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30.03.2018
21.15
Balkan Can Kino
Kerameikou 28
Video Art Panorama | International Selection
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International1 selection focused on contemporary approaches of video-art.
- Attachment???v. / Dir. Florencia Levy / Argentina2017 – video art5 min.The camera gets as close as possible to capture the repetition of a gesture. While a hand replicates a movement, the faces illuminated by the light of a screen are anchored at a fixed point, and even when they are asleep, a reflex movement continues to recur. The danger is imminent.
- Serge Bulat: Walker???v. / Dir. Michael Rfdshir / Moldova2015 – video art4:30 min.“Queuelbum” is a 2-part experience project by NYC music artist Serge Bulat. The time-inspired album is an experiment in instrumental music, visuals, philosophy, and conceptual art. “Walker” – is the first experience piece from “Queuelbum” and serves as an introduction to the darker side of the project, entitled “Q25”. The creators of the music video unveiled “Walker’s” code name “IIWABOYS”, which stands for “If I Were A Bug On Your Shoulder” and hints at the message of the video.
- IIOII???v. / Dir. Rakel Jonsdottir / Iceland2016 – video art9 min.A mesmerizing voyage into the realm of the psyche. Silently flowing movements due to alternating attractive and repulsive forces, generated by a periodic magnetic field originated from within. Resonating between two extremes.
- Layout???v. / Dir. Ryan Wicks / United States2017 – video art1 min.A network of circuitry and geography oppose one another as the boundaries between symbols and co-existence.
- Watch by being watched???v. / Dir. Sangwon Lee / South Korea2017 – video art2:30 min.The film is about self-identity in a digitalized modern era. Through the character, it tells about a loss of balance between everyday life and confused reality with cyberspace. In terms of digital totalitarianism, traces in digital platforms are recorded and collected. It links to analysis of behavior and life pattern of humans, even thoughts. Actually, government or governmental organizations have used these for specific purposes such as big data, face recognition, location detection, and mass surveillance. Unconsciously, these silent imbalance and invasion to privacy of humans could contribute to shape self-identity. Intentionally, it can be fabricated arbitrarily or by others.
- Journeys through Space and Time???v. / Dir. Ankita Panda / United States2017 – video art1:50 min.Journeys always involve some form of change, be it physical journeys involving change in location or appearance; or spiritual journeys that affect and change state of mind. Irrespective of the kind of journey, there is a literal and figurative association with change in space and time.My animated short film explores change in direction, perspective, and repeating patterns in nature by placing the viewer in the center of a virtual 3D kaleidoscope.
- Banknote Reconstructed: Bank of England G Series Five Pounds???v. / Dir. Martin John Callanan / United States2017 – video art11 min.A Bank of England five-pound note reconstructed from shredded production waste. An animation made from the security-shredded remnants of misprinted new polymer Five Pound banknotes (G series), which never made it into circulation. Made possible with the support of the Leverhulme Trust and the Bank of England.
- Stranger in the City???v. / Dir. Himanshu Kamble / India4:16 min.A stranger wanders around in an unfamiliar city.
- I’m going where I am (Je vais où je suis)???v. / Dir. Muriel Montini / France2014 – video art2 min.A football field seen from different angles. A man who watches the game, who will watch it, or who watched it?
- songs of fortune???v. / Dir. Veronika Burger / Austria2015 – video art8:30 min.In the course of a planned solo exhibition at the Artists Unlimited gallery in Germany, I consulted three different fortune tellers instead, to tell me my artistic fortune. Every fortune teller got the same three questions: What is the vocational fortune going to be? What is the financial future going to be? Is the exhibition going to fail? The collected material is the textual base of my video ‘songs of fortune’. It operates with the structure of an opera and was re-arranged and re-sung. On the visual layer, I analyze the white cube situation of the Artists Unlimited gallery and question power structures. The Artists Unlimited Gallery is replaced by a venue of a Greek tragedy/comedy.
- My Internal and External world???v. / Dir. Ananth Krishnan / India2016 – video art3 min.Featuring no conventional narrative, this film presents footage of digital chaos, places, and things from around India. From chaotic cities to Lumière brothers’ theatre in France, the movie takes viewers around the globe to witness a variety of spectacles in both natural and technological realms. The production doesn’t shy away from the dark side of surveillance, and ultimately shows how much of the world is interconnected by the camera, the creativity, and the vibrancy of image.
- Indicios / Inkling???v. / Dir. Laura Cabrera Díaz / Spain2017 – video art7 min.Someone wanders through space and time looking for a new way of relating to the world. It is a woman with automaton movements, multiplied, divided, and ubiquitous, walking without progress, in a broken time and impossible, contrasting and opposing spaces. All synchronized by music that directs the events. Signs of something that is going to happen? It suggests to us to look for a new role for the human being within the universe. Stop exploiting and destroying life on the planet, to empathize and immerse ourselves in Nature as one among all beings.
- Hell Test 7???v. / Dir. Alex Lanau-Atkinson / Australia2017 – video art3 min.A visual interpretation and journey through the upper layers of hell where reality and an eternal inferno merge and flow into each other.
- FrACTals???v. / Dir. Lena Moustaka / Greece2017 – video art3 min.The reality and its degradation reveals the reflection of its authenticity within us. Shredding the image by removing it from temporal and logical continuous. The viewer-recipient follows the memory of his memory and eventually surrenders to a fragmented perception that corresponds to the neat modern environment. This is how the title of the “FrACTals” Audiovisual Works, fragments.All images result from the simple approach of objects we use everyday. A simple approach transforms them.