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PROGRAMME ALTERED IMAGES VOL. V 11.10.2024
7.00 PM DOORS
Hosting the night: Jade Baldo
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CineWave: Films with Live Experimental Scores
MASAL Live Soundscapes for Film 7:45 PM
Performing for the following films🔻
JOSE MACABRA Live Soundscapes for Film 8:25 PM
Performing for the following films🔻
M.E.L.T. Movie Fusion with Live experimental synth band 9:05 PM
Performing for the following films🔻
9:30 PM - 3:00 AM Immersive Beats: Techno and Visual Art
P. Videotapes Warming up with Edgy Visuals 10:00 PM
Dial M for Dermur (Dahc Dermur VIII ): An Immersive Dark Soundscape 11:00 PM
Chicklettes Djs feat. Nuria Aerial: Ascend to Sound and Images 12:30 AM
Hanno Hinkelbein: Techno Odyssey: Hanno's Techno Experience with Dynamic Visuals 1:30 AM
SELECTED VIDEOS FOR Immersive Beats: Techno and Visual Art
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Anima # 1-4 - Vasco Diogo - Portugal - 00:03:28
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Algae - Jesed Moreno - Philippines - 00:11:41
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CLOSET WITCH - My Words Are Sacred - Autojektor - United Kingdom - 00:01:23
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Chroma Culture - Sam Meech - Canada - 00:08:00
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Chromatic Symphony - Hüseyin Mert Erverdi - Turkey - 00:01:56
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Cloud film - Tristen Ives - United States- 00:10:00
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Crash-HUANG XI HU XI - Zhou Hongxiang - United States - 00:06:35
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Discrete Kinesis No. 1 - Eislow Johnson - United States - 00:01:23
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Flow Go - John Dawson - United States - 00:01:30
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Glitter for Girls - Federica Foglia - Canada, Italy - 00:04:00
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Grain cloud atmosphere - Martin Moolhuijsen - Germany - 00:06:38
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Gyrograph - Gitte le Bruyn - Belgium- 00:14:15
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In C, Too - Dean Winkler and John Sanborn - United States- 00:04:35
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KINGDOM - Andres Bronnimann - Spain - 00:03:17
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Light Body Mathematics - Vox Garbles - United States - 00:03:53
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Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke - Tomonari Nishikawa - Japan - 00:06:00
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Lord Godfrey - Nathaniel Akin- United States - 00:03:05
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long live the night - Francesco Zanatta - Italy - 00:13:00
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Más cables que personas - Camila Dron- Argentina - 1:30
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Mnemonics Fields - Michael Betancourt - United States - 00:02:00
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Mnemonic Shores - Clémentine Schmidt - United States - 00:05:40
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Narcisse and the Travel Agency - Lea Lanoe - France - 00:18:00
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Naya Sahasrabhuja Avalokiteshvara 新千手觀世音菩薩 - Shon Kim Republic of Korea - 0:02:00
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Object(s) of Desire - Liberty Antonia Sadler - United Kingdom - 00:04:05
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OVERCOME - Guli Silberstein - United Kingdom - 00:07:28
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Passenger - Patrick Connelly - United States - 00:03:02
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Promised Land - Teri Carson - United States - 00:09:00
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Stephen Mallinder: Shock to the Body - Cheryl Gelover - United States - 00:04:51
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THE ADULT SENSORY ROOM - Oliver Chadwick - United Kingdom - 00:05:00
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Things We Swallow - Carleen Maur - United States - 00:04:18
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Vintage Wisdom from the Ether - Bernd Lützeler - Germany - 00:08:05
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Estridor 5-7-1 - Juan Lesta - Spain - 00:04:15
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Manitulation - Astrid Busch - Germany - 00:05:24
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kill_ur_rapist - Max Van Loan - United States - 00:04:30
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Mirror Mirror (Double Vision) - Johannes DeYoung - United States- 00:03:00
From Essex via Istanbul, Electronic duo Masal blend swirling Harp and Vocals colliding with tripped out beats and synths to create deep psychedelic grooves with motorik basslines. Masal’s music has been described as channelling ‘the past and future at the same time’ and as having ‘a deep humanity’
“In Between City” 2023 - Directed by Ilya Kreines - Czech Republic, Israel - Project Type: Animation, Experimental Genres:non-narrative, experimental, abstract. Runtime:8´50´´
"In Between city" imitates a poetic wandering through the Central European city and its memory, through different time periods and places, blurring reality and fiction.
The film is constructed from a collection of fragments, stories, images and impressions. In the flux of images shaping the non-existing city, the film accentuates the footprints of the vanished Communist and Jewish worlds it once contained. In parallel, the film focuses on technical exploration, as it is entirely made out of stamps, carved from erasers.
“Diamond Head (Laeahi)” 2013 - Directed by Johannes DeYoung United States - Project Type: Animation, Experimental, Short Runtime: 5´00´´
Laeahi, the brow of the tuna, was long ago mistaken for riches. Nineteenth Century British sailors called it Diamond Head, fooled by its calcite crystal mirage. It haunted Mark Twain like a mythical Bali Ha’i. The Beach Boys spied the island through the prism of their 1968 Friends album, but not before The Ventures found its staccato rhythm. In time, the lonely sea will reclaim Gaia’s ancient orgasm. Now the rock stands half-erect in the middle of an ocean. What remains of Diamond Head is not that distinct from Oursler’s psychic crater, a 1979 video that appropriately shares the name: the cultural creep into the jungle, human or otherwise. What is it that gets inside the minds of far-out travellers? What vertigo draws them nearer and nearer the brink, deeper and deeper inside?
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“Tiger Lily Mountain Pass” 2024 - Directed by Nathan King - United States Project Type: Animation, ExperimentalGenres: Queer, Gay, lgbtq Runtime: 5´18´´
Tiger Lily Mountain Pass explores nature as a space of queer erotic encounter. King animates his likeness in multiple forms, with focus on compositing hand drawn line-work in a transforming stream of consciousness, at once the pursuer and the pursed, the heartbreaker and the heartbroken. It is an examination of searching, longing, and unrequited queer love. This film is made with frame by frame animation, pencil on paper and digital colouring. https://instagram.com/tiger_lily_mountain_pass_film
“엄마 나라 | MOTHER LAND” 2023 - Directed by Ryan Clancy - USA - Project Type: Animation, Documentary, Experimental Runtime: 12´
엄마 나라 | MOTHER LAND presents memories through animated watercolours, digital linework, and "phonotropes" (looping animations that come to life on a turntable). Much of this short film was shot through a macro lens attachment on an iPhone, one inch from the subject. It is composed of first-pass paintings and footage, reflecting the raw, blind nature of making one’s way through catastrophe and collapse.
Jose Rivas, known as Jose Macabra, is a versatile artist with a background in Sound Arts
and Fine Art. He works as an artist, sound designer, producer, video director, radio DJ,
and curator. Jose's creative spectrum encompasses various influences, from industrial and noise genres to experimental music and sound art. He also teaches Sound Arts and Music Production at UAL and other institutions. His extensive portfolio includes collaborations with renowned entities and performances in prestigious art venues and festivals across Europe.
Jose's research interests span Electronic Music, Field Recording, Noise Music, Ritual Art Practice, and more.
“Shot on 9.5mm ” 2024 - Directed by Antonio Arango - Mexico - Project Type: Experimental
Runtime: 6’
The game has had great relevance in the competitive sense of our capitalist society. This premise shapes the way we act and create meaning, not only in each individual but in the entire society worldwide.
This view confuses our perception of reality and the consequences of our actions; They connote their power structures and the desperation of certain actors to establish new rules of the game. War and genocide are appearances that we did not expect in this century, like the images of an extinct cinematographic format. Images of a menacing phantasm? or a resistance format that refuses to disappear?.
“The Threesome” 2024 - Directed by Yentl Gijbels - Belgium - Project Type: Experimental
Genres: Poetry Runtime: 3’52’’
In a deserted place three young women encounter a man. The film focuses on their gestures and the tension that arises from them. In this dreamlike visual exploration of temptation and desire a more feminine voice is added to the genre of the western which is usually narrative based, linear and male-oriented.
“Le Cosmos” 2024 - Directed by Natalie Peracchio - United States - Project Type: Experimental
Genres: Comedy,Surreal Runtime: 4’51’’
Le Cosmos is a surreal dark comedy that pokes fun at the selfishness of nihilistic thinking. The mailbox character came to me when I was working from home and living in an apartment building next to an active construction site, listening to a constant drone of machines all day, six days a week. A voice in my head emerged of an old French letterbox, deep in a doom spiral, trapped in some American suburb and forced to witness the downfall of society. I wanted to respond to the feeling that everything in this country sucks, but that its important not to get trapped in anxious end-of-the-world thinking, because it doesn’t lead to anything productive.
“Sky Room” 2024 - Directed by Marianna Milhorat - United States - Project Type: Experimental
Genres: Found Footage Runtime: 5’55’’
Someone is missing. Plants grow, but at what cost? Technology threatens and seduces as humans attempt to solve a mystery through telepathy and mirrors. Stainless steel and broken glass strewn about an intergalactic discotheque.
Commissioned by the Chicago Film Archives and made in collaboration with sound artist Brian Kirkbride, with footage and sound from the archive chopped, manipulated and arpeggiated into a fertile mix of anthem and narrative.
M.E.L.T, an ambient and soundscape-focused improvisation ensemble founded in 2023. Emerging from an open call by VFD London focused on queer community-building initiatives, M.E.L.T launched as an experimental club-night, hosting improvisation sessions. The ensemble collaborates with various artists interested in exploring sound, technology, identity, belonging, and territory. The name, "Make Electronic Music Live Together," reflects their exploration of the social, political, and affective aspects of improvisation as a medium for both sonic artistry and the exploration of electronic devices.
M.E.L.T took on Altered Image’s challenge of creating an original piece for a selection of short films. Although the ensemble’s focus is improvisation, this opportunity to create a live soundtrack presents new processual and creative challenges for the group, allowing them to explore visual prompts and take a different approach to improvisation, this time as a method for composition. Altered Image’s curators sent over a selection of four bold and provocative films that will be accompanied by the new soundtrack compositions: "TEXtrucTURAS (Humanas)" (Spain), "Touch of Recession" (USA), "Observatory" (Poland), and "Trace on My Body" (USA).
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“TEXtrucTURAS (Humanas)” 2024 - Directed by Luis Carlos Rodríguez - Spain - Project Type:Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short Genres: AI, Video Art Runtime: 8´54’’
TEXtrucTURAS huMANas is an artistic_instrumental research work with Artificial Intelligence and is part of a research project, in Audiovisual Arts, that tries to transfer expressive and emotional concepts to the screen with moving images, so it deliberately lacks formal, narrative and structural aspects.
“Touch of Recession” 2023 - Directed by Lua Borges - United States - Project Type:Experimental
Video Runtime: 7´08’’
A movement film comprised of three acts, where each dancer choreographs a piece dedicated to a part of their body that they’ve neglected or overlooked. The title 'Touch of Recession’ interprets the Portuguese translation of the word 'curfew' (toque de recolher). The text in the film studies the embodiment of restriction, regulation, and impediment. The visual language is crafted from hand-processed super-8 black & white film, and the score features a modular synth composition by Kari Watson, performed in a quadraphonic speaker array at the Bond Chapel in Chicago, Illinois.
“Observatory” 2023 - Directed by Wiesława Ruta- Poland - Project Type: Animation, Experimental, Music Vide Runtime: 6’ 10’’
Experimental abstract music video with the music of Danish musician Sofie Birch. The film was created through the use of stop motion animation, film, computer animation and post-production. It is a game between abstraction and figurativeness, which aims to be the best accompaniment to the music using the cinematic means of expression.
“Trace on My Body” 2023 - Directed by Yue Hua - Canada - Project Type: Animation, Experimental
Runtime: 3’ 10’’
A film about the female gaze and self-acceptance. In spring 2023, a physical illness forced me to re-examine my relationship with my body. Scars, spots, skin, hair, and my unflattering voice, everything belongs to my body.
Shoot and direct animation on 16mm film.
P. Videotapes, a seasoned eclectic selector from Murcia (Spain), blends ambient, electro, dark wave, punk, and pop dance into seamless, dynamic sets. With an analog foundation in vinyl DJing, his raw, authentic mixes span genres and eras, captivating crowds at venues like Polari Eagle,Monkey Business at The Prince Albert, Joiners, and Bar Ocio.
For this event, he’ll set the tone for the second half, paving the way for our "prince of darkness." His music will be paired with subversive visuals curated by Altered Images, featuring iconic works from Kenneth Anger. Expect an unforgettable audiovisual experience!
Mother, performance artist, educator and DJ, the iconic global entity is a figurehead in London nightlife and a powerful voice in our queer community. As an essential part of Wraith and Kaos London, they are living art, joy and power. Each DJ set is designed to parallel the human condition, constructing emotional cinematic scores that are musical paintings set to performance. Coloured with influences of Butoh and Japanese film noir, he utilises elements of experimental techno, power electronics, industrial soundscapes, ambient, classical, dark wave and EBM.
Step into the mystery and Dial M for Dermur for a DJ set rich in textures, emotions, and dark rhythms. This immersive experience, wrapped in an air of intrigue, will be paired with striking visuals curated by Altered Images, creating a captivating fusion of sound and sight.
Join our London DJs on an immersive journey as they unearth forgotten gems from diverse eras. Their decks blend analog magic with contemporary allure, creating multisensory experiences that seamlessly fuse curated visuals with rediscovered melodies.
This performance will feature stunning visuals in collaboration with Nuria Navas, a circus artist known for her captivating storytelling and aerial hoop artistry. Having graced venues like The Phoenix Arts Club and Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Nuria adds a dynamic presence to the event.
Prepare for a mesmerising fusion of sound and sight as we weave together film and music into an unforgettable tapestry of creativity. Don’t miss this extraordinary experience!
Hanno is a seasoned veteran in the techno scene, having made his debut in '96. With a storied career, he has graced renowned club nights such as Ugly Funk in London, Monox in Glasgow, and iconic venues like Tresor, OstGut, and Berghain in Berlin. Recently, he crossed the Atlantic to electrify audiences at Dickslap in Seattle and Akbar in Los Angeles.
Known for his ability to craft energetic sets that resonate with joy, Hanno serves up a dynamic mix of techno, rave, house, and electro. His selections include rare tracks that are hard to find alongside the freshest beats, ensuring a lively atmosphere that keeps the fun alive and brings smiles to faces on the dance floor.
Since the summer of 2016, he has co-hosted Death By Rainbow with DJ Flush, where they unleash queer ghetto dance tracks from the underground.
Hanno's DJ set will be the exhilarating closing act of the night, accompanied by stunning visuals from Altered Images. Prepare to dance your heart out as we celebrate an unforgettable evening filled with emotion and pulsating beats—get ready to burn up the dance floor in a spectacular finale!
Altered Images is an innovative and boundary-pushing experimental Film and Music Festival. Our mission is to bring together artists from diverse disciplines, fostering collaboration and creating original, one-of-a-kind pieces. With a focus on New Media Arts, Sound, Performance, Inclusivity, Feminism, and Queer Activism, we strive to push the boundaries of artistic expression.
Our showcase welcomes artists whose work embodies an experimental and innovative spirit. Through live music, projections, performances, and art installations, we aim to curate events that provide a relaxed, inclusive, and friendly environment for our audience to immerse themselves in the experience.
We are particularly interested in working with bold and adventurous filmmakers who are eager to explore the fusion of sound and visuals, embracing the influence and inspiration that other artists can bring to their work.
As part of our commitment to supporting artists, we prioritize caring for the selected videos and performances showcased at our event. We actively promote the artists and their work through social media and various platforms, inviting them to attend the event whenever possible. Furthermore, we provide valuable feedback to all participants, fostering a nurturing and growth-oriented environment.
Join us on this exciting journey of artistic experimentation and collaboration. Together, let's create a platform that celebrates creativity, challenges conventions, and leaves a lasting impact on both artists and audiences alike.
Get your movie or video showcased at Altered Images and benefit from the diffusion of the event in different social media.
We will promote all the works exhibited to engage with the largest possible audience and to create a network between different artists and audiences.
RULES AND TERMS
ENTRY GUIDELINES
A complete separate submission form must be filled if submitting more than one movie. Each submitted film shall pay the entry fee and be confirmed on FilmFreeway.
Selected Films
All filmmakers with selected projects will be notified via e-mail regarding acceptance by 14th of August 2024. Such notification will be received at the email address provided at the time of submission.
Altered Images proudly accepts entries on FilmFreeway, the world's #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests. Click to submit.
1. We don’t demand premier status.
2. Submitted films must have a length between 1 and 25 minutes.
3. Multiple entries are allowed.
4. The exhibition copy of the movie will be sent to Altered Images as a compressed electronic file (mp4 preferred). ALL films must be received no later than Friday 30th of August 2024.
5. Submitted films may be utilized for promotional purposes by Altered Images.
6. Altered Images is allowed to use artist names and stills from their submitted films (at least one print-quality and one web version provided upon request) for all promotional purposes.The following will apply for all film submissions:
7. Altered Images retains the right to archive the submitted file or copy of the submitted film in digital format solely for historical and research purposes, and will not publicly screen it without the artist’s permission. All submissions should be downloaded to FilmFreeway for easy access to the entire Altered Images screening committee.
8. Altered Images will conduct private screening sessions with its screening team to review all submissions.
9. Altered Images does not provide refunds on submission fees.
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