Video večer / Video Evening #09

FemLink The International Video Collages: Male
32 videos from 32 international women artists
organized by FemLink

What a Piece of Work
Grimanesa Amoros (Peru)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Edited by: Grimanesa Amoros and Cooper Miller

Nothing Gets Crossed Out
Myritza Castillo-Irizarry (Puerto Rico)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

The video Nothing gets crossed out proposes a portrait of a man in sports. The main character in the video is a frustrated and pathetic man that we really don’t know but with whom a man can be related to him in the real life. The piece shows the fragility and vulnerability of a figure of a man. Men as a figure of perfection have been idealized since the Greeks. The perfection and precision are two words that describe exercise, in this case tennis; the main character never executed properly the exercise and finished it. At the end the character end it the game of tennis in the most expected and common way, breaking the racquet. This shows an intrinsic instinct of a barbaric brutality and violence of a trifling action.

40 Winks, version 2
Darshana Vora (India)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Sound: Darshana Vora, & ‘One Minute Vacation’ website for one soundtrack.

A man on a pilgrimage to a holy mountain falls asleep and dreams, only to be woken up by the sound of a child’s innocent question which becomes an existential inquiry in the context of his journey.

Play
Alessandra Arno (Italy)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine 2003
A Film by Rithy Panh

“This video investigates the human conditions, contradictions and unawareness. It can be approached according to several interpretations At a first look, we meet a man gesticulating in an empty space, as if involved in a game, while a background of singing children can be heard…
In fact, we are facing a fomer khmer rouge who is re-acting the very same gestures he used to do in the jail where he was working in his youth. The sound we’re listening to is just the march of war usually sang by the children after being drilled to kill in the Cambodian fields.
A parallel does arise between the children’s games and the actual childhood of the ex-khmer rouge which was spent on committing the most heinous crimes with no consciousness at all.
The pictorial image of the video is a tribute to one of the few survivors, who was a painter at the time and is now showing what was happening inside the killing fields of Phon Phen – now a Museum – during the Pol Pot age.”

Sus Carta/His Letter
Maria Rosa Jijon (Ecuador)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Voice by: Marta Lucia Ramirez
Poem by: Laura Jimenez
with: Gennaro Migliore
In memory of: my grandfather Fernando Calderon
Special thanks to: Marta Lucia Ramirez, Sara Calderon, Beatriz, Laura Jimenez, Gennaro Migliore

Riobamba, Ecuador, 1930, my grandfather dies into unclear circumstances, at the age of 23. Year 1977, 44 years later, Laura Jimenez writes the poem SUS CARTAS, a loving homage to my dead grandfather, whom she never married. Year 2008 this poem is brought to my mother by the former housekeeper of Mrs. Jimenez, and then to my hands. A tribute to a man I never met, my mother never loved, and this woman never had.

An Exile In the Mirror
Vouvoula Skoura (Greece)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Cast: Chronis Pavlidis
Music: Petroloukas Chalkias
Editing: Stavros Giannopoulos

In a European country, a man in Exile…looking himself in mirrors…
“…seeing all you can of the exile, his dear face.
Perhaps, when you gaze, it will prompt you to say:
‘How far away our friend Ovid is from us!'”
Ovid.Tristia
His portrait: The Metamorphoses

After Work
Alli Savolainen (Finland)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

A Finnish man goes to his summer cottage to relax for a day
after working week in a city:
woodwork – sailing – fishing – sauna – shaving – swimming.

Raw Folds
Cagdas Kahriman (Turkey)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

MMMmmmany
Siti Almainnah Bte Ab Majid (Singapore)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Credits: Asyraf Bin Abdul Hamid

Forming and constructing together, using the common staple of life out of dust which shapes the innovators of the world. In towards perfecting man, a human being with much flaws and characters in a man-eat-man world.
Placing in humour to making man, as a piece of cookie/cake as a symbolic act upon man replacing the flesh with materials for his own agenda.
Surviving with a will of that of a bee or a pesky fly? Mmmm

Lesson Number 4 and 5
Ana Husman (Croatia)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Cinematographer: Ivan Slipcevic

In this work I try to understand sport which is on Wikipedia defined as: “Sport is activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.”

The Man
Maria Papacharalambous (Cyprus)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Montage, sound mixing and editing : Achilleas Kentonis
Music: Maria Papacharalambous, Achilleas Kentonis
Production: ARTos Foundation

A short story re-told via old family a album in the abandoned family house. The is yet unknown … as it should be!

There are Caricatures and There are Men
Véronique Sapin (France)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

I live in the Middle East and every days we can see in the media how the men, in this part of the world, don’t understand and cant imagine that a man can be different than their stereotyped ideas about man and his honour. They are bound by these stereotypes and they get bogged down of them.

Corps à Corps
Chantal duPont (Canada)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
With: Clément Picard
Music: Caleb Rimtobaye
Sound editing: Martin Hurtubise

Bonjour l’Amour
Sabine Mooibroek (The Netherlands)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
With: Jean François Dieng

A monologue of a man about his first love.

Chacun Des Gestes Pris Dans Son Contexte
Susana Barbará (Argentina)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Idea y realización Susana Barbará
Performers: Jair Barbará, Philippe Dodin, Mauricio Federico, Carlos Gieco, Esteban Raffo, Luis Sabattini, Horacio Sueiro, Horacio Travaglini
Edición de video: Marta Ares y Susana Barbará
Edición de sonido: Ezequiel Scillone
Traducción al francés: Philippe Dodin

The man’s not verbal languague in the quotidien relation with the others.

Dream of a Moment
Yun Aiyoung (Korea)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

Don Giovanni Talks About Women
Hiroko Okada (Japan)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

Appearance: Tsubasa Kitaouji- Haiku poet and womanizer. I think he is the Japanese Don Jovanni. He told us about women at the Japanese style pub, and he had a long talk until late at night…

Gentleman
C. M. Judge (USA)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Special thanks to the 25 gentlemen
Reggie Pineda, pianist
Jan Testagrossa
Dave Svens, FATV

The audience is greeted by 25 gentlemen.

Man
Prilla Tania (Indonesia)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

Depressed Trio
Rachida Azdaou (Algeria)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Performance: Toufik Kara
images: Rachida Azdaou and Tarik Iles
Music: Arisk Priest

The dancer, Toufik Kara, improvise on projected shadows. In this closed space: the desire, the violence, the fear. How the human being gives life to its incessant rhythms, to its suffocated breath, to fight against the wall, the limit, the end.

Fluid Flux
Evgenija Demnievska (Serbia)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Participants: Leslie Anagnan, Gligor Atanasovski, Chan Kai-Yuen, Steve Kreisler, Jean-Claude Martin, Georges Nadra, Racan Paljic, Reza Pourzand, Jovan Radinovic.
Technical support: Radisa Kostic

This video captures my regard and memories of men I know, whether present or absent.

What do women do when men give birth?
Pélagie Gbaguidi (Benin)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

Homme
Alena Kupcikova (Czech Republic)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Music: Jan Urban

He is a priority for us at any price,therefore we sacrifice and await to have it reciprocated…
Nevertheless all seems to be many times as if were invisible and forgotten…
Because we were born like the ones who knows solution always that is why we will forgive again and again to be His priority and peer partner for agens.

Involuntary Movement to Create a Fiction of the Other and to See this Other Facing his Own Image (ING)
Isabel Carvalho (Portugal)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

The Blue Man
Sabrina Montiel-Sotto (Venezuela)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
With Marios Loannou

I draw much more than I ought to draw because it brings me back you
Dorte Jelstrup (Denmark)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Directors: Dorte Jelstrup and Caroline Sascha Cogez
Editor: Caroline Sascha Cogez
Scenography: Dorte Jelstrup
DoP: Sebastian Winterø
Gaffer: Jacob Østergaard
Music: Dorte Jelstrup and Jens Runge
Producer: Dorte Jelstrup
Copyright: Dorte Jelstrup, 2009
Acknowledgments: Stage 7, UitchIscratch, Katja Phillip, Albert Elias Grøndahl, Timelines, Anders Sune Berg and The National Workshops for Arts and Crafts
Supported by: The Danish Arts Council

My video deals with the representation of the male nude in the classic medium of drawing and from the point of view of a “feminine gaze” of longing and desire. In the act of drawing I relate the male nude to the concept of beauty which is traditionally associated with femininity. My video therefore tends to blur or subvert historically established notions of masculinity and tries to materialise and underline new “feminine” ways of looking up on the male nude as an object of longing and desire. My video also deals with a prior loss of the desired male nude and points towards the feminine creativity and the formation of symbolic meaning in the act of drawing as a possible compensation for the loss.

Male
Yue Liang (China)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
With Bafang, ChenXiaoFeng, Stranger

When a man is looking at a woman, however old and young.

The Player
Fatima Mazmouz (Morocco)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

An inveterate player whose life turns around the plays of scraping.

Today I Tore up Your Letters
Jessica Lagunas (Nicaragua)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
Video and edition: Roni Mocán
Translation: Joanne Morales
Special thanks to my grandmother Elsa.

My grandmother reads a short poem called ‘Hoy he roto tus cartas’ (‘Today I tore up your letters’) that she wrote in 1981, two years after she and my grandfather got separated. With this poem she acknowledges that their relationship has ended.

The Gaze of Men
Mónica Dower (México)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00
The five artists: Rafael Penroz, Marco Díaz, Rodrigo Quiñones, Byrt Wammack, Marcos Gabriel Rámirez (Gabo)
Editing: Mónica Dower and Marcos Gabriel Rámirez.
Mérida Yucatán, 2009.

I handed my camera to 5 men (all artists) so they could record for 20 seconds a portion of their intimacy.

Home
Bill Kouelany (Congo)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

Oh Daddy
Cecilie Dahl (Norway)
2009
Duration: 00:02:00

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