"Suspension" expresses the author’s mood squeezed
between the social condition and the political situation
around him. This work is based on a waiting condition:
the Italian citizens expect long since that something
changes. Today each home, each family has one or, many
time, more TV. But TV, since the late ’80, became a
sounding-board of a culture full of superficiality,
degrade, destruction of each ethic form. At the
beginning the voice of the leader is clear but quickly
becomes distorted, chaotic, and incomprehensible and
changes in a continuous background noise that
accompanies the daily life of all Italian families. The
meaning of his words becomes unimportant because
citizens feel his speech like a disharmonic interference
with their lives. Each protagonist observes the viewer
with an attitude of expectation and an underlying
question: “Will anything change?”
.:: SILVER VIDEOHOLIC
[HONORARY
DIPLOMA]
>
Oleg Ponomarev / Russia
RGB765 / 2011-2012
/ 01:25
.::
BRONZE
VIDEOHOLIC
[HONORARY
DIPLOMA]
> Kastė Šeškevičiūtė / Lithuania
Melancholy (The Same Yet New)/ 2012/ 04:22
.::
YOUNG VIDEOHOLIC
[HONORARY
DIPLOMA]
> Katelina Kancheva & Krum Yankov/
Bulgaria
The Time of Clouds
and Rain / 2012 / 06:59
The film
transmit a worrying mood, a fear that time pass us and
never reverse back. .
We see an unknown object in the middle of deserted road,
uncertain of herself – a woman full of longing ... a
longing for nothing.
Video Credits: Katelina Kancheva- Actor, Creator; Krum
Yankov- Creator , Editor; Delyan Georgiev - Cameraman,
Editor
.:: FINALISTS
> QNQ/AUJIK (Stefan
Larsson) / Sweden/Japan
A Forest within a Forest / 2011 /
05:10
A guide
named Nashi narrates the audience journey in an uncanny
forest. Nashi states that everything is animated, and
that even the things we consider synthetic and
artificial are as sacred as plants and stones. She
criticizes nature for its inability to develop and
praises technology for its flexibility and proclaims
that nature should adapt to technology in order to
survive.
>
Chia Yu Chen /
Taiwan
Those I Misunderstood and Unable / to Identify... / 2011
/ 03:11
The video is a part
of a trilogy based on three parliamentary questions,
each on contemporary art presented to the European
Commission. The purpose of the trilogy is to reveal the
incongruous nature of bureaucratic schemes, the dark
side of market values and the violence of theoretical
definitions based on banal stereotypes by juxtaposing
the ancient, conventional image of beauty related to the
flowers, against a reading of the questions which goes
beyond their literal meaning.
In this film, the question, presented in 2009, regards
the compatibility of auction house sales prices with
European law. The original text is recited by a female
off screen voice in a manner which gives an
intentionally ‘contaminated’ reading of the text which
is incongruous to the content and form of the written
question, while a bouquet of peonies is systematically
chopped up with a butcher’s cleaver, until the flowers
are completely destroyed.
>
Andreas Pashias / Cyprus
For Starters / 2011 / 04:24
In this video-performance,
a set of national stereotypes is portrayed through
plates and their respective products for consumption (in
the form of appetizer dips, popular in traditional Greek
cuisine). Referring to this menu for the body as a
choreographed methodology, the artist poses and attempts
to transform it through movement into a touristic
artifact of representation ready for export.
> Owen
Eric Wood / Canada
Assemble I and II / 04:00
You are watching what the camera captured. The images
were not manipulated in post-production by using colour
correction, video filters or special effects. In these
two videos, I videotaped myself moving objects within a
space. Instead of playing the video on a monitor or
projecting it on a flat screen, I project the video back
into the same space. While the projection is playing, I
enter the space and perform similar actions. This is
also videotaped. This process of re-recording and
re-projection is repeated to allow the 2-D video to
interact with 3-D space, which causes the colour
distortion seen.
>
Patricija Gilytė / Lithuania
Sub Zero Yogasan vs Diseases оf Civilisation / 2011 /
01:59
> Marta
Szmyd / Poland
Gnarls Barkley: Crazy (unofficial fan art video) / 2012
/ 03:38
> Diego
Ramirez / Australia
Polly, Jennifer And Melissa / 2011 / 04:31
An androgyny by the name of Polly
recalls an episode of post coital anxiety while Jennifer
confesses to a priest and Melissa poses flirtatiously
for the viewer. Part sci-fi, queer and horror- Polly,
Jennifer and Melissa is a provocative video set in the
future querying gender roles and identity politics.
> Iu-Hui
Chua & Terre Unité Parker / USA
All Flesh Is Grass / 2011 / 07:00
The dance video, All flesh is grass,
reflects the intimate connection we feel when dancing
with nature. The world is dancing with us, as much as we
are dancing with it. The moving body is part of each
dance site just as humans are part of the greater
ecological system. Despite all our attempts, we cannot
control this system and we are not above it. All flesh
is grass is visual evidence of our shared heritage. It
is a reminder of our place within the sentient world.
(The title phrase is a quote from the Old Testament (Isaiah
40:6), which has been widely quoted in modern
literature.)
The same people living in the same houses.
Uniformisation turns everything into stereotypes. The
Homogenics family sitcom is an extreme example of that.
> Filip
Gabriel Pudło / Poland
The Collection / 2010 / 03:43
A video work in which games are
played with classic portraiture conventions. It is
suspended between the verges of photography and video
while creating a parable between a photographic
archetype, a classical portrait, tradition of a family
album and contemporary images transmitted by media.
>
Andreas Mares / Austria
Zugvogel / 2008 / 04:13
> Erika
Heffernan / USA
Learning How To Build / 2011 / 05:41
Learning How To Build speaks directly to how our
pre-processed knowledge and willingness to participate
help our ability to learn new information. This video
screen is divided into four; participants sit at a
table, colorful blocks in front of them. A computerized
voice gives step-by-step instructions on how the
participant should build. Viewers watch as the
participants struggle. The grid format forces us to
compare the participants. Who is doing “better”? Who is
building the “correct” structure? Who has given up? 28
people cycle through the building process, with a
diversity in age, ethnicity and learning styles. No two
buildings looked alike.
