Artists’ Film Programme “Diplopia”
The Zone of Total Eclipse, Mika Taanila.2006, 6 min, film performance, 16mm x 2, Finland
PUBLICATION AVAILABLE HERE (Estonian, English, Russian)
The 2021 artists’ film programme consists of two thematically joined and partially expanded screenings that unite historical and contemporary works of artists’ moving image across the world. The screenings engage with doubles, diplopia and dialogue, within themselves and with each other, on both a conceptual and a visual level.
Part 1:
26.09.2021 at 5 pm
4 Eyes. Keiichi Tanaami, 1975. 9’
Harbour City. Simon Liu, 2015. 13’
Mariam Jafri Vs. Maryam Jafri. Maryam Jafri, 2019. 12’
Almargen. Anto Astudillo, 2018. 6’
0,8 Square Metres. Kristina Norman, 2012. 30’
Shadow. Rikuro Miyai, 1968. 12’
The Zone of Total Eclipse. Mika Taanila, 2006. 6’
Part 2:
10.10.2021 at 5 pm
Once Removed. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 2019. 29’
East/West. Su-Chen Hung, 1984/87. 4’
Her Five Lives. Saodat Ismailova, 2020. 13’
Alice’s Four Stories / Les quatre recits d’Alice. Myriam Jacob-Allard, 2019. 5’
Cellula Filia. Piibe Kolka, 2021. 20’
Surviving You, Always. Morgan Quaintance, 2020. 18’
Len Murusalu is an Estonian artist and filmmaker. Her interdisciplinary work explores questions around the interpretation of history, identity and time using moving image, video performance, installation and painting. She is a producer and film director at ChronoLens and the founder of AmiLab, an NGO dedicated to artists’ moving image development. She has a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image and is a 2021 Oberhausen Seminar Fellow.
Julian Ross is a British-Japanese researcher, curator and writer based in Amsterdam. He is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) and a programmer at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). His curatorial projects on Japanese expanded cinema have been presented at Tate Modern, Art Institute of Chicago, Eye Filmmuseum, Pioneer Works and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. He is co-editor of Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts from the 1960s (Archive Books).