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This introductory programme concentrates on works by SAKUMI HAGIWARA and HIROSHI YAMAZAKI. Yamazaki's films correspond strongly to his photographic works, which are concerned with filmic temporality and the understanding of film as a time-based medium. His observational films explore the relationship between the camera and nature, the optical features intrinsic to the tool and how it facilitates the understanding of the dimensional and transitional elements of recurring natural phenomena. The films by Hagiwara consists of an observational statement that, combined with a phenomenal sensitivity to light, movement and stillness, offers a space for reflection on landscape, time, cinema, and image, and which both relates to still photography and conceptual time-based art. For example in Kiri (1972), in one single shot (11 min) with the camera fixed on a tripod, Hagiwara reveals how a landscape appears as the fog slowly disappears.Running time: ca. 77'