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CologneOFF V – Taboo! Taboo? Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne The festival theme goes down to the question whether the social ban, called TABOO can be still existing in times when all existing “taboos” are broken. The present selection wants to show how videomakers coming from different countries, cultures and societies reflect an ancient social act, which is more contemporary than ever. COLOGNE OFF will celebrate in 2010 its 5th anniversary in the framework of the 10th anniversary celebrations of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne , the experimental platform for art and new media operating from Cologne/Germany. http://coff.newmediafest.org/ |
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White, Lin Fangsuo, 1', 2008, China This work was cut in exaggeration, theatrical moment and volatile effect of vision,it compares the frailty of our lives,and it sublimes to be lenity. |
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How to Clean a Puddle, Roland Wegerer, 1’47’’, 2008, Austria Jumping in a puddle will be continued to an operate and excessive final. What in childhood after a few jumps was stopped is completed here. Water, mud and the black clothing generate short sculptural images and meet in their social definition in opposition. |
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Corporate Warfare, Casey McKee, 3’32’’, 2005, USA I am an incredibly powerful businessman who contiunues to clime higher and higher up the ladder of success. |
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Noli Me Tangere, Masha Yozefpolsky, 6’20’’, 2008, Israel
Regulated and hypnotized we are indeed normalized into a psycho-physical zombie state of being, order and uniformity. While reality itself, loosing its coherency and certainty on any possible level, our selves are being stolen from us. |
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(Buried) Over the Roofs, Alex Lora, 11’, 2009, Spain |
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Siebensachen-One's Bits and Pieces, Anna Porzelt, 3’, 2004, Germany Metaphysical short about the presence of the (personal) past. |
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Slapstick Social By, Frank Gatti, 15’25’’, 2008, France
The term Slapstick (literally blow with a stick) is attached by its history at Hollywood cinema burlesque. Both films CHIENN.AVI and 2CHIENN.AVI, shot in Paris, which compose the video SLAPSTICK SOCIAL combine the burlesque with the cruelty of certain social realities. |
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Pass, Istvan Rusvai, 1’, 2008, Hungary |
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