7 pm DJ Ugnė Sync
8 pm Film programme “The Sun Has No Shadow” , dir. Rebecca Salvadori
9.40 pm DJ Mirror Slave

The Sun Has No Shadow is a program of films by video artist and filmmaker Rebecca Salvadori that includes an intimate visual journey through raves, audio performances, portraits and conversations of musicians and artists. Documenting the techno and experimental music scenes and her friends, Rebecca Salvadori amassed a huge video archive, some of which was used to create these films.

Bio

Rebecca Salvadori (1984) is a London based artist working at the intersection between video art and documentary. She has a long experience of filming environments with a focus on non-hierarchical / chronological layering and sequencing of audio to footage. Her film works act as constellations of highly personal and wilfully elusive heterogeneous elements: multifaceted portraits of moments, people and environments that can be approached from different angles as they move in between personal and transpersonal scales. Over the last 15 years she has consistently engaged with experimental music, with a great interest in finding ways to connect the moving image with sound practices, live performance and alternative forms of storytelling. Among many other works, she’s the author of “Rave Trilogy” (2017-2020), a series of film works dedicated to electronic music shot across Sheffield, London and Morocco’s Agafay desert; “The Sun Has No Shadow” (2022) an intimate visual journey centered on London’s FOLD club and UNFOLD day rave format; “Tresor Tapes” (2022) commissioned by TRESOR and reflecting on different ways of approaching personal & collective archives, memory and club documentation; “Messengers” (2023), creating a collective dimension through reflections on the nature of friendship and music. Salvadori is the co-founder of «Tutto Questo Sentire», an artist-run platform that brings together a group of international researchers to reflect and explore their own personal practices in relation to the experience of sound. Her audio/visual work has been exhibited at venues and festivals such as Atonal (DE), ICA (UK), South London Gallery (UK), Niimoscow Science & Art (RUS), Macro Museum of Contemporary Art (IT), Barbican Art Center (UK), Festival of Film and Animation Olomouc (CZ), Festival IMAGE S(CH), Crosstalk video art Festival (HU), David Lynch’s Silencio (FR), SCHNUCK Glaspalais (NL), Sophiensaele Theatre (DE), Future Everything Festival Manchester (UK), III Point Festival Miami (US), No Bounds Festival x Warp Records(UK), Camden Art Centre on Cork Street (UK), Cafe Oto (UK), Freud Museum (UK).

The Sun Has No Shadow (2022, 29’27’’)

The Sun Has No Shadow is an intimate visual journey across a series of raves, clubs and experimental live performances; a personal film manifesto as well as a tribute to London. The fragmentation of the visual experience, practices of self-observation and the tradition of portraiture are some of the reflections surrounding Salvadori’s filmic research.
Developing further what already learned with film collection Rave Trilogy (2020), The Sun Has No Shadow goes deeper into electronic music communities giving an overarching sense of the London-context but also looking at the intimacy between the people taking part; different meta narratives portrayed under a very subjective and intimate frame, blending together peripheral nocturnal landscapes, shots of people dancing and moments of collective catharsis with more universal reflections such as matters of general existence and vision of life.
Oscillating between being both participant and observer, Salvadori wishes to keep the individual relations at the fulcrum of this research. The film constantly shifts the relationship between different environments, subject and camera.
The montage composes the film, drawing from Salvadori’s own audio and visual recordings to animations that go under the name of euroemptiness. Born in 2012, euroemptiness is a graphic language, an ongoing archive of still and animated shapes and colours assembled together following constantly evolving combinations of intentionality. In The Sun Has No Shadow these animations act as portals towards revelations and statements that provide further context to the work.
The film centres particularly on FOLD club and UNFOLD day rave format which puts the DJ in the middle of the dancefloor. This spatiality becomes the mark of an alternative approach to togetherness, deep physical connection and community-making All the footage is part of a large video archive of relations and experimental music documentation that Salvadori has built over the last 10 years ( 2010-2022 ).

Tresor Tapes (2022, 29’28’’)

Tresor Tapes was commissioned by TRESOR on occasion of the show Tresor 31 Techno, Berlin und die große Freiheit happening between the 08.07 to the 28.08.22 at Kraftwerk, Berlin. Salvadori uses TRESOR’s extensive video and sound archives to construct a sister portrait to The Sun Has No Shadow. Played alongside, the two films approach different ways of dealing with personal & collective archives and memory as well as reflections around club documentation.

The Sun has no Shadow unfolds as an individual process of recomposition of the artist’s personal archive in which her subjective struggle and affective experience operate as the film’s common thread, combining its various parts according to her specific intentions. Contrarily, in Tresor Tapes the artist functions more as an impersonal vector ordering diverse cinematic elements taken from the various layers of TRESOR’s collective archive, to which multiple anonymous filmmakers have contributed with their visual documents. As a result, while The Sun has no Shadow unfolds as a consistent narrative intentionally developed by the artist, based on her individual memories and experiences, Tresor Tapes emerges as a multifaceted narrative from the collective memories and experiences of a whole community.

Messengers (2023, 23’51’’)

Messengers is a film by Rebecca Salvadori taking place in a former monastery at PAF Olomouc 21st Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art and at Marsèll Paradise in Milan as part of the exhibition project The Sun Has No Shadow. Here Salvadori filmed a series of live performances and one-to-one conversations on the nature of friendship, music and relationships with the city of London. Featuring musicians Kenichi Iwasa, Maxwell Sterling, Sandro Mussida, Coby Sey and Olivia Salvadori, light artist Charlie Hope, writer, editor and curator Elaine Tam and photographer Henerico Rossi, this work is composed of different meta-narratives developing within a very subjective and intimate frame. The deconstructed film sets were at the same time public events, whose audience became part of the film as well.

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