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SELECTION 2009
Lices - between July 8 and July 11

           
selection 2009 / title :::: 71 films, 64 authors, 23 countries Argentina/ Belgium/ Brazil/ Canada/ China/ Croatia/ Finland/ France/ Germany/ India/ Israel/ Italy/ Mozambique/ Netherlands/ Republic of Ireland/ Slovakia/ South Korea/ Spain/ Sweden/ Taiwan/ Turkey/ United Kingdom/ USA/

sadescription ...niland 1
13mn11   color   stéréo   2009   Spain
by Marius Leneweit & Rocio Rodriguez
"...niland 1" builds new landscapes on the sea, the center of which is the breathing between water and tornades currents, a fight for air being interrupted by a mere decline of the water level, allowing the shining of the water surface line. "...niland" tells unreasonably through pictures, lets us imagine events, persists on searching and remains uncertain. "...niland" is built on the separating line of both water and air being symbolically related to the emotions and common sense; a diffuse fleeting glance of a interline that we cross through from side to side.
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sadescription A PuFf of WiNd
10mn25   color   stéréo   2007   China
by Zhou Hongxiang
The truth floats from the sky,and the fallacy also floats from the sky. I don’t know this world, but the time lets me understand—a puff of wind.
production : 910 image Studeo
distribution : 910 image Studeo
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sadescription Ah larmes !
1mn30   b/w   stéréo   2009   France
by Yves-Marie Mahé
Tomorrow will be fine.
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sadescription Alice in Wonderland
3mn09   b/w   stéréo   2007   France
by Yoko Fukushima
In a forest, a young lady dressed in white walks with the bandaged eyes. She is blindness looking for her direction, every movement opens on a confrontation. 'Now' is considered as a continuity of a fragment of time and of the unknown space with the question of a notion of freedom.
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sadescription Au fur que tu perdras la vue
9mn20   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Philippe Rouy
A split screen : a staircase landing seen from an eyepiece and rabbit corpses going adrift. Between the two images, a blind spot.
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sadescription Back to the Humanity
4mn   b/w   stéréo   2007   Finland
by Seppo Renvall
"Back to the Humanity" is a video about industrialisation, the all-mighty power of the machines and the destructivity which can't be separated from them. We see car crashes, bullets shots etc. in extremely slow motion, with Zape Leppänens music, based on the sounds of steam engines. Images are originally shot by the inventor Harri Vanhala with the special camera that can shoot 10 000 frames/sec.
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distribution : Fixc Coop
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sadescription badaboom #1
0mn56   color   stéréo   2009   USA
by Chantal Romani
BADABOOM – a video triology.... October 2008 at wallstreet in new york - dropping prices and it’s affiliated system falls - deeper - faster - and ever more...
production : chroma7
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sadescription badaboom #2
0mn54   color   stéréo   2009   USA
by Chantal Romani
BADABOOM – a video triology.... october 2008 at wallstreet in new york - dropping prices and it’s affiliated system falls - deeper - faster - and ever more...
production : chroma7
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sadescription badaboom #3
0mn59   color   stéréo   2009   USA
by Chantal Romani
BADABOOM – a video triology.... october 2008 at wallstreet in new york - dropping prices and it’s affiliated system falls - deeper - faster - and ever more...
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sadescription Bingo
2mn37   color   stéréo   2007   Republic of Ireland
by Michael Fortune
"Bingo" documents the social event of a "Drive-in Bingo" which is held in rural Co. Wexford, Ireland. The “Drive-in Bingo” developed after the introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland as it allows participants to partake in the game whilst smoking in their car.
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sadescription Burning Phantom
1mn   color   stéréo   2009   Germany
by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Love is a burning phantom - it appears unexpectedly and is vanishing without any warning.
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sadescription Chinese Wedding Dancer
14mn50   color   stéréo   2008   USA
by Neil Needleman
A lyrically rhythmic joy ride with constantly changing graceful patterns, concocted using video footage shot at my son’s wedding in China. Through editing, I’ve imposed new patterns and pulsating bursts of movement on a “folk” dance performed by an entertainer at the event.
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sadescription Dans le village
5mn30   color & b/w   stéréo   2009   France
by Laurence Rebouillon & Patricia Godal
Love trip and some coachs.
production : Les Productions Aléatoires SARL
distribution : Les Productions Aléatoires SARL
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sadescription Daughter of Dada Meets the Oracle
5mn08   color   stéréo   2009   USA
by Flame Schon
"Daughter of Dada" in her tiger mask arrives in the big city in her Volkswagen convertible and rides on a bus to meet the oracle, poet Ira Cohen, who, wearing a feather mask, recites a poem. This is an episode in a projected featurette to be made in installments.
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sadescription Dejected
1mn15   color   stéréo   2008   Sweden
by Anders Weberg
Sad and depressed; ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the sense [overthrow, abase, degrade] ): from Latin deject- 'thrown down,' from the verb deicere, from de- 'down’ + jacere 'to throw.' Oxford American Dictionary
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sadescription Dust in the River
8mn55   color   stéréo   2008   Taiwan
by Yu Chang Yu
Living in the border area of urban, everyone is like the dust of marsh. We flow together with stagnated water and become the muddy stream. My sentiment, my mood, my anxious and any fluid from my body inside all also flow into the space and time of the muddy stream, can’t stop stirring unceasingly...
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sadescription eau libre
2mn46   color & b/w   stéréo   2009   USA
by Dan Nadaner
In search of the Real, at the moment of greatest exertion. The half-heard sounds, the flashes of memory. Not knowing whether you are going forward or back. The momentary sense of being in a flow that connect many times and places.
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sadescription Eleison
18mn46   color   stéréo   2009   Belgium
by Gaël Bentein
Joseph don't want to be shooted anymore. Is it end of world?
production : Youpie-Youplala
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sadescription Excerpt
4mn35   color   stéréo   2008   Israel
by Guli Silberstein
An excerpt from a flow of Internet video news - a family is hiding behind a wall in a neighborhood that turned into a war zone. The low-resolution video file is slowed down and transformed to a psychedelic landscape, emphasizing the documented horrifying situation, the particular reactions of each family member, and the unbearable barriers between viewer, image and reality.
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sadescription Exótica
5mn10   color   stéréo   2009   Mozambique
by Sérgio Cruz
"Exótica" is the result of a three-week artistic residence in Maputo (Mozambique) in March 2008. Amidst the research work of the residence, the intention was to explore and document some elements of African culture, through contacts with the local dance and music community.
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sadescription Fake
4mn06   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Marie Magescas
A video about pleasure, a sensual list of words mixed with bodies and a slightly modified musical classic.
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sadescription Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
13mn   color   mono   2009   USA
by Lynne Sachs
I began reading Virgil's "Georgics", a 1st Century epic agricultural poem, and knew immediately that I needed to create a visual equivalent about my own relationship to the place where I live, New York City. The film is culled from material I collected at Coney Island, the Lower East Side, Socrates Sculpture Garden in Queens, a Brooklyn community garden and a place on Staten Island that is so dark you can see the three moons of Jupiter. It is a homage to a place many people affectionately and mysteriously call the big apple.
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sadescription How to explain dancing to a bronze hare
1mn54   b/w   stéréo   2009   Sweden
by Antti Savela
This is a video about a man who is trying to explain dancing to a bronze hare.
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sadescription How Violent Her Charms, How Charming His Violence
4mn   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Samuel Bester
[If woman is made to please and to be subjected, she ought to make herself pleasing to man instead of provoking him.] ? (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762)
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sadescription Image de la plaine
2mn   b/w   stéréo   2009   Italy
by Michele Santini
Few times a week we used to go to visit my grandparents in an other village five kilometers south from where we lived. My grandparents were nice people, old farmers very friendly and hilarious. They were my mother's father and mother and even if she used to say that they did not treat her good when she was a kid I had nothing against them. They lived in an old house in the countryside with lots of animals. I remember that single day because while my mother was chatting with her mother and my grandfather was out, I sneaked into my uncle's room and by chance I found under his bed a porn magazine.
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sadescription Impatience
2mn20   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Christophe Guérin
"I just ordered a new dress from London… Ihope you don’t mind."
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sadescription Instants d'après
6mn37   color   stéréo   2007   France
by Muriel Montini
A woman emerges from the shadows in slow motion. While approaching ,we hear echoes of story . It might seem insignificant , but it’s the sort of stories that haunts your thoughts for the rest of your life.
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sadescription Kinder surprise
6mn   color   stéréo   2007   Brazil
by Erika Fraenkel
The video is about a promise and commerce, the void and the fulfilling, meaning the toy and the freebie fulfilling our central void, freebie as a surprise and mystery, the reality involved by the secret, fortune and reward. The ridicule and the sublime.
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sadescription La invasión
10mn   b/w   stéréo   2008   Spain
by Gonzalo De Pedro Amatria
They are coming.
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sadescription La trilogie d’Arno / partie 1 : Vosges
5mn   color   stéréo   2007   France
by Frank Beauvais
Arno and I met the first week of june 2006. One month later, we were walking in the forest near Eschbourg in Alsace.
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sadescription Le Bateau Blanc
7mn08   b/w   stéréo   2009   France
by Carole Thibaud
Le temps est passé et mon coeur est fermé. N'y jouent plus les chants de la fratrie humaine, n'y coulent plus les larmes d'amour, mon coeur reste fermé et n'y vivent que des chiens. (in french in the text)
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sadescription Le repas
2mn   b/w   stéréo   2008   Canada
by Anick St-Louis
"Le repas" is a short 16mm hand process film with a burlesque touch.
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sadescription Lickerish
1mn04   color   stéréo   2008   Slovakia
by Mirka Majorošová
The word "LICKERISH" has two meanings - fornication and sweet - tooth. Part of this word also means to lick. I am pointing of the world overloaded by erotic by adding the sound of smacking. The whole video is treating the world with irony.
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sadescription Lom/ Refraction
1mn   b/w   stéréo   2008   Slovakia
by Lukáš Matejka
Experimental social portrait old woman.
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sadescription Mamo/Mother
2mn30   color   stéréo   2008   Sweden
by Anders Weberg
Video and Sound by Anders Weberg. Filmed with mobile phone. ( Nokia N82 Black). Senses and memories of motherhood evoked by visiting Birkenau (Auschwitz II) in Poland July 2008.
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sadescription Migdal Aphek
6mn   color   stéréo   2008   Brazil
by Carlo Sansolo
Images of French singers that try to inspire the idea of innocence and tenderness, with glamorous images who try to represent this feelings. While this sort of video was produced the cold war was going wild with many localized conflicts, spying, developing atomic and nuclear weapons.
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sadescription Miraslava
7mn25   color & b/w   mono   2007   Canada
by Roberto Santaguida
A young man, his life in tatters, seeks redemption by fleeing the city.
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sadescription Mountain-water-painting
6mn02   color   stéréo   2009   Germany
by Christin Bolewski
Proceeding from Chinese thought and aesthetics the traditional concept of landscape painting "Shan-Shui-Hua" (mountain-water-painting) is recreated as modern video art. Challenging the Western preoccupation with narrative and distinct meaning the work contains no complex narration and attempts to be a meditative open art work.
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sadescription Naked
3mn22   color   stéréo   2008   Brazil
by Kika Nicolela
"NAKED" explores the sensual relation between body and city; the tension between intimacy and public, internal and external. The city lights writing over the naked skin.
production : Dilema Studio
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sadescription Nature Morte -Still Life
4mn30   b/w   stéréo   2007   Finland
by Juha Van Ingen
The silent actors of a natural history museum turn into a fluid and semi abstract flow of shapes and patterns. The preserved beasts are brought to life by the camera movements to perform an ambient dreamlike dance. The sound track comes from a world beyond the museum doors. The looped sentimental sound of a Bollywood B-film star creates a link to the modern world where emotions and moments are preserved on to film and hard disks.
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sadescription Neige
3mn16   color   stéréo   2007   France
by Agnès Quillet
I had this video material called white noise. The music by Alfred Schittke gave me a story. The film was born.
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sadescription New World Order
3mn   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Samuel Bester
Chaotic controled flow.
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sadescription Nobody’s Pet
7mn   color   dolby stéréo   2007   Turkey
by Aysegul Guryuksel
In the nature of nothingness, there are no rules, no causation and no limits. Except the minimal sustained oppositions of subconscious awareness.
production : Subvoid
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sadescription Noring
6mn46   color & b/w   stéréo   2007   France
by Philippe Brioude
A boxing match in a singular scenary. Gestures, glances, forms, traces, light... imaginary or real fight ?
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distribution : Light Cone
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sadescription Of Some Animals and their Movements in their Respective Habitats
6mn   b/w   stéréo   2007   Spain
by Toni Crabb
The film studies the movements of different animals in the spaces they inhabit – normally spaces shared with humans – in order to question how constructed habitat sets up, or is itself configured by, our relationships with others. A range of different habitats is exhibited, going from the cat in a domestic environment, to a caged zoo animal, to city pigeons.
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sadescription One Day on Mars
8mn   color   stéréo   2007   Germany
by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
A human being is obliged to spend at least one day in his lifetime on Mars. Mars the red desert planet, Mars the god of war. Mars can be anywhere, any place which is identified with the inhuman, violence, hate, rage, revenge and despair.
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sadescription Parental Guidance
1mn05   color   dolby stéréo   2008   United Kingdom
by Bill Balaskas
This edited found footage from the Middle East attempts to expose the reality of a region in which very few things would seem parental or being the products of true guidance.
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sadescription Postcard from Harbin
6mn   color   sil   2008   USA
by Neil Needleman
Scenes, surfaces, movement, light, and pulsations captured on video in Harbin, China. A dense, slowly morphing translucent curtain of visual counterpoint. Images dissolve on, live their brief life on the screen, and imperceptibly dissolve off, only to be replaced a new layer of imagery and sensations.
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sadescription Profanations
20mn   color & b/w   stéréo   2008   Spain
by Oriol Sanchez
"Profanations" is a three channel video work consisting of appropriation and reconstruction of images and sequences from films by Jules Marey, Pudovkin, Kirsanoff, Eisenstein, Romero, Halpern, Kulechov ... from which a series of micro-stories have been created. These stories have been organized according to Campanas De Luz ( Light Bells ), a music composition by Riera Robuste. "Profanations" emerges from an interest in exploring relationships between sound and image with narratives and abstraction, playing with the [dis]articulation found in film narratives; creating a rupture within narrative and representation.
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sadescription Radiate
2mn30   color   stéréo   2008   South Korea
by Jung-Chul Hur
“Radiate” is an abstract audio-visual short film of constantly changing colours, light, shapes, lines and sounds. It combines the radiation of visual elements and mechanic sounds to create a dynamic representation of the spectacle itself. Viewers will experience an intense sense of anticipation, tension, surprise or probably a kind of catharsis. The work explores how our eyes and ears respond to this non-narrative but purely abstract cinematic experience.
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sadescription Record of Labor
8mn21   color   stéréo   2007   Finland
by Mika J. Ripatti
A personal documentary about childbirth based on the official birth report and done with the method of combining structural narrative, diary film and strong soundscape.
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sadescription Scream in Fashion
0mn55   color   sil   2009   Croatia
by Karlo Vranjes
Still foto of bondage model, head between hands screaming. Color as main inspiration, atmosphere manipulation. Buried impressions from still photography reanimated with screaming model, frozen in time and space. Hypnotic and meditative.
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sadescription Seven kilometers from here
7mn45   color   stéréo   2008   Argentina
by Nicolás Testoni & Marcelo Díaz & Ricardo De Armas
"Seven kilometres from here" is an experimental portrait of Ingeniero White, a coastal town in the south of Argentina. In the last decades, this port has changed dramatically since a large petrochemical complex was built there. In this work we try to establish a connection between old domestic films, and industrial sounds recently recorded. Silent Super 8 movies, on one hand; digital hi-fi capture of engines roar and workers wishpers, on the other; and between them, the chance to process the audiovisual archive for a future memory.
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sadescription Shiny Things
5mn30   color & b/w   stéréo   2007   USA
by Salise Hughes
Manipulated recycled footage of a bank heist set to a reworking of Neil Young’s classic "Heart of Gold".
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sadescription slapstick social
15mn25   color   dolby stéréo   2008   France
by Frank Gatti
social slapstick
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sadescription Sleeping Flowers
1mn   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Yoko Fukushima
Kaleidoscope consisted by waste elements of our body forms intimately poetic motives, in evolving in the zone of visibility bounded by a light circle, as a symbol of the perpetual cycle of life. Feigning the phantasmagorical and spangled image like a dream, glorifying the rubbishes of our organic body.
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sadescription Speechless
13mn   color   stéréo   2008   USA
by Scott Stark
3D photographs of human vulvae are animated and interwoven with surfaces and textures from natural and human-made environments. The genital images were taken from a set of ViewMaster 3D reels that accompanied a textbook The Clitoris, published in 1976 by two medical professionals - Contains sexually explicit material; viewer discretion advised.
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sadescription The Age Of Enlightenment
2mn20   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Samuel Bester
Getting focused.
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sadescription The irrationality of the square root of two
4mn23   color   stéréo   2008   Brazil
by Henrique Roscoe
A symphony in four movements: meeting, dating, arguing and leaving.
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sadescription The Motions of Bodies
4mn   color & b/w   stéréo   2009   USA
by Ann Steuernagel
A found footage film inspired by Galileo’s experiments with gravity.
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sadescription Trailer Trash
5mn   color   stéréo   2009   USA
by Mark Street
A skewed take on film detritus: 35mm movie trailers rescued from the trash and affected by hand and digitally, holding up a funhouse mirror to the industry of expectations.
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sadescription Trash
1mn52   color   stéréo   2009   France
by Carole Thibaud
A film like a music part. Overexposed, diffuse, badly developed, trembling, full of pixel, but material, light, movement.
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sadescription travelers
2mn33   color & b/w   stéréo   2009   USA
by Dan Nadaner
To be in a place, but to be always in motion, to be passing by, to be drifting even in the stationary moment of sleep. The film explores the duality of presence and absence, feeling at home and feeling distant.
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sadescription Un jour j’ai décidé
6mn30   color   mono   2007   France
by Pauline Horovitz
The film remembers, through the standard clichés about education and food, a certain type of education associated with the upper-middle classe of the 50s-60s, and passed down from mother to daughter. And it draws a self-portrait as an alligator.
production : ENSAD
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sadescription Untitled War
1mn42   color & b/w   stéréo   2007   India
by Aditi Kulkarni
The experimental video is about the relation of space, time and individuality (human).
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sadescription Utopia Variations
5mn   color   stéréo   2008   USA
by Gregg Biermann
"Utopia Variations" is part of a series of video works that use the computational capacity of computers to transform iconic moments in works of classic Hollywood cinema. In this piece the "over the rainbow" sequence from The Wizard of Oz moves forward from the beginning and backwards from the end in half second intercuts. This gradually builds to a 25 voice split-screen canon in which each voice is slightly out of sync. The resulting matrix is mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic.
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sadescription Vers Oswiecim
30mn   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Bernard Cerf
This movie shows the sunny trip to Auschwitz camp as a simple tourist. It makes us think about tourism when it refers to such a symbolic and sensitive place.
production : Les Productions Aléatoires SARL
distribution : Les Productions Aléatoires SARL
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sadescription Visions of Wasted Time
4mn40   color   sil   2007   USA
by Neil Needleman
It’s impossible to look back at 1985, the year my father died, without feeling bitter about our relationship. To his consternation, I became interested in art, classical music, and shooting/editing moving pictures. These were useless things that didn’t fit into my father’s very practical notion of life. But I am what I am, and I shot what I shot. And I’m still shooting.
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sadescription Waterish
3mn04   color   stéréo   2007   Netherlands
by ZEC
"Waterish" tells the story of a traveller in a foreign city. The scene leads into an occupied house: a squat, which he has chosen as a refuge. The situation in the squat confronts him with existential questions and fears.
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sadescription Yellow Fever
6mn   color   stéréo   2008   Canada
by Frédérick Maheux
Caustic audiovisual bombing against the erotic flesh of exotic degradation. Frontal collision between Japanese pornography and European medical imagination. The ecstasy of colonization and the military torture garden.
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sadescription [vwa]
3mn30   color   stéréo   2008   France
by Brigitte Perroto
"Here in Salzwedel, East Germany: the past is still in minds, and every place seems to have been the place for atrocities. Then you hear that it's true."
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