Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) were selected in the international competition of EXiS – Experimental Film & Video Festival, held in Seoul from July 12–19. All screenings take place in the Korean Film Archive.

Arr. for a Scene is screened in the international competition programme EX-Now 1 on Friday, July 13, at 15:30.

Awarded as the Best Nordic Short Film at Nordisk Panorama, Jonna Kina‘s Arr. for a Scene is a documentary of two foley artists while they are producing sounds for one of the most famous film scene in the film history (the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960). This performance is documented on 35 mm film. The original film scene will remain invisible while the viewer sees only the foley artists creating sound effects for the scene, such as footsteps, shower and door closing. During the performance, the foley artists are looking straight at the camera. The film inverts the position of the screen and the gaze of the viewer. The viewer becomes part of the scene. The film examines the way sounds are constructed for the use of cinema and what happens when the structures of a film are dismantled into parts.

Sami van Ingen‘s Flame is screened in the international competition programme EX-Now 2 on Friday, July 13, at 13:00.

Sami van Ingen: Flame (2018)

Flame is a fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.

Flame has previously won the Best Film by Audience Jury Award at Fronteira International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Brasil, a honorary mention at Art Film Fest, Košice, Slovakia, and a diploma of merit in the national competition of Tampere Film Festival.

EXiS – Experimental Film & Video Festival, 12.–19.7., Seoul, South Korea

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