Name/Surname: Skocek Laura

City/Country: Vienna - Austria

Film title: Asynchrone Großstadt (engl.: Berlin - City out of Sync)

Running time: 3 min. 33 sec.

Brief film synopsis: A stream-of-consciousness that is presented as a video and consists of my memories. Moving and still images are combined associatively, sounds of the city were remixed to provide the soundtrack. Cinematic principles, pan and dissolve, are used to generate a "virtual space".

Name/Surname: Magda Matwiejew

City/Country: Victoria - Australia

Film title: Arabesque

Running time: 8 min. 47 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Arabesque is a work which uses digital technology to create spaces and movement from still images. Spaces are formed that open and close, expose and conceal; form dissolves into abstraction, and the figured becomes unfigured. A sense of ritual and ceremony is implied by these changes and movements, and the veiling and unveiling of forms and scenes. A viewer is surrounded by and drawn into an imaginary world, where what is real and what is fantasy is uncertain, a synaesthetic world where forms, colours and patterns offer delight to the senses. Arabesque finally is poetic rather than narrative in form.

Name/Surname: Stefano Tordiglione

City/Country: Italy

Film title: U.M.O.

Running time: 9 min. 30 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Heterogenic sequences of “plain” daily life with daily symbols embodied in people. The truth of it all comes with the apparently unseen U.M.O. that unconsciously leads to the "real" reality.

Name/Surname: Hülya Küpçüoğlu

City/Country: Istanbul - Turkey

Film title: I am Lost

Running time: 2 min. 35 sec.

Brief film synopsis: There are many things in the life of a humanbeing. Such as beautiful and ugly, good and bad, desicion and indesicion… Sometimes we can choose the wrong way in the process of our finding the truth. And even sometimes we can be lost without finding it…

Name/Surname: Márcia Brandão

City/Country: Belo Horizonte - Brazil

Film title: Revestir

Running time: 7 min. 44 sec.

Brief film synopsis: This video reflects the concept elaborated by Antonio Gramsci of the “organic intelectual”. Composed in a acute and revelating point of view the work of the artist demonstrates the overcoming of all the obstacles that intercepts the social mobility in Brazil. It triumphes over its origin and passes beyond racism and the cultural arrogance as well. This work is above all, poetic. Its poetry is made with the objects that integrates the singular universe of the artist, what touches her body and is captured by her eyes.

Name/Surname: LEUNG Mee Ping

City/Country: Hong Kong - China

Film title: Out of Place - WanChai Version

Running time: 12 min.

Brief film synopsis: I noticed a man meandering through the Wanchai district streets of Hong Kong, following and recording his daily life for a week with no any direct contact with him. This surveillance or intrusion reveals my fascination with following a complete stranger for almost a week. It appears that I secretly investigated a person who has no fixed place in the city, one who wanders aimlessly at first, seemingly not able to remember who, or where he is, outside the society that no longer notices his existence. We see him stumbling confused, and disorientated娗nd yet he is amongst us, someone we perhaps would not give a second glance. Out of Place in precisely that ambiguity between notions of public and private, home and place, and the position of the subject, concentrates on the micropolities of Chinese society through the individual, and probes into the ordinary life of a lone figure.

Name/Surname: Massimo Franchi

City/Country: Rome - Italy

Film title: LIKE LIFE
Running time: 4 min.
Brief film synopsis: Images, born from the world and from the world given away, betrayed and changed images on their own shade.Coming from tv news, from the street, from videoclip, from domestic movies, from life, afterwords purified, homogenized, oxigenated till to trasform them on ritm, pulses, flow and waves. A slow flowing, an easy rhitmic going, a symmetric becoming of shapes only apparently whitout a meaning, but hiding in their memories secret events, man becoming clouds, desasters trasformed on fireworks, cars loading like butterflies and butterflies seeming human faces. We lost the memory of things, only a trace has been left, a thin ray to collect and wrop up just hoping that it could get us to peace and could reveal us someting good, or at least could give us some rest and get the conditions for our minds to find new spurs, new creating humus ad future orizons. So, up and down, joy and sorrow, light and dark like our existence, boring greyness or explosions of energy and colour like our life.

Film title: IN A GLASSES HEAD
Running time: 4 min.
Brief film synopsis: Images, quickest daughters of this furious and technological time, excavate deep drills in our convictions. World bombs every human being with events more and more surrealistic and poisonous, lethal for mental health ness.Our brain gets no more protections. Our bones and our head became transparent like brittle glass. We cannot avoid the wild and cruel radiations and in the brain the grey matter becomes less and less substantial. It burns by pain in its martyrdom.It risks to evaporate by any misfortune. Human brain cries for any little sorrow, any obstacle. It becomes a disarmed witness,nearly paralyzed in front of a reality so strong and aggressive that makes vain any defence. Frame by frame, shock by shock, the human being becomes conquest ground for atrocities and barbarities, just victim of small or big horrors,martyr of the barbarism of these cruel days. Just till oblivion and silence will pervade any neuron, any cell of minds just lost in the darkness of madness.

Name/Surname: HELLAIMORTH (Clément Zerbola)

City/Country: Aix-en-Provence - France

Film title: 11

Running time: 19 min.

Brief film synopsis: 11 is a video which experiments the function of the black (at night video) and the reception of a symbolic profusion. The signs and the symbols of five performances, making reference to the mythology notably, are articulated around an enigmatic concept dedicated to offer a semiological explosion. The various scenes (stages) also want, in their context of creation to make echo for historic acts by proposing a personal optics on these. An optics which, in spite of the variety of its contents, is unified around the transit of an object, particularly significant and it on several levels given that its meanings are anchored in the collective unconscious.

Name/Surname: Colette Copeland

City/Country: Philadelphia - USA

Film title: Wormbelly
Running time: 3 min. 50 sec.
Brief film synopsis:The video is based on a vivid story I was told in childhood, which has haunted me for years. Although it references a specific narrative, the work addresses larger cultural issues such as the manipulation of the media through advertising and fashion and its manifestation into society’s values. This visceral memory has remained embedded in my conscious, as a testimony to the extremes one will endure for the sake of beauty.

Film title: Crow's Tale
Running time: 3 min. 50 sec.
Brief film synopsis: The work explores the issue of memory on both a personal and collective level, as it relates to race, identity, and cultural heritage. Drawing from childhood memories, the video contemplates the legacy of prejudice, questioning the family and cultural inheritance and its impact on the individual. The manipulation of time, motion and space calls into question the veracity of memory and the construction of narrative.

Name/Surname: Natasha Beste

City/Country: Detroit - Michigan

Film title: Pottinger

Running time: 12 min.

Brief film synopsis: As a child growing up, Chris Pottinger learned to create his own world. Now in his early twenties, Pottinger has become a big hero in his small Michigan hometown. Friends and family continue to motivate him through out his career creating a greater interest for larger audiences.

Name/Surname: Ferhat Ozgür

City/Country: Ankara - Turkey

Film title: Monsieur! This Is Ankara Castle

Running time: 15 min. 20 sec.

Brief film synopsis: In Ankara Castle the children who were guiding the tourists were giving information about the castle with an incomprehensible English. I also wanted to get them information from them and gave each of them 1 New Turkish Lira, to get it started. In fact, they were not quite aware of what they were talking about. This was not any of significance, since all of them were reciting from a text that they had memorized. A retired teacher of history came and explained another “original version”, as she was rather personal commentary about both the foundation of new Turkish Republic and history of castle...

Name/Surname: Cecelia Condit

City/Country: Shorewood - USA

Film title: Little Spirits

Running time: 8 min. 35 sec.

Brief film synopsis: In a strangely conscious moment, a young girl abandons her friend in the woods. It is a fairy tale about the unspoken thoughts and dialogue of children.

Name/Surname: Lorik Sylejmani

City/Country: Prishtina / Kosova

Film title: O2

Running time: 7 min. 20 sec.

Brief film synopsis: My project describes the absurdity of having collective freedom without the individual one. This is illustrated through the example of a young lady from Kosovo who travels to the deserts of Mongolia and believes that she has reached the absolute freedom…

Name/Surname: Corpicrudi & Francesco Arena

City/Country: Genoa - Italy

Film title: arena m-eats corpicrudi * samantha stella's house - sitting room section1

Running time: 11 min. 18 sec.

Brief film synopsis: "areena m-eats corpicrudi * samantha stella’s house" is a concept born from a collaboration between francesco arena, photographer and videoartist, and corpicrudi, hybrid video, performative and sound projects, all from genoa, italy. a multimedia serial project inclusive of different episodes corresponding to different rooms inside the house. using the reality shows’ format, samantha stella and her friends (sergej, martin, barbie and sisko, performed by the artists) are video-recorded in an ideal house fitted with fixed and mobile videocameras and particularly distinctive for design and fashion. the electro soundtrack, featured by mass_prod, sound designer as well as perfomer for corpicrudi, is the project's verbal language. here you will find the section 1 of the episode <sitting room>.

Name/Surname: Maria Lianou

City/Country: Athens - Greece

Film title: Flow

Running time: 2 min. 32 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Bodies-Identities, being in agony - struggle for integrity. 

Name/Surname: Alex Grant

City/Country: Chicago - USA

Film title: The Gardener

Running time: 5 min. 20 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Set in the heart of Midwestern United States  in the middle of the night, "the gardener", is about a mystical figure who is very concerned about one of his precious plants.

Name/Surname: Stefan Szczelkun & Thomas Zagrosek

City/Country: UK

Film title: Big Willow Eco Camp

Running time: 9 min.

Brief film synopsis: Big Willow Eco Camp was in Crystal Palace south London 1997/8. The tactics of the eco warriors get a positive result in defending a wild corner of an urban park from redevelopment as a multiplex cinema. Commentary by one of the eco warriors.

Name/Surname: Evangelia Basdekis

City/Country: Sheffield - UK

Film title: Yes, Art is Beautiful!

Running time: 5 min.

Brief film synopsis: In her video, titled 'Art is beautifu l', the artist is embroidering a common pattern into her palm. Evangelia Basdekis manages to outline, with violence, but also with clarity, her inevitable path as an artist towards a dead end isolationism and the final self-poisoning with Art. Thus she comes to the tragic conclusion that the supposed artistic freedom is an illusion. With full self awareness of her ‘captivity’, she moves on to exploring the roles, first the one she has chosen for herself, and then the one that was assigned to her by society and the Art audience. Katerina Gregos (Curator)

Name/Surname: Flavio Sciolè

City/Country: Italy

Film title: BEATBEATO

Running time: 9 min. 25 sec.

Brief film synopsis: A Beat Man. Cromatic actions and Beat visions. Monitor,colors, guns and only one word (Stop).

Name/Surname: Ariane Maugery

City/Country: Aix-en-Provence - France

Film title: Micro-gravity oddity

Running time: 5 min. 15 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Micro-gravity oddity is a video-arabesque created from films and a large number of photographs taken on board the shuttle "Discovery" in January 1992 and out of the shuttle by the crew during the first International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1). Sitting on his cloudy chair, a hallucinated personage shifts from a situation of gravity to a floating state in weightlessness conditions which reveals his entrance into a state of dance. The entanglement of the actual impressions of a floating imbalance and of a specific state of concentration constitutes an intensive, rhythmic experience.

Name/Surname: Jean-François Boclé

City/Country: Paris - France

Film title: Tu me copieras (You Shall Copy)

Running time: 27 min. 29 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Squeaks. Scrapes. A breaking chalk falls on the floor, footsteps are heard on the classroom stand. They spark off memories, rising from childhood: school days, walking up to the blackboard, a pupil; his « Master ». A voice is heard, dictating the sixty articles of a 1685 decree by King Louis XIV, legitimating the genocide of Blacks in the lands conquered by France in America and the West Indies. It was in force until 1848. Under dictation, Jean-François Boclé is writing the Black Code, never wiping it clean.

Name/surname: Kestutis Sapoka

City/Country: Vilnius - Lithuania

Film title: Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Runinng time: 9 min. 33 sec.
Brief film synopsis: In the film there is also ironically interpreted as an advertisement formed body cult, man power as a Mach image projections in an individual consciousness, as not rarely the reality is very different for the advertisements and consumerism realities, which are matched up by society, how do the commercial images are able to form inferiority complex for individuals. In the footage I left only „rest during power exercises“ moments and I try to create a metaphor of vacuous act.

Film title: A Peacock
Runinng time: 13 min. 59 sec.
Brief film synopsis: A Peacock is one of the most radical creatures, it is not a video art or a video film directly, and it can be described as a video performance or a video-action. Such a drastic action from the first minute is only a wish to outrage using a flower bouquet as a symbol of middle class Lithuanians‘ beauty (and art) standard. As a symbol to change of significant accents, no so drastically outrage as getting sarcasm and absurdity effect. Also, it‘s an ironically melancholic thought what is beautiful, ugly; finally a modern artist must lay out in a case to be noticeable at galleries or art dealers.

Name/Surname: Richard Journo

City/Country: Italy/UK

Film title: Aesthetika Genetika

Running time: 10 min. 05 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Photos and video shot over 300 between visitors and participants at the ARTKliazma Festival 2004, near Moscow, Russia. Edited in London, UK on Photoshop and Image Ready CS and Final Cut Pro from October 2004 to January 2005.

Name/Surname: Lucia Flego

City/Country: Udine - Italy

Film title: H. 5.30 p.m.: music lesson

Running time: 3 min. 30 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The video shows us a music lesson for children of few month or just a couple of years. Throughout the singins and the rhythm, the teacher introduces the small pupils in to the world of the notes with a very simple and direct method. With her work Lucia Flego tries to underline the fact that the lesson is not just a music, but also (and especially) a moment of education to sensibility, harmony, and beauty and wants to incite us to believe that it will be exactly the beauty that will save the world. Her message is absolutely positive, because in anxious and unsure times, it is necessary to believe in the energy that comes from the art.

Name/Surname: Mamta B. Herland

City/Country: Norway

Film title: @ 01010

Running time: 5 min.

Brief film synopsis: The video is a poetic, playful yet thought provoking work that refers to the ideology of Internet as democratic society, whilst individuals strive to share the virtual space with the rest of the globalize world. It further reflects the growing culture, perception and identity, and questions the concepts of copyright and ownership.

Name/Surname: Katherine Nolan

City/Country: London - UK

Film title: I get it 5 times a day

Running time: 2 min. 51 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The artist/model invites the viewer to partake in the experience of pleasure. As she bites a strawberry she closes her eyes, throwing her head back in satisfaction. The subtle presence of a mirror makes the relation between the model, viewer and the pleasuring object complex and intriguing.

Name/Surname: Frankie Thomas

City/Country:Canada

Film title: The Prick

Running time: 10 min.

Brief film synopsis: The Prick speaks to people trapped in an environment that they cannot get out of even if it is causing pain. It is a male orient world that we are still living in and therefore that is the most prominent visual. The female is used only because more people feel she is the underdog of society.

Name/Surname: Ilaria Giaconi

City/Country: Prato - Italy

Film title: Inside

Running time: 1 min.

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Name/Surname: Sarah Tremlett

City/Country: UK

Film title: Blanks in Discourse: 03

Running time: 3 min. 40 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Reminding women of their association with error, the paternal discourse resides within the pages of womens magazines. Here magazine text is subverted with ‘rogue’ words I and Home in the colour red, usually used to denote errors in proof reading marks, but also representing a sense of self within a black text world. The text loops on a continuous scroll. Presenting the work in scroll format makes a theatre out of the theatre of being told a story or controlled. Finally I wanted to bring in an aural sense of error, and used the computer error sound as a signal which beeps every time a word ‘which is not meant to be there’ (i.e. I or Home) passes the top of the screen.

Name/Surname: Anna Syczewska

City/Country: Poland

Film title: VIDEOPERFO XXX

Running time: 6 min. 23 sec.

Brief film synopsis: VIDEOPERFO XXX / WHO ARE WE?/ is a kind of requiem for contemporary idea of identity, artifitial individuality, desire to be acceped at any price. Stright and alegoric performance seeing woman's eyes and making by a woman. Appearace, look, body, dress are the most important value in contemporary life which in the effect kill own personality and individuality.

Name/Surname: Andrea Abbatangelo

City/Country: Terni - Italy

Film title: Hi_mod

Running time: 1 min. 38 sec.

Brief film synopsis: During the human being's evolution ther is ever been a pourpose to create her link beetween the surface of the earth and man's installation, by building a streight feeling with the space that he wants to know deep inside. The hand is certanly the natural way to the emphiric reality discover. If that is right for the modern solid age, it is not good for the post-modern age indeed; infact for the modern liquid age the great Cartesian's project - man in harmony with his space- it seems to be in a hard crysis. In the post -modern age Cartesio is dead.

Name/Surname: Wiktor Polak

City/Country: Łódz - Poland

Film title: Still life
Running time: 4 min. 48 sec.
Brief film synopsis: This is about nightshot effect and his many menings for spectator.

Film title: Environment
Running time: 1 min.
Brief film synopsis: Environment is about similar places in cities. White rectangle means nothing, opposite from pictures from the past (eg: Joseph Albers works) In our work this rectangle means next similar place as other cityies spaces. Authors of this work are Wiktor Polak and Agnieszka Chojnacka.

Name/Surname: Emer Gillespie

City/Country: Galway - Ireland

Film title: City Ramblings

Running time: 2 min. 23 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Lost in a city, swollowed by light. Trying to subtract beauty from a torrent of modernisation. Concentrating on forgotten corners of the city, this piece captures vibrating city scapes, engulfing the viewer in light.

Name/Surname: Mairéad McClean

City/Country: Northern Ireland - UK

Film title: State of Mind - remix # 4

Running time: 10 min.

Brief film synopsis: In the film a girl runs down an empty country lane carrying an accordion. The accordion involuntarily plays a discordant tune as she runs. The sound of her feet, her breathing and her heart-beat merge with the exterior soundscape of birds and wind in the trees. Is she running away from something or towards it or is she forever caught in a moment of fear? Music connects sound and vision to create an atmosphere of disquiet reflected in the surrounding Northern Irish landscape. This is an event taking place in a land with an ever changing identity.

Name/Surname: Yi-Li Yeh

City/Country: Taipei - Taiwan

Film title: KUSO-Spring Snow, Chocolate, and Red
Running time: 29 min. 54 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Spring Snow is present life. It is a rabbit. Red is previous life. She is a witch. Both of them like eat chocolate. Chocolate just like love. If you eat,you will be trouble-free. One day, they meet in a dream. Red initiate supernatural power to Spring Snow.

Film title:KUSO2004-Orange Flower1~5
Running time: 5 min. 45 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Just like attacking by fungi or virus, you hardly find a way to fight back; Once fungi invades into your body, it will widespread inwards rapidly, and take almost 100% control over you. Since you cannot really get rid of it, why not adopt an alternative view toward fungi: You should learn to enjoy it. In a way it is just like taking drugs: you take it once and you won’t walk away. You should learn to live with it and make it work well with you.

Name/Surname: Helene a[punkt] and Sebastian R. B. Schloeglmann

City/Country: Austria

Film title: Happy Die

Running time: 10 min.

Brief film synopsis: "..dear brother, well i m not sure what i will discover, but there's something i am thinking of all day." The short film "happy die" is the first one of the project "frozen dynamic". it's a cooperation between two family members, a brother and a sister, both of them artists, but in different cities and life situations. they are discussing old "frozen" topics like love, hate, birth, luck, ....death. their first film is called "happy die". you can see a person at a railline waiting. the actress seems to wait for nothing and staring at nothing at the same time. after seven minutes of waiting the camera moves away, showing the surrounding area and coming back to the girl again. this is the time when the girl's also going to move, but she only takes one step, perhaps in a fictionary future...as we all know, future is something unpredictable, something we are aware although we're often wasting time... she takes one step and one sip out of her juice. although her body changes position she still stays there, frozen in thoughts. in the background you can hear a voice thinking of life and death. most of the thoughts are pieces of discussion between brother and sister, some of them are famous words of famous persons mentioned at the end of the film. at the end you can see that she took a sip of "happy die"...a sip of lucky dying...or whatever...in austria you can buy yourself a juice called "happy day", now this movie creates an ambivalent feeling of beeing vulnerable and thoughtfully and maybe lucky at the same time.

Name/Surname: Kleoni Manoussaki

City/Country: Athens - Greece / Brooklyn, NY - USA

Film title: Rescue Boat
Running time: 2 min. 17 sec.
Brief film synopsis: This video is a moving image of an absurd journey.  A journey in fantasy, in time. A journey with no destination and  companion  other than his own fantasy.

Film title: Five Moments
Running time: 3 min. 30 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Five moments,  five actions that they start but do not lead somewhere.  As they do not resolve, in antithesis of visual expectation, they beauty of the action becomes important and in that way, they become hand made, and fragile moments.

Name/Surname: Bradly Dever Treadaway & Justin Randolph Thompson

City/Country: Florence - Italy

Film title: Resistance

Running time: 4 min. 15 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Resistance is a contemporary revisitation of "The Ballad of John Henry" and examines the balance/imbalance of nature and technology.

Name/Surname: Maristella Colombo

City/Country: Italy

Film title: Butterflies from your fingers
Running time: 2 min. 55 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Once upon a time there was a hevenly feminine creature half angel, half butterfly. The video "Butterflies from your fingers" is ispired by the prototype of a feminine creature, sweet, nice, fragile and pure but at the same time strong and powerful. In the video the woman like the butterfly wants to get free from the catterpillar in which she is trapped to fly away and to be free. The video wants to celebarate the women's strenght and their ability to change and explode in their feminine power.

Film title: I'm in love with a ghost
Running time: 4 min. 23 sec.
Brief film synopsis: "I’m in love with a Ghost" is the imaginary and real love story of two souls, which are stopped by the fear and they are not able to realise their dream to stay together. The dream atmosphere, in which the feminine character is involved, is mixed with the real one of the masculine character. The line between the two situations is not well defined, the two worlds are melted. The story is divided in 4 moments as the four garments in it, cycle of feelings and emotions: the first dress is the expression of the meeting, the second one is the desire to connect each other, the third one is the timid separation and the last one, the desperate proof to try to stay together. In the last scene the feminine character wakes up and finds the “pieces” of her dream: the ripped photos, caused by a strong interior struggle and showing shadows of women's and men's hands, trying to link each other passionately and the second dress which is the symbol of their mental connection.

Name/Surname: Maya Zignone

City/Country: Genova - Italy

Film title: VI.123

Running time: 8 min.

Brief film synopsis: The video installation is conceived as three different journeys (represented into three interacting videos), exploring hidden mental spaces, real places and energies that come and go creating images very often just perceived by the eye. A space created to communicate, full of tension, made of balance and void, of personal history, that changes together with the person who visits it, who interprets it, always acquiring different connotations. As in a space-time journey one has the illusion of exploring different atmospheres, of meeting, through a minimalist language, already known spaces, sometimes created using geometrical elements, sometimes using bright ones, and, last but not least, real spaces created by men for men.

Name/Surname: Mauro D'Alonzo (aka Materia)

City/Country: Bari - Italy

Film title: Legamento low-desat

Running time: 5 min. 50 sec.

Brief film synopsis: A nymph runs to search a hearth and satisfy her hunger. Post-contemporary adaptation of classical mythology and tragedy’s themes where casual everyday trash and pop disturbance meet personal narratives and remote psychic orientations.
Music by Ivan Iusco
Filmed, edited, directed by Mario Materia (shot in Sevilla - Spain)
Format super-8 digitalized
Produced by Dark Agent Media and Minus Habens Records (Italy)

Name/Surname: Peter Rose

City/Country: Philadelphia - USA

Film title: Odysseus in Ithaca

Running time: 5 min. 15 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Odysseus moors his boat in an alien architectural machine, a labyrinth with echoes of De Chirico and Escher- a place of mystery and power where the rules of visual perspective are transformed. His journey offers both a lament and a memory of past triumph. The video takes us on a dizzying voyage through the manifolds of a parking garage, down spiralling ramps into a deep interior space; it is a flight into the depths. We view the outside world through apertures that seem to obey deeply contradictory laws of motion. We are both enwombed and free and arrive, at last, at a token of identity. Odysseus remembers the sea.

Name/Surname: Oliver Marlow

City/Country: London - UK

Film title: Small Moves/Joe Luke

Running time: 12 min.

Brief film synopsis: Made in 1999 during the WTO Ministerial in Seattle, 'Small Moves/Joe Luke' is a portrait of the Seattle Police, shot while I made a longer documentary about the processes of the WTO itself, its economic direction and leadership. Collaborating with composer Riz Maslen, I wanted to describe my experiences of the police activities through sound and image. The film contains no acts of violence; it is the threat of violence that is presented. I wanted, as a filmmaker, to make this very clear, to give the audience a feeling of that threat, to describe an atmosphere that felt very peculiar to me in the 'World's Leading Democracy'.

Name/Surname: Jussara Felix Figueredo

City/Country: USA/BR

Film title: AZIA AMAZÔNICA

Running time: 4 min.

Brief film synopsis: A political music-video questioning the U.S. strike against Iraqui, done with no money, as usual, and a lot of inspiration. The band was cut in a rough way making fun of the lie that the Iraqui was represented.

Name/Surname: John Aäsp

City/Country: New York - USA

Film title: Damnation Series

Running time: 2 min. 41 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The video shows us a music lesson for children of few month or just a couple of years. Throughout the singins and the rhythm, the teachee that it will be exactly the beauty that will save the world. Her message is absolutely positive, because in anxious and unsure times, it is necessary to believe in the energy that comes from the art.

Name/Surname: Casey Foote & Bruce France

City/Country: New Orleans - USA

Film title: Bowel Movment

Running time: 6 min.

Brief film synopsis: The Bowel Movement is a play on words with movement in the sypmphonic sense as well as the more human one.  The main character has all the musicians and the conductor in his head as the "movement" progresses. It is a silent firm with Mussorgsky music coming in as a sound track.  The Look of the film was made to resemble the look of '70's british T.V.

Name/Surname: Sangam Sharma

City/Country: Vienna - Austria

Film title: Der Fluss (the river)

Running time: 5 min. 05 sec.

Brief film synopsis: A river, an observation, a decontruction, a soundcollage.

Name/Surname: Ronnie Close

City/Country: Ireland/UK

Film title: Martyrs, Myths and Metaphors

Running time: 8 min. 15 sec.

Brief film synopsis: This work is a documentary video work investigating the role of the martyr myth in Irish republicanism and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The phenomenon of this connection emerges from the 1981 IRA hunger strike led by Bobby Sands. In Iran he was perceived as a revolutionary and iconic martyr and a Tehran street was renamed in his honour. The work begins with a direct video scene of a street interview. The next sequence takes place in Iran and employs the separation of visual and audio records. Also typography is introduced in a factual manner, offering an outside voice. The work continues to explore the documentary process and refers to the relationship of the external frame information. The following two sections are a series of work made with Irish 1981 ex-hunger strikers. These works again move between the division of visual and audio strands. The exploration of a reflexive voice is created again by the use of text panels which are both factual and deconstructive in nature. The final sequence shows an oration from a graveside for a deceased republican.

Name/Surname: Yvonne Buchheim

City/Country: Bristol - UK

Film title: Song Archive Iran (soundless)

Running time: 3 min. 42 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The video piece ‘Soundless’ records the challenge of sourcing non-professional female singers in Iran. The work shows a woman preparing to sing however the viewer is denied the performance experience. This is not a gimmick but reveals the hidden form of self-censorship and fear women endure in Iran. By law, public performance of female singers is contentious and professional singers can only perform in front of a female audience. ‘Soundless’ is part of a series of videos that explore the oral culture and the restrictive censorship on the role of women in a theocratic society like Iran.

Name/Surname: Bronwen Casson

City/Country: Dublin - Ireland

Film title: I don't like Mondays

Running time: 4 min. 03 sec.

Brief film synopsis: "Tell me why I don't like Mondays." There are a lot of things in the modern world that one does not like, "Mondays" being only one of them. Taking the title song as a starting point, this short video animation gives a few examples, using photographs and images from the work of contemporary artists as illustration.

Name/Surname: Alfio Cangiani & Nicola Amato

City/Country: Bari - Italy

Film title: Ali:"for unfrequent fliers"

Running time: 4 min.

Brief film synopsis: The video is born together with the show "Ali", prepared at the airport of Bari in the 2000: the work explores a new resonance for my poetic texts, hypothesizing for the user of the structure a "poetic" flight, different from those of the flying habitual; photos of airplanes dismantled without engines, linked for contrast to the hypothesis of a mental flight only made of poetry.

Name/Surname: Fulvio Rifuggio

City/Country: Lecce - Italy

Film title: AUTOMòNO

Running time: 12 min.

Brief film synopsis: The location is a claustrophobic bedroom, some scene shot in the bathroom. This video-document acquaints us with the attempt to wake up from the sleep of reality in such a way as to find ourselves in the bosom of the watch of our own sleeping “antagonist”, catching in his shattered reflexes. The fight takes place during the encounter, made up with sparks in the most anonymous darkness. Time of action is incalculable, the space continually collapses on itself ( cross zooms), the edges of the shot irremediably trespass to the dark place that is the screening hall. The rhythm alternates pauses of quiet contemplation to aggressive accelerations, drastically limiting cutting’s detachments in the individual scenes. The sound is the vocal mimic of what happens in the pictures, recorded on magnetic tape, then digitalized, disassembled to pieces, speed slackened or increased in the grounds of needs of expressiveness, at last reedited, in asynchronous, on four audio tracks.

Name/Surname: Liz Knox

City/Country: Toronto - Canada

Film title: Blending In

Running time: 5 min. 20 sec.

Brief film synopsis: In this video I use my clothing to match the exterior of the urban built environment.  The piece shows me in instances ranging from humorous to tense as I examine both social facades while attempting to position myself as the invisible spectacle.

Name/Surname: IZUMI CHiaraluce

City/Country: Rome - Italy

Film title: Blending city

Running time: 1 min. 20 sec.

Brief film synopsis: On a pavement like a chessboard ,a close up on few fragments of a drawing that are recalling the topography of a city ,a delicate hand with a threatening shadow is putting together the pieces into a portrait  of a girl who is mixed raised with a european and african background .The soundtrack is an optimistic song about citizen facing ,helping each other from the different side of a border ,it is a consideration about the process of encountering "the neighbour" ,"the other",diverse culture ,that could be dynamic and harmonious but at the same time conflictual :the welcoming is soft and sharp at the end and the fusion a little explosion that affect the no tion of city and identity.

Name/Surname: Seung Ah Lee

City/Country: Seoul - Korea

Film title: Node between People 01

Running time: 6 min. 05 sec.

Brief film synopsis: 1) Node between People 01 / Move your step / Flash animation / 1’ 20” / 2004
According to A. L. Barabasi, Internet is the most effective means for reaching out to the greater public when turning into the third millennium. As the allocation of the infinite information has been enabled, it may even seem feasible to find a certain order in this complicated system. Besides, such random networks have made several paradigms in the minds of the users whether they are aware or not. Accordingly, we can currently communicate faster; we can get connected with each other more easily and our memory logs may have been expended. This show is initiated in an exhibition hall where an artist, a connector prepared. In this specific space, people will encounter and they will interact with each other. As they come across, a social link is inevitably made. Each link is a node. Participants will create numerous nodes while meeting others through the random network program. I wish everyone could experience changes that are brought by a new language and a behavioral pattern while participating this exhibition. I also wish that this could be the opportunity for anyone to realize the personal value as well as the more comprehensive perspective to the life.
2) Node between People 02 / Whisper in every ear / single channel video, flash animation / 2’ 10” / 2004
I wish that images taken by the camera were made more spontaneously and instantaneously by volunteers. This work can finally be complete with the maximum participations of the visitors and the least intervention of the artist. In the initial stage of making the program, the artist involves a lot; however, the images produced by the volunteers in the scene actually means a lot more. People encounter others in this exhibition space; the each meeting point becomes a node. In other words, new social connections are created as they interact. Many of such a social bond creates a new cluster in a society. After all, most individuals will be connected to each other; what we can ultimately realize is that how small the world we are living in is.
3) Node between People 03 / Whisper in every ear / single channel video, flash animation / 0’ 35” / 2004
Tokyo, March 14, 2004, I unexpectedly found a ramen place on a small corner of a street at Shinjuku. I, my friends, tourists and other people who came to eat the ramen sat there; soon the place got crowded with people chatting with each other. When a chef gets an order from one in a group, a conversation may be briefly cut off. Later, the conversation may resume or it may also be shifted. It is also possible that one can overhear something that others discussed. The idea of sharing information was flashed into my mind while I was sitting there. Because the common ownership of the information in unlimited--I assume, this is quite to do with the networks on the Internet, we get to create or to break many of our connections by sharing the information. Such a correlation connotes a lot as a network; I commenced the work with the information of people. Through one image of a person, many people exchange their thoughts. I get to collect diverse ideas and opinions on a person. The accumulated information is stored in my computer; it becomes one of the most significant elements for the future networks.

Name/Surname: Jovan Mrvaljevic

City/Country: Cetinje - Serbia & Montenegro

Film title: Untitled

Running time: 1 min. 14 sec.

Brief film synopsis: This work focuses on relationship between environment-in visual way as a landscape and person.That inter-relation,here, creates a “sleepy” atmosphere with unreal akts.

Name/Surname: Anna & Corrina Bonshek

City/Country: Gold Coast - Australia

Film title: Reverie II

Running time: 22 min.

Brief film synopsis: Exploring the idea of the unbounded self and the perpetual expansion and contraction of consciousness, Reverie II is a mesmerizing, experimental art DVD of dance, performance, digitally manipulated music and imagery, that takes the viewer on a cyclical, enigmatic journey of the mind. Reverie II was shot in Sydney, North Queensland, Chicago, and London on mini DV and edited using Final Cut Pro, Flash and Protools and has been shown/screened at QPIX, Australia, and the Visual Arts Gallery and DakshinaChitra Centre, India.

Name/Surname: Taha Belal

City/Country: Egypt/USA

Film title: La Petit Morte

Running time: 3 min.

Brief film synopsis: This film was inspired by Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book.  In my work I explore my own identity.  I was brought up by an American mother and an Egyptian father, and I often work around these two very different cultures.  In my work I use the body/figure as a representation of the Occident and calligraphy/text as a representation of the Orient.  In this work I am experimenting using the body as a canvas for my text.

Name/Surname: Jacqueline Galvin

City/Country: Waterford - Ireland

Film title: An Léim Rúnda

Running time: 2 min.

Brief film synopsis: My work is concerned with the individual experience of the natural world and the force, power and inspiration that is to be found within it. In today's society, I feel that issues around the natural world have b ecome critically important to us once again. To me, the search for the most authentic experience in the contemporary world is found within ourselves and in knowledge of traditional societies where people existed without globalisation; where the individual was all important and all processes took place at the local/individual level: birthing, living, healing, eating, dying. With this knowledge, we can retrieve for ourselves a modicum of this power in our lives. An Léim Rúnda arises from my research into shamanism and shamanic healing practices. Shamans utilised the poweres they found within nature to enrich and better the lives of their tribe. They were seen to be skilled psychic voyagers, psychopomps and healers and soul retrievers. This video is an expression of this mystic voyage, versions of which are found in almost every culture. The element of transformation and transcendence is strongly referred to as is the shaman's role of psychopomp.

Name/Surname: Kira Kim

City/Country: Korea/UK

Film title: 1.give a fair / 2.Coordinates. It’s your around / 3.Scream

Running time: 2 min. 45 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Most of the People are living in a capital – society. I have considered that individualism of a capital – society Such as life, human being, their standard of life. Most my works’s models are real general persons in a city also, my real good friends. These video display the individualism of a capital – society and kind of human being.

Name/Surname: Seunghee Kang

City/Country: Korea/UK

Film title: Peeping into our society with the code of desire

Running time: 3 min. 44 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Welcome to the peeping world!!! My topics are usually social issues. For example plastic surgery, sex trading, luxury shopping ending up with bankruptcy and extra…I found out those social issues do exist not only in Korea but also in U.K, not surprisingly!!! Therefore, I have gone some video works about these social issues in U.K version.! I do not intend to have any opinions or judgments but just try to simply represent what is happening in our societies (KOREA & U.K.).