Miraslava
Screening I Roberto Santaguida (CA) Miraslava 07:25 min / 2007 A young man, his life in tatters, seeks redemption by fleeing from the city. Miraslava is an experimental documentary that follows the thoughts of the narrator across the course of a day contemplating his place in the world, Through exposing his dreams, disappointments, and the [...]
Play!
Screening I Ger Ger (DE) Play! 02:04 min / 2007 Entertainment can have positive impacts on us, it can destroy and break. Unachievable fantastic sim worlds, growing frustrations, offendings, suppressions of problems … Play! [technology] Live pitching of audio sample with distance sensor on the ground. Sensor equipped rocking dog as music score controller. Ger [...]
Box. No. “Elvis is Dead”
Screening I Sigbjørn Bratlie & Askild Vik Edvardsen (NO) Box. No. “Elvis is Dead” 09:50 min. / 2009 Box. No. ”Elvis is dead” is a short film in shape of a personal ad. The film uses the language, the set phrases and the clichés of lonely hearts´ columns in newspapers or the Internet: A young [...]
Self-muser
Screening I Jonas Nilsson (SE) Self-muser 01:36 min. / 2008 I have been far too used to an easy life. Instead of having to earn it, I have just been given everything and it´s almost paralyzing. The world is my playground. I do what, when I want, how I want to do it. I have [...]
Peku Lapista
Screening I Shanchindra Kumar Dass (IN/FI) Peku Lapista 04:55 min. / 2008 An interview with Pekka Fofonoff. Shachindra Dass was born in India in 1970. He graduated from the National Institute of Design in India. He has worked with animation, video art and environmental art. He lives and works in Helsinki. >> www.av-arkki.fi
Black Balloons
Screening I Ger Ger (DE) Black Balloons 04:26 min. / 2008 Deserts as environments of extreme heat may cause serious stresses and fragilities in different manners. Contrasts of vulnerability and eternal unbreakables. The appearance of balloons and cactuses side by side, a love-hate relationship with dangerous consequences. [technology] When balloons explode, sensors on the inside [...]
Autoportrait I
Screening I Martin Messier (CA) Autoportrait: Presto con amore 03:34 min. / 2009 A breathless body, articulated through a surgical dissection of time. Like a collection of fragments, a being grown increasingly fractured – likely as it searches for itself, for the moments it is made of. Then the intensity of the cry, until the [...]
Autoportrait II
Screening I Martin Messier (CA) Autoportrait: Lento con fuoco 04:00 min. / 2009 A submerged face, latent, despite the tension between air escaping out the nostrils and water gradually seeping in. Like two conflicting elements in a single body — a struggle experienced internally, in weightless time. Then eyes that finally open, renewing hope of [...]
