PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS presents
INCOHERENT CINEMA :
BERTRAND MANDICO
KATRIN OLAFSDOTTIR
a selection of films and Incoherence Manifest presented by the authors : Bertrand Mandico, Elina Löwensohn and Katrin Olafsdottir

International / INCOHERENCE manifest written 12th October 2012 by artists and film makers Katrin Olafsdottir and Bertrand Mandico as the declaration of the principles of Incoherent Cinema based on Incoherence of Screenplay, Manufacturing, Sophistication, Effects, Style, Time and Geography, Taste, Economy, Creativity, Acting and Cinematography

The very special event in London is a rare chance to see recent films and to meet the authors. Most of the films included into the programme at The Horse Hospital were never seen on the British Isles before with the exception of the screening at Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival at the small and remote island, with population only 70 people Papa Westray ( locally known as Papay ) in Orkney. The Festival is taking place each February when the North Atlantic sea is rough and brave ones able to reach the island. PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS is an ancient festival of the island, which celebrated on the first full moon of February. Gyro is a mythical child eating giantess also known as Gygr, Gryla, Grylur, Grøleks, or Skeklers in other Nordic countries' folklore

We’d like to see Papay Gyro Nights as Incoherent Festival where works of art shared equally with the landscape, the sea, irrational animals of the island and inarticulate magical beasts of folktale as well as human inhabitants and visitors

Some art works and ideas are arriving to the island as a shipwreck and later becoming part of the place. With Bertrand Mandico and Katrin Olafsdottir’s works, from the beginning, we had a feeling they’re growing from the rocks and grass, from the forgotten lives and magic of the island. When the stories told from the heart – the speech may stutter, become incoherent connecting unnameable. Incoherence is the sign of being honest in conversation with the elements of the surrounding world – the way to become a human, a beast, again and again and again in the world which is not only transforming and flowing, but also ceaselessly transmogrifying

The definition “short film” is not the right one for Bertrand Mandico and Katrin Ofafsdottir films – they can’t be defined by minutes of duration in the same way as poems can’t be defined by the number of lines, and dreams by timelines. The present time in the films is the past, present and future at every single moment – like in one single phrase from Bertrand Mandico’s film BORO IN THE BOX:

"My name is Walerian Borowczyk...
I'm dead polish filmmaker.
All my life I was locked in a box with a hole in it.."

..where every single present moment of the film is here and now and in the same time is going beyond of the time of birth and the time of death; where the camera is not an invention defined by technological progress, but the organic extension of the film maker



Since 2012 Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival presented BORO IN THE BOX, LIVING STILL LIFE, LIF OG DAUDI HENRY DARGER, IL DIT QUI’IL EST MORT…, MIE, LE CAVALIER BLEU, Souvenirs d’un montreur de seins, Féminisme, rafale et pellicule and Prehistoric Cabaret by Bertrand Mandico and ELASTICITA, FEAR and IN DEATH I SOFTLY SING by Katrin Olafsdottir on the island Papa Westray and in Hong Kong. 3-10 February 2015 we’re having 5th edition of Papay Gyro Nights in Papa Westray and Bertrand Mandico, Elina Löwensohn andSebastien Ronceray will be travelling to the island to produce a new film which will be shot in 16mm, developed and screened at the Festival