XB-21, Tomaž Burlin - Sergei Vutuc

XB-21
Tomaž Burlin

closed 22x28,5 cm, open 28,5x40cm,
40 pages, Munken 90g 2.0
Edition of 50
Printing and sewing a la maison printing
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XB-21
Somewhere in the Eastern bloc an industrial accident, people organize themselves and start the decontamination. Alternating loops of abstract images and disaster, characters with gas masks wander in the rubble. The artifice of orchestrated calm is reworked, the material manipulated by photochemical processes and the image in a performative mode is put in tension with analog sound.
The work is based on images found in 16mm and passed through different processes in the film laboratory - printing of internegatives, flat printing of short loops in positive and negative.
The premiere was shown at Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint Ouen.
As part of Maison d’hôte numéro quatre, XB-21 will renew itself through a print that explores the transformation and expansion of cinematic performance in a publication that plays with binding and folding as visual elements that incorporate the basis of the performative act with multiple projectors.

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Tomaž Burlin was born in 1977 in Koper/Capodistria (Slovenia). He is a film director, visual artist, graphic designer and film critic of Italian-Slovenian origin.
He is living in Paris since 2003 where he studied cinema at the University of Paris 10 Nanterre. As a director, he works on documentaries produced by RAI, RTV Slovenia and the BBC. He has participated in various group and solo exhibitions in Paris, Venice and Slovenia.
Since 2013 for his cinematographic works, he works mainly with photochemical media - 8mm, Super8 and 16mm. Some of his films are distributed by Light cone
With the collective The Internationals, he produces performances combining analog 16mm images and electro-acoustic improvisations.
His performances have been shown in Paris, Amiens, Caen, Rotterdam, Riga, London.
He is an active member of L’Etna - experimental film laboratory and L’Abominable - collective film laboratory.