Name/Surname: Donna L. Clovis

City/Country: USA

Film title: Cityscape

Running time: 5 min.

Brief film synopsis: Cityscape is an experimental, silent short video that utilizes digital photography within a digital film format. It is a collaboration of film and photography, a merging of two mediums into one format that is permitted by the world of New Media. Video tells one version of the story while the digital photography tells another version of a story. The works are interrelated as they move through a stream of time. Cityscape looks at the city of New York from the ground into the air capturing the breath, inhaling and exhaling of life through a city, documenting its existence in the stream of consciousness and time. The breathe of the city is its life, but how will city life change over time?

Name/Surname: MACRO

City/Country: Naples - Italy

Film title: THE BEE WORKS FOR THE QUEEN

Running time: 13 min.

Brief film synopsis: This video is the small part of a largest  and complex work, that set the seven capital sins as allegory of the life and propose the woman as the contemporary “God”, in the centre of universe. The bee that works for the Queen is the metaphor of the man who works for the woman, while the last one can freely dedicates her self to the pleasures of life. In this case the lust is represented by the symbolic sequence of a phallic object which goes in a white marble mortar full of honey and comes out from it dripping. Metaphorically, the honey is nectar, vital lymph, sweetness and desire. (Lust).

Name/Surname: Jean-François Boclé

City/Country: Jean-François Boclé

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: 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: Media Murders

Running time: 5 min. 5 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Media Murders explores sight/site/cite; how is history recorded/preserved and what is forgotten/erased. Researching murders in my bucolic small town, I revisited the sites (or approximate sites) of horrific crimes and created site interventions/memorials by chalking the body outline, taping off the area with yellow caution tape and leaving a marker designating the date, name of the victim and nature of the crime/death. The anonymity of the places—a grassy knoll, a concrete slab, speaks to the universality of murder. This becomes any/every small town in the U.S.. The video challenges the notion of what constitutes a memorial and how forgotten history recontextualizes a site.

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: Patricia Ward

City/Country: Berlin - Germany

Film title: Berlin urban intervention

Running time: 8 min.

Brief film synopsis: This is the documentation of an urban intervention throughout dislocated spaces, voids, in the centre of the city of Berlin. I attempt  to convoke the absence from the presence, exploring these empty spaces, emptiness  for the incidence of the context of the Second World War and postponed for the urban planifications. My work explores  the dislocation of these spaces, with an approach to them  using a language of movement and occupancy  from one encounter to another during seven days, determining a factor of transformation into an act of communication.

Name/Surname: Gaia Intaglietta

City/Country: Genova - Italy

Film title: Digital-Embrace

Running time: 3 min. 4 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The pictured love-making's abstract performance in a future when bodies will need a digital device for reproduction.

Name/Surname: Heesoo Kim

City/Country: Toronto - Canada

Film title: Reminiscent

Running time: 8 min.

Brief film synopsis:This film illustrates reoccurring thoughts and memories, repeating them cyclically with each memory evoking distinctive emotions: frustration, calmness without peace, and agitation of mind.

Name/Surname: Dorota Zglobicka

City/Country: Poland

Film title: Mystery of woman’s power

Running time: 2 min. 48 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The project its about woman’s mystery. so I compare it with mystery of pyramids in Egypt which it very difficult to solve, there is lots of questions about pyramids to find the truth, for example: how did they really get there. It’s said that in MARS we can find exactly the same pyramids as we see in Egypt, it’s said they really exists in MARS, and that they were there first. There are lots of proofs that there is something magic about pyramids, that it’s just impossible for a man to build such a thing than even nowadays would be a ”little” problem to do that. Questions without answers: mystery of pyramides, mystery of woman’s power.

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: Etta Säfve

City/Country: Amsterdam - The Netherlands

Film title: Snowfall

Running time: 4 min. 11 sec.

Brief film synopsis: A man walks into a winter landscape and starts to shake the snow of the trees to create a snowfall. 8 mm film on DVD, no sound.

Name/Surname: Hubert Dobler

City/Country: New York - USA

Film title: Boxing

Running time: 17 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Boxing myself.

Name/Surname: Marie Losier

City/Country: New York - USA

Film title: The Ontological Cowboy

Running time: 16 min.

Brief film synopsis: The theater is about sex. At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater. The Ontological Cowboy documents Foreman's invocation of the "manifest destiny" of the avant-garde theater, King Cowboy Rufus strolling down off San Juan Hill with a sigh, waving his handkerchief. Foreman plays himself, and the cast pantomimes his preoccupations. If the cast and crew suffer alike, it's all for a good cause: the violent rebirth of the American theater, with Foreman as its midwife.

Name/Surname: Catherine MacGregor

City/Country: London - UK

Film title: Sheraton

Running time: 14 min. 25 sec.

Brief film synopsis:Sheraton is the first in a series of performances where I place myself in a hotel room and interact with the room and the associations which it evokes for me.  I stay in the room without outside contact for at least 12 hours to imagine the history of the room and reflect on emotional and physical memories that I have of similar rooms.  I perform a series of actions for video within that time frame.  From this experience I have made an edited film which reflects my experiences in the hotel room.

Name/Surname: Sarah Tremlett

City/Country: Bath - UK

Film title: Blanks in Discourse: 05

Running time: ...

Brief film synopsis: Exploring globalised social systems this work compares the individual to magnified pixels. These elements truly define society – are stared at by a greater part of the world on a daily basis yet are invisible or ‘stared through’. This experience relates to the maternal – alive, creating process yet politically dead. As pixels scroll up the screen pulsing ‘I’s appear and disappear accompanied by the fading in and out of steady breathing - a sound which lies beyond gender, temporarily releasing us from the endless system. This work could benefit from a large-scale public site eg the side of a building.

Name/Surname: Lisa Yachia

City/Country: Rome - Italy

Film title: Slithering

Running time: 4 min.

Brief film synopsis: From roman outskirts to the centre to meet a friend, roberto lucifero, and his serpent, in the occurrence of his gallery's event: garden of eden.

Name/Surname: Ian Nesbitt

City/Country: Nottingham - UK

Film title: Give the People what they want

Running time: 12 min. 15 sec.

Brief film synopsis: 'Give the people what they want' is a cut-and-paste exploration of popular culture's dual obsessions with saccharine romance, on the one hand, and grisly violence on the other. Iconic scenes taken from mass-media sources, then re-appropriated, force the viewer to question their own daily saturation within what have become cultural norms. It deals not so much with the physical, but the moral and social architecture of our times; who are the architects of these spaces, and what are their aims?

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.

Film title: Where are you [?]
Running time: 6 min. 08 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Where are you? Is it possible to live in the Olympic calm of the lines and the surfaces? This is the beginning of a visionary tail of a trip that in reality has alternate, contradictory connections with the dimension of every day life and the present time. The purpose of this story is rather more ambitious: starting from the chaos in which the humanity seems to live in order to find their way out, going backwards to the origin of it, to the first false step which has brought the society to live in neurotic and totally absent way. The scene is moving on the background of a chaotic city like many others, with the same lives and the same situations and seems to be telling us that a passage exists. It could simply be the tenderness of two teenagers, enough to lead us into the coloured and oneiric dimension which could be the only way to rescue us; it doesn’t just allow a light touch of the events but it absorbs them, it lives them to the full, integrating them, or even better, modelling around all that the destiny seems to reserve us day after day. The alternation of reality and fantasy, within the precariousness of the borders, is created following colours first, and then, black and white, which also gives a rhythm to the tail. And this is why the audience/reader finds himself caught between reality and fantasy: Where are you? Where am I?

Name/Surname: Miro Soares

City/Country: Vitoria - Brazil

Film title: Cartographies of an unmeasurement time

Running time: 17 min.

Brief film synopsis: The artist constructs forms in the floor of an empty house. Metaphors of millenarian maps and geologicals constructions. It relates concepts of cronologic time and existencial time, physical space and space of action, the time that stands and the memory time.

Name/Surname: Vasco Otero

City/Country: Portugal

Film title: Inis

Running time: 20 min.

Brief film synopsis: For this Choreographic investigation I decided to explore dance for camera by creating a twenty-minute work on video, presented with a storyboard and this description of my creative process.  This piece is called inis.  Inis is the Irish word for island, but “No man is an island… can exist on his own,” (John Donne - Metaphysical Poet (1572-1631)).  We are all invisibly connected, by seas, by oceans, by dreams and thoughts. With this piece of choreography I have further investigated my “distinct voice” (Bannerman, C., 2003) or “distinct eye” (Flatt, K., 2003), exploring and developing my movement vocabulary. Also, it was the first time I took the role of filmmaker, working in collaboration with the editor and producer Dave Deans.

Name/Surname: Pierre Daudelin

City/Country: Montreal - Canada

Film title: Nothing girl

Running time: 12 min.

Brief film synopsis: Karen spends most of her time wasting it. Aldo works in a junkyard. They've seen each other often enough without ever getting to know each other.Late one night, Aldo drops by the 24 hour laundromat. Karen's there. For the first time really, he notices her.

Name/Surname: Carmen Cardillo

City/Country: Catania - Italy

Film title: "sul luogo" (site)

Running time: 2 min. 30 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The video “sul luogo” (“site”) is composed from tree digitals video, realized during 2005, in Sicily. The vision happens through technologies and I declare the use: in images on the volcano “Etna”, in Sicily, by the acceleration; in images of the care from the brambles by a grey filter that winds the duration; and in the wolf’ image taken from a car in motion, I slowed down in postproduction. The audio is the union of each audio not modified.

Name/Surname: Ruth Schreiber

City/Country: Jerusalem - Israel

Film title: Kasher, Kasher, Kasher

Running time: 12 min. 44 sec.

Brief film synopsis: An investigation of the transformative process of the Mikveh, the Jewish ritual bath. The woman appears identical on exiting as on entering, but she is in fact invisibly, spiritually cleansed.

Name/Surname: Matthew Verdon

City/Country: London - UK

Film title: The Empire of Lights

Running time: 4 min.

Brief film synopsis: Deriving its title from the Magritte painting of the same name and its central paradox, the film reconciles multiple spaces, both on and off screen. Shown in a blacked out room on either a monitor or as a projection, the presence and absence of light projecting from the screen extends the experience of the work from visual to embodied. Using a dialectical approach, the two individual internal spaces are brought together to form a journey towards enlightenment. Through the use of metaphor, this progression can be seen as finding a utopian common ground between differing individual mental spaces to come up with a mutual solution.

Name/Surname: Gregory Steel

City/Country: USA

Film title: In a moment

Running time: 9 min.

Brief film synopsis: "In a Moment" explores the moments we live and our awareness of them. Life is made up of these small easily ignored bits of time, passing us by like cars on a highway; we never really grasp them, appreciate them or take account of them. This brief look at the of passing time and life is a question, a question for us all?

Name/Surname: Sayaka Shimada

City/Country: Tokyo - Japan

Film title: Halu

Running time: 2 min. 40 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Halu (My Grandmother's Name), uses an unique Japanese characters, because she had lived in war and poverty of Japan. And also she couldn't go to school because of the world war2. On the other hand, I had learned a letter at school in education. It's a piece of residence for 'Family Romanticism' that identity conforms to family as 'blood'and'memory' through each letter.

Name/Surname: Daniel Bejar

City/Country: New York - USA

Film title: City Marker
Running time: 5 min. 48 sec.
Brief film synopsis: "City Marker" is the documented performance of a body through an environment (Chelsea Village, NY, NY). Commenting on human existence and the physical world that we inhabit, this video documents the moment where the two meet and we see the marks left behind as the hand moves through this environment. Conceptually this piece documents a life span from the beginning of the video (death) following it’s marks we see the journey this life has taken all the way to the end of the video which would be it's (birth).

Film title: Marker
Running time: 13 min. 31 sec.
Brief film synopsis: "Marker" is the documented journey of a body trying to leave it’s mark before it erodes. By leaving it’s mark the body will be remembered long after it’s gone. A video piece dealing with the aspirations of not being forgotten.