After celebrating 100 years of the 9.5mm format in the last year’s programme, we continue this year with another anniversary. 100 years ago, Eastman Kodak introduced the 16mm format as a less expensive alternative to 35mm film. The areas in which the 16mm format was and is used are very diverse.

For this reason, we decided to join forces with the independent film institution Cinémathèque16 from Paris and jointly present a selection from its eclectic collection of vintage prints, which covers many aspects of this format: tinted silent films, early advertisments, scopitones, home-movie versions of famous horror features, trailers of lost silent films and artistic gems in fiction and nonfiction filmmaking. The second chapter of this year’s programme is dedicated to experimental filmmaking from Québec and the whole of Canada. The selection offers, among other delights, the opportunity to (re)discover the experimental works of filmmakers such as Joyce Wieland and Etienne O’Leary, who are represented each with an individual programme.

Curated by Karl Wratschko in collaboration with Cinémathèque16 and André Habib.