Descriptions & images of videos
Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative
Again
Ljiljana Mihaljević (CRO/USA)
Duration: 00:03:30
Production: 2005
The video performance transforms the invisible (in this case emotions, i.e. a painful experience we inherit from people who pass through our
lives) into the visible (words, physically and roughly imprinted on her skin). What is really
important is our willingness to move on regardless how painful the traces left by other people are. This is also the reason behind the performance’s title – Again.
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Ljiljana Mihaljević (1969, Croatia) lives and works in New York, USA, Florence, Italy, and Zagreb, Croatia.
Illusion for Movements
Lemeh42 (I)
Duration: 00:02:44
Production: 2008
The work is the result of a video performance fully recorded in a theatre. It is a part of a Study on human form and humanity that Lemeh42 have been conducting and has been realized as a reflection on the concept of choreography.
This study starts from the re-consideration of the concepts of body movements. In dance,
body movements are usually rational movements conceived into choreography. The artists wanted to overcome this concept by applying non-rational criteria to body movements. They have focused on disease, and specific neurological disorders such as epilepsy. Epilepsy, called by the ancient Greeks the “sacred disease”, is characterized by recurrent unprovoked movements caused by abnormal neurological activity.
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Lemeh42 are Michele Santini (1978, Italy) and Lorenza Paolini (1979, Italy). They both live and work in Senigallia, Italy.
Chatarra
Ignacio Martín de la Cruz & Bárbara Bañuelos Ojeda (ES)
Duration: 00:06:14
Production: 2007
The video shows a titanic world full of rubble and waste, trees, streams and extraordinary beings, inhabiting a world of scrap iron mountains. In this world, a love story between natural and artificial creature is staged. An odd meeting between animal and mechanical physiology. The machine is moved, softness tries to become flesh, imitating the animal, moving with an uncharacteristic gentleness in order to seem sensitive amidst the landscape painted with iron, earth, wood and water which reminds of Giorgione or a post-industrial Bellini.
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Ignacio Martín de la Cruz (1977, Spain) lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
Bárbara Bañuelos Ojeda (1980, Spain) lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
Sexy MF
Volante (PT/MX/UK)
Duration: 00:09:52
Production: 2007
The video explores notions of gender through the public gaze.
Performance by Ana Borrallho and João Galante.
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Volante are Veronica Castro (1971, Mexico) and Helena Inverno (1967, Portugal). They both live and work in London, UK.
Artist Flying at Incredible Speed
Jonas Zagorskas (LT/PL)
Duration: 00:03:25
Production: 2008
The performance with video interpretation was done for exhibition From Idea to Interpretation held in December 2008 in Jonas Mekas Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is a non-standalone performance, conceived for video interpretation and later shown in the same gallery as the video.
The work is about the difference between the imagination of an artist (how artist perceives himself and his art) and society reflections on him (how society perceives him and his art), with tragic and comical elements overlapping.
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Jonas Zagorskas (1977, Lithuania) lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Kip Masker
Maria Petschnig (A/USA)
Duration: 00:03:25
Production: 2007
The absurd combination of the body and the misappropriated use of clothing enlist the viewer into a fluid stream of sculptural moments and constructs that dissolve after a fleeting manifestation. (…) The performance intends to analyze and play with ideas about the body, the fetishization of clothing, and lastly, question whether it is possible to rethink the perception of the (nude) body. (…) In KIP MASKER I unite the roles of performer and camerawoman (video artist). I see these two functions united in one person as an expression of a new, expanded concept of feminist self evidence.
(Maria Petschnig)
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Maria Petschnig (1977, Austria) lives and works in New York, USA.
Pareidolia
Maria Petschnig (A/USA)
Duration: 00:03:53
Production: 2008
The title Pareidolia refers to a psychological phenomenon, involving a vague and random stimulus that is perceived to be meaningful or significant by the viewer. Similarly, in Petschnig’s video, her body becomes its own remote projection screen for the viewer to observe whatever he or she wants to see. The artist, however, never reveals her own face; instead she exhibits different “faces” on her body, presenting cheeky, doll like personae with her torso and accessorizing with various props and costumes.
(Diemar Schwärzler)
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Maria Petschnig (1977, Austria) lives and works in New York, USA.
The Bathroom Project
Chris Dupuis (CA)
Duration: 00:05:08
Production: 2008
The Bathroom Project is an experimental video which confronts Dupuis’ experience of gender performance as a child, in the private space of the bathroom, and as an adult in the public forum of the stage. As a child whose gender fell outside the boundaries of acceptable norms, he learned quickly to keep his explorations of gender to himself. Thus he developed a form of a secret solo performance, with a bathroom mirror being his only audience. Quite the contrary, as an adult he has made a rather lucrative career doing exactly what he was told not to as a child – dressing up like a girl. His career as a drag queen gives him a completely different space to explore his gender identity – the very public forum of the stage.
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Chris Dupuis (1978, Canada) lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Rose is a Rose
Evelin Stermitz (A/SI)
Duration: 00:03:52
Production: 2008
A woman is engaged in covering her face with rose leaves. As a metaphor for the above and beyond term “beauty” – as well as the fragility of beauty and its canons – the video reveals an obscure image of woman, also shaped by transience and impermanence.
Excerpts from the poem Sacred Emily by Gertrude Stein, in which she wrote the sentence Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, form a sound collage to the video work.
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Evelin Stermitz (1972, Austria) lives and works in Villach, Austria, and Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Size 36
Clara Games
Duration: 00:05:00
Production: 2007
Norms have existed ever since the formation of human society. However, norms may take a radical form through legislation, and turn out to be equivalent to prohibition or imposition. Today, there is a tendency to legislate what was formerly a matter of choice or agreement between parties.
Size 36 is an essay – the first of an ongoing project – which reflects upon the normalization of fashion and consumerism. Nine women put on a size 36 set of clothes, this being the ideal size for women in Portugal. Although we tend to normalize our body, it tends to rebel against norms…
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Clara Games (1966, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
Two Vermons to Save the Whole Wide World and Little Old You
Sheila Bishop (USA)
Duration: 00:12:58
Production: 2009
With her weekly Vermons (video + sermon = vermon), which are posted on numerous venues online, Bishop Bishop (Sheila Bishop) continues her work to save the whole wide world and little old you. The selected vermons are a kind of, sort of about love. Here’s to Needy, Greedy Love was posted on Valentine’s Day and is a bit of rant about how gender norms suffocate men and limit us all. Bishop Bishop challenges her flock to avoid playing Men are from Mars: Women are from Venus miscommunication games, and instead directly asks for the indulgences they want. Lovely Enemies, Not so Great Friends was posted a week later and, in part, it is a response to a YouTube commentator who took issue with Bishop Bishop daring to suggest in Here’s to Needy, Greedy Love that sexism still affects lives of women (and men). Bishop Bishop offers the notion that there may be a pragmatic way to love enemies and that, often enough to be noteworthy, our opponents are more useful to us than our supposed allies.
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Sheila Bishop (1972, USA) lives and works in Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Soyunma-Undressing
Nilbar Güreş (TR/A)
Duration: 00:06:28
Production: 2006
Video questions and addresses the situation of Muslim women living in Austria affected by the racist climate in the public space and experiencing discrimination in everyday life. The majority of Muslim women living in Europe, with or without a headscarf, first and foremost represent their individual selves and not religious or nationalist ideas.
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Nilbar Güreş (1977, Turkey) lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Gendering
Mauro Romito (I)
Duration: 00:04:59
Production: 2008
The video shows a man and a woman dancing in a desolate land, wearing traditional dresses. The parity and symmetrical dance is disturbed only by the fact that both dancers are wearing the skirts and thus questioning the social construction of gender. With force and energy, the couple goes straight on a free way to find out their own identity. Genders as identities are something which is continuously under construction, not in the binary division that society regulates, but in a personal trail to follow and find.
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Mauro Romito (1980, Italy) lives and works in Rome, Italy.
Heritage
Silvia Giambrone (I/D)
Duration: 00:19:47
Production: 2008
The work is aimed at exploring the strong and intense relation between control and desire. This performative action wants to challenge the practice of seduction as a patriarchal way of controlling the body, using the video tool as a mirror. This repeatedly failing action addresses many important questions: what do we exactly desire? Is desire the original source of our creativity or rather a product of historical and social circumstances? What is the mechanism of desire, and how can we “wear” the desire? In what way do we desire desiring?
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Silvia Giambrone (1981, Italy) lives and works in Rome, Italy, and Berlin, Germany.
The Second Man
Željko Jančić Zec (A)
Duration: 00:03:22
Production: 2008
It is a dream, but also desperation, the hopeless hope of political exile, of internal exile of war refugees. It is the unfortunate, inconsolable sense of someone who “knows” that there is no way out, that there is no elsewhere, and no return too, but still can’t avoid seeking, searching for it. There are few questions arising, questions of freedom, identity, their construction and their failures, of “home”, alienation, being the foreigner and remaining such wherever you go. But there is also the necessity for articulation and communication. Namely, who from and how will you get the answers?
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Željko Jančić Zec (1969, Croatia) lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and Rijeka, Croatia.
Different
Zoran Poposki (MK)
Duration: 00:02:04
Production: 2008
The video consists of projections of words in English onto the artist’s body signifying difference until his personal identity disappears in the darkness of the signifiers. The concept of otherness is an integral part of defining one’s own identity, which is done in a relational process with the other, where the other is emphasized as different.
In collaboration with Christian Faur (USA) and Jane Stefanov (MKD).
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Zoran Poposki (1974, Macedonia) lives and works in Skopje, Macedonia.
Capitalism Must Win
Francis Hunger (D)
Duration: 00:12:47
Production: 2008
Video work with a misplaced sign of a hitchhiker at the highway, puts the necessity of a seemingly inevitable historic process into question. The motto TINA (there is no alternative), which became famous after the victory of capitalism over communism, unmasks its own ideology in the light of a world in a process taking place between coincidence and necessity.
(Kai Schupke)
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Francis Hunger (1976, Germany) lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
No se olvida el silencio
Gastón Ramírez Feltrín (MX/I)
Duration: 00:07:20
Production: 2009
The action for the video was performed on 3rd October 2008 in the Paseo de la Reforma Avenue in Mexico City. The initial input comes from the Tlatelolco Massacre which took place on October 2nd, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, when the military and armed men shot student demonstrators. Over the past 40 years, the Mexican Government has tried to erase memory of that terrible event. To keep the memory alive, Mexicans had firmly used the phrase “¡2 de Octubre no se olvida!” (2nd of October won’t be forgotten!) which has become a symbol of all social fights against impunity, corruption and illegal use of law by the government.
The video’s audio track is a live recording of the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre public march, recorded on October 2nd 2008.
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Gastón Ramírez Feltrín (1972, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico and Italy.
You’re Gonna Go Bald
Joshua and Zachary Sandler (USA)
Duration: 00:02:26
Production: 2009
Joshua and Zachary Sandler are interested in examining the line drawn between adolescent and adult behaviour, and the dysfunction that often ensues as adults try to hold on to feelings of idealistic hope and youthful indiscretion. They employ post-dramatic performance style and highly confrontational documentary interview techniques with sometimes volatile subjects in order to craft scenarios which provoke and upset the sense of comfort that so often leads to dishonesty and denial prevalent in modern life.
In You’re Gonna Go Bald, a sensual brotherly haircut combines with a performance depicting the anxiety and insecurity which come with growing older.
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Joshua Sandler (1977, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. Zachary Sandler (1979, USA) lives and works in New York, USA.
Family Conversation 1
Joshua and Zachary Sandler (USA)
Duration: 00:05:44
Production: 2009
In Family Conversation 1, the members of a family, appearing especially unprotected, try to communicate and console in front of the fire.
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Joshua Sandler (1977, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. Zachary Sandler (1979, USA) lives and works in New York, USA.
Repeat After Me (Common words and phrases)
Marianne Holm Hansen (DK/UK)
Duration: 00:06:27
Production: 2008
Performed for the camera and using the limited phrase format of the traveller’s guidebook, the repetitive dialogue of the video aims to bring into play the culture of language and the potential of the [tourist] encounter.
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Marianne Holm Hansen (1968, Denmark) lives and works in London, UK.
Quiet
Attila Urbán (SE)
Duration: 00:06:27
Production: 2008
A silent conversation with hands and body. No language needed. No words. In order to understand, we only have to misunderstand each other. Don’t be quiet.
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Attila Urbán (1977, Sweden) lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Music for Crows
Marek Brandt (D)
Duration: 00:06:50
Production: 2008
The video is part 10 of the Performance Series / Concept Art / Music Project Music for Animals. In this video the main question is what animals are suitable for the town/region of Leipzig and Saxony. After an intense research, the artist took the decision to make a concert for crows to connect the city with nature and its historic links to the topic. In Leipzig, there are big colonies of crows, ever since the time of Wolfgang Goethe who lived and worked in Leipzig. Together with cello player Ekkehard Friebe and Marek Brandt with electronics, the performance was transfered to a big balloon filled with helium. Under the balloon, the wireless speaker was lifted to play the music to the crows on a big oak tree, a symbol of peace at the Rosental Green in Leipzig.
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Marek Brandt (1970, Germany) lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
Life Jacket
Elena Bellantoni (I/D)
Duration: 00:00:60
Production: 2007
Elena Bellantoni’s works are often related to the idea of non-places, spaces of transit and passage of the great metropolis where an individual is completely immersed in the mass consumerism and can easily lose his/her identity.
Idea for the video is simple: try to flow with the current, feel it. Ironic element related to the movements. Figure wearing a life jacket appears in the London Bridge tube station. A surreal, desperate action.
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Elena Bellantoni (1975, Italy) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Travelator
Ljupcho Temelkovski (MK)
Duration: 00:02:29
Production: 2008
The video features a man, struggling against the movement of an escalator, which in this video appears to be “travelator”. There are multiple monitors – actually only one – flipped horizontally and with changed direction of movement so that the spectator observes two escalators, next to each other, and the same man on it, struggling against the escalator movement. Periodically, there is a person in black boots passing by, “travelling” up/down towards the unknown. The moment person’s face appears, it fades out in a shadow, appearing too dark to be noticeable. Additionally, there are some objects moving up/down: a small suitcase and black boots identical to those worn by man.
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Ljupcho Temelkovski (1979, Macedonia) lives and works in Bitola, Macedonia, and Sofia, Bulgaria.
Existenz 1a
Peter Simon (PL/D)
Duration: 00:04:00
Production: 2008
The video is an homage to the French existentialists. This is the first part of a work in progress.
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Peter Simon (1969, Poland) lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Zephyr
G.R.A.M. (A)
Duration: 00:02:00
Production: 2007/2008
The odd weathercaster turns into a kind of a robot who moves in accordance with a strange mechanical sound. Is he at all the conductor of this abstract sound? Suddenly, totally different rules of reception apply. No low temperatures, no cumuli, no understandable words. Just gestures in front of an electronic soundscape.
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G.R.A.M. was founded in 1987 by Günther Holler-Schuster (1963, Austria), Ronald Walter (1961, Austria), Armin Ranner (1964, Austria) and Martin Behr (1964, Austria). They all live and work in Graz, Austria.
I forget the time when I’m with you
Gerwin Luijendijk (NL)
Duration: 00:04:05
Production: 2008
The man in the video creates a situation in which he can dream his own fantasy away. With the help of a poster hung on the wall and his computer playing a romantic love song by Shirley Collins, he lies back and pretends to be some place else.
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Gerwin Luijendijk (1980, Netherlands) lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
You surround me, and cover me protect me and caress me with that special simple love
Gerwin Luijendijk (NL)
Duration: 00:04:06
Production: 2009
The work is almost a kind of a music video where a man does various exercises to shape his body. Luijendijk plays with the idea of the body as a sculptural element and at the same time fetishizing one’s own body.
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Gerwin Luijendijk (1980, Netherlands) lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Plants
Gerwin Luijendijk (NL)
Duration: 00:09:28
Production: 2007
The artist starts to collect plants around him to establish a close contact with them. After several takes, refining the action, he arranges the plants until at one point he is completely surrounded by them.
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Gerwin Luijendijk (1980, Netherlands) lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Intervallo
Eugenio Percossi (I/CZ)
Duration: 00:06:37
Production: 2007
Intervallo (Break) was a “filler” TV program broadcasted many years ago. The photo series of Italian monuments passed by, with the hypnotic background of harp music. It was a “non-program” for the down times, and as a spectator one could be charmed in that suspended state of nothing happening while the time kept slipping away. In the Intervallo video, that memory is a personal key. Rather than being monuments, this time the subject of the photos is an artist. An artist lying on the sofa, in his pyjamas. Endlessly repeating music to beat the time of a life spent on a sofa. Only his pyjamas change, everything else is frozen, waiting for something that does not happen.
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Eugenio Percossi (1974, Italy) lives and works between Prague, Czech Republic, and Rome, Italy.
Self-Portrait/Zapping
Eugenio Percossi (I/CZ)
Duration: 00:13:21
Production: 2007
The artist is lying in bed, endlessly switching the channels on a TV by remote control. The spectator can only hear the sounds of TV channels while the channel switching results in the change of colour in the bedroom.
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Eugenio Percossi (1974, Italy) lives and works between Prague, Czech Republic, and Rome, Italy.
Untitled (cubicle)
A. Jacob Galle (USA)
Duration: 00:06:22
Production: 2007
Work, be it laborious or leisurely, is often a way to define ourselves (or not). The video explores elements of agriculture, rural vs. urban, as well as refers to the aspects of office life – the temp worker, the home office, remote work sites and cubicle. The piece questions what is real and how it is we go about our daily routines.
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A. Jacob Galle (1978, USA) lives and works in Bowdoinham, Maine, USA.
Untitled (spring fever/pilgrimage)
A. Jacob Galle (USA)
Duration: 00:15:00
Production: 2008
A single channel video is juxtaposing ordinary activities occurring in extraordinary settings. In this video, Galle treks to a beautiful and remote mountainous local in order to accomplish the most mundane of domestic duties: the drying of laundry. Simple yet absurd, Galle’s work speaks to the profundity of manual labour as a form of social resistance in our technological world.
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A. Jacob Galle (1978, USA) lives and works in Bowdoinham, Maine, USA.
Cotton Cloud
Attila Urbán (SE)
Duration: 00:07:57
Production: 2009
A man is struggling up in the clouds. What is he building up there? A man thinks, and after a while he figures something out and starts constructing. Lying on his stomach, with his arms between two battens, he tries to reach for cotton. He fails and needs help. Slowly, he pulls in some sort of a stick. He tries again; his head in a guillotine, picking cotton. A cloud struggling to fly looks like dead fish floating.
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Attila Urbán (1977, Sweden) lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Waterish
Željko Jančić Zec (A)
Duration: 00:07:57
Production: 2009
The video inspired by real social life forms is the realization of Jani’s eponymous live–performance. It is a combined physical and object theatre project in an abandoned building. Waterish focuses on situations, which disturb the natural rhythm of life, and analyzes their physical and psychological effects.
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Željko Jančić Zec (1969, Croatia) lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and Rijeka, Croatia.
Fake Walls
Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa (PT)
Duration: 00:08:23
Production: 2008
The video follows the actions of a person carrying a painted canvas depicting a fragment of a wall around the streets of a city, looking for the exact piece of a wall on which the painting was based. Once it is found, the painting is put in place and compared to the original surface. This process is an inversion of a traditional process of painting, in that the object which originates the painting becomes the action’s point of arrival. Thus, each painting formally interacts with the surroundings from which it was “taken” through an attempt of shape, colour and texture duplication.
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Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa (1977, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
Healing Revised
Giuseppe Di Bella (UK)
Duration: 00:13:31
Production: 2008/2009
The video depicts the artist’s hand reconstructing an empty broken bottle of milk that he chose because of the strong characteristics of the milk that could exemplify a loss – although in this case milk is present through its absence. He is particularly interested in the milk because it is food for the newborn and symbolizes motherhood. In addition, it is a family blood-tie and a strong symbol of rebirth. The hands, being the most expressive part of body, also feature as a very strong symbol. Di Bella is also interested in the dichotomy of the hands as a symbol of both creation and destruction.
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Giuseppe Di Bella (1968, Italy) lives and works in London, UK.
Hazard (Tent)
4! (PL)
Duration: 00:02:45
Production: 2007
The video is a part of the Hazard Cycle, a multi-channel interconnected video installation of five images: Tent, Ball, Axe, Noise and Suitcase. The cycle aims to depict the wrong places at the wrong time. It is a search for a common denominator of these stories which are also present in our daily experience. At school, we were taught it was all about fate or slings and arrows of outrageous god or gods. However, it might as well be the risk we breathe in, the unpredictability of a beautiful chaos which we live in as well as carry within us.
Tent consists of two panoramic projections juxtaposed to recount a sad story of two girls who made their gateway to the wood.
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4! are Michał Grochowiak (1977, Poland) lives and works in Poznan, Poland, Marcin Gwiazdowski (1985, Poland) lives and works in London, UK and Jakub Jasiukiewicz (1983, Poland) lives and works in Poznan, Poland.
A Rewinding Journey
Aldo Giannotti (I/A) & Viktor Schaider (A)
Duration: 00:11:16
Production: 2005
A Rewinding Journey video by Aldo Giannotti and Viktor Schaider explores the dynamics between genuine and creative imagination and its loss. The work creates an explicit situation indicative of disharmony between the logics of contemporary society and unspoiled ability of visionary thinking and fantasy. The protagonist of the video, an astronaut – a fantastic stranger from the outer space, displaced in a surrounding which works by different logics and speed – embarks on a search for a place where he is allowed to exist.
(Jessica Wyschka)
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Aldo Giannotti (1977, Italy) lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Viktor Schaider (1979, Austria) lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
A Love Story
Aldo Giannotti (I/A) & Stefano Giuriati (I/D)
Duration: 00:07:04
Production: 2007
The video is a part of the project Carabinieri – Stazione Mobile Project. Aldo Giannotti and Stefano Giuriati perform the figures of two Italian Carabinieri (Italian police) trespassing the border of their own jurisdiction in order to question, with a humour full of romanticism, the notion of national borders within the EU.
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Aldo Giannotti (1977, Italy) lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Stefano Giuriati (1966, Italy) lives and works in Munich, Germany
Code
Isidora Ilić (SR)
Duration: 00:05:20
Production: 2007
The video is an homage to the film Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Resnais. It questions the relation between language and empty spaces. The place which is a witness to the formation of identity and history is only a group of elements existing in a certain order. Walkers transform place into space by their presence and movements. A word – the same as place – is unidentifiable in act of speech, but surrounded by different elements it becomes multiple term and the language creates its meaning.
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Isidora Ilić (1978, Serbia) lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.
Mohenjo-Daro
Luisa Mizzoni aka luxi lu & Emilio Corti (I)
Duration: 00:05:42
Production: 2008
Title of the work comes from one of the main cities of the Indo valley civilization, dating back to 3300 b.c. and characterized by constructions conceived with rigorous architectonic standards. Mohenjo-Daro has been destroyed several times and stubbornly rebuilt on its own ruins, almost in the perspective of imposing rules to the blind forces of nature.
In the video, inert bodies float in a pale blue atmosphere, in delayed time and space. The subject of this ontological reflection is death as a passage beyond physical body. The images reflect on the water which invades the ground, placing the spectator in a space that spreads above and below them.
(Elisa Gusella)
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Luisa Mizzoni aka luxi lu (1982, Italy) lives and works in Milan, Italy.
Emilio Corti (1969, Italy) lives and works in Milan, Italy.
Guide
Wojtek Ziemilski (PL)
Duration: 00:02:36
Production: 2008
The video shows the town Serpa in Portugal. We witness fragments of a guided tour, little bits and pieces of an intimate voyage through a small Portuguese town. But upon listening closely, we realize this is not a normal guide. He guides us through another place, a lot more distant and somehow a lot more intimate. All his references deal with memories of a place which is not here, as if nothing we witnesses could be contained within itself.
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Wojtek Ziemilski (1977, Poland) lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Exótica
Sérgio Cruz (PT/UK)
Duration: 00:05:15
Production: 2009
The video is the result of a three-week artistic residence in Maputo (Mozambique) in March 2008 with the Portuguese choreographer Miguel Pereira. The film has no particular narrative, but contains snapshots of the lives and rituals of African culture, through contacts with the local dance and music community. With a playful approach to the framing and editing of sound and image, Exótica frames fragments of the African wilderness that contrast with the concrete blocks and rituals of dance and music as captured in the city of Maputo. The initial atmospheric soundtrack of the film combines camera ambient field recordings, including natural sound, drums, and sounds from city labourers and traffic that progressively transform into a drum & bass track.
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Sérgio Cruz (1977, Portugal) lives and works in Portugal and UK.
Walking
Michał Brzeziński (PL)
Duration: 00:05:15
Production: 2009
This film gives an example of the recorded relation among a video camera, body and nature. During the walk, the camera lacked any control of the eye over the image. Camera had recorded the natural landscape with the big zoom and very fast shutter speed, controled by the subjective and dynamic human organism. Hand directed the lens intuitively, and only during the computer editing the most interesting and dynamic parts were selected and combined with timeshifting or negative effects [basic for the film in itself]. This performative action is part of a theoretical discourse of structural film, the Polish analytical vision of structural film, and British landscape-structural film. In the context of video performance, this video doesn’t save the artist’s image, but his bodily impulses.
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Michał Brzeziński (1975, Poland) lives and works in Łódź, Poland.
