[rohrpost] PLAY gallery presents: VIDEOEX 03 in Berlin

[Mirjam Struppek]

VIDEOEX 2003
Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich

September 19-20-21, 2003   7:30 pm

PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin
is pleased to present on September 19th, 20th, 21st
2003 the winners of the competition together with a
selection of the international program of the 2003
Videoex Festival (May 16-25).

At: 
PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures
hannoversche strasse 1, d-10117  berlin
T +49-(0)30-275 82 111 
www.pushthebuttonplay.com


SCREENINGPROGRAM:
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FRIDAY 19. SEPTEMBER, 19:30h

Current
Brian Doyle; USA 2001; Video; 6:00

Replay (bis)
Lamia Joreige; RL 2002; Video; 9:12

Apocalyptic Man 
Sebastian Diaz Morales; MEX 2002; Video; 22:30

Great Balls of Fire 
Leon Grodski; USA 2002; Video; 6:30

White Balance (To Think is to Forget
Difference)François Bucher; USA 2002; Video 32:00

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SATURDAY 20. SEPTEMBER, 19:30h

In the City 
Mike Hoolboom; CDN 2002; Video; 10:00

>From the Homefront 
Åsil Bøthun; N 2003; Video; 3:16

Wie ich ein Höhlenmaler wurde – in Kurzfassung 
Jan Peters; D 2001; 16mm; 20:00

Unternehmen Paradies 
Volker Sattel; D 2002; 16mm; 59:00

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SATURDAY 20. SEPTEMBER, 19:30h


Trois petits chats 
François Vogel; F 2003; 35mm; 6:05

Cubica 
M.Ash, A 2001, Video, 4:00

Besenbahn 
Dietmar Offenhuber, A/USA/D 2001, Video, 10:00

Novanta 
Gigi Tarantola, I 2001, Video, 13:00

Stir Mesh akuvido 
Hanna Kuts, Viktor Dovhalyuk); D 2002; Video; 4.49

Black Milk 
Max Philipp Schmid, Beat Brogle; CH 2002; Video; 4:00

Wounded on the Bridge 
Takehiro Tsugimatzu; J 2002; Video; 5:30

Orbiting the Atom 
Ian Helliwell; UK 2002; Video; 4:50

Rock in the Video Age 
Niclas Dietrich; D 2002; Video; 10:00

Play (Video Game Session), Level 2 
Christophe Blanc; F 2002; Video; 4:30



MORE DETAILS


VIDEOEX is an experimental film and video festival
held every year in Zurich, Switzerland in mid May. The
VIDEOEX festivals¹ purpose is to promote experimental
video and film work.

Itstarted in 1998 and includes an international and a
Swiss competition. For the 2003 edition more then 1200
works from 50 countries have been submitted for the
international competition. The festival also presents
each year different retro-spectives and special
programs. In 2003 it was dedicated to the late Stan
Brakhage. Two programs with films by him were shown. 

A highlight of the VIDEOEX 2003 was the central
program with the theme “Urban Lights³. Well-known
curators from various different metropolis around the
globe (Craig Baldwin from San Francisco, Yann Beauvais
from Paris, Kaspar Stracke from New York and Mike
Hoolboom from Vancouver/Toronto) put together works
exclusively for the festival, which in one way or
another convey a feeling for what makes up their city.
The program was concerned with the question whether we
still need cities or not. Have cities lost their
cultural significance? Are they only centres of trade
and consume (also cultural consume)? Are those places
that used to be the metropolis, not only by their size
but because they produced new cultural meanings,
obsolete? Is the compressing of people, influences,
ways of thinking, which was able to create new strings
of thoughts and positions, no longer necessary?

The 2003 jury of the International Competition was
made up of Yann Beauvais (Paris), Susann Buchan
(London), Kaspar Stracke (New York). Following works
were awarded: First prize went to “White Balance³ by
François Bucher. Three special prizes ex aequo went
to:
"From the Home Front" by Asil Bothuhn, "Rock in the
Video Age" by Niclas Dietrich and
"Unternehmen Paradies" by Volker Sattel. The winner of
the Swiss competition was: “Black Milk³ by Max Philipp
Schmid and Beat Brogle.


PROGRAM


Friday 19. September,  7:30 pm, Program 1

Current Brian Doyle; USA 2001; Video; 6:00
Filmed a year before September 11th during the ³2000
Yankees Ticker Tape Parade² Current is an impressive
metaphor of the collective paranoia which permeates
the American culture so profoundly.

Replay (bis) Lamia Joreige; RL 2002; Video; 9:12
Repetition for the reconstruction of the past and as
the attempt to free oneself of it in order to make
possible new storytelling. The pictures seem to be
reminiscences of the past. The filmmaker¹s childhood
spent in Beirut, which has been destroyed during the
civil war, is contemplated in a poetically personal
way. One last long take represents the path to
thoughtfulness, the hour of prayer.

Apocalyptic Man Sebastian Diaz Morales; MEX 2002;
Video; 22:30
A murderer¹s confesses not his crime, but his
suffering after it. It is not physical suffering, but
emotional. A vast, bottomless and frightening pit
separates his soul from his already estranged body.
The story is based on the novel ³Los siete locos² by
the Argentinean author Roberto Arlt.

Great Balls of Fire Leon Grodski; USA 2002; Video;
6:30
While Grodski attempts to make sense of the past 48
hours using his camera he meets Jimmy in the streets
of New York on September 12th: ³excuse me, what¹s your
opinion on the WTC? ­ Great balls of fire!² This
entertaining contribution on September 11th balances
on a knife¹s edge.

White Balance (To Think is to Forget Difference)
François Bucher; USA 2002; Video 32:00
³Who is we?² The answer is clear immediately: those,
who show things in a favourable light, which means
their own light as privileged people, as people with
power. Xenophobia and the corrupted power of images
are aspects of this criticism of society, made up of
pictures and sound material of different forms of the
media and film material of September 11th.



Saturday 20. September,  7:30 pm, Program 2



In the City Mike Hoolboom; CDN 2002; Video; 10:00
³...then I knew it was over.² This alphabetic
composition made of found footage and material made by
the filmmaker is a humorous self- and general
perception of the urban chase after individual
happiness: food, sex, breaking-up in restaurants,
relationships and affairs.

>From the Homefront Åsil Bøthun; N 2003; Video; 3:16
This cinematic portrait slowly changes into a still
life. Is the idyllic life of a housewife a Nature
Morte?

Wie ich ein Höhlenmaler wurde ­ in Kurzfassung Jan
Peters; D 2001; 16mm; 20:00
An entertaining diary: problems of orientation, record
cosmonaut, underexposing, acute attacks of jetlag,
prehistoric exclusion of the herd and cave painting as
a service in return for food. These are just a few
rhetoric excursions into the world of metaphysics.

Unternehmen Paradies Volker Sattel; D 2002; 16mm;
59:00
A portrait of a city. The capital city, reawakened to
life, longs for representative power centres and
clings to the control of its reinstated position. The
history of the turbulent, ³stone² Berlin is shown in
its urban, developmental interventions. Are new
buildings able to create a common identity for the two
parts of town? Which contours will shape the future
face, which ones will be forgotten in the state
archives? The economic empires and politics, construct
an answer, but the people of Berlin, so it seems,
remain unquestioned. And hence ³Unternehmen Paradies²
ends with a distorted reflection.



Saturday 20. September,  7:30 pm, Program 3


Trois petits chats François Vogel; F 2003; 35mm; 6:05
A game between words and pictures, which distort and
mix each other. Space as an entity loses its contours
and borders to which it is subjected in perspective
reality. François Vogel tries to break through the
limits of the representation of a three-dimensional
space in a two-dimensional image, or rather a
two-dimensional medium.

Cubica M.Ash, A 2001, Video, 4:00
Cubica is a completely abstract computer animation.
The application programmed by M. Ash is based on the
rule system of the computer game Snake. In one moment
we have a distanced overview, in the next we take up a
subjective position. This alternation is bound to the
tradition of the game. Chris Jankas electronic sound
composition moves cubes through impulses. With an
increasing number of impulses they push into the third
dimension, as if they where looking for an escape
route out of the imaginary cube.

Besenbahn Dietmar Offenhuber, A/USA/D 2001, Video,
10:00
The fragmentation of the continuum of perceiving
becomes an aesthetic and visual event. An almost
meditative experience of the formulation of the
geometry of space and time. The starting point of this
study is the perception of the city from the
perspective of the motorised spectator.

Novanta Gigi Tarantola, I 2001, Video, 13:00
On an everyday bus ride through the city we are
accompanied by more or less comical figures. Neither
the ticket inspector nor our bus driver seem to be
completely harmless. How sensual can the encounter of
a trolley and a Chevy van at a red traffic light be? 
An animation collage made up of drawings and fragments
of skin, hair and textiles.

Stir Mesh akuvido (Hanna Kuts, Viktor Dovhalyuk); D
2002; Video; 4.49
Fascinating visual music, a remarkable experience:
image and sound form an astounding integrated whole
due to their congruence. akuvido transpose the
structure of their musical model ­ both formally and
as regards content / qualitatively ­ into their
graphic language.

Black Milk Max Philipp Schmid, Beat Brogle; CH 2002;
Video; 4:00
A music video to the song of the same name by Knut &
Silvy. Speed, interference on the picture, overlaps,
horizontal stripes and monochrome backgrounds. A
dancer, Silvy; skin and pixel: ³Beating you out of my
body.²

Wounded on the Bridge Takehiro Tsugimatzu; J 2002;
Video; 5:30
In contrast to ³proper² films ­ according to
Tsugimatzu ­ there is little space for imagination in
trash-movies. It is not necessary for the spectator to
add anything in his mind. Should there be any
synchronisation of image and sound, then this is due
to our own thinking. The images, showing among other
things lamps, neon signs and cigarette machines have
been filmed in the neighbourhood of the author and
flicker along to a looped, funny, trashy soundtrack.

Orbiting the Atom Ian Helliwell; UK 2002; Video; 4:50
Electronic music and celluloid are quite rare these
days! Super8 recordings of pictures were generated
from a ma-nipulated TV and then treated with coloured
ink and bleached. The music, which was composed for
this film, is synchronised with the five sections.

Rock in the Video Age Niclas Dietrich; D 2002; Video;
10:00
A perpetual shot showing the view of a street with
trams and a block of flats. The different images ­
with elaborated picture interference, recordings with
longer exposure or at different times of the day ­
overlap each other and were synchronised to the music.
The video to Jan Jelinek¹s music is reduced in its
concept. Nevertheless a dramatic tension is created.

Play (Video Game Session), Level 2 Christophe Blanc; F
2002; Video; 4:30
With the imaginative deconstruction Blanc revives the
first generation video games. He creates a mirror
image of reality, which imitates not reality but the
virtual.



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hannoversche strasse 1, d-10117  berlin
T +49-(0)30-275 82 111 
T +49-(0)30-2345 575-3 F -4
www.pushthebuttonplay.com

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