Hypnagogia, 4:37 mins, 16 mm/DCP – 2024
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Cecilia Araneda has created an evocation of a phase between sleep and wakefulness (Hypnagogia). The term “traditionally avant-garde” may seem like an oxymoron – but here we see an apt example of it. The artist uses the techniques of hand-developing film material and applying various organic substances to a light-sensitive emulsion, methods widely used in material film since the middle of the last century. However, she updates it using a topic linked to contemporary motifs of the difficulty of falling asleep or experiencing deep sleep.
EN: In the threshold between sleep and wake, hallucinations and moments of paralysis take hold. Hypnagogia is an exercise in eco-processing, with different 16 mm B&W film stocks processed with multiple different organic material, including apples, avocado peel, coffee, grapes, peaches, pomegranate and wine.
FR: Sur le seuil entre le sommeil et l’éveil, des hallucinations et des moments de paralysie s’installent. Hypnagogia est un exercice d’éco-production, avec différentes pellicules 16 mm N&B traitées avec de multiples matériaux organiques, dont des pommes, des écorces d’avocat, du café, du raisin, des pêches, des grenades et du vin.
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
• Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA) – 2024
• Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic) – 2024
• Festival Obskura (Rennes, France) – 2024
• Engauge Experimental Film Festval (Seattle, USA) – 2024
• L’Alternativa (Barcelona, Spain) – 2024
• Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) – 2025
• Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada) – 2025
• EMAMI ART Experimental Film Festival (Kolkata, India) – 2025
• Split Film Festival (Split, Croatia) – 2025
• FLIGHT: Mostra internazionale del cinema di Genova (Genoa, Italy) – 2025
• Intermediaciones: Muestra de Videoarte y Video Experimental (Medellín, Colombia) – 2025
• Antimatter (Victoria, Canada) – 2025
CURATED SCREENINGS
• Videos de Femmes dans le Parc, curated by GIV: Groupe Intervention Vidéo (Montreal, Canada) – 2024
• Photosynthèse, at Le Sample, curated by Desist Collective (Paris, France) – 2025
• Fruitopia, Labocine (Brooklyn, USA) – 2025
Hypnagogia was produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
