FIELD RECORDINGS 2
8 November – 10 November 2019 at WORM Rotterdam
An exploration of contemporary anthropological cinema and landscape film.
Tracing the acute relationship between humans and landscapes, the three-day event FIELD RECORDINGS explores the tenor of contemporary landscape films and anthropological cinema – including works by Laida Lertxundi, Chick Strand, Deborah Stratman, Nina de Vroome, Salomé Lamas, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez. Starting point is the work by multidisciplinary artist Joshua Bonnetta, who will present a new installation and several of his films and audio pieces in person.
Landscapes undergo our gaze, as much as they look back. In the works featured in this multimedia event, this affective relationship between humans and landscapes draws closer and draws away. Specifically, FIELD RECORDINGS probes and unpacks the sonic interventions and cinematic silences present in these films and art works.
The program outlines how human bodies are inscribed upon landscapes, and vice versa: from the earthly exchange between history and presence in Stratman’s Optimism (2018) to an unparalleled reading of the desert in Bonnetta and Sniadecki’s El Mar La Mar (2018). What these works have in common is that they embrace the complexities of the world we inhabit by reconfiguring anthropological methods: Lamas’s Eldorado XXI uses duration as a means to identify with the protagonists on a physical level, whereas Lertxundi’s 025 Sunset Red adopts auto-biographical modes of working to approximate The Basque Country and California.
FIELD RECORDINGS includes conversations and Q&A’s with Joshua Bonnetta, Hannah Paveck, Kaya Erdinç and Nina De Vroome. The program is curated and organized by Tim Leyendekker and Sander Hölsgens.
8 November
Film program 1
20:00︎21:15 hrs
- Vever (for Barbara)
Deborah Stratman - Mains Propres (Washed Hands) Louise Botkay
- Fainting Spells
Sky Hopinka - Llora Cuando Te Pase (Cry When it Happens)
Laida Lertxundi
Film program 2
21:30︎23:30 hrs
- The Drift
Maeve Brennan
Conversation
Maeve Brennan and Hannah Paveck - Listening in the Dark
Maeve Brennan
Continuous Installations
9 November
Film program 3
12:30︎14:30 hrs
- Vikingland
Xurxo Chirro
- Launch Event Magazine
Film Place Collective
Film program 4
15:00︎16:30 hrs
Films by Louise Botkay
- Mammah
- Estou Aqui (I’m Here)
- Vivo e Morro dos Prazeres (Live and Die of Pleasure)
- Sève (Sap)
- Vai e Vem (comes and goes)
- Nômades
Film program 5
17.00︎18:30 hrs
- Forest of Bliss
Robert Gardner
Break/Dinner
18:30︎20:00 hrs
Film program 6
20:00︎21:30 hrs
Films by Laida Lertxundi
- Footnotes to a House of Love
- The Room Called Heaven
- 025 Sunset Red
- Words, Planets
Conversation Laida Lertxundi, Kaya Erdinç, Hannah Paveck
Presentation monographic book Landscape Plus
Performance
22:00︎23:30 hrs
- the Bridge
Jarra
Continuous Installations
10 November
Filmwerkplaats Masterclass
10:30︎12:00 hrs
- deep listening Laida Lertxundi and Ren Ebel
Film program 7
15:00︎16:30 hrs
- Zombies
Baloji - From Tomorrow On, I Will
Ivan Marković, Wu Linfeng
Film program 8
17:00︎18:30 hrs
Films by Sky Hopinka
Film program 9
20:00︎21:30 hrs
- From Hetty To Nancy Deborah Stratman
- The Making of a Ruin
Suni Satoinong - Engelen, 23 aug
André Schreuders
ConversationSuni Satoinong, André Schreuders, Tim Leyendekker
Continuous Installations