Almost Back to the Future | Day I

Almost Back to the Future is a 2-day festival that is all about analogue moving images and optical sound; a celebration of the ‘real’ film medium with a programme of audio-visual performances, films, presentations and installations. Almost Back to the Future focuses on the future of the film medium, with a focus on contemporary artistic developments embedded in a historical context.

Saturday, 4 December 2021

Opening 12.00

Installations by Esther Urlus/Nico Komen and Adele Dipasquale

Performance #1 12.45 – 13.15

Moord – Music: Cinzia Nistico; Visual: Esther Urlus; Flutist: Klaasje Nieuwhof (20 min)

Film program #1 13:15 – 13:45

EarthEarthEarth – Daïchi Saïto – 35mm, 30min

Film program #2 14.00 – 14.15

Alfred – Esther Urlus – 16mm, 6min

Migrating film – Ana Bravo Perez – 16mm, 3min

Intertropical Vision – Adriana Vila Guevara – 16mm, 5min

Film program #3 14.30 – 15.15

Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon – Tomonari Nishikawa – 16mm, 10min

The Sound Drifts – Stefano Canapa – 35mm, 8min

The Exquisite Corpus – Peter Tscherkassky – 35mm, 19min

Performance #2 15.30 – 16.30

IMPROV session – Live sound by Ji Youn Kang; 16mm visuals by Filmwerkplaats members

Almost Back to the Future is initiated by the members of Filmwerkplaats and is supported by WORM, Gemeente Rotterdam and Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht.