Program 2008

Friday 24/10 at 19:00 Opening party at Sound of Mu

Special screening FEMLINK: a video collage about RESISTANCE with 32 artists
www.femlink.org

Special screening Les Inattendus
www.inattendus.com

DJ Zuzu and DJ Kreismyr play world-friendly mp3 files: Central Asian underground, chaabi, Turkish psychedelia, Caucasus-folk, African chaabi, benga, highlife and juju.

Saturday 25/10 at Cinematheque in Oslo
13:00-18:00

Screening 1: Poetic Views
Timo Katz (DE), Erin Newell (UK), Chirstinn Whyte (UK), Volker Schreiner (DE), Bjørn Erik Haugen (NO), Ana Husman (HR), Hilda Daniel (US), Victor Konwicki (CH), Pascual Sisto (NL), Fito Conesa & Miguel Leiría (ES/PT), Michael Faulkner (UK), Ulu Braun (DE), Thorsten Fleisch (DE)

Screening 2: Identities
Robin Kiteley (UK), Jonas Nilsson (SE), Andrew Johnson (US), Min Lan (CN), Anne-Britt Rage (NO), Joanna Pawlik (PL), Eliza Muresan (DE), Effie Wu (TW), Valentina Besegher (IT), Zsolt Vasarhelyi (HU)

Screening 3: Alterities
Ane Lan (NO), Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan (UK), Esther Harris (UK), Ricardo Mbarkho (LB), Ira Eduardovna (US), Doris Schmid (AT), Janet Biggs (US), Pauliina Salminen (FR), Miki Nitadori (JP), Zhenchen LIU (CN)

Sunday 26/10 at Cinematheque in Oslo
13:00-18:00

Award Best Video

Screening 4: Screen Memories
Mihai Grecu (RO), Geir Hansteen Jørgensen (NO), Juan Francisco Blanco Romero (ES), Jonathan Shohet (IL), Julie Meyer (FR), Gerard Freixes Ribera (ES), Anahita Hekmat (IR), Ronit Porat (IL), Helena Figueiredo (PT), Seo Won-Tae (KR), Sylvia Schedelbauer (DE), Joacelio Batista (BR)

Screening 5: Stories
Jean-Gabriel Périot (FR), Kaia Hugin (NO), George Drivas (GR), Flatform (IT), Raquel Schefer (PT), Marianne Pfeffer Gjengedal (NO), Anne Maree Barry (IE), Astrid Göransson (SE)

Special screening: International Short Film Festival Detmold selection
www.fest-der-filme.de

 

List of selected videos:

Screening 1: POETIC VIEWS
		Whirr by Timo Katz (Germany) Digital single shot, 2'30'', 2006 The same type of town houses were build in the 1960's and got transformed by their owners over the years. In reduction of these manifestly redundant buildingsights into a linear tracking shot, the film gets a view on how the transformations and structural irregularities oscillate around their initial architectual idea.
		Thinking through the body by Erin Newell (United Kingdom) Super 8 and stop frame, 1'30'', 2008 Non linear animation of monoprint drawings. www.b-een.com
		Splice by Chirstinn Whyte (United Kingdom) DV, 1', 2006 Footage of four different performers is spliced together to create a single sequence of movement. www.shiftwork.org.uk
		Scope by Volker Schreiner (Germany) Betacam, 5', 2008 A compilation of speakers.
		A Pale Shade of Grey by Bjørn Erik Haugen (Norway) DV, 6'26'', 2007 A Pale Shade of Grey is an electro-acoustic composition made out of speeces by Hitler. The speeches have been heavily cleansed for noise, in such a way that the content of what actually being said, is impossible to get hold of. The video is a drawing made out of the sounds of the composition. The video continually redraws itself and is a research in duration and perception of light in video. My intention and starting point with this work is to see if it is possible to use or reuse a material that is demonized in a composition and video. www.bjornerikhaugen.com
		The market by Ana Husman (Croatia) 16mm, 9'32'', 2006 "The market" is about buying groceries and preparing food for winter. It deals with the tendency of the buyers to buy domestic products, considering them thus better than those foreign and imported, no matter the method of their cultivation. www.anahusman.net
		Segment 38:07 (someone to watch over me) by Hilda Daniel (USA) DV, 38'', 2008 Unutterable narrative, experimental entomology, phonology-linguistics, power, abuse and sex in 38 seconds or less. Struck by the assault on the little creature, the sexual overtones and powerless protest, it was difficult not to identify with it, to identify it with misunderstanding mistreatment of young girls, other powerless segments of society.
		The 3rd Woman by Victor Konwicki (Switzerland) Downloaded files (Divx), 1'56'', 2008 Extracts from "The third man", "Les amants du pont neuf" and "Prima della rivoluzione". New vision through degradation of files (divx) designed to be destroy. This technology of codification participates to the sci-fi elements and adds an extra excitment.
		No strings attached by Pascual Sisto (the Netherlands) DV, 1'30'', 2007 A plastic chair endures transitional change, and is battered into a constant state of suspension. The work focuses on the transitional and uncertain phase in which its normal condition is altered, leaving it in a suspended “betwixt and between” state. The sense of purpose and identity dissolves, bringing about disorientation. www.pascualsisto.com
		Videotape´s music by Fito Conesa /Miguel Leiría (Spain/Portugal) DV, 3'18'', 2008 Work in which Fito recorded the lift of the building where he lives in Barcelona and sent the film to Miguel (They both knew each other by myspace) so he, with the double bass from Lisbon, would write a "soundtrack" based on the image as the only score.
		Latitude_redux by Michael Faulkner (United Kingdom) HDV, 3'12'', 2007 Inspired by the idea of drifting through the city, Latitude follows the emotive qualities of the space that surrounds us. www.dfuse.com
		Southwest by Ulu Braun (Germany) HD, 5'20'', 2006 Südwest is a detailed and utopic construction of a landscape, which unites aspects of tradition and globalisation. The video combines idyllic scenes from the European tradition with the catalogue-promises of modern tourist industry to form a panorama which thus recreates the poetic mystique of things so common to our eyes. www.ulubraun.com
		Energy! by Thorsten Fleisch (Germany) HD, 5', 2007 From a mere technical point of view the tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For 'Energie!' an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization. Even though the result is abstract it tells a universal story older than the world itself. www.fleischfilm.com
Screening 2: IDENTITIES
		Test phantom by Robin Kiteley (United Kingdom) DV, 5'03'', 2007 This piece touches on themes of intimacy, memory and desire using a short monologue about an anonymous sexual experience. A fractured voice-over is counterpointed with images drawn from archive films showing the x-raying of the shoulder and the formation of clouds and weather systems.
		Me & Myself by Jonas Nilsson (Sweden) DV, 3', 2006 Identity crises á 21 century. It's a mixture of resignation and hopefulness. It's the way of modern living in it's aim to be somebody and successful. www.jonasnilsson.org
		Black & White by Andrew Johnson (USA) DV, 3'25'', 2006 A woman gazes into the camera as if it were a mirror, arranging a head scarf. Through its action and editing the woman deftly dons the scarf, alternating different styles and colors. The work calls forth associations and assumptions regarding fashion, identity, religious associations and cultural stereotypes. http://rootingfortheradical.com
		Beside the pond by Min Lan (China) DV, 4'54'', 2008 I am trying to use the way of playing an relaxing game to express my special feeling of the environment, a feeling of the interlacement of reality and falsity. Subtle movement appears at the beginning when I put somebody or something on the stage, and this gleamingly movement is precisely my understanding of the environment, that is, when we were immersed in an individualized virtual space, but reality makes us experienced friability and incapacity. The preconceived standards in our minds are establishing links with the society.
		A thousand reasons why to become a socialist by Anne-Britt Rage (Norway) DV, 4', 2006 A thousand reasons why to become a socialist is a documentary featuring material from 1976 where a now 33 year old woman describes her difficulties in meeting the attitude of cruise passengers towards the caribbean inhabitants. Being 6 years old she meets the difference of being rich and poor for the first time. She explains how she observes her parents and how she chooses to act for herself. www.ab-rage.org
		Untitled by Joanna Pawlik (Poland) DV, 2'36'', 2007 In my latest short film I am exploring the shape and limitations of my own body which was disfigured in childhood. I am checking how realistic it is to overcome the feeling of my disability. I am marking my presence in the world which is not necessarily friendly. Equally important to me is the question of sexuality and the sense of femininity in the face of being different.
		Knie,Kleid,Garn by Eliza Muresan (Germany) DV, 3'25'', 2007 The superposition of tensionate waiting and pleasant resignation leads to a short-circuited action. Submitting yourself to the peculiar physicality of common objects and places, is to act in the interior of your own investment with meaning.
		Super smile by Effie Wu (Taiwan) DV, 5', 2007 My eyes were glued to the screen. Before her smile, staring at us with her eyes unblinking for about five full minutes, the only thing that a viewer can do is just stand transfixed as if their soul were dehydrated. www.effiewu.com
		Try hard Johnny! by Valentina Besegher (Italy) Super 8 and DV, 4'11'', 2007 Johnny is a child. Johnny can't play the game. Everyone gets in his hair. It's a matter of changing, of altering your own face. With a smiley face, everything would be easier. But there is a contrast between inside and outside, an ambiguity of the memory. Memory is a play that makes fun of us and fixes rules through time and generations. www.besegher.com
		Yamakasi by Zsolt Vasarhelyi (Hungary) DV, 4'36'', 2007 “Yamakasi” deals with the individual who functions basically different than the ordinary society. On the slewed round image, the protagonist is climbing at the very bottom of urban space: on the street. The strenuous and slow advancement signifies achievement that is basically immeasurable on a social scale.
Screening 3: ALTERITIES
		Sakura by Esther Harris (United Kingdom) DV, 6'53'', 2007 Sakura focuses on hanami in Tokyo, revealing people’s individual responses to the blossom. Collated from a week’s filming to present a single day’s experience from morning until night, Sakura is a meditation on the integration of man-made technologies into the appreciation of a natural phenomenon already manipulated by human intervention. www.estherharris.com
		Arameans by Ricardo Mbarkho (Lebanon) DV, 3'36'', 2007 This video questions the mobility of the Arameans; this is through the example of an Assyrian woman who has undergone one of the explosions in Beirut. Are the Arameans who hold their language and their religion pursued again by terrorism in Lebanon? www.ricardombarkho.com
		Roulette by Ira Eduardovna (USA) DV, 2', 2008 An unknown amount of women is created by replication of several shots. The women are performing for unseen observers, playing a game of the musical chair that is controlled by one men’s whistling. Every time the whistling stops a crowd cheering is heard. The cheering is pasted synthetically like the sitcom laughter. The viewer is looking at this “performance” through the windows and controlled by the movement of the camera. The women appear naked, but their bodies are blurred, and their identity is anonymous. www.iragallery.com
		Reshape by Doris Schmid (Austria) DV, 3'28'', 2007 A wind blows by the room, in the corner arises a thunderstorm, over the bed draws clouds past. Scene is taped a hotel room, with video sequences of temporally manipulated views. RESHAPE acts of space situations and illusions. www.likeyou.com/dorisschmid
		Airs above the ground by Janet Biggs (USA) DV, 5'22'', 2007 Airs Above The Ground examines the effort and isolation required to maintain the appearance of youthful ease. An awkward adolescent girl is transformed into an ethereal, weightless synchronized swimmer suspended in slow motion. The piece suggests new relationships between gender and sexuality, as well as age, desire and power. www.jbiggs.com
		8 crossings by Pauliina Salminen (France) DV, 5'30'', 2008 The town of Guwahati is divided into two parts by a river. On one bank, the village, on the other, the city. In the middle a group of people shuttle between two realities. Which side do you belong to? http://pauliina.salminen.over-blog.com/
		Blond ambition by Miki Nitadori (France/Japan) DV, 4'14'', 2008 How can we define Japanese? How as individuals, can we define our ethnic identity? Who does or does not belong to a nation? Can we identify others or is it only ourselves that can define them? Laughter is what I identify as being Japanese. http://mikinitadori.blogspot.com/
		Under construction by Zhenchen LIU (China) Digital Beta, 10', 2007 Every year more then one hundred thousand families are forced to leave their homes and move into buildings on the edge of city. “Under construction” is a two- and three- dimentional flight across the now destroyed living areas in Shanghai. http://zhenchen.free.fr
		Africa by Ane Lan (Norway) HDV, 4'34'', 2007 A seemingly native woman, sitting outside her hut, is preparing a meal for her guest. The guest, a white female lying on her sickbed, is ambiguously accepting the favours given her by her hospitable servant. The “medicine” provided for her illness however, does not seem to have an effect. www.anelan.com
		New Madrid by Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan (United Kingdom) HDV, 6'40'', 2008 Draws upon the description of a cataclysmic earthquake by American frontiersman John James Audubon. Filmed on the Kentucky/Tennessee border, at Reelfoot – an area of swampland formed by the earthquakes of 1811. www.nickjordan.info
Screening 4: SCREEN MEMORIES
		Dreams are the matter we are made of by Juan Francisco Blanco Romero (Spain) DVCAM, 3'11'', 2007 On "Dreams are the matter we are made of" we play with the different times of the elements presented. The Polaroid–object accelerates its presence in front of the human continuous movement, transforming the audience perception. Who is the dream? www.jfblanco.blogspot.com
		Circles by Jonathan Shohet (Israel) DVD, 7'57'', 2006 Structured around an insomniac's journey through the deserted Jerusalem night, this film is an abstract exploration of the love-hate relationship between man, community and urban technology.
		In construction by Julie Meyer (France/Germany) DV, 4'16'', 2007 A shape appears on a white screen. We can slowly see an architecture in construction. A zoom backwards shows a white frame of the picture. We understand now that the camera is recording a Polaroid photograph posted on a column. The zoom stops on a general view of the building site. The Polaroid photograph becomes a detail of the picture. By way of switching from photo media to video media, I play with the different scales and with the different levels of reading. The time of the image development is filtered by the real time of the video. By this mechanism I create a dialogue between the raising of the photograph and the transitory nature of the building site.
		Isolated by Gerard Freixes Ribera (Spain) DVD, 3'26'', 2007 Loneliness may be found in a desert island or in the middle of a big urban crowd. http://gerard-freixes.blogspot.com/
		Apparition # II by Anahita Hekmat (Iran) DV, 2'59'', 2006 A mother hides her child on the sidewalk. She covers her with her black coat. Black moving bands fold their movements.
		If I’m scared in the dark, why do my legs turn back to lights which are blinding me? by Joacelio Batista (Brazil) DV, 2', 2007 Some people can see the door, but few of them are those who dare to go beyond.
		Flash by Ronit Porat (Israel) DV, 2'20'', 2006 In the video I filmed my friend while she was flashed. Because the camera was with auto focus it changed the focus in every flash and the identity of the person was not clear. The after effect is a bigger effect on everyone who watched it. The sound of the still camera is very important. http://www.re-title.com/artists/ronit-porat.asp
		Expressive processing by Helena Figueiredo (Portugal) DVCAM, 3'34'', 2007 Expressive Processing is about the idea of Constrained Expressiveness in Dance Performance. A dancer controls a virtual character displacing her senses to her shadow.
		M((o))rning by SEO Won-Tae (South Korea) DV, 3'50'', 2006 There is no eye contact between the people in this film, which points to a separation between private and public space. The film positions still imagery as a private space and motion picture as a public space. The relationship between these spaces is addressed by means of an exploration of depth of field, motion and flatness of image. www.seowontae.com
		False friends by Sylvia Schedelbauer (Germany) BetaSP, 4'50'', 2007 A montage of mid-century found footage: mysterious strands are obsessively braided to create a poetic reflection about an anxious interplay of memory and projection. www.sylviaschedelbauer.com
		Metamorphosis by Geir Hansteen Jørgensen (Norway) HDSR, 4', 2007 A youthful, idealistic and romantic love, a eulogy, if you will. One´s point of view suddenly shifts and becomes something else. www.balodan.com
		Coagulate by Mihai Grecu (Romania/France) HDCAM, 5'56'', 2008 Absence, presence and aquatic distortions in this choreography of fluids, mysterious forces twist the physical laws and affect the behaviour of living beings in purified spaces. www.mihaigrecu.org
Screening 5: STORIES
		Motholic mobble part 1 by Kaia Hugin (Norway) DV, 3'40'', 2008 On the top floor of a dark apartment building, a woman stares into the wall. There is a sound of dripping water. Suddenly her head falls onto the table, the chair gets ripped away and she falls to the floor. Her body glides backwards, down the stairs, out of the door, it doesn’t stop until it reaches the ocean.
		The decision by George Drivas (Greece) Photography, 4', 2007 It is a walk along an empty city. It is a bad transmission. It is Athens on a Sunday afternoon. It is an advertisement, a monologue, a question. It is just thoughts, nothing more. www.drivas.org
		Sunday, 6th April, 11:42 a.m. by Flatform (Italy) DV, 6'12'', 2008 In this video the landscape is considered as a connective system of the relations between people, with a special regard to their identities and/or alterities. The video focuses, also, the correspondences between actions and places, between movements and environments. In this sense people are the places they live and the paths produced by these. The video emphasizes the diversities through the "mirror" link between the environment and its inhabitants. www.flatform.it
		Another heavenly day by Raquel Schefer (Portugal) DV, 7', 2006 Intimate vision of Buenos Aires based on the play «Happy Days» by Samuel Beckett; video essay on the border between public and private spaces; reflection about self-representation, displacement and alienation.
		Zygote by Marianne Pfeffer Gjengedal (Norway) PAL D1/DV, 3', 2008 Is it possible for me to give someone else the same feeling as I had when I experienced something? Is it possible to show my companion my thoughts during our pregnancy, and convey the feeling I had in my body? Not the physical sensation of being pregnant but the emotional one?
		Anamnesis by Anne Maree Barry (Ireland) DV, 3'28'', 2008 Anamnesis is an exploration of visual and verbal story-telling. It places the viewer in a privileged position – the viewer is privy to information or a story of which others are unaware. www.annemareebarry.com
		..almost like one of the family by Astrid Göransson (Sweden) DV, 10', 2007 In 1933 Anna-Helèn wrote 30 letters to her sister Clary. She, a young farmer's daughter, had got the chance to live in a city household in Stockholm. Anna-Helèn was supposed to be like a member of the fine opera-family Stiebel. She became a maid. She got pissed! Anna-Helèn, my mother. www.astridgoransson.se/
		200000 Phantoms by Jean-Gabriel Périot (France) HDV, 11', 2007 Hiroshima 1914-2006 http://jgperiot.free.fr