THURSDAY, JULY 3rd
16:00

PSYCHE

Manon DE BOER : Resonating Surfaces
Experimental documentary | 16mm | color | 0:39:00
The Netherlands/Brasil, Belgium | 2005 [•]

Txuspo POYO : Delay Glass
Experimental animation | dv | color | 0:08:30
Spain | 2007 [•]

Yves NETZHAMMER : Die Subjektivierung der Wiederholung, Projekt A
Experimental animation | 3D animation | color | 0:42:24
Switzerland | 2007 [•]

Manon de Boer creates a triple portrait, that of a city, a woman and an attitude towards life. The personal life of Rolnik, a Brazilian psychoanalyst living in Sao Paulo, involves the Brazilian dictatorship of the 60’s as well as the Parisian intellectual climate surrounding Deleuze and Guattari in the 70’s. The film intermingles various themes, the other and the relation towards otherness, the connexion between body and power, the voice and, finally, the micropolitics of desire and resistance. Txuspo Poyo, referring to Marcel Duchamp’s works, articulates an arrangement of “single machines”, sloughed by technological, mechanical, and erotic contributions. Yves Netzhammer transposes in a specific visual idiom, the preoccupation to make the “self” receptive to the other. The world does not appear to be a negotiable and available simple mass but rather like a complex other which has its own dignity.

THURSDAY, JULY 3rd
18:00

PORTRAIT OF WAR

Pablo WENDEL : Terracotta Warrior
Action Video | dv | color | 0:08:38
Germany/China | 2006 [•]

Mathias DELFAU : MUR
Animation | quicktime | color | 0:06:26
France | 2006 [•]

Jonathan SCHWARTZ : A logic sore
Experimental film | 16mm | color | 0:03:00
USA | 2006 [•]

Stephen ANDREWS, John GREYSON : On message
Video | dv | color | 0:09:30
Canada | 2006 [•]

Lamia JOREIGE : Nights and days
Experimental documentary | dv | color | 0:17:00
Lebanon | 2007

Miguel Angel ROJAS : Border Panic
Video | dv | color | 0:04:33
Colombia | 2007 [•]

Tania PAROVIC : Attentate
Video | dv | color and b&w | 0:10:40
Germany | 2006 [•]

Ziad ANTAR : Safe sound
Video | dv | color | 0:09:00
Lebanon / France | 2006 [•]

Martha COLBURN : Destiny Manifesto
Animation | 16mm | color | 0:08:00
USA | 2006 [•]

Jennet THOMAS : The Truth and the Pleasure
Video | dv | color | 0:04:50
United Kingdom | 2007 [•]

Jean-Gabriel PÉRIOT : Under Twilight
Video | dv | color | 0:05:00
France | 2006 [•]

Pablo Wendel becomes one of the 6000 terracotta statues of the statues Army of Lintong in China. Mathias Delfau offers the violent meeting of two points of view; a camera plunges into a motif similar to a leafy vine and discovers anthropomorphic volumes resembling an accumulation of pinned bodies. Jonathan Schwartz offers a falsely naive animation which assembles words and structures like anagrams. Stephen Andrews and John Greyson fragment an animation and a text, on the subject of war and decomposition, of the displacement of values and of the everyday. Lamia Joreige tells of her experience with war from a personal viewpoint, using notes written and filmed during the war in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. On a pavement in Columbia, Miguel Angel Rojas links traces of blood with a chalk line. Tania Parovic assembles images which document terrorist attacks in the media. This placing in series renders explicit the interchangeable characteristics of these images and of the interpretations which are made of them. Ziad Antar films daily life and suspended time in a besieged city. Martha Colburn explores the visual and psychological parallels between the frontier of the American West and the conflict in the Middle East. Jennet Thomas inserts an improbable creature endowed with life in the middle of family portraits. Jean-Gabriel Périot serialises images of fighter aircraft, from the air to the ground, right to their bombing site.

THURSDAY, JULY 3rd
20:00

POST COLONIAL

Lawrence WEINER : Inherent in the Rhumb Line
Animation | dv | color | 0:07:00
USA | 2005 [•]

Alfredo JAAR : Muxima
Experimental documentary | dv | color | 0:36:00
Chile/Angola | 2006 [•]

Ken JACOBS : Hanky Panky January 1902
Video | dv | black and white | 0:01:00
USA | 2007 [•]

Ken JACOBS : Nymph
Video | dv | color | 0:03:00
USA | 2007 [•]

Ken JACOBS : Capitalism: Slavery
Video | dv | black and white | 0:03:00
USA | 2006 [•]

Wendy MORRIS : Bully Beef
Animation | 16mm | black and white | 0:06:00
South Africa/Belgium | 2007 [•]

Teresa Maria DIAZ NERIO : Hommage à Sara Bartman
Video | dv | color | 0:05:00
Dominican Republic/The Netherlands | 2007 [•]

Ane LAN : Afrika
Video | hdv | color | 0:04:34
Norway | 2007 [•]

Gavin YOUNGE : Alyscamps
Video | dv | color | 0:08:00
South Africa | 2007 [•]

Steven COHEN : Maid in South Africa
Video | dv | color | 0:12:00
South Africa | 2005 [•]

LawrLawrence Weiner offers a conceptual reading of the “rhumb line”, a line of constant navigation, which in a certain way justified systemized pillaging on voyages of discovery. Alfredo Jaar filmed in Angola different interpretations of a song written in the 1950s by one of the founders of the country’s liberation movement. Ken Jacobs refilms, reframes, redits, images from the beginning of the C20th, from the time of the origins of cinema, and reproduces the stereoscopic set-up of vision. «Hanky Panky January 1902» offers a vision of human sexuality. «Nymph» offers the belle of the ball surrounded by her suitors. «Capitalism: Slavery» reanimates a stereographic image of cotton pickers; silent, exploited. Wendy Morris connects the First World War and colonialism in the Congo. Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio offers a performance where she puts on, like her own skin, the body of Sara Bartman, an African woman taken to England in 1810 to be exhibited there, hardly considered as a human being because of her origins and her physical characteristics. Ane Lan examines the psychological aspects of the post-colonial relation between Europe and Africa. An African woman prepares a meal for her Western guest who is lying on a bed, sick. Gavin Younge explores the myth of the phantom ship through a series of hypnotic scenes of devastation filmed in Arles and in South Africa, and revisits Les Alyscamps, ancient necropolis of the town of Arles. Steven Cohen questions the body and its exploitation, and renders homage to his South-African nurse, aged 84, who has been since his childhood the household servant in his family.

THURSDAY, JULY 3rd
22:00

I LOVE MY CURATOR

Video collective / Joerg Bader, Joël Benzakin, Lucia Bru, Jordi Colomer, François Curlet, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Pierre Droulers, Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, Simon Siegmann, Loïc Vanderstichelen, Richard Venlet, Angel Vergara : La Ricarda
Experimental video | hdv | color | 0:20:00
Belgium, Spain, France | 2006 [•]

Tzu Nyen HO : The Bohemian Rhapsody Project
Video | dv | color | 0:06:52
Singapore | 2006 [•]

Daniel BARROW : Artist Statement
Experimental animation | 35mm | color | 0:05:00
Canada | 2007 [•]

Irini KARAYANNOPOULOU : Boys
Experimental animation | dv | color | 0:03:45
Greece | 2007 [•]

Oreet ASHERY : Back in 5 minutes
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:08:07
United Kingdom | 2007 [•]

Evaldas JANSAS : To Be on Show
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:11:20
Lithuania | 2006 [•]

Daniela SCHULZ : Fluxus GERD-ner
Documentary | dv | color | 0:03:13
Germany | 2007 [•]

Carles CONGOST : Memorias de Arkaran
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:05:00
Spain | 2005 [•]

Paul TARRAGÓ : Paul and the Badger - Episode 2
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:09:30
United Kingdom | 2006 [•]

Martin SASTRE : Bolivia 3: Confederation Next
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:15:00
Uruguay/Spain | 2005 [•]

The collective project “La Ricarda” is a film in which the opinions of thirteen artists are crossed and intertwined creating a fiction without a script, a labyrinth where singularities are left out to let a composite and fascinating shape appear. The experiment’s location, the Casa Gomis, near Barcelona, becomes the space for a collective experience. Tzu Nyen Ho revisits Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody“, somewhere between a remake and a pastiche, by using images from castings made during the preparation for the shooting in the Supreme Court of Singapore. Daniel Barrow describes and parodies his personal approach to practising art. Irini Karayannopoulou’s animation revisits an 80’s pop song as iconoclast homage to Joseph Beuys. Oreet Ashery directs the visit of an absent artist’s workshop by a curator, an “artistic thriller” exploring the border between the private domain and the dynamics of power in the art’s world. Elvadas Jansas films himself in an ironic intrigue with, as a starting point, the project for building an art center in Vilnius. Daniela Schulz films Gerd Conradt, pioneer of fluxus videos, destroying his tapes as homage to future generations. Carles Congost tells the story of an imaginary country solely habited by artists claiming the right to be something else than the king’s buffoons. Paul Tarragó, surrounded by erudite fluffy toys, dresses up as a kid’s entertainer to initiate the public to a clear rereading of the history of art. Martin Sastre takes us to 2876, in a Latin America which has become a powerful confederation and the United States have atomized themselves. In this future, Martin Sastre and Matthew Barney will test their powers in a final clash.