MASTERCLASS

Paul & Menno de Nooijer: part I: polaroid and other "In our masterclass, we intend to reveal the differing aspects of our work, our conceptual films and our playful intuitive films, as well as to show how we manage to make commercial works. We will try to explain and show how our decisions in life result in the pieces we have made or are still working on. The oldest photofilm we are screening is from 1968, and we will also show clips from our newest film with a planned completion date in 2021. Yes, we are very serious and dedicated (photo) filmmakers, but we have no problems making fun of ourselves or showing how silly or not good looking we are. There is a proverb in Dutch: 'We have no problem sawing off the legs on our own chair.' "

18.30-20.00. Romeo Grünfelder: The Thoughtography of Ted Serios
The "Ted Serios. Series" volume, published in 2016, focuses on a specific field of paranormal photography, so-called "thoughtography". Created using a forgery-proof Polaroid process, the unsettling Polaroid photos that resulted from this were unpublished up to then. The supposed ability of the dubious bellhop Ted Serios to project images by means of psychic energy onto instant Polaroid photos has continued to amaze both researchers and critics up to the present day. Under the watchful eyes of honorable scientists in extensive experiments, several series of "psychic photographs" were created that rekindled the historic discourse on spirit photography in the 1960s. With excerpts from the 1968 German SFB television documentation entitled "At the Limits of Reason", directed by André Libik.

17.00-18.15. Romeo Grünfelder: Photographic Surrealism in the "Subversion d'image" Film Anthology
The presentation of three films from the ten-part "Subversion d'image" film anthology provides an exemplary illustration of the photographic relationship with surrealistic photography, as indeed the various shifts and displacements found in narratives and perceptions. Doing so, seeing is subject to the same parametric traces that reveal themselves as being meaningful, yet can also be inscribed as a geometry of the imaginary. With the films, in each case it is clarified differently that there is something to see which paradoxically does not seem to be visible. In this exact moment when the irritation flashes up as a "punctum", merely a hint of the virtual occurs in its surreal efficacy.

Paul & Menno de Nooijer: part II: Photography and Beyond.
In our masterclass, we intend to reveal the differing aspects of our work, our conceptual films and our playful intuitive films, as well as to show how we manage to make commercial works. We will try to explain and show how our decisions in life result in the pieces we have made or are still working on. The oldest photofilm we are screening is from 1968, and we will also show clips from our newest film with a planned completion date in 2021. Yes, we are very serious and dedicated (photo) filmmakers, but we have no problems making fun of ourselves or showing how silly or not good looking we are. There is a proverb in Dutch: "We have no problem sawing off the legs on our own chair."