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Third screening laisle.com of 2004

1 -Nicole Cousino – kalundborg – 12:13 minutos. Usa

Kalundborg an experimental documentary that explores our current state of de-industrialization. Kalundborg explore possible channels of integration for a productive future.

2 -Sally Larson - certain women -3 minutos usa

Video based on the painting, la blanche et la noire. The relationship of women from different classes and its representations.

3 -Mac kenan 2 minutos usa

This video art piece works to deconstruct the viewer's comfortable habits of narrative perception. A single visual scene (the exact same footage) is repeated four times with the narrative context changing each time. As the cycles progress, the intention is to separate the video's narrative component from its visual one, exposing how we as viewers assemble stories and character.

4 -Uriel Orlow – a dance of death and life: performed by cinema and tv. 11min Suiça.

Inspirado nas series de Holbein, e exibidos juntamente com filmes de horror contemporâneos, são .
Inspired by Holbein’s 1524 series of engravings, A Dance of Life and Death – performed by Cinema and TV locates in horror movies a contemporary equivalent to the macabre and humourous personification of death. In the Middle Ages, the dance-of-death genre was a way to deal with the threat of death (by the plague) in the midst of everyday life. Today death is omni-present, too and while represented in the media it is nevertheless in many ways profoundly repressed.
In this video, monsters and skeletons from recent horror movies are shown ‘dancing’ next to clips taken from tv; death and life never quite meet but are constantly facing each other, one threatening and affirming the other in a choreography of images which flash up from the darkness of the screen. While the medieval images of death dancing around and menacing the living were organised according to a strict class hierarchy (from the pope to the pauper), the representation of life that is broadcast on television through news, documentaries, advertising and soap-operas is marked by selective out-takes, clichés, endless repetition and arbitrary zapping.

5-Esther Johnson – performance 1 minuto 2003 – uk

Performance’ is an atmospheric fragmented view of the world of entertaining and pleasing a crowd. Through degrading the image to create a sensuous new image, we see the strain of a young girl performer sustaining the perfect smile. The blunt jump-cutting of sound and image add to an all encompassing effect of ‘the spectacle’. The ultra short length of the film also becomes an experiment in disciple of cutting one performance into its most emanating parts. To perform is to create reaction and sustaining professionalism no matter what.

6-Stuart Pound – Ventura, 10:06 min UK 2001

An experiment in personal history.The footage was shot in the London Docklands. But who is the speaker who was told that he was ‘english’? Was his mother really born in California? What was her connection with Ireland and Germany, if any? And what does the sculpture ‘black form’, in a park in Hamburg, have to do with it?

7-Joshua mittleman Fag Santa (2003) 5 minutes

The Reverend Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, exhorts his followers to publicly denounce ‘fags’ and ‘fag enablers’ at any large gathering of people. The target in this video is the sold-out Oakridge Boy’s Christmas Show.

8-Carlo sansolo – Diamond 02 4:30 min Brasil

The simulation of political posters being projected up on the walls of a modern hotel.

9 Arthur Liou – Green Spot – Taiwan/usa 2002 4 min

The video series “Things that are edible” incorporates food into an array of visual studies that pay homage to Muybridge and Marey’s sequenced photographs of the 1880s. While the artist’s fascination about the temporal manipulation is evident, the work eventually leads to subject of ethnic representation and stereotype. The ridiculed violence from the 70s Konfu movie used in “Green Spot” is an example of a biased pop culture icon taking over mainstream imagination. It paints an easily accessible image that is anxiously desired as a sort of prototypical exchange.

10-Érika Fraenkel 7 lindos pratos - 7 beautiful plates –4 min. 2004

A beautiful and docile woman, breaks seven plates with commercial value, whiles she thinks on the reproducibility of the work, and the possibility of existing of the originality on art.

11-luis miguel suro, "concepto espacial" (spatial concept), video, 2 minutes 42 seconds, 2002.

A serie of individual essays using different kind of guns, shooting in a pre constructed piece of amiant.

12 -Fernando de La Rocque – efemero sublime - 2004 – 4:00 rj

Essay with smoke sculptures that expresses the need of everything to be completed.

13 Lucas Bambozzi - aquí de novo – 2002 – 6 minutos sp

AQUI DE NOVO is a video-essay about gaps, blurred definitions and contemporary contradictions. it evokes a sentence by Felix Gonzalez Torres [somewhere better than this place/nowhere better than this place] to rely on conflicts between public and private spheres: what one wants and what one will effectively do; when the other is desired and when he/she is avoided.

14- Rachel Castro – 00:00 – 3:00 min- 2004 - rj

The start of that it finishes.

15 -Predrag Pajdic – The ritual 9:00 minutos Servia.

The camera serves as a mirror during the make-up transformation of an ordinary man into an imaginary character, witnessing the change of body movements and appearance. The ego boosting ritual shapes a new façade with stronger confidence and power.
Rituals are some of the most important expressions of our human experience. Today they are only part of religions and secret societies, but very complex, symbolic actions in many areas of our civilization. As a living form of communication rituals regulate human co-existence and create the identity of both the individual and society.

16 Sheik – Born to be a star. 2 min 2004

³Born To Be a Star² is a night walking on a street in a big violent city
where security system lights turns on when a person passes by. A disco music loop transforms this common and solitary act in a celebrity situation on a catwalk.

17 - Antonin Bemel - A SILLY DANCE – 2003 - Bélgica

" In many ways A Silly Dance is a tiny brother to Idiot’s Brew (2002).

De Bemels sets out from the same images and culinary references, but now – similarly to his first videos – he also aims the camera more at himself, exploring his own body, his acts and rhythms, shapes and colours. An electronic soundtrack by Rob(u)nent constitutes the

starting point for a kinetic composition of visual stimuli, mostly playing around with fragmented images of elastic movements and stroboscopic effects." (Stoffel Debuysere, Argos)

18 Alex Killough –Ken Burns Gives me Mouth to Mouth – 2003 – 5 min USA

The story of a man surviving adversity, created around images of old photographs found in a box on the street; the protagonist driven mad by the insistence of the story teller that he must do so. The naration is funneled through a filter which rearranges and distorts the video signal. The distortions in the video signal are analyzed to create noise to overlay and squelch the narration. The loop of cause and effect calls into question which comes first, the subject matter or the materiality.

19 -Rob Tyler – Shopping Cart – 4:20 min USA

A portrait of consumerism from the view point of the product. a musically driven meditation on the ritual of grocery shopping.

20 -Julio Soto – the possibility of Utopia -18 minutos 2003 Espanha

Is a complex series of visual interpretations of twintieth century architetural and ideological utopian experiments. Through digital and narrative manipulation of the rhetoric of film.
Soto questions the ideal cities of the later half of the twentieth century and at the same time envisions the future of cities by examining the desire-driven cities of the past. The fantastical quality of his work is derived not only from his archeological research of history but also from his recreation of the discovered images through computer technology.

21 - Simone michelin Cacophony (scene 3) Carla Rocha / Corpos Informáticos, Lucas Bambozzi; Duva, FAQ, Neo Tao, Spetto and S. Michelin. Animation: Flávio Carvalho

The video mixes fragments of the data bank of the project 2nd phase and increases the cacophony accelerating the chaos. This creates a wallpaper video background over which cartoon-like silhouettes of human figures some black some white keep on going back and forth crossing the screen in an attitude that comments ironically the background scene. These elements establish a tension between figure & background that causes a detachment of the audience¹s point-of-view.

22 Mauro espindola – órfãos da ciência – 4:40 – RJ

An imaginary and disturbing conception anticipates the future of the experiments with the cloning of human beings. The destiny of mutant children shakes and moves the spirit of society to the point of awakening moral and ethical feelings of anguish in the name of a dominant thought.

23 - Leo – Replay: Porn Continum 5 min

Some days I think about myself like a repetitive person when I use images from the InterNet and and recodify them as a critical implemental to the mechanization and a fragmentation of the human body. Other times I ask myself: what the relevancy of an artistic object that only catches light in movement which we confer it property of artistic language? I don’t have answers to give, but I insist that it is necessary to continue trying.
I try don´t to admit that artistic making it is impregnated of a spectacular context in the attempt to prevent the obvious one: my dilution. Creating these strange meeting of images of new meanings, I locate myself as a nostalgic artistic being of vanguard and by the side of my perverse objects, but this nostalgy finishes at the moment that the history of these objects also finishes. Being the Post-History this unfortunable condition for the identity, however I create anomalous ideas of spread conceptual fragments.
Then I create (?) doubts, the uncertainties of that the translation can be made despite the bolter of a (still impersonal) machine. Uncertain of that one day will have possibility of the relationship between workers and machines or perhaps the invisible man could love (between many machines) the without false modesties maiden.

24 Babel - marmite 2 - marmite in montreal (2003) 1:56

thickly spread: our hero/ine visits the new world.

Total aproximado : 130 minutes.