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Recipes for Disaster / Katastrofin aineksia

John Webster
Format:
film/video

Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family go on a one -year 'oil diet', without having to give up their middle class suburban lifestyle.

In Transit

Joanne Richardson
Format:
film/video

In Transit is a travelogue of a journey through space and time, composed of subjective impressions of the present and childhood memories of the past. Filmed during a trip across Romania in the year of its EU accession, the monologue reflects on the meaning of post-communist transition, the processes through which history is being rewritten.

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In Uranias

Markus Wambsganss
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film/video

Visually In Uranias resembles a cinematic diary, and it documents a journey through Iran and the USA in early 2007. The text for the voice - over narration comes from a collaboration with Iranian-American artist Sara Rahbar.

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Not enough night

Dan Boord
Luis Valdovino
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film/video

Not enough night is a swan song for bygone hipsters, who longed for more 'life' amid the coming storm of the post-World War II suburbs, shopping malls and the lonely existence of the solitary consumer.

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Unfinished Harbor (Narcissus)

Etta Säfve
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film/video

A pointless act or a ceaseless urge, a must - what brings our actions to life is not always clear, sometimes even to ourselves. In Unfinished Harbor (Narcissus) a man comes paddling up a stream. Stepping ashore, he starts attaching blue birds to the naked trees surrounding the water.

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Unknown Unknown(s)

Mark Boswell
Format:
film/video

Unknown Unknown(s) is a dialogue between film history and the concept of art as an activistic practice – and a post-modern comédie tragique.

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planschen

Christian Niccoli
Format:
installation

The video metaphorically embodies the 'lost in space' condition experienced by young foreigners living in Berlin. It is characterised by a lack of stable bonds, like job and family, and is represented by a mass of people floating around in the middle of the ocean, all supported by their own tire-tubes. The protagonists start gazing at each other with looks of jealousy and deep sarcasm.

Planet A

Momoko Seto
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film/video

Planet A shows a worrisome, strange yet playful world composed only of salt crystal formations. Salt and water recreate a surreal space and at the same time suggest the possibility that this phantasmagoria could one day be an irreversible reality.

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Dekoration

Florian Gwinner
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film/video

In Dekoration the camera spins around its own axis. Different arrangements merge. A representation of a mini evolution of the world.

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A necessary music

Beatrice Gibson
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film/video

The Science fiction film A necessary music is about modernist social housing. Gibson explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape Roosevelt Island which is situated between Manhattan and Queens. The cinematic impressions are beeing attended by voices of the inhabitants and an insistent music inspired by the composer Robert Ashley.

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