FROM DOWN UNDER TO DOWN UNDER
Films by CEIS8 collective (Santiago, Chile)

7:30pm Tuesday 27 August
The Brunswick Green, 313/315 Sydney Road, Brunswick.
16mm projection. $10 tix on the door.


CEIS8 was founded in 2015 as a response to the lack of celluloid-driven spaces in the Southern Hemisphere (more specifically South America) and to gain ground in the area of experimental cinema, which seemed at that point non-existent.

“Collective of Experimental Investigation in S8mm” (CEIS8) started as a resource for Super 8 filmmaking, but it grew to cover 16mm and other media formats. The group initially used stock recovered from flea markets in Santiago and worked straight from the bathtub of a share-house where founders Matias Illanes and Roberto Collio lived. The collective now hosts headquarters in Barrio Matta, Santiago, and the space consists of a house with studios, a garden, and a large darkroom.

With a critical view towards the hegemonic means of film production, CEIS8 collective proposes a space for reflection on analogue imagery, representation, and its limits. This program is composed of a scattered, distant, and varied group of films - just like an archipelago of works of unequal origins that move in different directions.

FILMS:


CEIS8 | Intervención taller horizonte | 2023 | 5'
From a workshop during the lockdown. People portray the daily life outside their windows, with a 16mm transparent canvas, painting the colour pallete of the life outside.

Roberto Collio | Photosphere | 2024 | 2'32''
A photosphere is the region of a luminous object, usually a star, that is transparent to photons of certain wavelengths.

Andrea Novoa | Mientras todo cambia | 2023 | 1'35''
where there was water
I can see rocks
Extract from
the installation
'mientras todo cambia'
-whle everything changes-

Sebastian Vaccaris | Colibri | 2024 | 4'
Could film gelatin, a 16mm film camera, 3 lenses and film developing chemistry experimentation act as messengers between the spirit and the physical world? a one day trip to the remote town of Panguipulli (Chile) seeks to explore possibilities and to also expand on the power of audio frequencies as a healing instrument. A manifestation of the hummingbird movement? A connection between mind, landscape, sound, latent image? A replication of Rukapillan volcano’s intermittent flows of magma through fissures on the earth’s surface? -Colibri- erupts 16mm single frame experiments & bursts smoke and sonic healing vibrations

Sofia Hansen | Todas las veces | 2024 | 3'07'
From the benches along the Parque Forestal, the landscape gets flooded by words. Read a word, remember an image. ‘Todas las veces’ originally conceived as a loop installation, emerges from filming while walking through the public space. From the benches along the Parque Forestal: a regularly photographed park, and a geographic center of revolts, the camera becomes an extension of the body. Carring it, sitting down to film and letting myself be observed back.

Nicolas Saldivia | Hatan | 2024 | 4'53''
In a city full of buildings that impose themselves on people, a camera deconstructs them, revealing the fragility of a capitalist system that is sustained by image and speculation.

Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy | Valpi | 2019 | 9'06''
[To be watched with a Pulfrich filter over one eye.]
A city of brick, tin and board, rent by internal tectonics and sliding into the sea.

Fernanda Vicens | La jardinera | 2019 | 3'
My first encounter with a Bolex. Chillan - Summer of 2019 - I spent 2 weeks at this nursery called "Oxalis". A short time later, Oxalis was destroyed and they built a carpark in it.
I decided to film a nursery since I feel extremely close to it... it opens my senses, makes me happy. I decided to experiment on elements of cinematography through the aisles of Oxalis

Sebastian Vaccaris | Ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte | 2024 | 4'15''
Observing all the world in a flower; an ecstatic study of colour, a hum of petals opening, a cacophony of bells and saintly icons. ‘Ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte’ is a hymn to the universal found in the minutiae of nature

Inti Gallardo | El 4to estado del agua | 2022 | 3'56''
Water molecules dissociate into their constituent atoms and these atoms ionize, splitting into nuclei and free electrons. This state is common in the universe and is found in stars, including the sun.

Tiziana Panizza | Tyndall | 2023 | 2'51''
130 million years ago, the rocky surface of the Tyndall Glacier was pressed by tons of ice. Now, after melting, the stone demands its exposure, the oxygen and light tattoo the crystalized organisms inside.

Matías Illanes | Grimorio I | 2022 | 3'22''
In the Middle Ages Grimoires were encyclopedias of occult practices and demonology, which mixed religion, science and pagan beliefs. Grimoire I is part of an encyclopedic film made up of five other parts. The film explores the self-immolation of a demon after being exiled from India to the end of the world (Chile).