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Sarina Khan Reddy City/Country: USA Film title: With Us or Against Us Running time: 5 min. Brief film synopsis: This video explores the blurried boundaries between news and entertainment and how war and militarization are fueled by corporate globalization. Appropriated footage is used to subvert the original meaning creating new and alternative histories. Film title: The Great Game: A New World Order? Running time: 4 min. 28 sec. Brief film synopsis: "The Great Game: A New World Order?" is a three channel video installation which explores the new colonization embodied in globalization. Khan Reddy uses appropriated footage to examine the collapsing boundaries between news, documentaries, and Hollywood movies. |
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Karenina Fabrizzi City/Country: Italy/Argentina Film title: Penisneid Running time: 6 min. 02 sec. Brief film synopsis: An aspect of Sigmund Freud´s developmental theory. Freud believed that during development girls had to switch from having the mother as the love object to having the father as the love object: and also switch from the clitoris to the vagina as the main genital zone. At about the age of four, Freud believed that girls first discovered they lacked a penis. The girl will blame her mother or the lack of a penis and the consequent hurt to her own self-esteem. This causes the girl to give up clitoral sexuality, and turn to the father as love object. This aspect of Freud’s theory has received a great deal of criticism, particularly from feminist psychoanalysts. In Freudian Theory this repressed desire of females to posses a penis is a cause of feelings of inferiority and psychic conflict. |
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Luca Curci – Fabiana Roscioli City/Country: Italy Film title: impossible.love Running time: 06 min. 16 sec. Brief film synopsis: Luca Curci and Fabiana Roscioli present the video impossible.love. No place. No space. No identity. Only a binary vision in a dimension, in which the body-machine tries to interact, to communicate. Fighting between the essence and the absence, the contact and the vision, the silence and the vacuity. Coming in the life of people using the body in order to create in them a deep crisis, a fracture between the vanity of the identity and the frailty of the representation. |
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Wachtelaer Geert
City/Country: Belgium Film title: The Cracking video, stereosound, non spoken, 2004, prod Geert Wachtelaer Running time: 2 min. 4 sec. Brief film synopsis: A metaphoric experimental about building up a tension. Psychosexual tension and stress related situtations provoked by memoryflashes and sounds. |
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Robert Boyd City/Country: New York - USA Film title: Patriot Act - Xanadu Running time: 4 min. 33 sec. Brief film synopsis: Patriot Act takes a global sampling of iconic leaders of the Left and Right since World War II. The speed of the video accelerates as images of parades and victory celebrations rapidly devolve into images of war and genocide leading to the video's cataclysmic end. Caught in the blur are images of the men whom have redefined the political landscape of the world from some of the most pivotal moments in history. Ultimately, Patriot Act is about the men who lead and the people who adore them without question, without fail, time and again through out the course of history. |
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Heidi Vogels City/Country: Netherlands Film title: Choose Running time: 1 min. 02 sec. Brief film synopsis: ... |
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Michael Mastrototaro City/Country: Graz - Austria Film title: flieg nicht rückwerts Running time: 1 min. 19 sec. Brief film synopsis: Digital photo material of airplanes are so far animated, that the impression of a rapidly movement emerged. Recurring words disturb the picture. The sound, as a part of the digital picture changed through the cutting process. The impression of nervously become machines develops. |
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Jason Jagello City/Country: Paris - France Film title: Slaughterhouse of the West [v.1] Running time: 7 min. 47 sec. Brief film synopsis: In the film, Slaughterhouse of the West, the artist juxtaposes detached, “surveillance-like” footage of New York pedestrians/traffic with shots of a village pig slaughter in the Balkans to question the underlying oppositions important in our present day. How can we distinguish between what is ‘civilized/uncivilized,’ ‘humanizing/dehumanizing,’ ‘natural/un-natural’? To be sure, in examining these oppositions in the context of what I have described above, brutality becomes a purely subjective concept – with all the talk about promoting values like “civilization,” “democracy,” and “culture,” we often neglect the negative realities of our own predicament. Also, it is well known that through wars and economic sanctions we are the greatest exporters of brutality, even while we espouse these ideas. |
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Agnese Purgatorio City/Country: Bari/Roma/Catania - Italy Film title: Serial Self Portrait Running time: 5 min. Brief film synopsis: Se il grembo è la metafora della nascita può anche diventare il buco nero nel quale si annida, o svanisce, ogni estremismo, ogni immagine simbolo di violenza o di bellezza, in una oscillazione tra "presenza e assenza" da salvaguardare. |
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Delalex Gilles & Wessel-Cessieux Thomas City/Country: Paris - France Film title: Metro: Paris - Hong Kong underground Running time: 4 min. Brief film synopsis: Metro evokes an improbable metroline stretched between Paris and Hong Kong. The line is 10 000 kilometre-long and constituted of only two stops, one at the beginning, one at the end. It unfolds as a tube city, a single corridor remaining underground and offering no possible transfer or exit between the two metropolises. The video offers an overview of this fictional city by focussing on the mechanical movement passengers through corridors and coaches. The blend of black rubber, white ceramic tiles, metal gates and series of over-lit faces give the video the feeling of a twenties expressionist movie. The entire film is made of one second-video loops, each composed of 5 still frames taken with a digital camera using continuous shooting. The effect is that of a stroboscopic sequence advancing incrementally by means of repetition. |
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