G8-summit evian 2003 – our perspective

22 minutes, Switzerland and Germany (2003)
language: german subtitles: newsline at the start of each clip, in English.
imc koelle

video.clips done in Lausanne/CH, doing our own recherches, and seeing how mainstreammedia is working. Daily newsflashes which where broadcasted immediately via www.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

4 minutes, Denmark (2003)
language: english
a ZIMMER FREI production

When celebrating any wedding and/or wedding-anniversary, due to superstition, the married couple must waltz before midnight. If they don’t, this will bring eternal unhappiness.....till death do us part.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

2 minutes, SPAIN (2003)
ZAP producciones

A reflection and a critical commentary on the concept of democracy and its incarnation in our contemporary society as well as on the concept of nation. And a parody of electoral propaganda.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

5 minutes, SPAIN (2003)
ZAP producciones

At the Straits of Gibraltar, apex of two continents and the southern borderline of Europe, life grows at the edges. The Illegal immigration as a metaphor of a "broken dream" that repeats incessantly as the cycle of the moon.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

4 minutes, SPAIN (2003)
language: SPANISH subtitles: english/french
ZAP producciones

The war is not just a bellicist act but a cultural concept rooted very deep in western society. And we educate future generations with this concep through an "inoffensive" game for children.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

4 minutes, CANADA (2003)
language: English
LIC Productions

VJ-Fleet consists of 3 cars fitted with video projection on the rear windshield. Each car has a theme. The themes are determined by the character of the car, and by characteristics of the performance site, such as a downtown area, where the fleet will be mobilized. The choice of cars for the project reflects the specific car culture of the host city expressed through customization and branding. The cars are set up with equipment to allow for mobile video downloading, and video mixing using data from the car. While the fleet is mobile, videographers in the site are creating videos for projection on the cars. The themes are used as a guide to gather footage of the activities of city's inhabitants. The videographers' footage is downloaded to the cars as they drive by WIFI (wireless internet) download sites. A sound artist records ambient sound using a microphone held outside the window of one of the cars, mixes this, and plays it back using an FM transmitter.Nearby cars can tune into our frequency and hear the audio sampling. The cars travel in a pack and occasionally stopping at locations associated with particularly interesting events, such as festivals. Each car is equipped with a sensor and software patch that interprets data from the car. For example, in the New Forms Festival performance, the car called Star Quality relied on data interpreted from the engine speed. This data caused a kind of 'jittery' effect to be applied to the video. The faster the car revved, the more 'jittery' the video. The car Big Money used a sensor that interpreted the movement of the car and displayed the video in a virtual 3 dimensional space. If the car tilted, the video would also tilt in space. The car Whiz Kids relied on the engine sound to determine a tiling effect on the video. The higher the pitch of the engine, the more tiling occurred. In this way, not only were the inhabitants of the city portrayed, but also the car was expressed in the video. During the premiere of VJ-Fleet, Star Quality was driven into the gallery space of the New Forms Festival where it was set up to project its archive of the evening's videos. The goal of this project is to create a mobile portrait of the city through video and audio sampling of real time events. VJ-Fleet relies on current VJ (or video jockey) culture and the hosting city's local car and social culture. As well, the videographers, sound artists and drivers who participate in the project are artists from the performance city and thus have local knowledge of its unique character.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

47 minutes, Germany (2003)
www.hybridvideotracks.org

A video about the staging and architecture of public space during the G-8 summit in Evian. “fermeture / ouvert” is no documentary on the summit itself nor on the protests of the “anti-globalisation” movement. The video rather examines the effects of a spectacle like the G-8 summit on public space. A state of emergency and the normality of every day life express themselves in the architecture of Geneva and Lausanne, where most buildings are barricaded for security reasons. The fronts of banks, shops and offices are completly sealed off with wooden panels, which on the other hand are used by the protesters for building street barricades. Streets and stores will be closed and opened up. Police and activists march in different formations on empty roads and highways. The city becomes a surrealistc gallery for graffitty-artists and glaziers. Activists enter symbolically the premise of the World Trade Organisation, who usually prefers to keep the activities behind closed doors. it is all about opening and closing of space, of borders, of new perspectives for thinking and acting. The video does not only keep out any off-commentary, but his for most parts without any sound. But short sound-bites which explode suddenly will open up the ear for the sound of the summit.. Like the isolated sound-bites the images will give the opportunity to rethink the quite ritualized staging of “power” and “protest”.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

1 minutes, Germany (2003)
language: German
www.hybridvideotracks.org

During a car ride two women discuss the character of the new preventional wars, while the interieur of the car becomes a battlefield for most modern war & communication technologies.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

15 minutes, USA (2003)
language: english
Conglomco Media Conglomeration

Re-Code.com became an internet phenomenon overnight with news stories appearing on the front pages of Wired, Yahoo, Salon.com, MSNBC, USA Today, NYPOST, and on TV and Radio segments like CNN Headline News and the BBC - but why? This 5 minute infommercial video, along with the 10 minute response video help explain the ideas and factors that turned this simple web parody into an unprompted media spectacle.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

7 minutes, USA (2003)
language: English and Kapampangan (Philippines) subtitles: English

An artist's thoughts on colonialism and its contemporary by-products. Marquez uses dogs and dog shows as a metaphor for the condition of historically colonized populations, focusing on a "conversation" on breeding set in his native Philippines. The people in the video are seen discussing the merits and responsibilities of "proper" dog ownership--many aspects being akin to rationales for colonialism.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

0 minutes, Scotland (2003)
language: English
Pilton Video with Edinburgh Youth

This documentary was made with and by a diverse group of teenagers in Edinburgh who were involved in the anti war movement earlier this year. Over 20 young people were given camcorders to document their own experiences of the unprecedented events of March 2003, when thousands of schoolchildren organised mass walk outs from school and took to the streets in protest against the war in Iraq. This unique footage challenges the mainstream media myth that they were manipulated or misguided with insightful interviews and assertive and articulate commentary. It inspires respect and admiration for this new generation of activists. The film documents the growing politicisation of young people on a scale not seen for over 30 years in the UK. Outraged by the politicians’ false rhetoric and lack of engagement with the views of the young people, they decided to take matters into their own hands, to make them sit up and listen.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

1 minutes, italy (2003)
language: italian subtitles: english

This is a short video that uses images taken from television broadcasting during the war.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

2 minutes, UNITED KINGDOM (2003)
language: ENGLISH subtitles: ENGLISH
RESERVE SWEENEY

FUSION OF THE ARTIST’S DISAPPEARANCE FROM A CERTAIN AGE WITH POLITICAL DISAPPEARANCE

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

0 minutes, australia (2003)
language: visual language

"You take me higher". This tactical media film has been made to interface with the spectator through the video phone. An experiment in telecommunications appropriation, it provokes the question: 'is the public being seduced (disappearing) into the machine?

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

15 minutes, UK (2003)
Zenomap

As the soundtrack threatens to suffocate with its magnified rumble of tape noise, worn out subtitles collide on screen with the snow and stutter of recently discarded technology. A blank vhs cassette, duplicated and re-duplicated, franticly animates the screen with the spluttering of degrading, fragile tape and interwoven in this technological fallout are the whispers of sub-titled lives culled from the dislocated characters of Jean-Luc Godard's 'Two or three things I know about her'.

>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2

<< previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 next >>

players

you can view the video's on this page with Quicktime version 6 on Windows and Mac OS. On Linux, you can use mplayer