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VIDEOEX 2003 Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich September 19-20-21, 2003 7:30 pm PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin is pleased to present on September 19th, 20th, 21st 2003 the winners of the competition together with a selection of the international program of the 2003 Videoex Festival (May 16-25). At: PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures hannoversche strasse 1, d-10117 berlin T +49-(0)30-275 82 111 www.pushthebuttonplay.com SCREENINGPROGRAM: _______________________________________________ FRIDAY 19. SEPTEMBER, 19:30h Current Brian Doyle; USA 2001; Video; 6:00 Replay (bis) Lamia Joreige; RL 2002; Video; 9:12 Apocalyptic Man Sebastian Diaz Morales; MEX 2002; Video; 22:30 Great Balls of Fire Leon Grodski; USA 2002; Video; 6:30 White Balance (To Think is to Forget Difference)François Bucher; USA 2002; Video 32:00 _______________________________________________ SATURDAY 20. SEPTEMBER, 19:30h In the City Mike Hoolboom; CDN 2002; Video; 10:00 >From the Homefront Ċsil Bĝthun; N 2003; Video; 3:16 Wie ich ein Höhlenmaler wurde in Kurzfassung Jan Peters; D 2001; 16mm; 20:00 Unternehmen Paradies Volker Sattel; D 2002; 16mm; 59:00 _______________________________________________ SATURDAY 20. SEPTEMBER, 19:30h Trois petits chats François Vogel; F 2003; 35mm; 6:05 Cubica M.Ash, A 2001, Video, 4:00 Besenbahn Dietmar Offenhuber, A/USA/D 2001, Video, 10:00 Novanta Gigi Tarantola, I 2001, Video, 13:00 Stir Mesh akuvido Hanna Kuts, Viktor Dovhalyuk); D 2002; Video; 4.49 Black Milk Max Philipp Schmid, Beat Brogle; CH 2002; Video; 4:00 Wounded on the Bridge Takehiro Tsugimatzu; J 2002; Video; 5:30 Orbiting the Atom Ian Helliwell; UK 2002; Video; 4:50 Rock in the Video Age Niclas Dietrich; D 2002; Video; 10:00 Play (Video Game Session), Level 2 Christophe Blanc; F 2002; Video; 4:30 MORE DETAILS VIDEOEX is an experimental film and video festival held every year in Zurich, Switzerland in mid May. The VIDEOEX festivalsı purpose is to promote experimental video and film work. Itstarted in 1998 and includes an international and a Swiss competition. For the 2003 edition more then 1200 works from 50 countries have been submitted for the international competition. The festival also presents each year different retro-spectives and special programs. In 2003 it was dedicated to the late Stan Brakhage. Two programs with films by him were shown. A highlight of the VIDEOEX 2003 was the central program with the theme Urban Lights³. Well-known curators from various different metropolis around the globe (Craig Baldwin from San Francisco, Yann Beauvais from Paris, Kaspar Stracke from New York and Mike Hoolboom from Vancouver/Toronto) put together works exclusively for the festival, which in one way or another convey a feeling for what makes up their city. The program was concerned with the question whether we still need cities or not. Have cities lost their cultural significance? Are they only centres of trade and consume (also cultural consume)? Are those places that used to be the metropolis, not only by their size but because they produced new cultural meanings, obsolete? Is the compressing of people, influences, ways of thinking, which was able to create new strings of thoughts and positions, no longer necessary? The 2003 jury of the International Competition was made up of Yann Beauvais (Paris), Susann Buchan (London), Kaspar Stracke (New York). Following works were awarded: First prize went to White Balance³ by François Bucher. Three special prizes ex aequo went to: "From the Home Front" by Asil Bothuhn, "Rock in the Video Age" by Niclas Dietrich and "Unternehmen Paradies" by Volker Sattel. The winner of the Swiss competition was: Black Milk³ by Max Philipp Schmid and Beat Brogle. PROGRAM Friday 19. September, 7:30 pm, Program 1 Current Brian Doyle; USA 2001; Video; 6:00 Filmed a year before September 11th during the ³2000 Yankees Ticker Tape Parade² Current is an impressive metaphor of the collective paranoia which permeates the American culture so profoundly. Replay (bis) Lamia Joreige; RL 2002; Video; 9:12 Repetition for the reconstruction of the past and as the attempt to free oneself of it in order to make possible new storytelling. The pictures seem to be reminiscences of the past. The filmmakerıs childhood spent in Beirut, which has been destroyed during the civil war, is contemplated in a poetically personal way. One last long take represents the path to thoughtfulness, the hour of prayer. Apocalyptic Man Sebastian Diaz Morales; MEX 2002; Video; 22:30 A murdererıs confesses not his crime, but his suffering after it. It is not physical suffering, but emotional. A vast, bottomless and frightening pit separates his soul from his already estranged body. The story is based on the novel ³Los siete locos² by the Argentinean author Roberto Arlt. Great Balls of Fire Leon Grodski; USA 2002; Video; 6:30 While Grodski attempts to make sense of the past 48 hours using his camera he meets Jimmy in the streets of New York on September 12th: ³excuse me, whatıs your opinion on the WTC? Great balls of fire!² This entertaining contribution on September 11th balances on a knifeıs edge. White Balance (To Think is to Forget Difference) François Bucher; USA 2002; Video 32:00 ³Who is we?² The answer is clear immediately: those, who show things in a favourable light, which means their own light as privileged people, as people with power. Xenophobia and the corrupted power of images are aspects of this criticism of society, made up of pictures and sound material of different forms of the media and film material of September 11th. Saturday 20. September, 7:30 pm, Program 2 In the City Mike Hoolboom; CDN 2002; Video; 10:00 ³...then I knew it was over.² This alphabetic composition made of found footage and material made by the filmmaker is a humorous self- and general perception of the urban chase after individual happiness: food, sex, breaking-up in restaurants, relationships and affairs. >From the Homefront Ċsil Bĝthun; N 2003; Video; 3:16 This cinematic portrait slowly changes into a still life. Is the idyllic life of a housewife a Nature Morte? Wie ich ein Höhlenmaler wurde in Kurzfassung Jan Peters; D 2001; 16mm; 20:00 An entertaining diary: problems of orientation, record cosmonaut, underexposing, acute attacks of jetlag, prehistoric exclusion of the herd and cave painting as a service in return for food. These are just a few rhetoric excursions into the world of metaphysics. Unternehmen Paradies Volker Sattel; D 2002; 16mm; 59:00 A portrait of a city. The capital city, reawakened to life, longs for representative power centres and clings to the control of its reinstated position. The history of the turbulent, ³stone² Berlin is shown in its urban, developmental interventions. Are new buildings able to create a common identity for the two parts of town? Which contours will shape the future face, which ones will be forgotten in the state archives? The economic empires and politics, construct an answer, but the people of Berlin, so it seems, remain unquestioned. And hence ³Unternehmen Paradies² ends with a distorted reflection. Saturday 20. September, 7:30 pm, Program 3 Trois petits chats François Vogel; F 2003; 35mm; 6:05 A game between words and pictures, which distort and mix each other. Space as an entity loses its contours and borders to which it is subjected in perspective reality. François Vogel tries to break through the limits of the representation of a three-dimensional space in a two-dimensional image, or rather a two-dimensional medium. Cubica M.Ash, A 2001, Video, 4:00 Cubica is a completely abstract computer animation. The application programmed by M. Ash is based on the rule system of the computer game Snake. In one moment we have a distanced overview, in the next we take up a subjective position. This alternation is bound to the tradition of the game. Chris Jankas electronic sound composition moves cubes through impulses. With an increasing number of impulses they push into the third dimension, as if they where looking for an escape route out of the imaginary cube. Besenbahn Dietmar Offenhuber, A/USA/D 2001, Video, 10:00 The fragmentation of the continuum of perceiving becomes an aesthetic and visual event. An almost meditative experience of the formulation of the geometry of space and time. The starting point of this study is the perception of the city from the perspective of the motorised spectator. Novanta Gigi Tarantola, I 2001, Video, 13:00 On an everyday bus ride through the city we are accompanied by more or less comical figures. Neither the ticket inspector nor our bus driver seem to be completely harmless. How sensual can the encounter of a trolley and a Chevy van at a red traffic light be? An animation collage made up of drawings and fragments of skin, hair and textiles. Stir Mesh akuvido (Hanna Kuts, Viktor Dovhalyuk); D 2002; Video; 4.49 Fascinating visual music, a remarkable experience: image and sound form an astounding integrated whole due to their congruence. akuvido transpose the structure of their musical model both formally and as regards content / qualitatively into their graphic language. Black Milk Max Philipp Schmid, Beat Brogle; CH 2002; Video; 4:00 A music video to the song of the same name by Knut & Silvy. Speed, interference on the picture, overlaps, horizontal stripes and monochrome backgrounds. A dancer, Silvy; skin and pixel: ³Beating you out of my body.² Wounded on the Bridge Takehiro Tsugimatzu; J 2002; Video; 5:30 In contrast to ³proper² films according to Tsugimatzu there is little space for imagination in trash-movies. It is not necessary for the spectator to add anything in his mind. Should there be any synchronisation of image and sound, then this is due to our own thinking. The images, showing among other things lamps, neon signs and cigarette machines have been filmed in the neighbourhood of the author and flicker along to a looped, funny, trashy soundtrack. Orbiting the Atom Ian Helliwell; UK 2002; Video; 4:50 Electronic music and celluloid are quite rare these days! Super8 recordings of pictures were generated from a ma-nipulated TV and then treated with coloured ink and bleached. The music, which was composed for this film, is synchronised with the five sections. Rock in the Video Age Niclas Dietrich; D 2002; Video; 10:00 A perpetual shot showing the view of a street with trams and a block of flats. The different images with elaborated picture interference, recordings with longer exposure or at different times of the day overlap each other and were synchronised to the music. The video to Jan Jelinekıs music is reduced in its concept. Nevertheless a dramatic tension is created. Play (Video Game Session), Level 2 Christophe Blanc; F 2002; Video; 4:30 With the imaginative deconstruction Blanc revives the first generation video games. He creates a mirror image of reality, which imitates not reality but the virtual. PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures hannoversche strasse 1, d-10117 berlin T +49-(0)30-275 82 111 T +49-(0)30-2345 575-3 F -4 www.pushthebuttonplay.com __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! 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