P'Silo

(D-TOUR)3
5mn30   color   sil   2006   France
by Sylvain Legrand

Braiding of a video shots in mini-DV and re-arranged numerically in the aim of perceiving unsuspected spatial and temporal motifs. "D-Tour ô cube" is seeking to build, from the original film many times retouched, new architectures, to explore the magic of new geometries, to melt during the projection in the eye's spirit. "(D-TOUR)3" extends the previous research, by using a "magic candle", tries to crystallize asymetries of outlines and colors, to transform them, to metamorphize them. Development of a variant of "anorthoscopie", "(D-TOUR)3" oscillates between synthesis of movement and movement of synthesis.

ref : F1001
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

(Ô-D-TOURS)2
5mn10   color & b/w   sil   2004   France
by Sylvain Legrand

Essay leaded during the theorical master "Interval and Discontinuity". The backdrop is the expansion in space and time of one second of the retraction and the sealing of one frame. The rest results from the variations and the re-compositions of this starting point. With this film,I wanted to express, on one and the same line, at once flickering and illusion of movement, to give audience the choice of multifarious directional movements.

ref : F1002

05.10.38
5mn36   color   stereo   2005   Sweden
by Anders Weberg

"05.10.38" examines the inner journey of a soul searching protagonist. We encounter a semi-surrealistic theme that, in a almost cliche-like manor, high-lights the ambivalence of the male gaze and gendered (dis)order. Through digital filtering effects, a certain suggestive aesthetic is conjured forth.The film deals with questions of identity and belonging and the blurring of boundaries. It is a sombre and suggestive reflection of life in the pyrotechnic insanitarium of consumerism freedom.

ref : F1003
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

10 Phrase Studies
10mn   color   mono   2006   Canada
by Gary Kibbins

"10 Phrase Studies" is a constellation of text and image sequences. Images or sequences: an actress rehearses her lines, anti-war demonstration in Barcelona, bugs, pigs, archers, a Latin class for gifted children in Los Angeles, a boat, cardboard being blown away by wind, and a man playing with dice.

ref : F1004

11
19mn   color & b/w   stereo   2005   France
by Clément Zerbola (Hellaimorth)

"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 are also want, in their context of creation to make echo for historic acts by proposing a personnal optics on these. An optics which, in spite of the variety of its contents, is unified around the transit of an object, particulary signifiant and it on several levels given that its meaning are anchored in the collective unconscious.

ref : F1005

19 Dots as closing credits to thinking of a word + a re-entering dot of knowledge
5mn03   color   stereo   2004   Netherlands
by Gerben Kruk

If looking for an objective explanation of a general, but relevant event in life in order to create an objective translation results in some cliche, suddenly a dot drops from the sky that says : no matter how clean you look at it my friend, in the end there is nothing more than just believe.

ref : F1006
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

A day at the beach
12mn   color   stereo   2006   Portugal
by Jonathan Franco

Once when I was a child my mother took me to the beach for the first time. I have a defective eye condition since childhood that obstructs me from seeing the world with clarity. It was only later in my life that I became aware of this as a fact. The idea of this film was to recreate the smudged and “out of focus” memory that I have of that day at the beach, thru the manipulation of photographs taken at that time, place and during the occurring of that same moment. The first time I saw the sea was a very significant moment in my life, and I would like to share the experience thru this video.

ref : F1007

À genoux
21mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Frank Beauvais

"And now, what will I do of all this time which will be my life ? Of all this people who let me different now that you are gone. All this nights, for what, for who ?" (Pierre Delanoé)

ref : F1008

Absinthe Provisoire
10mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Houssam Harfouche

The encounter between a music written with spoken images and images which allow the sound to travel in an immaterial and autonomous way.

ref : F1009

Advanced chill
14mn20   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Flame Schon

Variations through a shadow trapeze of flowing water.

ref : F1010

Aerodynes
4mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by France Dubois

An epiphany of aircrafts, remembrance of hours spent gazing at the sky.

ref : F1011
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Alku_E
4mn52   color   stereo   2005   Finland
by Juan KASARI (80Juan80)

Sound creates picture. I have used my own method to make pictures move and all the sounds control all the movements of pictures. Alll the sounds and still pictures are made by 80Juan80.

ref : F1012

All Shall Be Well
5mn34   color   stereo   2006   Norway
by Eva Drangsholt

Through media images of international conflicts and stirring music. "All Shall Be Well" takes the viewers on a tour of hope, ancient promises, and contemporary realities.

ref : F1013
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

All Together Now
4mn   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Carol Pereira

Four individuals moving. They follow a trail through a forest. Aomori, Japan 2005

ref : F1014
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

Anoxi II
3mn56   b/w   stereo   2005   Canada
by Robin Dupuis

A metaphorical study of suffocation caused by the lack of oxygen.

ref : F1015

April 1967
7mn20   b/w   mono   2005   Canada
by Gary Kibbins

A repeating phrase slows down, reverses direction, then speeds up, while something ressembling a poem attemps to articulate that space separating the bombers from the bombed.

ref : F1016
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

Arcs of Texture
6mn   color   stereo   2006   USA
by Ken Paul Rosenthal

Arcs of Texture is a lyrical, energized portrait of an urban landscape in motion. Underground trains, streetcars, buses and escalators embody the impressionistic beauty of architectural reflections like moving paintings. The face of the city is rendered as a light-infused intersection of people, glass, and concrete. The first part takes place underground, and is characterized by an audio collage mixed from ambient recordings of subway stations and trains. The second part takes place above ground and features an original score with gamelans, guitar loops, sampled car door locks and brake pumps.

ref : F1017
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Ayler Vibrato Vortex
15mn   color   sil   2005   USA
by Neil Ira Needleman

A visual dance of light as a flickering vortex of energy slowly emerges from a black void and, for the next 14 minutes, morphs, evolves, grows, pulsates, spins, flies, glides, slides, whirls, whams, shimmies, struts, explodes, implodes, and (eventually) flickers out. Then again, perhaps this is just a simple walk down a dark hallway toward and away from a window.

ref : F2018

Betty Creek
5mn   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Robbie Land

"Betty Creek" is a film constructed of material collected from a location in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Various items such as dirt, plant life, audio, and timed lapse images of it’s nightlife have been gathered and applied to the celluloid using numerous methods in order to provide a projected sense of the "Betty Creek" environment.

ref : F2019
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Blink
1mn   color   sil   2005   USA
by Carol Pereira

Wavelengths of the sun visually skip to radio frequencies. Aomori, japan 2005

ref : F2020

boop-oop-a-doop
5mn16   color   stereo   2004   Sweden
by Sachiko Hayashi

”boop-oop-a-doop” is an observation and investigation of our daily life and plays with three different elements : creation of identity, media culture, and our own desire to be somebody else. By taking up two prominent figures in mass media culture, namely Marilyn Monroe and Betty Boop, the project focuses on how these three elements intermingle with each other, re-enforcing each element each time. Marilyn Monroe became an icon of the 20th century. She represented sensualism, sweetness and vulnerability, indeed all the characteristics that were and still are recognised as ”desirable” for a woman. She is the ultmate female whom both men and women equally adore and idolise; men wish to be with her and women desire to be like her. This ”wish/desire” is probably what keeps Marilyn Monroe still ”alive” as one of the biggest icons even 40 years after her death...

ref : F2021
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Brain Damaged
21mn21   color   stereo   2005   Argentina
by Gabriel Otero

The sound draws the letter, that protects the word in the language. The dialogue appeases the violence and fertilizes the land. The city erects its civilization againts the dersert. It exhibits without modesty its power : houses, schools hospitals, libraries. The spatial carrer, the nuclear medicine and was it digital. The man and its reason codify and they build : the passion, the expansion, the ambition, the concentration, the urbanization, the contamination, the tension, the friction, the explosion,... the word conflagration...

ref : F2022
[ selection 2006 / pr. time ]

Brain Worm
24mn   color   mono   2006   Canada
by Gary Kibbins

When the rules governing interpretation become extremely broad or ill-defined, the process of interpreting is reduced to the process of finding associations or similarities. When that point is reached, I can say, for example, that I am similar to kumquats, Buicks, soccer balls, molybdenum, or Britney Spears, and there would always be some way to justify the claim, even if “similar” means little more than sharing carbon atoms.

ref : F2023

Cantus
6mn   color   stereo   2005   Italy
by Carlo Cagnasso

A diary. Or a sketch book. Some sort of video-case in which a lot of things have heaped up in years : friends, cartoons, travels, relatives, paintings, houses, pets, extracts from stories without an ending, different langages, places, three-dimensional models, graphic marks, sententious words, everyday acts, scribbles of various kind. A piece of a lifetime, one of the many, which can only be told through a most sparkling caos...

ref : F2024
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Cellular Activity : BECHET VIBRATO FRAGMENTS
16mn   color   sil   2005   USA
by Neil Ira Needleman

Jazz great Sidney Bechet’s deep, wide, passionate vibrato (one of my favorite sounds in the world) inspired me to set my camera swooping, swishing, and dancing over a wide range of surfaces, textures, and scenes. This frenetic camera movement is editing together via a strategy that I call Cellular Activity -a repeated, growing, and transforming pattern of very short shots (or cells). The result is a rhythmically intense and vibrant feast for your optic nerves.

ref : F2025
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

Chemin d'évasion (extract)
1mn41   color   sil   2004   France
by Dominik Lange

... the gardener’s mower lets bloom bunches explode...

ref : F2026
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

Cines Tracts N°Deux Rendez nous nos fréquences.
6mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Pierre Merejkowsky

Loft Story is a personal attack against Pierre Merejkowsky and is intended to cut down the films of Corporation Crime and the Punishment.

ref : F2027
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

Civile
7mn20   color   stereo   2005   France
by Christophe Rolot

An ageless young woman tells her life in a cave, the bombs, the rapes, the murders... She put us in touch with the long suffering during and after the Spanish civil war.

ref : F2028

Closedeye Auto Sunpulse
3mn45   color   stereo   2006   USA
by Gary Adlestein

"Closedeye Auto Sunpulse" that percussive, closed-eye, sunpulse (so warm & gentle) as the car (train or bus) rushes by the passing (shuttering) trees: that moving theatre on wheels.

ref : F2029

Coma video
6mn40   color & b/w   stereo   2005   France
by Antoine Miserey

It is the geography of a world where the frontier which separates public media and our personal image is indistinct. A character drawn with lines walks in this universe of reference, he is trying to crunch a bite of that big sandwich of club culture to fill all that emptiness.

ref : F2030

Consenting Adults
3mn30   color   sil   2004   USA
by Neil Ira Needleman

If my older relatives had known I would butcher their 8mm home movies like this, they would never have given them to me. But they did, and I couldn’t resist. The Antimatter Underground Film festival calls this work... "a looping dance of desire and disapproval".

ref : F2031
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

Copy of igloo copy II
7mn02   color   stereo   2005   France
by Marie Frier

"Copy of igloo copy II" is a video constructed around the idea of escape, of dreams of imaginary cosmos... It is a mix of video image and screen drawings, which nourishes its real space with clowning that makes the images brought back from journeys even more personal, if only by the presence of the bird, heckler and signing. It's uncommon circular formula comes from the fact that it was made, in the beginning, to be projected onto the interior vaulting of a polystyrene cell shaped like an igloo replaced today by a floating projection shell made of cloth and a round carpet on the floor. This space of half spheres is reinforced by a circular sonic diffusion.

ref : F2032

Corps Evanescents
5mn47   b/w   stereo   2005   France
by Arianne BARATIER & Laure MARIE-LANOË

A lost love buried in a chaos of bodies and urban landscapes.

ref : F2033

D-VIDE
9mn30   color   sil   2005   France
by Sylvain Legrand

Weaving of a super- 8 film transferred by craftsmen in video to be re-arranged numerically. Essay of cinematographics visions, to rise to another visible from the visual and Light. The film is displaying his explosions of geometrical and exposition flower motifs according to the differents re-compositions levels of the original film. Divided around an inaccessible centre, "D-Vide" merges directly into the spirit of audience who animate it.

ref : F3034

Dance with Miss Betty N°1
16mn   color   stereo   2005   Slovenia
by Matey Ocepek

When Mr. Red Exp, musician and a videomaker, sits behind his magical drums, crazy things happen. The room starts to project in psihadelic musical experience. If you play drums, loud, you can even escape from that mental trip. About: Visual drum trigging used and played live with midi drums and keyboards. Music and picture was recorded live.

ref : F3035

Deeply Blue
8mn30   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Cade Bursell

Phone calls can bring us to attention - especially ones from those we deeply love who are suffering and at a distance. Sometimes they require us to do something more than listen. This video is about one such call and the subsequent two day road trip taken to be with a brother who suffers from a life-threatening, chronic illness - a road meditation on anxiety and longing.

ref : F3036

Dent du chat
4mn   color   stereo   2006   France
by Samuel Bester

Video Yoïk (in the saami tradition, the yoïk is used to sing a feeling and/or an emotion, a history).

ref : F3037
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Der Amerikanisch Stil : Chicago
10mn55   color   sil   2006   France
by Elie Barrau

The spectator encounters, in Elie Barrau’s video work "Der Amerikanische Stil", three dreamlike visions of Chicago, London and Venice simultaneously. Following the stream of memory, it is as if one is in the three cities at the same time, thinking the same thing, chasing the same ghosts from the past. Removed from reality Elie Barrau’s city vistas seem to take place in a distant time-sphere. The concept of time is taken apart, time seems to flow at different speeds. Combining still photography and film footage, the spectator needs some time to realize that parts of the video are actually in flux, and not still-images. Suddenly one realizes the erratic movement of cars deep down on the streets of Chicago or the subtle blowing of wind in the hair of a woman in Venice. These small clues reveal the true nature of the medium as film...

ref : F3038

Der Amerikanisch Stil : Londres
10mn55   color   sil   2006   France
by Elie Barrau

The spectator encounters, in Elie Barrau’s video work "Der Amerikanische Stil", three dreamlike visions of Chicago, London and Venice simultaneously. Following the stream of memory, it is as if one is in the three cities at the same time, thinking the same thing, chasing the same ghosts from the past. Removed from reality Elie Barrau’s city vistas seem to take place in a distant time-sphere. The concept of time is taken apart, time seems to flow at different speeds. Combining still photography and film footage, the spectator needs some time to realize that parts of the video are actually in flux, and not still-images. Suddenly one realizes the erratic movement of cars deep down on the streets of Chicago or the subtle blowing of wind in the hair of a woman in Venice. These small clues reveal the true nature of the medium as film...

ref : F3039

Der Amerikanisch Stil : Venise
10mn55   color   sil   2006   France
by Elie Barrau

The spectator encounters, in Elie Barrau’s video work "Der Amerikanische Stil", three dreamlike visions of Chicago, London and Venice simultaneously. Following the stream of memory, it is as if one is in the three cities at the same time, thinking the same thing, chasing the same ghosts from the past. Removed from reality Elie Barrau’s city vistas seem to take place in a distant time-sphere. The concept of time is taken apart, time seems to flow at different speeds. Combining still photography and film footage, the spectator needs some time to realize that parts of the video are actually in flux, and not still-images. Suddenly one realizes the erratic movement of cars deep down on the streets of Chicago or the subtle blowing of wind in the hair of a woman in Venice. These small clues reveal the true nature of the medium as film...

ref : F3040

Détacher le grain de l’épi
19mn   color   mono   2005   France
by Hélène Bouquin

Searching for stories, and emotions, the night film apparently sets out images of windows to music for percussion. Tactile images. Games. Holes. Colors. In what consists the activity of creation or composition ?

ref : F3041

Distancepulse
5mn20   color   stereo   2005   Australia
by Scott Morrison

"Distancepulse" was produced whilst participating in the RawSpace residency program. Ideas of distance, memory and loss were key to the production of this piece. Being away from the things you love, evoke strong reasons for being where you should be.

ref : F3042

Dossier de Candidature à la Présidence de Radio France
8mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Pierre Merejkowsky

The producer is threatening me a lawsuit. I submit my candidature for the Presidence of Radio France in order to fund my defence.

ref : F3043

Elaine Drive
6mn   color   stereo   2004   USA
by Robbie Land

"Elaine Drive" is an abstract exercise, which explores my anxiety involving the concept of infinity. This notion has haunted me since early child-hood growing up on "Elaine Drive" and it’s surrounding neighborhood. The impression developped in this environment help form my perceptions of this existential predicament. The images of "Elaine Drive" are organized to flit much like a stream of conscious motion in order to summon the experiences felt when dealing with this boggled idea of infinity.

ref : F3044
[ selection 2006 / pr. time ]

enterFrame(...)/Bodyparts
1mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Anthony Rousseau

Choreography of a mechanical body, between alienation and transfiguration...

ref : F3045
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

Erotmika
3mn   color   stereo   2005   Serbia & Montenegro
by Milan Zulic

Rithm of touching.

ref : F3046

Eût-elle été criminelle...
9mn   color & b/w   stereo   2005   France
by Jean-Gabriel Périot

France, summer 1944. The public punishment of womem accused of having affairs with Germans during the war...

ref : F3047
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

Exit
9mn35   color   stereo   2005   France
by Gérard Cairaschi

There is only one true and definite way out of this world, but countless are the stories and representations, passages or journeys, towards the other, dreamed or feared, side - multitudes of other imaginary worlds which live inside of us; places, objects and beings of our existence, of our transposed world which is inhabited by our dreams.

ref : F3048
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Fading Bodies
6mn13   b/w   stereo   2005   France
by Arianne BARATIER & Laure MARIE-LANOË

Constructions and destruction's of hopes of love in a space of flesh and stone.

ref : F3049

Falls and Rises
10mn15   color   stereo   2004   Russia
by Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov

The project in symbolical and at the same time arty effective and technically progressive form represents a psychological level of social shock, captured people after improbable acts of terrorism which became tremendous events in history of media show. The panoramic realization of the performance creates a metaphoric picture of a terrorist act. the imagery consisted of some positions showing a group of people standing in a dune landscape, failing down, lying in the natural landscape and standing up in a continuous repetition. the reference to 9/11 is almost implicit, the image poetic, deliberately vague and set in a slow sideway motion as if they are moving in the wind in the dunes. The project in symbolical and at the same time artly effective and technically progressive form represents a psychological level of a social shock, captured people after improbable acts of terrorism which became tremendous events in history of media show.

ref : F4050
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

Flux
11mn   color   stereo   2005   Brazil
by Kika Nicolela & Suzy OKAMOTO

A body defies exterior; wanders through the path from the imoptency to the vital force. A red tissue wraps it and cuts it from the rest of the world. The body gradually fuses with the elements around it- a clay building, a valley, a river - striving to balance the inner and outer world.

ref : F4051
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

From Argelès to the nearest gas station
1mn51   b/w   stereo   2004   Netherlands
by Gerben Kruk

A partly automated abstraction of a journey to a gas station.

ref : F4052

Fuck the Machine
4mn14   color   stereo   2006   Netherlands
by Fat Controller

The clue is in the title. Fuck the Machine is both a protest against the poxy state of the world and a celebration of man’s relationship with technology.

ref : F4053
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Genesis
6mn20   color   stereo   2005   Canada
by Sébastien Pesot

"Genesis" is an experimental single channel video based on a text from the bible which describes the beginning of the universe. Troughout the video we can hear an excerpt of the text read by an astronaut from the Apollo 8 mission, in orbit around the moon. "Genesis" is inspired by the relationship between the creation of this world and the desire of human beings needing to control and rewrite its environment. Finally, the idea of the genesis becomes the motive for a reflection on artistic creation.

ref : F4054

Glass Syringe
2mn35   color   stereo   2006   Netherlands
by Fat Controller

She showed me her world in a glass syringe She said that no-one understands The beauty of a woman in the body of a man...

ref : F4055
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Holiday
22mn   color & b/w   stereo   2005   France
by Agathe Dreyfus & Aurélia BARBET

As a filmic essay, Holiday takes the shape of a diary, a filmed journey for two voices. Tuesday April the 20th. Grasse. Le clos, paradise. In a while we’re going to New York. It’s the first time I go across the Atlantic. I am going accross the Atlantic with an angel…

ref : F4056
[ selection 2006 / pr. time ]

Icarus - A Yearning To Fly
2mn27   color   stereo   2006   Norway
by Eva Drangsholt

"Icarus - A Yearning To Fly" shows a middle-aged man in a park attempting the impossible.

ref : F4057
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

Infinity Fragment 1
17mn   color   sil   2005   USA
by Neil Ira Needleman

A flickering fragment of infinity : Abstract visual stimulation that (I imagine) extends beyond the window of the video screen. I like to think that it commenced sometime in the remote past and that it continues onward into the future, transforming and evolving at a pace unhindered by (and unaccountable to) the chaos of our daily lives.

ref : F4058

Inside the Dishwasher
3mn03   color   stereo   2006   Netherlands
by Fat Controller

You can’t buy everything on the shopping Channel and you can’t run away form yourself.

ref : F4059
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

Interstate (part one)
6mn   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin

When the circus comes to Austin, Texas (USA) each summer, their performing animals are kept in an open parking lot on the frontage road of Interstate Highway 35. For one week each year, the passing auto and truck traffic has a nearly unobstructed view of elephants, zebras, tigers, and camels. And the animals have around the clock exposure to one of the busiest corridors for interstate commerce in the country...

ref : F4060
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Jueves por la noche
6mn57   color   stereo   2005   France
by Nicolas Fouché

In a village fete, an individual... the video, with a long sequence shot, brings into light the attitudes and clumsy postures of the personage confronted with the fete. This sequence unveils a group sometimes caricatured, is unable to find his landmarks.

ref : F4061

L'envers c'est les autres (ritournelle)
1mn07   color   stereo   2005   France
by Anthony Rousseau

(Old story) : with lightness and freshness, the images of this vidéo reconsider this "sententious" title...

ref : F4062
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

La Vague
3mn59   color   stereo   2003   France
by Sylvain Grolleau

The night, after the rain, filled with memory of the place, the wave becomes again what it has become... La Vague was shot in a coastal town of the Caribbean, Chuao, a cacao plantation peopled by ancient slaves from West Africa. It's a torrent of rain. Grimacing faces, ghostly regards, those of Indians or Negroes, massacred, tortured.

ref : F4063

La Valse de Cythère
5mn34   color & b/w   stereo   2005   France
by Philippe Brioude

And God created women...

ref : F4064

Las Hijas De Endor
6mn55   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Sandra Powers

Las Hijas De Endor intuitivety surfaced only to show me the way back to our early human selves - the animalistic nature of love.

ref : F4065

Layers of Cognition
5mn07   color   mono   2005   Israel
by Guli Silberstein

The video is depicting a dark world of perception, trying to capture what is not there, breaking away from the concrete notion of sight and sound, and creating an amplitude of cognition, where attention is diverted to unexpected places - "As we move from the more conscious aspects of interpreting messages toward the more unconscious processes of perception we seem to be shifting our levels of abstraction from the more concrete towards the more abstract" (Gregory Bateson).

ref : F4066
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Le Rituel
8mn30   color   stereo   2005   France
by Emmanuelle Sarrouy

What a strange ritual people are celebrating at Christmas eve...

ref : F4067
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

Locus Solus 1 Panhard Levassor
14mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Bernard Sarrut

The quay Panhard Levassor. Repeated exploration of a solitary and silent place accentuated at certain moments by a voice. Regard, repeated march, dredge, circular movements, contemplated perspectives and the text which rhythmically, splintered, always comes back. The waters of the Seine, the lights, the city around, and abandoned building site, graffiti. Industrial landscape which opposes the incantatory words. Silhouettes that cross each other is the obscurity. At the end of the film and the circular errancy a trip in a car, a room, a charnel young man finally incarnated.

ref : F4068

Lucie dort
5mn07   color   stereo   2005   Belgium
by Catherine Menoury

Being epileptic. Dissect the skull, cut the malfunctioning part of the brain, close up again. Wake up, tremble no more, but no longer remember.

ref : F4069

Lucie se lève
4mn44   color   stereo   2005   Belgium
by Catherine Menoury

Being epileptic. Dissect the skull, cut the malfunctioning part of the brain, close up again. Wake up, tremble no more, but no longer remember.

ref : F5070

Lycee Buffon
12mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Pierre Merejkowsky

Summary n°1 : The strike was destined to cut down the Capitalist System.
Summary n°2 : (the children are in bed) we were unorganised, without a structure, without efficient co-ordination, without a General, without a Party, we occupied the headmasters office, there was no turning point, nor protection racket. The strike was destined to cut down the Capitalist System RIGHT AWAY.

ref : F5071

Ma Mère !
3mn30   color   stereo   2005   France
by Emmanuelle Sarrouy

Is she my real mother ? And does it matter ?

ref : F5072
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

Magic Mountain
3mn35   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Sandra Powers

My films incorporate early film and painterly aesthetics, resulting in surrealistic imagery that is derived from my dreams and imagination. They exist in a theatre setting that is starkly visual, revealing a poetic and sometimes macabre world. I hand - crank my camera and hand - splice my films. Each film has my fingerprints all over it. To express my cinematic ideas further, I paint and optically print the film. Once the film’s structure is all the set, I reprocess the film using a variety of digital compositing and effects software. My artistic choices are intuitive, personnal and decisive. In both my films, "Magic Mountain" & "Las Hijas De Endor", audio is used to portray emotion...

ref : F5073
[ selection 2006 / pr. time ]

Memento Mori
11mn   b/w   sil   2006   Greece
by Nikos Veliotis

"Memento Mori" completes a trilogy of short videos (the two previous being imago & obJet). "Memento Mori"’s material consists entirely of post-mortem photographs of children found on the internet. Post – mortem photography was a common practice, especially with children, in both Europe and America during the 19th and early 20th century. It is also referred to as "memento mori" photography. The video reflects the initial shock and grief experienced when confronted with one’s wounded inner child, one’s dark, frozen layers of pain and loss. It proceeds formally through the use of a simple kind of animation: multiple layers of still images in a varying speed pendulum motion. The animation generates a perpetual emergence figures. The video is silent; the environmental soundtrack of each specific screening is defined as the 'audio' of "Memento Mori.

ref : F5074
[ selection 2006 / pr. time ]

Microcosmo
6mn13   color   stereo   2004   France
by Inés Wickmann

Inspired by the fable El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges, "Microcosmo" creates a magical world, and then quickly moves away from the premise of the story, and towards the technique of self-portrait. The music, in the video, works as a guide to help the viewer follow the ebb of the images. The audio and the visual work together to help procure a contrasting image and soundscape.

ref : F5075

Moi, je dance !
1mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by François Paris

In a way, rather subtle, it video tent to modify our perception of the everyday life, by poetic observations, or quite simply in the magic of the chance. "Me, I dance !" represent this small poetic moment, this almost nothing, or the spirit given up with its Imagination and whose video treatment gives an impression of worrying escaped strangeness of a black film...

ref : F5076
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Môle
6mn   color   stereo   2006   France
by Samuel Bester

Video Yoïk (in the saami tradition, the yoïk is used to sing a feeling and/or an emotion, a history).

ref : F5077
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Mont Blanc
5mn   color   stereo   2006   France
by Samuel Bester

Video Yoïk (in the saami tradition, the yoïk is used to sing a feeling and/or an emotion, a history).

ref : F5078
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Musee Hofstadt
2mn31   color   stereo   2004   USA
by Nika OFFENBAC & Devan SIMUNOVICH

"Musee Hofstadt" is an exploration of complex behaviors within biological systems, both real and simulated. Based on the Typogenetic theories of Douglas Hofstadter, the performance and its documentation are constructed around the string manipulation rules he developed to model the processes of genetic replication. Repetitive sets of deterministic actions are codified with Butoh style movements, incorporating actions in sets of 4 and 16. The characters positions directly correlate to the number of string terms and total instructions in Hofstadter’s system. This rule base system is also implemented programmatically in the postproduction process. Typogenetic algorithms were scripted in Perl and used to drive video processing in Jitter and to build generative 3D geometry in Maya.

ref : F5079
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

Nairt Inrat
4mn50   color   stereo   2004   Australia
by Scott Morrison

So many travels can be had day to day, and so many times we travel the same way. Back and forth we go, I had a camera with me once, how many trips can I fit into one?

ref : F5080
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

Nam June Paik's Fingerprints
5mn47   b/w   mono   2006   USA
by Taly & Russ Johnson

In the 1970's, Nam June Paik recorded TV commercials on several reels of AVvideotape. He pressed “record” when a TV commercial was starting and “Stop” when the program started creating “deck edits”. Our piece is from these reels. We removed the complete ads and left only his deck edits. Using his footage, we have removed content leaving only the actual parts of him. We used only the deck edits, start ups and artifacts made with the AV decks. On these tapes he recorded TV ads leaving out the TV shows. We now have removed the rest and left only Paik. Leaving only the human input time-- condensing the tape and expanding the Paik. Expanding his time...

ref : F5081
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

Night Walk
7mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Fabienne Gautier

An improvised wlk through Paris at night.

ref : F5082

Nos Métamorphoses
4mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Samuel Allard

Interior life and meditations of a creature of synthetic resin anthropomorphic.

ref : F5083
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

On the Horns of a delimma !
17mn27   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Thomas Lewis

"On the Horns of a dilemna !" (2005) documents a spontaneous effort to save the life of a cow stranded in the desert of the American West. Fighting against nature taking its course, the filmmaker risks muddy shoes and stinky clothes, not to mention a moral quandary, in his daring attempt to extricat a helpless animal from a very sticky situation.

ref : F5084

Para matar el tiempo
1mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Anthony Rousseau

Here is played during a ballet, mixed violence and beauty, the life and death...

ref : F5085
[ selection 2006 / pr. time ]

Paris, une réalité inachevée
9mn   color   stereo   2005   France
by Didier Feldmann

"Paris, an unfinished reality" is a surrealist trip in Paris, made of 180 animated paintings mixing « motion graphic » and real shooting, where the subway is a symbolic and esthetically link between these 180 animated paintings. The track of the American rock progressive band "Turing Machine" gives an “melodic architecture” where pictures can develop meanings and feelings. This 9mns video needed 45 day to be achieved on September 2005.

ref : F5086
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Passer l'anneau
11mn   color   stereo   2005   Belgium
by Gaël Bentein

For the hugiest plaiser of sense, this extract of a young teacher's movie diary tell the few monthes before his mariage. With romantic- political expectation, in a panting rythm, speckled by destroying colours, the film rewritte the reel in a pure love way. It express the anguish of the futur by a declining sustance.

ref : F5087
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Pendulum
6mn10   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Jon Shumway

Our lives often seem to be governed, or at least influenced, by oppositional or dichotomous structures. On many levels, we shift between different and oppositional states of being - physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, socially, politically, economically, etc. Pendulum is an exploration of cyclical, back-and-forth movements. This work establishes patterns and relationships through repeated, densely layered actions. Pendulum builds to a cacophony of sight and sound that hints at the metaphorical qualities of such patterned movements.

ref : F5088

Politics of Time
11mn25   color   stereo   2006   USA
by John Davis

This video confronts the expectations we often bring to bear as viewers saturated in a fast-paced media centric world. Three distinct characters provide a meditation on time as witnessed in nature, challenging expectations, while simultaneously offering an antidote to the desire for immediate gratification. A shrewd soundtrack enlivens things, easing the viewer into an alternative pace that yields its own idiosyncratic fruit.

ref : F5089

Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto
7mn   color   stereo   2005   Spain
by Iraida Lombardia

These appropriated images of the real protagonists past, which have been embalmed for more than two decades in a home video, are again transgressed when they are blurred by a shapeless mass of paint that, like present time does, pours and covers what once could have been.

ref : F5090
[ selection 2006 / pr. space ]

Pyre
7mn45   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Flame Schon

An hallucination of the fiery passage through death.

ref : F5091

Quasi-Objects/Cinematic N.04
3mn43   color   stereo   2005   Italy
by Lorenzo Oggiano

A practice of organic re-design that aims to stimulate thought and dialogue about the progressive relativisation of natural forms of life as a result of techno-biological evolution. The "Quasi-Objects" cycle, initiated in 2003 and still in progress, is composed of photographic and videographic materials generated with the assistance of 3D modeling, animation and rendering software. "Cinematic n.04" (2005) is the third video of the cycle.

ref : F6092
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Quest for Oblivion
3mn   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Luke Lamborn

To produce this video, images of clouds were projected directly onto a passing train at night. The clouds were originally shot with a digital camera as a time-lapsed sequence. Different cloud sequences were merged together in after-Effects and then panned to create the final sequence of a sky appearing to move through time and space. This final sequence was projectd onto a train so that each car displays a separate still image that changs from one car to the next. In this way the train functions as a slowly passing filmstrip. Quest is about entering into two distinct visual experiences: the passing of clouds and the passing of trains. Both occupy a space that is vast, constant, and beyond reach.

ref : F6093

Recycle
5mn19   color   mono   2005   France
by Houssam Harfouche

A lamb leaves the stable and takes the path indicated by the man.

ref : F6094

Réminiscences d'ancien monde
25mn   color   sil   2004   France
by Dominik Lange

Navigation is stormy on the mossy surfaces of coloured lichens carpeting ancient temples and forgotten monuments : it's a romantic stroll to the archaeologic origins of this earthly world, drawing on the resources of fossilised memory, printed by subtle stigmata retracing a lost environment, it's fauna and flora aquatic, from the times when the ocean covered this part of the world.

ref : F6095

Roppongi Blues
2mn30   color   stereo   2005   Netherlands
by Marina Chernikova

A nocturnal tour around Mori Tower in Tokyo. The impressive constructions of the day dissolve in the lights of the night. A garden of glass and steel turns into a garden of lights and reflections. Trip to the “other side” of the lights. The visual structure allows the viewer to see images as if he was looking through a moving kaleidoscopical crystal glass.

ref : F6096
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

rosée nocturne
7mn   b/w   stereo   2006   France
by Jean-Paul Noguès

On a scorching summer night, a quiet female sleep enchanted by the earth and flesh matrix fluids.

ref : F6097
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Rouge
4mn15   color   stereo   2005   France
by Brigitte Perroto

The RGB images open the dark wall as light gives the world its colours. Our body is projected, unseen being, in all that we perceive. The world is grey and silent. Eyes and ears invent sounds and colours. Bertrand Russell.

ref : F6098
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

Schätzungsraum - esn.1
9mn   color   stereo   2005   Italy
by Alessandro Brucini

"Schätzungsraum" takes inspiration from industrial buildings no longer used for years and that have broken down just a little after the shots (which were taken in less than an hour and made without a real use thought). A no more existing place : in such a no-space takes form a personal “valuation-space” (literal translation of the German title, a psycho-analysis derived word). A measure valuation a time broken up material (cement, iron, glass), in relation to free wanderings on electronic colour.

ref : F6099

Sensing the world by echo
17mn30   color   stereo   2006   USA
by Mark Taylor

"Sensing the World by Echo" is a "Frankenstein’s monster" of a movie stitched together with parts robbed from the B-movie graveyard of horror and sci-fi films. A colorful, animated paper collage, the film is assembled from scraps of 1950s and '60s children's books, home and how-to manuals, science texts and encyclopedias. "Sensing the World by Echo" tells an unconventional narrative about growing up feeling like an alien from outer space and of finding one’s place in a mad, mad world.

ref : F6100

Seven Scenes for Seven Brothers
13mn14   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Kara Hearn

The video is made up of a series of seven scene reenactments from mainstream movies chosen for their combination of emotional drama and masculine heroism. I shot them simply in my apartment completely alone playing all the parts with whatever props and costumes were on hand. The result is an obsessive examination of gender identity, heroism, cultural expression, and the silly but powerful mythology of mainstream cinema.

ref : F6101
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

Sigh
8mn   color & b/w   stereo   2005   USA
by Ann Steuernagel

"Sigh" is composed from found 16mm footage and a variety of audio sources including short wave radio signals, birdcalls, the hum of insects and white noise. "Sigh" presents a theme and variations on the general idea of communication and juxtaposes our often-futile utilization of advanced audio technology with the simple act of listening.

ref : F6102
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

Silt
4mn26   color   stereo   2006   Norway
by Eva Drangsholt

"Silt" is a short musical film about hopes, despair, and ego.

ref : F6103

sin sin’s Book of the Dead
1mn39   color & b/w   stereo   2006   Netherlands
by Fat Controller

A film without camera. What you see : many Irish newspaper commemorate the dead by publishing details of the deceased abd their passing along with a prayer for the soul of the departed and a photo. What you hear : the Angelus is a familiar punctuaution to the day in Ireland. Three hundred and sixty five days a year, at noon and at six pm, bells in church steeples ring out the invocation to prayer. national TV and radio stations also pause for prayer at these times and include the Angelus in their daily schedule.

ref : F6104

SNAP
4mn16   color   stereo   2005   United Kingdom
by Philip Newcombe

Performed suddenly with a snap or the sound of a snap (from the series : "Demonstrations").

ref : F6105

Spiritueux, acides et sirupeux
7mn   color   sil   2004   France
by Dominik Lange

Unsual stroll takes the viewer in a furious whirl of colors and forms, at the bend of a lost path in an industrial wasteland, among tagged walls, dead car on its axle, huge broken windows of Paris’ warehouses… and a little touch of pyschedelic…

ref : F6106

Spring Rite
5mn21   color   sil   2006   Turkey
by Sinasi Günes

In this video are introduced pictures of machines of a plant of textile industry. The rhythmic job of machines is transformed into a musical aesthetics and recalls "The Consecration of Spring" of Stravinsky.

ref : F6107

Stumble
3mn52   color   sil   2006   Portugal
by Jonathan Franco

Fragment by fragment an image is revealed: two children sitting in a mysterious garden laugh when the photographer stumbles. The camera shakes and a picture is taken at that exact moment.

ref : F6108
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

SYNC
1mn37   color   stereo   2005   Netherlands
by Frans Van Lent

The work "Sync" is a video of a short walk with two videocamera’s. The camera’s are kept in both hands. The image is no longer a substitution of a eye, but a mechanical extension of the moving arms.

ref : F6109

The Chiasm
8mn50   color   sil   2006   USA
by Dana Anderson

"The Chiasm" is a work of visual music, with hand-painted sixteen millimeter film layered into a score and treated as a visual fugue in 3D.

ref : F6110

The Dream
1mn   color   sil   2004   USA
by Jeremy Newman

A sleeping vision becomes abstract narrative. Patterns of light and variations in pacing suggest an evolution in perception.

ref : F6111

The Girl-Helicopter
1mn   color   stereo   2004   Russia
by Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov

The girl has long and beautiful hair. In order to dry it quicker she turns her head from side to side. The moving of hair vertically and horizontally looks like a helicopter.

ref : F6112
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

The Job
2mn35   color & b/w   stereo   2005   USA
by Jamie Mirabella

"The Job" is an experimental video composed of footage from Hollywood blockbusters. Various female characters (all played by the same actress) interact as they think about their roles in the workplace.

ref : F6113
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

The Seen and Unseen
7mn   color   sil   2004   USA
by Paul Gabel

This video surveillance of a cast shadow, seen advancing along the face of a window, is directed toward the ocular phenomena clarified in Merleau-Ponty’s work. As the centered window frame marks the window scree into sections, they are also perceived by us as "anchored" objects. Part of a larger unfolding, these anchors and points of reference are amongst a series of other elements that comprise this perspective. Some, althought out of sight (such as the shadow-producing sun) are nevertheless present before the viewer’s eye (i.e. the specter of the tree).

ref : F6114

The Slippery Mountain
8mn30   color   stereo   2005   Russia
by Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov

The youth of the modern society are geographically remote from the military operations that take place one the world’s periphery. But they are trying to simulate such psychologically extreme situations. In film a group of extremity-minded people are explicitly imitating a collective execution by a firing squad in a mountain. The sight of the extreme performance will remind a curious spectator of the horror of the formely endured nightmare, in which the spectator had to climb up and roll down a steep slope, as well as the punishment of mythic Sisyphus. The modern extreme games of youth are the very potentially useful work the outputs of which are useless in the framework of the existing society, and the work itself is endless. But as Camus believed, a struggle to reach the top is sufficient to fill one heart with hope.

ref : F6115
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

The Train to Heaven
7mn06   color   mono   2006   India
by Yousuf Saeed

Deriving from the images and sounds of the contemporary Muslim culture of India, this short film celebrates the spirit of popular faith and its expression by the faithful. Using the allegory of a train journey, the song and the images from devotional posters weave a tapestry of the popular Indian Islam and its folklore. Among the most vibrant examples of popular visual art found in Indian towns and villages are the religious posters and calendars depicting deities, saints, and places of worship, sold at shops or roadside stalls near religious shrines, and adorned at walls inside homes, shops, or in worship-corners. The modern printing press and the mass production industry have transformed this art form into a full-fledged mass culture, characterized by its own popular aesthetics, the depiction of the folklore, and the marketing devices.

ref : F7116
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Totalité Remix
6mn49   color & b/w   stereo   2005   France
by Johanna Vaude

"Totalité remix" has been shot one image after another, based on already existing images, paintings, photos : Vésale’s “the écorchés”, drawings by Agipa de Nettesheim and Leonardo da Vinci, photos by Muybridge, Marey, Londe, architectural plans... These still images are knocked together to give the movement, rhythm and echo necessary to refer to these times where Man has tried to find through research, science, philosophy and art the concept and sentiment of Totality. The editing image by image allows us to explain the connections that link each image, their contents and their symbols. Like a synthesis, through the prism of Totality, the film shows all these questions and researches about Man and his world.

ref : F7117
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

Trains
4mn10   color   stereo   2006   France
by Sébastien Tarot

"Trains" is a video that is part of a future installation (July 2006). Trains which pass, parade, ring out. Through the window of my workshop / common room I film each passing of the train of the day.

ref : F7118

Transition
10mn39   color & b/w   stereo   2006   France
by Antoine Miserey

It's an essay on the swing in lives of people like an indelible punctuation.

ref : F7119

treeGreen
5mn   color   stereo   2006   Italy
by Alessandro Brucini

The work is based on the main video of the installation Verde e Cemento, which was exhibited for the first time in Salermo in December 2005, in which architectural projects (from Polytechnic of Milano), designed with the aim of integration in a natural landscape, were presented. The tree in the wind interprets the movement of the soundtrack, which is constructed around the meeting of city noises and sounds in nature.

ref : F7120

Variations
10mn40   color   stereo   2004   Colombia
by Inés Wickmann

A meditation on shadow and light, on shapes and their movement, based on an observation of architectural spaces, sites and elements.

ref : F7121
[ selection 2006 / pr. time ]

Very small living things
8mn17   color & b/w   stereo   2006   Portugal
by Jonathan Franco

A man talks about the changes in his life after being infected with a venereal disease. The disillusion of intimacy, skin manifestations and social intolerance. It’s a film about exclusion by denial of the body.

ref : F7122

Video
1mn06   color   stereo   2004   United Kingdom
by Alison BALLARD

A (very) short experimental animation inspired by early 'absolute' films. Abstract and intangible with a low-fi approach to a hi-tech medium, "Video" focuses on the relationship between image and sound, each influencing the creation and development of the other.

ref : F7123
[ selection 2006 / pr. movement ]

View From Above
2mn11   color & b/w   mono   2005   USA
by Dan Nadaner

"View From Above" is a meditation on seeing as it is mediated through digital video. A moving image of a beach is seen, and then seen again several times to take a closer look at the gestures and visual formations of individuals within the scene. As the close-ups become more extreme, the nature of the video medium and its digital structure become more extreme, the nature of the video medium and its digital structure becomes an actor...

ref : F7124
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

We Are All Bored
1mn55   color   stereo   2006   Norway
by Eva Drangsholt

"We Are All Bored" illustrates in a brutal way that in an alienated world, we all do what’s necessary to amuse ourselves.

ref : F7125

Wet table
1mn15   color & b/w   stereo   2005   Russia
by Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov

Dark room. One table there is a decanter with water. Unexpectedly the decanter falls. There can be it the Flood.

ref : F7126
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]

When I let go
6mn   color   stereo   2006   Portugal
by Jonathan Franco

A child walks thru a garden and seems to vanish into the ever dominant nature that surrounds her.

ref : F7127
[ selection 2006 / pr. perception ]

Yellow
6mn35   color   stereo   2005   USA
by Rini Yun Keagy

This film is a dream that, unlike most dreams, occurs in the confines of a single space -a swimming pool- somewhere in history, memory, or imagination. In a series of vignettes, women and men emerge in parade or as unconscious automatons. They view, sense or speak to one another throught subconscious mechanisms, and they disappear and reapper as interchangeable entities.

ref : F7128
[ selection 2006 / pr. identity ]

Young Lions
6mn38   color   stereo   2006   Norway
by Eva Drangsholt

"Young Lions" is a dramatization of the Black Metal musician Varg Vikernes‚ description of the murder that he in 1993 was sentenced to 21 one years in prison for committing. The film is an attempt to break with the often explanative visual presentations of narrative films. In "Young Lions" traditional re-enactments have been replaced by exterior shots of a block of flats where the murder could have taken place, intermixed with filmic details intended to portray the experiences of the victim as the assassination progressed.

ref : F7129
[ selection 2006 / pr. sense ]