270 park ave Darya Zhuk 3min 30 sec, Video, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Belarus Darya Zhuk, a filmmaker from Belarus, presents a performance video "270 Park ave" where she documents activities she secretly performed in the office while employed at a major investment bank. The video is a restless struggle to reclaim the individuality and create personal dreamscape in a fluid, and indistinct contemporary workspace. |
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4 Certain Deaths Abigail Spindel 32 min, Video, 2005 (USA) Russian w/ English subtitles Country of Origin: Russia 4 Certain Deaths is an insightful and intimate portrait piece describing larger themes in Russian society. Through what feels like moments with friends, Spindel uses the camera in an unobtrusive way, coming to the forefront only once when thrown out of an apartment. As risqué as a couple copulating through a window to a young stricken army deserter telling of his trials in the army, the piece offers a view of Russia that is as delightful as it is horrifying. |
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The Boy And The Sea Tomas Donela 15 min, 35 mm, 2006 (Portugal) Kurzspielfilm tomasdonela@hotmail.com Litauen w/ English subtitles Country of Origin: Lithuania A seven year-old boy brings his blind grandfather to the beach. |
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Chambre 124 Fabio Brasil 14min, 16mm, 2006 (France) Country of Origin: Brazil Feeling nostalgic, Sarah wants to see her room from her student days again, 50 years after moving out. She knows that she'll never come back. The current occupant, Juan, agrees to open his door to her, and to her memories. The young student has no idea that on this day his vision of life will be turned upside down. Across the years that separate them, Sarah's story echos in Juan's present. Her memories resurface, her studies, her friends, the freshness of her youth, evaporated like a perfume. |
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The Collection Dmitriy Rozin 8min, 16mm, 1995 (USA) Country of Origin: Russia In a German expressionism/Russian necrorealism influenced earliest work of Dmitriy's, he presents to us an ultimate world of a disfunctional family, where a boy looses a precious piece from his special box collection. Made in 1995, this film was his first conscious step into the world of film. |
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Desert Road End Joseph Saito 14min, 16mm, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Japan After picking up a teenage runaway and her boyfriend, a security guard of an abandoned town finds an unlikely companion and a bond over the secret she keeps. |
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Eroica Dmitri Gutov 6 min, Video, 2005 (Russia) Country of Origin: Russia |
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Fission Kun-I Chang 5 min, MAYA, After Effects, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Taiwan A motion graphic film about a man see himself as a graffiti on the wall. |
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Food Maya Gouby 6 min, Flash, 2004 ( Belgium) Country of Origin: South Africa An old woman cherishes her passion for the ducks.... |
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Hell & Back Stephen J Shanabrook 1 min, Video, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: USA |
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Holy Warriors Marianna Yarovskaya 32 min, Video, 2005 (USA) Russian w/ English subtitles Country of Origin: Russia Meet five Russian soldiers who fought in wars from Afghanistan to Chechnya and found spirituality as a result. As one of the former soldiers puts it, "There are no atheists in a foxhole." |
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The Interview Irra Verbitsky 2:10 min, Flash, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Russia |
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A Journey Of Dmitry Shostakovich Oksana Dvornichenko Helga Landauer 75 min, 35 mm, 2006 (USA) Russian w/ English subtitles Country of Origin: Russia The greatest composer of the 20th century remains one of its biggest mysteries. Nine days of the ocean voyage from Moscow to New York comprise the nine chapters of this documentary film about Dmitry Shostakovich. Unique, highly personal fragments of the composer's life are contrasted with the ideologically charged propaganda of the Soviet liner's staged shipboard events. The film reveals the personality of the quiet, retiring man who disliked publicity but was obliged to serve as a Soviet public figure; a genius faced with the choice between artistic freedom and harsh ideology, between truth and survival. Shostakovich's music, full of dark sarcasm and breathtaking lyricism, exaggerated joy and frightening celebration, plays the leading part in the film.
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Jukebox Alex Budovsky 2:50 min, Flash, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Russia This film is based on Jim Avignon's (aka Neoangin) song "Jukebox" and drawings from his album "Scratchbook". |
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Karneval Zvirat The Carnival of Animals Michaela Pavlatova 11 min, Mixed Media, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Slavakia |
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Kurvenreich Anna Jermolaewa 3 min, Video, 2002 (Austria) Country of Origin: Russia |
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Larry, Go Home Alina and Jeff Bliumis 2:30 min, Mixed Media , 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Belorus Are you bugged by the media? |
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Living Photographs Vladimir Dubossarsky 1 min , Video, 2005 (Mongolia) Country of Origin: Russia |
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L'eau De Vie Un Film De Jean Luc Godard The Bruce High Quality Foundation 74 min, B&W Super-8, 2006 Shot on location in Miami, Florida during the 2005 Art Basel tradeshow, L'eau De Vie is the story of one woman (Aurora Pellizzi) and an international art fair. A bellicose actor (Karim El-Tanamli), hot on the trail of a painting he has never seen, brings his arm-candy girlfriend Aurora along for a weekend trip to Art Basel Miami. While the actor and a bumbling art consultant (Nelson Figallo) pursue the elusive painting "L'eau De Vie", Aurora meets a homegrown revolutionary (Tonatiuh Pellizzi) determined to provoke a local uprising against the flood of cultural tourists. Aurora also meets a disenchanted French artist (Jeanne Detallante) showing at the fair in the midst of an existential crisis over her own relationship to the art world. Caught in the middle of this maelstrom, Aurora erupts in violence. Meanwhile, camera-wielding Native American Terrorists battle literary and filmic allusions against a tropical skyline filled with hurricane rubble and condominium development, art tourism and home-grown radicality. A period piece set somewhere between May 68 and Contemporary gentrified Miami, and shot entirely on sound-synched black and white super 8, this fake-scathing Marxist critique mocks the contemporary commercial art world and the notion of artistic revolution at the same time. The Bruce High Quality Foundation is an artist collaborative based in New York City proposing amateur solutions to professional problems since 2004. |
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Mirage Youngwoong Jang 8 min, 3D Computer Animation , 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Korea MIRAGE is a story about my life as a collector having endless desires. Main character is a bio-mechanic robot that has to fill his glass chest with water in order to sustain his life. This story happens in water but the robot cannot recognize it. He just wants to get more water. The robot character appears with a small stem. He squeezes a small stem to get a water droplet and takes it into his glass chest. He continues to collect water droplet from small stems to huge stems. During his journey, he meets a fish. Both need water. |
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Morir De Amor Gil Alkabetz 12:40 min, Cell , 2004 (Germany) Country of Origin: Israel While their owner is having his siesta, two old caged parrots rake up memories from the past. This leads to unexpected consequences for the three of them. |
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Naturalized Julia Kots 8min, DVCPro50, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Russia Leave a little piece of yourself behind. |
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Niebla (fog) Emilio Ramos 7:30 min, Mixed Media , 2006 (Spain) Country of Origin: Mexico "Led by the words of an old man, we will witness the extraordinary event that changed the life of a village forgotten amid the fog." |
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Niko Lesya Kalynska 10min, DV, 2006 (USA) Russian w/ English subtitles Country of Origin: Ukraine A former freedom fighter with the Georgian National-Liberation Movement (Republic of Georgia), Niko Abazadze, now residing in the United States, struggles for daily survival as an illegal immigrant in New York City. Yet, from his sculpting and painting, Niko has discovered the strength to overcome great adversity through the process of creative realization. This is his story . |
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Pavlov's Dog Arto Halnen 70 min, Video, 2005 (Russia) Art Films production AFP Oy Russian w/ English subtitles Country of Origin: Finland These days, even poverty can be bought. A Russian psychologist, Sergei Knyatzev, provides the experience of being a beggar to wealthy people who have tried everything and are looking for something new.
But this is only one of the games that this psychologist has developed. He specializes in role-playing and mental manipulation, starting with animals and small groups of people, and climaxing with his mass control of 7000 individuals.
The film speaks in an interesting mannerism of our time: where nothing is enough, and people try to acquire both basic and extreme experiences by buying them. Everything's for sale. Richness often alienates people at the expense of a balance in life. That in turn opens out a market for any entrepreneur with even the slightest understanding of the human psyche, just as it does for Sergei Knyatzev. Through these games he is also evoking people's attitudes and society's structure.
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The Projection Has Begun Oleg Tcherny 7 min, 35 mm, 2006 (Italy) Italian w/ English subtitles Country of Origin: Belarus Sancho Panza enters a movie theater in a provincial city. He is looking for Don Quixote and he finds him sitting off to the side and staring at the screen. The theater is almost full; the balcony is entirely occupied by noisy children… The Projection Has Begun is an adaptation of “The Six Most Beautiful Minutes in the History of Cinema” by Giorgio Agamben. It is a portrait in 24 daguerreotypes per second. |
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Protest March Dmitri Vilenski 24 min, Video, 2006 Russian w/ English subtitles A film made during the 2006 G-8 summit in St.Petersburg, the film is an essay on a failed political protest. |
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Queen Of The May Eun- Ha 3 min, Flash, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Korea Music Video for Veda Hille's Queen of the May. |
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Reproduction # 3075 Ondrej Rudavsky 1:00 min, Flash, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Slovakia
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Sofaking Shlomo M. Godder 20min, DVCPro, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Israel Sofaking offers a glimpse into the life of Abe, a young boy navigating his way through an adolescence rife with dark and confounding realities unique to the experience of coming of age in present day Manhattan. http://www.myspace.com/shlomogodder |
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Solution Ondrej Rudavsky 2:15 min, Flash, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Slavakia |
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Tenderness Lesson Alexandra Dementieva 6:20 min, Video, (Belgium) Country of Origin: Russia |
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Traumgewalten Oleg Tcherny Erwin Michelberger 34 min, Video, 2003-2005 (Germany) Michelberger film production in co-operation with ZDF/3sat German w/ English subtitles Country of Origin: Belarus "Why do you speak with us if you say there is no sense in speaking?" Like a walk through the dreams of another. |
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Trying to Survive Anna Jermolaewa 3 min, Video, 2000 (Austria) Country of Origin: Russia |
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Twinning 23 Yana K.M & TJ K.M 7:15 min, Mixed Media, 2006 (USA) Country of Origin: Russia The object, viewer and maker are the three aspects primary to many and arguably all works of art. The primary subject of the film Twinning 23 is the personal experience of all three aspects in one. The project also acknowledges the coalescing of multiple concepts of audience; 1) the artist as self audience (Yana/TJ), 2) the film viewer as traditional audience, 3) the pedestrian as contemporary audience of spectacle/life (viewers of us performing and documenting). Finally the film itself explores the causality of perspectives as the viewer must become accustomed to switching from; 1) the fictional perspective of Pig/Sheep, 2) the fictional perspective of TJ/Yana, 3) the assumed perspective of the artist TJ/Yana, 4) the real/fictional perspective of their own self. This brings about a consideration of who is truly viewing the objects, events and landscapes in the film and what it means to that viewer. The artists continually become and rebecome our self in the video and in life, as real people, as characters, as artists and as viewers; ceaselessly and inseparably. |
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