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Kinoskop is a indie niche festival, started in 2019 & based in Belgrade, Serbia, dedicated to the exploratory tendencies and experimental ways of working with celluloid (Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, and found footage) in the digital era, and a showcase of imaginative works of cinema which trigger strong audio-visual stimuli and puzzling afterthoughts, rooted in the spirit of underground, surrealist and experimental cinema.

In its second edition, we have decided to make three days (4-6. December 2020) of our program available via our Vimeo channel, and to introduce festival to a broader global audience.

Selection 1 - Towards the Mystical and Fantastic Cinema
https://www.kinoskop.co/selection-1-mys ... cinema.php
Eric Beauron - Herma
Kaspar Peters - Nordic Grammar
Danielle Wakin - My Selves Dissolving
Kyle Eric Ryan - A Body Travels in Darkness
Michael Alexander Uccello - The Man Who Became Everything
Yann Pichot - See My Ghost Passing Away
(6/6)

At the edge of the world, four men live on one abandoned island. One morning, a dead man is discovered in a boat. It's the beginning of a series of catastrophes. The fish is dying, the sea is empty...

A woman goes on a journey to the north. When she comes to an abandoned house, she settles there and appropriates the lives of the former inhabitants. We do not know who this woman is, where she came from and why she left. She is an empty figure, completely permeable to the world.

The sensations during out-of-body experiences. Themes of dissociation (sleep paralysis, autoscopy, ecstatic moments) are explored.

Every night, the Gods descend upon The Town by The Tracks. This is the fate of their mortician.

The last human survivor of an unknown invasion is stalked by interdimensional entities that have plotted humanity’s extinction. Driven to madness, the man escapes his self-quarantine to finally face the horror of becoming everything.

Between dreams and nightmares, Lilith sees the ghost of her lost love.

Selection 3 - Found Footage
https://www.kinoskop.co/selection-3-found-footage.php
Michael Fleming - Tik Tak
Chris O'Neill - Dreams Can't Hurt You
Brittany Gravely & Ken Linehan - First Hypnotic Suggestion
Salvatore Insana - I Stared Fire Forever
(4/4)

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? It means to know that one is food for worms.

Images and sounds of a vintage movie trailer are corrupted and warped into a bizarre experimental art piece of heightened intensity: the results are weird, sinister and humorous.

First Hypnotic Suggestion conjures telepathic transference, hypnosis and collective dream space. Through its spectral tele-cinematic waves, the analogue horror-film protagonists participate in paranormal and fringe scientific experiments.

A collective hypnosis, an invisible, subliminal enemy, an impalpable energy on the verge of exploding. The gaze of the filmed subject, that of the camera and that of the spectator trigger a participatory obsession, made of eyes in action. Eyes that stare, emptiness or neighbor. Crossings. Missed encounters. Sudden starts. Between fear and desire. Is the threat out of range? If there is a subjective, it is that of whom?

rischka wrote: ↑Sun Dec 06, 2020 2:09 am this all looks very spooky

Selection 7 - Experimental Animation
https://www.kinoskop.co/selection-7-exp ... mation.php
Asymmtry (Jonas Erler & Marian Röder) - Super (8) Skate
Pere Ginard - Dad is Gone
Nicolás de Bórtoli - Devil's Chapel
Anne-Marie Bouchard - The Long Wail of a Passing Train
Jonathan Hancock - Veloceped
(5/5)

Super 8 is cool. Fuck-shit!

Dad is Gone. Dad is Ghost. Dad is Thing… spinning on its own skin.

After finishing building his Chapel, Lorenzo suffers a depression and is locked in it for three years. When he opens the doors he calls his children to show what he did: good and evil.
— La Capilla del Diablo (Goya - Corrientes, Argentina), Lorenzo Tomasella

A single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.

Three glass characters race mental and physically. Apparitions of origin and magik parents obstruct the contestants. A dove threatens their vision.

Selection 4 - Experimental Documentary
https://www.kinoskop.co/selection-4-exp ... entary.php
Stephanie M.Barber - Another Horizon
Ivan Cordeiro - Espinado
Sarah Seené - Lumen
Ella Morton - Kajanqtuq
Jean-Jacques Martinod - Before the Deluge
(2/5)

A sensory film that portrays a young girl with oculocutaneous albinism. Despite the hypersensitivity caused by this genetic disease, the depigmentation of her skin and eyes gives her an extraordinary aura.

Inuk elder Naulaq LeDrew speaks about her home in Nunavut, Canada and how Inuit lifestyles have changed since her youth. Altered film footage of the region illustrates her account of historical events and Inuit mythology.

Selection 6 - Secret Diaries / Personal Cinema
https://www.kinoskop.co/selection-6-secret-diaries.php
Alexandria L. Vicari - Something For Yourself
Julia Zanin De Paula - My Heart, My Traveller
Charlotte Clermont - Where I Don't Meet You
Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė - The Bearers of Memories
Emmanuel Piton - The Blind Night
Hogan Seidel - The Backside of God
(6/6)

A poetic autoethnographic film full of nuance, contradictions, neurotic behavior, and feelings of being broke and broken in the desperate attempts to find hope and solace.

A visual expression of the unknown through the eyes of different cultures and languages.

The film’s materiality is treated not only as a medium but also as a subject. Through a confusing poetry, a filmic atmosphere unfolds in a 'non-place', which recalls a moment lost between two time-spaces.

With every moment – one more memory. But memory sometimes goes blind and what is left becomes hazy.

A man seems to be following a quest that hasn’t quite found its purpose. Fragments emerge from his memory as if to escape the call of the shadows.

An experimental documentary utilizing archival footage, digital glitch, chemical abstraction, and direct animation to explore the intricacies of the artist’s relationship with their late uncle, Pastor Doug Seidel. This film is an elegy for a family member who found their, and your, queerness an abomination.

Selection 11 - In the Realm of Non-Human
https://www.kinoskop.co/in-the-realm-of-nonhuman.php
Laura Trager - Ektadome
Cendrine Robelin - Explose
John Barlow - After Paxos
Mike Rollo - Eidolon
Miles Sprietsma - Harmonium
Patrick Müller - The Garden
(6/6)

Strange blossoms, sunken pathways, déjà vus: A hike through H. P. Lovecraft's most personal garden.

The seer passes beneath branches, crosses fields, observes the quiet corners of creation. Bright and dark take turns showing their faces, a two-sided phantasm, one energy shape-shifting through time. The seer makes note, gleans eidolons.

A funfair at night. Dark forces present themselves in plain sight in this magical place of lights and colors.

"Appuie sur le champignon" ("Push on the mushroom" which means in French, "Hurry up driver") speak out tipsy carnival-goers. Nuclear explosions, chains reactions in a delight mood. Party Goes on! Images and sounds are always ambivalent; landscapes can always turn from stability to oblivion. Carnival goers and explosions are faces of switchover. After the uproar, things roll again.

A footage shot on and around the island of Paxos, Greece is juxtaposed with excerpts of black and white found footage from an old reel containing views of Tokyo, Japan. A sequence of short colour clips portray a journey from a house in the wooded interior of Paxos to the island's shoreline, and then out into the Ionian sea. They contrast with four, much slowed-down, black and white clips, and a multilayered soundtrack comprising city noise, air conditioning hum and air traffic control chatter.

A document of the ethereal features surrounding oceanic bodies, the re-cycling of life and death through the constant flux of coastline.

SELECTION 12 - MEDITATION UNCHAINED
https://www.kinoskop.co/meditation-unchained.php
(1/8)

A chemical wedding.

THIRD INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANALOG / EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - KINOSKOP
10-12. DECEMBER 2021

Our second edition in 2020 has been a large success due to its online availablity, thus we have decided to make the 2021 a hybrid edition, which will encompass three days of on-site screenings, and additional features presented on our Vimeo page.