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Blunda ICE
/ Blunda ICE
Dance performance in the open air.
Director/author: Piotr Baran
Germany 2010
Film & Video Video 3 min.
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Chroniques de la poisse
/ Sticky Ends
Jinx is a man with the head of a fish. Misfortune bubbles escape from his mouth. When one of them follows somebody, he becomes dogged by bad luck, and comes to a sticky end.
Director/author: Osman Cerfon
France 2010
Film & Video Video 6 min.
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David
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We never get to see the David from the title. However, his lover, played by Nina Yuen, is constantly on screen. She hopes to win him back by casting spells on him; she carefully carries out a series of superstitious enchantments. On a pair of tights, she draws underwear with blue glitter, which she will be wearing on the day he returns. She decorates apples and other fruit with sprinkles and candy, according to a strict protocol. Aspirins, crushed to a powder, are ritually strewn over her lover’s photo, only to be blown away again. In 'David', love, beauty and superstition form a perplexing trio. (Netherlands Media Art Institute, Nanda Janssen)
Director/author: Nina Yuen
USA 2010
Film & Video Video 4 min.
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Graffiti
/ Graffiti
A man revisits his old neighbourhood by chance and finds graffiti on the wall of his old apartment. Looking at the handwriting and contents, he assumes the writer to be a woman and begins to imagine.
Director/author: Jimin Byun
Korea (South) 2010
Film & Video Video 8 min.
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Isle Of Lox
/ Isle Of Lox
A girl and ›The Reflektor‹ are washed ashore on a beach. Strangely attracted by ›The Flags‹ and uncanny sounds, she starts exploring the island she has become stranded on. When she picks ›The Fruits‹ from ›The Tree‹ of sound, she is instantly transposed to a mysterious house = ›The Transformer‹. This is when she becomes aware of her transformation: she is now the keeper of the sound crown, she has become the fruits electric girl.
Director/author: Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub
Germany 2010
Film & Video Video 3 min.
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It, Heat, Hit
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Innocent and pleasing images, such as a swimming frog or snowy street scene, are followed by statements of love and implied violence. These are inter-cut with strange, disconnected images, such as close-ups of flowers, body parts or food. The mood of the film gradually becomes darker and more unsettling, though nothing is stated directly. The growing intensity of the film is reinforced by the oppressive rhythm of a drum which accompanies snatches of music and speech. As with Prouvost's other films, the pace tests the limits of perception and makes it hard to take in every image and comment.
Director/author: Laure Prouvost
United Kingdom 2010
Film & Video Video 6 min.
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Low-Tech
/ Low-Tech
This animation was made using low-tech equipment. It aims to look at modern technology from a humorous angle. It uses perspective parallax and traditional stop-motion technique to mimic modern high-end technology. Even the music is made using the simplest technique by recording toy music and vocal singing.
Director/author: Hui-ching Tseng
Taiwan 2010
Film & Video Video 3 min.
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Omokage (Remains)
/ Remains
My grandfather, who was a photographer, died about ten years ago. He left behind many forgotten photographs from the time when I was a child.
Director/author: Maki Satake
Japan 2010
Film & Video Video 6 min.
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Pixels
/ Pixels
New York invasion by 8-bit creatures!
Director/author: Patrick Jean
France 2010
Film & Video Video 2 min.
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Stargate
/ Stargate
Several passengers’ feet are dangling from gondolas of the fairground ride ›Stargate‹. They’re excited about an unusual roller coaster ride that will break down the bounds of the ego. The image increasingly fans out like a kaleidoscope. Like a cinematic mirror of the passengers’ feelings, the work always moves on the edge between the concrete and the abstract, only to finally disintegrate and vanish into nothingness.
Director/author: Pascal Fendrich & Bernd Härpfer
Germany 2010
Film & Video Video 4 min.
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Triumph Of The Wild
/ Triumph Of The Wild
Triumph of the Wild explores the impulse of hunting and the resiliency of the people and animals in times of battle. The film covers over 400 years of history in ten minutes using stop-action animation. Paintings and puzzles in the film evolve from animal to human, from hunted to hunter, from wilderness to war zone, and from the horrific to the idealistic. (IFFR 2010).
Director/author: Martha Colburn
Netherlands 2010
Film & Video 35 mm 5 min.
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Tusslemuscle
/ Tusslemuscle
The work presented is a reflection on humanity's ecological relationship and the ritual of restoration. The violent pulse speaks with a sense of urgency and chaotic struggle while the hypnotic arrangement keeps us in blinding awe as to its condition. TUSSLEMUSCLE is composed of 7,000 single frames, which were appropriated from view-master reel cells. Each frame was hand-spliced to create a linear film-strip. Jacob Long created the score.
Director/author: Steve Cossman
USA 2009
Film & Video 16 mm 5 min.
