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.
Sunday, 5 December 2021
Continuous 11.30 – 17.00
Installation by Adele Dipasquale
Photographic Garden
Presentation &
Film program #4 12.00 – 13.45
Mothlight – Stan Brakhage – 16mm, 4min
Stadt in Flammen – Schmelzdahin/Jürgen Reble – 16mm, 5min
To the Beach – Robert Schaller – 16mm, 10min
Rhus Typhina – Georgy Bagdasarov & Alexandra Moralesova – 16mm, 3min
Konrad & Kurfurst – Esther Urlus – 16mm, 7min
The Secret Garden – Phil Solomon – 16mm, 23min
Noisy Licking, Dripping & Spitting – Vicky Smith – 16mm, 4min
Film program #5 14.00 – 14:45
Psychedelia program
“Your Favorite Flower” Guided Meditation by Laura Huxley – LP from collection of Jan Athmer (20min)
Radiance: the Experience of Light 1978 (16mm film) + Live sound by Dalin WaldoOooOoo & Joakim Moesgaard (20min)
Film program #6 15.00 – 15.45
Slow Action – Ben Rivers – 16mm cinemascope (40min)
Performance #4 16.00 – 16.45
Ebb and flow – Visual by Lichun Tseng + Sound by Robert Kroos (40min)
Almost Back to the Future is initiated by the members of Filmwerkplaats and is supported by WORM, Gemeente Rotterdam and Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht.