Sep 1, 2017
We are thrilled to announce that Leslie Supnet’s experimental animation, In Still Time, has been selected for Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Linoleum offers the largest display of original animation in Ukraine. This year’s festival takes place from Sept 28 to Oct 1 and it marks the 90th anniversary of Ukrainian animation. Leslie’s film is included in the International Video Art program.
The full program can be viewed here.
As Leslie describes her film: “In Still Time is an experimental animation that investigates the catastrophic image and spectacle through direct animation of still images onto 16mm film. The film uses still images found on the internet from the current Syrian civil war; these were laser printed directly onto the film, simultaneously abstracting these images and re-animating them. These images are juxtaposed with audio from news sources, interviews and YouTube videos posted by Syrian civilians, activists and journalists on the ground of different events that have taken place during the crisis. Through clues of shape, line, colour, and sound these abstracted images of catastrophe attempt to facilitate questions about the moral imperative to look, our ability or inability to bear witness to unthinkable human suffering and our complicity in the violence documented in the image. What are the limits of the catastrophic image? How can trauma and the unthinkable ever be properly represented? How do we give meaning to an event that stops and disrupts time?”
Congratulations Leslie!!!
To learn more about the films in the WFG collection, please email distribution@winnipegfilmgroup.com or call 204-925-FILM x 103 or 105.
