WEDNESDAY 07 MAY
16:30

INVITED PROGRAM
MONTEVIDEO/Time Based Arts

Kurt D’HAESELEER : Rock
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:07:06
Belgique | 2007

Jeroen KOOIJMANS : Lost Recordings
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:01:39
Pays-Bas | 2006

Erwin OLAF : Grief
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:03:59
Pays-Bas | 2007

Manuel SAIZ : Parallel Paradises
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:05:00
Espagne | 2006

Guido VAN DER WERVE : Nummer Negen (The day I didn turn with the world)
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:08:36
Países Bajos | 2007

Yael BARTANA : Summer Camp
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:12:00
Pays-Bas | 2007

Alice KOK, Pascal LIEVRE : Rain
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:05:20
France | 2007

Jan VAN NUENEN : Evolizer
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:15:00
Pays-Bas / Allemagne | 2007

The Netherlands Media Art Institute: Presentation, Collection and Research.
Ever since the founding of the video gallery Montevideo in 1978, the Netherlands Media Art Institute has been specialised in electronic art and especially video art which seeks the creative possibilities and properties of the medium itself. The Netherlands Media Art Institute today is active in 3 core areas: presentation, collection and research. Among the tasks of the Presentation department are exhibitions, in and outside our own building. The Collection department bears responsibility for collecting/selecting, distribution and preservation of the collection. We perform conservation services for important video collections in Dutch museums and investigate methods and technologies for the long-term preservation of installations and video works. Through the Research department's Artists in Residence program, the Institute supports artists by developing new software and new applications. These activities take place in cooperation with international partners. Finally the educational department supports all our activities, organises guided tours, provides lesson packets and lectures for secondary and tertiary education, and coordinates workshops and guest lectures in The Netherlands and other countries. Through all these diverse functions, the Netherlands Media Art Institute fulfils its role as the intermediary institution for the media art sector, a middle-man building bridges between artists, art institutions and the public, and a center of expertise that makes its resources available to these groups. The collection of the Netherlands Media Art Institute now comprises over 1800 works, and is the beating heart of the Institute. The oldest tapes date from 1970, and the past years we added about 50 works yearly to the collection of which 75% qualifies for distribution. In addition, there is an impressive reference collection. Since its inception the Institute has maintained the possibility of open submissions and over 300 unsolicited works are sent to us yearly. Other titles are selected by scouting at festivals and following the careers of artists whose works were already included in the collection. The history of media art shows that from the very beginning international exchange was an essential part of this art form. Now we distribute yearly almost a thousand works from our collection to 36 countries and we are preparing for the future, as on-line distribution through streaming selected works directly from our servers will be possible soon.

WEDNESDAY 07 MAY
18:00
> Auditorium 200


A QUESTION OF GENRE

Michael BRYNNTRUP : Face it! (Cast Your Self™)
Video | dv | color | 0:04:00
Germany | 2007 

Isabell SPENGLER : Syncpoint
Experimental film | 16mm | color and b&w | 0:03:54
Germany | 2007 [•]

Lior SHAMRIZ : Before the flowers of friendship faded
Video | dv | color | 0:07:00
Israel /Germany | 2007 [•]

Katarzyna KOZYRA : Cheerleaderka
Video | dv | color | 0:04:30
Poland | 2006 [•]

Nina LASSILA : Piiskaa!
Video | dv | color | 0:01:13
Finland /Sweden | 2005 [•]

CABELLO/CARCELLER : Ejercicios de poder. Casos: Liam Neeson (La lista de Schindler)
Video | betaSP | black and white | 0:08:15
Spain | 2005 [•]

Aasa ELZEN, Markus WETZEL : Ill be you if youll be me 4 - Love Hurts More
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:10:00
Sweden | 2007 [•]

Nicolas JENKINS : New York Story
Doc. expérimental | dv | color | 0:07:00
Canada /USA | 2007 [•]

Almagul Menlibaeva MENLIBAYEVA : Headcharge
Video | dv | color and b&w | 0:12:12
Kazakhstan | 2007

Michael Brynntrup bases his series on self directing of the body on internet. The erotic self-portrait vanishes in an anonymous and repetitive frame. Isabell Spengler transposes into cinematographic language a performance of the feminist pop group "Larry Peacock". Lior Shamriz permutes the voices of three friends meeting by chance in the street, creating a strange and sombre perception of the other. Katarzyna Kozyra directs herself in a pop video, and plays with the clichés of feminine and masculine. Nina Lassila illustrates the phrase of Bourdieu stating that genre is a "lived ideology". Cabello/Carceller replay sequences taken from a Hollywood film, and explore the dynamics of power and of subordination which lurk behind the structures of genre in the capitalist model of society. Aasa Elzén and Markus Wetzel create an androgynous character played by one or by the other, it doesn't matter which, man or woman. Nicolas Jenkins films Breyer P-Orridge and his partner Lady Jaye who have undergone a series of plastic surgery operations to eliminate their physical differences, and create a new genre, the pandrogyne. With Almagul Menlibayeva, young urban Kazakh women eat a sheep's head in a restaurant in Almaty. This meal provokes their transformation; they become supernatural creatures of the steppes.

WEDNESDAY 07 MAY
20:00
> Auditorium 200


RELATIONS

Carlos PAZOS : En blanc i negre, une vez mas
Video | dv | color | 0:10:30
Spain | 2006 [•]

Isabelle LEVENEZ : Animaux domestiques, repas de famille
Video | dv | color | 0:04:00
France | 2006 [•]

Isabelle LEVENEZ : Animaux domestiques, le pain
Video | dv | color | 0:03:00
France | 2006 [•]

Gautam KANSARA : Grandma, Gautam, and Ghalib
Video | dv | color | 0:08:12
USA | 2006 [•]

Emmanuelle ANTILLE : Even if we fall
Fiction | dv | color | 0:09:21
Switzerland | 2007 [•]

Matthew MURDOCH : Being there
Doc. expérimental | 16mm | color | 0:04:00
United Kingdom | 2006 [•]

Ryan TAN : Yesterdays Play
Experimental fiction | 16mm | color | 0:05:00
Singapur | 2006 

Asa MORI : The Tea Party
Animation | dv | color | 0:01:45
Canada | 2007 [•]

Marko MÄETAMM : Family
Animation | dv | color | 0:04:09
Estonia | 2007 [•]

Nicholas & Sheila PYE : Loudly, Death Unties
Experimental fiction | hdv | color | 0:11:00
Canada | 2007 [•]

Sara RAJAEI : Charismatic fates & Vanishing dates
Video | dv | color | 0:03:00
Iran /Pays-Bas | 2006 [•]

Hans OP DE BEECK : The Stewarts have a Party
Video | dv | color | 0:04:19
Belgium | 2007 [•]

Yu-Chin TSENG : In fact, Ive known all along
Video | 35mm | color | 0:10:30
Taiwan | 2005 [•]

Antonello FARETTA : Just say no to family values
Doc. expérimental | dv | color | 0:04:37
Italy | 2006 [•]

Carlos Pazos directs a black Madonna standing besides the only known albino gorilla in the world. Isabelle Levenez grasps the awkwardness of a family meal in which the silent protagonists are naked and wear masks. Gautam Kansara and his grandmother listen to traditional Indian songs and become their protagonists. Emanuelle Antille questions family relations and the roles each one plays, around the notions of sacrifice and of filial love. Matthew Murdoch films himself during a phone conversation with his father alongside Hadrian's wall. Ryan Tan concentrates on one of the archetypes of mother-son relationships: reproaches around the dinner table. Asa Mori recreates some strange characters at teatime. Marko Mäetamm draws cruel sketches in which he exorcises the dilemma of being an artist and having a family. Nicholas and Sheila Pye direct each other as a couple facing a spirit announcing the death of one of the two. Sara Rajaei, by using the "deja-vu" notion, films sequence shots of characters in a family living room full of souvenirs. Hans Op de Beeck creates a strange group portrait. By removing the sense of colours, he underlines the peculiar fixity of posing and of generational gaps. Yu-Ching Tseng films a room in which a motionless child is standing while there is an alternate presence of either the mother or the father in the background. Antonella Faretta follows John Giorno to his native village where he recites the poem "Just say no to family values" while an old woman observes from the background.

WEDNESDAY 07 MAY
22:00

PROTO FICTION

Ben POINTEKER : . ..... .:.:...:::ccccoCCoooo::
Experimental film | hdv | color | 0:09:30
Autriche | 2006 [•]

Lea Monika ZAMIECKA : movie lea nika zamiecka
Video | dv | color | 0:05:25
Poland /Germany | 2007 [•]

Birgit RATHSMANN : White Out
Video | dv | color | 0:03:15
Germany /USA | 2006 [•]

Ben RIVERS : The Coming Race
Experimental film | 16mm | black and white | 0:05:00
United Kingdom | 2006 [•]

Mareike BERNIEN : Testbild
Video | dv | color | 0:12:00
Germany | 2007 [•]

Knut ASDAM : Finally
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:18:00
Norvège/France | 2007 [•]

Nicolas PROVOST : Plot point
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 0:13:39
Belgium | 2007 [•]

Neil BELOUFA : Kempinski
Fiction documentaire | dv | color | 0:15:00
France /Mali | 2007 [•]

Ben Pointeker questions the essence of the gaze and uses cinematographic language as a reminiscence. The non-discernible fills the frame of the image, the signification is that which appears. Lea Monika Zamiecka describes the feeling of loss, and metaphorizes the need to "go home". By the means of the images themselves, this search becomes cinematographic and plastic. Birgit Rathsmann produces, taking photographic images as a starting point and according to the codes of film noir, a nocturnal meeting in a park in Brooklyn. Digital snow gradually invades the frame of the image. Ben Rivers films thousands of people climbing a mountain. The destination and the object of their ascent remain undecidable; between a wandering and an uncertain pilgrimage. Mareike Bernien enlarges in fragments extracts of a film, and edits a sound track which seems to come from an autoguide. Emptied of its narrative connections, the asymmetric relation between image and sound becomes apparent. Knut Asdam films the search for possible combinations beween narrative and staging. Three young adults fight violently in a recurring manner, apparently with no reason. The shooting locations, in Salzburg, imprinted with a heavy past, seem to generate this violence. Nicolas Provost films the city of New York as material: its passers-by, its cops. The documentary image produces a fiction through an editing which is simultaneously cinematographic and choreographic. Neil Beloufa creates a science fiction documentary where the interviewees imagine the future and speak of it in the present.