Het Bos
Ankerrui 5-7, 2000 Antwerpen
May 1 2025
https://www.hetbos.be/programma/evenement/2025-05-01-on-erosion-a-short-film-programme-by-ursula
ENG
Ursula invites you to ON EROSION, a short film programme surrounding Alex Schuurbiers’ new film Placeholder, comprising experimental shorts that deal with remembrance, terrain, geology and forgetting.
The screening will be followed by a short talk with Alex & writer Vincent Van Meenen. With a video introduction from Lynne Sachs
Ursula is an Antwerp based collective of women working with the moving image.
ursulacollective.org
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Programme
Markings 1-3, Eva Kolcze, CA, 2011, 7’
A tactile journey in three parts. Markings 1-3 is an attempt to connect with nature through the surface of 16mm celluloid film, using such techniques as tinting, toning, painting and scratching.
Deepwater Horizon: Exhalation, Asako Fujita, JP, 2021, 5’
Deepwater Horizon: Exhalation blends weathered archival footage portraying a community of female free-divers from ancient Japan with CGI imagery documenting the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Sonar audio of the spill dances around deep inhalations, creating counterpoints of a claustrophobic sonic tapestry and a transfixing marine meditation.
The Great Kind Mystery, Ella Morton, CA, 2022, 16’
Inuk and Mi’kmaw artist Amy Hull tells stories about growing up in Newfoundland. Her words are illustrated by altered Super 8mm footage of Newfoundland landscapes, where the distortion of the celluloid film reflects the wonder and nostalgia of her relationship with the land.
Babel, Meggy Rustamova, BE, 2018, 8’
Everything begins on a fixed shot of a middle-aged lady, serious, thoughtful. She tries hard to remember some words from a language unfamiliar to our ears, her native language: Assyrian. Simple words (numbers, days, expressions,…) reappear from the bottom of the ages; they emerge little by little memories of Juliette Rustamova which one understands later that she is the mother of the artist.
Same Stream Twice, Lynne Sachs, US, 2012, 4’
“My daughter’s name is Maya. I’ve been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. In 2001, I photographed her at six years old, spinning like a top around me. Even then, I realized that her childhood was not something I could grasp but rather – like the wind – something I could feel tenderly brushing across my cheek.”
Placeholder, Alex Schuurbiers, BE, 2025, 8’
Placeholder is an attempt at holding it together in the face of absence; of a mother, of a memory, of something tangible. Images oscillate between dreams and recollection, distorted and transformed over time.