program
hungry eyes on tour:
short film favourites
- 05.06.24 - Videothek Volksbühne Berlin
- 21.11.24 - bb15 Linz
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I Am and Tell Me What
Short film by Maggessi/Morusiewicz
AUT 2022
"I Am and Tell Me What is a film in a process and a film about a process. It is a non-chronological and fragmented record of a research investigation that artistic duo Maggessi/Morusiewicz conducted in mid-2021 as the onset of their ongoing “Wormholes” series. The film is built out of snippets of footage shot during their seven-day bicycle trip around Carinthia‘s lakes, which is interrupted and fuelled by references to a variety of academic texts, films, and music. Exploring their multi-faceted relationship while digressing about academic essays, blockbuster horror movies, and arthouse videos, the filmmakers-turned-protagonists point their cameras on their immediate surroundings and on each other for the purpose of fabulating stories about convivial queer futures. All this unravels in a stream of loose associations and at a languid pace of a scorching hot summer, scored by the ongoing hum of always-present cicadas.
Maggessi/Morusiewicz is a duo of researching artists and curators, working with found-footage audiovisual material, digital/analogue printing techniques, and textile installations. Situating their practice within queer, critical-archive, and post-/ anti-/de-colonial discourses, they employ (peri-)academic theory to explore spaces of in-betweenness, ambiguity, and pleasure through collaging films, sounds, and images. They currently work on two long-term projects: the research project “W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research” (FWF, PEEK), hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2022-2025), and the “Wormholes” series, presented in several art spaces (Kunstraum Lakeside, VBKÖ, wukperformingarts, SPEDITION Bremen, Belvedere21).
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This film features voice samples of Vienna-based artists: Gleb Amankulov, Valerie Ludwig, Tabea Marschall, Mzamo Nondlwana, Miriam Stoney, and Selina Shirin Stritzel.
This film uses footage from the following films: 2084 (dir. Chris Marker, 1984), Arrebato (dir. Iván Zulueta, 1979), Away with Words (dir. Christopher Doyle, 1999), Bates Motel (dir. Richard Rothstein, 1987), Fast Trip, Long Drop (dir. Gregg Bordowitz, 1993), High Life (dir. Claire Denis, 2018), L’heure de la sortie (dir. Sébastien Marnier, 2018), Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (dir. Agnès Varda, 2000), Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse… deux ans après (dir. Agnès Varda, 2002), Primer (dir. Shane Carruth, 2004), Sud Pralad (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004), You, the Better (dir. Erika Balsom, 1983)
How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years
Short film by Sarah Lasley
US 2020
"Blending personal narrative with shared pop cultural experience, the artist manifests a longheld childhood fantasy set within the love scene from Dirty Dancing (1987). How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years juxtaposes pre-pubescent sexual desire with that of a woman descending her sexual peak. Fantasy is both a balm to religious piety and an act of resistance to the pressures put upon women approaching middle age. Here the digitally simulated image, in its wavering visual verisimilitude, exposes our willingness and desire to believe. Made alone at the onset of the Covid-19 quarantine."
Sarah Lasley is a video artist from Louisville, Kentucky and an Assistant Professor of Film at Cal Poly Humboldt. She has screened internationally at film festivals and universities, notably the Cairo Video Festival in Egypt and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Her museum and gallery exhibitions include the Katonah Museum of Art in upstate New York, Leslie Hellar Workspace in New York City, and LAXART in Los Angeles. Recently she was awarded the grand prize for Blue Star Contemporary’s Projection/Projektion video program in collaboration with Darmstädter Sezession in Germany, where she is an artist in residence for 2023. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and a BFA from University of Louisville and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004.
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Reality Fragment 160921
Short film by 七个木 Qigemu 七個木
(April Lin 林森 and Jasmine Lin 林思穎)
US/SWE 2018
"Reality Fragment 160921 follows two people in their process of reality-curation, as they create their own spaces against and via understandings of distance, as they go through the motions of growing themselves by growing their universes. We witness not only their movements, but also partake in the thoughts of two witnesses and how by seeing these two people, worlds are merged. In turn, we ask you, a viewer of this film and thus also a witness, to pay attention to your own movements of perception and reflect around the ways in which you build your own world. Who have you merged your world with, and what does that mean for the subjective truths you tend to?"
七个木 Qigemu 七個木 is a duo consisting of coordinates April Lin 林森 and Jasmine Lin 林思穎 exploring the interstices of movement, visual media, identity, and the global Asian diaspora as respectively, Chinese-Swedish and Taiwanese-American. Using the potential of this hybrid space, Qigemu engages in conversations dealing with bodies, information, and energies, and how these are conceptualized in the Internet Age.
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Credits:
Directors, Producers, Editors, Performers: April Lin 林森 and Jasmine Lin 林思穎
Voiceovers: Tessa Qiu and Madeleine Han
Sound editor: Oscar Ulfheden
Music: Redundancy Charm Study — G. S. Sultan
UX Design — DJ Supermarket
imessage In A Bottle — soy
Chinese subtitling: Qafone
Why the Birds?
Short film by Tomás de Souza
BEL 2022
Why the Birds? is a short movie made with images gathered by cellphones across the world about a soft obsession, birds. Always around us, we often overlook them. But sometimes a breach between us may appear.
Tomás de Souza is an artist, musician and video-maker based in Brussels.
credits:
Written, edited and voiced by Tomás de Souza
Video and photo captures: Members of the ‘Pássaros’ group on Whatsapp.
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SOS/Animals/Action
Short film by Big Art Group
US 2021
"In SOS/Animals/Action, a multi-camera and multi-screen forest of technology located within a landscape of refuse gives the audience a corrupted panoptic view of colliding narratives. Unlike traditional theatrical performance, Big Art Group’s extended mediated performances reposition viewers into active editors, challenging audience members to problem-solve complex issues of sexuality, race, narrative and truth as a theatrical mirror to the process of navigation through contemporary society."
Big Art Group is a New York based experimental performance ensemble founded by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson in 1999. Big Art Group uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts; it creates culturally transgressive works and innovative performances using original text, technology and experimental methods of communication.
credits:
Created by Big Art Group with Caden Manson, Jemma Nelson, Kathleen Amshoff, David Commander, Edward Stresen-Reuter, Michael Helland, and Willie Mullins.
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