Raw Data: The Origins of Digital Film

This program presents a diverse selection of experimental audiovisual works that explore the complexity of digital image processing. From DCT:SYPHONING (2017) by Rosa Menkman, which investigates the ecology of compression complexities, to Time Out of Place (2007) by Semiconductor, which plays with the simultaneous experience of temporal thickening. Historical projects such as 3 Artists On-line on Slow-Scan-TV (1980) showcase early experiments with computer networks and image transmission, while more recent works like 10 Megabytes of Memory (2021) by Markus Maicher reflect on the impact of digital storage and resolution. By combining a wide range of techniques and concepts, Raw Data offers insight into the ongoing development of digital image processing techniques and how artists have explored them over the past decades.

This program is initiated and made possible by the European Short Film Network.

Curator: Martijn van Boven

Screened:
THU 23/10, 21:00 FYRIS
SUN 26/10, 11:00 FYRIS

Köp biljett

3 ARTISTS ON-LINE ON SLOW-SCAN-TV

A performance involving three artists (Bartlett, Klinkowstein, and Tanbellini) who have never met, are in three different parts of the world and will try to work at the speed of a freeze frame.

United States, Netherlands, Canada 1980 / 15:00 / Director: Tom Klinkowstein

DCT: SYPHONING: THE 1000000TH (64TH) INTERVAL

A translation game that takes Edwin Abbott Abbott’s novel Flatland into the world of digital image compression algorithms.

Netherlands 2016 / 6:00 / Director: Rosa Menkman

NACHT - LICHT

A film in three acts in which figures, ranging from eight to 14 elements, change colour, direction and location.

Netherlands 1993 / 12:00 / Director: Bart Vegter

ARCADIAN RHYTHMS #160

A pattern of pixels evolved into a continuous loop. An experience inspired by the first video arcade games, with a soundtrack produced by converting images into audio.

Netherlands 2025 / 3:00 / Director: Bas van Koolwijk

TIME OUT OF PLACE

This film sets out to break with the sensation or experience of time in a linear way. Here, we see the future, the present and the past at the same time, in order to build patterns and rhythms that go beyond everyday human experience.

United Kingdom 2008 / 10:00 / Director: Semiconductor

IFSFILM

A film with a very precise objective: to start from the visual noise of pixels and then find the beauty that lies within them. Made using an Atari Mega 2 ST and software created using Forth and Assembler.

Netherlands 1994 / 4:00 / Director: Joost Rekveld

10 MEGABYTES OF MEMORY

Markus Maicher compresses a decade of home movies to give us this digital autobiography that overwhelms and disturbs our senses. There’s nothing quite like nostalgia at the speed of light.

Austria 2021 / 2:00 / Director: Markus Maicher

BELCHIC QE

Lines of text that describe what we see flickering on the screen. Pure image, pure sound, and words that enter our subconscious. And maybe stay there.

Austria 2000 / 4:00 / Director: ReMi

NIR

What if we could see what the naked eye can’t? This short film sets out to do just that, taking us on a journey beyond the machine, nature and humanity.

Netherlands 2024 / 15:00 / Director: Martine Stig