As we enter our sixth year of hosting the 16mm film festival, we recognize what makes the photochemical medium so special to us — it is rooted in play. It is an impression of flowers; a dance with light. It constantly merges the art and craft of making. Its tangibility makes room for deeply personal impressions. Its slowness changes time. 

Alluding to several films that have made it to our festival, and the qualities of the medium akin to flora, our programs this year are named after flowers (or notions of them). Fragile, tangible, photosensitive, seasonal, growth, windswept, of/for love & death, archiving - touch. 

This year we will be screening more than 50 films from over 10 countries, including five newly produced Ek-minute competition films, all the Indian submissions to straight8 2022, and an expanded cinema film performance by Harkat’s own. We also have veteran experimental filmmakers Richard and Diana Tuohy, all the way from Nanolab (Australia) visiting us and showcasing their analog works. So come join us for some incredible films and experiences!

Note: the festival will take place in-person at Harkat Studios in Mumbai.

Dates: 9-11 December, 2022

Day Pass: 250/-

Festival Pass: 600/-

SCHEDULE:

Opening Night

7 PM | Short Film Program: Eden

Light-logues of flowers and women

Films:

Blooming Fire, Burning Flowers, Bright as Sun | Kristen Williams

Petal to the Metal | Emily Pelstring 

This Little Light of Mine | Malo Sutra Fish

Dans les cieux et sur la terre | Erin Weisgerber

INNESTI NERI E BIANCHI (White and Black Grafts) | Federica Foglia

Fair winds and following seas | Alina Tretinjak

Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun | Ella Morton 

7:45 PM | 16mm Film Festival Introduction

8 - 9 PM | Feature film

Terra Femme | Courtney Stephens

DAY 2

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Feature film

Vulture | Phil Hoffman

12:30 - 1:45 PM | Short Film Program: Ankur (a seedling)

to plant a seed in your mind, of all that can bloom from the celluloid medium

Films:

Inventario Churubusco | Elena Pardo

Reptilian Freeze Reflex | Anna Hogg, Lindsey Arturo, Rachel Lane

Intricate Domestication | Eduardo Gutierrez Carrera

Black Hole Space Debt, or A Basic Guide to Syncing Sound and Image | Stephen Wardell

perf dance | Steven Woloshen

Pinhole Park | Alex MacKenzie

Shield | Taravat Khalili

purgatory is the side of the road | Mireya Martinez

they rise, these sponge fortresses | Guillaume Vallée

A Small Lie | Ethan Berry

Un-Tidal | Masha Vlasova

Black Gold | Michael Higgins

PRESS(ED) | Senne Driesen

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Short Film Program: Dear Daisy

shared dreams, pressed like flowers, blue interludes, reminiscent of lost letters

Films:

I Was a Free Dog | Yuula Benivolski

"Time is a loop", I wish | Yue Hua 

16 One | Holden Treadway

16mm Letters| Claudie Lévesque, Ilyaa Ghafouri

Bleue | Anne-Marie Bouchard

Water Notebook | Felipe Rodríguez Cerda

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Spotlight: Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie 

A showcase by and of the work of experimental filmmakers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie. Together they established Nanolab, which is a hand-processing lab for super-8 black-and-white and colour reversal film in Australia.

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Short Film Program: Datura floating

tidal shorts to accompany you into the night

Films:

Disparition(s) | Camille Pueyo

Upwards Tide | Daniela Zahlner

ENEZ | Emmanuel Piton

DAY 3

12:00 - 1:00 PM | Short Film Program: Roses and Dandelions

a mixed bunch: of people and places

Films:

2gether | Kim Ekberg

Ground Control | Thor Zing Lodberg

How to Build a House out of Wreckage and Rags | Bernd Lützeler

Frankston | Patrick Anthony Tarrant

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Short Film Program: the paradox of a marigold

films of love & death, joy & grief, longing & time

Films:

The impasse of two angels | Clara Lazare

Before | Cecilia Araneda

600 Moons | Cindy Stillwell

How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather | Anna Kipervaser

That I Have Broken into Two | Ellery Bryan

LIMBO | Mathieu Peteul

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Ek-Minute Film Competition 2022 films

5:00 - 6:00 PM | Straight8 x India 2022 films

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | ‘Cinema of Prayoga’ with Amrit Gangar | Lecture 

Join us for a talk with Amrit Gangar, film theorist, scholar, curator, and provocateur- the very source of Cinema of Prayog and the proposition it brings with it.

8:00 PM onwards | Ladies Log

An expanded cinema film performance by members of Harkat, followed by a closing-night open house!