The Gate Cinema
North Main Street - Cork CityEvents
Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/11/2016
11:45
LocationThe Gate Cinema
It’s as if Steve Sanguedolce has been on a steady five-year cycle, having screened at CFF in 2006 (Dead Time), 2011 (Blinding) and again now. It’s not surprising, given he shoots in the delicate realm of 16mm film and colours it by hand. As ever, the results are stunning and defy easy classification.
“Sanguedolce is a self-taught celluloid magician”. (Gemma Files, eye Weekly).
“Sanguedolce is one of the best young filmmakers in the country”. (Mark Horton, Edmonton Journal).
“One of the most influential independent filmmakers in the Canadian scene”. (Marc Glassman, National Film Board).
In this bold new experimental documentary, four artists talk about suicide: the role the recurring thought has played in their life and art, the struggle to understand and overcome the impulse, and the ongoing confrontation with a form of stigma that renders the very concept of suicide as a kind of pariah even among mental health issues and discussions. With a frankness that is both bracing and illuminating, Sanguedolce’s subjects tell their stories, and the filmmaker responds with a striking visual scheme that permits us something rarely attempted in the engagement with this most misunderstood of conditions: a sense of first person understanding.
“Being painfully aware of my intrusion and my obsession to confront what is not mine – what I do not own, I compile my desires in films that are both violent and beautiful in their depiction of external events. My films deal with the colouring that takes place when the camera is held to the eye, as well as what it means to record an event, carry it over and return to it later in an attempt to reshape it. To point a camera is to point back at oneself, thereby revealing one’s own reality or shaping of experience. Recorded sounds and images are merely impostors of an internally informed reality. In the final analysis, filmmaking has more to do with who is behind the camera than in front of it. When I first begin a film, mm primary concern is with developing a process-oriented approach rather than working through any preconceived plan. Since my films are explorative in nature, the actual process of making the work is as important as the finished piece. This working method enables me not to take for granted the camera, choice of film stock, editing or sound, but rather, to work with them in an attempt to express and define my personal sensibilities toward the subject)s). This allows me the opportunity to interchange aesthetic principles that are common to image, sound and editing. A good example of this marriage is my work with rhythm that is expressed through my camera work, music and editing. In fact, my commitment to rhythm and music has given my work a pronounced musical quality in an attempt to create a new language – one that speaks of a personal ordering, devoid of the constricting chains of dominant “narrative” form.” —- Steve Sanguedolce.
Director: Steve Sanguedolce
Producer(s): Steve Sanguedolce
Screenwriters:
Main Cast:
Country: Canada
Languages: English
Colour: Colour
Duration: 71 minutes
Tickets: €7.00 / €6.00 Concession