<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">sixpack<b class="">film</b> goes Toronto again !</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">we are more than happy to announce the selection of </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class=""><b class="">ARENA</b> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">AT 2018, 5 min</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">the recent experimental short by <b class="">Björn Kämmerer</b>, shot and screened on 70mm (!)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">for the upcoming</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '18 – Wavelength section</b></font></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="5" class="">september 6–16, 2018</font><br class="">
<br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="31983F66-0D87-4159-A045-C4B3A2C760DB" src="cid:870E0C15-710E-46D2-8C18-1570B9EC7C45@local" class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Björn Kämmerer</b></font></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">ARENA</b></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">AT 2018, 70mm, 5 min</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">WAVELENGTH section</b></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Friday, sep 7 / 9 pm</b></font></div></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Cinema 1</b></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">[<b class=""><i class="">P&I screening</i></b>: Tuesday, sep 11 / 12.30 pm – TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Cinema 5, NBC Universal Cinema]</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">The term "arena" refers to the genius loci: the grounds on which the
competition is carried out, hence, where the spectacle is redeemed. In
Björn Kämmerer´s film, this <b class="">ARENA</b> remains hidden. Or, in other
words: it becomes the object of a positioning. Rather than the oval, the
stage, or other promises, Kämmerer moves the space of the spectator
into the image—gray, unoccupied seats, row after row, from an outdoor
stadium. <br class="">
The twist to it: the view of the spectator´s block is immediately made
dynamic in two ways. While the camera travels backward at a snail´s
pace, that is, slowly distances itself, the rows of seats describe a
circular motion. The effect is not as superficial as with a dolly zoom,
in which only the background changes. With the gradual expansion of the
field of vision, the expanded picture detail, however, contains a
similar moment of indefiniteness. The gradual movement itself becomes
the attraction.<br class="">
In his films, Kämmerer has repeatedly transferred cinematic processes
and forms into sophisticated experimental arrangements that shift
viewers into a spatially and sensually destabilizing situation. Similar
to his earlier film <i class="">Gyre</i>, <b class="">ARENA</b> is also a single take, a
planned sequence, which nonetheless quite deliberately avoids steering
toward any end or purpose. The rows of seats are framed in such a way
that very few points of orientation remain: although ever more rows
become visible, the picture does not open to the outside, it remains
consistent within the arrangement of its elements. <br class="">
Kämmerer´s <b class="">ARENA</b> is conceived as a 70mm film; a format that due
to its enormous aspect ratio is predestined for the theatrical, and is
especially suited to horizontal movements. As a sophisticated expansion
study, here, as the essence of a schematics, it offers an image that
grows, yet grows out of nowhere. Rather than the spectacle of
visibility, at the center of <b class="">ARENA</b> is the space of the spectator and the cinema; therefore, apparatus as collaborator. <i class="">(Dominik Kamalzadeh)</i><br class="">
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<i class="">Translation: Lisa Rosenblatt</i></div><div class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.sixpackfilm.com/de/catalogue/show/2451" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">sixpackfilm online-catalogue</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.tiff.net/tiff/" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">TIFF-line-up</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">——</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.sixpackfilm.com" class="">www.sixpackfilm.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sixpackfilm" class=""> <img apple-inline="yes" id="2C1DD7A9-C742-4D51-B0B3-A73F6703EF67" src="cid:4579287D-91DA-42CA-9438-6CF498D3574F@local" class=""></a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>