The fifth edition of Abstracta, the international exhibition of abstract cinema, will take place next August 25-28 in the Isola Tiberina, Rome. During its evening screenings, the festival will present 54 short films in both competitive and non-competitive sections.
This year's jury will be presided by Spanish filmmaker Javier Aguirre and comprised by Vanna Fadini (President of Link Campus University), Gerardo Lo Russo (Director of Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma), Pierluigi Raffaelli (Cofounder Cineteca Lucana), Gennaro Migliore (Cultural National responsible of S.E.L.), Saul Saguatti (filmmaker) and Anton Fuxjaeger (TFM, Universitaet Wien).
Abstracta 2010
Roma, August 25-28, 2010
Isola Tiberina
c/o l'Isola del cinema
Programme:
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, 21:30h, Piazzale di Esculapio
Out of competition
- Repeat Photography and the Albedo Effect (Caroline Koebel, USA, 8'4'')
- All the house (Caroline Koebel, USA, 5'50'')
- Sunroof (Caroline Koebel, USA, 6'10'')
- Devotes of the precipitate (Julian Semilian, Romania-USA, 36')
- Vladimir Maiakovski remix (Franck Ancel, France, 17'17'')
- 404 (Gustavo Kortsarz, Argentina, 1'18'')
- Flyscreen (Richard Tuohy, Australia, 8')
- La lista dell'attesa (Antonio Argenti, Italia, 1'10'')
- Surexit I (Alberto Boem, Italia, 5'02'')
- Double thunder (Leslie Raymond & Jason Jay Stevens, USA, 6')
- Pasolini requiem (Mario Verger, Italia, 5')
Thursday, August 26th, 2010, 21:30h, CINELAB
Films in competition - First programme
- La Conspiration du Cerveau (Didier Feldmann, France, 5'45'', )
- Collide-o-scope (Naren Wilks, UK, 3'24'')
- Sinus Aestum (Bret Battey, UK, 8'30'')
- Romborama (Bennet Pimpinella, Italia, 3'57'')
- Hanging… words (Henry Gwiazda, USA, 6'35'')
- Marks… holes (Henry Gwiazda, USA, 7'49'')
- Chasing Waves (Paul O'Donoghue, UK, 5'05'')
- Liqust-liquid state (Anabela Costa, Portugal, 11'41'')
- La rivoltella (Danilo Torre, Italia, 5'15'')
- Gioco di impressioni (Adalberto Sessa, Italia, 5'10'')
- 4 movimenti astratti (Adalberto Sessa, Italia, 3'40'')
- AANAATT (Max Hattler, UK, 4'45'')
- Where is your head at (Max Hattler, UK, 5'55'')
- Nachtmaschine (Max Hattler, UK, 4')
- La trama invisibile (Vincenzo Ceccato & C. Leoni, Italia, 7'30'')
- Colour Supply (Ian Helliwell, UK, 2'15'')
- Mobile home (Ian Helliwell, UK, 2'30'')
- Letratone leader (Ian Helliwell, UK, 3'35'')
- Through the miniscope (Ian Helliwell, UK, 4'10'')
Friday, August 27th, 2010, 21:30h, CINELAB
Films in competition - Second programme
- Ghosts of the underpass (Nhieu Do, USA-Vietnam, 5'30'')
- My first science fiction movie (Neil Ira Needleman, USA, 3'57'')
- Don't waste your money in protein powders, watch experimental movies (Arturo Téllez Tejeda, México, 5')
- L'art de la fuga (Daniel Pitarch Fernández, Spain, 3'18'')
- Rauschen & Brausen (Daniel Burkhardt, Germany, 5')
- Sympathy for Holofernes (Joe Morgan, USA, 3'02'')
- Polvere Staub (Alia Scalvini, Italia, 13'37'')
- Trailer trash (Mark Street, USA, 5')
- Anthropomorphos (Alessandro Vitali, Italia, 7')
- Abstract (Kurt Niemann, Germany, 5')
- The trail begins, but the travel is already over (Alexander Miehle, Germany, 2'30'')
- So abstract (Eytan Ipeker, Turkey, 5'28'')
- Whiteout (Maurhi Lehtonen, Finland, 5'15'')
- Moto quasi perpetuo (Umberto Corni, Italia, 3'50'')
- Radiate (Jung-Chul Hur, South Korea, 2'30'')
- Emptiness (Nigel Power, UK, 3'15'')
- Abstract? (Alexey Dmitriev, Russia, 3'30'')
- ReSemble (Aaron Thomas, UK, 3'55'')
- Neon Aurora (Michael Shaw, UK, 3')
- Drawing (Paulo R.C. Barros, Brazil, 1'45'')
- 1 to 8 (Amy Schwartz, Canada, 5')
- Introduction à l'Usure: R-1 (Pierre Luc Gouin, Canada, 1'52'')
Saturday, August 28th, 2010, 21:30h, CINELAB
Announcement and screening of the winning films
- Objetivo 40° A film by Javier Aguirre (1970) from his 'Anti-cine' series.
- PELLICOLE DA CAMERA per concerto in 35mm, first non-definitive version.
Animation on film in Italy from 1978 to 2010
Design and edition, Saul Saguatti
Curation, interviews and music, Andrea Martignoni
Authors:
- Vincenzo Gioanola
- Saul Saguatti
- Alvise Renzini
- Mario Verger
- Tommaso Cerasuolo
- Leonardo Carrano with Alessandro Pierattini