Screen/Society--Teo Hernández | Duke Experimental Film Society

Film Screening co-presented by Duke Experimental Film Society and Screen/Society

A selection of four short films exploring the intersections and limits of filmic form, the human body, and their shared surroundings by radical experimental filmmaker Teo Hernández (Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, 1939 - Paris, France, 1993), filmed in Super 8.

"Hernández's films more closely resemble a torrid run of revelations than they do tangible narratives to be dissected." - Joshua Peinado

"Every image returns to its origin: the void." - Teo Hernández

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Films to be screened:

"Corps Aboli" (1978, 16 min, Digital File)

The purpose of the film is to go beyond the notion of the body as a system of functions, symptoms and reflexes that try to delimit the whole body. The body, represented here with all its norms, confronted with itself in a space without causal references, is leading to the abolition of its image and the gushing of its inner source: it is the luminous core of the human body. - Lightcone

"Pas De Ciel" (1987, 29 min, 16mm)

"Specially made for the first Danse / Image event at Chateauvallon, this film is the result of the meeting, then the confrontation, then finally the miraculous agreement between the weightless, vicious camera of Teo Hernández and the improvisation of dancer-choreographer Bernardo Montet. A body between sea and sky, the silent presence of the wind, a few birds: elements of a fundamental mythology transformed into lyrical abstraction." - Dominique Noguez

"Nuestra Señora de Paris" (1981-82, 22 min, 16mm)

Magical Super 8 (shown on 16mm) portrait of the Notre Dame cathedral featuring luminous light and a dense score incorporating players from the square.

"L'Eau de la Seine" (1982-83, 11 min, 16mm)

The water of the Seine and its reflections appear like a luminous matter. The 'moving' shooting technique gives the images plastic effects.