POLITICS
Panorama
The reflection of political events in daily life.
RE:THE OPERATION
Paul Chan
VIDEO / 00:27:30 / USA / 2002
Depicted as wounded soldiers in the war on terrorism, members of George Bush’s cabinet relate their personal experiences in the form of letters and memos. The texts written by the members are read out against a background of digital snapshots.
THE SIMPSON VERDICT
Kota Ezawa
VIDEO / 00:03:00 / USA / 2002
A 2D animation on the O.J. Simpson trial instead of courtroom sketches.
WIR ALLE
Jörg Piringer
VIDEO / 00:04:10 / 2001
A political video poem based on a sentence the Austrian president said on the radio.
RAGAZZO
Jean-Baptiste Ganne
VIDEO / 00:02:18 / FRANCE / 2002
A photo set as a classical landscape with saint, featuring Carlo Giuliani as the main character, the young man shot dead by the police at the G8 protests in July 2001 in Genua.
LOVE SONGS #1: NURTURE
Art Jones
VIDEO / 00:04:00 / USA / 2001
The animal kingdom illustrates the hip-hop world and vice versa.
LOVE SONGS #1: OVER ABOVE
Art Jones
VIDEO / 00:04:00 / USA / 2001
From the secluded space behind a window the camera seeks and finds…
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
Leon Grodski, Pearl Gluck
VIDEO / 00:06:23 / USA / 2001
American history explained by a preaching homeless m,an with a Coca-Cola cup: Godzilla, the atom bomb, Elvis, JFK, Matin Luther King, while in the background the Twin Towers collapse.
STATE OF THE UNION
Bryan Boyce
VIDEO / 00:02:00 / USA / 2001
What would happen if George Bush focused on the land of the Teletubbies.