<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">We like to spread the good news that</font><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 36px;" class=""><b class="">to</b></font><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 36px;" class=""> for</font><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 36px;" class=""><b class="">get</b></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" size="5" style="font-style: normal;" class="">by Lydia Nsiah</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class="">AT 2019, 17 min</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">will celebrate it’s international premiere at</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 64px;" class="">IDFA 2019</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" size="5" style="font-style: normal;" class="">Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class="">11/23/2019 - 12/01/2019</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" size="4" style="font-style: normal;" class="">in section </font><font color="#5e5e5e" size="4" style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">PARADOCS</b></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="E019591C-70FD-4B2D-8F3C-2B3272347EBC" src="cid:F1ADE97A-AF55-489F-8148-EE4D15783750@local" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="ECE1E391-389B-4FBD-89AA-75A23E6F721D" src="cid:938953C9-CE05-4B5A-B771-7DA4A66F8204@local" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="4B57785C-D3F5-4119-B03F-1B3ADDC09C24" src="cid:CF951570-8F68-4854-97F3-4BDE5FF34AB6@local" class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><i class="">Agfamoviechrome A 40 1993<br class="">
DuPont Superior 4 1967<br class="">
Kodak 500T 1993<br class="">
Orwo Chromut 15 1984<br class="">
….</i><br class="">
<br class="">
The closing credits of <b class="">to</b> for<b class="">get</b> retrospectively propose
an alternative interpretation, as the formula-like notation specifies
the analogue, already expired Super-8 and 16mm film material that Lydia
Nsiah recorded on. Through this application beyond the recommended
expiration date, blanks appear, surprising lapses occur, and spots on
the developed negative are visible that have transferred to the
digitized positive. The colors of the images are strangely faded as
though the recording had likewise occurred long ago in the past.
Sometimes the light-sensibility of the material has shifted so that only
color fields in beige, blue, and white remain; then at times, the sea
or a bit of sky is still recognizable. <br class="">
<br class="">
The meaning of remembering and memory culture has been a theme — not
only of cultural studies — for quite some time. As a result, meanwhile,
the issue of storage on appropriate media is increasingly posed: server
cloud or analogue material in an underground storage unit? What and how
much has actually already been lost in the process of copying and
digitizing? What is the significance of that for a Western-centered
culture that is desperately concerned with the archiving of data and
things? <br class="">
Lydia Nsiah approaches this complex issue using the means of
artistic-research, in that she draws on a familiar setting. Based on the
genre of the "travel film," she makes recordings that seem as though
already written into collective memory: a journey through a
Mediterranean landscape: birds at a waterway; steam rising from volcanic
rock; the skyline of a modern metropolis. <br class="">
However, through Nsiah´s twisted camera perspectives and the musician
Jejuno´s score, the images are denied a common interpretation. The
repetitive drone sound refers to the complexity of it all, as suddenly,
inscribed in these images is something uncanny, something heralding the
no-longer existing or no-longer-visible, the fear and simultaneous
chance of forgetting. <i class="">(Claudia Slanar)</i></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/2545" class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class="">more:</font></a></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">IDFA- schedule:</b></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">11/23/2019 – 8:45 pm – Tuschinski 3</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">11/24/2019 – 9:45 pm – Munt 9</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">11/27/2019 – 7:15 pm – Munt 9</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">11/30/2019 – 12:15 pm – Munt 10</font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.idfa.nl/en/" class="">IDFA-website</a></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5e5e5e" class="">———</font></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="">FB</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>