The Fugue State

The Fugue State is a cinematically induced sensation of amnesia, or maybe of remembering. These sights and sounds are on the border of recollection, something that has happened and could be remembered, but only if you forget who are now.

This is a program of both influential and lesser-known works from experimental filmmakers whose language has become vested in our contemporary filmic vocabulary. It’s a way of looking back, and looking forward, at experimental films’ capacity to reframe the phenomena of everyday life into an intimately familiar experience had for the first time, reconditioning an attachment to the present self.

Please join us for a tour through mysterious films that itch something, latent, at the back of your mind.

Ritual (Joseph Bernard, 1979, 3’)

Intrigues I (Joseph Bernard, 1981, 4’)

Intrgues V (Joseph Bernard, 1981, 3’)

A Trip Down Memory Lane (Arthur Lipsett, 1965, 13’)

In the Labyrinth (Kroitor, Low and O’Connor, 1967, 21’)

PAPERS (Yoshinao Satoh, 1991, ‘3)

In Order Not To Be Here (Deborah Stratman, 2002, ‘34)