UvA – Come to Life: Movement on Screen

While Janica Draisma’s Bala II uses rhythmic editing to construct a kinetic choreography of aquatic street sweepers, René Hazekamp’s FX Messerschmidt deploys dramatic camera movement to animate the static objects of a museum display. Kelly Sears likewise complicates the conventions of instructional photography as she explores the somatic entanglements of trauma in Applied Pressure.

In Nan Wang’s 16mm work Dust Poetry, fine particles are layered with organic material in a kind of direct animation technique. Actively engaging the audience in a series of head-to-toe movements, Kexin Hao’s Total Body Workout draws on the history of mass gymnastics and exercise routines in Asia, the Soviet Union and the United States to reconfigure the past in a totalized bodily experience.

This program is organized by students of the University of Amsterdam’s MA program in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image: Elena Albuerne, Mailijai Baldé, Vy Đặng, Sophia Haid, Finn Jubak, Maria Paula Lis, Anastasia Mathews, Amber Mota, Magdalena Steffan, and Andrei Vilcov.