Harkat is back with the 16mm Film Festival, a festival exclusively screening works made with celluloid film. This includes all formats of celluloid based work, such as 8mm, 16mm & 35mm, found footage and more. This year also marks 100 years since the introduction of 16mm film, the artist's format. As an ode to art and film, we remind ourselves of why this medium is our artistic choice. The poetry and politics of it, the energy, craft and chemistry, the nature of it.

This year's curatorial takes refuge in poetry —

The morning sun erupted with streaks of gold. I peered longingly far and close. Someone said the boat was too small. Many eyes. Intense labour. Calm waters. Rough skies. A silent echo to feed a beating heart. Along with strewn flowers lay a thought, a memory, a poem. All wrapped in rivers of dew. If a song came my way, I sang it. If a picture appeared, I dreamt it. If a stray flower appeared, I picked it up to give it the love I long for. An evening cloud floated in the sky of my dreams. It promised dreams in inky blue. I looked down at the earth and became one with the night. Filling my heart. Mourning the pain. A woman appeared with a camera. She sat by the banks. A sigh, a step, a lyric. An infinite world in a tear on her cheek. An image forms. A dream begins again. I wake.

Venue: Harkat, Mumbai

Dates: 15-17 December, 2023

Day Pass: 250/-

Festival Pass: 600/-

FULL SCHEDULE BELOW:

DAY 1

10:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Workshop: matsyangana

A 16mm film workshop exploring b&w alternative & eco developing techniques (Please note: You must register separately for this workshop, by adding the workshop pass while checking out).

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM | Short Film Program: Molten musings, molten landscapes

A Report of Ongoing Research into Cosmic Intrusions upon the Paradigm of Fatherhood | Noah Weisel

Six Months | Robin Riad

School and Lake | Holden Treadway

Deep 1 | Philip Hoffman

Blue Movie | Michael Morris

Menorrhagia | Claire Maske

Negative / Positive Film | Federica Foglia

DAY 2

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Feature film

Herbaria | Leandro Listorti

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Short Film Program: A pulse. An echo. A season.

Somewhere in Time | Robert Oliver

Sun Coming and Casting a Shadow | Daniel Robin

leavings | Lindsay McIntyre

Dear Viewer | Samir T. Radwan

No way back to Parly 2 | Emmanuel Plasseraud

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Workshop: dear flower

Exploring phytograms on 16mm film (Please note: You must register separately for this workshop, by adding the workshop pass while checking out).

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Short Film Program: Moon breeze

PLAYGROUND | Elisa Possenti

Heaven Is On My Side | Marco Espirito Santo

BOPPO | Marie TRINH, Valentin THIBAULT

Living Lessons in the Museum of Order | Malic Amalya

5:30 - 6:30 PM | Short Film Program: Flaneur. Ferverance. A cloud.

Water and more water | Francesca Svampa

Istanbul, somewhere in April | Hugo Dervisoglou

Closer led | David Šourek

River | Penny McCann

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays | Christian Avilés

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Short Film Program: supper club for space cadets

Mira | Anooya Swamy

Heptapus | Cooper Troxell

In The Zone | Connor Pritchard

Mirchilin Mania| Anant Singh

One Night Before Sunrise | Alec Huggins

DAY 3

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | Feature film

EL SINGO VACÍO (The Empty Sign) | Kathryn Ramey

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Short Film Program: lamenting leaves of fall 

All the Waves | Felix Cognard

Me Like Many | Simona Mancini

Extended Presences | Margaux Anne Ali Dauby

It follows it passes on | Erica Sheu

Right after the war, I was certain I could find the place | Niels Østergaard Munk

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Ek-Minute Film Competition + Straight8 x India 2023 films

Screening 6 newly produced 1-min films and Straight 8 2023’s top 8 + india entries.