CONSTELLATIONS SUPER 8

March 13, 2025 10:49 am Published by
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
New York, NY 10003 USA

Fanderl was last here at Anthology in 2018. On the occasion of a visit to the U.S., we welcome her back for an entirely different selection of films, screening entirely on Super-8mm!

CONSTELLATIONS SUPER 8
2000-2024, ca. 51 min, Super-8mm, silent

Includes:
JARDIN D’ACCLIMATATION I
MIRRORED / GESPIEGELT
PICTURES OF SPRING / FRÜHLINGSBILDER
PICTURES OF PARIS FOR DR. G. / PARISER BILDER FÜR DR. G.
SWINGS (2002) / SCHAUKELN (2022)PLAYING DOGS / SPIELENDE HUNDE
CONVERSATION AT THE BEACH / KONVERSATION AM STRAND
AUTUMN IN ST. PIAT / HERBST IN ST. PIAT
PERSIMMON TREE IN WINTER / KAKIBAUM IM WINTER
ZOO ANIMALS AND ARCHITECTURES / ZOOTIERE UND ARCHITEKTUREN
MONA LISA
TUNNEL
FIREWORKS / FEUERWERK
IRISES AND PEACOCKS / IRISBLÜTEN UND PFAUE
PILES IN A RIVER / PFOSTEN IM FLUSS
SCULPTURES IN THE MIST / SKULPTUREN IM NEBEL
AFTER THE FIRE I / NACH DEM FEUER I
TULIPS / TULPEN
FOR K. (CANAL IN THE SUMMER LIGHT) / FÜR K. (KANAL IM SOMMERLICHT)

 

Film Notes

FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
German filmmaker Helga Fanderl returns to Anthology to present a specially-selected program drawn from her vast body of silent Super-8mm films (she has made around 1,000 short films since 1986). A one-time student of both Peter Kubelka and Robert Breer, Fanderl makes her work impressionistically and intuitively, in response to the rhythms, forms, textures, and colors she encounters, and always limits herself to in-camera editing, so that each film becomes a reflection of the process of its own creation. Her practice is distinguished as well by her commitment to a particular way of presenting her work in public: generally projecting the films herself from within the screening space, Fanderl conceives of each screening program as a unique “montage” of individual works that together comprise a kind of ephemeral, never-to-be-repeated “film” in their own right (an approach made possible by the sheer multitude of pieces she’s created over the years).

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