Season I
NIRMAN CHOWDHURY - THE TYPEWRITER'S DEATH
[INDIA 2020]
The short experimental film explores the slow death of the typewriter in the city of Bombay through three viewpoints with only a thin thread of narrative sequence. A typist from the streets waits for a customer all day, a repairman waits for a typewriter, while the typewriter in a classroom waits for a typist.
[INDIA 2020]
The short experimental film explores the slow death of the typewriter in the city of Bombay through three viewpoints with only a thin thread of narrative sequence. A typist from the streets waits for a customer all day, a repairman waits for a typewriter, while the typewriter in a classroom waits for a typist.
[03:03]
IGOR FURTADO - THERE'S NO SIN TO THE SOUTH OF ECUADOR
[BRAZIL 2019]
The film presents the encounter of two young Christians during the festivities of Círio de Nazaré in Belém do Pará, the largest catholic procession in Latin America. The intention was to try to displace and question the idea of sacrifice, which etymologically means sacred work and is perpetuated as a purifying act. In addition, we think about how the construction of hegemonic masculinity is not intrinsically linked to a colonizing inheritance.
[BRAZIL 2019]
The film presents the encounter of two young Christians during the festivities of Círio de Nazaré in Belém do Pará, the largest catholic procession in Latin America. The intention was to try to displace and question the idea of sacrifice, which etymologically means sacred work and is perpetuated as a purifying act. In addition, we think about how the construction of hegemonic masculinity is not intrinsically linked to a colonizing inheritance.
[6:30]
OSTIN FAM – ESCAPE
[VIETNAM 2016]
A geisha sets up a drinking game as way of seeking for her own freedom.
ostinfam
[VIETNAM 2016]
A geisha sets up a drinking game as way of seeking for her own freedom.
ostinfam
ANDREW PAYNE - CLOUDS AND SHADOWS
[UK 2019]
This silent film is a combination of two time-lapse film shots. The movement of the clouds in the image of landscape on the left affects the movement of the shadows on the wall in the right hand image.
andrewpayne.org.uk
[UK 2019]
This silent film is a combination of two time-lapse film shots. The movement of the clouds in the image of landscape on the left affects the movement of the shadows on the wall in the right hand image.
andrewpayne.org.uk
BILL BROWN – XCTRY
[USA 2018]
A pocket-sized travelogue about leaving one hometown and looking for the next one. In this film, Brown re-works 16mm footage that he shot years ago during a cross-country road trip from Chicago to Las Vegas.
heybillbrown.com
[USA 2018]
A pocket-sized travelogue about leaving one hometown and looking for the next one. In this film, Brown re-works 16mm footage that he shot years ago during a cross-country road trip from Chicago to Las Vegas.
heybillbrown.com
KÉVIN GOURVELLEC - GIG
[CANADA 2019]
Abstract animation on the Pierre Bastien’s music.
jeanlouislova.com
[CANADA 2019]
Abstract animation on the Pierre Bastien’s music.
jeanlouislova.com
ABDOUL-GANIOU DERMANI - EGA (MONEY)
[WEST AFRICA 2019]
The video „ Ega“ is about money.
Money plays a central role in our daily lives, it has the power to change human life.
People work hard to earn money and want more and more money. By money, we can do whatever we want, also, whenever and wherever.
Money can build and destroy.
ganioudermani.jimdo.com
artfacts.net
[WEST AFRICA 2019]
The video „ Ega“ is about money.
Money plays a central role in our daily lives, it has the power to change human life.
People work hard to earn money and want more and more money. By money, we can do whatever we want, also, whenever and wherever.
Money can build and destroy.
ganioudermani.jimdo.com
artfacts.net
MORGEN CHRISTIE - FAULT LINE
[USA 2019]
FAULT LINE, is a combination of two videos. The videos started out the same, but then were edited differently...more contrast, more saturation, different hue. They were then put together with one right side up and the other upside down. The portion that overlaps creates this illuminated line, this is the fault line.
morgenchristie.com
[USA 2019]
FAULT LINE, is a combination of two videos. The videos started out the same, but then were edited differently...more contrast, more saturation, different hue. They were then put together with one right side up and the other upside down. The portion that overlaps creates this illuminated line, this is the fault line.
morgenchristie.com
[01:13]
JUYI MAO - IN THE MARKET
[CHINA 2019]
1 . In the market, we assume that people are economic animals.
2. This experimental film composed of 35mm photographs, monologue, and sound art. A two-act piece, the video moves from poetic rumination both visually and sonically to a quotation of Karl Marx to a long list of names of shops as the sound breaks down and moves towards music.
maojuyi.com
[CHINA 2019]
1 . In the market, we assume that people are economic animals.
2. This experimental film composed of 35mm photographs, monologue, and sound art. A two-act piece, the video moves from poetic rumination both visually and sonically to a quotation of Karl Marx to a long list of names of shops as the sound breaks down and moves towards music.
maojuyi.com
KATHERINE BALSLEY - COSMOS OBSCURA
[USA 2019]
In Cosmos Obscura, the universe is at once known and unknowable. New patterns, rhythms and metaphors are born from old ones, and familiar celestial bodies are refracted into strange and unusual forms.
katebalsley.com
[USA 2019]
In Cosmos Obscura, the universe is at once known and unknowable. New patterns, rhythms and metaphors are born from old ones, and familiar celestial bodies are refracted into strange and unusual forms.
katebalsley.com
HOGAN SEIDEL & AMANDA JUSTICE - LET'S LOOK AT FLORIDA
[USA 2018]
Let’s Look at Florida shows the state’s history and present simultaneously. Floridians are trying to claim land that isn’t theirs: by draining and developing it, hunting it and settling it. Despite all of the inhabitants’ best efforts – the land continues to swallow its own history.
[USA 2018]
Let’s Look at Florida shows the state’s history and present simultaneously. Floridians are trying to claim land that isn’t theirs: by draining and developing it, hunting it and settling it. Despite all of the inhabitants’ best efforts – the land continues to swallow its own history.
[05:04]
CHARLOTTE CLERMONT & JULIEN CHAMPAGNE - YOU'RE A PLANT WHISPERER AND FOR ME, IT'S ENOUGH
[CANADA 2019]
Collab. with Julien Champagne
charlotteclermont.com
[CANADA 2019]
Collab. with Julien Champagne
charlotteclermont.com
[04:21]
RICK NIEBE - GRAFFITI
[ITALY 2018]
An abstract exploration of urban graffiti based on a musical improvistaion on txalaparta, an ancient basque instrument.
[ITALY 2018]
An abstract exploration of urban graffiti based on a musical improvistaion on txalaparta, an ancient basque instrument.
[01:00]
JONATHAN ONSUWAN JOHNSON - RIVER GHOSTS
[USA/THAILAND 2018]
In this experimental documentary, an unseen filmmaker uses unseen memories to follow traces of his deceased grandparents throughout urban and rural Thailand. Loosely following a travelogue-essay format, the search for identity is intertwined with the old and new history of rural and urban Thailand.
jonathanjohnson.net
[USA/THAILAND 2018]
In this experimental documentary, an unseen filmmaker uses unseen memories to follow traces of his deceased grandparents throughout urban and rural Thailand. Loosely following a travelogue-essay format, the search for identity is intertwined with the old and new history of rural and urban Thailand.
jonathanjohnson.net
VANESSA SCULLY - MAIL ORDER BRIDE 4.0
[AUSTRALIA 2018]
The life cycle of a Filipino mail order bride is explored through the analogy of a sex bot. Marisa 4.0 represents four decades of Filipino Mail Order Brides; domestic servitude in the guise of ‘true love’ exported to the ruling classes.
vanessascully.com
[AUSTRALIA 2018]
The life cycle of a Filipino mail order bride is explored through the analogy of a sex bot. Marisa 4.0 represents four decades of Filipino Mail Order Brides; domestic servitude in the guise of ‘true love’ exported to the ruling classes.
vanessascully.com
[09:14]
GLORIA CHUNG - IN MEDIAS RES
[USA 2017]
The state of now, post-singularity and post-collision of technology and nature.
This work is from “Into the Midst of Things”, a series of 1- to 2-minute video vignettes portraying landscapes of human life existentially altered by technological advancements, and questioning whether such landscapes are in the future or already upon us.
https://www.gloriachung.com
[USA 2017]
The state of now, post-singularity and post-collision of technology and nature.
This work is from “Into the Midst of Things”, a series of 1- to 2-minute video vignettes portraying landscapes of human life existentially altered by technological advancements, and questioning whether such landscapes are in the future or already upon us.
https://www.gloriachung.com
[01:05]
JIAYI CHEN & CAMERON WORDEN - SHEEBOP! SHEBOPP! SHEEBOPP!
[CHINA 2018]
An edited-in-camera, hand-processed Super 8 film. Part of an on-going experimental home movie series.
jiayichen.info
vimeo.com/cameronworden
[CHINA 2018]
An edited-in-camera, hand-processed Super 8 film. Part of an on-going experimental home movie series.
jiayichen.info
vimeo.com/cameronworden
SARA BONAVENTURA - STAKRA
[SINGAPORE 2014]
It’s a mystical and hallucinatory journey of a resilient subject, not yet completely seduced by the machines; entangled in their challenging system, but radiating dynamism while struggling for self determination.Getting lost, falling apart, splitting, vanishing and resetting. Finding balance in between.
The performer is Annamaria Ajmone.
Soundtrack by Von Tesla
s-a-r-a-h.it
@bonaventurasara
[SINGAPORE 2014]
It’s a mystical and hallucinatory journey of a resilient subject, not yet completely seduced by the machines; entangled in their challenging system, but radiating dynamism while struggling for self determination.Getting lost, falling apart, splitting, vanishing and resetting. Finding balance in between.
The performer is Annamaria Ajmone.
Soundtrack by Von Tesla
s-a-r-a-h.it
@bonaventurasara
CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON - BIG THINGS HAVE SMALL BEGINNINGS
[USA 2018]
A mother recalls stories from the artist’s youth as her account is contradicted by the artist’s own mythologized narrative of life, death, and rebirth post Y2K.
christopherthompson.biz
[USA 2018]
A mother recalls stories from the artist’s youth as her account is contradicted by the artist’s own mythologized narrative of life, death, and rebirth post Y2K.
christopherthompson.biz
[03:36]
MASHA VLASOVA - CHEKHOV'S MASHA'S MASHA
[RUSSIA 2015]
“In ‘Chekhov’s Masha’s Masha’ I read a short monologue by a character named Masha, in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull. The play is about actors, writers, theater, the torments of the creative process. It is a play imported from and therefore about Russia. I take up Masha’s monologue as a found text, interpreting it as a Russian, an American, an actress, a director, and a Masha.”
mashavlasova.info
[RUSSIA 2015]
“In ‘Chekhov’s Masha’s Masha’ I read a short monologue by a character named Masha, in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull. The play is about actors, writers, theater, the torments of the creative process. It is a play imported from and therefore about Russia. I take up Masha’s monologue as a found text, interpreting it as a Russian, an American, an actress, a director, and a Masha.”
mashavlasova.info
[02:57]
LAUREL BECKMAN - MOON (FOR ALAN)
[USA 2020]
Alan Turing was a British mathematician, computer scientist, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and gay icon. Turing was a pioneer of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. The Turing Test is a parody of human and machine outputs. He turned to understanding, through computing, ofbiological patterns in nature, followed by his criminal conviction of homosexuality, which resulted in court mandated chemical castration and eventual suicide. Through A.I. The ongoing negotiation of what it means to be human highlightsdesire and will as precarious tethers to humans from machines on all spectrums.
laurelbeckman.com
[USA 2020]
Alan Turing was a British mathematician, computer scientist, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and gay icon. Turing was a pioneer of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. The Turing Test is a parody of human and machine outputs. He turned to understanding, through computing, ofbiological patterns in nature, followed by his criminal conviction of homosexuality, which resulted in court mandated chemical castration and eventual suicide. Through A.I. The ongoing negotiation of what it means to be human highlightsdesire and will as precarious tethers to humans from machines on all spectrums.
laurelbeckman.com
SHON KIM - BOOKANIMA: DANCE
[SOUTH KOREA 2019]
<BOOKANIMA: Dance> creates experimental locomotion of Dance along with its stream:
Ballet-Korean Dance-Modern Dance-Jazz Dance-Aerial Silk-Tap Dance-Aerobic-Disco-Break dance-Hip Hop-Social Dance.
shonkim.com
[SOUTH KOREA 2019]
<BOOKANIMA: Dance> creates experimental locomotion of Dance along with its stream:
Ballet-Korean Dance-Modern Dance-Jazz Dance-Aerial Silk-Tap Dance-Aerobic-Disco-Break dance-Hip Hop-Social Dance.
shonkim.com
[07:31]
GREGOR GEORGE – RECIPROCITY
[SCOTLAND 2019]
Experimental video exploring the synthesis of audio and video signals.Both digital and physical manipulations were used in the process, this lead to a generative feedback of signals in which the visual output of the video file denoted the audio output.
GREGORonetwo
[SCOTLAND 2019]
Experimental video exploring the synthesis of audio and video signals.Both digital and physical manipulations were used in the process, this lead to a generative feedback of signals in which the visual output of the video file denoted the audio output.
GREGORonetwo
MAI PHUONG - MVV
[VIETNAM 2019]
[VIETNAM 2019]
[04:00]
DAT VU - MUTED CONVERSATIONS
[VIETNAM 2017]
Muted Conversations explore the spirituality and superstitions surrounding rituals in Vietnam, including both staged and candid images taken during my extensive travels across the country. These images reveal how Vietnamese people, across diverse regions, perform rites and rituals in sacred spaces and in daily life; these photographs hint at the subliminal differences between rural and urban life; between public and private space; between understanding myself as observers, voyeurs or provocateurs. 'Muted Conversations' aims to address the significance of traditional cultural practices as Vietnam rapidly transitions into a new era. How do people adapt and incorporate these practices into different aspects of their life? What is their understanding towards the different systems of beliefs and values that overlap with one another? And where do we find our identity in this flux of historical legacies and contemporary movements? While these questions refer to a collective mindset, the observations stay within my personal context.
datvu.format.com
[VIETNAM 2017]
Muted Conversations explore the spirituality and superstitions surrounding rituals in Vietnam, including both staged and candid images taken during my extensive travels across the country. These images reveal how Vietnamese people, across diverse regions, perform rites and rituals in sacred spaces and in daily life; these photographs hint at the subliminal differences between rural and urban life; between public and private space; between understanding myself as observers, voyeurs or provocateurs. 'Muted Conversations' aims to address the significance of traditional cultural practices as Vietnam rapidly transitions into a new era. How do people adapt and incorporate these practices into different aspects of their life? What is their understanding towards the different systems of beliefs and values that overlap with one another? And where do we find our identity in this flux of historical legacies and contemporary movements? While these questions refer to a collective mindset, the observations stay within my personal context.
datvu.format.com
[02:33]
HEIDI E COOPER – ACCIDENT/TAI NẠN
[USA 2019]
Experimental documentary reflecting on an accident and recovery in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
heiecoo.xyz
[USA 2019]
Experimental documentary reflecting on an accident and recovery in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
heiecoo.xyz
ADAM REINES & MARE SCANG - HOW TO PRONOUNCE MILK
[USA 2019]
A severely greasy and physically irritated man tells you all about his deeply rooted addiction to milk. Horrible sounds, quirky music, horrific living conditions, and uncanny-valley comedy.
IsThisArtStudios
[USA 2019]
A severely greasy and physically irritated man tells you all about his deeply rooted addiction to milk. Horrible sounds, quirky music, horrific living conditions, and uncanny-valley comedy.
IsThisArtStudios