Doors: 19:30 / Start time 20:
Entrance 7-12 euro (up to your offer)
Free Entrance Refugees / 50% discount Trump Ban Countries

Light Movement 20: Takashi Makino / Rei Hayama 
Screening and Live performance in the presence of the artists.

This month we are very lucky to present two filmmakers, both based in Japan, and both making work which could be seen as a hybrid form between video and celluloid.

The films and performances of Takashi Makino are closely related to a specific form of musical energy or sonic environment, evoking a vast cosmos in space, diffusing particles of light across the screen, and even in the space between screen and audience. Indeed he is interested in the unique relationship of the cinematic experience: "What fascinates me most about film expression is the potential for what is presented on the screen to collide with each individual viewer’s emotional landscape, and the new ‘image’ created inside the viewer’s mind resulting from this collision." In these durational experiments, Takashi is aiming to abstract imagery and free it from it's previously fixed meaning through layering, to create "a nameless animate being with a limitless capacity for meanings."

Likewise but with a very different energy, the sensitive films of Rei Hayama fuse pictorial material with abstraction, to explore duration, sound, memory and stillness. Material gathered as research becomes a subjective impression, as celluloid becomes video, the human gaze becomes animistic consciousness through the stretching, layering and reworking of footage into something altogether "other". She concerns herself with "the things that have been lost or neglected from an anthropocentric view of the world" and attempts to bring the invisible layers of our natural reality into the human imagination through her slow-moving meditative films.

facebook.com/lightmovementseries // light-movement.blogspot.de