[rohrpost] VIDEOEX 2002 - Exp. Film & Video Festival

[Mirjam Struppek <struppek@yahoo.com>]

PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin
presents:


VIDEOEX 2002
Experimental Film & Video Festival

December 17-18-19, 2002   8.30 pm

PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures is pleased
to present on December 17, 18 and 19, 2002 the winners
of the competition together with a selection of the
international program of the 2002 Videoex Festival
(May 10-19).


Videoex is an experimental film & video festival held
every year during the month of May in Zurich. The
purpose is to promote experimental film and video
works. The festival was first held in 1998. Since 3
years it includes an international and a Swiss
competition. More then 1.000 works from 38 countries
have been submitted for these competitions in 2002. 

The focus of the festival was the international
competition including 8 programs with 80 works of
renowned artists and also young talents from all over
the world.

The main topic of the 2002 edition was the structural
film: a selection of 10 films of Michael Snow and his
new installation Couple (2001); a selection of
important structural films from America with works by
Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits and Owen Land; a selection
of European works by Peter Kubelka, Kurt Kren and
Michael Maziere; special programs of Doug Aitken,
Peter Mettler and also a selection of Other Cinema S.
Francisco where presented.

The Jury Members: Peter Mettler (Swiss-Canadian
filmmaker), Mike Hoolboom (Canadian video &
filmmaker); Arjon Dunnenwind (Director of Impakt
Festival Utrecht)

First Price ex equo: Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel by
Steven Matheson (Beta, USA 2001), Du Moteur A
Explosion by Dominic Gagnon (16 mm, CAN 2000); Cargo
by Laura Waddington (Digibeta, F 2001)

The program presented at PLAY gallery for still and
motion pictures in Berlin in collaboration with the
main sponsor of the first price of the 2002 festival,
Fine Arts Unternehmen AG is a small overview of the
international festival program and comprehends 20
films and video. 



PROGRAM


Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002,   8.30 pm

Hotel Central, Matt Hulse, UK 2000, 35 mm, 10:00
Allegedly set somewhere 30 miles South West of
Leipzig, this eccentric film does not attempt to
narrate a dream, though it exploits the same kind of
mechanisms that dreams utilize. Hold on to your hats. 

Camouflage, Jonathan Hodgson, UK 2001, 35 mm, 7:56
Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the
stories of those with a schizophrenic parent,
childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually
tip over into idiosyncratic behaviour and finally
madness.

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, Matt
McCormick, USA 2001, video, 16:00
It is at once a delightful parody of overheated
art-history hermeneutics and an authentic plea for the
appreciation of disregarded urban patterns. Patterns
on walls, train cars, and shipping containers are
compared to paintings by Rothko and Malevich and
catalogued as Œsymmetrical¹, Œradical¹ and Œghosting¹.

Getting Stronger Every Day, Miranda July, USA 2001,
video, 6:30
This video captures the experience of becoming lost
and found, from moment to moment, and over the course
of a lifetime. This is played out in mundanely
poignant tableaux in which the spirit realm manifests
in low-tech effects and remembered tv-movies. 

Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel, Steven Matheson, USA 2000,
video, 26:00
(ex quo winner of the international competition
videoex 2002)
This absurd microscopic film noir follows the
activities of an underground network of sick people,
desperate to create alternative methods of self-care
in a world where natural resources are disappearing.
While examining the meaning of health, disease, and
well-being in post-industrial culture, ŒApple¹
imagines the development of a culture at the margins,
linked by illicit radio broadcasts, toxic waste sites,
the highway, and ultimately by the overwhelming desire
to find a cure.


Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002   8.30 pm

Du Moteur A Explosion, Dominic Gagnon, CAN 2000, 16
mm, 40:00
with live music by Dominic Gagnon
(ex equo winner of the international competition
videoex 2002)
Full Throttle Engine Component disturbs the
architecture of the world's largest airports. Hijacks
reduces to flames four Boeing 747s and penetrates the
paranoid psyches of traveller strapped inside the
international zone. The underlying tension, an
extraordinary visual beauty and a fascinating
soundtrack catch the viewers attention during 40
minutes.


Thursday, Dec. 19, 2002   8.30 pm

The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs, Walid Ra'ad, USA
1999, video, 16:54
This piece investigates the possibilities and limits
of writing a history of the Lebanese civil wars
(1975-1991). The tapes offer accounts of the fantastic
situations that beset a number of individuals, though
they do not document what  happened. Rather, the tapes
explore what can be imagined, what can be said, what
can be taken for granted, what can appear as rational,
sayable, and thinkable about the wars. 

Fade into White # 3, Kazuhiro Goshima, J 2001, video,
14:00
In this FADE into WHITE series, I have been tried to
stimulate the imagination of audiences with the
minimized visual information. I think the real
existence is with Œquality¹ not with Œquantity¹ of
information.

Variations for Movements, Yoshinao Satho, J 2001,
video, 5:30
A small, animated Œsymphony of a big city¹: signs and
buildings have their own life.

Cargo, Laura Waddington, F 2001, video, 29:35
(ex quo winner of the international competition
videoex 2002)
A woman tells the story of a journey she made on a
cargo boat to the middle east. Lost in space: poetic
and exquisitely beautiful, Laura Waddington dream
video diary records the melancholy shadow life of a
container ship crew in perpetual limbo.


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