Pain

The selection is part of the Human Frames program by Lowave, Paris-based film and curator label.
Curated by: Silke Schmickl (DE/FR), Masayo Kajimura (JP/DE), Stéphane Gérard (FR)

Excerpt
Guli Silberstein (IL/UK)
2008
Duration: 00:04:35

An excerpt out of Internet video news: a family is hiding behind a wall in a neighborhood that turned into a war zone. The image is processed, discovering new dimensions, and creating a troubling contrast between content and imagery, leading to an uneasy affect: anxiety deconstructed into pixels.

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Guli Silberstein, born in 1969, lives and works in London, UK.
www.guli-silberstein.com

The place you left
Junho Oh (KR)
2006
Duration: 00:10:23

After you left and I remained here alone, the place of memory turns to be vile and empty. Although it’s too hard to wait for your answer without promise, I’m waiting for you while holding my breath and feeling your way.

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Junho Oh, born in 1977, lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.
www.ex-is.org

Occupation
Laila Hotait (IL/UK)
2011
Duration: 00:02:30

An audio piece on people’s, and in particular women’s, resilience, resistance and intimacy.

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Laila Hotait, born in 1980, lives and works in Madrid, Spain and Beirut, Lebanon.
www.laaventura.net

Ohne Titel (Fragment)
Alexander Schellow (DE/FR)
2010
Duration: 00:04:37

Ohne titel (fragment) [untitled (fragment)] animates the facial landscape of a 96-year-old woman who lives at a clinic for Alzheimer’s patients in Berlin. The film addresses the status of a subject in which the individual framework of perceptions and memories begins to dissolve, bordering on dysfunction. Revealed are exclusively moments of “just before” – a perception, a thought, a memory. In such a zone, the individual begins to disappear; still, the result of this endless mental movement does not seem like an absence – neither of identity nor of meaning. On the contrary, the drawings reconstruct a space of memory without remembering that appears as a crystallization of that which might constitute itself as “subject:” a maximum of life in appearance and disappearance of momentary lines and traces of (his-)stories. Though they may be illegible, their complex potential is hardly arbitrary. By creating a model case of alterity, the film offers the visitor a shared space and a time-sequence. It examines the establishment of communication without language; of narration and utopia in a literal sense.

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Alexander Schellow, born in 1974, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
fr.alexanderschellow.de

The Night I became a Doll
Alice Anderson (FR/UK)
2009
Duration: 00:09:00

The Night I Became a Doll is a nine-minute film, which deals with a violent power play between a mother and daughter. The maternal bond, a recurring subject in Anderson’s work – is explored here in a troubling mise-en-scene: The mother is only capable of taking care of a doll so the daughter doesn’t eat, speak or move for weeks and becomes a doll. The film explores the theme of maternal rejection as Anderson continues her probing into the psychological complexity of the family unit.

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Alice Anderson, born in 1976, lives and works in London, UK and Paris, France.
www.alice-anderson.org

October
Ezzam Rahman (SG)
2010
Duration: 00:07:34

October is adapted by two real failed relationships. Shot in London, UK in October 2009, this film is made accidentally through a series of video clips the director had collected during his study trip there. October was initially made for a video installation art and was presented at Monsoon Asia Gallery, Singapore for an exhibition entitled Curioser and Curioser and was also screened at the Singapore Short Film Festival under Life Scenes program organized by The Substation, Singapore.

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Ezzam Rahman, born in 1981, lives and works in Singapore.

Dark Continent
Marylène Negro (FR)
2010
Duration: 00:06:10

“A cinema in which the essentials are not embodied by a subject but by the absence of representation. In short, a non-photo that Marylène Negro dreams about and with which she tries to capture a world beyond its own parameters: Dark Contintent (2010), a black, metaphysical hole around the face of Mary Magdalene which shifts Freudian psychoanalytical discourse towards the artist’s investigative practice, a duel between the tenebrous and the (ultimate) radiance of light between the humanity in the filmed face and the eternal divinity of sculpture.” – Matthieu Orléan

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Marylène Negro, born in 1957, lives and works in Paris, France.
www.marylene-negro.net

The return
Tulapop Saenjaroen (TH)
2008
Duration: 00:05:00

The Return is an attempt of the artist to recall his lost memories concerned with his dead father who passed away in 1991. The funeral photographs are overlaid with the voice of the artist performing as his dead father coming back to alive.

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Tulapop Saenjaroen, born in 1986, lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.

Vakratunda Swaha
Ashish Avikunthak (IN/US)
2010
Duration: 00:21:00

In 1997, Ashish Avikunthak filmed a sequence – a friend immersing an idol of Ganesha at Chowpati beach, Bombay on the last day of the Ganapati festival. A year later, his friend committed suicide. The artist completed the film twelve years later by using his footage and creating this requiem to a dead friend. One of the key motifs is the tonsure, a Hindu funerary ritual, a rite of passage and a symbolic representation of a new life after death.

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Ashish Avikunthak, born in 1972, lives and works in Calcutta, India and New Haven, USA.
www.avikunthak.com

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