Name/Surname: El meddeb Jihane

City/Country: Marseille - France

Film title: Mine

Running time: 3 min. 07 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Soft face, inversion and distortion of time, mutation of a sad clown.

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: Rafael Roa

City/Country: Madrid - Spain

Film title: A void regard

Running time: 6 min. 53 sec.

Brief film synopsis: A visual poem about Eros & Tanatos. The work shows a partial vision of the objects as if they where whole things. It shows the erotic forms in the nature and the dead of the life as a visual metaphor.

Name/Surname: Karin Gustafsson

City/Country: Sweden

Film title: Blackout

Running time: 10 min. 20 sec.

Brief film synopsis: After a cup of coffee a bizarre person “starts up” her body. Two meetings cross her way. At the end you will experience an odd “transformation”. This film represents an experimental game between human beings, animals, cartoon figures and machines.

Name/Surname: Massimo Franchi

City/Country: Rome - Italy

Film title: LIKE LIFE
Running time: 4 min.
Brief film synopsis: Images, born from the world and from the world given away, betrayed and changed images on their own shade.Coming from tv news, from the street, from videoclip, from domestic movies, from life, afterwords purified, homogenized, oxigenated till to trasform them on ritm, pulses, flow and waves. A slow flowing, an easy rhitmic going, a symmetric becoming of shapes only apparently whitout a meaning, but hiding in their memories secret events, man becoming clouds, desasters trasformed on fireworks, cars loading like butterflies and butterflies seeming human faces. We lost the memory of things, only a trace has been left, a thin ray to collect and wrop up just hoping that it could get us to peace and could reveal us someting good, or at least could give us some rest and get the conditions for our minds to find new spurs, new creating humus ad future orizons. So, up and down, joy and sorrow, light and dark like our existence, boring greyness or explosions of energy and colour like our life.

Film title: IN A GLASSES HEAD
Running time: 4 min.
Brief film synopsis: Images, quickest daughters of this furious and technological time, excavate deep drills in our convictions. World bombs every human being with events more and more surrealistic and poisonous, lethal for mental health ness.Our brain gets no more protections. Our bones and our head became transparent like brittle glass. We cannot avoid the wild and cruel radiations and in the brain the grey matter becomes less and less substantial. It burns by pain in its martyrdom.It risks to evaporate by any misfortune. Human brain cries for any little sorrow, any obstacle. It becomes a disarmed witness,nearly paralyzed in front of a reality so strong and aggressive that makes vain any defence. Frame by frame, shock by shock, the human being becomes conquest ground for atrocities and barbarities, just victim of small or big horrors,martyr of the barbarism of these cruel days. Just till oblivion and silence will pervade any neuron, any cell of minds just lost in the darkness of madness.

Name/Surname: Ferhat Ozgür

City/Country: Ankara - Turkey

Film title: Monsieur! This Is Ankara Castle

Running time: 15 min. 20 sec.

Brief film synopsis: In Ankara Castle the children who were guiding the tourists were giving information about the castle with an incomprehensible English. I also wanted to get them information from them and gave each of them 1 New Turkish Lira, to get it started. In fact, they were not quite aware of what they were talking about. This was not any of significance, since all of them were reciting from a text that they had memorized. A retired teacher of history came and explained another “original version”, as she was rather personal commentary about both the foundation of new Turkish Republic and history of castle...

Name/Surname: Kevin Evensen

City/Country: Chicago - USA

Film title: Whispering Leaves

Running time: 9 min.

Brief film synopsis: Whispering Leaves gives an alternative visual representation of Nilakantha and his daughter Lakme’s sacred Brahman garden. Lakme’s sadness and death, and the tears of both she and her father are found fallen upon the leaves in the last video clip, and in the words of Rilke’s Nos Pluer.

Name/Surname: Mario Tani

City/Country: Bari - Italy

Film title: RevolutionAir

Running time: 3 min. 40 sec.

Brief film synopsis: A traveller from the past, a philosopher, a thinker who returns to the Western world after exploring the (Far) East and its mysteries. His vision of the world has changed. His revolution, the true revolution, is interior, spiritual. We can change things only after we have changed ourselves.

Name/Surname: Massimiliano "Maci" Verdesca

City/Country: Milan/Lecce - Italy

Film title: Disturbing Religion

Running time: 18 min.

Brief film synopsis: Marcello, an heavy metal guitar player, is choosen by God to take the signs of His sorrow: Stigmate. This event will totally change the balance in Marceello’s life, who found himself completely lonely, accepts the role that God gave him.

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: Gianluca Bianchino

City/Country: Little Falls, NJ - USA

Film title: Space Conditions (birds)

Running time: 5 min. 28 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Documentary style footage of a storm of birds interacting against footage of morphing fractel designs obtained from derivitave use of available technology.

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: Lucia Flego

City/Country: Udine - Italy

Film title: H. 5.30 p.m.: music lesson

Running time: 3 min. 30 sec.

Brief film synopsis: The video shows us a music lesson for children of few month or just a couple of years. Throughout the singins and the rhythm, the teacher introduces the small pupils in to the world of the notes with a very simple and direct method. With her work Lucia Flego tries to underline the fact that the lesson is not just a music, but also (and especially) a moment of education to sensibility, harmony, and beauty and wants to incite us to believe that it will be exactly the beauty that will save the world. Her message is absolutely positive, because in anxious and unsure times, it is necessary to believe in the energy that comes from the art.

Name/Surname: Sarah Tremlett

City/Country: Bath - UK

Film title: Blanks in Discourse: 05

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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: Mairéad McClean

City/Country: Northern Ireland - UK

Film title: State of Mind - remix # 4

Running time: 10 min.

Brief film synopsis: In the film a girl runs down an empty country lane carrying an accordion. The accordion involuntarily plays a discordant tune as she runs. The sound of her feet, her breathing and her heart-beat merge with the exterior soundscape of birds and wind in the trees. Is she running away from something or towards it or is she forever caught in a moment of fear? Music connects sound and vision to create an atmosphere of disquiet reflected in the surrounding Northern Irish landscape. This is an event taking place in a land with an ever changing identity.

Name/Surname: Kleoni Manoussaki

City/Country: Athens - Greece / Brooklyn, NY - USA

Film title: Rescue Boat
Running time: 2 min. 17 sec.
Brief film synopsis: This video is a moving image of an absurd journey.  A journey in fantasy, in time. A journey with no destination and  companion  other than his own fantasy.

Film title: Five Moments
Running time: 3 min. 30 sec.
Brief film synopsis: Five moments,  five actions that they start but do not lead somewhere.  As they do not resolve, in antithesis of visual expectation, they beauty of the action becomes important and in that way, they become hand made, and fragile moments.

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.

Name/Surname: Bronwen Casson

City/Country: Dublin - Ireland

Film title: I don't like Mondays

Running time: 4 min. 03 sec.

Brief film synopsis: "Tell me why I don't like Mondays." There are a lot of things in the modern world that one does not like, "Mondays" being only one of them. Taking the title song as a starting point, this short video animation gives a few examples, using photographs and images from the work of contemporary artists as illustration.

Name/Surname: Kudlacek Renata

City/Country: London - UK

Film title: I wonder if you wonder

Running time: 3 min. 14 sec.

Brief film synopsis: ‘I wonder if you wonder’ is a video based on a still image (face) projected onto a moving body. The face is fragmented and alive through movement, the play of light and the sound of whispering. The relationship of moving and still has been reversed. The screen moves and the image is still. The figure becomes a ground and the ground becomes a figure, thus shifting estrangement and identification back and forth in such a way that the internalization and externalization reverse back upon the play of difference. The video is a conduit between memory and imagination, projection and reflection.

Name/Surname: Seunghee Kang

City/Country: Korea/UK

Film title: Peeping into our society with the code of desire

Running time: 3 min. 44 sec.

Brief film synopsis: Welcome to the peeping world!!! My topics are usually social issues. For example plastic surgery, sex trading, luxury shopping ending up with bankruptcy and extra…I found out those social issues do exist not only in Korea but also in U.K, not surprisingly!!! Therefore, I have gone some video works about these social issues in U.K version.! I do not intend to have any opinions or judgments but just try to simply represent what is happening in our societies (KOREA & U.K.).

Name/Surname: D-FUSE

City/Country: UK/CHINA

Film title: BRILLIANT CITY

Running time: 14 min. 30 sec.

Brief film synopsis: D-Fuse + the musician Matthias Kispert produced the new D-Fuse movie Brilliant City during a stay in Shanghai with the British Council Artist Link Program. The title refers to the location, a residential complex comprised of 25 highrises in the northern part of Shanghai, China. It is entirely shot from the 34th floor of one of the buildings and stages a peeping tom view of the city below, capturing everyday activities that can be observed from this vantage point such as training soldiers, building activity, traffic, gardening. The camera hovers above the entire panorama and focuses on details in the everyday life of this rapidly changing metropolis.

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: Alessandro Stella

City/Country: Roma - Italy / Paris - France

Film title: Glioblastoma Multiforme

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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: Rob Seward

City/Country: Brooklyn, NY - USA

Film title: Music Study IV

Running time: 2 min.

Brief film synopsis: Music Study IV is several takes of someone flipping edited in a musical manner. The audio is what was on the stereo while the flip was shot. The original audio and physical action become almost unrecognizable through the editing process, and what would otherwise be mundane becomes transcendent.

Name/Surname: Giorgos Artopoulos

City/Country: Cambridge - UK

Film title: Sarakiniko
Running time: 13 min.
Brief film synopsis: An Architect lost in time. This is the story of a man who felt he did not belong. He did not belong in the world he lived in; he did not belong in the world he dreamt of. The man, an architect, tries to understand the invisible pattern that underlies both natural and artificial formations in our reality. The man dreams every night, and he experiences his dreams in an illusionary way. He visits places in his dreams, places he has never seen before, neither in a film nor in a photograph. Time itself is fragmented, and ceases to exist in the way we perceive it. He is able to feel in his fragmented, spastic movements the absence of time flow in the universe.

Film title: A film about an installation
Running time: 25 min.
Brief film synopsis:The film is an insight on the making-of 'It's a Parasite! interactive installation for the participation of Digital Studio to the International Biennale of Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech National Gallery, 2005'. As a film it stands between the experimental documentary and an autobiographical note of the director as the co-designer and co-producer of the artwork.