d/Art/2007 Festival - 13 - 29 July 2007
d/Art/07venues d/Art/07screen d/Art/07web d/Art/07mobile d/Art/07secondlife d/Art/07events
 
 

Selected Artists:

Kerim Bersaner
Ali Betil, Deniz Buga, Anur Karaoglu
Tim Bruniges
Felipe Cardona
Morgan Földi-Möhand
Kumiko Idaka
Grégory Joncret
Marguerite Lantz
Raphaël Maze
Hermione Merry
Sandrine Normand
Henry Reichhold
Matthew Swanson
Michael Szpakowski
Andtiy Toloshnyy
Konstantinos Vaviloussakis
Antonin Verrier

d/Art/07mobile

Pocket Films Festival 2007 - 3rd edition

This year d/Lux/MediaArts presents a selection of works made for mobile phones, presented at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris as part of the Pocket Film Festival 2007.

In a reciprocal arrangement, we are now proud to present a selection of films from that festival, each of which were shot on mobile phones.

These films are shown on mobile phones as part of d/Art/07 at the Australian Centre for Photography, from 13 July to 29 July.

You can also view selected films below. Please note, to view the films, you will be redirected to the Pocket Film Festival 07 website.

All images courtesy of the Pocket Film Festival and each respective artist.

 

This program is presented courtesy of Pocket Film Festival 07 and Forum des Images, France.

 
 

Name: Kerim Bersaner
Country: Netherlands


Title: Brother

Year: 2006
Duration: 2min

3rd Prize of the Jury

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Synopsis: The director adresses a funeral oration to a brother, lost during the Chechnya war.

Made during the One Take Competition, International Film Festival of Rotterdam.

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Name: Ali Betil, Deniz Buga, Anur Karaoglu
Country: Turkey


Title: Sorrow

Year: 2007
Duration: 7min

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Synopsis: A young man leaves his countryside to go to the big city, Istambul. A melancholic journey which takes his inspiration in neo-realism.

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Name: Tim Bruniges
Country: Australia


Title: World Sham Pain

Year: 2006
Duration: 3min

 

Synopsis: An elegiac journey through a beautiful nature, mixed up with a feeling of despair and loss.

 

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Name: Felipe Cardona
Country: Colombia


Title: Desojhando al Quijote

Year: 2005
Duration: 2min

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Synopsis: In order to seduce the girl of his dream, a young boy takes example on Don Quichotte, in an tasty way. Fast Food and litterature can match.

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Name: Morgan Földi-Möhand
Country: France

Title: Reverse Love

Year: 2007
Duration: 3min
Audience's Prize

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Synopsis: Love makes you upside down, espacially when you are on the road to meet your beloved one. A pop melody for a walk on the bright side.

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Name: Kumiko Idaka
Country: Japan

Title: The Professionals

Year: 2007
Duration: 7min

 

 

Synopsis: Mysterious workers deploy a choral choregraphy for mobile phones, which involves the viewer as well behind his mobile screen. Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo, under the supervision of Pr. Masaki Fujihata.

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Name: Grégory Joncret
Country: Belgium


Title: Luv

Year: 2007
Duration: 7min

 

Synopsis: Eros & Thanatos, love and death, reunites in a bite during the last embrace.

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Name: Marguerite Lantz
Country: France


Title: Vendredi je vole

Year: 2007
Duration: 8min

 

Synopsis: In a dark surrounder, the artist conscienciously follows the paths of Icarus, despite the difficulties.

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Name: Raphaël Maze
Country: France


Title: Situation 1.1

Year: 2007
Duration: 2min

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Synopsis: Two parallel journeys through conurbs, split screen, noise music.

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Name: Hermione Merry
Country: Australia


Title: Sunday or the Circus

Year: 2005
Duration: 2min
3rd prize of the Jury

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Synopsis: A morbid childhood memory inked in black and white calls in the violence of adult world.

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Name: Sandrine Normand
Country: Switzerland


Title: Un signe!

Year: 2007
Duration: 1min

 

Synopsis: Behind the screen glass, a solitary hand flutter in the dark.

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Name: Henry Reichhold
Country: UK


Title: Free Run

Year: 2005
Duration: 1min
2nd Prize of the Jury

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Synopsis: A giant street runner bounces and twirls around. On his tracks,   London is repainted in bright colors.

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Name: Matthew Swanson
Country: Canada


Title: Tic Tac Toe

Year: 2006
Duration: 3min

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Synopsis: Let the smarter wins !made during the Motorola Film Project at the Talent Lab, International Film Festival of Rotterdam.

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Name: Michael Szpakowski
Country: UK


Title: D-d-dance

Year: 2006
Duration: 1min30

 

Synopsis: Through music and visuals, a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of the artist, a dancer and a musician. .

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Name: Andtiy Toloshnyy
Country: Ukrayne


Title: An Autumn Curve

Year: 2006
Duration: 3min

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Synopsis: The bullet-speed night journey   of a motocycle boy in love, through the streets of a russian city. A cinetic - and humorous -

Made during the Nokia Film Project, Internaitonal Film Festival Molodist, Kiev.

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Name: Konstantinos Vaviloussakis
Country: Greece


Title: Read my Lips

Year: 2007
Duration: 3min

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Synopsis: A young woman in front of her mirror applies lip stick, until the rebellion against female objectivation. A variation of Martin Scorsese's The Big Shave.

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Name: Antonin Verrier
Country: France


Title: Porte de Choisy

Year: 2007
Duration: 8min

1st Prize of the Jury

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Synopsis: A conversation after love becomes an intimate hommage to the beauty of the cherished woman, through the eye of her companion.

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