slice_of_reflection — 後照鏡ЯeaRflex

MONO NO AWARE:
CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS

Making Kin(o)! Remote in New York :
a letter to you was a slice of my reflection

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27TH
33 FLATBUSH AVENUE, BROOKLYN NEW YORK
DOORS 7PM – FREE OR $5 SUGGESTED DONATION

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“Presenting 5 works from recent years, the title of the latest ReaRflex collective program, a letter to you was a slice of my reflection, poetically distills its key elements. Across films-as-letters between members, personal diaries, thought-worlds visualized abstractly, and—above all—hand-developed films, ReaRflex leads us into a private world shared between a growing family of international artists, with celluloid as its lingua franca.

In Morphosis, Lichun Tseng ritualistically films her own head-shaving, while the soundtrack by Mick O'Shea elicits gentle ghost moans and the clinking of echoed cans. With Yen Wang-Yun’s Sites of Dependency, the thesis of its murky, expired and monochromatic visuals is repeated in the narration (complete with title cards), “I’m yearning for something that cannot be captured by words. How about you?”

Chun-tien Chen’s Single 8 Single Frame Diary plays both the formal function and camera format off of one another in a whiplash swarm of stop-motion tableaus and half-forgotten memories—often only half-discernible through the thick expired mist of using color reversal Fuji film from the 1980s, up-cycling for film artists.

The program closes with two collaborations-as-correspondence. fur film vol.1: I don't own a cat sees Erica Sheu and Tzuan Wu freely rotating between Super 8, 16mm and Super 16, even alternating between color and black and white, accepting the changing aspect ratios along the way. Similarly, Jouhatsu Letters offers Johan Chang & Masa Kudo’s mutual messages back and forth; gliding between two-screen 16mm observations and full-on digital match-cut animation. The longest of the batch, it offers the broadest and most radical variations of form. Nothing is to be omitted, everything is permitted.

Throughout the program, the hand-developed quality of the films ensures a constant visual movement. Collectively, ReaRflex openly experiments with an ‘anything goes’ attitude: switching between formats and styles, developing by hand, metaphysically reflecting on that very developing in the filmmaking, and utilizing moving images as a form of non-linguistic intercommunication. All while having fun, and rarely self-censoring. In short: an invigorating expression of freedom of thought.”

- Maximilien Luc Proctor