top 50

2 minutes, USA (2002)
language: English

A comparison/contrast of the top 50 words, in order of occurrence, from speeches by Bin Laden and Bush given in October 2001.

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50 minutes, The Netherlands/Russia (2002)
language: Russian subtitles: English
ThankEve Productions

NEFORMAT is a documentary focusing on Moscow's underground music scene. This scene may be hard to find, but is certainly not fast asleep. Ignored by radio stations and record companies, Moscow's neformat ("non-mainstream") bands have managed to combine Russia's singer-songwriter tradition with western underground influences. The result: intense music, honest lyrics and energetic live performances. The documentary NEformat features the Moscow-based bands Uly, Sedmaya Rasa and Deti Khurmy. Uly, a band playing pop-punk, have already released three albums but are still "widely known only in narrow circles". The reason is not a lack of talent, but an almost bankrupt record company. The leader of Sedmaya Rasa, a band playing grunge with more serious and reflective lyrics, came all the way from Kazakhstan to rock out on Moscow's club stages, but now has to produce food for cosmonauts to support himself. In the meanwhile the members of Deti Khurmy, based in Moscow's endless bleach suburbs, are playing straight forward rap-metal; they're fighting against not only Russia's political system but also falling apart motorcycles and amplifiers. Each band is shown in a different cinematic style. NEFORMAT is a unique showcase for a scene known by few outside Russia.

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7 minutes, Belgium (2002)

Rafaël uses the photography and the video to express the things that are closest to him: his son, his girlfriend, his Italian coffee-pot (even though he’s Spanish…). In achieving that, he doesn’t mind spending several hours behind his laptop, to rework every image one by one with is favourite photographic software… Variations of rhythm, photography experiments, Video and, above all, no sound. Antonin de Bemels.

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26 minutes, USA (2002)
language: English subtitles: English

Welcome to New York is an experimental documentary on the influence of a conservative think tank, the Manhattan Institute, on New York during the 1990s, and the response of citizens to the corporate-friendly policies of the Giuliani administration. It also offers a glimpse at the resurgent conservatism of the post 9/11 era in the U.S. With text, music, found footage and interviews, the tape is an irreverent essay on a neoliberal vision of urban life that has been marketed throughout the world.

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9 minutes, Germany (2002)
language: English subtitles: no subtitles
Agricola de Cologne

- Watch- Seconds:Forever describes two positions: of screening and being screened, watching and being watched, controlling and being controlled. example: the physical and psychical situation of victims of terror and torture. The victim, paralyzed, remains in motionlessness, while the surrounding environment and elements move permanently. It represents the actual situation of experiencing torture, as well as the psychological situation the victims remains in until the end of his life. Terror and torture have destroyed certain structures of self-protecting, watching: human dignity. Although the work is connected to real experience, it represents also a metaphor for victims of every day life, who are not aware that they are victims. The contemporary media society, controlled and manipulated by state administration and private commercial interests.

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14 minutes, UK (2002)

‘Circling’ explores a process which in reality moves threedimensionally, yet has been altered to operate cyclically. Literally moving through a space and back again, a simple circling shaft of light exists. Coupled with sounds sourced in reality, the viewer is presented with an abstract visual cycle displaced from a reality based audio cycle. The sound is comprised of three elements: organic (rain), emotional (moments shared by myself and my family), and functional (transport) orchestrated into a symphony of ambient noise. The result leaves the viewer feeling both included and left out, unaware of where the cycles begin and end, unsure of whether the markers signify entrance or exit.

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4 minutes, Morocco/Germany (2002)
language: Moroccan-French-English subtitles: English
Taleb Cherche Midi

A short story about a Man and a Woman trying to deal with their forced isolation. The woman, a German born, is trying to discover the happenings in a rooftop in Agadir, the southern city of Morocco. The Man, a Moroccan born, is trying to get some noodle shot from Cologne’s local doctor. Let us kill the bad spirits is trying to break stereotypes as it seems sometimes that we have no other view of truth than the opinions and traditions we belong to. SALAM ALIKOUM.

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12 minutes, Austria (2002)
language: english
Hofstetter Kurt and Barbara Doser , Langegasse 42/8c, 1080 Vienna, Austria

In 12 time zones around the earth two persons spend one hour facing the sun. They are parallel to each other; their seeing rays and the sunbeams in parallel point to the same infinitely distant point, where they meet each other. Simultaneously, they rotate with the earth and circulate around the sun. It is about parallelism and circulation, staged to experience time. Moments of this time experience are recorded by a video camera. The camera is directed towards the sun and towards the same infinitely distant point, back-light shooting. The persons become silhouettes that frame the light of the sun. The radical reduction of the formal matter and action (story line), intensified by the camera focus, consequently repeated all around the earth, gives the viewer time to reflect. The slowness of the pictures opens the possibility of finding parallel contents beyond the formal image reception. To spend time with time, from abstract time (artificial slow motion of natural movements) up to the time experienced as a cosmic process (rotation of the earth) ... or to be bored ... as long as the picture is interrupted by a certain question, which again reflects on time. Image perception depends on time. Time codes images. A video out of time to experience time? * “facing time” is a parallel project of the international media art project “Sunpendulum” recorded at the installation sites of the “Sunpendulum Time-Eyes”. www.sunpendulum.at

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11 minutes, Austria (2002)
director, script, camera, animation, editing, sound: Barbara Doser

Eyes look, observe. What is to be seen? - What is seen? - What is to be observed? - What is observed? - What happens? - It´s a dream. - Don´t piss down my back and tell me it´s raining ... A compilation of distinctive sequences (video and videofeedbacks computer processed, computeranimated frames), which are linked together by eyes looking, telling about ... observation, integration, manipulation, transformation, protection, trepidation, imagination, consideration, irritation ... A never ending story - facts in real and virtual space.

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4 minutes, USA (2002)
language: english

This is the main screen video element of a 2 channel installation on a big screen television with picture-in-picture capabilities. On the main screen were a trailer and 4 x :30 TV spots, produced in collaboration with a professional trailer editor and voice over talent, promoting an 11 min. 'feature', which played on the smaller screen. Content is of my moving in the most mundane manner through the gallery space, engaging with the integral elements of the space, generating very subtle tranformations, then exiting.

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10 minutes, Croatia (2002)
language: Croatian subtitles: English
FADE IN

Short documentary film that focuses on the events during the first Gay Pride parade held in Zagreb on June 29, 2002. Despite provocations and disagreements, the protest gathered a number of citizens, Croatian associations, politicians, people from public life who supported claims for the sexual minorities' civic rights.

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3 minutes, romania, italy (2002)
language: english subtitles: english
mona vatamanu and florin tudor

the video contains 3 layers: personal, cultural, socio political. It is an interpretation of Red Desert by Michelangelo Antonioni, a peronal story related to an island called Pellestrina and an insignificant personal event that took place at the same time as powerful protests in palestina (palestina/pellestrina). the idea is that you can live somewhere so remote that you don't notice surrogate news offered by television.

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16 minutes, Australia (2002)
language: English
Dunne/Arkins

yBa (cook's voyage) seeks to establish a culturally specific voice in relation to the yBa 'phenomenon', that of the antipodes, periphery, as opposed to the cultural 'centre' of London. Through a repetitive, gestural performance the artist sings a dissonant song of the letters 'Y...B...A...' and dances for the camera, oblivious of passers by. The work which was completed on Australia Day 2002 in Hyde Park, Sydney, where festivities to celebrate the anniversary of Captain Cook's landing in Botany Bay were taking place, seeks to comment on current trends/attitudes in global curatorial practice in relation to art production outside 'centre's' such as London. yBa (cook's voyage) seeks to destabilise the maintenance of a global cultural hierarchy/canon in relation to such phenomena as the yBa's through critiquing its effect on production and attitudes outside the established 'centre's'.

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26 minutes, Brazil (2002)
language: Portuguese subtitles: English
Cinematografica Ameraba

Mystery and fight of a wiseman and his mountain. Toni B lives on the side of Sacopã Hill, on the shores of the Lagoon, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. From there, he watches the world, people and himself, while he fights for ownership of the place where he lives, in the company of the works he creates. An universe where day to day occurrences inspire mythical narratives and contain conflicts which rule our process of development and urbanization.

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6 minutes, Thailand (2002)
language: Thai subtitles: English
Anne Verhoijsen

On a market place in Bangkok I met a women working on the market. I liked a dress she wanted to shell. And then it turns out to be a special one. In the Story of the Green Dress Miss Paratoommas Sukhon gave me her confidence telling me her personal story connected with her green dress. At the same time you see another women doing her make-up as a daily ritual.

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