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On Contest (12/01)
VIDEOART & EXPERIMENTAL
SHORTS
ANIMATION
DOCS & MOVIES |
| 12/01 SATURDAY |
| 15:00 – 18:00 |
| OUT OF CONTEST |
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| Komitas directed by Don Askarian - FOCUS |
Germany/Armenia - 1988
Running Time: 96:00
The monk Soghomon Soghomonian, known as Komitas, was a renowned Armenian composer and conductor who became a symbol of Armenian cultural unity through his orchestral and choral performances and his late nineteenth-century travels throughout the countryside, in which he collected peasant songs for generations eager to preserve their cultural heritage. In 1915, however, the musician’s career ended abruptly after a nervous breakdown precipitated by the Ottoman Empire’s devastation of an estimated three-fourths of the country’s population. Wracked with pain and subjected to the abuses of nineteenth-century psychiatric hospitals, Komitas lost his mind and withdrew into his own world of tortured memories for more than twenty years. Director Askarian dedicates his beautifully constructed, ambitious, and impressionistic portrait of Komitas to those who lost their lives.
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| Lines directed by Alexander "Satim" Timofeev - ANIMATION |
Russia
Running Time: 02:07
Flash animation made for EU. Chaos Constructions - 2005 award (best flash)
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| Dubus directed by AV - VA & EX |
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Russia
Running Time: 04:09
A slow dance of the classical cinema to the music of Zelany Rashoho. |
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| Den Lille Valpen/The Little Puppy directed by Lasse Gjertsen - FOCUS |
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Norway - 2006
Running Time: 01:20
Not all little puppies are cute and sweet.
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| Rødmaling/Red Paint directed by Lasse Gjertsen - FOCUS |
Norway - 2003
Running Time: 01:20
A politically uncorrect cartoon about what might happen if creative kids run out of red paint.
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| Mjæv & Pipert/Meow and Peepy directed by Lasse Gjertsen - FOCUS |
Norway - 2004
Running Time: 01:10
A parody on the hyperactive chase cartoon genre. This time, nothing happens. |
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| ON CONTEST |
| VIDEOART & EXPERIMENTAL |
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| Nijuman No Borei (200000 phantoms) directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot |
France - 2007
Running Time: 11:00
Hiroshima 1914-2006
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| Error 404 directed by Marko Batista |
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UK - 2006
Running Time: 01:45
Video entitled ERROR 404 is dealing with the issues of real-time transmissions of audio-visual data in contemporary mass-used digital communication systems. Encoded signal packages, distorted by noisy channels, are disturbing televised viewer’s perception. Instead of avoiding received failures, video generates data error as an artistic tool and creates an audio-visual poetics related to the field of transmission,failure,correction,storage and more universal questions about technology and communications in contemporary society. Telerecorded nature of errors. Between science and every day life. Art. |
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| Iki wo tomeru / Apnea directed by Philippe Chatelain & Virginie Lavey |
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France/Japan - 2007
Running Time: 15:00
In a smooth vivid colored boutique of the Tokyo trendy area, the body of a seller is strangely evolving, extra-body parts appear, and reflections of her body become autonomous. At the crossing of video dance and fiction, "Apnea" is part of a bigger project that encompasses several installations and video pieces all dealing with urban sensibility, body relation, public space, intimacy. |
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| SHORTS |
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| Free Will directed by Francesco Guarnaccia |
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Italy - 2005
Running Time: 7:00
A man works in the darkness. His action is commanded by a loudspeaker hanging a pillar. After few minutes we can see the same man in his office, sitting on his desk, recording the next command to an old tape recorder. The End: in the aquarium, colourful fishes look at the camera. |
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| Tesseract directed by Duprass |
Israel - 2007
Running Time: 15:30
‘Tesseract’ tells the story of ‘Lea’ a 60 years old woman who experienced a true turning point in her life… a profound change which leads her into the ‘Tesseract’ ‘Tesseract’ investigates and revolves around the abstract meanings of time and especially about the ‘classic’ human conditioning of time-space as it was suggested, in western culture, by physicist Albert Einstein. The conditioning the viewers use to hold keeps changing… during the film the viewers encounter new visual conditionings one after the other while each time
A momentarily understanding of time-space is raising. |
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| The Fateful Encounter of Wendy and Earl directed by Leo Curbelo |
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USA - 2006
Running Time: 3:00
Wendy, an ecologically friendly girl, enjoys sailing paper boats under a gentle summer breeze. Earl, a gas guzzling spoiled brat, enjoys burning up the ozone revving up his oil powered model speedboat. One fateful sunny morning they met at the Central Park model boat pool. The outcome was explosive. |
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| Girl from Moscow directed by Mika J. Ripatti |
Finland - 2006
Running Time: 6:13
A middle-aged film-maker travels to Moscow with a girl and tries to tell something about falling in love. |
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| 20:00 - 23:00 |
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ANIMATION |
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| Leningrad directed by Alexander "Satim" Timofeev |
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Russia -
Running Time:
Animation musicale . The winner of festivals:"Multimatograf-2004" and "AVANCA-2004" |
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| Aislado directed by Gerard Freixes |
Spain - 2007
Running Time: 3:20
Loneliness may be found in a desert island or in the middle of a big urban crowd. |
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| DOCS & MOVIES |
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| Vedere il Tempo Viadana directed by Paolo Cavinato & Mario Piavoli |
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Italy - 2007
Running Time: 30:00
The natural time of rural civilization, the social time of the Urban Age, and the contracted time of industrialization operate on the country producing different landscape types. Time-space evolution is here represented by a group audio-visual work, with an observation field circumscribed to the build-up area and to that share of Po river nearby which the town of Viadana is located. |
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| LA Proper directed by Barry Canty |
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USA - 2007
Running Time: 105:00
“L.A. Proper” is a comedic romantic drama about a multiethnic crew of Gen Y Angelenos looking for love, sex, work, meaning and answers. Led by bickering exes turned best friends, Marvin Robeson and Eve Yoon, the group makes it way through the dark nights and sunny days of life in Los Angeles. Ethan Walker is an ambitious and hard partying lawyer from North Carolina. Sean Park is a former soap opera star in China recently returned to Los Angeles to take over his deceased parents' liquor store. Giselle Molina is an idealistic East L.A. native working in the Mayor's office and Melanie Washington runs the interracial dating site Dateasista.com. |
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