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laisle n40 2007-02



Erika Fraenkel - kinder surprise -2007 - 4:30 - Brasil

The video is about a promise and commerce, the void and the fulfilling, meaning the toy and the freebie fulfilling our central void, freebie as a surprise and mystery, the reality involved by the secret, fortune and reward.

The ridicule and the sublime.

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Mihai Grecu - SOMAN 7'30'' 2005 – Romenia/França

The atmosphere is filled with the toxic gases of a decomposing world. Decontamination teams are searching for the survivors of invisible terrorist acts, our walls are invaded by dry grasses, the cities become smaller and hide inside our mouth...This is the dark conclusion of the “nerve gas” series, a slow, agonizing and postmodern video work.

Tokyo Stupid Girls Yu NEGORO 12'00", 2004 japão

Snap shots of everyday life of strange girls in Tokyo, like how she longs marriage, sticking into the wedding industry, and how girls live together.

Fernando de La Rocque - 1979 - 6:00 - Brasil - 2006

"1979-1798 is about time, exhistance and specially about coincidences.

I live in an apartament located in a building which is localized right between the place where I was born (on 1979) and the place where I probably will be (buried) someday. The number of the tumb is 1798. Those three adresses are located in the neighborhood of humaitá, Rio de Janeiro".

Ido Fluk - Israel - Polar Bears - 4:00 - 2005

‘Polar Bears’ is a video work completed in May 2005. Part figurative and part abstract, part environmental-tale and part personal-essay, the work examines two seemingly different stories: the first about an oil company engineer who tells me about designing a big drill site in Siberia (and cutting down an entire forest in the process) and the second about a young man’s desire for fame in the age of celebrity kings and queens. Everyone wants to be famous these days, everyone wants to be rich: there aren’t enough Polar Bears in this world. There are too many ‘artists’.

Predrag Pajdic - what a wonderful world - 8:00 2005 - GB

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world...

Absent Landscape Masayuki KAWAI sound, 12’00”, 2002

By realizing a preconditioned landscape, you accept the world. The landscape without a memory of revolution consumes everything. To extinguish the world to despair more deeply.

20:58 -Luíz Carlos Garrocho e Alexandre Milagres 2005 - Brasil

Essay that works between bodies, screens and fantasys, intricate by a sharp line.

Dellani Lima - QUANDO MORRI NA BAíA DE GUANABARA- 5min, 2005 Brasil

Initial images after the conceptual death of the author.

Florencia Guillen - El Rey del Grito, 6”00 2006 - Mexico

This video is a documentation of an event held in Guadalajara, Mexico. Six fruit vendors compete to be crown the King of the Shout during a normal day in a market. Two judges chose the winner by considering intensity, creativity, expression and presence.

Carlo Sansolo - Bvfrs – 5:45 min – 2006 - Brasil

Simple moments of the south américan metrópoles in 4 micro parts. A microscopic analyses of these metropoles. A super amplification of the object, transforming it from a brutal state to a mature semantic configuration.

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Ben Russell-Michaocan: El Traidor - 8:00-USA/Mexico

Makeshift folklore for an uncertain world.

Shot in the Mexican state of Michoacan and constructed using the same techniques employed in the Surrealist parlor game of the “Exquisite Corpse”, this video holds a mirror up to the unseen, hallucinates and reflects it back into the everyday forever and ever and ever. The work is about “tourism” in every sense of the word: the fascination and fear of the strange/other, the obsessive need to document and record experience, and the destabilizing effect of foreign environments on identity. Real and imagined characters populate this two-part video in a continual reversal of roles, forcing the viewer to decide which is the real and which is the imaginary.


Leonardo galvão - We are the robots II – 2006 - Brasil

The most ilustrative video of the work collection that I'm developing, this video use the images superposition to build a little speach: Men and Machine allo(ve)ying each other

Jim Finn – USA 2004 - la ardilla (from la lotería 2 min)

“Jim Finn woos his charming, bright-eyed neighbor, who hesitatingly returns his affections..