Film Introduction: the time is now. (I+II) by Dr Ella RaidelTrinh T. Min-ha. Films.Online Film Programme: Speaking/Thinking Nearby

Film Introduction: the time is now. (I+II) by Dr Ella Raidel

Trinh T. Min-ha. Films.
Online Film Programme: Speaking/Thinking Nearby

1 – 14 November 2020 the time is now. (I+II), Heidrun Holzfeind, 2019 Colour, sound, 48 min Rating: PG

Holzfeind is interested in architectural and social utopias that create an alternative living. She documents the shamanistic rituals of the Japanese improvisation/noise duo IRO, Toshio and Shizuko Orimo, in what they call “Punk Kagura”—in reference to Kagura, a ritual dance tradition and music for the gods. Holzfeind uses a visual language that adapts their mystical rituals: breaks in image; the colour and narrative corresponding with the soundscape; the modernist architecture of Takamasa Yosizaka; and the surrounding nature in which the duo performs a choreography for healing our damaged planet. The urgency is underlined in the title the time is now.

1 - 14 November 2020

English

Holzfeind is interested in architectural and social utopias that create an alternative living. She documents the shamanistic rituals of the Japanese improvisation/noise duo IRO, Toshio and Shizuko Orimo, in what they call “Punk Kagura”—in reference to Kagura, a ritual dance tradition and music for the gods.

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