A event held at KIT FORM on Friday 27th March. The event starts at 19:00.
A diary is not an autobiography. A diary is a process, a conjunction, a moment ceased, an and & and + and, heading towards an unknown future. Sine Screen’s experimental diary film programme explores the potentials of the diary form as an incomplete self-archive, a mode of self-representation that destabilises the idea of the fixed subject through recording temporal accumulation and lived presence.
The very act of writing a diary, writing poems, or reaching out to a neighbour to talk about each others' lives are testimonies to the struggles we wage to create a language to reflect our daily realities and to formulate and deconstruct the fictions we construct around the concept of the ‘self’.
Primarily composed of female filmmakers, the programme considers the intimate act of filmmakers turning the camera on themselves, aware of the tension between embodying both the subject and object of the camera’s gaze, breaking down the boundary between fiction, self and cinematic meaning.
Bring a diary, a sentence, a thought, a memory - a photo, video or material. Following the screening, we will break into groups and share our ideas on how we incorporate memory through archiving the average day and how we document ourselves and those around us. An intimate show and tell, alongside some home-made snacks.
The programme includes Bristol premieres of Kim Minjung’s From My Cloud (2025), Haruka Doi’s He Was Here, and You Are Here (1985).
Programme:
He Was Here, and You Are Here | 1985 | dir. Haruka Doi | 8’ | Japan (UK Premiere)
The narration of the filmmaker begins with the image of the “you” in her mind, as she repeatedly crosses a crosswalk. The image leaves the screen and is projected everywhere, even on the toilet bowl and the artist’s body. And the “you” of now.
The Sleeping Flower | 1991 | dir. Utako Koguchi | 7’ | Japan
An intimate portrait of Utako Koguchi’s grandmother that stages everyday conversations between the artist and her grandmother alongside a haunting construction of her grandmother’s fictive funeral – as if made in rehearsal for the unspeakable moment.
The Place Which Isn’t Necessarily Wrong | 1996 | dir. Hiromi Saiki | Runtime | Japan
The enormous amount of modern stars surrounding us is not a fantastic sparkle of light, but a litter of false information. The “I” in this film collects messages from an imaginary research company. A unique personal film that confronts the fictionalised reality on an equal level.
Fallen Day | 2025 | dir. Xiaolu Wang | 9’ | USA
A dragon dance troupe, an aikido class, an ice skating rink. Three scenarios or scenes through which the sensation of falling, or learning to fall, become metaphysical ruminations on modes of existence that draw strength from letting go.
From my Cloud | dir. Kim Minjung | 2025 | 13’ | South Korea (UK Premiere)
An exercise in excavation and a reflection on impermanence, Minjung Kim’s From My Cloud delicately sifts through and assembles videos from her personal archive, rescuing moments both banal and sublime from the digital ether.
Lucky luck, this is Qigong Tai Chi luck gate to Dantian to keep practicing Qigong inner strength (translated) | dir. @cengyanhan | 2025 | 1’ | China
A TikTok of a middle-aged man’s Qigong exercise routine.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
The very act of writing a diary, writing poems, or reaching out to a neighbour to talk about each others' lives are testimonies to the struggles we wage to create a language to reflect our daily realities and to formulate and deconstruct the fictions we construct around the concept of the ‘self’.
Primarily composed of female filmmakers, the programme considers the intimate act of filmmakers turning the camera on themselves, aware of the tension between embodying both the subject and object of the camera’s gaze, breaking down the boundary between fiction, self and cinematic meaning.
Bring a diary, a sentence, a thought, a memory - a photo, video or material. Following the screening, we will break into groups and share our ideas on how we incorporate memory through archiving the average day and how we document ourselves and those around us. An intimate show and tell, alongside some home-made snacks.
The programme includes Bristol premieres of Kim Minjung’s From My Cloud (2025), Haruka Doi’s He Was Here, and You Are Here (1985).
Programme:
He Was Here, and You Are Here | 1985 | dir. Haruka Doi | 8’ | Japan (UK Premiere)
The narration of the filmmaker begins with the image of the “you” in her mind, as she repeatedly crosses a crosswalk. The image leaves the screen and is projected everywhere, even on the toilet bowl and the artist’s body. And the “you” of now.
The Sleeping Flower | 1991 | dir. Utako Koguchi | 7’ | Japan
An intimate portrait of Utako Koguchi’s grandmother that stages everyday conversations between the artist and her grandmother alongside a haunting construction of her grandmother’s fictive funeral – as if made in rehearsal for the unspeakable moment.
The Place Which Isn’t Necessarily Wrong | 1996 | dir. Hiromi Saiki | Runtime | Japan
The enormous amount of modern stars surrounding us is not a fantastic sparkle of light, but a litter of false information. The “I” in this film collects messages from an imaginary research company. A unique personal film that confronts the fictionalised reality on an equal level.
Fallen Day | 2025 | dir. Xiaolu Wang | 9’ | USA
A dragon dance troupe, an aikido class, an ice skating rink. Three scenarios or scenes through which the sensation of falling, or learning to fall, become metaphysical ruminations on modes of existence that draw strength from letting go.
From my Cloud | dir. Kim Minjung | 2025 | 13’ | South Korea (UK Premiere)
An exercise in excavation and a reflection on impermanence, Minjung Kim’s From My Cloud delicately sifts through and assembles videos from her personal archive, rescuing moments both banal and sublime from the digital ether.
Lucky luck, this is Qigong Tai Chi luck gate to Dantian to keep practicing Qigong inner strength (translated) | dir. @cengyanhan | 2025 | 1’ | China
A TikTok of a middle-aged man’s Qigong exercise routine.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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