The Under the Subway Video Art Night 2014 , Saturday June 14th, 7:30pm at The Local NYC, 1302 44th Avenue. Long Island City, New York 11101/ USA
Video-installation of Balam Soto
At Local Project from 4-7:30pm 11-27 44th Rd
Long Island City, New York 11101
Title: The interactive video wall
The video-installations is a analysis of cultural use of gestural interfaces on everyday devices of communication (iphones). Patrons will be able to move the video projection with the motion of their hand over the sensor and changing the video on the projection using gestural forms.
The installation is base on infrared technology and custom software.
Video-installation of Balam Soto
At Local Project from 4-7:30pm 11-27 44th Rd
Long Island City, New York 11101
Title: The interactive video wall
The video-installations is a analysis of cultural use of gestural interfaces on everyday devices of communication (iphones). Patrons will be able to move the video projection with the motion of their hand over the sensor and changing the video on the projection using gestural forms.
The installation is base on infrared technology and custom software.
Balam Soto merges existing and custom, digital technology with artistic con- cepts and aesthetics to create exploratory works, including interactive art installa- tions, digital murals, art video and performance. By merging art and technology, Balam provides a seamless interaction between humans and technology, creat- ing artworks that react to the presence or behaviors of individuals. Balam works independently on the artistic and technical sides of his artworks.
Isabel Pérez del Pulgar Spain
Title: Corpus Especulado 2014
Brief synopsis: The individual treated as merchandise, economic value and emo- tional, object into a speculative system away from the nature.
Production format:
– NTSC H. 264 QT 720×486 – 04:29 – Sonido: Estereo.
Elvira Palazuelos & Emilio Lizcano 2014, Pamplona (Spain)
Title: LET ME SEE, BABY. 2014
Brief synopsis: The video offers changing series of images under a TV pattern. They are a visual collection of stories from the pop culture past. Out of their con- text, this pictures are fragmented and combined for creating a new tale. Aesthetics of eroticism, gender roles construction and social translation that TV images may elaborate throughout collective memory are the subject matter of the video. The way how sexual image is depicted in the media has a direct influence on the way how this representation affects our physical understanding.
Let me see, baby, proposes an overwhelming view: a composed and unstoppable image which impose a violent rhythm. The screen power attracts attention, but the broadcasting swaps at a very high speed. In this way, a detailed watching is not possible.
The title of the piece refers to a spectator who wants to look and ask for a break, but who also enjoys playing this perverse hide-and-seek.
Production format: QuickTime. Sound: Stereo
Albert Bayona Spain
Title: Equilibrium/disequilibrium 2014
Brief synopsis: Compositions from videos, combining the pictorial and audiovi- sual language, and using different digital resources.
Rolando Peña Caracas., Venezuela.
Title: “Toccata and Fugue in Barrel Mayor” (Tribute to J. Sebastian Bach – Sound Performance).
Brief synopsis: It is a personal tribute to Baroque to do, and his chief musician J. Sebastian Bach, of course, can not forget me of John Cage, the Fluxos, the Jazz, the Dadaist, subrrealistastas, Techno, Duchamp, Warhol group and all move- ments and people who open doors, windows, in Art and Life. Live Art, life and above all FREEDOM. After more than 5 decades working in the area of Oil, I realize all the possibilities, which are endless, there are Oil and Art, for a long time yet.
Production format: DVD. Stereo.
Ausín Sainz Spain.
Title: Dictator. Spain, 2014.
Brief synopsis: The Dictator is emotionally mighty, big, free, eternal. He is be- lieved the the Almighty. Reality has invisible borders. His empire asks a strength that he is not sure have. He knows he is fragile, small, and is accompanied, but he feels watched and questioned. He defends his fears without overcome.
Production format: Video HDV 1080i60. Color. Stereo.
David Farran de Mora Madrid, Spain.
Title: WIERD FOOD Spain, 2012.
Brief synopsis: It is a reflection on the part of the most incorrect foods: indus- trially processed the, the viscera of animals, goriness, mummified resins with food and food Fetish (trempling of food, “pied de woman” -or is that women
are throwing pies in the face – and different icons aesthetic incorrect (logos of outmoded ones may cuisine restaurants, faces of the service of hotels, jewelry kitsch, paraphernalia of cooks, taxidermias, etc… ). It is a piece of video art to demystify the world of haute cuisine. A extreme exercise and conceptual pop of anthropology. A part that deals with the universe of the molecular cooking and the popular cuisine. The funds of Farrandemora food that has been used in the video belonging to dishes with the most prestigious chefs that i have been able to photograph in their criticism.
Production format: produced digitally with Corel Video Studio. Stereo
Paloma Rodera Martínez Madrid, Spain.
Title: Tempo. Spain, 2010.
Brief synopsis: In the piece it is reflected about the experimentation of the sound and its extension in the temporary dimensions. The architectural lines(figures) conjugate and of the object metronome as essential part that the espacialidad and the temporality expresses.
Production format: wmv. Sound: Stereo.
Diego Barrera Chile
Title: A Knife in the sun 2014
Brief synopsis: My videos have multiple interpretations, this is just one of these: I present two journeys, from darkness to the light of sea (from masculinity to eternal feminity), and the awns of a patriarcal society (The Religion, The Clinic and The Armed Forces), in their path to (masculinization) self-destruction.
The Alchemical Androgyne (The Hermafrodite / Rebis), ever present character in my videos, embodies my search in the androgenization rites, in this case a rite performed by indigenous tribes where a man makes a cut in his crotch as a symbol to inhabit in a woman body, to live in the middle of two imposed sexes. A symbolic castration that I present as an invitation to “man” to reflect about his feminity.
The other character is basically my way of using the right of rebellion through art, to criticize religion which seek to control the souls, current clinic aims to control the body (based not on health but disease) and The Armed Forces as the top of a pyramid that ends up collapsed.
Videos featuring a struggle, feminism understood as a struggle, whatever the fight against laws (which have been created by men) is a feminist struggle.
Production format: VHS. Stereo.
Paupacazul : Paula Susaeta & Paco Trinidad Spain
Title:#28 Leap of faith Madrid, 2013.
Brief synopsis: Winter 2013. This is the toughest crisis known since the Great Depression. Below the numbers and the policies, we want to hold on to our status of citizens. But we are exhausted. This is a cry for attention, a call to preserve, to resist. To hope for spring.
Production format: HD 1280 x 720 pixels. MP4. Sound: Stereo.
Rodolfo Graziano New York, USA.
Title: Snow
New York, 2014.
Brief synopsis: Snow is the first video art of a series dedicated to the study of the private and the public space, regarding the feelings and thoughts generated by broken relationships.
Production format: HD VIDEO COLOR/B&W. Sound: Stereo.
Irene Cruz Spain
Title: The silence Berlin, 2014.
Brief synopsis: The silence is the biggest power that exists, although this one is invisible. Because everything what exists there are partial aspects of the silence. Everything what exists is generated in what does not exist, in what it does not ap- pear.
To open to the silence is to open to the entire, unconditional potential. To explain this I base on a reflection: To compose music, there is so necessary the sound, like the silence.
Production format: Video HD. sound: Stereo.
Julia Martos Spain.
Title: The other by herself. Spain, 2013.
Brief synopsis: Through the movement as a means, the work “The other by itself” presents a journey through the identification process suffered by an in- dividual whose true nature is abolished under their own name. A character who seeks to identify through the eyes of another, you need your acceptance to auto conform.
Production format: 16:9 COLOR.
Mauricio Sanhueza Perú.
Title: Do You Smell That?. Perú, 2014.
Brief synopsis: In July 2012 Peru regained its former distinction as the world’s top cocaine producer, according to an annual White House report that says Colombia’s output fell sharply in 2011, putting the former leader in third place behind Bolivia. The White House report estimates Peruvian cocaine production was 358 tons, followed by Bolivia with 292 tons and Colombia at 215 tons.
This project is a video remix. I take footage and clips from different sources like internet, home videos and DVD’s to make something new. For this video I took well known movie clips and combined it with the video trailer’s audio about Peru as an exotic tourist destination made by the Peruvian Government. In this par- ticular case the video is a sarcastic way to tell the viewer about the sense of smell and the connection of snorting cocaine for fun without knowing the violence and death that leads with it. So there is nothing wrong with your computer or TV screen, the aesthetics of the video is by choice.
Production format: mpeg 1080p. sound: Stereo.
Clara Aparicio Yoldi Spain
Title: Fragment edMemory London, United Kingdom 2013.
Brief synopsis: Memory is not just the capacity of the individual to establish, preserve and remember the past. Memory recalls unmethodically fragments of the past. It doesn’t necessarily see History as an intellectual operation, trying to make past facts look comprehensible. In post-industrial society we are witnessing information overload. This occurs when the amount of input in a system exceeds its processing capacity. We have fairly limited cognitive processing capacity, so when information overload occurs, it is likely that a reduction in decision qual- ity will occur. In the different mediums of expression (literature, cinema, visual arts…), we are assisting to the fragmentation of the narrative discourse. We are questioning the traditional narrative resources with the juxtaposition of images, texts, copy-paste collages and a schizophrenic nature.
In cyberspace, documents combine musical fragments with other sounds, texts, images…etc. It is this combination of concrete elements that produces the ab- stract meaning.
Hypertext is a new kind of montage, a return to Eisenstein’s intellectual montage.
Lisi Prada Spain
Title: Haiku Time. Madrid. 2012.
Brief synopsis: Raised as a loving relationship [with the nature, with the friend, with the beauty], this is the meeting, in the garden at the center in which I work, with a ninphalidae [Vanessa Atalanta] that get me out of the absurd and routine. A metaphor for survival that questioning a world in which the haste, the occupa- tions, stress … make us move as pawns in chess boards, forgetting what really matters, what makes sense.
Jeremy Newman New Jersey, USA
Title: Specter. New Jersey, 14.
Brief synopsis:In this video, fleeting light patterns suggest a state of being. Production format: DV, Super8. DVD. Stereo.
Sofia Olsson USA
Title: Printing Jefferon. Detroit, Michigan. 2014.
Brief synopsis: Printing Jefferon is a dreamlike journey across surfaces that explores and discovers architecture and city landscape. The video questions how an image of a city is created and how to change an existng presumption of a loca- tion by contibuting with visual elements that differs from the common image.
Sávio Leite Brazil.
Title: SPACE DUST. Brazil, 2012.
Brief synopsis: An intimate immensity. Member of the Project: In this street is a river – Laboratory Undío of artistic urban interventions in Brazil.
Production format:. DVD. Stereo.
Elisa Merino Spain.
Title: .”On the New York – Tindouf Desert Subway “ New York–refugee camps in Tindouf., 2013.
Brief synopsis: The usual underground tour of an immigrant, Manhattan- Brookyn, and astral travel. Atmosphere between opposing landscapes, the New York city and the Sahara desert while fused by a feeling, longing for the beautiful young woman who finds Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf. The time, distance does not exist.
Cartographically thoughtful, assertive Saharawi people forget, proclaims to the world that their freedom and to their land Western Sahara spaces are described.
Production format: DVD- R HD 1080 NTSC / 3:35 min Color Sound: stereo.
Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub Argentina & Romania.
Title: Origins 2011.
Brief synopsis: “Origins” is the film that started the Isle of Lox series. It already contains most of the components and themes which are characteristical for the whole series: water, loneliness & exploration, textile artifacts, sounds & music, despair, transcendence & joy.
While threatened by the chaotic sludge, Leylox (a girl wearing a donkey-mask) and Krilox (a boy wearing a bunny mask) are exploring the vast area of existence they were thrown into. They’re checking on the artifacts trouvés, while the clock is ticking. It’s a mix between an expedition and being on the run.
In the end, they find the right artifact responsible for transcending into the pink situation. This action helps them to relax and finally accept the new environment as their new home.
The chaotic sludge is still boiling, though.
Jorge Catoni Chile
Title: Chile play today. 2010.
Brief synopsis: Was shot at “La Vega Central,” an open market in Santiago, Chile, during the Soccer World Cup 2010 (Chile v/s Spain game), and almost all the people were watching TV…
Production format: 16:9 DVCAM
Barbara Rosenthal New york, USA.
Title: HOT & COLD SHAKEUP New York, 2010.
Brief synopsis: A Brief Conceptual Performance Video. Seemingly simple and straightforward, as is characteristic of all Barbara Rosenthal’s work, this was actually fabricated using one trick of videography, and one fakery of physics. (So watch carefully to see what looks impossible!) Also characteristic of this life/art creator, is that puns and idioms appear in some way, and that her inspira- tion sparks from real experience. This idea came in a flash while thinking about a love affair. So you get the idea, alternate titles included the following
I’m So Stuck On You I’m Not Normal; He’s No Great Shakes But He Gets Me Off;l I’m No Great Shakes But I Get Him Off; No Great Shakes But We Get Off Can’t Shake Him When He’s Hot, Can’t Shake Him When He’s Cold; Can’t Shake Him When I’m Hot, Can’t Shake Him When I’m Cold
Production format: DV; DVD. Stereo.
Yvana Samandova & Borjan Zarevski France
Title: Thinking Machine. Paris, 2014.
Brief synopsis: I pose the rhetorical question : can one be in front of a neutral energy … the kind that keeps you what you are?To reveal the unique wisdom for each and shared by all wisdom. To compose images and sounds from many frag- ments of a formulated and grounded in the words and intentions reality. To create a aesthetic plastic language that can serve as our contribution to the culture of the workplace
In the conception of time implicit in the Greek language, or rather in the design of one of these words is used for both the designer and the future is behind the observer, because the future, even time what is behind , we do not see and the past is right before your eyes, as seen or can be present , what you ‘ve read was written at the end . We are in a kind of writing that does not advance and it is quickly informed.
To return to my thoughts, they are like the language that in the mouth explores the broken tooth who makes us uncomfortable, who touches her scorched relent- lessly porcelain, we touch it again and again – as if the break would disappear with the attention that lends; after touching its sawn forms, touched the inside, it is the language that is for listening – one is tempted to say – we ended up having language damaged by these actions, painful at the slightest contact with the tooth with anything – with anyone. So, they are silent. It stops. There certainly has
an advantage in such behavior, a hidden meaning, perhaps even a profit – I told myself.
And me and him …
We walked the streets, with headphones on our ears, the same walkman, which brooded the songs we loved.
Mustard rises in my face just thinking about it!
My memory will smooth as soap.
Rubén González Germany
Title: Eadem mutata resurgo 2012.
Brief synopsis: Mutata Eadem resurgo (“Mutant and its continuing resurgence back to the same being “ in Latin) is a phrase that, along with the logarithmic spi- ral, the mathematician Bernoulli choose for his epitaph and later was converted into the motto for the School of Pataphysics. Created as an ironic juxtaposition of the academics of art and science, the School of Pataphysics studies science that regulates the exceptions, proclaiming to study “science of the imaginary solu- tions”. In my work with the same name, a sequence confronts itself in a ordered, spiral-shaped cannon, that repeats the structure of the stairs that is presented to us, creating a visual artifact and organic sound.
Production format: HD, stereo.
Marcela Orellana Ecuador.
Title: Expiaciones. 2014.
Brief synopsis: The atonement is the removal of guilt or sin through a third party. The culprit is acquitted subject to any penalty by an object, animal (ie scapegoat) or other person in the case of Christianity and some ancient cults that practiced human sacrifice.
Production format: 24 fps FULL HD 1980 x 720.
Daniel Poveda Colombia
Title: Window
Weimar , Germany, 2014.
Brief synopsis: Upon starting my master studies in Weimar – Germany I was assigned a room in a student building in the outskirts of the city, despite the cold and impersonal structure characteristic of the DDR period, a nice view with a couple of cypresses and a crop field stood in front.
This view triggered a recollection of an event that years ago approached me to the arts; the encounter of Vincent Van Gogh oeuvre. Therefore, the view made me either wonder about a series of events spanning from that period to my cur- rent involvement in the master program, moreover, it led me to pose questions over my own identity.
In this regard, people tend before hand to assign me roles and behavioral patterns due to my nationality or other fragmented media information that is consume, this phenomenon eventually turns into a kind of invisible stigma, becoming
the individual’s frame of reference and source for ordering his or her experienc- es, cognition, and ideas of self towards me.
In this video I question this bias perceptions by confronting some of the means by which this idea of the “other” is perceive and make them interact together with a personal notion of identity, I do this , by intervening physically and digitally the landscape visible out of my room, trying to point out possibilities to find other windows that allow fields of explorations where body and memory can dwell.
Therefore, by modifying the function of the window from receiver to transmit- ter, the sequential deconstruction of paradigms reveal how the image that we see through can give us back our own reflection.
Production format: H.264 .mov. Sound: stereo.
Arnaud Brihay France
Title: Granica Grenze. 2013
Brief synopsis: Video of a trace to relive. She was there, she vanished, she came back. Then pushed away to escape. Resurrecting her just for the time of a pas- sage. Exactly at the German-Polish border abandoned.
Production format: DVD. Stereo.
Tyrone Brown-Osborne USA
Title: The Wonde of the lilies. New York, 201o.
Brief synopsis: Experimental montage that rebukes stereotypical notions about beauty and power, resistance against oppression, and the human need for au- thenticity, incorporating photographs from Funky Black Angels (series), audio excepts from Oscar Brown Jr.’s poem The Children of Children (as read by Carl Dix); audio excepts from former Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and playwright Lorraine Hansberry (as read by Ann Bancroft), punctuated by the melodic instrumental Soul Sista by Bila, Serve this Royalty Right by Cody Chestnutt and To be Young, Gifted and Black as song by Aretha Frankin.
Production format: DVD.
Antonio Benítez Spain
Title: #iPhonegrafías. 2012.
Brief synopsis: made using the technique finger on iPhone. Production format: Dink app, ArtStudio app, iMovie app.
Isabel García-Munté & Clàudia Vives-Fierro Spain.
Title: Any Day in Formentera
Brief synopsis: two women appear with a couple of hammocks in an empty space, they need to fill that void.
Production format: DVD, stereo.
Peter T. Christenson USA
Title: Audition. Arizona, 2012.
Brief synopsis: Love me. Want me. I am beautiful; I am for sale; I can be yours for all of etenity.
Production format: DVD, stereo.
PS3 Pedro Sanchez III USA
Title: Entertainment. Tokyo & New York, 2011.
Brief synopsis: The illogical abrupt or ritualistic actions in this film, are not symbols that require interpretation or conclusion. They are merely symptoms of persistently questioned inconclusiveness. That is why the experience of this films means having to take a mental journey that yields no answer.
Production format: HD VIDEO, 4’49”. Sound: hi-fi, stereo, mono, no sound.
Santiago Delgado Escribano Spain
Title: Double Helix#1. Alicante, 2014.
Brief synopsis: Double Helix #1 is conceived primarily as a kind of pomo or post-structuralist painting (pictovid) where sound complements its anti-signifi- cation porpoise. Both sound and video are constructed based on the same non linear an digital methodology with the same criteria consisting in saturate mean- ing and atmospheres by overlaying layers apparently unrelated such as pure digital abstractions generated by a video synthesizer, heavily digitalized sports scenes, flashes of solid colors, eagles screams, people’s voices over at a gallery opening and of course computer generated sounds. All this is structured rigor- ously in a random yet mathematical order. The different time-lapses of the two screens offers an enormous variety of combinations between the two screens where it might take a very long time for the same combination to repeat. In the Double Helix #1 PREVIEW both screens are shown at the very beginning and
so the solid colors flashed coincide in time, after this first running the difference in timing of the two screens will generate a multiple combination of images.
The solid color flashes, which are the same for both screens, work as a kind of nexus between them. As mentioned before the piece tries to overcome significa- tion and move the spectator to the realm of hedonism where the deformation of reality (the live action of the sports) merges with pure digital abstraction and the saturated and modified compound of hideous sounds. The piece tries to move beyond the well established categories of realism / abstraction towards a new, and perhaps yet to by defined, painterly possibility.
Jose Ignacio Callén, Lorenzo Sanjuán & Richard Dominguez USA
Title: SINGLADURA New York.
Brief synopsis: The theme of the works, incorporated in the piece, will en- compass the journeys of a fragile paper boat. One which is sailing through the painting and its colors and textures, dealing with the flowing visual rhythms and drifting on the accompanying sounds.
The boat is a metaphor of change, dealing with the changes of life we all must eventually battle or embrace. Life is a restless journey through a sea of imagina- tion, oceans of dreams, the deep well of creativity, rivers of sensations, and the swamp of timelessness.
The fragile ship, from beginning to end, is responsible for its’ own transforma- tion. It reflects upon the ideas of art and life. Life and death.
We are all on the adventure of the imagination, travelling through the art object together, sharing the experience.
Production format: HD1080. Stereo.
Agni Zotis USA
Title: MEDITATOR New York, 2010.
Brief synopsis: Truth is present.
Truth is here and now.
The breath is a continuous flow in and out from the moment of birth as we enter into this life to the moment of death, as we exit from this life.
Everything we experience moves between these two points of rise and fall, a bridge between body and spirit in space and time.
Breath is synonymous with life!
Production format: DVD. Stereo.
Bernardo Tejeda Vázquez Spain.
Title: El fuego y la grasa. Valencia, 2013.
Brief synopsis: The fire and the fat of Bernardo de Tejeda brings us where lies the magical, the transmutable. The climate of symbolic art has been nurtured in such imaginary, representing antagonisms such as nature and culture, subject and object, reason and expression. The fire and the fat hidden trace the correspon- dences that unite the objects with the natural energy and the basic forces. We hear the constant sound of a drum, transit vehicle toward parallel realities, which surrounds and obliges us to be involved in the work. Flames are distinguish to the fund.
Production format: DVD. Stereo.
Mario Gutiérrez Cru Portugal-Spain.
Title: # Excerpt of paris no. 01 Paris 2013 – Lisbon 2014
Brief synopsis: Excerpt is a new project that focus the eye in the minimal ac- tions make daily a normal citizen that live in the cities. Eyes of ours eyes, seeing what we see. Normal actions in normal lives. Excerpt of paris no. 01 speak about power, economy, love and health. And also about customs and typical things in a contemporary big city.
Production format: HDV convert in DVD NTSC. Sound: hi-fi, stereo, mono, no sound.
Josefin Andersson Sweden
Title: All my recordings from Kiev. Kiev 2013.
Brief synopsis: The past six months I have seen many pictures of Kiev, but still can not fully understand the situation in the country. Each story told may be true and accurate, but in times like this it’s important to remember that every story that’s being told will be at expense of the story not told.
Production format: DVD. Stereo.
Toby Kaufmann-Buhler USA
Title: Don’t Miss U. Barcelona 2010.
Brief synopsis: Music video for the song “Don’t Miss U”, by Chants (featuring vocals by Ramzi Awn). This is an exploration of the limits of different kinds of bodies; in tandem with the song, images progress from flowing to filling (both within themselves and the larger frame), up to the point of impact.
Production format: HD video. Stereo.
Nino Maza & Celine Beslu Spain.
Title: Embalar Madrid 2014.
Brief synopsis: This video tries to question the culture of the immediateness and the productivity, using the packing like analogy of the protection, of lasting in the time, of the metamorphosis, constructing a chrysalis to refer to one himself and where the proper time not ea a limit at the time of developing an idea, which demands caress and dedication.
Production format: DV. Stereo.
Alessandro Rolandi & Feng Hao China
Title: BREATHING. Beijing 2013-2014.
Brief synopsis: The artist Alessandro Rolandi, with his son and his daughter, found a young kitty in the Beijing hutongs. The cat was very young and serious injured, most probably hit by a violent kick o run over by a car. The doctor said that the kitty was too young to be operated and that her internal organs were all messed up and she did not have much to live. The artist’s children agreed to take care of the cat for there maining time before her system was going to be compro- mised. For six days he cat. Although increasingly suffering, seemed to feel the warm presence and the care of the kids. Then when she was starting to have diffi- culties to drink and to breath, she was brought to the doctor and received a lethal injection. During the previous 6 days the artist and his kids filmed few intense shots of the little cat in her pain, trying to enjoy the care she received. The artist saw this experience as extremely brave and formative for his kids, in the way they accepted to deal with the pain of a young and harmless creature and with
the fact that she was doomed. When preparing a collaboration with the Chinese sound artist Feng Hao, the video material about the kitty came up as a metaphore for the new-born 21st century, which sometime looks like the little kitty: crippled and doomed before having develop the strength to stand up for itself. Rolandi selected shots from movies from the past and from the present that could sym- bolize the absurdity and the path of regression and violence that are marking this newborn century and delivered the material to Feng Hao, who created the music and finalized the editing process. BREATHING is based on the pulse and the dif- ficulty in the act of breathing of the little kitty; it should convey as sense of fear, alert and absurdity.
Production format: DVD. Stereo.
Simone Stoll Germany
Title: Meer (sea). USA /Germany 2013.
Brief synopsis: Meer, a video on life’s longings.
The introductory lines call for a focused mind, internalisation and, for silence. The camera is fixed and shows a woman from the back gazing through a window, a picture that may recall the romantic Sehnsucht motif in painting (e.g. C. D. Friedrich or later, Dali’s version of ‘Woman at the window’).
Inner and outer space are clearly distinguished by colour and light. In the video, there are two adjacent rooms opposing the vast, turbulent nature.
Windows and glass door are closed; the woman slides the first window open, crawls into the next room. The inner self is revealed in a double.
Next, she stands by the other window looking outside, then pushes the door to walk into the open air. She aligns her body with the wide horizon
of the sea; the camera follows her view through the bars of the railing that still separates her from the immense ocean.As the sound reaches a
crescendo, the powerful roaring of the sea, the woman embraces the uncontrol- lable force of nature.
Production Format: HD
Sound: hi-fi, stereo, mono, no sound: mono
Omar López Hernández México
Title: Ritos de Liberación (Rites of liberation). México, 2012.
Brief synopsis: In the midst of a consumer society, this piece invites us to reflect how we are slaves of technological goods.
The purpose of the video is to experiment with the relation between “Subject- Action-Camera” losing the fear and respect for the creation tools looking for the loss of what overrated can be the reason for our liberation.
Production format: Mov. Stereo.
Alexandros Papadopoulos Greece
Title: The Homonazi Effect. Athens / Manchester, 2014.
Brief synopsis: The Homo-nazi Effect visualizes an erotic and violent interview that took place between a Manchester based web author/performer (Dr.Alexan- dros Papadopoulos) and an Athens-based gay neo-nazi. The Athenian portrays his neo-nazi experiences as a relentless gay orgy.
Papadopoulos transforms this testimony into a docu-perfomance and photo-es- say. His body-acts re-interpret physically and stylistically all the characters that reside in the universe of the homo-nazi narrator. Web-guerrilla cyber-cinema- tographer Calypso Larah re-edits this material, producing a frantic montage of video-sequences, loops and gags. The result is a troll art attack – a deranged tour in the sexual and fascist geography of crisis-Athens.
Gay cruising is mixed with the semiotic (and libidinal) analysis of rowdiness — the internet is transformed into an arena of pornographic violence and outwordly extremism — the boundaries between drag-show, lecture and documentary col- lapse. The resulting polymedia anti-show encapsulates the chaos of information and passion that saturated the urban, migrant and digital sphere of the post-2008 austerity era. The idiosyncratic style of narration encompasses the attitude of un- classified, homeless and precarious voices who have found in cyberspace a ref- uge of experimentation – a synaesthetic laboratory of audiovisual and meta-cin- ematic styles of self-expression, dream-making and farce. Coloured by hysterical campness, the voice-over attacks with sarcasm and psychedelia the contemporary stereotypes of gay cultures and the academicism of queer art theory. Above all the Homo -nazi Effect embraces Troll- art as the new Pop art of the suburbs: a neo-romantic celebration of paranoia and lust for the age of fear.
Production format: sound stereo/format MP4 720p.
Pablo Lerma Spain
Title: Sea. 2012.
Brief synopsis: “Sea” has been filmed with a super8mm camera using different speeds (8fr/sec-12fr/sec-24fr/sec) to jump about and create a fake perception of the real speed of the waves. Showing the film in loop is the only way to catch those speed jumps.
The interest of the film in focus in the horizon and the waves’s movement as motifs related to the landscape and the film’s language itself.
Production format: Super8mm film transferred to digital. No sound.
Joaquin Delgado, Spain.
Title: Cadencia sincronizada. Sevilla, 2013.
Brief synopsis: In the leaden waters of the Amazon, dancers’ traces
entangle the warm waters of the jungle.The gerridae, in an effort of infi-
nite motion, undo the chaos, and glide along with rhythmic movements, exhibi- ing a choreography surrounded by the tumul of the jungle.
Production format: Stereo.
Celina Alvarado USA
Title: MySpain: MyFriend, MyMom, MyBrother, MyLover. New York, 2014.
Brief synopsis: The usual trip home to see friends and family.
Production Format: NTSC 16/9
Sound: hi-fi, stereo, mono, no sound: Stereo
Fiorella Angelini Chile
Title: “Lat I”. 2014.
Brief synopsis: In the video the body acquires a certain poetic nostalgia where the lived experience in relationship to the landscape seen is built from the fiction. Therefore the interests are linked to the creation of myths and fictions personal or social.
Production format:. Stereo.
Paula Abalos Chile
Title: Nervous System I. Beijing 2013-2014.
Brief synopsis: This video refers to the systematic and repetitive operation of places (subway) to the circulating in them.
Production format: Video digital. NTSC. 720 X 480 4:3. Stereo.
Sofia Nercasseau. Chile
Title: Ficciolidad. Santiago de Chile, 2012.
Brief synopsis: This video tries to question the culture of the immediateness and the productivity, using the packing like analogy of the protection, of lasting in the time, of the metamorphosis, constructing a chrysalis to refer to one himself and where the proper time not ea a limit at the time of developing an idea, which demands caress and dedication.
Production format: DV. Stereo.
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