JUICY MEADOWS 2: EYEWITNESS
Far-reaching events cross our path day after day. The impression they make on us is completely dependant on our own position.
Monitoring the Dordtselaan for Maximum Peace of Mind
Klaas van Gorkum (THE NETHERLANDS, 2004, video, 15:00 min)
Monitoring the Dordtselaan for Maximum Peace of Mind is een film over het nihilisme van een transparante samenleving. For one year Klaas van Gorkum and Iratxe Jaio have been recording the daily life in the Dordtselaan, the street where they have been living and one of the so-called ‘hotspots’ of Rotterdam. ‘Monitoring the Dordtselaan for Maximum Peace of Mind’ is a movie about the nihilism of a transparent society.
Prime Time Paradise
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukácz (THE NETHERLANDS, 2004, video, 11:00 min)
Every day, news reports and other TV images pass by in an endless stream that numbs the viewer, who, as if hypnotized, does nothing more than watch and watch: identification and reflection are impossible.
The Fall
Sami Kallinen / Martijn Tellinga (THE NETHERLANDS, 2004, video, 05:25 min)
The Fall unfolds as a meditation on the extreme choices that a couple, perhaps lovers, made under harrowing circumstances.
History of the world Part 11
Herman Helle (THE NETHERLANDS, 2004, video, 05:39 min)
This animation by Herman Helle is as short as it is dramatic. With materials like clay and household refuse the attack on the World Trade Center is sketched from the perspective of the victims.
Meditation on violence
Sagi Groner (THE NETHERLANDS, 2005, video, 13:36 min)
A haunting and disturbing video composed from images of precision bombings in Kosovo. Groner shares the footage he found on the Internet along with his reflections and deconstructions.
The Washing Machine
Douwe Dijkstra (THE NETHERLANDS, 2005, video, 04:11 min)
A fat man is watching television. He sees himself appear on television in a series of television programs. Thus, he ends up in a scene of war and he figure in a commercial for washing machines. Life is a matter of pushing the button.
Hello Film
Reinaart Vanhoe (THE NETHERLANDS, 2005, 16mm, 11:30 min)
A film about film. “I walk in my head and I am happy that film does not need to contain anything permanent. I can lead myself from frame to frame and I am not obliged to comprehend. Film is a simple game of make-believe. If a bird whistles, it does so because it opens its mouth. But a film is completely directed.
All Wrong
Gabriel Lester (THE NETHERLANDS, 2005, video, 11:00 min)
A film made entirely out of audiovisual material downloaded from the internet. Gabriel Lester didn’t use any additional sound, film or video equipment but relied on Google, Alta Vista and Yahoo Image and Video Search Engines.