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PROPAGANDA ARCHITECTURE

Romana SCHMALISCH: Weg zum Klub. Erholung durch Kultur
Exp. documentary | 16mm, dv, super 8 | color | 00:11:00
Germany | 2007 [•]

Christian BARANI, Guillaume REYNARD: Kazakhstan, naissance dune nation
Exp. documentary | dv | color | 01:04:00
France/Kazakhstan | 2008 [•]

The architecture of power, as a fiction in reality. Romana Schmalisch combines in the form of a collage Soviet avant-garde buildings from the 1920s, with film and audio recordings from the late 1930s, in which the subject of changes in the city of Moscow plays a central role. Christian Barani and Guillaume Reynard have filmed Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, following the will of President Nazarbaiev. They try to explore how fiction preceded reality, as for instance during Darejan Omirbaev’s shooting of a film. They also delve into the flipside of things: from a construction site building to a small house about to be expropriated. Through an ex-soviet booming oligarchy, they paint a melancholic and poetic portait of globalization. In 1998, seven years after the country’s independence, the autocratic Kazakh president Noursoultan Nazarbaiev decides to change the capital city from Almaty to Astana, located in the northern steppes. High-rise buildings emerge, financed by oil exports. The film starts with a presidential speech delivered in 1997 about Kazakhstan future, praising “the three social layers, the well off, the middle-class and the poor”, the infinite promises of a liberal economy. Christian Barani and Guillaume Reynard witness the development a new society, in the ruins of affluent wealth.

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AFTER THE END

Timo KATZ, Jan FUCHS: Die Welt
Experimental video | dv | color | 00:05:00
Germany | 2008 [•]

Michael Miska KNAPEK: Longlapses: Mannerheimintie south
Experimental video | quicktime | color | 00:03:00
Denmark/Finland | 2007 [•]

Tuomo RAINIO: City
Video | dv | black and white | 00:02:46
Finland | 2006 [•]

Behnam KAMRANI: Endurance
Video | dv | color | 00:03:44
Iran | 2006 [•]

Johanna DOMKE: Cuers
Video | dvc pro hd | color | 00:18:05
Germany | 2008 [•]

Charly NIJENSOHN: El naufragio de los hombres
Video | dv | color | 00:07:05
Argentina/Groenland, Germany | 2007 [•]

Rui SILVEIRA: Ni Dilli
Video | dv | color | 00:00:55
Portugal | 2008 [•]

Lina SELANDER: Timmarna som rymmer formen (et par dagar i Portbou)
Exp. documentary | dv | color and b&w |00:15:00
Sweden | 2007 [•]

Luis VALDOVINO, Dan BOORD: Not enough Night
Exp. documentary | dv | color and b&w |00:07:44
Argentina/USA | 2007 [•]

Jorge RIVERO: La presa
Exp. documentary | 35mm, hdv | color | 00:20:00
Spain | 2008

A contemporary archeology of various locations, which seem to be waiting forever, locations only related to past events. Timo Katz and Jan Fuchs modify the visual aspect of an urban space and offer parallel and multiple perspectives. Michael Miska Knapek films a public place during 15 hours, separates the footage in spatiotemporal fragments and rearrange a new image, offering a condensed vision of recorded time. Tuomo Rainio presents the still frame of an urban landscape in which anything that moves leaves a trace on the image, resulting in an animated picture. Behnam Kamrani films a man and the apparition of a woman dancing in a space covered with mirrors. Johanna Domke films men and women, waiting in public places. Time and space are suspended, so as to put forward the mental landscape of those waiting. Charly Nijenshon shows men looking like castaways on a salted lake in Bolivia. Rui Silveira explores a picture, by both isolating and linking elements. Lina Selander films the region of Portbou, the last location Walter Benjamin visited before he committed suicide. Sound and images repeat over and over again, along with testimonies from refugees. Luis Valdovino and Dan Boord leave the Longmont Colorado gas station, which was moved twice to protect it from certain destruction, to follow the same path as Jack Kerouac and Robert Franck, in what becomes a rebuilding of the United States. Mehdi Meddaci films a stumbling architecture on the Mediterranean coast, observes the extremely slow movement of bodies, the throwing of a rock as a link to reality.

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NEW FICTION

Miguel FONSECA: Alpha
Fiction | 35mm | color | 00:27:00
Portugal | 2008 [•]

Philippe TERRIER-HERMANN: La mare aux fées
Experimental fiction | dv, hdv | color | 00:06:50
France | 2008 [•]

Alexia WALTHER, Maxime MATRAY: Lélan
Fiction | 16mm | color | 00:15:24
France/Switzerland | 2008 [•]

Julius ZIZ: Vilkas (the Wolf)
Fiction | hdv | color | 00:20:00
Lithuania | 2008 [•]

Knut ASDAM: Oblique
Experimental fiction | 35mm, hdv | color | 00:12:50
Norway | 2008 [•]

Films and videos presented during this session, directed by young filmmakers and plastic artists, address the narrative form and explore new ways to generate fiction. Possible variation in writing questions the combination of reality with fiction and the underlying links between narration and representation. Miguel Fonseca envisions a future where artificial beings will be capable of carrying out all tasks. Two of those artificial beings, Alpha and Beta, are couple only a few weeks away from being shipped to their future owners in Japan. Philippe Terrier-Hermann’s film begins in the Fontainebleau forest, where two young men admire the Mare aux Fées. One of them mentions some excerpts from Georges Bataille’s “La part maudite”. They end up on a raft drifting on the Seine, in reference to Evariste Luminais’ painting the “Enervés de Jumièges”. Alexia Walther and Maxime Matray follow some men walking in the countryside, early in the morning, to take part in a duel. Julius Ziz analyses contemporary tribalism and the way a society defines itself by what it excludes. A man is wrongly arrested but is able to escape. Followed by the police, he still wants to see his house one last time. Knut Asdam films characters going through a transition, a travel through different landscapes composed of fragment of cities, whose political, economic and social backgrounds are different. He questions a new form of cinema.

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CARTE BLANCHE
TO ANTONI MUNTADAS
In the presence of Antoni Muntadas

Antoni MUNTADAS, Marshall REESE: Political Advertisement VII, 1952 - 2008
Exp. documentary | dv | color and b&w |01:15:00
Spain/USA | 2008 [•]

For each presidential election since 1984, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese edit a new version of “Political Advertisement”, a documentary work on campaign advertising involved in the presidential election from 1952 to the present day. As Muntadas and Reese explain how TV commercials developed, political strategies and marketing techniques for manipulating the televised election campaign in the United States emerge. Politics sold as a product. Examining the media as an instrument of socialization and normalization, Antonio Muntadas’ internationally recognized videotapes and media installations investigate the contradictory messages projected by print and broadcast media, architecture, and language. Throughout his work, Muntadas re-contextualizes available imagery in order to provoke the viewer into rethinking the meaning of the messages, creating a breach in the uniformly constructed “media flow,” a stream of information engineered by advertisers to be consumed whole, unanalyzed by the home audience. In Political Advertisements, (edited with Marshall Reese), Muntadas shows us a land of manipulation, the land of television politics. Between The Frames focuses on the art world and presents interviews that reveal the interwoven structures delimiting how art communicates, how it is made, bought, and sold.