ASANASA
ASANASA (aka Lost Leaders #21) is a trippy trip through the boys-own histories of rocketry and space flight, a wry commentary on gendered fantasies of off-world exploration. The film comprises found footage specially sourced from a 16mm counter-archive, combined with meticulously hand-woven 35mm leaders and eccentric countdowns. The original score was composed and performed by Jackie Gallant, Soar's longtime collaborator (and drummer for Montreal band Lesbians on Ecstasy).
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Matt SoarDirectorLes Enseignistes de Montréal, Love Leaders, Academy / Society / Universal: 3 Handwritten Leader Standards, Ceci N'est Pas Embres, Lost Leaders #1
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Jackie GallantSound designAcademy / Society / Universal: 3 Handwritten Leader Standards (2016), Lost Leaders #1
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:4 minutes 45 seconds
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Completion Date:December 20, 2019
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Production Budget:1,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Canada
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Shooting Format:35mm, 16mm, Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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New Experimental Works / Avant To Live (ATA/OtherCinema)San Francisco
United States
December 21, 2019
World Premiere -
Festival Fantasia - Les Fantastiques week-ends du cinéma québécoisMontreal
Canada
August 29, 2020
Québec premiere
Official Selection -
Media Monsters 5: Otherwordly VisionsOnline
United States
April 18, 2020 -
Antimatter [Media Art]Victoria
Canada
October 14, 2020 -
Engauge Experimental Film FestivalSeattle
United States
October 27, 2020 -
SF IndieFestSan Francisco
United States
October 9, 2020 -
Montreal Underground Film FestivalMontreal
Canada
May 1, 2021 -
Dreamers of Dreams Film FestivalLondon
United Kingdom
November 12, 2020
European Premiere
Matt Soar is a settler filmmaker and intermedia artist living in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. His artmaking explores the intersections of residual and emergent media forms. Soar's work has screened at the Fantasia Film Festival, Poetics & Politics of Documentary symposium, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Alchemy Film Festival, Black Hole Cinematheque, Rencontre internationales du documentaire de Montréal, VISIONS Montreal, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Lost River Film Festival, and the Orphan Film Symposium.
ASANASA is the most recent creative outcome of Lost Leaders. This project is driven by a singular fascination with film leader countdowns, treated as the forgotten 'metadata' of analog film. For Soar, coming to terms with this residual technology has also involved cameraless 'handwritten' animation, interactive films, stained glass, photomontage, and videomicroscopy. Soar's definitive introduction to the historical development of US/Canadian film leader standards appeared in the journal The Moving Image in 2016.