best film award at VIII Festival Márgenes (Madrid, Spain) in 2018. Maruyama currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he founded Megalab, an artist-run film lab, and continues to work in its proximity to nature.

MONO NO AWARE SCREENING SERIES:
The CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA series will present the work of artists, film-makers and curators who are traveling or presenting special interactive programs in-person. Our hope is to engage the community by showing work with a focus on post-screening discussion.