WAVES

Waves is the section in which the Torino Film Festival's tradition of research and renewal is pushed to the limit, into territories that are at the outer edge of genres, languages, standards and lengths.
This is the section in which the consolidated poetics of the maestros encounter the extreme experimentation of young filmmakers or the most unexpected formulas of contemporary filmmaking. Here, images search for their future, filming rediscovers its infancy in the archives and in new standards, and cartooning reveals itself as a place of animation and innovation both before and after digital aspirations. The works' length can vary from the very short to the very long and they range from film emulsions to the high or low definition of digital technology. Cinema is viewed through the eyes of evergreen directors like Stephen Dwoskin, Ken Jacobs, Tonino De Bernardi, Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi, Béla Tarr, Raul Ruiz, Raya Martin, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Albert Serra, Sandro Aguilar, Kohei Oguri.
Among feature films, shorts and very shorts, in 2009 a personal of
Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Provost, a tribute to Ken Jacobs and a selection of Ga-Nime, the new form of Japanese cartooning, were also presented.