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Raphaël Kuntz: Empty

Raphaël Kuntz: Empty

A look on utopia, A look on history and a look on the perspective. A museum of the Louvre without work and without public. Consequence of a disaster, uchronie or anticipation, we enter the fiction of a desertion. Pictures with a disconcerting clearness, with a too perfect balance, with a too controlled chromaticism. A medium which did not find his place. Because he does not have any, or because he is composed of all those who were experimented so far.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Beth Derbyshire: Anthem

Beth Derbyshire: Anthem

Anthem is a trilogy of musical landscape films with a powerful choral component that explores ideas on land, place and nation. Three screens were suspended in the Mediterranean biome at the Eden Project. Anthem captures strata’s from wide ranging cultural and natural settings, to explore connections between people and landscape through balancing components of voice, music, word and image. Music composition by Ulrike Haage.

Duration : 28m
Maturity Level : all

Nicolas Rupcich: Big Pool

Nicolas Rupcich: Big Pool

Big Pool is a video about the largest swimming pool in the world (at the year of the video realization), located on the Chilean coast, in San Alfonso del Mar, Algarrobo. With over one-thousand meters in length, two-hundred and fifty million liters of water and a size equivalent to six-thousand domestic swimming pools, this milestone has entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as one of the world’s unique constructions. The video records this vast pool using shots that focus on the obvious artificiality of the location, it shows the buildings of the complex, the site and its relation to the surrounding landscape.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Michael Najjar: Spacewalk

Michael Najjar: Spacewalk

Spacewalk explores linkages between space, gravity and the human body. A cosmonaut glides down into what seems to be an industrial ambiance. His meta-voice reflects fundamental thoughts in a text that is based on Isaac Newton’s manuscript De Gravitatione.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Rocha Pitta: The Secret Sharer

Rocha Pitta: The Secret Sharer

Sao Paulo, Brazil-based artist Thiago Rocha Pitta’s (b. 1980) temporal and sensitive body of work depicts interventions with the environment from his native Brazil. Through watercolors, photographs, sculpture, and video, Rocha Pitta focuses on small yet emotive elements of the natural world that are simultaneously ominous and melancholy. Driven by a preoccupation with the passage of time, particularly in natural settings, Rocha Pitta often manipulates the pace of his work, confronting his viewer with quiet, curious introspection and an open-ended sense of longing.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Rocha Pitta: Temporal Map of a non Sedimented Land #6

Rocha Pitta: Temporal Map of a non Sedimented Land #6

Thiago Rocha Pitta’s temporal and sensitive art often depicts environments from his native Brazil. Through watercolor, photography, sculpture, and video, Rocha Pitta focuses on small, yet emotive elements of the natural world, whether ocean tide, rainclouds, or trails of sap. In this exhibition, Rocha Pitta develops his study of nature through an installation of five videos, each depicting a different desert terrain in Argentina. Referred to as “maps,” these videos capture a deceptively small physical alteration in the land that causes it to either fall, collapse, or become wet or dry. 

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Bright Clouds 1 Wolken

Lohner Carlson: Bright Clouds 1 Wolken

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Canary Wharf Building Cleaners

Lohner Carlson: Canary Wharf Building Cleaners

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Walden Pond Fish

Lohner Carlson: Walden Pond Fish

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Alexander Ponomarev: Baffin Figure

Alexander Ponomarev: Baffin Figure

Baffin Figure is one of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy. The exhibition is one of the official collateral programs of the 54th Venice Biennale. Curated by Alexander Ponomarev and Nadim Samman, the exhibition comprises of  four contemporary artists have been commissioned to create a site-specific work engaging with the theme of entropy: Adrian Ghenie, Hans Op de Beeck, Ryoichi Kurokawa, and Ponomarev himself.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Concerto para Clorofila

Cao Guimarães: Concerto para Clorofila

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. This film, Concerto para Clorofila, is a conjunction of light and shadow, forms, colors and textures that herald the necessary interrelationship of all that is alive and vibrant.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Limbo

Cao Guimarães: Limbo

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. About this film, Limbo, the artist specifies: - A place out of place, an in-between. A hole in space and in time. Playground for the ones that came before, those who have gone early. Eternal windy Sunday.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Sopro

Cao Guimarães: Sopro

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. Sopro is the Portuguese translation of Blow, it expresses the relationship between what is inside and what is outside. The multi-formed translucence of a bubble exhibits the world that contains it and is contained by it. The bubble that never bursts is a metaphor of the continuity of things.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Insight

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Insight

Insight is the total abstraction. A carefully assembled film-crew appears like a tableau vivant facing the viewer. Then suddenly, they shatter- an analogy of breaking through the surface to expose the simulation- a mirror slowly explodes into a thousand pieces. Filmed in beautifully rendered high definition Insight is a tribute to the camera obscuras of old mingled with a critical spirit directed towards the mass media today. Regarded as a phenomenon brought about by a world lacking distinction between real and simulacra, Diaz Morales borrows media industry tactics to expose and undermine. Revealing rather than concealing his methods allows for a moment of realisation to occur. As the pieces of glass crumble into tiny galaxies, context is deconstructed and the universalising tendency of Diaz Morales’ practice literally portrayed. With timeless grace the artist contemplates the nature of existence.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Lost Object

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Lost Object

The Lost Object is the final video in a trilogy that examines the complex mechanisms of how we perceive the constructed nature of reality - and how this construction is performed, both in the realm our imagination and the one of film. As curator, Cuauhtémoc Medina notes in a recent monograph dedicated to Diaz Morales’ work, the artist approaches film as a factory of simulacra, a conceptual thread that carries throughout his trilogy, which began with Insight (2012) and was followed by Suspension (2014).

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Oracle

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Oracle

The alluring images in his films speak clearly for themselves, for they usually lack of sound. This aspect lets the artist give the audience all they need to create their own individual and personal story, without imposing any set structure. The video installation Oracle alternates a series of apparently random images that are not linked one to the other. They just follow on, like the tesserae in a mosaic that is still to be completed. The title seems to allude to the tradition of the Greek Oracle as a source of wisdom and prophecy, capable of offering a vision of the future through a combination of elements from the present. A plastic bag moved by the wind, a solitary man staring at the sea, and a solar eclipse are just some of the images that appear on the screen as propitiatory signs, and with which the audience can create their own free response.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Man with the Bag

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Man with the Bag

The theme of ’The Man with the Bag’ is very simple when you define and see it as an existentialistic story. What you see is what, metaphorically speaking, you get. A man walking a path in a deserted and open landscape, carrying a bag containing all his belongings. Again and again he stumbles over the same obstacle, a stone. Running from his fears, from a never materialized sound. Crossing limits, going always in a same direction. This simple storyline encloses, as a metaphor, a portion of the basics of man’s existence. From that notion you can relate and bring the signification of actions, subjects and objects of the movie into multiple relations. This is because the elements of the movie are general metaphors of the bases of our existence.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Pasajes I

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Pasajes I

Buenos Aires appears in this video series as an endless maze where an optional image of reality takes shape. This is the geography of a story expressed in an alteration to the normal, which arises from a montage of urban spaces. The urban reworking of the story is an attempt to regenerate the body of a city and its images in the form of an alternative geography.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

Maxime Martins: Vegasiorado

Maxime Martins: Vegasiorado

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. This movie is about Las Vegas. City of permanent spectacle, in the middle of the desert. The population and decorations have been withdrawn. The city appears in its brutalistic structure, dedicated to the masses. Vegasiorado, where the promise of joy and fantasy takes the shape of a totalitarian utopia.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Lucas Bambozzi: Clocks (Time Shift)

Lucas Bambozzi: Clocks (Time Shift)

Lucas Bambozzi is a multimedia artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. His works are constituted by pieces dealing with media in a wide variety of formats, such as installations, single channel videos, short films and interactive projects. Clocks (Time Shift) is a loop portraying cheap or promotional clocks found in bakeries and bars in Brazil.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Lucas Bambozzi: Revenge is a Kind of Wild Justice

Lucas Bambozzi: Revenge is a Kind of Wild Justice

In summer in São Paulo, on days of heavy rain, some trees fall. This usually causes traffic turmoil and upset drivers, who believe the city was made for cars and blame the trees for disturbing the traffic. Amid so much concrete, with no space to fix their roots, and surely stressed, we imagine some of these trees trapping the cars as hostages. The video shows the documentation of the work. REVENGE IS A KIND OF WILD JUSTICE, a permanent site-specific installation set at Fazenda Serrinha (70km from São Paulo), which consists of an actual car suspended by a trap, suggesting the situation described above. The phrase is attributed to Francis Bacon, English author, courtier and philosopher (1561 – 1626).

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Patrick Topitschnig: Scream

Patrick Topitschnig: Scream

Scream is an ironic homage to Samuel Beckett‘s Breath (1969). At the apex of his minimalistic work, Beckett conceived this short theater piece. Breath is to be realized with Beckett‘s meticulous instructions within its five acts. Beckett himself describes the work as „a farce in five acts“. Whether he relates this to the content of the piece or the piece itself remains uncertain. But certainly it is one of the most extensively interpreted pieces of theater.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Eli Souaiby: De-Construction

Eli Souaiby: De-Construction

A photograph of Beirut from 1945 is fading into overlapping images of construction, destruction, renovation, reconstruction then deconstruction of a city all along with ongoing noises of a never ending ’under construction’ stage. Is the ’chameleon city’ arising throughout its history?

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Eelco Brand: N.movi

Eelco Brand: N.movi

The oeuvre of Eelco Brand belongs to a pictorial tradition in which landscape and genre scenes play a leading role, but goes beyond the traditional forms of this genre. Realistically looking landscapes are combined with abstract components, absurdity and humour are constantly accompanying the artworks of Eelco Brand.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all