Concerto para Clorofila

VIDEOBRASIL
15th International Eletronic Art Festival

Program 1

Concerto para Clorofila 06'00"
Cao Guimarães
Brazil 2004

Colour filters are applied to the images of the treetops, leaves and their reflections on the water. A poetic exercise that perverts the plant’s natural colour, referring to their energy producing mechanisms.
Winner of the Juri’s Award and Videobrasil Residency Award at Gasworks.

Lo Sublime / Banal 12'30"
Graciela Taquini
Argentina 2004

A single take alternating images of the preparation of a dessert dish and a dialogue harking back to the universe of the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar (1914-1984). Winner of the Juri’s Award.

Roger 04'20"
Federico Lamas
Argentina 2004

A non-stop travelling shot follows a couple who slipts up and goes different ways after an argument. Without a word heard from them, the video shows that she is decided not to make up, while he regrets what has happened.
Winner of the Jury’s Award.

O Fim do Homem Cordial 02'40"
Daniel Lisboa
Brazil 2004

A rebel group from Bahia kidnaps a senator and demands that images of the action are aired on local TV. A parody of the kidnappings by Middle Eastern extremist groups.
Winner of the Jury’s Award.

Un Cercle Autour du Soleil 15'19"
Ali Cherri
Lebanon 2005 Video

A man speaks in war-torn Beirut. He confesses he just cannot get used to living without the conflict that devastated the capital for 15 years.
Winner of FAAP Digital Arts Award.

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Program 2

Plano-(Con)Sequência 06'24"
Rodrigo Minelli Figueira
Brazil 2005

This is a video in two-movements. In the first, an imaginary dialogue between the poets Sylvia Plath and Vladimir Mayakovski serves as soundtrack to intimate scenes between two people. In the second, a child is born; that’s the consequence of the title.
Jury’s Honourable Mention.

02. Conjunto Residencial 05'05"
Adams Teixeira de Carvalho e Olívia Brenga
Marques Brazil 2005

A man jumps off a springboard set up on the 7th floor. His attitude catches on with his neighbours, who takes turns to try out the sensation for themselves.
Jury’s Honourable Mention.

Paralisis 02'12"
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Peru/Mexico 2005

In a big city, stressed out shrubs on the pavement scream, shudder and moan to passers-by, as if they absorbed their ill-feelings.
Jury’s Honourable Mention.

Klecks 13'00''
Tan Tolga Demirci
Turkey 2004

Synopsis: Based on Hermann Rorschach’s 1920s psychoanalytical ink stain test, the film derives from the 5 stains which form into the 5+1 stories.

Biography: Tan Tolga Demirci graduated from Dokuz Eylul University, Cinematography department with the thesis 'The Psychoanalysis of Horror Genre' in 1996. He has 10 short films. He has been working on his first feature film.

Nummer twee Just because I’m standing here doesn’t mean I want to 03'08"
Guido van der Werve
Netherlands 2003

Biography: Guido van der Werve born in1977 in Papendrecht, The Netherlands. Being raised as a classical pianist, van der Werve joined the pre-year of the Rotterdam Conservatory after high school. After attending many other universities like the TU delft and studying classical Archaeology and Russian at the UVA, van der Werve got accepted in the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), with mainly paintings.

Changing painting for performance art was an early decision at the academy. But unwillingly to perform his performances live, van der Werve started to registrate his performances. In developing these registrations van der Werve started to get more interested in film and the language of cinematography. In his first ever 3 min 35-mm film; Nummer twee, just because I’m standing here doesn’t mean I want to, van der Werve mixed performance with narrative. After this he made a number of new films all having numbers as titles. Key elements in these films are still the performance, but van der Werve has added music, text and atmospheric scenes as returning elements. Staying true to the basics of performances, van der Werve works with long shots (as if they were registrations) and refuses to work with actors.

Van der Werve’s work has been exhibited widely both in the art and the film world. In the film world his work has been shown at many Major festivals like the Clermond Ferenq festival in France, the Viper festival in Swiss and at numerous smaller and independent festivals. In the art world van der Werve’s work has been shown in venues like the Apple and Montevideo in Amsterdam, gallery Olaf Stüber in Berlin, Gallery Monitor in Rome and many others. Interviews have appeared in major newspaper and catalogues like flash-art. His work has been rewarded with the René Coelho award, from the Netherlands media art institute, Montevideo/TBA in 2003, and he was nominated for the Prix de Rome in 2005. Guido van der Werve has thought audiovisual arts in the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and in the Icelandic academy of fine arts in Reykjavik. Currently van der Werve is writing on his first full length feature film and from 2006 on he will be a resident of the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

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Hitler (Revisited) 12'47”
Clive Holden
Canada 2004

Synopsis: In 1996 the film Hitler! screened at the London Film Festival, not far from where its subject, the film-maker’s brother, was born. In this way Niall Holden, who has been institutionalized for over 25 years, has travelled around the world. This is the final film in a trilogy about the film-maker’s relationship with his schizophrenic sibling. 'Hitler! (revisited)' is a digital and hands-on filmic 're- mix' of the earlier film, a new work made from materials ten years older.
'Hitler (Revisited)' is part of a feature-length film cycle entitled Trains of Winnipeg - 14 Film Poems, and the film cycle, in turn, is part of a larger art project.

Biography: Clive Holden is a Canadian artist, film-maker and writer. His films and videos have been exhibited at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Transmediale in Berlin, Images Festival in Toronto, the European Media Art Festival, CPH:DOX Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival, the London International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the 50th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. His multimedia artist's talks and 'live cinema' performances have been presented at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, aceartinc., Send + Receive - a Festival of Sound, the Winnipeg Writers Festival, and the Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut in Heidelberg. He has published two books and two CDs.
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Artemis 13'00"
Valerie Morignat
France 2001

Synopsis: In the Greek mythology, Artémis is known as the goddess of the night, the huntress, the goddess of fruitfulness, Lady of the Beasts, the woodland goddess, the guardian of the frontiers, and the eternal virgin. In the movie of Valérie Morignat, she is an ambiguous apparition, constantly emerging from the music of Costin Miereanu as an allegory of desire.

World Gone Wrong 05'25"
Alex Sinde
France 2002

Synopsis: The film is about the feeling that the world is entering very dark times.

Down 05'00"
Nikias Chryssos & Frank Brandstetter
Germany 2003

Synopsis: A little girl, an empty field, and a goldfish. A surreal film about growing up, reduced to only one dreamlike slow motion take.

Screening Awards: More than 60 screenings and awards worldwide (selection): Oberhausen (“Best of German Competition”), Rotterdam, EXPO Japan, Wiesbaden, Uppsala, Rio de Janeiro, Taipei, Malaga (Special Mention), Bangladesh, Split, Athens, Iran, Cambridge, Portugal, German Shorts 2003.

1982 09'00"
Aleksander Duraj
Poland 2003

Synopsis: Love together with resistance against the system based on violence create the setting for intimate exploration of limits of self & freedom.

Sous le coup de midi 10'00"
Karine Pierre
France 2004

For Julian 06'00''
Tim Fehlbaum
Switzerland 2003