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A narrative filled with bizarre anecdotes and filthy jokes, homespun proverbs and strange social analysis, Towards a Common Understanding investigates the culture of media saturation which confronts the contemporary attention span at every turn.

The main concerns of Adam Leech’s work are the semantics of voice versus speech and the political engineering of public space and community.

‘Headphones,’ a short video work, borrows a promotional film for “New Dimensions in Sound,” a soundtrack by Berlin electronic artist Static, and image processing software that came with Static’s music CD.

ThingPit is a looped animation that has been guerilla projected across the US and shown in various other venues across the world including the IMPAKT festival.

A smart and funny neon animation by Jack Feldstein, in his unique stream-of-consciousness neon animation style, on everything you need to know about writing a script.

Het Grote Geheugen (The Capacious Memory) – Robbie Cornelissen

The video animation takes place in the heart of Vatic-anal City, in the year 2046. Surrounded by the glorious frescoes and wealth of his St. Peter’s Basilica apartment, a fictional Pope will be portrayed as a young man struggling with his porn addiction, similarly to all ordinary men who cannot avoid the temptation of the contemporary society.

Gigounon shows that alien objects landed on earth ages ago and that we do not even have to look that hard to find them.

An ode to flowers, fear, potatoes, and paranoia, with a special appearance by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft

Beyond Language is an attempt to convey expression and emotion without words. Two people are trying to convey feelings to each other on a city overpass. Little camerawork is used and the piece is achieved in just one take.

Atentado (Attack) is a response to the capacity of art to intervene in the public space. Atentado was Srur’s first video and the author’s first collaboration, in which they use paint bomb interventions on advertisement billboards on the streets of Sao Paulo.

A film about communication, narration and presence. ‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, but today is a gift’. That’s why it’s called present.’

A pornographic monologue about sense certainty in Hegelian sense’ with ‘a strong home-made look and feel

A virtual Britney Spears singing the song ‘Everytime’.

Footage taken from youtube, originally recorded by U. S. Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Loneliness, love and family: these universal themes make up the leitmotif of a film which provides a specific view of the modern-day human condition.

The seven amateur actors of Beginning an Ending morph the “blank canvas” of the film studio into a temporary stage for their visions of the future, revealing in the process the very nature and fragility of how images are constructed.

The movie focuses on a spirited adolescent and the viewer gets an intimate fragment of the boy’s nonchalant way of living life.

A woman is walking towards her husband’s camera through four decades. A love story accompanied by the voice of another woman, reading a poem by E.E. Cummings.

For this work Van Hulzen travelled through Uganda for three months together with Sander Breure. You’ll Never Walk Alone shows young men playing in surrealistic scenes that refer to Western film history and popular culture

A short film about the differences and similarities in video-art and cinema.

In Secret Machine, a protagonist encounters an antagonist that is studying her, measuring her body and comparing her to units of space and time.

An assortment of characters are brought into a total institution where they are subjected to various mandatory exercises. The cast ranges from cooks to bears and prostitutes to digitally rendered panda bears

This project examines how people react to stimuli under the influence of hypnosis

Naufrage lists fears: the narration stops at the frozen instant. But Naufrage relates something. What is it talking about ? We don’t know…

Ola’s work is impulsive and gives a humoristic view on the relationship between the icon culture and the visual arts. She specializes in video, primitive animations and illustrations.

‘Welcome to my brain’ shows a scan of the brain of the artist while he’s, very concentrated, thinking of the use of this specific video.

Young wayne horse is using a boxing doll to punch himself in the mouth.

Most of the cast of the illmannered milkman, plus several befriended artists, plus some strangers came together to perform this milk, yogurt and feather orgy.

Camera systems have been programmed to predict human behavior and recognize the risk potential of individuals. Forget artificial intelligence, this is artificial judgment, and its for your own security.

Typo-Animation that gives you a clear impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that plague us every day.

We live in a time where everything or everyone can be upgraded or ‘pimped’. After the worldwide acceptance of plastic surgery, it was time to subject our worldly possessions (Pimp my Ride) and digital identities (Facebook) to an esthetical and/or functional upgrade.

Chickens interact in incredibly defined manners and form complicated social structures. Contrary to popular believe, Scientific research at the University of Sidney pointed out that chickens living in a battery cage are happier. Their free range sisters suffer from more stress, constantly living in fear of predators.

Tussen de flatgebouwen van Schalkwijk ligt de idyllische tuin van Eden. Maar ook daar is het niet helemaal pluis met langzaam ontploffende bomen en opgejaagde wezens, komt de zondvloed uit onverwachte hoek.

Footage of my steam engine rocket-car compiled on thu 11.07.08 at 15h30

Something is moving through the dense, dark woods.

An unexpectedly restless portrait of a neighbouring celestial body.

One picture after the other – a mirror, a flash and different photographers. As the images quickly pass, one can discern the perfect circle the flash traces in the mirror.

Providenskiya is a small port in the furthest corner of Siberia. So is the motorship MS Providenskiya named after this desolate place, or does the name of the ship refer to ‘providence’ and is the arrival of the ship an act of some higher power?

A volumptous woman in a handmade leather walrus suit is rolling through a shower room. The cameraman provides the soundtrack.