MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON + THE MAGIC CLOCK | Live: Johanna Sandels & Morskio Oko Collective finner sted på Aurora Fokus Kino i Norge.
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Meshes of the Afternoon and The Magic Clock – two short fiction films about drifting between dreams and reality, illusion and imagination, and the conscious state. The Magic Clock is innocent and playful, while the other is surrealist and mysterious. Sound artist Johanna Sandels presents a new live score featuring a mix of classical music and eastern European tunes from the Morskio Oko Collective.
The FilmsMeshes in the Afternoon blurs dream and reality in this visually elegant short. A woman walks into a house and falls asleep. The film explores light, shadows and repetition as visual effects representing her subconsciousness as she drifts away.
Inspired by the European surrealists Maya Deren created this experimental short in the US together with her husband Alexander Hamid. The two of them did all the work and also starred in the film. It is a simple but expressive story where the woman repeatedly sees a faceless character in her dreams. Each time she tries to reach the mysterious figure she is brought back to the starting point trapped in a looping sequence. Experimental camera angels, creative editing, montages and slow motion make it more and more difficult to distinguish illusion from reality. With Meshes of the Afternoon Maya Deren established independent avant garde cinema in the United States and inspired a generation of new filmmakers.
The Magic ClockWelcome into this exciting world of knights, princesses, dragons, magical creatures and talking trees. Director Ladislaw Starewitch was a cinemagician who created beautiful stop motion animations and made the film industry move forward with his innovative special effects.
The film starts as a live action film where a clockmaker is the inventor of an elaborate mechanical clock decorated with little characters. His daughter, Yolande, is playing with her puppets and dolls in his workshop. When the clock strikes 12 all the puppets and dolls come alive, and we enter the secret mediavel world inside of the clock with knights and dragons. It is a stop motion animated fairytale with a king who searches for a groom for his daughter. The film also has a third part where Yolande is sleepwalking and enters an enchanted forest where she meets magical and fun creatures. In this part of the film, you can see the innovative way the director worked. He blended live action scenes and puppetry with stop motion-animation in playful ways. Towards the end all the three universes in the film comes together, and dreams, realities and imagination is mixed into some remarkable scenes – including a fight with a giant and scary serpent. Starewicz’ film techniques were truly creative, and he often made real images and animated characters interact. The Magic Clock is a weird and charming fairytale taking us to an extraordinary universe, making it a unique film in the history of cinema.
The MusicJohanna Sandels is a sound artist and composer who studied at the Art Academy in Tromsø and is now based in Vienna. She works with field recordings, self-made Very Low Frequency antennas, hand-made instruments, and speakers. Her work explores resonance and overtones. Through installations and performances, she engages with the specificities of place, materiality, and chance. For Tromsø Silent Film Days, she has invited the Morskie Oko Collective, led by Juliette Beauchamp (violin) and Lauriane Maudry (clarinet), to perform and compose a live score together for The Magic Clock and Meshes of the Afternoon. The French duo merges traditional music from Eastern Euope, baroque, improvisation, poetry and experimental.
This silent film consert is a collaboration with Tromsø World and INSOMNIA.
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