Geska Helena Andersson & Robert Brecevic (aka Performing Pictures) in collaboration with choreographer Anna Koch (Kista, Sweden)
Raphaelite Toolbox
Raphaelite toolbox is a silent instructive piece, depicting a woman who is relating to a set of different tools. Her strange companionship to these objects – that may well have been collected from the confiscated items at the airport’s security control – is filtered through movement and time. The film is made by two artists and one choreographer each of whom exploits the artistic scope offered by new dance cinema in a unique way. They blend the transience of dance with the intimacy of film, experimenting with movement and montage, exploring both rhythm and visuality. Here, aesthetic expression rooted in the modern era takes the form of realism, absurdism and avant-gardism. Everything is possible! The videopainting features wellknown Swedish choreographer and dancer Anna Koch, director of Weld.
В этой видеоработе мы пытались показать обычную, ежедневную жизнь казахского аула, и через нее проанализировать казахстанскую ситуацию. Съемки проводились в небольшом ауле возле Шымкента. Селение находится всего в 200 метрах от нефтепровода, но эта близость к «национальному богатству» никак не отражается на жизни аульчан – у них по-прежнему нет ни света, ни газа, ни водопровода. Выбор формы – взгляд словно через трубу, - объясняется тем, что политика многовекторности, проводимая нашим независимым государством, приобрела свое зримое воплощение в образе нефтяной трубы. И возникает естественный вопрос: станет ли эта труба фанфарой достойного цивилизованного существования, или воплотится в идиоме «дело – труба».
Åsa Maria Bengtsson (Malmö, Sweden)
Mermaids
Ennio Bertrand (Milan, Italy)
Guantanamera Guantanamera is a 3D virtual space, specially made for this video. It's a representation with vaguely Magrittian reminiscences which is focused on absence, on void. It contains tens of dummies dressed in the colours of the United States which are obsessively walking, but without moving from their place. They are immersed in a space apparently without limits with the sky as background.
While the visitor goes through this space a digital voice reads out the names of the American soldiers killed in Iraq.
Solange Fabião (New York, NY, USA)
Sian
Ka'an – Origin Of The Sky (Swimming In Green)
Rajorshi Ghosh (Toledo OH, USA)
The world as you may
I am sending a rough idea of the piece 'Your world as you may' in order to meet the deadline. I am going to re-shoot the video. The concept takes up from the idea of a pinhole (round) window, through which one can see the horizon turning slowly reminiscent of views during the take off of an aeroplane. The circular projection looks like an opening in the arhitecture of the airport through which one can see the outside, yet at the same time creating the familiar unsettling feeling of being in flight.
Vladlena Gromova (Petrozavodsk, Russia)
The seasons
Richard Horton (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Dechiricopia
This is a visual trip through surrealist space defined by the artist Dechirico
Gareth Hudson (Bishop Auckland, C.o. Durham, UK)
Future Proof
Travis Janssen (Tempe, AZ, USA)
Espero, en tri parto
An investigation of imagery generated by the human central nervous system during the hypnagogic state of consciousness (the period preceding sleep).
Andrew Johnson (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Fleece
Koltso is an optimal site for the video projection loop FLEECE, a perfect circle projection.The image looks down on a white sheep trapped in a well of ornamental white brick. The sheep turns around in the water and periodically looks up and bleats at the viewer. The sound is quiet and soothing but occasionally calls for attention. As the sheep turns around in the well, our customary orientation shifts as if we are in are turning in an airplane looking down on the earth with no right side up. Images of sheep are often equated with clouds so this well apparently looks up as well as down.
Черный конус, в котором может поместиться человек (оператор). Из вершины конуса торчит глазок видеокамеры, направленной на сферическое (выгнутое) зеркало, закрепленное на конусе. Оператор передвигается вместе со всей конструкцией, осуществляя видеосъемку. Граница кадра не выходит за пределы зеркала. Камера видит в зеркале: 1.сферически отраженное пространство; 2. перспективно-сокращенные конус и глазок камеры с опорами зеркала.
Описание перспективного сокращения.
Лучи перспективного сокращения конуса оказываются параллельными его поверхности, поэтому конус и наблюдатель в такой проекции оказываются спрятанными за глазком камеры. Таким образом, мы получаем в кадре пространство, точку, из которой это пространство наблюдается и отсутствие наблюдателя. Изображение с камеры в реальном времени передается на проектор, находящийся в галерее. Зритель наблюдает за перемещениями черной точки в пространстве. В момент, когда конус с оператором (наблюдателем) переместится в пространство галереи, зрители (наблюдатели за отсутствием наблюдателя в наблюдаемом пространстве) окажутся в зоне наблюдения отсутствующего наблюдателя, одновременно продолжая наблюдать.
Anna Lascari (Athens, Creece)
Killing Time
“Nobody likes to wait” examines a contemporary attitude towards waiting, therefore it will be based only on movies with a contemporary plot. The type of ‘waiting’ in movies from different periods, justified by cultural norms different from the modern view which identifies waiting as an aimless temporality, will be excluded. Collected segments will supply a variety of staged denials of the duration linked to waiting, thus providing a more or less complete portrait of the modern waiter who finds himself “having time without wanting it. Repressed by social and economic necessities, waiting is a temporality different from the kind of time in which we struggle to achieve our daily tasks. The concept of time as an organizing principle, its standards of accuracy and the economics of time’s consumption make “waiting seem like a temporal aberration.” Everyday, we perceive and bear this duration as a waste of time, and so we employ distractions, like magazines in waiting rooms, cigarettes, snacks, drinks and TV entertainment, in order to kill it. The video aims to bring the viewers, temporarily estranged from the world we live in, to face other temporalities different from organized time. So far, in private screenings, I found that viewers experience tension in watching time wasted.
Dario Lazzaretto (Padova, Italy)
Enlightenment
Illumination = enlightenment / enlightning. That is the meaning of my work. I show only some examples of enlightenment, as theorized in the oriental discipline of "zen" and also in the western spiritual meaning. A sort of poetry act with a series of paradoxes plus one «koan». But this work is also a little showcase of my ink drawings, as the word «illuminator» suggests.
Olga Lovcus (Sankt Peterburg, Russia)
Water stories
Журчание воды. Её структура завораживает. Она пузырится, убегает, кипит почти как молоко. К чему приведет этот бесконечный процесс приливов и отливов? Щекотно. Очень щекотно. Нет больше сил терпеть.
Robert Luzar (London, UK)
REEL-TIME
Reel-time is a drawing which records the actual, or “real” time taken to view the sequence presented.The “reel” is then referred to directly as a condition of film itself.However, as time is presented, as something concrete and objective the drawing slips the presentation into a hypnotic target, a spot that takes the banal temporal sequence through to a hallucination, or thinking-imagination.
Mark & John Lycette (Collingwood, Australia)
UN - icon
Computer interface icons have reached an age and place in the general psyche, where they hold their own within our everyday language. The cursor and other interface elements have formed a new global semiotic language - computer users across the globe are united by these visual representations even if their mutual languages do not.
A. Bill Miller (Milwaukee, WI, USA)
Grid:Current
Grid:Current was developed as one portion of my MFA research at University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. More images and videos form the project can be made available online. One of the core concepts in Grid:Current is how different forms of grid systems are used to depict in two dimensions relationships that are much more complex. An example of this would be those grids used in map projection or networking diagrams. The animation is made of human interpretations of various gridforms that have been collected and organized into a variety of visual displays, one of which is sequential animation.
Ina Otzko (Sandnessjøen, Norway)
The Orange tree
The video work is based on extracts from the book The Difficulties Of Being by Jean Cocteau.
Nikolay Ovchinnikov & Evgeny Vasykevich (Moscow, Russia)
Vopoleberiozkastoyala
Эта работа началась в 1991 году, когда я живя в Париже нарисовал тушью на бумаге берёзовую спираль. В 1995 году я сделал литографию с этого рисунка, причём изображение спирали было пераведено с бумаги на литографский камень при помощи проэкции.В 1999 году на основе отсканированной литографии я сделал цифровой монтаж, увиличив глубину спирали. Также я добавил фон изображающий небесный "туннель". Причём этот "туннель" был сделан ранее, как отдельная работа, история которой заключается в том , что контуры этого "туннеля" являются контурами карты Франции.
Из этого цифрового монтажа получилась инсталяция, представляющая собой
круг диаметром полтора метра с изображением этой спирали. Круг был установлен на металическую конструкцию на уровне глаз зрителя и медленно вращался.
Brigitte Perroto (Orleans, France)
Orb
Nigel Power (Bangkok, Thailand)
Beginnings (The Third Iteration)
'Beginnings' is part of an ongoing experiment in algorithmic, ambient and abstract cinema. The work comprises six short graphico-musical sequences generated by the repeated and rhythmic overlaying of simple visual and audio figures. Whilst the algorithms for achieving this are relatively straightforward, complex and rich forms emerge from the rhythmic tension between geometric cycles and random inflections; constrained and stochastic processes. Careful control of the algorithms and crafting of generated patterns led, in this 'Beginnings' series, to the emergence of two form families that resonate with the idea of 'tondo': the annular (rings and circles), seemingly pulled into shape by centrifugal forces; and the floral, which appear to open out as if by a centripetal impulse. Aesthetically, the piece exploits the liminal territories of figure and ground, presence and absence, persistance and change.
Затмение одно из тех природных явлений, на которые можно смотреть вечно…
Anna Sieradzka-Kubacka (Warsaw, Poland)
Eucharist
The aim of the video project is to question the existence of values in our contemporary world, full of brutality and violence. I used the Christian symbols of bread and wine representing blessing, sacrifice and purification, since Christianity as every religion is a set of moral and spiritual principles most deeply rooted in people’s minds. Is participation in the „sacrifice” in order to purify our soul really an important experience today, or is it an ordinary activity like shopping? Does a man still believe in true values nowadays, in the world in which crimes are committed in the name of God? Is there any sense in following the rituals which no longer mean anything to us? The flies around the Eucharistic symbols indicate that our world is immoral. The fly is a symbol of the evil, weaknesses and impurity, and as such it eventually dominates over the „spiritual supper”, triggering us to ask the question whether it is possible to stay faithful to the values in the contemporary world - full of wars, evil and corruption, or should we rather give up those values to be able to live within the society?
Maja Slavec (Ljubljana, Slovenija)
Revaluation
The movement of a dancer has a tension to make circles in a space; this intension is representing the public systems (political, cultural, economical…) that have an impact on our life, with or without our approval.
The TONDO represents a micro system of intimate space, a system that exists among others. Personal intimate and public structures that; I see it as closed systems where you fit in or not. The movement of a dancer is representing intimate story that is trying to fit in, but then you see that the figure is constantly breaking the perfect shape and makes there ones, the figure represents the autonomy of a living being with frustrations that we develop in the process of growing.
The film is bent into a circle by connecting the left side of the image to the right side of the image, thus creating a a circular projection screen. The film depicts a journey through a forest flooded which sunlight which plays itself in the counter-clockwise. In the circulation of the journey, the traveller becomes the center and turning point. Similar to a child who when playing looks to the heavens above and spins until delirium sets in.
Myriam Thyes (Dusseldorf, Germany)
A Little Meditation
A participatory art project - a continuously growing series of animations with many authors: The flags of every nation in the world will transform into each other through flash animation. Between each two flags, scenes appear that show a relation between the two countries - an exploration into the meaning of imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated associations through questioning, reassessing, fluidizing and re-mixing of diverse national iconography. FLAG METAMORPHOSES lays stress on the relations between nations as changing ones: Only in the permanent re-creation of values, symbols and ways of life, in mixing with others and differing from others, identities, cultures and societies stay alive. Each artist who creates a flag animation expresses such a relation in his/her own way.
K_Van (Koert van den Beukel) (The Hague, The Netherlandsd)
Time and space
A model of a globe presents the present, the figures above the surface of the globe present the humans living with their thoughts in the future, and the figures below the surface of the globe have their minds on past events.
In waves we find our thoughts motioned between thoughts in future, worries about money, jobs, holidays etc, while at other times we find ourselves reliving the past. Sometimes we are also able to live the moment.
Marc Vos a.k.a. Softcoredecay (Heerenhoek, Netherlands)
Clouds for sale
Andrew R. Wilkinson (Titusville, New Jersey, USA)
Fish 'n Chips
Alison Williams (Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa)
Gender bender hello
Andreas Zingerle (Helsinki, Finland)
Extension of Human Sight
A short sequenz is taken from the documentary “The story of Television” (produced 1956 by RCA). In the 1920’s, David Sarnoff (Chairman of the board of RCA) and Dr. Vladimir Zworykin (Vice President of RCA (Hon.), Techn. Consultant of RCA) started dreaming on mass production of broadcasting moving images by electronic devices. The sequenz is looped and the audiovisiual quality decreases constantly due to the fact of a lossy data compression. Artifacts like peculiar effect, bleeding, ringing, pre-echo, drop-outs, warbling, or graininess can be observed.
Meike Zylmann (Tverlandet, Norway)
Recorded
Recorded is a small self portrait of artist Meike Zylmann. In a surreal world she is trying to make a simple phonecall. This is not as easy as one might think.
