In Control – a videoart memoir

A special curated program by the isfth foundation for Don’t you have docs? art platform, Australia.

One of the goals of the isfth foundation is to show the diversity and quality that can be found in the field of audio visual art. Over the last six years we have collected and screened every imaginable genre, from emerging to established artists alike and presented these to an international audience.

Within this unconventional videoart archive we occasionally come across a truly inspiring work – one that stands out because of its original concept or visual excellence. Although art is arguably a subjective field, the artist is here undeniably in control, from concept till the visualization of this concept.

Albeit this program is seemingly an eclectic collection, these films befit exactly the foundations goals.

Screening at “Don’t you have docs?” September 2011

Don’t You Have Docs? is a monthly curated program of short non-fiction films. Screening online on mubi.com Garage and at various locations in Australia, the program promotes the best short docs from all over the world.
www.dontyouhavedocs.com

Screening at “LOOP” 19 September 2011

Loop presents an ever-changing roster of screen works, experimental music, audio-visual performance, and forums. Please check the home page for the weekly and upcoming schedule. We invite individuals and collectives to submit proposals.

23 Meyers Place
Melbourne
Australia
www.looponline.com.au

Dalibor Baric – The mind from nowhere
The title comes after replacing one letter from J.G.Ballard’s novel “wind from nowhere” (apocalyptic hurricane force wind). Also I-Ching Hexagram 61: The Inner Truth “The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus visible effects of the invisible manifest themselves”. Here is an (invisible) mind which manifests itself subjectively as a stream of consciousness (or as a film).

Narrative leads to the dead-end. Film is a collage, built upon various movie clichés; behind all the cut-ups, it vaguely suggesting the storyline of woman who is haunted by thoughts about her late husband/lover dead soldier; a seance and of diabolical, manipulative medium. Melodrama is interwoven with images of violence, war and mass destruction creating surreal and an absurd atmosphere (although it could be happening simultaneously but at different places).

The Mind From Nowhere

Helena Bulaja – Mechanical figures
Collection of short films inspired by the scientist Nikola Tesla – a journey through the creative process from idea to ….

Mechanical Figures

Claudio Castelli – Giocattoli Futuristi
The storytelling [in Futuristic Toys] aims to be a reprise of a certain futuristic representation, a grotesque tale of the lack of psychology in this type of dramatic scenes, and which would spark a sense of loss and amazement in the viewer, still remaining in a dreamlike vision.

Giocattoli Futuristi

Alfredo Hisa – Nearby
In our hectic urban routine, the optimism of squeezing everything into a single day clashes directly with our inevitable delays. On the streets, individuals and its means of transportation move frantically. On duty, they always have predetermined destinies.

Despite our contemporary problems with time restrictions, we can still nurture our imagination on a daily basis. Ordinary places can be a lot of fun. This empty gap between our train of thoughts is where I get my inspiration from. The tiny slit we don’t care about is a portal to a universe where things can be awaken.

Nearby

Lemeh42 – Study on human form and humanity #01
This work has been first shot as a video performance on a theater stage, then it has been edited digitally. The title in fact refers to both the two phases of the work. As a recorded performance this work reflects on the human form. We have created a coreography based on the movements and positions of a sleeping body.

Study on Human Form and Humanity #01

Adèle Miossec – Beauté
Réalisation stop motion.

Beauté

Jean-Gabriel Périot – Les Barbares
We are scum! We are barbarians!

Les Barbares

Fabio Scacchioli – Dead SEEquences
“dead SEEquences” is a video composed of 3770 frames. Working frames by frames, we find that nothing happens inside each single image, but all pass between the frames, in the invisible gap that separe a frame by others. The film is here, but there isn”t something to see, the most important remain invisible and uncertain. There is no truth to discover. The truth is always elsewhere.
This is a study about the vanishing of an image. It”s the image of a naked body, the most tangible and real thing for a human being. Not a body, but the image of a body. In this gap operate the principle of disappearance: between the object and his image there is a distance, a limit, a separation; this is the functioning of language, the only way we know to relate with the world and the others. Between each word and his meaning we find this distance as an original sin, a gap where the world disappear to be speaked. To communicate, the world and the human being have to disappear. For this, the art have to become “uncommunicative” and “uncommunicable”.

Dead SEEquences

Josien Vogelaar – Penelope
The story of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, is visualized by little figures made of cut out photographs of the body of the artist. The figures represent the female, male and animal characters in the story. Such as: Penelope, Odysseus, their son Telemachos, the nurse, slaves and servants, warriors, , a goddess, the suitors, horses and the dog Argos. The film is made in stop motion technique.

Penelope

Anders Weberg – For Sore Eyes
“For Sore Eyes” is another exploration of the ambivalence of the male gaze and gendered (dis)order.
It is a suggestive reflection of life in the pyrotechnic in sanatorium of consumerism freedom.
But what is really freedom?

For Sore Eyes

The full program is available on our Don’t You Have Docs? Mubi Garage channel and will also screen at LOOP in Melbourne on Monday the 19th of September at 7pm. No door charge!