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Simona Deaconescu: Silent Places

Simona Deaconescu: Silent Places

This short film is about a choreographer, a director of photography, a music composer and five dancers meet up on infinite ground, a space filled with interlinked relationships. It was showcased at the Pool Festival in Berlin in 2016. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

YunTing Tsai: Betwixt and Between

YunTing Tsai: Betwixt and Between

YunTing Tsai is interested in dance video/film making. This short movie Betwixt and Between was awarded as the PEARLS 15, winner films of POOL 15 Internationales Tanzfilmfestival Berlin. Credits: Betwixt and Between, YunTing Tsai, (2012), 8 min 15. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Helena Jonsdottir: Gone

Helena Jonsdottir: Gone

Gone by Jonsdottir is physical cinema. A middle-aged man visits Gljúfrasteinn a house in Iceland where the novelist and Nobel Prize writer Halldór Laxness lived with his wife Audur. While the couple is away, a man enters their the house and spends the day there. Who is gone? Is he really there? What if someone spent the day at your house in your absence? Would you ever know? This short film by Jonsdottir is mindblowing. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Roni Chadash: Spineless

Roni Chadash: Spineless

Roni analyzes the concept of the spine. After a long period in which she didn’t know where her spine was and why she was giving her whole self to other people destroying herself and her healthy ego. This movie talks about how we fit ourselves into society and let other people criticism affect us more than it should have. Through the whole film, the audience can not see the spine of Roni, as a symbol for it’s gone. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Smoke-Clad Warrior

Smoke-Clad Warrior

Directed by Mali Lazell and Adrian Kunzel, performed by Yuko Kaseki and Kaddish, this movie won the Pearl Award at the Pool Festival 2014 in Berlin. It talks about the journey of a warrior. Choose your battles. Fight the Fight. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Isabelle Hayeur: Uprooted

Isabelle Hayeur: Uprooted

Isabelle Hayeur is a lens-based artist known for her photographs and her experimental videos. She has also realized public art commissions, several site-specific video installations and photography books. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. She is particularly interested in the feelings of alienation, uprooting and disenchantment.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Isabelle Hayeur: Mirages

Isabelle Hayeur: Mirages

Isabelle Hayeur is a lens-based artist known for her photographs and her experimental videos. She has also realized public art commissions, several site-specific video installations and photography books. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. She is particularly interested in the feelings of alienation, uprooting and disenchantment.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Antti Laitinen: Growler

Antti Laitinen: Growler

Antti Laitinen born in 1975 and is an artist from Finland. This project Growler, made in 2009, sees the artist making a small iceberg storing seven cubic meters of snow inside a big styrofoam box. When the summer came, Antti took the snow out and brought it to the sea.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Awake Yoshimura: Places - A City

Awake Yoshimura: Places - A City

Awake Yoshimura was born in New York and he lives in Amsterdam. His work is inspired by built environments and their representations. Places - A City is a video work constructed from still photographs taken from observation points in 12 big cities in the world. All the images are seamlessly joined together creating one metropolis. All distinctive landmarks in each city, traffic and signs; the elements which a city identifies herself with and give one a sense of orientation, are erased. What occurs here is the loss of the site in favour of the bland grandeur of globalization. The work is originally made to be shown in loop, as an infinitely continuing city.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Enrique Ramirez: Day 14, Ocean Project

Enrique Ramirez: Day 14, Ocean Project

The Ocean project begins in 2010, as a Franco-Chilean production, with a clear objective: reminds one of the trips made in 1890 by the France I, one of the largest five-masted boats, hull and steel masts, of his time, and served the company as Dunkirk cargo between Europe and Chile. On his first trip he transported 5,000 tons of coal in Iquique, Chile to recharge 5500 tons of nitrate. In 1901, during a voyage to Valparaiso with a cargo of coal, France I experienced a severe storm. The crew abandoned the boat and was collected by the four-masted German Hebe.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Katy Unger: Breaking Point

Katy Unger: Breaking Point

Katy Unger was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1981 and received her BFA from PNCA (Pacific NW College of Art) in Portland, Oregon. Applying blurred imagery, eroded surfaces, and layered media, her recent work investigates themes of impermanence, altered states and perception of place. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and publications internationally and throughout the US. She currently divides her time between creating from her home studio in Los Angeles and working as an Arts Educator.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Wai Ping: Wu Changshuo

Wai Ping: Wu Changshuo

Rediscover Heritage is the only way to keep traditions, objects, culture and monuments alive. Preserving, restoring and displaying a collection of ancient things. Through this videos, IkonoTv explores the architecture, the art and the people who keep them alive.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Calligraphy by a Japanese Monk

Calligraphy by a Japanese Monk

Rediscover Heritage is the only way to keep traditions, objects, culture and monuments alive. Preserving, restoring and displaying a collection of ancient things. Through this videos, IkonoTv explores the architecture, the art and the people who keep them alive.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities/Air-port-city

Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities/Air-port-city

After studying art and architecture, Tomás Saraceno established his studio in Frankfurt am Main in 2005. The studio was relocated to Berlin in 2012. He is a contemporary artist from Argentina. In his works he links art, life, science and the social sciences.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Jean Prouvé: 8 x 8 BCC House

Jean Prouvé: 8 x 8 BCC House

French architect Jean Prouvé invented demountable modular houses in the 30’s. At the end of the Second World War, Prouvé got an order to build these houses as they were cheap and quick shelters. But after the war, these homes have been widely forgotten.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Jean Prouvé: Demountable House 6 x 6

Jean Prouvé: Demountable House 6 x 6

French architect Jean Prouvé invented demountable modular houses in the 30’s. At the end of the Second World War, Prouvé got an order to build these houses as they were cheap and quick shelters. But after the war, these homes have been widely forgotten.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Augenblick: Su Misura

Augenblick: Su Misura

A tailor and his jealous wife during a morning like any other, serving customers like everyday. Suddenly, a client different from all the other ones comes in the study and everything changes. In this video by Augenblick, the textures become imagination and movement. Su Misura (that means Tailored) is a short choreography that describes through gestures the relationship of the couple. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Rain Kencana: Goldfish

Rain Kencana: Goldfish

This short film is about Ichi Go dances her ambivalent attitude between tradition and modernity in relation to her femininity. She clearly shows her discomfort when dealing with symbols from both worlds. The movie is inspired by a poem of Shuntaro Tanikawa. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Engel - Karmi: Sour Sweets

Engel - Karmi: Sour Sweets

The film is about an elderly woman, who’s body has paid its toll to the ravages of time but who’s memories and emotions are more awake than ever. In her remembrance the past and people revive. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Maxime Martins: Ubikutopia

Maxime Martins: Ubikutopia

Maxime Martins is a visual artist and filmmaker. His film, photography and video work use the language of cinematography to question the temporality of images. As he works on contemporary utopias, he is fascinated by the subconscious mechanisms layered in urbanistic and cinematographic dreams. In his works time is suspended in order to reveal the phenomenon at stake in urban spaces. A character goes back on the technological utopia of the early XXIst century through the creation in 2015 of the city of Songdo in South Korea. The first smart, ubiquitous city.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Speed City

Mounir Fatmi: Speed City

Mounir Fatmi is a Moroccan artist. His art includes video, installation, drawing, sculpture and painting. This work talks about the speed of modernization in the Arab World. With the industrialization, cities in the Middle East appear out of the desert and the buildings thrown up so fast that there is no time to reflect on the changes.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Vietnam

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Vietnam

A Parisian by adoption, Lorenzo Mattotti was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1954. He studied architecture in Venice then moved towards the graphic novel form of which he is now one of the major exponents. In this travel book dedicated to Vietnam, Mattotti opens us towards a vibrant world of colour suffused with energy and vitality. A window into his impressions, his illustrations leave us contemplative.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Hawaii

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Hawaii

In this new Louis Vuitton Travel Book, the Croatian comic book artist Esad Ribic draws the Hawaiian. In over 100 exclusive drawings and paintings, he offers his brilliant style that remind us Realist movement.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Easter Island

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Easter Island

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. In his dream-like gouaches, Arsham imagines for the Travel Book Easter Island a cosmogony in touches of grey and black, paying attention to perspective and subtle nuances.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all