at the 49th Sydney Film Festival
Dendy Opera Quays, 2 Circular Quay, Sydney
June Monday 17th 2pm + Wednesday 19th 9.15pm
Cinema Nova in Melbourne
26 June 7.30pm
Mercury Cinemas Adelaide
30 July 7.30pm
State Library of Queensland
August 11 2pm + 3.30 pm
17 films, 15 directors from 7 countries, a storm of cinematic experimentation
Captive|2:40
Robin Dupuis | Canada |2001
Video Captive is a study of the body's collision with a prefabricated language of image-movement. This digital video is the remixed version of an installation that explores the rhythmic displacement of sound.
Le Silence est en Marche | 3:30
Pierre -Yves Cruaud |France|2001
Barriers that cannot be trespassed limit the vital space of more or less human manifestations. We watch the
development of already regulated lives. Will voices be heard ?
Crash Media |4:30
Tim Ryan |Aust | 2001
Video Crash Media was constructed from a digital video distortion process whereby sourced footage, depicting the destruction of various motor vehicles, was manipulated using flaws in digital video technology. The images in this video have been altered to such an extent that the visuals are indistinguishable from their original source. By this use of technical malfunction, Crash Media represents the aesthetics of dysfunction.
Whoosh| 12:00
Anouk de Clerc |Belgium| 2001 |
Video Motion pictures, motion graphics and music interplay in a poetic reflection on our accelerated age.
Attente.espera|3:47
Joanna Empain| Canada | 2001
Video Time in suspense, reflections, memories; to defy inaction, the yearning for evasion. To live one's present.
Hollow|4:00
Tina Gonsalves| Aust | 2001
Hollow explore self-esteem and body image. The camera scans the flesh of the body, allowing the viewer to see marks of pain, emotional trauma and disease. It asks how he stores emotions and memory on a cellular level. This piece reflects the way the mind work, forever shifting, changing and drifting.
Line Up |2:00
Julie-Christine Fortier | Canada |2001
Video Fire!
Train |2:30
Phillip Ryder| UK|2001
Video A parody of the silent movie, Ryder filmed himself tied and gagged to Chicago rail tracks. The 16mm film footage was later laid out and run over by a mile long freight train. Each frame of the salvaged film was re-photographed and animated, accompanied by the soundtrack of screeching wagon wheels crushing the film.
Rock | 1:00
Phillip Ryder| UK| 2001
Video Video version of a Super8 film on suicide drowning. The actual Super8 footage was placed in a river for two weeks. The average time taken for a drowned victim's body to resurface due to inflation from gasses released from the decomposition process.
Seismic|2:48
Sumugan Sivanesan| Aust| 2002
All work is concerned with exploring qualities particular to mini DV. Seismic shake the foundations - it just takes a little bit of concentration.
So far, so good |4:20
Andreas Gedin | Sweden | 2001
Video Two men and a slice of pizza. There is an obvious reason why one of the men tell, the other one a story.
Hiatus |1:00
Sebastien Pesot| Canada | 2001
Video Sequel to LAPSUS, Hiatus is a formal enquiry inspired by the frame of a television set, now a symbol of limited frameworks. Reflections on the viewer's lack of critical thinking when facing the viewed object.
Rente chez toi | 2:40
Claudette Lemay | Canada| 2001
Video A motionless body faces agitation, sometimes from within, sometimes from without.
Azur | 3:06
Myriam Bessette| Canada| 2001
Video Compose of synthetic light and voice samples, Azur tend to establish an emotional link with the spectator.
SPOT | 4:12
Jorge Cosmen | Spain |2002
Video "In a world which really is reversed, the true is a moment of the false". (Guy Debord, the society of the spectacle, 1967). Subverting. Narrative language, design and advertising mix. orders. Propaganda. Surveillance. Social control. Market e-conomy & market society. Technology and alienation.
Composition_RGB| 1:13
Sumugan Sivanesan| Aust | 2002
Video Composition_RGB - atovial harmonies
A Film | 16:24
Atanas Djonov| Aust| 2001
This is an experimental video the underlying idea of which is that people's creativity and imagination are nurtured through our attempts to resolve tension. The work juxtaposes two different planes: vision and sound. The work questions the definition of 'film' and the way in which a film's structure is dependent upon the use of key semiotic systems - the visual, the verbal, and the audio - that people as social beings have developed during their evolution. In addition, the work also implicitly criticizes the commercial use of symbolic cliches.
Le Silence est en Marche | 3:30
Pierre -Yves Cruaud |France|2001
Crash Media |4:30
Tim Ryan |Aust | 2001
Attente.espera|3:47
Joanna Empain| Canada | 2001
Line Up |2:00
Julie-Christine Fortier | Canada |2001
Train |2:30
Phillip Ryder| UK|2001
Hiatus |1:00
Sebastien Pesot| Canada | 2001
Composition_RGB| 1:13
Sumugan Sivanesan| Aust | 2002
A Film | 16:24
Atanas Djonov| Aust| 2001