Name/Surname: Tasman Richardson & Elenore Chesnutt

City/Country: Canada

Film title: Psytrance Sucks

Running time: 5 min. 54 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The video consider aspects of time, space, movement, velocity and emotional narative induction through abstract esthetic language.

Name/Surname: Carlo Sansolo
City/Country: Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

Film title: W. B. Highway
Running time: 4 min. 30 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Superposed images of the Westminster tube and a highway in Rio de Janeiro, the images are related and there is also a text on the wonders of the post-modern subject.
Film title: P. C. A.
Running time: 4 min.
Brief film synopsis: Relationship between Mondrian, accidents and a dialogue that tries to locate a contemporary interlocutor.
Film title: I am the son of Hélio Oiticica
Running time: 5 min.
Brief film synopsis: Hélio Oiticica was an important Brazilian artist, with an important influence on the contemporary scene in Brazil. So I basically wanted to make a hommage to this videos that I liked, A puta velha I and II, similóides II, and controle poder, inside a virtual situation, where there is no narrative, but a path, the camera go through a non stop virtual path, and that's the narrative.

Name/Surname: Jack Wareing

City/Country: Virginia Beach, U.S.A.

Film title: Clown And Monkey [16 mm]

Running time: 5 min.

Brief film synopsis: The strange tale of the relationship between a clown and his monkey friend who he loves very much... but his obsessive love leads to a dark and tragic conclusion.

Name/Surname: Luca Curci
City/Country: Italy
Film title: Still.Alone
Running time: 19 min. 50 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Still.Alone is a video project that involved 27 artist coming from Canada, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Indonesia. A project that has been carried on for more than an year, hundred mails and many forum has been dedicated to this project. This video bands together shots taken in Paris, New York, London, Buenos Aires, Berlin and Java island. The common subject is 'the megalopolis' , the new space of collective alienation, where the lack of ideas, the incommunicability, the incapacity to love and to understand each other, the interior vacuum and the social incapability of the individual find fertile land to grow up and where it seems more and more perceptible the development of this lack of relation between the individual and the space itself. So, alienation, that generated and is generated by contemporary insanity, is the main character of this video.

Name/Surname: Julio Soto
City/Country: New York - USA

Film title: The Possibility of Utopia
Running time: 18 min.
Brief film synopsis: The Possibility of Utopia (2003) takes audiences on a journey through conceptual and realized examples of visionary architecture from the twentieth century in an historical account of utopian planning around the world. In Soto’s documentary-like exploration of Akademgorok, a New Atlantis built by Russian scientists in the 1950s, Soto, a master of special effects, compiles found photographs with computer generated animation to create a narrative tension that ends in an abstract train ride through the rubble and slums of their failed military and urban accomplishments. Soto also invokes Archigram’s “Walking City”- a mix of science fiction and pop culture represented by a mobile pod of urban elements, splicing documentary footage with cutting edge computer imagery, mirroring the British experiment.

Film title: Invisible Cities
Running time: 6 min.
Brief film synopsis: Abandoned buildings, ruined urban centres, deserted cities, nature taking over every space around.

Name/Surname: Luciana Galli

City/Country: Bari - Italia

Film title: Cam in video

Running time: 2 min. 40 sec.

Brief film synopsis: la Camera riprende se stessa e crea un'immagine, come il feedback , archetipica: la spirale. Luciana Galli ha realizzato Cam in video con il feedback: lo ha lasciato andare, assecondando – è vero - il fluire delle immagini , ma interpretandolo in maniera originale con l’inserimento di fotografie da lei stessa create al computer e sistemate sul monitor in modo che il feedback s’insinuasse nelle zone libere; ha curato tutti gli aspetti del suo lavoro, dalle riprese al montaggio ed anche, parzialmente, alla musica, utilizzando i disturbi di segnale - materiali di scarto - generati quando si opera un collegamento ad anello.

Name/Surname: Materia
City/Country: Italy

Film title: La spia che era in me [super-8 digitalized]
Running time: 13 min.
Brief film synopsis: Chronicle of an ‘obliged’ trip through spaces and places following subconscious paths and casual encounters without apparent rational motivation. A personal fusion of psycho-physical reality with the ambient in which the obscure and powerful supernatural dimension reveal itself. A cathartic visual-sorcery: private ritual of psychic hygiene. Music by Ivan Iusco.

Film title: Legamento
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.

Name/Surname: Lee Cavaliere

City/Country: Lancaster - UK

Film title: Shares
Running time: 2 min. 24 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Part of a series of work which looks at inter-cultural functions of the marketplace. This video looks at issues of trade and also of international aid, by examining opportunism in nature.

Film title: Poet Sightings
Running time: 2 min. 51 sec.
Brief film synopsis: A semi-feral creature, the Poet, attempts to get back to nature and Romanticism in the Lake District, in Northern England. Made as part of the Escape of the Poets series.

Name/Surname: Alice Gussoni

City/Country: Rome - Italy

Film title: Cuore Malato

Running time: 6 min.

Brief film synopsis: Biological metaphor shifted form to inhabit emotional states - longing and despair - describes the system rush toward decadence in spite of its resistance to die. The heart looks like a flower, with the blow-flies buzzing round and the maggots, which oozed out like a heavy liquid. The forms disappeared and become no more than a dream, a sketch that slowly falls upon the forgotten canvas, that the artist completes from memory alone.

Name/surname: 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.

Name/Surname: Corpicrudi

City/Country: Genoa - Italy

Film title: Samantha Stella’s diary

Running time: 4 min. 22 sec.

Brief film synopsis: 7 days from samantha stella’s video-diary including 124 photo & graphic pictures with hybrid contemporary media language especially related to videoclips, advertising, fashion and pc. the video is inspired by the web-log/ blog phenomenon, the online <no-more private> diary that can be read by anyone accessing the web system…..exhibitionism and curiosity with mass_prod electro soundtrack.

Name/Surname: Ziad Antar

City/Country: Lebanon

Film title: WA - Tambourro - Tokyo tonight

Running time: 9 min.

Brief film synopsis: short videos using "second hand music", experimenting the field of of contemporary video clips.

Name/Surname: Giacomo Cesari

City/Country: Montefano - Italy

Film title: Rotten electric man walking on Babele

Running time: 18 min.

Brief film synopsis: A bizzarre and confused short for a bizzarre and confused gallery of new scientists. Colors and shame blood makes tha idea of a violent cartoon. Ghetanz was abandoned by his girlfriend who decided to follow the Medecuc's teching. Now Ghetanz is alone and he decide to kill Medecuc. He will meet many characters, apples, alternative gadgets and, thanks to them, he will be born again in a new life.

Name/Surname: Route - Nini HU and Joshue OTT

City/Country: New York City - USA

Film title: Strings

Running time: 15 min.

Brief film synopsis: In Route's new video installation, Strings, the dualities of life are honored and made symbolically poetic. In manipulated time, strings of movement and tension explore the relationship between attachment and freedom, chaos and order, togetherness and separation. Sculptural complexity results from the tracing of movement in time, but this transient complexity eventually returns to a singular reality-one's self. Strings illustrates the necessary coexistence of life's dualities and invites the viewer to gain acceptance of this balance.

Name/Surname: Suka Off

City/Country: Poland

Film title: XYSex

Running time: 8 min.

Brief film synopsis: XYSex is a 4th individual BFV work [except VJ works and intermedial projects]. It’s an open form, free from creators' unambiguous interpretation; a question about the identity of matter and the content, which fills it. XYSex opens the FLESH SYSTEM triptych. In June takes place the premiere of the limited XYSex DVD edition, sponsored by the Silesian Government. BLACK FLESH VIDEO is a SUKA OFF commando established in 2000 to make audio/video works in every mutation. The commando has no permanent members, it works with different artists on individual projects. BFV works were presented on festivals in Poland and abroad [MIX Brasil Festival, Underground Performance Festival AMBRA in Budapest].

Name/Surname: Simona Palmieri

City/Country: Italy

Film title: Mad woman’s vision

Running time: 9 min. 03 sec.

Brief film synopsis: L’idea di partenza del video è la doppia visione: a volte è la contrapposizione di due immagini diverse che si svolgono contemporaneamente ma anche la coesistenza di due inquadrature diverse dello stesso soggetto, che ne amplificano la presenza. Il video è così suddiviso in due parti: le 2 immagini hanno un percorso a volte lineare (cioè è presente lo stesso soggetto), a volte contrapposto (si ha la visione di 2 soggetti diversi vicini). Il video racchiude l’immaginario di un intero mondo inconscio, il mondo - tutto femminile - di una visione personale ed al di fuori di ogni sceneggiatura imposta. Un mondo di donne inquiete, che si esprimono con parola che è canto, con movimenti che sono già danza, perse ognuna nella propria visione.