DKF Interwaves x Intermedia Cinema – Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Memorial Program

DKF Interwaves x Intermedia Cinema – Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Memorial Program

Date: 12.02.2023
Time: 19:00
Venue: Atrium, UAP (29 Marcinkowskiego Ave., Poznan)

This program celebrates the vast legacy of a Seattle-based and one of the Northwest’s
most prolific filmmakers and composers Jon Behrens (1964-2022), showcasing his
unique experiments with image, sound and celluloid. From silent studies in light, color
and water and cinematic abstractions to landscapes, cityscapes, NASA images and
Hollywood movies, the program demonstrates a remarkable diversity of Behrens’ films, which are both simple and complex, lyrical and psychedelic as well as mediative and visually challenging. Since the late 1970s, Behrens made well over 100 films using different formats, styles and approaches, ranging from short documentaries, narratives and diaries to found footage, hand painted and optically printed films. Behrens’ work is a living proof of his genuine passion for experimental film, his lifelong mission of supporting analog filmmakers and his numerous contributions to the filmmaking community through the Interbay Cinema Society, the Lightpress Grants program, Engauge Experimental Film Festival and other initiatives. The program is the third instalment of the U.S. and European touring program sponsored by the Interbay Cinema Society, featuring a selection of Behrens’ films and his three unreleased films.

Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska

Sponsored by Interbay Cinema Society