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Shadows of the Unseen / Movement Radio 14

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Thirteenth episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for movement_radio Athens. Aired January 2022

1. Mihály Víg, Harang (From Santantango, Béla Tarr, 1994)
2. Trevor Mathison, Untitled (From America, Garrett Bradley, 2019)
3. Michèle Bokanowski, L’Indomptable (From L’Indomptable, Patrick Bokanowski, 2018)
4. Werner Dafeldecker / Christian Fennesz / Martin Siewert / Burkhard Stangl, Phonographics 1 (From Film Ist 7-12, Gustav Deutsch, 2002)
5. Alvin Curran, Untitled (From Effetto Puglia, Annabella Miscuglio, 1987
6. Rayon, Il Collo e la Collana 8 (From N-capace, Eleonora Danco, 2014)
7. Moebius, Hoffnungsschimmer (From Blue Moon, Karsten Wichniarz, 1986)
8. Tod Dockstader, Tango (From Cybernetik 5.3, John Stehura, 1960-65)
9. Ryoji Ikeda, Staring Writing Cooking Sleeping Listening (From See You At Regis Debray, CS Leigh, 2005)
10. Anthony Pateras, River Elbe + Easter Gene (From Errors Of The Human Body, Eron Sheean, 2012)
11. Michael Small, Tea with madame + On the Roof (From Klute, Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
12. Krzysztof Komeda, Niekochana I (From Niekochana, Janusz Nasfeter, 1966)
13. Eiko Ishibashi, Drive My Car (Kafuku) (From Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
14. Krzysztof Komeda, Niekochana IV (From Niekochana, Janusz Nasfeter, 1966)
15. Excerpt from Encontros (Pierre-Marie Goulet, 2006) :
16. Mihály Víg, Harang (From Santantango, Béla Tarr, 1994)

Conversation with C.W. Winter & Anders Edström

Conversation between Stoffel Debuysere and C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, Courtisane festival 2021

Have you ever lived in a film? Ever had the feeling that cinema could, at least for a day, let you sway to the natural and human rhythms of a place unknown to you, get lost in its landscapes and sound fields, become familiar with its customs and traditions? If one recent film is worthy of such merit, it is undoubtedly The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020), the second film by C.W. Winter and Anders Edström, shot in a rural village of forty-seven inhabitants in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. For eight hours, divided into five chapters, the film follows the daily groove and grind of the oldest family in the village, the Shiojiri-Shikatas, whose members have been farming the land for eleven generations in constant dialogue with their natural environment, and their circle of acquaintances. The protagonist is Tayoko, the grandmother of the family, who diligently discharges her mundane duties and faces change and loss throughout the shifting seasons. Anders Edström, a renowned Swedish photographer who has maintained close ties with the family for two decades, and C.W. Winter, a California-born CalArts alumnus attached to Oxford University, have distilled an unforgettable epic from this special place and the prosaic lives of its inhabitants, which, against all appearances, has been achieved through thoughtful construction and thorough staging.

The filmmakers previously applied a similar approach, which they themselves have described as a “topological reworking of the real into the fictional,” when making The Anchorage (2009), a portrait of Ulla Edström, Anders’ mother. The film is a reconstruction of three days in her life on a Swedish archipelago around Stockholm, during which isolation, serenity and routine are broken by the appearance of a mysterious hunter. Once more, plot is secondary to the sophisticated attention paid to the everyday exchanges between the human and the natural, the lived and the constructed. But whereas The Anchorage seeks rather a formal homogeneity, The Works and Days draws on a multitude of formal and sensory registers, with the dedication to sound timbre and composition particularly notable.

This preoccupation with sound is no accident: indeed, both creators share a love of the work of sound artists such as Alvin Lucier, Éliane Radigue or Akio Suzuki, which can be heard subtly in their most recent film. One of their heroes is guitar improviser-par-excellence Derek Bailey, of whom they made a portrait sketch in 2003, driven by a shared fascination with duration and “the idea of delivering with a restraint that emerges over extended time”– a description that also graces their own work. If Bailey’s spirit permeates the work of C.W. Winter and Anders Edström, it is almost certainly to be found in their non-idiomatic approach: a cinematic approach founded on discipline and dissensus, openness to contingency and investment over time. An approach that does not advocate for the overly determined and pre-ordained, but for cinema as a medium of shared experiences and lasting rewards.

Shadows of The Unseen / Movement Radio 13

Twelfth episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for movement_radio Athens. Aired December 26th 2021.

1. Excerpts from Surviving You, Always (Morgan Quaintance, 2021)
2. Charles Wain, Driving Home (From The Last Wave, Peter Weir, 1977)
3. Mica Levi, Sin Radio (From Monos, Alejandro Landes, 2019)
4. Yannis Kostidakis, Petaloudas (From I poli pote den koimatai, Andreas Tsilifonis, 1984)
5. John Carpenter & Alan Howarth, Christine Attack (From Christine, John Carpenter, 1983)
6. Johnny Jewel, Combat (From Ghost in the Shell, Rupert Sanders, 2017)
7. Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow, The Turing Test (From Ex Machina, Alex Garland, 2014)
8. Eli Keszler, Awakens (From The Scary of Sixty-First, Dasha Nekrasova, 2021)
9. Razen, They Regard Us As We Regard Them (From They Regard Us As We Regard Them, Nicholas Johnson, 2020)
10. Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow, End Titles (From Annihilation, Alex Garland, 2018)
11. Jon Appleton, Scene Unobserved (From Scene Unobserved, Jon Appleton, Wayne Wadhams, Pierre Payne & John Mellquist, 1969)
12. Rayon, Libanon 5 + 7 (From Maître, lihseb please, Michael Shamberg, 2006)
13. Excerpts from Missing Time (Morgan Quaintance, 2020)
14. Józef van Wissem, Eiditic Reduction + Ex Cathedra (From Partir To Live, Domingo Garcia-Huidobro, 2012)
15. Teiji Ito, Moonplay (From Moonplay, Marie Menken, 1964)
16. Mario Migliardi, Matalo ! (From Matalo! (Kill Him), Cesare Canevari, 1970)
17. Johnny Jewel, Communion (From Lost River, Ryan Gosling, 2014)
18. Para One, Requiem (From Naissance des Pieuvres, Céline Sciamma, 2007)

Shadows of The Unseen / Movement Radio 12

Twelfth episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for movement_radio Athens. Aired 28th November 2021.

1. Excerpts from The American Dreamer (M. Kit Carson, Lawrence Schiller, 1971)
2. Jonathan Bepler, Séance (From Cremaster 2, Matthew Barney, 1999)
3. Andrew Kötting, Oliver Cherer, Riz Maslen, Soundings (From The Whalebone Box, Andrew Kötting, 2019)
4. Clint Mansell, In the Earth I (From In the Earth, Ben Wheatley, 2021)
5. Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow, Men Against Fire (From Black Mirror, Men Against Fire, Jakob Verbruggen, 2016
6. Johnny Jewel, The Hacker (From Ghost in the Shell, Rupert Sanders, 2017)
7. Kurt Stenzel, Moebius (From Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune, never realized)
8. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, I Thought We Could (From Candyman, Nia DaCosta, 2021)
9. Andrew Kötting, Oliver Cherer, Riz Maslen, The Filthy Enactment (From The Whalebone Box, Andrew Kötting, 2019)
10. Cliff Martinez, You’ve Got A problem (From Sex, lies and videotape, Steven Soderbergh, 1989)
11. Ben Frost, If Anybody Asks… (From Super Dark Times, Kevin Phillips, 2017)
12. Johnny Jewel, Caffeine (From Themes For Television, 2018)
13. Suzanne Ciani, Analogue Mountain (From Denali, unknown, 1973)
14. Giorgio Moroder, The Apartment (From American Gigolo, Paul Schrader, 1980)
15. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, The Sweet (From Candyman, Nia DaCosta, 2021)
16. Mario Migliardi, Matalo (Under The Sun) (From Matalo! (Kill Him), Cesare Canevari, 1970)
17. Clint Mansell, Spirit Of the Woods (From In the Earth, Ben Wheatley, 2021)
18. Rick Reed, Another Occupation (From Another Occupation, Ken Jacobs, 2010-11)

Shadows of The Unseen / Movement Radio 11

Eleventh episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for movement_radio Athens. Aired October 2021.

1. Excerpt from Twin Peaks (Mark Frost, David Lynch, 1991 – 1992)
2. Vangelis Papathanassiou, Venezia (From Amore, Henry Chapier, 1973)
3. Excerpt from Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989)
4. Patrick Juvet, Fascination + Le Rêve (From Laura, les ombres de l’été, David Hamilton, 1979)
5. Robert Levon Been, OPM (From The Card Counter, Paul Schrader, 2021)
6. Wim Mertens, Doubly Distanced (From Je pense à vous, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 1992).
7. Excerpts from Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)
8. Bernard Parmegiani, Electrorhythmes (From ElectroRythmes, Peter Foldès, 1966 – 1968)
9. Cabaret Voltaire, Taxi Music Dub (From Johnny Yesno, Peter Care, 1982)
10. Edgar Froese, Kamikaze (From Kamikaze 1989, Wolf Gremm, 1982)
11. Bernard Parmegiani, Bongo Fuego (From Bongo Fuego, Peter Foldès, 1967)
12. Tom Jobim, Luis Bonfá, Frevo (From Orfeu Negro, Marcel Camus, 1959)
13. Zdeněk Liška, Punch and Judy (From Punch and Judy – Rakvičkárna, Jan Švankmajer, 1966)
14. Persona, Fogo (From O Jogo das Mutações, installation by Roberto Campadello, 1973)
15. Can, Dead Pigeon suite (From Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße, Samuel Fuller, 1973)
16. Peter Zummo, Antenna B Sounds Good to Me (Pt. 2) + Deep Slide With Duet (From Second Spring, Andy Kelleher, 2018)
17. Tim Hecker, It’s A Mistake to Think Too Much (From The North Water, Andrew Haigh, 2021)
18. Vangelis Papathanassiou, Amore (From Amore, Henry Chapier, 1973)