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9 November – 11 November 2018 at WORM Rotterdam
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.
Still from Hira Nabi’s All That Perishes at the Edge
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.

November 9

19:30—20:30

Listening session

Sites and sounds
Joshua Bonnetta

Cactus (Cactaceae sp.)

Lago

Bay of Broken Things

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20:30—21:15

Conversation

Intrusions and Northern American sounds

Hannah Paveck, from feminist film journal ‘Another Gaze’, in conversation with Joshua Bonnetta

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21:30—22:45

Film program 1

American Colour
Joshua Bonnetta

Strange Lines and Distances
Joshua Bonnetta

Continuous Installation

Excerpt preview edit of Caolas na Hearadh (The Sound of Harris)
Joshua Bonnetta

November 10

16:00—18:00

Film program 2

Silence
Pat Collins

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19:30—19:45

Introduction

Short lecture on ‘El Mar La Mar’
Sander Hölsgens

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19:45—21:15

Film program 3


El Mar La Mar
Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki

Q&A
Joshua Bonnetta

Continuous Installation

Excerpt preview edit of
‘Caolas na Hearadh (The Sound of Harris)’

Joshua Bonnetta

November 11

11:00—13:30

WORM Filmwerkplaats



Members of WORM Filmwerkplaats discuss their work with multi disciplinary artist Joshua Bonnetta

(by registration only: tim@worm.org)
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14:00—15:30

Film program 4


025 Sunset Red
Laida Lertxundi

Optimism

Deborah Stratman

Artificial Paradise

Chick Strand

Walking Fire

Nina de Vroome

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16:00—18:00

Film program 5


Eldorado XXI
Salome Lamas

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19:30—21:30

Film program 6


Manakamana
Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez

Continuous Installation



Excerpt preview edit of
‘Caolas na Hearadh (The Sound of Harris)’
Joshua Bonnetta