ALBATRE
Jacques Perconte and Carlos Grätzer, 2018.
France. 42 min.

MONDAY, JULY 1 – 10 PM
THURSDAY, JULY 11 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, JULY 14 – 5 PM with virtual filmmaker Q&A (This event is $10.)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24 – 10 PM

Coastal and pastoral landscapes of northern France blend and pixelate into one another in Jacques Perconte’s signature compression-based digital aesthetic. While images seemingly grafted to the breaking of tides and trembling of grass unfurl into painterly strokes and dizzying abstractions, the intrusion of titanic cargo ships into these environments make up an extended centerpiece sequence, offering a rare cinematic turning of digital images back onto their logistical origins. Accompanied by a dissonant electronic score from Argentinian composer Carlos Grätzer.

Jacques Perconte will be tele-present for a virtual Q&A following the 5pm screening on Sunday, July 14th.

Preceded by

SILESILENCE
Jacques Perconte and Julien Desprez, 2022.
Netherlands. 16 min.
In French with English subtitles.

Filmed along the ports of Rotterdam –where Sekula and Burch’s FORGOTTEN SPACE begins– SILESILENCE offers a panoramic glide through an interlocking industrial hellscape formed in ash-like brushstrokes. Bookended by voice over poetry readings by Perconte and Myriem Bayad and set to an uncompromising, eardrum shattering noise soundtrack by Julien Desprez.