"THE BLACK SUN" | Rencontres Internationales

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A collection of film-screenings as part of the 'Contemporary Intersects' screening programme of the Rencontres Internationales filmfestival held at Loods6.

PROGRAMME:

Emmanuel van der Auwera: White Cloud | Exp. documentary | digital | colour | 0:19:00 | Belgium | 2024
Emmanuel van der Auwera recreates a mine in Mongolia where rare earth minerals, a strategic resource essential to digital technologies, are extracted under dramatic human and environmental conditions.

Peter Rose: A Sign of the Times | Video | hdv | colour | 0:01:46 | USA | 2021

In a veiled metaphor, Peter Rose captures the instabilities of our time and the dangerous instability that characterises American politics today.

Syd Farrington: Descent | Exp. film | 16mm | colour | 0:06:00 | United Kingdom | 2023

Syd Farrington attempts to recapture the London skyline and, in an abstraction, combines the free- falling movements of recently built skyscrapers.

Clemens von Wedemeyer: Surface / Composition | Exp. documentary | Digital | colour | 0:22:00 | Germany, USA | 2023

In an associative montage, Clemens von Wedemeyer brings together infrastructures from the digital economy of contemporary California. Individuals are networked, but Silicon Valley companies are inaccessible, and public space is closed off by intelligent fences.

Marco Douma, Roel Meelkop: The Clearing | Video | 4k | black and white | 0:08:49 | Netherlands | 2024 | ARTIST WILL DO Q&A AFTER SCREENING

Marco Douma and Roel Meelkop reveal a fascination for exploring the indescribable and the ambiguous, to propose an indefinable space, where space and time merge into each other, a space in which certainties disappear.