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VIDEO LIBRARY ICN 2014
In February 2015 the selection below will complement the video library ICN.
Video library P'Silo at the videodrome 8 rue Vian / 13006 Marseille 15h to 19h except holidays

           
video library P'Silo 2014 / title :::: 179 films, 142 authors, 32 countries Argentina/ Australia/ Austria/ Belgium/ Brazil/ Canada/ China/ Colombia/ Croatia/ Democratic Republic of Congo/ Finland/ France/ Germany/ Greece/ India/ Italy/ Netherlands/ New Zealand/ Norway/ Poland/ Portugal/ Republic of Ireland/ Romania/ Serbia/ Slovakia/ South Korea/ Spain/ Sweden/ Switzerland/ Taiwan/ United Kingdom/ USA/

sadescription 'Driven'
4mn15   color   stéréo   2013   Australia
by David Anthony Sant
self-production
self-distribution
A stretch of tarmac and concrete lined with motor industry retailing and servicing that professes the sovereignty of the motor car. Exposed as a tangle of pollution, noise and drudgery in daylight, but at night transformed into an erratic landscape where darkness is punctured with floodlights and fleeting headlights.


sadescription (i)
1mn   color   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Nelly-Eve Rajotte
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
Is the disappearance of the interlacing video frame come with HD, has influenced the videographic language?


sadescription (Rêve) d'un pays éloigné
10mn19   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Muriel Montini
self-production
self-distribution
Fragments of a film, fragments of a summer.


sadescription ...tout est possible
3mn21   b/w   stéréo   2013   Argentina
by Gabriel Otero
self-production
self-distribution
Dialogue About a Dialogue: J. L. Borges August 19, 2008 by Sineokov. A: Absorbed in our discussion of immortality, we had let night fall without lighting the lamp, and we couldn’t see each other’s faces. With an offhandedness or gentleness more convincing than passion would have been, Macedonio Fernandez’ voice said once more that the soul is immortal. He assured me that the death of the body is altogether insignificant, and that dying has to be the most unimportant thing that can happen to a man. I was playing with Macedonio’s pocketknife, opening and closing it. A nearby accordion was infinitely dispatching La Comparsita, that dismaying trifle that so many people like because it’s been misrepresented to them as being old. . . . I suggested to Macedonio that we kill ourselves, so we might have our discussion without all the racket. Z: (mockingly) But I suspect that at the last moment you reconsidered. A: (now deep in mysticism) Quite frankly, I don’t remember whether we committed suicide that night or not. [From Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley]


sadescription 11 Parking Lots and One Gradual Sunset
8mn28   color   stéréo   2014   Canada
by Aaron Zeghers & Nigel Webber
self-production
self-distribution
Both beauty and destruction. Both homage and critique. Sincere insincerity amidst the concrete jungle. "Nature here is vile and base. ... I see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away ... It's a land that God, if he exists has - has created in anger. It's the only land where - where creation is unfinished yet. Taking a close look at - at what's around us there - there is some sort of a harmony..." Filmed in Winnipeg, MB on November 11th, 2013 by Aaron Zeghers and Nigel Webber.


sadescription 14 juillet
10mn   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Carole Desmond
self-production
self-distribution
Expérience of time. A quiet moment ? And suddenly !


sadescription 2012
2mn21   b/w   stéréo   2012   Austria
by Johannes Gierlinger
self-production
self-distribution
In the film "2012", fear and desire are constantly oscillating. The camera takes us to the boundary of a closed property. Initially the eye is reluctant to approach even further but curiosity is takes over and forces us to enter the house. Although a warning knock is heard, we devote ourselves to the unknown. We see the body of a restless sleeping man and transcend into his imagination. The immersion into this scenario can be seen as an escape from our bodies. Is it a dream? A time travel? Or is it the longing for the long anticipated apocalypse? Weightless, the viewer moves between reality, illusion and film. The story is about the burden of existence and of the Apocalypse which may have taken place already, without that we have taken note of it. After the dreaming protagonist wakes up, we once again have the perspective of the camera lens and leave the scene, the place of imagination, the place of cinema. Maybe we escaped the Apocalypse?


sadescription 3 Way Flicker
7mn48   color   stéréo   2014   Republic of Ireland
by Ocusonic
self-production
self-distribution
"3 Way Flicker" uses the juxtaposition of three elementary components to create an audio visual work which contains additional rhythmic and harmonic complexities. The individual audio visual elements were synchronously generated, using analog technologies, and result in a complete synesthetic experience.


sadescription À fleur de peau
15mn   color   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Myriam Jacob-Allard
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
Growing old together. A couple, alone with each other during the bath ritual, the poetry of small daily gestures. The seasons go by. The body recalls its first thrills. Memory at the slightest touch.


sadescription À propos de l'été de l'âme
6mn48   color   stéréo   2013   Italy
by Salvatore Insana
self-production
self-distribution
The age of the soul has counted summers. A wheat field just plowed. A body that runs inside and lives his empathy. A Barn Dance, a syncopated breath, a surrealist journey.


sadescription Absent VIII
0mn30   b/w   stéréo   2013   Sweden
by Anders Weberg
self-production
self-distribution
"Absent VIII" [2013] a homage to Maya Deren by Anders Weberg.


sadescription Addiction
5mn   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Siegfried Bréger
self-production
self-distribution
Perhaps the first, the primary source of all addictions is she relying on the others which makes the presence of it as indispensable as always disappointing, and makes repeat endlessly: "Do you love me? Do you love me? ... "


sadescription Affleurements
9mn47   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Cécile Ravel
self-production
self-distribution
I edited my personal super 8 archives shot underwater, mostly in 1990. Their meaning became obvious to me, 23 years after, as the constant motion of the ghosts from my chidhood, emerging and diving...


sadescription Allégorie
7mn38   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Roselyne Frick M
self-production
self-distribution
A night modeled after the opera. Skateboarders going back and forth as a reccuring theme, sound powered up. Machines. A woman looking. A photographer on the balcony. Cubic objects. Dressed up people. Lyricism of the shadows. Dancing suspensions. Electric statues. And suddenly a man leaves the scene.


sadescription Along a Line
13mn40   color   stéréo   2013   Switzerland
by Thomas Cardew
self-production
self-distribution
This study is a recording of a process of time in transit. The moment itself is a peculiarly unconscious experience spent waiting for the next; waiting for the promise of the future whilst being in the present.


sadescription Américaine
1mn40   color   stéréo   2012   Canada
by Élaine Labrie
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
A light and improvised dialogue in three languages (English, German & Korean) on John F. Kennedy’s famous historical phrase “Ich bin ein Berliner”.


sadescription and I loved only you...
1mn54   color   stéréo   2012   Romania
by Daniel Nicolae Djamo
production : independent producer
self-distribution
The video is an anachronic story, a song that I heard on a train, in Paris, in August 2011, sung by a Romanian beggar, on route to Bercy train station. He sings a sad love song, which I saw as a remark on his status.


sadescription And Implications
7mn11   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
Is a film about criticizing rich people and the devastation they bring to society.


sadescription As seen through the blue noose
10mn35   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
This movie attempts to represent the journey of becoming and living "greatness" as an artist living life and creating to the limit such as Jackson Pollock, Phillip Guston, and Mark Rothko to name a just a few.


sadescription Au bord
3mn30   color   mono   2014   France
by Sébastien Ronceray
self-production
self-distribution
A sequence shot in Super 8, a plant rumbler, a bright cartography of a place familiar with the sound of a breath of another time, another place.


sadescription aurore
14mn50   b/w   stéréo   2013   France
by Guillaume Mazloum
self-production
self-distribution
“An intimate revolt. Mutation, escape, fight, to the abyss of a body insurrection.” 16mm – 14min50 – b&w – no dialogue - 2013


sadescription avaler Pierre
4mn59   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Carole Contant
self-production
self-distribution
Re-creation like a mourning experience.


sadescription Balances des blancs
24mn42   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   France
by Carole Contant
self-production
self-distribution
Balances of ten whites videomakers. A collective film with different sizes and multicoloured translations.


sadescription Bed of Roses
3mn21   color   stéréo   2012   Canada
by Larose S.Larose
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
Shot in bed, the video offers the failure of a Bon Jovi style marriage proposal fantasy. Involves bananas.


sadescription BELIEFS Croyances
2mn26   color & b/w   stéréo   2014   France
by Bob Kohn
self-production
distribution : HEURE EXQUISE !
Filming people without a camera. Compacted, contracted, molded, kneaded, accelerated, multiplied, chained, unchained, exploded, cut up, tortured, ... .. the "Slices of Life" grind up human, to life, to death and to love. A real "shopping of life" among all the shelves of supermarkets and corner stores of the everyday life staging. Film sequences, known or not, they are gone somewhere else to play a score that wasn't their. As in music, the tone of a film is expressed by the force of its own leitmotiv, by the almost hypnotic repetition of the simple measure of his purpose.


sadescription Bestia Madre
6mn34   color   mono   2012   Spain
by Julianna Gal
self-production
self-distribution
Bestia Madre (Mother Beast) is an experimental stop motion short film about the infinite movement of different type of energies. Actions and reactions between nature, creature, and human creativity. 


sadescription black rectangle
1mn30   color   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Rhayne Vermette
self-production
self-distribution
"Time has not been kind to Kasimir Malevich’s painting, Black Square. In 1915 when the work was first displayed the surface of the square was pristine and pure; now the black paint has cracked revealing the white ground like mortar in crazy paving." This film documents a tedious process of dismantling and reassembling 16 mm found footage. The film collage imitates functions of a curtain, while the recorded optical track describes the film's subsequent destruction during its first projection.


sadescription Bodies of Water
7mn22   color   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Diane Obomsawin
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
"Bodies of Water" combines the fluidity of life drawing with video footage of urban reflections in water. It intertwines narratives of human journeys with those of travelling waters in a vivid expression of colour, energy, and motion. Animated figures of rippling water portray an ongoing flow of humanity, a testament to both constant change and continued endurance. A wide range of emotion is conveyed by the fluctuating character of the water, and through the posture and movements of the individuals.


sadescription Bois d'Arcy
24mn   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Mehdi Benallal
production : Triptyque Films
self-distribution
I spent my childhood, from 6 to 10 years old, in French suburban town of Bois d’Arcy. My memories are slowly fading away. Who knows what the past holds?


sadescription bullfrogs and
4mn45   color   stéréo   2013   Spain
by Toni Crabb
self-production
self-distribution
"bullfrogs and" was made in collaboration with The Mbira Centre, Harare / musician Albert Chimedza. All images and sound material were gathered onsite at the centre, where the mbira (Zimbabwean thumb piano) is produced. The piece studies and visually pinpoints polyrhythms occurring in the environment of the centre and then sets up an experimental relationship by juxtaposing them with a rehearsal of a composition by Chimedza.


sadescription By Blood and Water, By Blood and Sand
5mn46   color   stéréo   2014   New Zealand
by Brit Bunkley
self-production
self-distribution
“By Blood and Water, By Blood and Sand” is a video montage of two contrasting landscapes - the lush coastal hill country of the South West North Island of New Zealand and the contemporary American South West (with a brief interlude over Siberia). This video includes references of environmental degradation and post-nuclear Armageddon, as suggested by the tropes of dripping blood and large Kafkaesque insects (such as those that populate many post nuclear war horror films). "Wildfire" had touched all areas in the clips of the American South West. Climate change has significantly extended the wildfire season. Meanwhile deep sea drilling and fracking are proceeding unabated in New Zealand. (Soundtrack: "Little Rose" by The Black Twig Pickers, permission by and courtesy of Thrill Jockey)


sadescription Carnets du dehors
12mn30   color   Dolby stéréo   2013   France
by Paule Sardou
production : Shellac Sud et le G.R.E.C
distribution : Shellac Sud
Guided by Michael’s voice reading his logbooks, ranging from the crude to the poetic or critical, he leads us through the meanders of the city he came to know when he lived on the street. Claiming imagination as the only land of freedom you have when you have nothing left.


sadescription Cartografia
2mn24   couleur &n/b   stéréo   2014   USA
by Dan Nadaner
self-production
self-distribution
Personal histories and losses are often impossible to comprehend. In this film people walk across maps, in diverse and surreal contexts. The combinatory process, without any logic, refers to the dream state and to the mind's effort to deal with what moves us.


sadescription Cat on the couch
6mn33   color & b/w   stéréo   2014   France
by Pierre Aubert
self-production
self-distribution
A pyrotechnical extencity of flutterings. A sequence of somatic photographs. The skin and facial features from a woman's face. A mouth in which thoughts and sounds jostled one another. Irena's drone, (a possessed and hypnotized woman coming out from Jacques Tourneur's film Cat people) purrs into overlapping and phasing.


sadescription Cellular Activity: Postcard from New Zealand
5mn56   color   stéréo   2013   USA
by Neil Needleman
self-production
self-distribution
This video consists of scenes and sensations captured during a 2012 trip to New Zealand. The visual material has been edited using a formalist strategy that I call “cellular activity.” A “cell” is a very quick burst of individual shots (usually two to five shots) of just a few frames each.


sadescription Ceux de la côte
20mn   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Muriel Montini
self-production
self-distribution
We remember Roma's ragazzi. Fifty years later, an afternoon in Nice. They are still here.


sadescription Chantier autorisé au public
14mn   color   stéréo   2013   Democratic Republic of Congo
by Aliénor Vallet & Boris Ganga Bouetoumoussa
self-production
self-distribution
Building, destroying, Africa is a vast construction site. Reconstructing, deconstructing, imagine common territories. Walking, jumping, making movement what connects us not what separates us. Lying, kneeling, standing, experiment and reinvent the public place …


sadescription Danseur d'étoile perdue / Starry dust to starry dust
3mn25   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Maxine Zapedzky
self-production
self-distribution
The manifesto-video of Chicagod Bull, minotaur. Overlapping of its duality, the human dancer transcending on stage, the bull is used, sacrificed by black Harlequins... The show all the way to death, the History of the Earth as a bullfight, from the Big Bang to the future, starry dust to starry dust...


sadescription De l'obsolescence de la cassette
1mn26   color   stéréo   2012   Canada
by Lamathilde
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
Mechanical parable without morality.


sadescription demandé d'arrêter
4mn20   color   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
The concept is to represent the isolation of not resisting and walking within the boundaries of a devastating demand to remove essential elements from the inner soul of a being resulting in a wounded existence.


sadescription Des plumes en enfer
3mn30   color & b/w   stéréo   2014   France
by Sylvia Donis
self-production
self-distribution
Ends of super 8 movies, dazzling and suggestive pictures, setting the tempo of a voice that makes heard the death of a love.


sadescription Diameter 45cm
22mn   color   sil   2013   China
by Haiyuan Wang
self-production
self-distribution
A 45cm long stick with two sharp ends is kept in balance by two human bodies. The stick will fall off if the bodies move away, and moving too close, the bodies will get hurt. We continually repeat this process.


sadescription Disparitions
6mn38   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Inés Wickmann
self-production
self-distribution
The idea of these disappearances refers to Yoko Ogawa's novel “Secret Crystallization”. The music was composed first with a very noticeable formal principle: some of the soundtracks will gradually disappear during its five short parts. The video follows the same principle of progressive visual disappearances. The music is an original composition by composer Francis Dhomont.


sadescription dispossessed
7mn45   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Julia Jin
self-production
self-distribution
A journey reconciling the notions of home and its paraphernalia as a private space, through close textures and a subtle orchestra of sounds.


sadescription Doll with Hole
5mn18   color   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
This film is intended to be as a warm summer breeze of confident romance and sexual love gifting one's self to another then to be destroyed by the brutality of human deception.


sadescription Domesticity
4mn17   color   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Coral Short
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
House music and domestic craft become one in a dazzling display of cozy hypnosis. Intricate videocraft melts one precious handmade item into another through luminescent mapping.


sadescription Dove era che non ero (Where it was that I was not)
5mn34   color   stéréo   2013   Italy
by Salvatore Insana
self-production
self-distribution
We are not there, we do not find ourselves, almost lost, almost suspended. Alert, ready to shoot, the danger is out of range and has no signals. Going toward the light to take dangerous risks. Restless tremor of face the horizon keeping our eyes wide open. Assuming or presaging the abyss, in a further condition in which we play the “non-adherence” to the present time.


sadescription Dream 104
3mn22   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Sandrine Deumier & Alx P.op
self-production
self-distribution
Gestural partition of signs and symbolic codes, «Dream 104» wonders about the permeable and conflicting relationships between idealism, activism and politico-social reality.


sadescription Edward and Elizabeth
2mn01   color   stéréo   2013   USA
by Coalfather Industries
self-production
self-distribution
On the misperception and conflation of just about everything.


sadescription Emberkutya
15mn59   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Emmanuel Morvan
self-production
self-distribution
Through imagined landscapes and distant memories, shadows are wandering in a dark and disturbing atmosphere. Used leather straps, dusty horsehair, frozen twigs and blackish branches are interweaving. Sound textures, from various sources (motors, piano chords, broken windows, whistling trains, cracked vinyl records...) are melting together in a progressive composition and introspective atmosphere.


sadescription En [code] ed
5mn40   color   stéréo   2014   Germany
by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
self-production
self-distribution
Digital video inspired by a visit of Thessaloniki. The work describes the principle of “code” or “coding” in form of an allegory, a metaphoric story as a ritual of meeting, dominating and resigning. The code is identified as a state of the static, dogmatic and conservative, which asks for obedience, but gives no chance to escape. Voice and sound performance by Agricola de Cologne. The movie is edited, directed and produced by Agricola de Cologne.


sadescription Epileptic altars (study)
1mn   color & b/w   sil   2013   Slovakia
by Lukáš Matejka
self-production
self-distribution
The video shows the new digital studio hypnotic altar today. Hypnotized eyes , without the sound, examining attention retina.


sadescription Event Horizon
7mn40   color   stéréo   2012   South Korea
by Jung-Chul Hur
self-production
self-distribution
“Event Horizon” is an abstract film by Jung-Chul Hur with music by Fundamental Harmonics. Both music and film were inspired by astrophysics “Event Horizon”, the main motif for this project. This video piece runs over 7 minutes, synchronizing with every detail in the music. Various scenes explore a constant transmutation of colours, lines, shapes, forms, textures, patterns, lights, reflections and structures.


sadescription Ex-Moth
0mn57   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Hilda Daniel
self-production
self-distribution
Moon River’s longing, iconic promise in a melancholy reverse tide. "Ex-Moth" portrays the struggle toward transformation and its failure – a dragging back to one’s “true nature”. Archival film of butterflies is drained of color in a sound mesh of melodic distortions ** (Revir Noom, in which dialog and Moon River, sung by Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, is re-recorded backwards with minimal processing). With (sub)text moving, the song (and its idea) make a complete transformation - with its own distinct melody, arrangement and language, ending with Holly not so much singing as swallowing her own words...


sadescription Excursion
13mn10   color   stéréo   2013   Croatia
by Karlo Vranjes
self-production
self-distribution
Symbolic and mystic journey. Surrealist exploration of time and memory boundaries.


sadescription Fall 1 & 2
0mn52   color   sil   2013   Canada
by Aaron Zeghers
self-production
self-distribution
An ode to the absurd, an homage to Bas Jan Ader, and an affirmation of Camus' notion that the absurdity of existence (and not gravity) links mankind to the world. “The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth…. The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment it is all that links them together. It binds them one to the other as only hatred can weld two creatures together.” – Albert Camus “I want to do a piece where I go to the Alps and talk to a mountain. The mountain will talk of things which are necessary and always true, and I shall talk of things which are sometimes, accidentally true.” – Bas Jan Ader


sadescription Falls And Flips
2mn34   color   stéréo   2012   Argentina
by Laura Focarazzo
self-production
self-distribution
We are all part of a dynamic flow where our destiny is continuously shaped by the constant shifts and changes in our lives. "Falls and Flips" is a microcosm where the apparent chaos reminds us that nothing is static and that we are part of a greater, more elusive whole.


sadescription FEMMES EFFACEES
6mn   b/w   stéréo   2013   France
by João Cristovão LEITÃO
self-production
distribution : HEURE EXQUISE !
Living so that Human Rights are respected and die because of this commitment. We are all concerned by the killing of these people. We must fight against their fotgetfulness because memory is a weapon against barbarism. This video is an act of resistance.


sadescription First Light on South Street
11mn31   color   mono   2013   USA
by Paul Turano
self-production
self-distribution
The first weeks with our newborn twins, getting used to waking up early, the new sounds in the house, imagining the world through their eyes. Prompted by Bartók’s études – Mikrokosmos, book 1. This is the third installment in a series of films that explore the structures and strategies of short musical forms from the late 19th and early 20th century as inspirations for the cinematic treatment of personal experiences.


sadescription Focus
7mn55   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Simon Welch
self-production
self-distribution
Pierre, a retired French miner, who lives surrounded by birds and various domestic pets, describes how his life has been blighted by supernatural events. These references made to ghosts parallel sequences showing industrial remnants that persist in the northern French landscape as traces of a recent but nonetheless bygone age.


sadescription Forced Development
3mn31   b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
"Forced Development" is a film similar to "Doll with Hole" that is about human conflict that is specifically connected to lies said in name of love that devastate and destroying people.


sadescription France Telecom
25mn   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Derek Woolfenden
self-production
self-distribution
Documentary essay about the movie director against France Telecom's bureaucracy that has suppressed his personal mailbox! Or the remake of Die Hard that John McTiernan directed in 1988.


sadescription Freedom
4mn32   color   stéréo   2013   USA
by Neil Needleman
self-production
self-distribution
A subtle elegy to the excesses of capitalism. A delicate ode to overabundance. A sedate celebration of the moral imperative to buy. An understated tribute to those whose cups runneth over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.


sadescription full of fire
2mn15   color   stéréo   2014   Canada
by Rhayne Vermette
self-production
self-distribution
There are few alternatives for exiles. The homecoming may be postponed to an indeterminate future; one could settle for a replacement; and lastly, there is always madness.


sadescription Genèse::Vorare
5mn28   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Frédérick Maheux
self-production
self-distribution
There are no cunts after death Our souls are just stored in this little container. No one speaks just dizzy-swirling around each other still looking for a way to fuck. No sign of Heaven, nor any God. Just a tight space. -Carlton Mellick III


sadescription Ghosts of Gesture
2mn25   color   stéréo   2013   Finland
by KirsiMarja Metsähuone
self-production
self-distribution
Video explores illusion of movement in frozen time and imaginary memories. It's based on the experiences of women in my family unable to fulfill their dreams 100 years ago and on the suffrage movement activists who in the beginning of the 20th century campaigned for women's rights and gender equality.


sadescription Goran
10mn38   color   stéréo   2014   Serbia
by Roberto Santaguida
production : Per.Art
self-distribution
Joy and frustration as constructed by Goran Gostoji of Novi Sad.


sadescription Hannah
5mn10   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Antoine Ledroit
self-production
distribution : Collectif Jeune Cinema
"Maybe this gossip in which I was involved would have ended, after milleniums of incidents played in loop." (Michel Tournier - Friday or the Pacific limbos) This movie is the story of the slow erasure of Hannah’s identity, story which itself disappears quickly in a simple succession of cycles and materials.


sadescription Head, Tail, Rail
6mn39   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   Portugal
by Hugo Olim
self-production
self-distribution
The starting point of this film was a set of 35mm trailers acquired from a various abandoned cinemas. This work reveals the veiled and forgotten images used by the commercial film industry. In Head, Tail, Rail, the film leaders are regenerated to create new forms, bringing to the surface the obtuse side of filmic images.


sadescription History is not mine
5mn   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   France
by Mounir Fatmi
self-production
distribution : HEURE EXQUISE !
The video HISTORY IS NOT MINE, is a direct response to the censorship of the Technologia installation at the event Printemps de septembre in Toulouse in 2012. On this occasion, the installation, combining circular forms of Koranic verses with elements inspired from the Rotoreliefs of Marcel Duchamp had been withdrawn by the organization due to incidents and protests caused by passers-by. In this black and white video, the artist, his back to the camera, is typing the title using hammers. The ribbon alone is red, suggesting that the text appears in letters of blood, in a telescoping of "the beauty of the phrase to write with violence and the difficulty of carrying it out."


sadescription Horizon Vert Azur
5mn   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Aliénor Vallet
self-production
self-distribution
Dance of death in a landscaping at Nice, French Riviera.


sadescription Hôtel 54
15mn43   b/w   stéréo   2013   France
by Sandrine Deumier & Philippe Lamy
self-production
self-distribution
Worn by a sound composition elaborated in echo with an experimental movie staging ambiguous characters in a cathartic closed door, « Hôtel 54 » builds a dreamlike universe and disturbing in a hypnotic atmosphere which plunges the public into a stressed derealisation. The unspeakable propagates during unconscious marks where notions of loves absolute and of drives warriors display in a kind of tragic eroticism.


sadescription huit mètres garés
5mn54   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Carole Contant
self-production
self-distribution
With peaces of Walden from HD Thoreau, Annie tries to mesure the place of a parking place in our society.


sadescription HUMANITE ANNEE ZERO
6mn51   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   France
by Florence Gatineau-S Bex
self-production
self-distribution
Security cameras are watching us, impassively. The footage they produce is unconcerned about humankind's misfortune. But through the absolute silence of the cosmos, voices, cries and whispers, ghostly traces of a humankind that keeps disappearing, resurface from this footage. All the footage in this movie was taken from the web and shot by security cameras.


sadescription Identity, self portrait
4mn   color   stéréo   2013   Italy
by Cristina Pavesi
self-production
self-distribution
It's hard for me to think about my identity. I am strongly convinced that what I am today is strictly connected with what I was in the past; on the back of this i have scanned my old pictures, mostly in black and white, regarding my childhood. Then I have put them in a 'time machine' that rolling and bouncing back like a ball brings me from the present into the past and vice versa in a series of continuos postponements between past and present.


sadescription Il Ritorno
4mn21   color   dolby stéréo   2013   Italy
by Arthur Patching
self-production
self-distribution
We see a man all dressed in white, wearing latex gloves at "magic hour" cycling slowly along an Italian beach pathway leading to the sea in a form of silent protest. We focus in and out on the surroundings and the unknown man like a dream induced state.


sadescription Ile de Frioul
4mn10   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Antony Jacob
self-production
self-distribution
Distraught and comforted by the fact that this place makes me, like a vast living organism that comes in contact with me, board me, it's by the grace of analogy, I project my pictures with the presence of these ants that circulate and fall in my traps set in stone...


sadescription Impressions
47mn56   color   stéréo   2012   France
by Jacques Perconte
production : Triptyque Films
self-distribution
Along the shores of Normandy, on the track of the Impressionist painters, something’s happening to the landscape: the colors are crashing against the screen...


sadescription In Light, In!
12mn   b/w   mono   2013   USA
by Ken Paul Rosenthal
self-production
self-distribution
A haunting, visual essay about the awkward and angry junctures where our culture struggles to manage its emotional distress. Images recycled from 1950’s-era educational films are accompanied by original compositions by cellist, Zoe Keating.


sadescription In The Wolf's Belly
18mn56   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   Greece
by Yiorgos Nalpantidis
self-production
self-distribution
A sequence of moving images presented in a series of different ways; and some dialogue.


sadescription Isle Of Lox "Without Light and Guide"
6mn02   color   stéréo   2013   Spain
by Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub
self-production
self-distribution
"Isle of Lox"'s second season explores further ramifications resulting from the tensed relationship between framework and identity. Which cut of which image is the true representation of which period of time? Mediaval Spanish mystic and friar Juan de la Cruz, more precisely his poem "The Dark Night", serves as an inspiration and a guideline in the creation of the three episodes "Without Light and Guide", "Senses Suspended" and "Members of the audience". Juan's poem is both, a cry for help and a doxology. The dark night is not only a metaphor, but can also be read in a rather profance way: the disorientation and different forms of anxieties experienced during long winter nights, the longing for light and closeness. The second coming of Lox also marks a change in the apparition of the main performers. Leylox and Krilox have evolved into Leyla and Cristian, whose striking resemblance to "Isle of Lox" Creators Leyla Rodriguez and Cristian Straub can hardly be denied. In "Without Light and Guide" Leyla and Cristian are preparing the setting for a film they're about to shoot. Their main actor is a toy puppy named Dogggy. After doing some research and going underground for a while, Leyla and Cristian start searching the perfect reflection. Finally, soon after the film in film featuring Dogggy begins a saboteur emerges. He tries to fight the video-projection with his flashlight, he's an anti-projector. After a violent (and random) image-editing the screen finally collapses and makes way for a restart.


sadescription Isola
2mn55   color & b/w   stéréo   2014   USA
by Dan Nadaner
self-production
self-distribution
A film using the language of water to speak about that which has no words. Desires, disappearances. Desire and the symbolic are like the wandering and the boundary.


sadescription Iterations
5mn38   color   stéréo   2014   USA
by Gregg Biermann
self-production
self-distribution
A scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" is julienned, with each vertical slice reverberating out in time from a central moment.


sadescription Je tourne mon visage vers vous
5mn25   b/w   stéréo   2014   France
by João Cristovão LEITÃO
self-production
distribution : HEURE EXQUISE !
My name is Human Being. I have the right to choose everything in my life; just like you; because it's only natural. ISN' T IT ? That's why I am turning my face towards you with complete confidence. This is the way we imagine what should be the highest shape of the relations between the human beings. We are still far from this ideal. Véronique Sapin chose to speak about one of these acts which drive humanity to regress towards the animal: the acid attack


sadescription Keep me out of your gaze
6mn14   b/w   mono   2013   Spain
by Irene Coll Inglés
self-production
self-distribution
The invisibility of cinematic device is followed in this film piece of found footage. Where I pretend to capture and get a glimpse of some of the different ways of looking that happen inside cinema.


sadescription Kronos
3mn23   color   stéréo   2012   Italy
by Cristina Pavesi
self-production
self-distribution
Emotions of a metaphorical journey, the day alternates with night, the rain with the sun and the seasons take turns. The sun, and the moon as a counterpoint, are inserted in a continuous time that chasing its tail.


sadescription L'ennui
5mn57   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Antony Jacob
self-production
self-distribution
The boredom, for the empty wanders all the rest.


sadescription L'être venu d'ailleurs
18mn   b/w   stéréo   2013   Belgium
by Guy Bordin & Renaud De Putter
production : Helicotronc
distribution : Hélicotronc
Spring 2012. Dédée, a prostitute in a window in Brussels since more than 30 years, evokes – with humor, smartness, and frankness – her rather uncommon life story since her early debuts when she found out that she was “a whore in the soul”, to the greatest astonishment of her relatives…


sadescription La course
3mn45   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Jean-Michel Rolland
self-production
self-distribution
Rhythmed by the race of five horses shot in Marseille Borély, this video, in tribute to Muybridge, doesn't intend to take viewers into the universe of racetracks but rather to communicate to them the frenzy felt during this frantic and painful race.


sadescription La montagne au goût de sel
22mn35   color & b/w   stéréo   2012   France
by Julien Lahmi
production : Novanima
distribution : Novanima
1927. Paul and Louise met in a theater in Paris. They loved each other. Then they hated each other. Yet they had two children, Adrian and Albertine. One evening, Paul found a letter : Louise said "I move away for some time." He did not want to believe it. He did not cut short his holidays with children. Albertine and Adrien did not claim their mother. From moments of happiness when they were together till the remains of their love affair are left these footages that the film director Julien Lahmi wanted to "revive", "fictionalize" ...


sadescription la rue
6mn44   color   stéréo   2012   France
by the[video]Flaneu®
self-production
self-distribution
paris-montmarte, france, june 29, 2011, 3:17 pm. an (un)usual street take of (un)usual people doing (un)usual things, a serious game between observer and observations, a comment on Balthus famous painting "la rue" (1933) and a hommage to jacques tati. a [non] spectacular documentary take on montmartre’s special way of life taken ko.incidentally with a normal digital video apparatus without camera moves without zooming without special lighting without tripod without extra microphone without effects without permission... the sound and the length of the shooting is the original there are no cuts in the scene


sadescription La saison sombre
8mn45   color   stéréo   2014   Canada
by Isabelle Hayeur
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
"La saison sombre" (The Dark Season) is intended as a kind of omen. The video shows us devastated places and landscapes with extreme climates. It alludes to some of the upheavals current societies are undergoing, at a time when our dependence on fossil fuels is only growing.


sadescription La sortie de l'usine Fralib à Gémenos versus la sortie de l'usine. Lumière à Lyon
1mn40   color & b/w   sil   2014   France
by Frank Gatti
self-production
self-distribution
The output of the Fralib factory in Gémenos, product with the workers in struggle occupying the site, was filmed with the CCTV system installed by their former employer, the multinational Unilever. During the shooting (only internet found footage re-shot) super 8 and 35mm amateur old movies have been used and their frames were physically overlapped to the optics of the camera, determining the transparency of color and brightness. Other analogical filters, such as magnifying and distorting ones, old lenses of cameras, cardboard tubes and plastic, glass jars and colored plastics have been used.The tension to the invisible, to the nebulous that passes through the analogical and the filmic, is an aesthetic position that nostalgically jokes with the hyper realism of the contemporary preoccupation with high definition.”


sadescription Last Syllable of Time
3mn20   color   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Pavitra Wickramasinghe
self-production
distribution : Perte de signal
The capsized boat was found by chance on the north east coast of Sri Lanka. It was my second visit to the country where I grew up in twenty years. While I had clear memories of where I’m from, it is of course very different from reality and I was moved to see it with eyes of an adult. The overturned boat is a reminder of the destructions of a resent past- a world left up side down.


sadescription Le gateau with very long nails
69mn35   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
Is about the paths human beings take, the same paths repeatedly taken as they take the walk from birth to death without reason as if not unlike headless poisoned cockroaches only with less likeliness of surviving.


sadescription Le Magasin
26mn14   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Guillaume Massart
production : Triptyque Films
self-distribution
Two areas: groundfloor has warm colors, woodworks, polished windows; basement is neon-lit, cramped, with electric blue walls. We come and go between the shop and the workshop. Sales force: weapons for sale.


sadescription Lezuo
17mn   color   mono   2013   Germany
by Giuseppe Boccassini
self-production
self-distribution
In 1843 Andrea Lezuo, a carver born in Arabba, Northern Italy, sets sail towards "La Merica" on board the Ehon Ship SONG LYRICS: 00:14:56 --> 00:15:38 "Please come back, this house is waiting for you, please come back, we will stay always together". During the shooting (only internet found footage re-shot) super 8 and 35mm amateur old movies have been used and their frames were physically overlapped to the optics of the camera, determining the transparency of color and brightness. Other analogical filters, such as magnifying and distorting ones, old lenses of cameras, cardboard tubes and plastic, glass jars and colored plastics have been used. The tension to the invisible, to the nebulous that passes through the analogical and the filmic, is an aesthetic position that nostalgically jokes with the hyper realism of the contemporary preoccupation with high definition.”


sadescription manger les mots
2mn05   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Carole Contant
self-production
self-distribution
Laurence talked me about her favorit word. One she likes to have in her mouth.


sadescription Manie IV : Le Yaourt
7mn46   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Carole Contant
self-production
self-distribution
How do you eat your yogourt? Tender, simple, crazy answers from multiple eaters.


sadescription Marchant grenu
2mn20   color   dolby stéréo   2013   France
by François Vogel
production : Drosofilms
self-distribution
A whimsical illustration of the poem "Walking Grainy" by Henri Michaux. While reciting the poem, Francois Vogel "walks grainy" on the stairs of Montmartre, in Paris.


sadescription Marshy Place Across
4mn35   color & b/w   stéréo   2012   USA
by Lorenzo Gattorna
self-production
self-distribution
The title signifies the Native American name for Assateague Island, a national seashore and natural landmark located off the coast of Maryland. A passive bay and pristine beach compose the barriers of this subtle yet stunning passage. Distractions amongst the dunes awaken development of the ecological and departure of the artificial. The film culminates in close proximity to a small band of feral horses that share a common territory and domesticated ancestry.


sadescription Mdr.html
7mn31   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Sandrine Deumier & Alx P.op
self-production
self-distribution
Elaborated as a digital flow crossed by permanent base lines, "Mdr.html" is the evocation of a digital imagination and reveals the virtual tendency of our societies.


sadescription Meeting of the Mind and the Machine
9mn24   color   stéréo   2012   Italy
by Paul Wiersbinski
self-production
self-distribution
The work shows a baby playing with a robotic cat toy and the slow process of fascination, fear and ultimately power involved in human-artificial relationships. Today we already live in a Cyborg Reality, where we are actually using mechanical devices to explore and extent the possibilities of our limited haptic reality. We are using technical devices all the time to connect to a part of reality, which is much more relevant and offers us much more possibilities, then we experience within our own space of perception. There always has been a fascination within humans to fetish non-human objects and reflect intimate wishes into them (e.g. Money, Sex Toys, Robots, Zombies). What is in this respect special about machines is our fantasy towards them to be even more perfect living mechanism then us (e.g. in the wish to finally create a artificial intelligence we were promised in science fiction literature). Japanese robot dogs are more cute, less dirty and immortal sources of pleasure, providing all the positive aspects of a house animal, while denying the negative. In this perverted relationship all symbolic wishes are satisfied while the total control remains in the owner and creator of the machine.


sadescription Memento mori
0mn35   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Antony Jacob
self-production
self-distribution
A hecatomb of skull colliding with the superficiality of glitz and ephemeral life. Modern vanity. "Remember you will die".


sadescription morningfog_easttroy
7mn   color   stéréo   2014   USA
by A. Bill Miller
self-production
self-distribution
0ne fall morning, the yard was blanketed in light fog. I took the camera and walked along the queen anne’s lace, goldenrod, and tall grass. It became a sort of recorded performance of my motion in a specific location - my body in near our home.


sadescription Mountain Ark
8mn40   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Erwan Sene
production : ESAD Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims
distribution : ESAD Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims
Wandering among the architecture and decor of a zoo where the animals seem strangely absent. A constant disturbance created by the impression that the animals seem to fly under the picture. A nagging feeling of emptiness, space "idealized" where live ghosts.


sadescription Mountain Lying Down
3mn   color & b/w   stéréo   2012   USA
by Lorenzo Gattorna
self-production
self-distribution
The title signifies the Native American name for the Grand Canyon, a massive gorge in the state of Arizona and one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Turbulence and tranquility gain exposure at enthralling elevations. Strata are uplifted through edges of contrast caused by severe slants of the sun. The scope of the sacred site reaches translation in static brevity, unearthing billions of years of sedimentary rock sequences.


sadescription My baby
6mn25   color   stéréo   2013   Norway
by Ane Lan
self-production
self-distribution
Dressed as a female nurse or medical laboratory employee, the artist situate himself in a laboratory environment singing a “love song” to an absent "baby" while performing an intracytoplasmic sperm injection on a human egg, and then inserting it into a surrogate mothers vagina. The video work investigates the future relationship between gender conceptions and the human procreation in the age of advancements in the field of gene-manipulation and various possibilities of artificial insemination. The work also relates to the Freudian concept of the childs rejection of the mother(body) as a the primary stage of narcissism and the gateway to the symbolic world, an idea further developed by French psychoanalyst and literature critic Julia Kristina, who suggests that the development of the human language and words are a substitute for the loss of the oneness with the mothers body.


sadescription My body of water
2mn39   color   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Victoria Stanton
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
As the ideal and the real co-exist, often in a constant negotiation of perception, this work contemplates the space between desire and detachment. What’s between me and you? Between my body of water and yours? The camera accompanies me on a familiar trajectory on bike and foot along the Saint-Lawrence River. Desire lines are carved out into the path that lead down to the water, but inevitably, the water is always just out of reach.


sadescription nachtigall singt.
3mn   b/w   mono   2014   Germany
by Kai Miedendorp
self-production
self-distribution
Night, a swimming pool & costumed people. Is it a staged memory in an unstaged environment? Does it allow the identification of participants and nonparticipants in the setting? The film piece is a negotiation between the imagination and the image interpretation and distortion of the other. There is only the fragmented vision, the mere perception that results out from the conserved observation.


sadescription Not
123mn54   b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
Is the philosophical want to meaning mixed with the anxiety to undo decisions and actions done during one's life.


sadescription Numb
1mn04   color   stéréo   2014   Sweden
by Anders Weberg
self-production
self-distribution
"Numb" by Anders Weberg. In memory of my son André 1992-2014.


sadescription NY
3mn44   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Antony Jacob
self-production
self-distribution
New York! New York! American Dream for everyone everywhere...


sadescription Paranoia
1mn20   color   stéréo   2013   Finland
by KirsiMarja Metsähuone
self-production
self-distribution
A short film about childhood memory in retrospect. Is the incident that is still so vividly in mind true or dreamed - is the fear that is still so easily recalled real or imaginary? The film utilizes both photographs and video.


sadescription Parc Lafontaine
3mn30   color & b/w   stéréo   2012   Canada
by Danielle Raymond
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
In the video "Parc Lafontaine", the artist refreshes family film archives by in situ projections. This video shows a woman meditating in her bathtub and remembering being amazed as a child at the discovery of aquatic animals in the city’s zoo. The narrator relates a strange memory.


sadescription Parting
3mn30   color   stéréo   2012   Brazil
by Marcia Beatriz Granero
self-production
self-distribution
Jaque Jolene, a character who embodies celebrity and decadence, gets ready to a new beginning on this video. Without losing the glamour, provided by the technology of psychotropic drugs and cosmetics, she says goodbye to an old phase. She closes the windows, turns off the lights, preparing for change. With champagne and antidepressants, parties and hangovers, she closes the door and resolutely enters the elevator. Go


sadescription Passing Through
8mn08   b/w   stéréo   2013   Croatia
by Liliana Resnick
self-production
self-distribution
Images of snowflakes shot against the darkness of the sky became material for my work, the process of making one thing out of another thing by shifting not just its function but also the movement and directions while still experiencing the constant relationship to the whole. The visuals in "Passing Through" explores an intense relationship of one and many but at the same time they serve as a metaphor for mysteries of our own destinies and being.


sadescription Picture Particles
5mn40   color   stéréo   2014   Germany
by Thorsten Fleisch
self-production
self-distribution
Individual elements from a carrier of visual information have been isolated and used to construct alternative visual reagents. Repetition (in space and in time [and in moderation]) is administered as a binder to tame the wild particles in motion, achieving a golden ratio of the mind's eye. Film was once manufactured and distributed on thin translucent plastic strips rolled on reels. On the strips you could see the individual images that made the film. It came in different formats like Super 8, 16 mm and 35 mm (the size referring to the width of the strips). For this film found Super 8 footage was the source material. It was cut to small pieces and investigated further with other film formats (16 mm & 35 mm) by means of optical printing and reshooting the projected material. After applying this analogue feedback loop for a while the result has been transferred to video and edited further.


sadescription Pierres de l' exil
57mn   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Jean Paul Noguès
production : Shellac Sud
distribution : Shellac Sud
She, A young ladie from the mediteranean sea leave alone. She discover familly's pictures from his own spanish grand parents, who fought against franco during the Spanish War. Almost 70 years after, she feel this missing part of her. She hang around in the street , alone. And try to understand what happend during the past. What are really his own roots.


sadescription Pleasure or Business
3mn   b/w   stéréo   2013   Colombia
by Fredy Clavijo Cuartas
self-production
self-distribution
Currently, the free movement of goods and mass tourism have made the world a space of continuous traffic, but for those who those who don't have financial resources get tougher immigration laws while walls are built to separate men.


sadescription portraits aux nues
48mn   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Jean Paul Noguès
production : Endogène
self-distribution
Since a few years, we attend the increasing use of the nudity by women who claim their rights : Movements as Pussy Riot, Femen, Free the Nipple, or Aliaa Elmahdy, while a rise of conservatism continues. The nudity as the vector of ideas, used outside the established erotic codes, calls out and still disturbs in the XXIth century.


sadescription Propagande
4mn44   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   France
by Yannick Dangin Leconte
self-production
self-distribution
The whole visual universe of HNN created since 2006 by ydl.


sadescription Quantic Hamlet
7mn   b/w   stéréo   2013   France
by Aliénor Vallet
self-production
self-distribution
Ophelia roams in an airport in search of Hamlet. Whereas screens suggest an arrival to Buenos Aires, an abundant universe shows itself, governed by the laws of the quantum physics.


sadescription Remember
0mn57   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Bob Kohn
self-production
distribution : HEURE EXQUISE !
Filming people without a camera. Compacted, contracted, molded, kneaded, accelerated, multiplied, chained, unchained, exploded, cut up, tortured, ... .. the "Slices of Life" grind up human, to life, to death and to love. A real "shopping of life" among all the shelves of supermarkets and corner stores of the everyday life staging. Film sequences, known or not, they are gone somewhere else to play a score that wasn't their. As in music, the tone of a film is expressed by the force of its own leitmotiv, by the almost hypnotic repetition of the simple measure of his purpose. Design sonore : Jean Jacques Palix


sadescription Replete
1mn   color   stéréo   2013   USA
by Jeremy Newman
self-production
self-distribution
This video is an abstract creation story. The aesthetic promise of abundance is countered by dissonance.


sadescription Requiem for two people
1mn15   b/w   stéréo   2014   France
by Bob Kohn
self-production
distribution : HEURE EXQUISE !
An audiovisual (secular) requiem, to be screened after our departure.


sadescription Rêve Provençal
23mn49   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
This is a film-poem "representationalizing" the meandering of ideas that stream through an artist's mind as an Abstract Expressionist painting is assembled onto a canvas in by way of what appear to be opaque colors, shapes, and textures but in reality being very much more.


sadescription Ri Do
4mn43   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Jean-Luc Gergonne
self-production
self-distribution
"Ri Do" plays on visual and sound perceptions. It is built on different veiling principles such as darkening, superimposing and phase shifting. This technique allows to erase reality and leave a special place for each viewer's imagination.


sadescription runtime error
4mn12   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   Portugal
by Sandra Araújo
self-production
self-distribution
Video games are emergent systems with their own particular internal relationships. This animation mashes up and deconstructs game spaces taking on a multitude of forms, from scrolling on one axis to several separate screens. The blocky 2D grids plasticity is emphasized through a reduced color palette in order to favor formal representation of early video games against the photorealistic, logically consistent 3D game spaces of recent years.


sadescription Salvation
3mn   b/w   stéréo   2013   United Kingdom
by Slawomir Milewski
self-production
distribution : Ass.VisualContainer
salvation = being saved or protected from harm.


sadescription Seem
2mn30   color   stéréo   2014   USA
by Coalfather Industries
self-production
self-distribution
The human and mechanical characters in "Seem" propel the viewer into the “Uncanny Valley” where the line between real and phantasm is obscured.


sadescription Self
4mn30   b/w   stéréo   2014   United Kingdom
by Slawomir Milewski
self-production
self-distribution
self = an intrinsic dimension of the fact of experiencing phenomena.


sadescription Seventh Submarine
5mn23   color   stéréo   2014   Canada
by Allan Brown
self-production
self-distribution
A film that mines (as in mining) the disjointed and fragmented minds of gifted “quiz kids” who are never given the chance to answer the question… “What reptile is a natural submarine?”, is that Ingrid Bergman and is that really a “dance of death”.


sadescription Smrt Songdo Song
5mn30   color   stéréo   2014   South Korea
by Sylvia Winkler & Stephan Koeperl
self-production
self-distribution
Built on privatized land, managed by a single company, finanzed by multinational investors: Cities are becoming a market-oriented product, traded like a commodity. Nevertheless, individuals find smart ways to deal with those concrete real(i)ties. In New Songdo City, one of South Korea´s Free Economic Zones, we reflect on this development along a settled hard rock melody.


sadescription SONG N°22
4mn40   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Céline Trouillet
self-production
self-distribution
Twin teenage sisters from a village in Burgundy perform "Total Eclipse of The Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. The idea of outer space represented by the term "eclipse" in the song title is echoed by the starry backdrop and the fact that twins are to be found in the constellation of Gemini, all of which is in contrast to the inner emotional space of the heart and the intimate complicity the twins represent.


sadescription SONG N°23
5mn15   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Céline Trouillet
self-production
self-distribution
Marianne Queval, who was voted Deaf Miss France and runner up for Deaf Miss World in 2013, performs "Il me dit que je suis belle" (He Tells Me I'm Beautiful) by Patricia Kaas, a song about women's desire to believe in men's flattery. The deaf beauty pageant parallels the regular competition but does not benefit from the same media profile.


sadescription Soupirs
1mn47   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Carole Contant
self-production
self-distribution
What is a simple life? They sigh...


sadescription Splendor
1mn   color   sil   2013   USA
by Jeremy Newman
self-production
self-distribution
This video explores the interplay between artistic vision and the urban environment. Rachel Blythe Udell's embroideries are central.


sadescription STUDIO PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTS (1, 2, 3)
7mn48   color   stéréo   2012   Canada
by Shayo Detchema
self-production
distribution : Groupe Intervention Vidéo
Part of an ongoing series of video working with perception, gravity and the body as points of departure. The videos are based on recorded performance actions carried out in constructed situations (studio sets). In this work I wanted to create a sense of instability and uncertainty about the nature of reality in order to challenge some of our basic assumptions about what is possible. I also wanted to experiment with the nature of our perceptual contact with the world.


sadescription Succuba
4mn21   color & b/w   stéréo   2014   France
by CarlottA
self-production
self-distribution
Sweeping time primitive love. Into childhood memories. A night awakening the long road my friends... Already, thr bright pomegranate - a heart stops to drift. Now we sleep in scraps of blood.


sadescription Sunrise Fires
6mn25   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   USA
by Lorenzo Gattorna
self-production
self-distribution
In early September 1995 the Sunrise Wildfire was extinguished. 7,000 acres had burned during the peak of the tourist season yet nobody was killed. The aggravated assault swept from one side of Sunrise Highway to the other without the slightest hesitance. Another series of severe brush fires ignited 17 years later and became known as the Brookhaven Blaze. The outbreak left around 2,000 acres torched. The wild ruin and regrowth were revisited within The Central Pine Barrens, the largest natural area on Long Island and its last remaining wilderness. Sound: Ryan Marino.


sadescription Sur place - Marseille 2013
3mn18   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Annick Dragoni
self-production
self-distribution
On the spot, the area all around the tower – a deserted landscape – is in sharp contrast with promotional videos and official discourse. The video explores a series of gaps between the prevailing discourse and scarcer images, between verticality and horizontality.


sadescription Symbiosis
5mn35   color   stéréo   2012   China
by Tze Wai Pun
production : Pun Tze Wai
distribution : Hong Kong Arts Centre
Symbiosis is the interaction between two living organisms, in this case, is the modern media a living being?


sadescription Ta panta rhei, example 1
7mn03   color   stéréo   2012   Netherlands
by the[video]Flaneu®
self-production
self-distribution
a [video]meditation about time that passes imperceptibly, quietly, peacefully, a [video]self-portrait that speaks about the vanity and beauty of exi[l]stence, a [video]essay on Heraclitos's world-view ... a [non] spectacular documentary take, taken ko.incidentally with a normal digital video apparatus in the Museum of Contemporary Art of the city of Enschede (21 rozendaal Actuele Kunst, Enschede, the Netherlands) at the closing ceremony of an exhibition of the Museum (May 9, 2010 at 3:08 pm) without tripod - without camera moves - without zooming without special lighting - without extra microphone - without permission... the sound and the length of the shooting is the original there are no cuts in the scene


sadescription Terristoire / Terristory
6mn   color   stéréo   2014   France
by Emmanuelle Sarrouy
production : Endogène
self-distribution
Love’s breath in the heart of chaos. Sings the memory of mankind and his becoming.


sadescription The Bolivian affair
14mn30   color   stéréo   2013   Romania
by Daniel Nicolae Djamo
self-production
self-distribution
In October 2012 I was given two stories of a German sailor in the shape of 2 rolls of 8mm films. The movies were made somewhere in the late sixties. The sailor is a woman who knows 12 foreign languages and has truly wondered the whole world. This is her story of Bolivia.


sadescription The censer
4mn39   color   stéréo   2012   Romania
by Daniel Nicolae Djamo
self-production
self-distribution
Filmed in front of Berliner Dom. cen·ser (snsr) n. A vessel in which incense is burned, especially during religious services. [Middle English, short for encenser, from Anglo-Norman encensier, from encens, incense, from Old French; see incense2.]


sadescription The Everden
16mn33   b/w   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Clint Enns
self-production
self-distribution
Conflicted emotions about the city. Fears and anxieties surrounding movement and travel. Fragile dreams become nightmarish realities. Shot on a broken pxl2000 in 5 movements.


sadescription The hole in teeth
11mn26   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   Taiwan
by Chuang Yu-Ru
self-production
self-distribution
About one boy's fantasies of sex, body, and the hole in his teeth.


sadescription The Huntsman
2mn32   color   stéréo   2013   New Zealand
by Brit Bunkley
self-production
self-distribution
An oversized spider leisurely roams along Rosebank Road in the Auckland suburb of Avondale and in Hearne Bay juxtaposed against stop motion images of screams from Grade B horror movies of fictional killer spiders. Of the 35,000 species of spiders described worldwide, only a handful are considered to be dangerous and only 27 are known to have caused human fatalities. The irrational fear of spiders is an apt trope for unfounded fear -in the colloquial sense, “paranoia”, which conditions racism, diffidence and the Hobbesian trap of violence. The 3D digital spiders were modelled on a freeze-dried Avondale spider from the Auckland Museum scanned at Formscan, North Auckland. (Avondale spiders are the spiders that were shipped from Auckland to LA for the movie "Arachnophobia".) They are harmless.


sadescription The Parting Dance
3mn   color   stéréo   2013   Spain
by Gerard Freixes-Ribera
self-production
self-distribution
Even if a couple looks like a happy unity on the outside, on the inside each member may try to nullify the other. Editing and manipulating found footage from a musical film, this work gives a visual representation of the division in a couple in contrast with the love ideal background of Hollywood films.


sadescription The Plastic Garden
11mn   color   stéréo   2013   China
by Yuk-Yiu IP
self-production
self-distribution
Evoking imagery and memories of the atomic age with the hacked game CALL OF DUTY: Black Ops, "THE PLASTIC GARDEN" summons the ghost of a forgotten future, the grim fatality of a total nuclear war that held the world hostage half a century ago.


sadescription The Rising
15mn30   color   stéréo   2014   United Kingdom
by Nick Jordan
self-production
self-distribution
The Rising is a short film which depicts an invasive alien species, Giant Hogweed, as it rapidly colonizes the British landscape. Filmed throughout its annual growth cycle, The Rising captures the plant's dramatic infestation along a lowland riverbank in northern England. Part natural history, part sci-fi, The Rising features an atmospheric soundtrack score by Lord Mongo, and presents the alien interloper as both a dangerous, toxic menace and impressive, natural wonder.


sadescription The Silent Movie
1mn19   b/w   sil   2013   United Kingdom
by Slawomir Milewski
self-production
self-distribution
79 seconds of the silent movie.


sadescription The silver wolf
2mn53   color   stéréo   2013   Romania
by Daniel Nicolae Djamo
self-production
self-distribution
The videowork is inspired by an event witnessed by Christina Sarli in front of Gara de Nord, Bucharest's main trainstation, in early June 2013. Christina Sarli saw a glue-sniffer dancing with the wolves of Bucharest's streets, enchanting them with a shamanic noise of keys.


sadescription THE TOURIST- Portrait of Bernard Henry Levy
2mn   color   stéréo   2013   France
by João Cristovão LEITÃO
self-production
distribution : HEURE EXQUISE !
"I was... I was also... I am... I think... I know... What I saw with my eyes... for moral values... I advocated for military action... it's a a real progress in civilisation...Believe me, believe me..." The french flashy and media star philosopher, Bernard Henry Levy is explaining that his thought is inspired on what he sees "with his eyes".


sadescription The Year of the Singing Cicadas
3mn30   color   stéréo   2013   USA
by Brice Bowman
self-production
self-distribution
Is about period of time of fucking disguised as making love to subsequently be exposed as deceit.


sadescription TheY
8mn   color & b/w   sil   2014   China
by Zhou Hongxiang
production : 910 image Studeo
self-distribution
背对大海。一些人，一些物，最终都会死去。 With their back to the sea. Some people, some things will eventually die.


sadescription Tiger
20mn   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Orlan Roy
self-production
distribution : Collectif Jeune Cinema
A love journey.


sadescription tournés
1mn17   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Carole Contant
self-production
self-distribution
Turned with the camera in the hand, the umbrella turns into the other, my body turned on itself and around a tree until the rotraty vertigo of the missing kiss.


sadescription Untitled
2mn50   color   stéréo   2014   USA
by Karl Lind
self-production
self-distribution
Created for the 2014 Distilled Artists Fundraiser event in honor of Emily Stone and Lucy Yim and inspired by their 2013 Alembic Artist's Residency journals. Birds, voodoo and the disembodied voice of Robert Anton Wilson guide your neuro-circuitry for approximately 180 seconds.


sadescription Unwind
2mn40   color   stéréo   2012   India
by Aditi Kulkarni
self-production
self-distribution
It’s an experimental video projecting parallel and relative dimensions of momentum co-existing in the space-time model. This is a series of work seen as individual or collective.


sadescription Utopia
6mn21   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Sandrine Deumier & Yann Hagimont
self-production
self-distribution
Poem of anticipation deriving permanently in the permeable limits between utopian dreams and frenzies of mass, megalomanias and sanctifications of the violence, «Utopia» is built as a poem-bomb and slows down the ambiguities between images of fantastical utopias and the narratives of symbolic violence.


sadescription V....e I
5mn   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Jean-Marc Boulard & Elena Boulard
self-production
self-distribution
An "eyes-wide shut" trip of a young medical student who came to visit France from Kalmykia, Russia.


sadescription V....e II (double)
8mn   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Jean-Marc Boulard & Francesca Grandi & Yuki Mitsuo
self-production
self-distribution
They arrived at dusk at our home. One from Hiroshima, the other from Roma... a tale of the two cities...


sadescription Venus
11mn58   color   stéréo   2013   Norway
by Ane Lan
self-production
self-distribution
A pregnant woman is surrounded by mythical creatures in a pagan ritual celebrating fertility and forces of life and sexuality. Addressing the archaic Venus sculptures made in the dawn of human evolution (ref. Venus of Willendorf c. 28,000-23,000 B.C.), the video investigates our past and contemporary relationship with the image of the pregnant female body, through a reading of the Freudian concept of the childs rejection of the mother(body) as a the primary stage of narcissism and the gateway to the symbolic world.


sadescription Video Pagus Mundi III
2mn03   b/w   stéréo   2012   Italy
by Paride Di Stefano
self-production
self-distribution
The "video Pagus Mundi III" belongs to a series of videos entitled "Pagus Mundi". In the video we see many images that appear and move according to the sounds generated by a mixer for cement. The sound is cut and re-organized and carries the rhythm of the entire video. The video is a view of the landscape from a different perspective, like in a dream where consciousness is lost in the depths of irrationality.


sadescription Vie, mort et retour
2mn50   color   stéréo   2012   France
by Sylvia Donis
self-production
self-distribution
A looped story in which material, grain, film, light cause the downfall and then the revival.


sadescription Void Analogue
1mn26   color   sil   2014   Australia
by Paul Handley
self-production
self-distribution
Analogue to Digital Melbourne / December 13 2013.


sadescription VVOOLLVVOO
0mn33   color   stéréo   2013   Canada
by Victor Ballesteros
self-production
self-distribution
Volvo 3C: camera, car, computer.


sadescription Walk in the Flesh
7mn   color   stéréo   2013   Portugal
by Filipe Afonso
self-production
self-distribution
"Bodies becomes patterns of information, flickering signifiers, characterized by their tendency toward unexpected metamorphoses, attenuations, and dispersions" (Katherine Hayles, 1993). "Walk in the Flesh" is a video that appropriates the original images of "Scanners" by David Cronenberg...


sadescription Walsed
3mn30   color   stéréo   2014   Spain
by Alberte Pagán
self-production
self-distribution
"Walsed" is a film study on the experimental classic “Visión fantástica” by Eugène Deslaw. Where Deslaw negativized, I negate —while recovering the original positive images—, drastically reducing the film’s 60 minutes’ length and reversing the images in space and time.


sadescription we take the wind
12mn15   color   stéréo   2013   Australia
by Scott Morrison & Monika Brooks
self-production
self-distribution
Morrison's sun soaked abstractions have been intertwined with Brooks' piano improvisations. These recordings have been captured, re-rendered and stitched into Morrison's footage to create a unifying, elevating composition of light and sound. The video's soundtrack is a mixture of this soundtracked ambience and the field recording of the locations in which the video was created.


sadescription Wildnis
12mn   color   dolby stéréo   2013   Germany
by Helena Wittmann
self-production
self-distribution
Potatoes have to be peeled, withered orchid blossoms must be plucked. Then everything is in order.


sadescription Wind Up Bird
6mn35   color   stéréo   2013   Australia
by Katrina Stamatopoulos & Alexandra Spence
self-production
self-distribution
The subjects in this film are characters of their own worlds, their own realities. Observing from afar, you are a hidden witness. Inspired by imaginary journeys, "Wind Up Bird" is a result of an audiovisual collaboration between Sydney artist Katrina Stamatopoulos and Toronto based artist Alexandra Spence. This film is part of an ongoing project that explores the powerful and inextricable link between sound and the moving image. ‘Collecting used footage from eBay, I am always uncertain of its age, content and history. My expectations are lost as I view the films, and a journey begins to a far away land, that appears so close as if it to be dreamt or imagined.’ Katrina Stamatopoulos. ‘Wind Up Bird developed intuitively into a sound world built on undulating waves of static. The sounds, taken from my archives of field recordings and improvisations, beckon with suggestions of melody and memory, creaking, twirling and fragmented.’ Alexandra Spence


sadescription WWW - Walk With a Woman
14mn35   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Marie-Anne Pauly
self-production
self-distribution
Poetic dream or tragedy of humanity? Six cameras. One heart that beats. Intermingling and discrepancy between sounds and images. One voice that leads the audience into a world where Death does not exist.


sadescription XXZ
4mn30   color & b/w   stéréo   2013   Poland
by Pedro Ferreira
self-production
self-distribution
Object of depriving pleasure. The male fetishistic obsession for lesbian is deconstructed in attempt to destroy the sexual desire. The imagery is analyzed with the intention to provoke reaction on human senses.


sadescription Yugoslavian Home Movies
12mn   color & b/w   stéréo   2014   Serbia
by Salise Hughes
production : Academic Film Center SCCC
self-distribution
Made from a collection of home movies, news footage and photos gathered from a trip to Beograd in memory of a country that no longer exist.


sadescription [ DOUBLE BIND #3 ]
3mn50   color   stéréo   2013   France
by Gilivanka Kedzior & Barbara Friedman
self-production
self-distribution
« I love your eyes, my darling friend, Their play, so passionate and bright’ning, When a sudden stare up you send, And like a heaven-blown lightning, It’d take in all from end to end. But there’s more that I admire: Your eyes when they’re downcast In bursts of love-inspired fire, And through the eyelash goes fast A somber, dull call of desire… » - Fiodor TIOUTTCHEV