03/04/2022
15:00-16:30
iii workspace 
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Matters of Being is a screening series at iii curated by Nele Brökelmann. The series presents documentary films about artists, thinkers, scientists, and experimental films by artists and independent filmmakers. Matters of Being allows our minds to wander and stumble upon new associations in the illuminating darkness of the cinema setting.

The three works in this seventh edition of Matters of Being play with the tangibility of our environments contrasting it with our human perception and the ways they are physically and mentally structured. Depth Wish (2021) by Margarida Albino plays with tactility, through an pbservant camera, usage of sound and the quality of Super-8 film it projects us into the wonder we can experience when engaging with our immediate surroundings. Sophie Czich’s Where the facade bends (2021) draws an image of how we live together and how the architectural surface-structures influence our mental landscapes and how we go about our daily businesses. In contrast to that, Tangible Windows (2021) by Armand Lesecq visualizes our ever-changing perception of our immediate surroundings by taking us into an inner landscapes. 

15:00 Welcome by Nele Brökelmann

15:10 Depth Wish (2021), Margarida Albino

15:25 Where the facade bends (2021), Sophie Czich

15:35 Tangible Windows (2021), Armand Lesecq

15:50 Conversation with Margarida Albino and Sophie Czich

 

Depth Wish

In an attempt to escape the entire flow to which she is exposed, M goes in search of a place – the sea and its beings – that sets her free from time and can give herself pleasure but is constantly infected and interrupted by phenomena that affect her and alter her perception. 

Margarida Albino

After starting to study arts at Escola Artística António Arroio, she completed the 3-year course in Cinema / Moving Image at Ar.Co School (Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual) in Lisbon, where she was asked to undertake the role of department monitor/assistant in 2018. While attending Ar.Co, she concurrently took both theoretical and practical courses and workshops between photography, cinema and sound art at NOVA University Lisbon (FCSH), Oficinas do Convento, FABLAB and other independent associations. She has participated in projects and artistic residencies across Portugal and has collaborated with peers on several film shoots in different roles, but mostly as a sound engineer. At the beginning of 2020, she joined fellow filmmaker Camila Vale to create the Espiral Laboratory – a super 8 film processing lab in Barreiro where she developed her first experimental short movie depth wish premiered at Curtas Vila do Conde Festival. Because of an increased interest in sound synthesis, recording, electronics, acoustic instruments and live performance, she recently moved to Den Haag to study sound exclusively at the Institute of Sonology and so to start her journey around sound experiments and their intermediation. 

Where the facade bends

Architectural renders are highly realistic images, used for advertising and communication purposes. Happy human archetypes are pasted in the ‘perfect’ house, in the ‘perfect’ city. “Where the facade bends” plays with these neither real nor imaginary places. With collaged fragments of renders, the video reassembles a new space, deconstructs the peculiar idea of paradise propelled by these images, and the norms they repeat. 

Sophie Czich

Sophie Czich (1993, FR) finds herself at the intersection of many disciplines, merging graphic design, artistic research and field investigation. While her production ranges from 3D video to riso-printed artworks, from texts to audio pieces, she addresses topics that mainly have to do with the architecture of the everyday life and the impact of neoliberal economics on daily rhythms. The questioning of representations and imagery stands both as a method and an intention: her approach reframes images and cultural productions within the socio-economical western context, and dissects the power they hold on our agency and collective imagination.

Tangible Windows

Tangible Windows is a short-movie made of 3 stories about imagination as an act on the world.

In the path from the outer world to our inner space, things go through several layers of interpretation. An imagination act makes it possible to deform those things, expand and distort those images. It is an access to go beyond words, focus our awareness in order to singularise reality and reconstruct it. I know it is not in the same room as I am, but is that thing I can see in front of me not real?

Armand Lesecq

Armand Lesecq (1994, FR) is a sound & audiovisual artist.

Armand’s work is focused on the relation between perception, awareness and imagination. Through sound and/or visual compositions, he guides the audience into reflective and introspective inner meanders.

He is also active as an electronic musician in the experimental music field, as a sound designer for cinema and as a music composer for movie and dance.

He studied sound techniques, electroacoustic composition at Pantin’s conservatory (FR) and Arts at the HEAR Strasbourg (FR) and at the ArtScience Interfaculty (KABK & KC) in The Hague (NL).

Matters of Being #7is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.