Skin, Inscribed: Contemporary Brazilian Hand-Processed Film
Whammy! TAPE, and Los Angeles Filmforum present
Skin, Inscribed: Contemporary Brazilian Hand-Processed Film
Saturday June 14, 2025, 8:00pm (7:30 pm doors)
At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057
Tickets: $12 general, $11 Filmforum, TAPE, and Whammy members
(Those unable to display proof of membership will be charged an additional $5 at the door.)
All Los Angeles Premieres!
Curated and presented by Tetsuya Maruyama
Join us for Skin, inscribed - contemporary Brazilian hand-processed films, curated by visiting artist Tetsuya Maruyama, co-presented by TAPE LA and LA Filmforum.
Just as a painter applies raw paint on a canvas, a filmmaker applies light(and other matters) on film strip. This hand-picked program features works produced at artist-run film labs (film laboratories by artists, for artists) scattered throughout the country, born from the vast and diverse geopolitical territories of Brazil. The relationship of physical sensations with plants and nature/ culture (humans), film-skin profaned as a tangible material, event that comes into being as ephemeral situation when it passes through a projector. This group of works, far from commercial “movies", emerge from the personal interests of each artist without expecting anything in return. Should they be called more appropriately as “photographs in action”?
Also, on June 14&15 will be a two-day workshop: MOVEMENT IMAGINED: 16mm Pinhole Camera Workshop w/ Tetsuya Maruyama, hosted by Whammy & TAPE. More information and registration here:
https://www.whammyanalog.com/events/movement-imagined-16mm-pinhole-camera-workshop-w-tetsuya-maruyama
Presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.
Typefilm an Armory Show
Typefilm an Armory Show
By João Reynaldo
2022, 16mm, color, 4 min.
"Typefilm an armory show" is a cameraless animation work, entirely typed on film.
Wild Flower
Wild Flower
By Moira Lacowicz
2025, 16mm double projection, color, 5 min.
"Wild Flower" is an expanded piece still in progress, originally projected in a double-channel format, where the process and the connection between images drive the film. Starting from delicate phytograms, it moves through negatives of flowers, subjective beach landscapes, fishermen in their daily lives, culminating in the visceral beating of a heart.
untitled(three moons)
untitled(three moons)
By Tetsuya Maruyama
2024, 16mm, double projection, b&w, 10 min.
"a moon, two moons, three moons"
*No projector runs at the same exact speed as another, even with the standard frame rate of 24 per second. There is a (d)effect that could not be counted in number and this "imperfection" is apparent to our retinal perception throughout a long transformation, as if it were the lunar orbit.”
Corpse of Water/Confined Flux
Corpse of Water/Confined Flux
By Helder Martinovsky
2020, 16mm, b&w, 14 min. 1
A mass of water appears as heavy clouds, which fall over the mountains and gush out of the earth in the form of springs, which become rivers. That follow their course as a flow of energy organized in the harmony of their own chaos, until they encounter morbid obstacles.
Walden Street
Walden Street
By Duo Strangloscope
2025, 16mm double projection, b&w, 3 min.
Nature produces vision. The gaze, like a boat, wanders, guided by the leaves of the trees against the sky. The images of an easily observable commonality, which was once commonplace at first glance, make the journey an encounter with a nature that is both close and distant. A landscape in extinction, a wandering gaze in an increasingly unlikely act: seeing what moves around. Walden Street is a road movie suspended in time by how we look at screens. In this 16mm version, it returns, another, to bring in the inscription of the film's skin the fragments of the plants that produced the chemical metamorphosis of the development of the images. We resume the path of looking at what is between us and the sky, a deviation from the blindness of Instagram = grammar of the instantaneous.
Consider
Consider
By Ж
2024, 16mm, b&w, 3 min.
bombs like fireworks,
the artifice of televised war in a soft, black sky, perforations of light in the film’s velvet
for any serious reflection,
the sidereal
CONSIDER
in memory of the fallen in Gaza, the stars.
I will remember Lucy
I will remember Lucy
By Maria Mion
2022, 16mm, b&w, 3 min.
How many times does it take to access memory to remember someone's image before it changes or disappears? This film addresses the fragmentation of memory through a sequence of reproductions of a photograph using various analog techniques.
Bleach Farm
Bleach Farm
By Līgia M. Teixeira & Francisco B. Gusso
2024, 16mm, b&w, 3 min.
A photochemical experiment in 16mm. Film processed with eco-developer made from field sunflowers, tinted and toned manually, with the intervention of sodium hypochlorite on the film.