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05.02.25, 20:30, Geographies of Solitude (2022)

Feel the wind in your hair and the sand between your toes, Kinoautomat immerses you in the living landscapes of Geographies of Solitude.

Experimental filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills has always had a fascination with cinema as sensory experience. Her analogue-shot film poems always try to transform the textures of people, places and time periods into immersive experiences. For Geographies of Solitude, she went to Canada's East Coast to live and work for a time on remote Sable Island. Accompanied by physicist Zoe Lucas, she maps the island's unique ecosystem on 16mm and assists the scientist in surveying geological and biological materials. As seals, horses and insects watch them and the forces of nature assert themselves daily, the island reveals its poetic beauty to the two researchers.

Our guest speaker on duty takes charge of the film with an introduction on the artist as collector. Gleaning, cataloguing and processing is also part of many an artistic practice outside the realm of science. Collecting thus becomes a way of approaching the world and processing its value in new forms.

Jacquelyn Mills, 2022, Canada, 104', English spoken, Dutch subtitles
i.c.w. Kinoautomat
Campus Bijloke
Cloquet
Godshuizenlaan 4
9000 Gent