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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

Arjen de Leeuw: Act

Arjen de Leeuw: Act

I was selected to participate in the Arctic Circle program, a 2 week sailing trip for artists around Spitsbergen. A part of the world where there is very little human activity. The questionablity of our presence was something that interested me. What allowed us to make this trip? What did we expect to find?

Duration : 3m
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

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

Eelco Brand: B1 Movi

Eelco Brand: B1 Movi

Eelco Brand uses paint and digital techniques to create images that reflect his conception of nature. His work represents his vision of the human beings nature and the world around him. Viewing his work can be both: an alienating and deeply human experience.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Eelco Brand: R Movi

Eelco Brand: R Movi

Eelco Brand uses paint and digital techniques to create images that reflect his conception of nature. His work represents his vision of the human beings nature and the world around him. Viewing his work can be both an alienating and deeply human experience.

Duration : 59s
Maturity Level : all

Nicolás Rupcich: EDF

Nicolás Rupcich: EDF

Nicolás Rupcich studied his Bachelor of Arts degree at the U. Finis Terrae. He works mainly with photography, video and installation, his work focuses on issues related to digital image postproduction and technologies related to image production today. He has exhibited his works in individual and collective exhibitions in Chile and abroad, but also in international new media festivals.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Nicolás Rupcich: ML

Nicolás Rupcich: ML

Nicolás Rupcich studied his Bachelor of Arts degree at the U. Finis Terrae. He works mainly with photography, video and installation, his work focuses on issues related to digital image postproduction and technologies related to image production today. He has exhibited his works in individual and collective exhibitions in Chile and abroad, but also in international new media festivals.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Joe Hamilton: Hyper Geography

Joe Hamilton: Hyper Geography

Joe Hamilton makes use of technology and found material to create intricate compositions. His recent work questions our established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly networked.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Claudia Hart: Digital Death

Claudia Hart: Digital Death

Claudia Hart emerged as part of that generation of 90s intermedia artists in the Identity Art niche but now updated through the scrim of technology. Her work is about issues of the body, perception, nature collapsing into technology and then back again. Everything is fluid in it including gender.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Oto Hudec: Mirror Land

Oto Hudec: Mirror Land

This story talks about a beekeeper from Dúbravica village in central Slovakia who has built a bee house in a form of a spaceship to fly with his bees to the Mirror Land. A planet, similar to ours, hidden behind the Sun, unspoiled. The video Mirror Land is a piece of a larger series of works documenting the story. Maybe one last ode to escapism but the escapism with a purpose. Or an ode to the work of beekeepers, those who share a bond with their bees - although -stealing- their honey, they protect and care for the families.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Jammes: A Sanctuary

Louis Jammes: A Sanctuary

Louis Jammes is a French artist. He began in the early 80’s by photographing famous artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Combas or Jean-Michel Basquiat. Louis also wanted to explore the world and so he went to places where reporters and war correspondents go: Tunisia, Sarajevo, Chernobyl, Iraq, Gaza. He doesn’t photograph barbarism but victims, mostly children, alone in a scenery he reworks subsequently in paintings.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

Michele Spanghero: Monologue

Michele Spanghero: Monologue

The video installations Monologue show the process of ambience recording of empty theaters: the layerings of the recordings make the theater resonate. With silence the theater is in darkness, but, as the sound rises, the lights slowly grow up to reveal the hall and, in backlight the artist alone on stage, carefully listening to the sound of the voice of the theater.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Marcantonio Lunardi: 370 New World

Marcantonio Lunardi: 370 New World

370 New World is a work on the new solitude created by the economic and social crisis which crossed the whole Europe in the last ten years. The human isolation which is displayed to the spectator is, by now, part of the everyday life of many people. The author thus introduces his creative work as a kind of mirror in which the spectator may recognise some details of his or her own life. Despite the video focuses on the new media, Lunardi does not want to make any accusation.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Arctic Study

Arctic Study

Ulrik Hage’s Derbyshire Arctic Study

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Save Manhattan

Mounir Fatmi: Save Manhattan

Save Manhattan is an installation composed of literary, philosophical, journalistic and religious works. This project is a reflection on the disaster of September 11, 2001.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: The Angel’s Black Leg

Mounir Fatmi: The Angel’s Black Leg

Mounir Fatmi is one of the most internationally renowned artists from the Arab world. The Angel’s Black Leg, a tryptic of light boxes is based upon a painting by Fra Angelico. It depicts the twinbrothers Damian and Cosmas, who perform a transplant operation in which a black leg is being transplanted onto a white patient. They were physicians living in Syria in the 3rd century and became saints later. For Mounir Fatmi, this motif illustrates an attempt to overcome ethnic barriers. However, it is not revealed whether scientific interest prompted this motif or indeed how the experiment turns out.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Mixology

Mounir Fatmi: Mixology

Mixology shows a close-up of a DJ’s mixer. It’s a familiar sight: two decks separated by a mixing console, with the arms of a DJ flipping switches and spinning records. But here, the black vinyl of the records is decorated with circular Hadiths of the Prophet, painted white on the grooved surfaces.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all