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Name/Surname: Heather Haley

City/Country: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Film title: Dying for the Pleasure

Running time: 10 min.

Brief film synopsis: Employing a poem-as-script strategy, "Dying For the Pleasure" is a darkly humorous, kaleidoscopic trip down Memory Lane, the car a metaphor for power, an extension of desire. Once behind the wheel, we are transformed into a cyborg of sorts, driven to deliverance. Set at the intersection of flesh and metal, beyond road rage and autoeroticism, Dying for the Pleasure explores a woman's dread of, and terrible infatuation with, the car and car culture.
 
 
Name/Surname: Victor Barbieri

City/Country: Corte Madera CA - USA

Film title: Boy with a ball
Running time: 58 sec. (sound)
Brief film synopsis: Boy with a ball explores the underlying tensions of adolescent sexuality, its incompleteness, it rising sensuality, its latent rebellions, and its compelling ambiguities.

Film title: Untitled No. 2 (babies)
Running time: 6 min. 05 sec. (silent)
Brief film synopsis: In "Untitled No. 2 (Babies)" (2004), Barbieri turned his camera on young children, one by one. Some look back with curiosity and pleasure, others with irritation or distress. The heartbreaking openness and vulnerability of their faces does not prevent our seeing foreshadowed in them an astonishing range of manners of meeting life. To mirror to us the very humanity we prefer to deny may be the last true function remaining to portraiture.
 
 
Name/Surname: Cecelia Condit
City/Country: Milwaukee, WI USA

Film title: Why Not a Sparrow
Running time: 12 min.
Brief film synopsis: Why Not a Sparrow is an eco-fable about a girl who spreads her wings and takes to the trees in the guise and habit of birds.

Film title: All About a Girl
Running time: 5 min. 25 sec.
Brief film synopsis: All About A Girl depicts a young girl wrestling with her own imagination and fears. An ordinary game of "let's pretend" turns uncanny as, alone in the woods, she projects life, voice, and ultimately her own identity onto an unexpected surrogate in a doll's dress. Completed: Summer 2004


 
 
Name/Surname: Sohier Eloise

City/Country: France

Film title: La more

Running time: 15 min.

Brief film synopsis: "La more" is a kind of death's representation, erotic dances, macabre, where the erotic body is soiled with food, of vomit. A young naked, veiled virgin, soiled of blood, eats strawberries, sacred fruits of Love and Feminity to be made some vomit... torment of
the love... suffering of the bodies. Anorexia, bulimia, overdose.
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Name/Surname: Giusy Lauriola

City/Country: Rome - Italy

Film title: Cambialamore

Running time: 3 min.

Brief film synopsis: This video focuses on a young woman putting on her make-up before an exquisite mirror in which visions of death and devastation pass by.
 
 
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: Luca Curci – Fabiana Roscioli
City/Country: Italy
Film title: impossible.language
Running time: 11 min. 44 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Luca Curci e Fabiana Roscioli presentano il video “impossibile.language”, un sentiero, una via di fuga dal sistema-metropoli, un tentativo di ritrovare una congiunzione, un equilibrio tra mente e corpo, una continuità tra corpo e natura, soggetto e oggetto, corpo e spiritualità, convinti che non esista un modello in cui non sia la natura a dettare le regole. L'azione è quindi l'unica vera rivoluzione possibile ad un sistema che ci vorrebbe passivi consumatori. La visione generale di un sistema significa consapevolezza di esserne parte. Esserne parte significa poter interagire con esso, quindi trasformarlo. Il video è un'analisi profonda dei cambiamenti che quotidianamente viviamo e che, come sfumature impercettibili, modificano il nostro essere. La quotidianità sembra evolversi, accanto all'etica e alla morale. Viviamo in una condizione secondo la quale si presenta spesso l'equivoco di confondere i mezzi con il fine, gli espedienti con il messaggio, il materiale tecnologico con i contenuti, il significante col significato. Viviamo lo squilibrio tra l'importanza data alla componente meramente tecnologica e quella data alla componente sensibile. Che sia il linguaggio il codice della macchina-corpo? Una specie di "demone" nella macchina? Che questa sia determinata dal codice della sintassi e che il corpo ne rappresenti la gabbia?
 
 
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: Peter O'Kennedy

City/Country: Ireland

Film title: Two videos: Fire-version II / Fire-version IV

Running time: Fire-version II: 7 min. / Fire-version IV: 4 min.

Brief film synopsis: Out of the fire into the frying pan.
 
 
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.

Film title: Sonic Sofa
Running time: 5 min.
Brief film synopsis: A dragon is hungry and his fridge is empty. He is going to eat something... will he eat a duck or a lady? Someone will kill him by using a cacke.
 
 
Name/Surname: Massimo Franchi

City/Country: Rome - Italy

Film title: LIKE LIFE

Running time: 4 min.

Brief film synopsis: Una visione del mondo filtrata da un occhio elettronico che trasforma, digitalmente, ogni immagine, ogni scena in qualcos'altro. La trasformazione è profonda e rende irriconoscibili e esteticamente arricchite anche le scene più terribili o banali. Uomini che diventano nuvole, fiamme che diventano farfalle e farfalle che sembrano il volto di un uomo. Alti e bassi ritmati dal chiaro e dallo scuro come la nostra vita. Like Life.

 
 
Name/Surname: Nahed Awwad

City/Country: Ramallah/Occupied Palestine

Film title: Going for a ride?

Running time: 15 min.

Brief film synopsis: The 15 minutes Video is a collaborative work between two Palestinian artists: Vera Tamari who's art installation Going for a Ride (23 June 2002) was documented and produced on Video by filmmaker Nahed Awwad. The video is based on the construction of the installation which is a statement on the aggressive and deliberate crushing of hundreds of privately-owned cars by the Israeli tanks in Ramallah and El-Bireh during the incursions in the two towns in 2002. The focus is on crushed cars because of the powerful meaning cars usually carry: freedom, the open road, travel and movement. In the video the cars were brought to life again somehow by searching into the memories of those who rode them.
 
 
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: Gregory Steel

City/Country:Ann Arbor, MI USA

Film title: Teeth (part of the tube series)

Running time: 20 min.

Brief film synopsis: perceptual patients, visual meditations & examinations of the everyday.
 
 
Name/Surname: William Robinson

City/Country: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Film title: a.b.c

Running time: 8 min. 25 sec.

Brief film synopsis: a.b.c explores the displacement of sound from kinetic image. By separating sound from its kinetic image and vice versa, a.b.c investigates our visual and auditory relationships with everyday experiences. Presenting the audio before the corresponding visual, allows the participant to create their own personal interpretation.
 
 
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: 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: David de Tscharner

City/Country: Brussels - Belgium

Film title: Make them dance

Running time: 3 min. 41 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The music starts. A plant moves, dances and gets into trance. The neutral space becomes slowly a club, and magic turns into drama. The innocent body is manipulated, possessed. By whom or by what? A ghost? A drug? An educator? A kidnapper? A dictator? But it doesn't matter, the show must go on...
 
 
Name/Surname: Mac McAllister

City/Country: Port Washingron, WA - USA

Film title: The Truth and Malcolm X - The color of music 1 - The color of music 2

Running time: 20 min.

Brief film synopsis: Experimental video presentations using digital photographs.
 
 
Name/Surname: Heather Fraser

City/Country: London, Ontario – Canada

Film title: Shiloh

Running time: 12 min. 40 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Shiloh (2005) is an experimental short film which investigates the emotions of an individual being trapped within themselves.
 
 
Name/Surname: 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.
 
 
Name/Surname: Nancy Petry

City/Country: Canada

Film title: Journey, Impressions of a Royal Cremation

Running time: 7 min. 30 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Journey, Impressions of a Royal Cremation was conceived after a trip to Bali where I witnessed the cremation of Prince Tjokorda Ngurah Sudartha. The work consists of sequences of images that form a narrative of the cremation of the last of the royal princes of Bali. This was a spectacular and dramatic event, the culmination of months of preparation for hundreds of people and for thousands on the day itself.
 
 
Name/Surname: Leo Sykes

City/Country: Brasília – Brazil

Film title: A Tale of Two Heads

Running time: 13 min.

Brief film synopsis: ...
 
 
Name/Surname: Larissa Sansour

City/Country: Copenhagen - Denmark

Film title: Bethlehem Bandolero

Running time: 05 min. 39 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Bethlehem Bandolero is a kitsch video featuring the artist herself as a Mexican gunslinger arriving in Bethlehem for a duel with the Segregation Wall. Wearing a big, red sombrero and a scarf, she walks the streets of Bethlehem and greets the people before taking off for her final showdown.
 
 
Name/Surname: Lee Cavaliere

City/Country: Lancaster - UK

Film title: Shares
Running time: 02 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: 02 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: Maria Paschalidou
City/Country: Chicago - USA
Film title: Voice mail 2001-2004
Running time: 20 min.
Brief film synopsis: Voice mail 2001-2004 is a digital video that combines messages, in the forms of sounds, noises, songs and several ‘stories’/narratives left on my personal answering machine during the years of 2001-2004 with domestic and exterior images and video recordings of my residence in Chicago. It includes messages in both of the two languages, Greek and English as well as one song in Serbian language. Voice mail 2001-2004 portrays the ‘one way’ type of communication defined by the answering machine as a result of the intentional or the physical absence of the receiver. It is a parade of fragmented stories, incidents, continuities and interruptions of communication created and produced exclusively by the usage of the answering machine. The sounds of different each time voices entering the empty space of the house as well as its surrounding external space produce a cinematic perspective of multiple daily happenings and narratives.
 
 
Name/Surname: Dorota Zglobicka

City/Country: Poland

Film title: SEX OR SYMBOL?

Running time: 2 min. 18 sec.

Brief film synopsis: ...
 
 
Name/surname: Jelena Pesic

City/Country: Belgrade, Serbia

Film title: Cento anni di nostalgia

Runinng time: 9 min.

Brief film synopsis: E' la storia della vita di un uomo e di una vita che appartiene a tutti gli uomini. Gli istanti di questa vita vengono immortalati nelle fotografie.
 
 
Name/Surname: Corinne Fhima

City/Country: Paris - France

Film title: Odalisque

Running time: 4 min.

Brief film synopsis: Odalisque is a video film made up of a succession of photographic and filmic images about meat and flesh. The band is a mixture of music baroque, sound effects of weapons, and noise of washing. These "images" result from my research figure around "the identity" (female, sexual, religious, and social), that I incorporate in my work. The pig, as an epicurienne figure par excellence, is also present in my works, and it is through this emblematic animal that focus, spread the common questions and waitings.
 
 
 
Name/Surname: Ella Sipho

City/Country: Kansas City, Missouri United States

Film title: Art is Home

Running time: 6 min. 54 sec.

Brief film synopsis: A brief showing of the artist home and the artist creating a painting!
 
 
Name/Surname: Viviane Vagh

City/Country: France/Australia

Film title: Ombres et Lumieres, Light and Shadow

Running time: 04 min. 28 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The video is shot with super 8 film and video and it's about ''how the film medium incarnates the spirit, (through the symbole of a child) sensual reality of mouvement (through feminin rythme ) and imagary (through light and shadow).
 
 
Name/Surname: Gregor Hutz & Tobias Kohl

City/Country: Germany

Film title: FacenFace Cityportraits - Bangkok

Running time: 18 min.

Brief film synopsis: The idea is to transmit the specific mood of Bangkok by showing approx. 400 faces in 20 minutes. Faces and statements of all kind of citizens are mixed to local music, to present an uncommon and fast city-portrait. Instead of plain information we deliver a composition of impressions, edited in clip-style.
 
 
Name/Surname: Florencia Guillen

City/Country: Mexico/ London - Uk

Film title: Chucho y su mona

Running time: 09 min. 30 sec.

Brief film synopsis: ...
 
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