The programme brings together some pretty disparate films that each, in their own way, address the human figure while also saying something interesting about sound-image.

Inc:

Peter Kubelka’s supreme abstraction of portraiture, Arnulf Rainer; its structured edits of black and white frames inspired by the serialist compositional techniques of the composer Anton Webern, but also maybe the serial organisation and grid structure of Muybridge’s proto-cinema. A kind of abstract, musically inspired, portrait and motion study.

and…

Epileptic Seizure Comparison: A deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy, far beyond anything as crass as voyeurism, Sharits’ film puts the structural developments of experimental cinema to surely their most compassionate end; interpreting the brainwaves, groans and convulsions of two epilepsy sufferers in direct and allegorical cinematic terms, in an attempt to help us all understand their emotional and physical state. A bold, moving and astonishingly emotional work of art. “Beauty shall be convulsive” — Andre Breton

In Bristol we will just be screening Epileptic Seizure Comparison by Paul Sharits from this programme.