Name/Surname: Flavio Sciolè

City/Country: Italy

Film title: TRILOGIA BEATACTION (BEATACTION 1, BEATACTION 2, BEATACTION 3)

Running time: 14 min. 05 sec. (5 min. 18 sec. +3 min. 07 sec. + 5 min. 40 sec.)

Brief film synopsis: Con questa trilogia Sciole' intendeva sviluppare degli stilemi beat rispetto ai colori, al look, alle suggestioni, all'approccio,alle azioni cromatiche. Parte dell'Azione sperimentale agisce su monitor-televisori. Tutti e tre i lavori sono muti, a colori e montati in macchina.

Name/Surname: Lemaire Guy

City/Country: Liege Belgium

Film title: BROKEN

Running time: 7 min.

Brief film synopsis: Experimental about innocence lost and first issue of a trilogy soundtrack performed by me contemporary research - sound in resonance with the picture.

Name/surname: Jovan Mrvaljevic

City/Country: Cetinje,Serbia & Montenegro

Film title: Childy 85

Running time: 44 sec.

Brief film synopsis: This work have more metaphorical content;Traumatic-childhood-nightmare narrated in visual way much inspired by B-production horror movies of 80's and 90's but indirecly touching themes such as pedophilia, S/M etc.. Young girl moving behind bars and in a moment become a corp (dead body) and in the other part dolls are flirting...

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: MUTAFORMA (Daniele Tito - Evilia Di Lonardo)

City/Country: POTENZA – ITALY

Film title: SPEED MUTATION

Running time: 4 min. 14 sec.

Brief film synopsis: SPEED MUTATION is the eye that watches, observes and changes feelings in audiovisual stimuli; it analyzes the transformation of the sensorial world in a deep constant new elaboration. Speed Mutation is the technology, the biotechnology, the plastic surgery, the genetic mutations, that every day define the borders between reality and artifice, organic and inorganic world. Images follow one another in a phrenetic rhythm and, sometimes, in a violent sollicitation of the retina. The body, the society are changeable, places full of new elaboration and technological contamination but also full of rejections and unconscious fears.

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: Marco Mazzi

City/Country: Italy/Japan

Film title: INK (a portrait through experience – September 2004)

Running time: 4 min. 20 sec.

Brief film synopsis: yoshimasu gôzô, major living japanese performance poet, features in this video. the concept animating this project is to create a video-portrait through the experience of objects and words. yoshimasu gôzô was invited to write a word and put it in a glass box I filled with different objects. I didn’t know the word, yoshimasu gôzô didn’t know the objects contained in the box. the concept of this project was inspired by takamatsu jiro’s “remarks – indications for experience”. | I would like to thank gôzô and marilya yoshimasu, nanae nakagawa, mark kammerbauer and luca curci.

Name/Surname: Michela Pozzi

City/Country: San Marino

Film title: Trascorrendo

Running time: 3 min. 30 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Un parco giochi, un luogo di memoria, di prime relazioni: corsa attorno ad esso trascinando rumorosamente un carrellino. E’ un lavoro sulla durata, sull’inesorabile trascorrere del tempo che, non a caso, trova nel video la sua forma ideale.

Name/Surname: Richard Journo
City/Country: Italy/UK
Film title: Traffic Jam
Running time: 18 min. 30 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Traffic Jam is part of a series of videos shot in India, Nepal, Thailand and France between July and August 2002. The work shows a massive traffic jam encountered on the road to Bihar, India. Because of the Indian transportation system to get stuck in a traffic jam is quite common, not only in big cities but also along country roads where hundreds and hundreds of lorries and trucks line up for miles and miles. The occurrence is so frequent that a full way of life spans out of being trapped for long hours in the middle of nowhere. The camera point of view, going against the traffic flow, explores the various ways people confront the same predicament. Some lye passively waiting, others occupy themselves with some manual job, other sleep forever oblivious to the surroundings. There is nowhere to go, squeezed as they are between their colourful lorries and the indifferent vast fields around them. Their entrapment becomes almost a metaphor of the human condition: there is no escape unless you are prepared to abandon Othe jam¹ and fly free in the opposite direction. The video was shot in July 2002 with a JVC mini-DV handy cam and edited on Final Cut Pro between December 2003 and January 2004.

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: 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: Theo Prodromidis

City/Country: Greece/UK

Film title: Immigration 2 - A Romantic Approach

Running time: 4 min. 10 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The work refers to the narration of a romantic story, which presents the confession of these two characters in relation to how the two perceived specific moments and circumstances of their relationship.

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: GUIDO'LU

City/Country: Liège / Belgium

Film title: "petite pilule pour la Folie" - Opérette en 36 tableaux

Running time: 15 min. 51 sec.

Brief film synopsis: "small medicine for Foolness", Operetta in 36 parts. The work, kind of "operetta", is a whole of 36 fractals show clips following one another right away tightly and all together or not, which particularities are multiple intricate connections and complicities. Each show clip, composed of harmless theatrical made to measure moves, sets off ludic cliché, clinical poses, critical fabulations, even of anecdotic situations. Fiction (?) of male and female dual combinations.

Name/Surname: Thanos Chrysakis

City/Country: London/UK - Athens /Greece

Film title: THE WATER'S DAEMON

Running time: 16 min.

Brief film synopsis: The Daemon of Water appears to live unnoticed, enjoying the water, itself, and also the shades of the light. This work is actually an event, an encounter of different entities, shades, bodies, lights, sounds, shadows, motions & subtle changes, a dance in an unkown place. Actually, this film has the quality of a haecceity (haecceity may be defined as an 'atmosphere' in the sense both of a particular meteorological configuration and of a given ambience or affective milieu - Ronald Bogue).

Name/Surname: Paul Amlehn

City/Country: New Zeland

Film title: Loakal

Running time: 19 min.

Brief film synopsis: Loakal has a tripartite structure; it is comprised of three separate parts which are conceptually and rhythmically linked to function as a large whole. Part One utilizes ultrasonic footage of a foetus in utero (my son, Cassiel) along with vocalization inspired by the glossographic “holy writings” of Jeanne Tripier (a spiritualist medium and schizophrenic incarcerated in the asylum of Maison-Blanche, near Paris, in 1934). Part Two utilizes the imprisoned time of a still image (taken from my participation in a performance ritual) in conjunction with vocalization altered by electronic processes. Part Three is the result of a collaboration between digital video and malfunctioning computer technologies, which destabilize, disrupt, and reconfigure the visual field.

Name/Surname: Jodie Vicenta Jacobson
City/Country: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Film title: "Damp", 2003/4
Running time: 21 min.
Brief film synopsis: A bathroom backdrop, with a composition similar to a geometric abstract painting, sets the stage for the conceptual brushwork to begin. Over the course of the video the bathroom fills up with steam, and empties out – producing a mesmeric flow of water soaked air to entrance the viewer. The intention is to make someone observe a video much as they would a painting – investigating the space inside the flat monitor – and watching as its wake washes over. Questions that come about are: Can the illusionistic spaces created by a painting also be mimicked by something as technologically advanced as a television or projection? Can one become lost in a video the same way one loses themself in a painting? Do people trust a television (with images taken from reality) the same way they do a painting? Most importantly, is the beauty revealed, hidden and revealed again, taking the viewer to psychological spaces more abstractly related to their own psyche than a logical narrative space? Video Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery.

Name/Surname: Jawshing Arthur Liou

City/Country: Bloomington, USA

Film title: CBC (Complete Blood Counts)

Running time: 8 min. 22 sec.

Brief film synopsis: “CBC” deals with Liou’s daughter's recent diagnosis of leukemia. The imagery was rendered from the 1 year old patient’s body and was multiplied hundreds to thousands of times. The composition is based on the similarity between the cancer cells and the normal blood cells. The use of high-definition video allows the viewer to experience the phenomenon in detail. As a metaphor for the medical process, the work refers to the terrifying effects of both the disease and its treatment.

Name/Surname: KHALED HAFEZ

City/Country: EGYPT

Film title: IDLERS' LOGIC

Running time: 24 min.

Brief film synopsis: Since September 11, 2001 I have been continuously collecting and using stock images of social and political nature in my mixed media works; images of riots, confrontations, masses in fury, images of combat, war, personal pictures of “terrorists” and those of “simple” people of North African and Middle Eastern features, features that would alone be enough to make their owners suspects of terrorism and make them enemies of modernity and of the free world. The “label” of North African, Arab or Middle Eastern describes me as well as other Arab-Middle Eastern artists, politicians, scientists, lay-people and idlers scattered all over the world.

Name/Surname: Dogrusoz Baris with the collaboration of Ayhan Hacifazlioglu and Gökçe Akçelik

City/Country: Istanbul (Turkey) and Strasbourg (France)

Film title: Untitled [or, there’s always some free cheddar in a mousetrap]

Running time: 13 min. 11 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Listing of modern markers, confrontation of representations, paradigms and languages. Mode of the sign sending to sign. The screen does not promise anything, safeguard perhaps, and finds its margin of freedom through which the spectator invests and contemplates, sometimes enriched sometimes disturbed by sound and musical interventions either as ornaments or as the basis of an exagerated work, lacking meaning. Fragmentation is the origin of a process base on the non obviousness of the rules of the game and the perception requires incubation. The elements and figures I use, are artifacts related to known references, generators of percept. Here some figures standing on the tops of the roof, a visual and sound litany, 9 elements and one as center.

Name/Surname: Tamuna Sirbiladze

City/Country: Vienna/Austria

Film title: EINE KLEINE REISE

Running time: 90 min.

Brief film synopsis: ONE FILM ABOUT PEOPLE AT THE OPENINGS, WHAT IS THEIR DESIRES AND ENJOIMENTS AT THAT TIME.

Name/surname: Merita Koci

City/Country: Prishtinë/Kosovo

Film title: "Vote Merita Harxhi-Koci for President of Kosovo"

Runinng time: 5 min.

Brief film synopsis: Merita Harxhi-Koci has come back with a novel work that openly highlights the effort of contemporary art to perpetuate sovereign images, not only by simulating a potential presidential campaign, but also by rooting a more refined model of such a campaign. The artiste topples the workings of a confined electoral campaign that sees politicians and parties riding the vehicle of art to create convincing and imposing images aimed towards earning the trust of the voters being empowered.

Name/Surname: Hilary Harp & Suzie Silver

City/Country: USA

Film title: The Happiest Day

Running time: 6 min.

Brief film synopsis: A Victorian fairy tale told in the patois of an adventure video game, The Happiest Day is a journey back to a time that never was. Meandering through a fantastical computer-animated forest we come upon strangers enacting odd and playful rituals. These live-action sequences are loose reenactments of 1960's and 1970's performance artworks restaged in an Arcadian setting. Mingling conceptual art with 19th century illustration, live action with animation, history with fiction, this video presents a delightful hybrid language of pleasure and longing.

Name/Surname: Norbert Francis Attard

City/Country: Malta

Film title: Olympic Kiss

Running time: 12 min. 11 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Olympic Kiss records the act of kissing and from the simplest, most ready-made act in the world transfigured it into a strange yet familiar game.