Accumulation, the innocence of a child dangles in a dark
void and then a couple piles up tons of stuff from their
garage: lawn mower, toys, tools, Christmas lights, and
more into a mountain that they climb up as a means to
get to another space. An auctioneer rambles away and
the viewer is left to decide if the couple is buying or
selling their material, physical and emotional
accumulation.
Hillerbrand+Magsamen
Live and
work in Houston (Texas, USA), where Mary Masgamen is à
curator for the Aurora Picture Show and Stephan
Hillerbrand teaches in the University of Houston Digital
Media Program. Mary Magsamen graduated in University of
Denver and Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA. Stephan
Hillerbrand graduated in Southern Methodist University
and Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA. Their works have been
shown internationally in screenings and exhibitions
including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston; Underground
Film Festival, LA; Freewaves New Media Art Festival,
Stuttgart; Filmwinter, the Aurora Picture Show, ChicagoUnderground Film Festival and the Dallas Video
Festival, the Hudson River Museum, Boston Center for the
Arts Mills Gallery, Light Factory Contemporary Museum of
Photography and Film and the Dallas Contemporary. Most
recently, they received a Carol Crow Fellowship from the
Houston Center for Photography and a Houston Arts
Alliance Artist Grant. They have been awarded the Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council’s Residency in New York City,
a residency at the Experimental Television Center and an
Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Award.
www.hillerbrandmagsamen.com
Hadas Tapouchi – Israel – Moel-Yad – 2009 – 06:00
The Salute (Hebrew - Moel-Yad).
This presentation, an analysis of Israeli society, is a
social experiment that provides an insight into Israeli
past and present. It asks the question; what are those
elements which we have grown up to hate, and taught to
fear? Our most despised enemy, which forces us to recall
bad things, is now presented as a man, dressed in
European Military uniform. The man stands in the center
of Tel Aviv in 2009 and observes those passing by: men,
women, and children of Sephardic and Ashkenazi
backgrounds, arabs & jews. This presentation examines
the ignorance of people towards an image that suggests a
negative connotation, but does not in fact present so
explicitly. Although the observers are unsure of the
true meaning of the presentation, they are inclined to
follow their instinct in feeling that this presentation
is an offence to them as Jews. The viewers show a type
of satisfaction in being able to express their anger and
hatred toward this symbol when given an external
explanation by another observer. They express their
frustration and feel it is validated. It is interesting
to discover to what extent people are loyal to symbols
whoså origin is ancient and stems from their faith, but
have undergone a social interpretation. This soldier is
engaged in the act which we identify as the salute to
Hitler, but in fact, it is a salute which originated in
the Old Testament of the Bible in the Book of Nehemiah.
It describes the audience reaction at the words of the
Torah read by Ezra: “Ezra blessed the Great God and the
people responded by saluting and saying Amen”. This
salute, which was practiced by the Romans, was later
adopted by Italy during the fascist regime and then by
Nazi Germany. Due to its use in Nazi Germany, the salute
is now identified with the Nazi regime and other fascist
regimes. This form of salute is also popular with Arab
terrorist organizations, and with large military
militias such as Hezballah and Hamas. For these reasons
salute is prohibited in most countries and in some
places, its use is punishable by law. Paradoxical, in
the film, an Arab boy stands at the soldier’s side and
copies his position. Without realizing it, his actions
touch a sore spot for the Jewish people. This same
soldier was an enemy of the Jewish people 60 years ago,
and here, is Arab boy whose ancestors Jews fear until
today. It appears as though history is repeating itself.
The people do not seem to truly want to overcome their
past and do not seem to care for overcoming their
hatred. It appears they await directions from others
rather than taking responsibility and think for
themselves.
Hadas
Tapouchi
Born in 1981
in Israel. Hadas completed her Photography credentials
at Minshar School of Art and BA of History, Tel-Aviv,
Israel. Exhibitions and festivals - 2010 the 6th Berlin
International Directors Lounge, Germany; 2010 ‘Bread &
Roses’ at Minshar for art, Tel-Aviv, Israel; 2009 ‘Haifa
Asi Li Air’; 2009 The Secret art exhibition’ which was
sponsored by bank Leumi and was curated by Doron Polak
and Esti Drori.; 2009 Tel Aviv university - video art:
‘Moel Yad’ exhibit at a conference that deal with
genocide, Israel; 2009 ‘Piégés par la Liberté’ (Trapped
in Freedom), an installation multimedia interactive in
France; 2009 Art. apt, curated by Doron Polak; 2008 The
‘Secret art exhibition’ which sponsored by bank Leumi
and was curated by Doron Polak and Esti Drori; 2008
‘HOPES’- residency & Exhibition in Poland with the topic
‘Sociology at east Europe’; 2007 ‘Motherhood’ ten women
photographing ten women. Hadas is currently a freelance
photographer working mostly with fashion design catalogs
and public relation for musicians and actors as well as
teaching Photography for design schools, and private
groups as well.
David Yu – Canada / UK – Bringing Sexy Bach – 2009 – 04:02
This video
is specifically made as an intervention to be installed
within a film screening and/or television loop context.
It attempts to break the “norms” of streamlined genres
within a set show-reel to reveal a complete absurdity
and parody of popular cultural techniques used within
the medium of music video.
Bringing Sexy Bach is a music video that attempts to
bring Bach’s Concerto with Two Violins to a contemporary
sphere only through visuals and the “art” of
contemporary music video. It is an over-the-top response
to contemporary music videos incorporating as many
clichés as possible but also creating an awkward
critiquing air with the pared down studio space. This
piece of work operates best with being inserted amongst
a show-reel as an anomaly and a humorous, but critical
break between screenings. Bringing Sexy Bach is
delightfully and purposefully cringe filled. It is
satirical and balances on the edge of absurdity.
David Yu
Lives and works in London, UK.
EDUCATION: 2006 - 2008 Masters in Fine Art: Sculpture -
Slade School of Fine Art: University College London,
London, United Kingdom; 2002 - 2006 Bachelor of Fine Art
Sculpture/ Installation - Ontario College of Art and
Design, Toronto, Canada.MOST
RECENT EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Solo Exhibition/ Monster Truck
Gallery/ Dublin, Ireland – In Production; 2010 Bringing
Sexy Bach: Video Screening/ Videoholica International
Video Art Festival/ Varna, Bulgaria; 2010 Harsh Lines
and Spongy Surfaces/ Hackney Wicked Festival/ London/
UK; 2010 A Man Walks into a Bar: Nine Trades of Dundee/
Commissioned by: DJCAD & Scottish Arts Council/ Dundee,
Scotland; 2010 It Only Takes One Bite/ Kuona Trust
Gallery: Triangle Arts Trust/ Nairobi, Kenya; 2008 Slade
School of Fine Art Degree Show/ Slade School of Fine
Art/ London, United Kingdom; 2008 FacePlant (Polish)/
UCL Cloisters/ London, United Kingdom.AWARDS AND HONOURS: 2007 Nominated by Slade for
the Red Mansion Art Prize (Residency), 2006 Sir Edmund
Walker Scholarship, 2006 Shortlist for the Mudge Massey
Traveling Scholarship; 2005 Honorable Mention: Ontario
College of Art and Design; 2005 Sculpture Scholarship;
2004 Louis Odette Sculpture Scholarship; 2000 Mike Safka
Sculpture Award.
Peter Bobby – UK – Curtain – 2009 – 09:57
‘Curtain’
depicts the closing and opening of a vast auditorium
curtain, at first denying us of the view out, then
authorizing us to look again. The resulting video
consists of a single shot, divided into two five minute
sections, with a short break in the middle to suggest an
undefined passing of time. At first seemingly static,
perhaps more akin to a projected photograph, the viewer
is drawn in to observe the minutiae of detail evident
through the plate glass window in the functioning city
below: the barges transporting goods along the river,
the light gently shifting as the clouds pass, seagulls
hovering in the middle ground and a small piece of
fluttering tarpaulin attached to the main upright of a
crane. The piece looks at ideas of representation and
spectatorship. The camera referencing photography by
performing a function similar to that of a shutter or
eye, this is further enhanced by an additional reference
to photographic exposure when the camera, in fully
automatic mode, struggles to balance the interior and
exterior spaces, resulting in a sudden and dramatic
shift, rendering the dense fabric curtain blood red.
Peter Bobby
Born in
Oxford in 1975, Peter Bobby is a Bristol based artist
and lecturer who studied MA Fine Art at Cardiff. His
practice centres around specific interiors that allude
to architectural and stylistic perfection. Presenting us
with meticulously observed and constructed images that
intentionally question the nature of the photographic
image, in its broadest sense, as well as exploring
spaces we choose to create, inhabit or encounter as we
move through the contemporary city.
Exhibitions and other outcomes include, Reception,
Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK; The Core of Industry, Spazio
Gerra, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Floor Plan, Phoenix
Gallery, Brighton, UK; Photospeaks, GoEun Museum of
Photography, Busan, South Korea; Locale, Unit 2, London,
UK; A Video Serenade, The Elizabeth Foundation for the
Arts, New York, USA; Covet, Plan 9, Bristol, UK.
His work has been featured in a number of art/
photography publications and journals. He’s a senior
lecturer in Photography at the University of Wales
(Newport, UK), co-founder of ‘Format’, a Bristol based
art discussion group, and a member of the eCPR (European
Centre for Photographic Research) based at the
University of Wales, Newport, UK.
www.peterbobby.com
Viktor Ivanov – Bulgaria – Feet – 2009 – 01:57
The piece is
a profound and philosophical understanding of the circle
of life. The importance of looking back, learning from
our roots and slip-ups in order to avoid repeating the
same mistakes again, which will be helpful in building
us up as individuals and most of all as human
beings. The humanity is being slowly lost, so this is a
refreshing glimpse in the adolescence understanding of
life.
Viktor Ivanov
My name is Victor Ivanov. I'm 20 years old
student at UCLan in the United Kingdom. I have just
finished my first year of a course in Film Production.
Before my enrolment in UCLan I have studied in the Maths
school of my home town – Plovdiv, Bulgaria. During these
high school years I developed an interest for
photography and picked it up as a hobby. My interest in
filming and motion came as a logical extension of
photography and that led to my enrolment in my course. I
just felt that after exploring and experimenting with
still images there was a need for a new challenge which
I found in moving images.
http://www.viktor-bg.com
Owen Eric Wood – Canada – Made Up – 2008 – 04:20
What is masculinity?
What is it to be a man? How do these terms apply to the
homosexual identity? In reaction to homophobic behavior
observed among gay men, the artist criticizes how gays
are often dismissed for being too "effeminate," too
"flamboyant" or not "straight-acting" enough.
In Made Up, a gay man speaks of his physical preferences
in men. What appears to be an objective interview is
revealed to be social critique as the images show the
man's physical appearance gradually changing to
contradict the narrative being told. Through
manipulations of both sound and image, the video
demonstrates how social constructs like "masculinity"
are built and how they can be deconstructed.
Owen Eric
Wood
Owen Eric
Wood is a Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist whose
recent works explore the mergence of sculpture,
performance and video. Rather than distinguishing
himself with a signature formal style, his work is
defined through an ongoing re-invention of the self
portrait and his questioning of the illusion that is
art. His projects are often described with the term
fictional documentary as he uses documented material to
create experiences that at first appear real but are
revealed to be constructed or manipulated. Wood's work
puts personal narratives in context with universal
themes, such as relationships, identity and family.
Wood's work has exhibited at such international art
forums as the European Media Art Festival, the Kassel
Documentary Film and Video Festival in Germany and the
Canariasmediafest in Spain. His work has shown in
Canada as part of such events as the Festival
International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA) and the Canadian
Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival. His video
works are distributed by Videographe, based in Montreal.
FILMOGRAPHY - Parallel (2009); Holobomo (2009); Made Up
(2008); The Clothes Make the Man (2008); Momentum: a
video series in four movements (2007); Quality Time with
the Family (2007); Lost (2007); Self Portrait (2004).
www.owenericwood.com
Vicent Gisbert Soler – Spain – AU – 2008 – 05:38
AU is a
project which proves the possibilities of daily spaces
and objects like creative artistic instrument. The
artist is looking for a relation with them using the
movement in its pure state, without paying attention to
their original use. The idea is partly an answer to the
limited spaces and resorts available in the context for
possible artistic creations. The use of audiovisual
medias takes fundamental part in this project. The video
shows the created relation with the different elements
and allows the viewer a journey through the spaces and
time. Another important idea of this project is the
possibility to carry it out without help of other
persons. This means, that the whole process, especially
the shooting, was much more complex, but at the same
time getting richer because of the continuous
investigation and passing of difficulties.
Vicent
Gisbert Soler
Vicent
Gisbert Soler (1976) lives and works in Valencia, Spain.
At the moment he is quite implicated in audiovisual
projects using the movement and the space like basic
factors of his creation. With his previous work Rumores,
he have been participated in different national and
international festivals, such as REC International Film
Festival of Tarragona (Tarragona, Spain), Festival Corto
Ciudad Real (Ciudad Real, Spain), Zinebi - International
Documentary and Short Film Festival of Bilbao (Bilbao,
Spain), Ourense International Film Festival (Ourense,
Spain), La Mostra de Valencia (Valencia, Spain). He is
participating in many collaboration film projects and
productions.
www.vicentgisbert.com
Ghosh – India / USA – A Little Pig Goes a Long Way – 2009
– 01:17
In ‘A little
pig goes a long way’ found footage from the internet is
re-contextualized to create a satirical take on the
usual and the invisible ‘spectacle’ involved in the
daily production of our food.
Rajorshi Ghosh
(Ghosh)
Ghosh
uses video and photography to explore ideas relating to
perception, architecture and phenomenology that often
reveals a new awareness of the mundane. Ghosh holds a
MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles and
is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Art
at Ohio University. Ghosh has exhibited both nationally
and internationally. Los Angeles Times described his
recent solo show at Steve Turner Contemporary gallery in
Los Angeles as 'Zen touch to Video'. Among his recent
awards and honors are following: 2008 - Hallway
sculpture' received the Jury's Recommendation Award at
the 11th Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo (Japan); 2007,
2006 - University of California Regents Scholar; 2006 -
University of California, Los Angeles Graduate Division
Travel Fund Award; 2005 - University of California, Los
Angeles Chancellor's Distinguished Graduate Student
Award; 2005 - Inlaks Scholar, prestigious scholarship
for the arts in India.
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Alex Cassal & Alice Ripoll – Brazil – Journey to the
Navel of the World – 2007 – 06:30
"Journey to
the navel of the world” is a stop-motion movie made by
the directors Alex Cassal and Alice Ripoll, with the
support from the Project Rumos Dance Itaú Cultural.
Working originally with theatre and dance, the Brazilian
directors gathered in this film more than fifty
performers to achieve impressive “human landscapes".
Alex Cassal
& Alice Ripoll
Alex Cassal
and Alice Ripoll are performers and directors. They live
at Rio de Janeiro, where they work with dance, video and
performing arts. Alex and Alice have works presented at
different festivals in Brazil and other countries. They
worked together at the dance movies "Journey to the
navel of the world" and “Eclipse” and also at the
choreography “Gêmeos”. http://alexcassaleng.blogspot.com
Born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1986. Resides in Taipei,
Taiwan. Education: 2008 - B.F.A. in Fine Art, Taipei
National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan; 2010
Currently studies at Graduate Institute of Art and
Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts,
Taipei, Taiwan. Selected Exhibitions: 2010 Hiding, K’s
Art, Tainnan, Taiwan; Never Give Up, Noend, Taipei,
Taiwan; Opening 2, Taipei Contemporary Art Center,
Taipei, Taiwan; Post – adolescence, National Taiwan
Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; 2009 Revolution
Art, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Very
Channel, Taiwan New Arts Union, Tainan, Taiwan; Super
Seckill, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan; Unsealed
Files: The 3rd Anniversary of VT Artsalon, VT ARTSALON,
Taipei, Taiwan; 2008 It Seems to Lie Down In the Holes
When Inverted, VT ARTSALON, Taipei, Taiwan; 23 - Taipei
National University of Art 23th graduation, Taipei
National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan. Among
his recent awards are following: 2009, 2008 Outstanding
Art Prize, Taipei National University of the Arts,
Taipei, Taiwan; 2008 Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine
Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Born 1983 in
Klagenfurt, Austria. Lives and works in Berlin and Linz.
She has been studied Fine Arts – Experimental and
audiovisual Department (since 2004) and Cultural studies
(since 2006) at the University of the Arts in Linz. She
has been awarded with many scholars and honors, such as:
2009 Guest Lecture at Stanford University, California
(USA); 2008 Theodor Körner Award for Fine Arts and Artistic
Photography (Germany); Ö1 Talents Scholarship for Fine
Arts; 2007 Summeracademy Hallein – VALIE EXPORT
(Germany); 2006/ 07 Student at the University of Fine
Arts Berlin – Katharina Sieverding (Germany); 2006 Guest
student at the Art Department of the University of
California, Santa Barbara (USA); 2005/ 06 Guest student
at the School for Artistic Photography, Vienna
(Austria); 2005 International Summeracademy of Fine Arts
Hallein, Visual Cultural Studies – Katharina Sieverding
(Germany).
http://katharinagruzei.blogspot.com
Hui-Yu Su – Taiwan – Bloody Beauty – 2009 – 05:00
Bloody Beauty is a continuation of the 2007 work The
Fabled Shots.
The difference in the current work is that it relies
more on an entertaining orientation and goal, and less
on a sermonizing, provocative kind of parody. For this
work, I wanted to draw the viewer with extraordinary
beauty. The reasons for this are simple: I wanted to
make work that appealed both to the eye and intellect,
to meet the needs of different viewers, which would at
the same time present the many important concepts that I
put in the work. Bloody Beauty does not discuss violence
or the issue of violence in the media directly, but
rather touches upon the topic of how violence in the
media has become something we love.The inherent logic of the media is one of the
core issues in the Fabled Shoots series. An attractive
presentation, a stimulating plot and content that goes
slightly beyond limits. These features found throughout
the entire creation process of Bloody Beauty follow the
logic of the media, which is nothing too complicated.
Perhaps this is why the viewer is able to get thorough
answers to the questions like: what does the media
ultimately offers us? And how does the media give this
to us?
Hui-Yu Su
Su Hui-Yu's
art works includes videos, photos and multi-media
performances. He also writes à poetry. Born in Taipei,
Taiwan in 1976, Su graduated with a MFA degree from
Taipei National University of the Arts in 2002. Since
1998, he has exhibited his work in Taiwan, Berlin
(Germany), Madrid (Spain), Seoul (Korea) and stayed at
LA and NY as a resident artist.
Solo Exhibition: 2009 The Fabled Shoots II – Bloody
Beauty, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; 2007 The
Fabled Shoots, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan; 2006 My Pop
Life, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan; 2005 Carefree-Taiwan
Performance Art Relay- Su Hue-Yu; Solo Exhibition-
Endless Recalling, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan;
Endless recalling - No.3, Gallery Tc284, Taipei, Taiwan;
2002 Happy Space, Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan.
Award and grants: 2008 Yageo Tech-Art Award, Taiwan;
2008, 2005 Long-term Grants of creative work, the
National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF), Taiwan;
2007, 2005 Exhibition sponsorship, Taipei City
Department of Culture Affairs, Taiwan. http://www.suhuiyu.com
Peter Cserba – Hungary / Belgium – BAD H8BIT – 2010 –
04:00
"I wasted so
much time playing videogames that I decided I should
waste even more time to show what happens if you keep
wasting your time."
Peter Cserba
Personal
Projects / Stop-Motion/ DVDs (cheap directing, editing,
authoring): 2010 - BAD H8BIT; 2009 - Roubaix; 2008 -The
president is dead… long live the president!; 2007 - Who
Turned On The Anti-Gravity Machine? (with Maya Dalinsky)
- Treofilm festival Animation & Grand Prize Winner (Los
Angeles, USA); 2006 - Cimbalmos (music video for
Besh’o’Drom) - Selected for SICAF (Seoul, South Korea)
and other animation festivals in Hungary, France; 2005 -
PochePoche - Made and selected for the Berlinale Talent
Campus, Berlin, Germany. Exhibitions/ Featurings: 2006 -
‘Street Art Stockholm’ (book by Benke Carlsson) 2 works
featured; 2004 - Darwah-Royal: collective unofficial
exhibition in a Metro station (Paris, France); 2003 -
‘We like Paris and Paris likes us’, collective
exhibition + catalogue (Munich, Germany); 2003 - Super
darwah: collective unofficial exhibition in a laundry
(Paris, France); 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009:
Braderie de l’Art de Roubaix (France).
www.darwah-group.com
Morten Dysgaard – Denmark – A Portrait in Eruption –
2009 – 03:55
How do we
represent forms of identity that exist across national
frontiers? Dysgaard work as an artist is to explore the
limits of personal categorization and of personally
lived existence. “A portrait in eruption” thus portrays
an individual in which the personal history transcends
itself in individuals who are not only single
individuals but also two and more others. Dysgaard wants
to question the media created images. As an artist
Dysgaard try to do so by writing over, rewriting and
examining the significance of the gaze in establishing
cultural identity. He wants to present that which the
eye does not immediately see. That which the eye
neglects to see.
Morten Dysgaard
Morten
Dysgaard makes film works that are exploring identity
issues and the complexities between nations and their
depictions of identity. Dysgaard uses the language of
film to penetrate the borders of subjectivity. He has
exhibited in different countries like USA, Switcherland,
Germany, Sweden, Russia, Norway, Belgium and Denmark.
Morten Dysgaard has a Master of Fine Arts degree at The
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
with emphasis in film- and video art in 2006, and has
been supported several times by the Danish Council of
Arts. He’s born in 1976 and lives and works in
Copenhagen, Denmark. Awards and grants: The Danish Arts
Council, 2007; The Danish Arts Foundation, 2007; Den
Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse, 2007; The Danish
Arts Council, The eye in the door, 2007; Københavns
Billedkunstudvalg, Once the came is set-up, grant, 2007;
The Danish International Arts Council, 2006; The Danish
Arts Council, 2006, etc.
http://www.mortendysgaard.dk
Naren Wilks – UK – Collide-O-Scope – 2010 – 03:24
Collide-o-scope is a short experimental video piece that
mixes the aesthetic of the silent comedy era with a
latest digital manipulation technique. The work was
created in one take and one shot, using only one person
to simultaneously film, act and direct.
The
following synopsis applies: ‘Using four super-8 cameras
a man in a white room replicates himself. He and his
clones have until the cartridges in the cameras run out
(3 minutes) before they disappear.’
Naren Wilks
Education -
University of the West of England, Bristol (UK), BA,
Fine Art, 2006.
Recent Exhibitions - Screening 1, The Public, West
Bromwich (UK) 2010; Salon Video Art Prize, Matt Roberts
Arts, London (UK) 2010; Snap The Lens, Sidcot Arts
Centre (UK), 2010; Three, Bristol Festival of
Photography, Bristol (UK) 2010; Fringe Arts Bath (Bath,
UK), 2010. Recent Film Festivals / Screenings -
Australian International Experimental Film Festival,
2010; 5th Montreal Underground Film Festival (Canada),
2010; INVIDEO, Milan (Italy), 2010; 34th Open Air
Filmfest Weiterstadt (Germany), 2010; Videoholica, Varna
(Bulgaria), 2010; Videoart Festival Miden (Greece),
2010; Abstracta, Rome (Italy), 2010; 7th London Short
Film Festival (UK), 2010; The Experiment: Portraits,
Maysles Institute, New York (USA), etc. Awards - Special
Mention, 11th Dresden Schmalfilmtage (Germany); Best UK
Film, Fourth Cambridge International Super 8 Film
Festival (UK); Special Mention, 11th Cellu L'art Short
Film Festival (Germany); Special Mention, Glimmer: 8th
Hull International Film Festival (Denmark); Honorable
Mention, 2010 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (USA);
Audience Choice Award, Takoma Park / Silver Spring
Experimental Film Festival (USA); Audience Award,
Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival (UK).
www.naren.co.uk
Like in a
child’s dream, buildings from the Soviet era start
leading their own life in a separate reality.
Synchronisation has been compiled from free associations
and small impossibilities. The slow tempo and spatial
soundtrack give the film a compelling atmosphere and
inner logic. Buildings from the Soviet era make the
scenes monumental and suggestive.
Rimas Sakalauskas
Rimas
Sakalauskas (1985) is the youngest generation video
artist from Lithuania. From early childhood he tend to
visual arts and music and thereby was studying in
National M. K. Ciurlionis School Of Art (Vilnius,
Lithuania). In 2009 he received BA in audiovisual arts,
department of photography and media art, Vilnius Academy
of Arts (Lithuania). His diploma being awarded with
special prize. From 1997 he successfully started to
participate in various artistic competitions, shows,
exhibitions, festivals and other events. Among most
important of his achievements is Baltic Award for the
Best Work in the Field of Visual Art in International
video and contemporary art festival "Waterpieces 2009",
held in Riga, Latvia. His biggest success as a visual
artist is the first prize in the International Art
Competition ‘Sound and Vision’ which took place in 1997
in Helsinki, Finland. Till now he is an active video
artist. Filmography: 2009 Synchronisation; 2008
Gradually continuity; 2007 The story about; 2006
Performation; 2005 The speakers; 2004 The pressure; 2003
00000000001.
http://www.sakalauskasrimas.com
Combined with the
footage of 3 different films. This short is about
the way we perceive the world. Within 3 different
sources focused on specific topic, remaking films
and endowing with new concepts, in a way, we're all
blind to witness.
Hsin-Wei
Chen
Born in 1984 in HsinChu
City, Taiwan. Presently, she is studying for obtaining a
MFA degree at the Institute for Radio, TV, and Film in
the Shih Hsin University. She has worked as a director
of children magazine DVDs, express. Since the beginning
of 2007, she have joined the production team of Taiwan
Portraits of Discovery Channel Asia, as production
coordinator, stills photographer, and offline editor.
Right now she is working in a featured film screenplay,
installation projects, and a few production projects in
progress.
Mattias Harenstam – Germany – Portrait of Smiling Man –
2010 – 04:29
An actor
dressed in a dark suit and tie is sitting on a chair. He
has been given the task of trying to smile as broad and
long as possible. The entire session lasted almost
twenty minutes, and the smile gradually disintegrates
into a more and more grotesque grimace.
Mattias Harenstam
Born in
Gothenburg, Sweden. Educated at National Academy of Fine
Arts, Bergen, Norway and Städelsschule, Frankfurt am
Main. Lives and works in Berlin (Germany) and Oslo
(Norway). Selected solo exhibitions: 2009 Skånes
Konstförening, Malmö, Sweden; 2008 Galleri UKS, Oslo,
Norway; 2003 Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium; Gallery
Chromosome, Berlin, Germany; 2001 No 5, Bergen Kunsthall,
Bergen, Norway. Selected collective shows and
screenings: 2010 Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Danmark; Art Kino # 7, Rio,
Stockholm, Sweden (curated by Camilla Larsson and
Virlani Hallberg); 2nd Baltic Biennale of Contemporary
Art, St. Petersburg, Russia ; 3rd Space, NABROAD, St.
Petersburg, Russia (curated by Pavla Alchin); 2009
‘NOMAD’ Brügge, Belgium; ‘Naturally’, Bergen Museum of
Natural History, Bergen, Norway; ‘Beyond existence – Do
not avoid the void’, Cordy House, London, Great Britain,
curated by cosmicmegabrain (Francesca Cavallo); ‘Affluenza’,
Clerkenwell, London, Great Britain; 2008 ‘Ice-Breaker’,
Kabelvåg, Lofoten Islands, Norway; 2007 'Citytellers’,
Museum for Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden; ‘Behind the
scene’, Frogner Cinema, Oslo, Norway (curated by Jorunn
Myklebust Syversen), NOASS, Riga, Latvia etc.
http://www.mattiasharenstam.com
