5. 12. 2024 | 13:00 | Central | presentation George Finlay Ramsay: Between Film and Poetry George Finlay Ramsay (he/him, 1988, UK) is a Scottish artist who works with poetry, rituals, and analogue filmmaking. In recent years, he has engaged in a creative dialogue with volcanoes across Eurasia, interviewing them and burning the diaries of human sorrows, disappointments, and regrets inside their craters. In his enigmatic short films, we witness subversive characters working on new realities: a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic-ridden world, reshaping it according to her better visions, and beavers rebuilding the world after humans have destroyed it. His latest film, Family Fugue (2022), explores how we are chased by our ancestors and haunted by them. His work has been showcased in institutions worldwide, including Art Basel, Barbican, Beijing People's Art Theatre, BFI Southbank, Camden Arts Centre (UK), Centre for Contemporary Art, Matadero, Meyerhold Centre, Mubi, NTS Radio, L'Orto Botanico di Roma, LUX Scotland, Atletika, and Rupert Residency. 5. 12. 2024 | 15:00 | Central | screening George Finlay Ramsay: Films Scottish artist and poet GF Ramsay works with poetry, analogue filmmaking and the rediscovery and re-invention of rituals and myths, which for him make up the culture we embody and reshape. Family Fugue plays with family history as a score, interpreted through documentary, re-enactment and lush theatrical tableaux. As Ramsay puts it, it is "a chase in three movements with a white snake, a red Duchess and a golden boy, spanning eight centuries and starting in a cave. It features performances from multiple members of the Ramsay family." CASTOROCENE is a "film pome" [sic] shot in Bamff, East Perthshire, Scotland by artist Alexander Hetherington and dedicated to one of the great nonhuman architects: the beaver. The camera depicts wetlands as a living entity, dwelling on landscapes of viscous textures, organic debris and nonhuman sculptures, and considers parities between acts of borrowing, remaking and animal world building. 6. 12. 2024 | 20:00 | Central | performance Coby Sey, George Finlay Ramsay: Flesh, Wax & Glass, Part 2 Scottish filmmaker George Finlay Ramsay will present, through a combination of 16mm and video projection, second part of his film project with the title Flesh, Wax & Glass, Part 2, which has a unique live music soundtrack by London musician Coby Sey. The film was shot during an ancient flagellant ritual in Calabria, which still takes place during Holy Week near the Stromboli volcano. Its practitioners, the Vattienti or the Battienti, offer their blood to the Madonna Dolorosa during the ritual. The film is an attempt to view the event from a personal perspective through meeting one of the Vattienti; the truck driver Saturno Maione, and documenting his 33rd parade; it was also his last as he unexpectedly died the following week due to health reasons unrelated to the event. "I was touched by Saturno, who seemed to be privy to a secret. Perhaps that life is a kind of beautiful joke, laid down by God, a frail travelling coincidence; ready to be loosed with all the power that being changed can give." writes Ramsay about his film on his website. In addition to her lecture, there will be a screening of Private Footage (2022).
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