WEDNESDAY, JULY 2nd
16:00

BODY / DANCE

Jon Mikel EUBA : Gowar
Video | dv color | 0:07:00
Spain | 2005 [•]

Pierre COULIBEUF : Whos Meg Stuart (in Whos who? Series)
Experimental documentary | 35mm | color | 0:07:46
France | 2006 [•]

Johann GRIMONPREZ : Smell the flowers while yu can…
Video | hi8 | color | 0:06:00
Belgium | 1993-2007 [•]

Sonia KHURANA : Flower carrier
Video action | dv | color | 0:05:30
Inde | 2007 [•]

Jason KARAÏNDROS : Figures
Video | dv | color | 0:04:00
Greece/France | 2007 [•]

Eléonore DE MONTESQUIOU : Paljassaare
Experimental documentaryl | dv | color | 0:06:30
France/Estonia, Germany | 2007 [•]

Markus BERTUCH : Walperloh
Video | dv | color | 0:07:30
Germany | 2007 [•]

Manuel SAIZ : Parallel Paradises
Video | dv | color | 0:05:00
Spain | 2006 [•]

Franziska CORDES : All is full of love
Video | dv | color | 0:10:00
Germany | 2007 [•]

Seoungho CHO : Snap
Experimental video | hdv | color and b&w | 0:04:32
South Korea/USA | 2006 [•]

Martijn VAN BOVEN : Interfield
Experimental video | dv | black and white | 0:06:00
The Netherlands | 2007 [•]

With “Gowar”, Jon Mikel Euba elaborates a hybrid video, with references to both Godard and Warhol. Pierre Coulibeuf offers a portrait of Meg Stuart, questioning the fiction of the subject and the subject of fiction. A portrait which takes into account the subject in the process of becoming, the slipping of the social image. Johan Grimonprez transposes an extract of the choreography of Meg Stuart into the waiting room of the Central Station of Ghent. Sonia Khurana, in a personal ritual, makes herself into a flower-carrier and traverses spaces, from one country to another, from one street to another. This traversal and its interactions generate a psycho-visual investigation. Jason Karaïndros films a dance of silhouettes, a slow evolution in a space where the reference points are lost, in the mist of sand and of dust of the Mauritanian Sahara. Eleonore de Montesquiou films the confrontation of bodies and the behavior of youth on the beaches of the Paljassaare peninsula, a former military base from the Soviet era in Estonia. Markus Bertuch films three young boys in a housing project in the former East Germany, a strange and indeterminate architectural and relational space, between tenderness and melancholy. Manuel Saiz places in a forest two young Japanese women who dance in a synchronized manner to a disco tune. The almost documentary view point and the disjunction with the environment suggest the idea of a secret communication across space. Franziska Cordes stages the principle of equivalence, here that of all against all, articulated from the individual point of view. The motif of competition or of dictatorship exercised by a determined group, reorganization around a decentralized network. Seoungho Cho explores the aesthetics specific to digital video, and pushes image and sound towards a minimalist abstraction. Martijn Van Boven describes an imaginary universe, through abstract images and electronic sounds, and makes reference to a position of the spectator from which the latter perceives an environment of which s/he is not a part.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2nd
18:00

PROTO FICTION

Ben POINTEKER : . ..... .:.:...:::ccccoCCoooo::
Experimental film | hdv | color | 0:09:30
Austria | 2006 [•]

Lea Monika ZAMIECKA : movie lea nika zamiecka
Video | dv | color | 0:05:25
Poland/Germany | 2007 [•]

Birgit RATHSMANN : White Out
Video | dv | color | 0:03:15
Germany/USA | 2006 [•]

Ben RIVERS : The Coming Race
Experimental film | 16mm | black and white | 0:05:00
United Kingdom | 2006 [•]

Mareike BERNIEN : Testbild
Video | dv | color | 0:12:00
Germany | 2007 [•]

Knut ASDAM : Finally
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:18:00
Norway/France | 2007 [•]

Nicolas PROVOST : Plot point
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:13:39
Belgium | 2007 [•]

Neil BELOUFA : Kempinski
Fiction Documentary | dv | color | 0:15:00
France/Mali | 2007 [•]

Ben Pointeker questions the essence of the gaze and uses cinematographic language as a reminiscence. The non-discernible fills the frame of the image, the signification is that which appears. Lea Monika Zamiecka describes the feeling of loss, and metaphorizes the need to “go home”. By the means of the images themselves, this search becomes cinematographic and plastic. Birgit Rathsmann produces, taking photographic images as a starting point and according to the codes of film noir, a nocturnal meeting in a park in Brooklyn. Digital snow gradually invades the frame of the image. Ben Rivers films thousands of people climbing a mountain. The destination and the object of their ascent remain undecidable; between a wandering and an uncertain pilgrimage. Mareike Bernien enlarges in fragments extracts of a film, and edits a sound track which seems to come from an autoguide. Emptied of its narrative connections, the asymmetric relation between image and sound becomes apparent. Knut Asdam films the search for possible combinations beween narrative and staging. Three young adults fight violently in a recurring manner, apparently with no reason. The shooting locations, in Salzburg, imprinted with a heavy past, seem to generate this violence. Nicolas Provost films the city of New York as material: its passers-by, its cops. The documentary image produces a fiction through an editing which is simultaneously cinematographic and choreographic. Neil Beloufa creates a science fiction documentary where the interviewees imagine the future and speak of it in the present.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2nd
20:00

SOLILOQUY - 1st part

Noam TORAN, Onkar KULAR : Postponing the Inevitable
Fiction | 16mm | color | 0:16:00
USA/United Kingdom | 2007 [•]

Nicolas WACKERBARTH : Halbe Stunden
Fiction | 35mm | color | 0:20:00
Germany | 2007 [•]

Adel ABIDIN : Void
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:13:00
Irak/Finland | 2006 [•]

Sahraa KARIMI : Simona medzi 20. a 21. Marca
Fiction | dv | color and b&w | 0:11:00
Afghanistan/Slovenia | 2007

Ansuya BLOM : Hither come down on me
Experimental fiction | 16mm | black and white | 0:11:15
The Netherlands | 2007 [•]

John MENICK : The Secret Life of Things
Experimental fiction | dv | color and b&w | 0:06:00
USA | 2006 [•]

The films and videos of this session question narrative forms. Reduced to a single protagonist, the narration shows its own structures, the “dispositif” of projection and identification. Noam Toran and Onkar Kular suggest three interpretations of the theme of approaching death: between a traditional cinematographic narration and an ambiguous space of visual representation. The rigor of the camera settings and the exploration of narration in the works of Nicolas Wackerbarth reflect the interior existence of a woman facing the emptiness of her life. Adel Abidin films a Western man who becomes a fundamentalist. Set between fantasy and reality, the film visually evokes the modern conflict between emptiness and the necessity to find meaning. Sahraa Karimi is interested in a possible reversal of the existence of a young and lonely woman, who, by accident, steals the intimate picture of a stranger. Ansuya Blom evokes the confrontation between a person and a phobic experience of space and that literally defines what is beyond the private sphere. John Menick introduces a man who speaks about his obsession for films that are centered around the topic of “the last person on earth” - films that deal with a person who wakes up one morning to discover that he or she is the last inhabitant of the world.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2nd
22:00

SOLILOQUY - 2nd part

MESSIEURS DELMOTTE : Head with the cats
Video | dv | color | 0:01:27
Belgium | 2006 [•]

Annette STAV JOHANSSEN : Hang safely, die slowly
Video action | dv | color | 0:06:00
Norway/Sweden | 2007 [•]

Eleanor HAWKRIDGE : I have a number of small cats
Video | dv | color | 0:01:22
United Kingdom/Germany | 2007 [•]

Jorunn MYKLEBUST SYVERSEN : Violent Sorrow Seems a Modern Ecstasy
Video | dv | color | 0:09:00
Norway | 2006 [•]

Gregg SMITH : The End
Experimental fiction | hdv | color | 0:13:45
South Africa/Belgium | 2006 [•]

Erwin OLAF : Grief
Experimental video | dv | color | 0:03:59
The Netherlands | 2007 [•]

Ran SLAVIN : Alenbi Moment
Experimental video | dv | color | 0:01:52
Israel | 2007 [•]

Claudia DWORSCHAK, Marion GEYER-GROIS : Wilder Western
Video | dv | color | 0:05:00
Austria | 2007 [•]

Siew-Wai KOK : In solitude, a camera eye
Video | dv color | 0:04:25
Malaysia | 2007 [•]

Fiona TAN : A Lapse of Memory
Experimental fiction | 35mm | color | 0:27:10
Indonesia/The Netherlands | 2007 [•]

The films and videos of this session explore different ways of generating fiction, such as the possible variations in writing that question the combination of reality and fiction. Messieurs Delmotte portrays himself with cats - a heroic and absurd battle between the artist and animals. Annette Stav Johanssen creates a masochistic apparatus that produces narration. This solitary drama starts off with the rules of Aristotelian dramaturgy and exposes the medium as an indication for illusion in the manner of Brecht. Eleanor Hawkridge transposes a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson and develops the monologue of a girl who lives isolated in a tower while compulsively knitting. Jorunn Myklebust Syversen starts off with fragments taken from different tragedies by Shakespeare and puts them together into a dialogue with an ineluctably tragic ending. Gregg Smith shows two men both in an office and in empty spaces as they are engaged in a common project with an unknown objective. Through this specific intimacy emerges a battle for power. Erwin Olaf films two women in an allusive and partial narrative setting, where the sound track is the real bearer of signification. Ran Slavin films Alenbi Street in Tel Aviv, a street that seems to have its own memory - that of a murder witnessed exclusively by mannequins in a showcase. Claudia Dworschak und Marion Geyer-Grois re-transcribe recordings by the police. Through the crude and distanced words of a pimp, the body of the other appears to be a mere commodity. With Fiona Tan we follow an old man who lives in a deserted building, the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. In his monologue, a play between reality and fiction unfolds.