[VIDEOSCREENINGS]

TUESDAY, JULY 1st
from 7 to 10pm


IN THE NAME OF KERNEL
Looped video screening

Joan LEANDRE : In the Name of Kernel!: Song of the Iron Bird
Video | Spain | 2008  [•]

The Kernel, which is at the heart of most computer systems, becomes the myth around which a symbolic event coagulates. It combines travel literature, the alchemy tradition, science fiction, terrorism and conspiracy theories, computer programming, mountain climbing, 3-D modeling, satellite mapping, hallucinations and revelations. John Leandre explores the troubled imagination of a fundamental principle of computer science, without regard for its potential uses, be they military or dreamlike. The image itself, which is created by manipulating computers, changes its status. Along with the images, the blind power of the Kernel appears, the kernel in whose name all technological usages become possible.


PUBLIC ESTATES
Looped video screening

Kader ATTIA : Oil and Sugar
Video | dv | color | 0:05:00
France |  [•]

François BUCHER : The case of K. gun
Video | 35mm | color | 0:10:30
Colombia/Germany | [•]

Tony COKES : Evil.15.1: On Teflon
Video | dv | color | 0:05:55
USA |  [•]

Immo LUEDEMANN : Estate
Experimental documentary | dv | color | 0:09:34
Germany/USA |  [•]

Armand MORIN : Keep off displays 2 (missile range)
Video | dv | color | 0:06:17
France/USA |    [•]

Kader Attia’s displacement of perspective unleashes the significance of objects and images up to a political dimension. François Bucher stages the voice of the interpreter who, during the vote for the UN resolutions on Iraq, unveiled the pressures exerted by the British and American governments. Tony Cokes analyses and distances the manipulating effects of speech and the political language as a war machine. Immo Luedemann films a suburb in Southern California. Something like a narrative appears but then the image is reversed and we hear marines talking of their living conditions in Iraq. Armand Morin films the missile museum in Nevada using a camera mounted on a remote-controlled motor.

[VIDEOSCREENINGS]

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2nd
from 2 to 8pm

SEQUENCE SHOT
Looped video screening

Claudio ZULIAN : A través del Carmel
Experimental documentary | hdv | color | 1:30:00
Italy / Spain | 2006 [•]

In “A través del Carmel”, Claudio Zulian presents a long sequence shot of an afternoon in the Carmel district in Barcelona. We follow the neighbours through their living space, their houses or garages, their daily occupations. They talk to us about every day things, in which we can guess the origins of the city and foresee its future. With Claudio Zulian, images become a decisive element of the political and social life in society.

[VIDEOSCREENINGS]

THURSDAY, JULY 3
from 2 to 8pm

CLICHE AGAINST CULTURE
Looped video screening

Ulu BRAUN : Südwest
Video | hdv | color | 0:01:45
Germany | 2006 [•]

Michael VAN DEN ABEELE : Cargo Cult
Video | dv | color and b&w | 0:07:51
Belgium | 2006 [•]

Nate HARRISON : Stock Exchange
Video | dv | color | 0:12:30
USA | 2007 [•]

Gaëlle BOUCAND : Berliner Bildstörung/Zoologischer Garten
Video | dv | color | 0:03:12
France / Germany | 2006 [•]

Wagner MORALES : Wild life
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:09:21
Brasil / France | 2006 [•]

Luis VALDOVINO , Dan BOORD : El Museo de la Memoria
Experimental documentary | dv | color | 0:10:35
Argentina / USA | 2006 [•]

Ulu Braun reconstructs a detailed and utopian countryside, uniting tradition and globalization in a combination of idyllic scenes of European culture and clichés of the modern tourism industry. Michael Van den Abeele creates a critical science fiction poem on the transport of goods, in a theme park reproducing in miniature the major European monuments. Nate Harrison creates a video letter addressed to an American image library holding video extracts destined for commercials, and offers a reflection of the social modelizing of the image. Gaëlle Boucand recreates a new space in the Berlin Zoo which is emptied of all presence, both seeing and seen, underlining the device of the gaze. Wagner Morales accompanies a group of tourists travelling on a boat in Patagonia. The camera films them in the style of a National Geographic documentary. Luis Valdovino and Dan Boord explore a world which would exist only through being perceived and represented via post cards. Image and historic environment are disjointed, the relation between the world of the touristic gaze and the lived world is dissolved.

[VIDEOSCREENINGS]

FRIDAY, JULY 4th
from 2 to 8pm

MONITORING SURVEY
Looped video screening

Alex CAMPOY : Sin Rumbo
Video | dv | color | 0:21:02
Spain | 2007

Veit LANDWEHR , Florian ZWISSLER : Saariselkä
Video | dv | color | 0:04:41
Germany / Finland | 2006 [•]

Ed OSBORN : Wandering Eye Studies
Experimental video | dv | color and b&w | 0:05:00
USA / Germany | 2006 [•]

Alexander SCHELLOW : Still lives
Animation | dv | black and white | 0:03:36
Germany / United Kingdom | 2007 [•]

Alex Campoy thwarts the security mechanisms of an airport by placing a camera in the base of a suitcase. He takes us along on his journey, from checking in to the plane’s baggage hold. Using 40,000 video surveillance images that were created to observe the state of the roads in Finland, Veit Landwehr et Florian Zwissler recreate sound and visual material. Ed Osborn explores the visual texture of video images drawn from the surveillance of public spaces. He questions the ambivalence of our perception of this imagery, representative of our contemporary media environment. Alexander Schellow reworks and reassembles fragments of memory, using images taken during a subway ride.

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SATURDAY, JULY 5th
from 2 to 8pm

MOVEMENTS
Looped video screening

Daniel CROOKS : PAN NO.5 (tangential acceleration)
Video | dv | color | 0:04:54
Nouvelle-Zélande / Australie | 2007

Erik OLOFSEN : Public Figures
Video | hdv | color | 0:10:22
The Netherlands / Belgium | 2007 [•]

Johanna DOMKE : Sleepers
Video | dv | color | 0:13:40
Germany / United Kingdom | 2006-2008  [•]

Thomas KÖNER : Pneuma Monoxyd
Video | dv | color | 0:10:30
Germany | 2007 [•]

Marcellvs L. : 0434
Video | dv | color | 0:06:56
Brasil | 2007 [•]

Charly NIJENSOHN : Después del final - The polar project
Video | dv | color | 0:07:05
Argentina / Greenland, Germany | 2007 [•]

Daniel Crooks decomposes urban space and recomposes a new temporality. The expansion and contraction of spatial representation become a slowing and acceleration of time. Erik Olofsen films, in extreme slowness, a crowd on a subway platform, capturing the imperceptibility of their gestures, and creating a hypnotic space of perception. The slow motions of the camera and the immobility of the characters allow us to freely associate the elements of the image. Johanna Domke films late at night, in slow shot sequences, the sleeping travelers of Stansted Airport in London as they wait for their morning flights. The video image veers toward a standstill, becoming almost photographic, with the images of these sleeping travelers, suspended in their unconscious state. Thomas Köner questions the invisible fluctuations and boundaries present in each moment. In his video, a still shot of a market in the Balkans becomes an open window onto the flip side of things, revealing a porous boundary of the world. With “0434,” Marcellvs L. films two boats anchored at sea, as they move slowly in a strange synchronicity, creating a fortuitous choreography that suggests a dialogue or a strange ritual. Charly Nijensohn films silhouettes as they hold themselves still in the immensity of an arctic landscape. Lone men, isolated in space, become an existential metaphor of resistance and otherness.

[VIDEOSCREENINGS]

SUNDAY, JULY 6th
from 2 to 8pm

SPACES
Looped video screening

Hans OP DE BEECK : The Building
Animation | dv | color | 0:04:19
Belgium | 2007 [•]

Peter DOWNSBROUGH : AS] IN
Video | dv | color | 0:11:22
USA | 2007 [•]

Peter ROSE : Odysseus in Ithaca
Video | dv | color | 0:05:15
USA | 2006 [•]

Hans Op de Beeck describes a nocturnal wander through a medical complex, confronting an objective point of view with a subjective perspective. In “As] in”, Peter Downsbrough passes through the empty spaces of an office building. Peter Rose takes us through a strange architectural machine, a labyrinth, a place of mystery and power where rules of perspective are challenged.