>FILM | VIDEO | ANIMATION

Sightless Vision | Seth Keen | Aust | 2001 | 0:50 | video
Sightless Vision is a work influenced by the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio. This piece was my visual interpretation of his theories on perception, speed and political control.
Seth Keen is currently completing a Masters in Media arts at UTS and studies in Interactive Video Production at the Computer Graphics College. He is bringing together his experience as a videographer/filmmaker with new skills in new media.

Maju "Pale Blood Coloured Recollections" | Richard Grant | Aust | 2001 | 4.01 | 8mm + video
Bits of 8mm footage of children's concert is intermixed with lines, blurring light swirly glimpses of Japanese and English text things.
For 8 years Richard Grant has been manipulating video images for musical artists, both local and abroad, under the guise of l+T=R: a non-profit organisation dedicated to self indulgent imagery of the highest order.

Anemones | Magdalene Kourti | Greece | 2000 | 8:50 | video
Anemones is the expression of life cycle through symbolism.
Magdalene Kourti is a New Media designer, who studied Computer Imaging & Animation and Fine Art in London. Her art work has been screened internationally, she lives and works in Athens doing underwater cinematography, however her aim is to have her video art "traveling" all over the world.

a not = a or For Devatas Who Keep on Dancing | Kawai Masayuki | Japan | 2000 | 15:30 | video
The work criticizes the society, which the mass media control by making image towards the society of spectacle.
Kawai Masayuki was born in Osaka, Japan. In 1994 started videoart-making. 1996 Graduated from the University of Tokyo with B.A, majoring in aesthetics.

My Name is Grant | Tobias J. Anderson | Sweden | 1999 | 2:00 | video
A short video facing the many problems of identity. How shall one act as a celebrity, and how can we be sure we really are ourselves?
J. Tobias Anderson. Born 1971 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Originally painter, and since 1993 working with videoart and animation. Today experimenting with a number of different techniques, such as video, painting, illustration, sound and music.

Suspicious | Brent Grayburn | Aust | 2000 | 4:50 | video
Man "self drills" / is consumed by his physical in a highly urbanised environ.
The ethos of Grayburn's art delves into systems of displacement both architecturally and socially and observes their pervading impact on the psyche.

Mechanical Rodeo | Julie-Christine Fortier | Canada | 1.50 | video
Video-performance in which ocular circumventions of a performer with a static face, race at the rhythm of a small mechanics.
A Montreal based artist and a founder-member of the media art collective Perte de signal, Julie-Christine Fortier works in video-performance and installation. In her performances, she submits her face to precise constraints to figure herself as flat as an image.

El Guero | Jim Finn | USA | 2001 | 2:45 | 16mm
Three little karaoke videos on love and communism.
Jim Finn is an artist living in Chicago. El Guero is his third short film. His short film, Sharambaba, screened at d>art 2000.

Being Fucked Up | Duke + Battersby | Canada | 2001 | 10:16 | video
A collection of nine short works about ego, happiness and holding on. It combines low-tech animation, performance and monologues to create.
Emily Vey Duke is an artist and writer with a degree in Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Cooper Battersby is a Visual Artist and Graphic Designer who was educated as a computer programmer. Duke & Battersby have exhibited across Canada, and have had works published in the Canadian Art Press.

Nutation | Myriam Bessette | Canada | 2000 | 2:50 | video
A study of the organic aspect of the electronic signal transmission.
Myriam Bessette has earned a BFA at the Universite'du Quebec a Montreal in 2000. Her media arts work focus on interactive installation, digital video installation and single channel digital video. She works and lives in Ste-Julie.

CONTEMPORARY CASE STUDIES | Janet Merewether | Aust | 2001 | 14:00 | 35mm
A black comedy featuring an experimental graphic style. CONTEMPORARY CASE STUDIES takes a bleak look at the confused nature of love and relationships in Sydney at the turn of the new century.
Janet Merewether is a film/video maker, motion graphics designer and curator whose films, including 'Cheap Blonde', have been widely screened in Australia and internationally. Her design work includes the opening titles sequences for 'The Boys', and 'The Diplomat'.

INVERSION | Andrew Gadow | Aust | 2000 | 8:35 | video
This work creates a new interrelation of the medium of video by utilising the basics of its function. The sound of vision essentially is an abstract video as a sound source.
Andrew Gadow is currently doing honors in fine arts at Nepean University. In 2000, he exhibited his video installations and experimental electronic work in Driver Exhibition, Floxicend-Graduation Show 2000 and Walking In the Streets.

Parken Verboten | Dalibor Martinis | Croatia | 2001 | 7.50 | video
A video film based on my action-installation held on the main square in Rosenhein (autumn 2000). By parking new, black and white cars (VW Golfs) in a 130m long row along the Max-Josefs-Platz a binary message is written.
Dalibor Martinis is an artist and a video maker. He has exhibited his videotapes and video/interactive installations in many international exhibitions such as Sao Paolo Biennale, Documenta, Venice Biennale, and film/video festivals in Berlin, Tokyo, Montreal, San Francisco , Locarno etc.

a.k.a. | Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski | Aust | 2001 | 3 | video
a.k.a ---"also know as". An alias, afront, a smokescreen. A.k.a poses the question: how will we respond when the day of universal surveillance arrives? The answer is simple: never be the same person twice.

Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs are Australian artists whose film, video and new media works have been shown extensively in Australia and internationally. They have worked together on; The User Unfriendly Interface, Diagnostic Tools for the New MIllenium, Bio-Tek Kitchen, a computer game patch and Dream Kitchen, an interactive stop-motion animation published on CD-ROM.

:plugins, drifting..| Michael Hornblow| Aust | 2000 | 1:00 | video
The Peripheral citizen wanders late-nite Tokyo, his cine-spex cutting up the city passing it through his body, to emerge as the residue of a new and unknown language.
Michael Hornblow is a writer, filmmaker and performance atist with a background in public art, film and video, experimental theatre and multimedia events.

Hostage: The Bachar Tapes | Souheil Bachar/Walid Raad, | Lebanon/USA | 2001 | 16:30 | video
Souheil Bachar is a Lebanese national who was kidnapped in Beirut in 1983 and was held hostage for ten years. The Bachar Tapes is an experimental documentary about 'the western hostage crisis.'
Souheil Bachar collaborated with the Atlas group to produce 53 videotapes about his captivity. He currently lives and works in Beirut. Walid Raad grew up in Lebanon and lives and works in the US. He is executive director of The Atlas Group, a foundation that promotes visual and cultural research about Lebanon.