Outer Space by Peter Tscherkassky
Peter Tscherkassky
(Austria, 1999, 35mm, 09:57)
(Austria, 1999, 35mm, 09:57)
In his 1999 Outer Space, Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky dismantles the familiar language of horror through an intense collage of...
L’Amour Fou by M.M. Serra
M.M. Serra
(USA, 1992, video, 16:36)
(USA, 1992, video, 16:36)
The use of BDSM by M.M. Serra is deeply thoughtful; this is realised through the use of both erotic scenes and formal interviews with...
A Short Affair (and) Going Crazy
Anne Charlotte Robertson
(USA, 1982, video, 24:26)
(USA, 1982, video, 24:26)
The ultimate film in this programme not only reflects the final, and perhaps most emotionally complex stage of intimacy, but evokes a...
Do you love me?
Adam Leech
(USA, 2006, video, 10:09)
(USA, 2006, video, 10:09)
In Do You Love Me?, Adam Leech places the question of attachment and vulnerability quite bluntly on the table, inviting subjects...
The Divers
Nicolas Provost
(Belgium, 2006, video, 06:33)
(Belgium, 2006, video, 06:33)
In this film, Provost reflects relationships not as a journey toward understanding, but as a condition shaped by proximity, tension, and...
Dear D
Marge Monko
(Estonia, 2015, video, 08:49)
(Estonia, 2015, video, 08:49)
The film reflects my concept through its style of an unreciprocated love confession, which shows an interplay of closeness and distance...
Everyone Has to Get Over His Biography
Yael Assaf
(The Netherlands, 2008, video, 19:36)
(The Netherlands, 2008, video, 19:36)
Similarly to the previous work Inch’Allah, this work by Yael Assaf again reflects what we could argue to be an imagined, almost...
Inch’Allah
Ria Pacquée
(Belgium, 2005, video, 18:40)
(Belgium, 2005, video, 18:40)
Ria Pacquée’s Inch’Allah moves as a fluid mosaic of fleeting moments, actions, and encounters, capturing fragments of everyday...
Chance Meetings 3 by Jean-Pierre Sens
Jean-Pierre Sens
(The Netherlands, 1997, video, 05:00)
(The Netherlands, 1997, video, 05:00)
As can be understood through the title, the film by Jean-Pierre Sens steps away from the theme of (romantic) ‘intimacy’ as we expect...
I Love
Ben Judd
(UK, 2003, video, 07:15)
(UK, 2003, video, 07:15)
“I Love” explores a sequence of vulnerable, warm love declarations in which the narrator confesses what he loves about the...
Last Episode (Hotel) by Benjamin Nuel
Benjamin Nuel
(France, 2013, video, 07:45)
(France, 2013, video, 07:45)
In Last Episode (Hotel), the slow decomposition of a world (unworlding) takes place as a completely virtual level falls apart. The...
You the world, and I by Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman
(Canada, 2010, video, 06:23)
(Canada, 2010, video, 06:23)
In You, the World, and I, a personal narrative of a romantic nature unfolds, but the memory of it is uncertain. This distant memory is...
Land of Desire – Happy is the New Black
Donna Verheijden
(The Netherlands, 2016, video, 18:06)
(The Netherlands, 2016, video, 18:06)
The film presents a poetic, experimental meditation on desire, identity, and the spectacle of contemporary life. It opens with a...
Walking Up and Down to a Woman I once had a Crush on by Feiko Beckers
Feiko Beckers
(The Netherlands, 2009, video, 06:28)
(The Netherlands, 2009, video, 06:28)
This film by Feiko Beckers displays a male figure who, as the title states, has a crush on a woman in the corner of the room. A variety...
Secret Machine by Reynold Reynolds
Reynold Reynolds
(USA/ DE, 2009, video, 13:40)
(USA/ DE, 2009, video, 13:40)
Secret Machine follows within the selection as it is a movie about the examination of time in relation to being, within the context of...
The Drowning Room
Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley
(USA/ Ireland, 2000, video, 09:42)
(USA/ Ireland, 2000, video, 09:42)
The film, shot in a house filled with water, depicts a story of a flooded suburb. Tension, repression, conflict have made the home...
TrannyFags
Morty Diamond
(USA, 2003, video, 16:56)
(USA, 2003, video, 16:56)
Following a group of transgender men, this piece evokes a playfulness of masculinity, with a deceitfully innocent sitcomesque...
Mudchute
Owen Oppenheimer
(UK, 2003, video, 09:02)
(UK, 2003, video, 09:02)
Mudchute explores time as a force of acceleration and decay. Through motifs of rewinding, commuting, and teeth falling out under stress,...
Das Modell
Florian Gwinner
(Germany, 2006, video, 06:14)
(Germany, 2006, video, 06:14)
Das Modell opens with a slow pan across blank white space, accompanied by ominous music, gradually revealing a meticulously constructed...
Cobra Mist by Emily Richardson
Emily Richardson
(UK, 2008, video, 06:54)
(UK, 2008, video, 06:54)
Cobra Mist situates the landscape of Orford Ness in Suffolk as a site where rural stillness coexists with the residues of Cold War...
Knightbirds
Arjen de Leeuw
(The Netherlands, 2003, video, 01:45)
(The Netherlands, 2003, video, 01:45)
In this work by Arjen de Leeuw, two men are captured in a moment of stillness. They seem suspended in time, neither acting nor reacting,...
Route to Cape Town
Wolfgang Lehmann & Thomas Gerwin
(Germany, 2005, video, 05:17)
(Germany, 2005, video, 05:17)
Filmed from within a moving vehicle, Route to Cape Town transforms travel into a form of waiting—where motion is repeatedly...
Perfect Day
Paul Wong
(Canada, 2007, video, 07:30)
(Canada, 2007, video, 07:30)
Perfect Day contemplates the (im)possibility of perfection, exploring harmony, union, and moral relativism. The film situates these...
Probieren Sie andere Stichwörter
Karo Szmit
(Austria, 2004, video, 06:30)
(Austria, 2004, video, 06:30)
This work reduces architectural spaces to their essential contours, evoking 3D computer graphics and generating a sense of estrangement....
19 Dots As Closing Credits To Thinking Of A Word + A Re-entering Dot Of Knowledge
Gerben Kruk
(The Netherlands, 2006, video, 05:26)
(The Netherlands, 2006, video, 05:26)
In this video, silence is visualised through an object slowly drifting through the air, followed by a sequence of texts that pose...
L’Arrivée
Peter Tscherkassky
(Austria, 1997/1998, video, 02:09)
(Austria, 1997/1998, video, 02:09)
Peter Tscherkassky’s L’Arrivée stages waiting as both a temporal experience and a historical condition of cinema itself. In...
Prime Time Paradise
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukácz
(The Netherlands, 2004, video, 10:52)
(The Netherlands, 2004, video, 10:52)
Waiting is a process shaped by the developments of the modern revolution of our time. Distraction has never been more accessible, and...
Balkan Erotic Epic
Marina Abramović
(Serbia, 2005, video, 16:00)
(Serbia, 2005, video, 16:00)
Sexuality acts as the protagonist in this piece, moving through different mediums and individuals, from animated depictions to women...
Dyketactics
Barbara Hammer
(USA, 1974, video, 04:01)
(USA, 1974, video, 04:01)
Dyketactics (1974) echoes the lesbian commune visions of the 70s, circulating a group of women who embrace nudity in a gentle nature,...
Out
Roee Rosen
(Israel, 2010, video, 33:43)
(Israel, 2010, video, 33:43)
Roee Rosen is an artist who questions the bounds of gender, performance and identity, such as utilising his former artistic character...
Mano Destra
Cleo Übelman
(Switzerland, 1986, video, 53:00)
(Switzerland, 1986, video, 53:00)
Traditional pornography typically centres on two effeminate women, with long hair and longer nails in an uncertain, nearly virginal...
Fade into White #4
Kazuhiro Goshima
(Japan, 2003, video, 19:35)
(Japan, 2003, video, 19:35)
Fade into White #4 opens with a metronomic clicking that repeats until it dissolves into a kind of white noise, rendering linear...
Remote
Martin Brand
(The Netherlands, 2007, video, 12:37)
(The Netherlands, 2007, video, 12:37)
Remote unfolds across a series of loosely connected spaces: a stranger’s apartment, skaters in a park, and passersby observed on the...
Terror, Iraq, Weapons
Mike Nourse
(USA, 2002, video, 03:07)
(USA, 2002, video, 03:07)
Mike Nourse’s re-edit of President George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address that focuses on the core messages of the...
Collision
Max Hattler
(United Kingdom, 2005, video, 02:23)
(United Kingdom, 2005, video, 02:23)
Max Hattler's multi-award winning abstract political short film. Islamic patterns and American quilts collide with colors and the...
History of the World Part 11
Herman Helle
(The Netherlands, 2004, video, 05:39)
(The Netherlands, 2004, video, 05:39)
With materials like clay and juice boxes, the attack on the World Trade Center is constructed in miniature from the perspective of the...
Please give me 50 cents I know where Bin Laden is
Jiang Zhi
(China, 2002, video, 03:22)
(China, 2002, video, 03:22)
In front of supermarkets or in shopping malls in China, there are often many vendors gathering. There are people who sell food or beg,...
Computers Watching Movies
Ben Grosser
(US, 2013, Video, 15:10)
(US, 2013, Video, 15:10)
What do computers see when they watch a movie? Ben Grosser has made computers turn well-known movies into sketches. By doing this...
AI Ain’t I A Woman
Joy Buolamwini
(US, 2018, Video, 03:33).
(US, 2018, Video, 03:33).
AI can translate for us and we have seen how Google Translate has developed throughout the years, starting to understand more and more...
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
René Viénet/Tu Guangqi (Keith Sanborn edit/subtitles)
(US, 1995, Video, 01:22:19)
(US, 1995, Video, 01:22:19)
I stumbled upon Can Dialectics Break Bricks? while diving into the archive of films shown at IMPAKT before. Sometimes one comes across a...
7 year itch
Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson
(UK, 2015, Video, 08:26)
(UK, 2015, Video, 08:26)
This short film takes the idea of translation even further. It translates an experience (having sex) to a soundscape. By doing so it...
So Far, So Good
Andreas Gedin
(SE, 2002, Video, 04:20)
(SE, 2002, Video, 04:20)
Subtitles, a means of translating something, are there for those not speaking the language or for the hearing impaired, yet there is...
In Flow of Words
Eliane Esther Bots
(NL, 2021, Video, 22:28)
(NL, 2021, Video, 22:28)
The first thing one probably thinks of when hearing the term translation is translating one language to another. This might seem not...
Thermal
Mert Akbal, Frederic Ehlers & Luca Forcucci
(2021)
(2021)
“Thermal” is a poetic audio-visual work that explores the relation of the body and heat energy with subtle analytical images and...
Exhausting a Crowd
Kyle Mcdonald
(NL 2015)
(NL 2015)
Inspired by the classic book from Georges Perec, “An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris”, written from a bench over three days...
Negotiations of In/Visibility: Surveillance in Hito Steyerl’s How Not to be Seen
Joachim Friis (2021)
In this paper, author Joachim Friis analyzed Hito Steyerl’s artwork How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File...
Life a User’s Manual
Michelle Teran, 2003
The title Life: a user’s manual is taken from a novel of the same name by Georges Perec. Artist Michelle Teran guided the audiences...
Chance Meetings 3
Jean-Pierre Sens
(NL 1997, 16 mm, 5:00)
(NL 1997, 16 mm, 5:00)
Chance Meetings 3 is a play between camera and subject, between mere observation and actual voyeurism which borders on the edges of...
WEALGO
Martine Stig
(NL 2020, Interview & Online platform)
(NL 2020, Interview & Online platform)
WeAlgo is an online meeting place where participants can communicate through self-designed digital facemasks. It uses facial recognition...
Ocularis: Eye Surrogates
Tran, T. Kim–Trang
(USA 1997, video, 21:00)
(USA 1997, video, 21:00)
Big Brother is watching you! This footage is followed by recordings of ‘victims’ relating the experiences they have had with...
Marilyn Times Five
Bruce Conner
(US 1968-73, 16 mm, 13:00)
(US 1968-73, 16 mm, 13:00)
Looking at a film from the late 1960s, one can see repeating patterns in pornography. The footage comes from Apple Knockers and Coke, a...
“Laborers of Love” (LOL)
Jeff Crouse, Stephanie Rothenberg and Michael Schieben
LOL showcases the new side of pornography and sharing of intimate moments that exploits the emergence of internet culture for self...
How to watch pornography
Mike Hoolboom
(CA 2019, 19:45 MIN)
(CA 2019, 19:45 MIN)
A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists...
NETPORN: REALCORE
Sergio Messina
Realcore is the term that the journalist, musician and technology researcher Sergio Messina invented for a genre in online pornography....
All You Can Eat
Michael Brynntrup
(DE 1993, 35 mm, 5:30)
(DE 1993, 35 mm, 5:30)
“A clever reminder that actors in porn films have faces too”. A different look at pornography, by Brynntrup, that focuses on faces...
Koppie Koppie: Someone’s kid on your favorite mug
Yuri Veerman & Dimitri Tokmetzis
(NL 2015, webshop)
(NL 2015, webshop)
Koppie Koppie is a webshop that used to sell coffee mugs with pictures of other people’s children. The pictures were taken from...
E-Baby
Pleix
(FR 2003, 3:00 min)
(FR 2003, 3:00 min)
E-Baby is a 3-D generated animated film that tells the fictional story of a futuristic baby monitored through the web and electronic...
Kidfluencer Starterkit
Lotte Ottevanger
(NL 2020, trailer 1:00 min)
(NL 2020, trailer 1:00 min)
Kidfluencer Starterkit is an installation inspired by the Dutch documentary ‘Mijn dochter de vlogger’ (My daughter the flogger) by...
Untitled
Sigur Rós
(CA 2003, 7:00 min)
(CA 2003, 7:00 min)
The video takes place in a dystopian future, one where black ash falls from a red sky: the whole earth seems to be poisoned. The focus...
Sky’s The Limit
The Notorious B.I.G.
(USA 2000, 4:50 min)
(USA 2000, 4:50 min)
One of the dominant ideas in pop music is the importance of being young and staying young. This is no cause of wonder, since the music...
Elena “Ladybug”
Irina Botea
(RO 2005, 8:00 min)
(RO 2005, 8:00 min)
Elena dances accompanied by her band in Bucharest, Romania, in a transitional space in between 2 blocks of flats. People pass by. Is she...
Beauty Kit
Pleix
(FR 2002, 2:17 min)
(FR 2002, 2:17 min)
Cutely designed fake-commercials for the Beauty Kit: a do-it-yourself suitcase filled with instruments, helping little girls to adjust...
Deep down tidal
Tabita Rezaire
(2017, 19 min)
(2017, 19 min)
This program rounds up with this film which reflects on electronic or digital colonialism: “Electronic colonialism seeks to influence...
Nero
Emma Verhoeven
(2018, 5 min)
(2018, 5 min)
This film explores the (re)construction of memories in a digital age. Who was Nero and how do we remember him? What do we remember from...
You, the world and I
Jon Rafman
(2010, 6 min)
(2010, 6 min)
The difficulty (or impossibility) to remember someone when we don’t have images of them and how vulnerable these images are (they can...
The Back Steps
Leighton Pierce
(2001, 6 min)
(2001, 6 min)
One may think that technology would allow us to go back to a specific time (memory) in a perfectly documented way, but even with...
Toute la mémoire du monde
Alain Resnais
(1956, 22 min)
(1956, 22 min)
This film would serve to talk about our collective memory in contraposition of our personal memory and to reflect on what all these...
Tuning the Sleeping Machine
David Sherman
(US 1996, 12:54 MIN)
(US 1996, 12:54 MIN)
A suggestion of a psycho-physical cinema, an emulsive journey of hypnotic illusion. Fragments of unidentified and yet strangely...
Branded Dreams
Smack
(NL 2016, 2:13 MIN)
(NL 2016, 2:13 MIN)
We see ads everyday and everywhere. They have become part of our life. While some people try to avoid seeing ads, advertisers keep...
Kassandra
Johanna Reich
(GER, 2008, 4:00 MIN)
(GER, 2008, 4:00 MIN)
Holes are cut into the projection enclosing the female head. The cutting of holes through the projection, through the fabric, through...
Targets
Benjamin Earl
(GB 2018, 6:22 MIN)
(GB 2018, 6:22 MIN)
Microtargeting, a hyper-personal marketing technique to harvest personal data, has been proven to be of little to no effect. Targets...
HOTEL, The Box
Benjamin Nuel
(FR 2018, 11:14)
(FR 2018, 11:14)
A community of Sims lives in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of a large, growing city. Everyone goes about their own...
Sitting in the Darkness
Graeme Arnfield
(UK 2015, 15:39)
(UK 2015, 15:39)
Out of the darkness, a sound emerges. It echoes and drones. Terrified people take to the streets in search of its source. They get their...
Extinction Rebellion x Chernobyl
Ted Hunt
(UK 2019, 3:38)
(UK 2019, 3:38)
In the final scene of the HBO series Chernobyl, the main character speaks of the toxic consequences of denial and inaction. Ted Hunt...
Involuntary Conversion
Jeanne C. Finley
(US 1991, 9:32)
(US 1991, 9:32)
The pentagon uses the term involuntary conversion to refer to a crash – a starting point for Finley to investigate bureaucratic...
Crossroads
Bruce Conner
(US 1976, 36 min)
(US 1976, 36 min)
In his iconic work, Bruce Conner turned declassified US National Archive footage of the Bikini Atoll bomb tests into an assemblage. Shot...
Nail Art Museum
Jeremy Bailey
(CA 2014, 5:53 min)
(CA 2014, 5:53 min)
How can we use digital applications to create online personalities? As social media users, we are only too glad to play starring roles...
Face it! (Cast yourself™)
Michael Brynntrup
(DE 2007, 4:00 min)
(DE 2007, 4:00 min)
Face It! (Cast Your Self™) consists of photographs collected from personal profiles of gay chat rooms on the internet. All images are...
7.) I Spill My Guts Everyday For Nothing
Kirsten Stoltman
(US 2015, 7:48 min)
(US 2015, 7:48 min)
A portrait of the artist spilling her guts with a blank expression on her face. A self-confessional meditation, equal parts comic and...
AGENDA
Amalia Ulman
(ES/AR 2018, 8:00min)
(ES/AR 2018, 8:00min)
Amalia Ulman’s work addresses fluid identities in the post- digital era when sincerity can be both authentic and ironic. AGENDA is a...
Easy Rider
Pilvi Takala
(FI/NL 2006, 4:35 min)
(FI/NL 2006, 4:35 min)
Easy Rider takes place on a tram in Amsterdam, where a young man is asking a bit too much from a stranger. In only a few minutes the...
11 fragments of Japan (excerpt)
Paulien Oltheten
(NL/JP 2009, 9:23 min)
(NL/JP 2009, 9:23 min)
For the video ’11 fragments of Japan’, Paulien Oltheten really shows how she gets things done. She does this by asking people to...
Haysha Royko
Miranda July
(US 2003, 4:00 min)
(US 2003, 4:00 min)
Miranda July demonstrates a remarkable eye for the extraordinary in daily life in this short video piece. In Hay-sha Royko, three people...
Luftgitarre
Alexander Herzog
(DE 2004, 4:21 min)
(DE 2004, 4:21 min)
Twelve persons performing air guitar in urban surroundings.The sound, a composition of guitar samples, is combined with ultra dynamic...
The Box
Jes Benstock
(UK 1996, 5:01 min)
(UK 1996, 5:01 min)
The Box shows the estrangement one can feel when the world around them is moving too fast and no one seems to take the time to stand...
Public Spaces
Martijn Veldhoen
(NL 2006, 11:01 min)
(NL 2006, 11:01 min)
Once ‘public space’ was a clear concept. It was a kind democratic medium that could be accessed by everyone, safely and freely...
Eine Kurzstrecke
Jeroen Kooijmans
(NL 2000, 3:01 min)
(NL 2000, 3:01 min)
“I was in Berlin for a working period of 1 month and searching for German humor. Eventually I made a short movie in the daily...
The Prediction Machine
Marleine van der Werf
(NL 2015, 15:11)
(NL 2015, 15:11)
De Lange leads the ‘Predictive Brain Lab’ at Radboud University and his research focuses on how the predictions we continually make...
See a Dog, Hear a Dog
Jesse McLean
(US 2016, 17:40)
(US 2016, 17:40)
This film probes the limits and possibilities of communication. Can we ever truly communicate with a machine, with a nonhuman animal,...
Decay Part III: Body Conscious
Ann Hirsch
(US 2014, 10:37)
(US 2014, 10:37)
A film that deals with how various media technologies can potentially influence us to start thinking of ways to shape our online or...
Losing Sleep
Douglas Porter
(CA 1996, 14:27)
(CA 1996, 14:27)
LOSING SLEEP presents interview footage of a self-confessed computer hacker who is struggling with chronic insomnia. His work on the...
Black Sea Files
Ursula Biemann
(CH 2005, 43:51 min)
(CH 2005, 43:51 min)
In this video, Biemann sees Black Sea as not merely a geographical location but a geo-political space in which transnational oil...
River
Mike Stubbs
(UK 2000, 14:40 min)
(UK 2000, 14:40 min)
In this video installation, Stubbs strikingly juxtaposes multi-layered spaces of the British city Hull in the face of regeneration...
The Romanians (Live Like a King)
Heidrun Holzfeind
(AT 2002, 14:01 min)
(AT 2002, 14:01 min)
Holzfeind’s documentary style video artwork addresses the wider social and political phenomena of globalisation by diving into the...
Squattertown (episode 1), 1st Man Down
Marco Sparmberg
(HK 2011, 07:05 min)
(HK 2011, 07:05 min)
The web video series transplants a dystopian Western to the rooftops of Hong Kong. Drawing from the two hallmark film movements: the...
On the BG Track. 03
Krassimir Terzeiv
(BG 2002, 6:57)
(BG 2002, 6:57)
On the BG Track. 03 compares the urban spaces of Sofia with Hollywood film dialogues which portray Bulgarian culture, customs and...
Fire Fly
Caroline Kamya
(UG/CN 2011, 16:00 min)
(UG/CN 2011, 16:00 min)
For the director, it was her first visit to China. That is why she chose a kind of fairytale, since for her a fairytale has universal...
Buyer Walker Rover aka. Then There (Yiwu)
Amalia Ulman
(ES 2019, 15:18 min)
(ES 2019, 15:18 min)
Buyer Walker Rover depicts the journey of a Spanish girl Anna who came to Yiwu in search of dreams alone. The video with its multiple...
5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown
Shelly Silver
(US 2009, 10:00 min)
(US 2009, 10:00 min)
Combining documentaries and animations, this film presents how the historical facts, including Chinese Exclusion Act and racial...
The Wallraff Method
Thierry Geoffroy
(DK 2005, 3:53 min)
(DK 2005, 3:53 min)
“Are you busy? Can I borrow your hat so I look like you?” The artist tried to investigate what is the best nationality to integrate...
David Harvey: The Crises of Capitalism
RSA Animate, David Harvey
(UK 2010, 11:10)
(UK 2010, 11:10)
In this RSA Animate, radical social theorist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that...
Human Trial
Butler Brothers
(UK 2005, 4:37)
(UK 2005, 4:37)
An extraordinary rendition to a chamber of commerce.
Supposed To
Aleesa Cohene
(CA 2006, 7:26)
(CA 2006, 7:26)
Supposed To examines how work in a capitalist system divides us from ourselves. Work often succeeds at limiting our individual agency...
Optimizer Customizer
Jan van Nuenen
(NL 2002, 12:09)
(NL 2002, 12:09)
A feminine machine, over-stuffed with the most modern nano-technology, proceeds her endless repeating task. When something goes wrong, a...
Hooray the Economy is Booming!
Mark O'Connell
(US 1997, 3:31)
(US 1997, 3:31)
Manifestoon
Jesse Drew
(US 1995, 9:11)
(US 1995, 9:11)
Marx meets Mickey Mouse in this now-classic cartoon version of the Communist Manifesto.
Monsieur Tête
Jan Lencia
(FR, 1959, 12:46 min)
(FR, 1959, 12:46 min)
An experimental and intellectual animated film which represents the last effort of Giannalberto Bendazzi.
Golden Bowl, or Repression
Chris Kraus, US 1988, 12:23
In The Golden Bowl, or Repression, inspired partly by the Henry James novel, you can feel the hangover of 70’s New York: bankruptcy,...
Art Parade
M.M. Serra, US 2011, 5:33
Art Parade is a meditation on staring and display, and on the ambiguous energies that emanate from both. Much of the film is dominated...
The Abortion Diaries
Penny Lane, US 2005, 30:14
The Abortion Diaries gives voice to an important but silenced community: women who have had abortions. Over a million American women...
Mustererkenntnis / Pattern Cognition
Thorsten Fleisch
(GR, 2019, 7:20)
(GR, 2019, 7:20)
Bombardment of a flickering screen accompanied with thrilling audio. This work might make you hypersensitive to the other sounds in your...
Birthday Suit
Lisa Steele
(CA, 1974, 12:00)
(CA, 1974, 12:00)
Revealing a personal history through the evidence of body marks, and at the same time undermining the commodified image of spotless...
Hautnah – Skinflick
Thorsten Fleisch
(DE, 2002, 7:30, 16mm)
(DE, 2002, 7:30, 16mm)
A work, working with skin: fingerprints, skin and leather.
L’Amour Fou
M.M. Serra, US 1992, 16:36
A curious meditation on the pleasures and terrors of s/m, in which interviews with enthusiasts collide with choice porn clips, Fleisher...
Me and Rubyfruit
Sadie Benning, US, 1990, 5:30
Based on a novel by Rita Mae Brown, Me and Rubyfruit chronicles the enchantment of teenage lesbian love against a backdrop of...
“ROLE PLAY #3: MASSAGE THERAPIST (ASMR)”
THEPEACEFULWHISPERER
(US, 2013,10 MINS)
(US, 2013,10 MINS)
A young woman caresses her webcam as if it were the viewer’s body. Role-play is a big element in ASMR, especially during the early...
SIMONE
Harleigh Shaw
(6:38)
(6:38)
Playing with gooey white and cardboard blue. The sounds and visuals from this work entices us to question what makes us uncomfortable.
DISLOCATION BLUES
Sky Hopinka
(United States 2017, 13:00 mins.)
(United States 2017, 13:00 mins.)
The Standing Rock Reservation is located in North Dakota and South Dakota in the United States. In 2016 the reservation got widespread...
RADAR LEVEL
Himali Singh Soin
(India 2016, 11:11 mins.)
(India 2016, 11:11 mins.)
Radar Level is set in the world’s first and last geological minutes. Two circles take us to two ancient landscapes. One shows images...
Ultra Ecosexual Polyamory. Permaculture ASAP
Jasper Griepink
(Netherlands 2017, 02:18 mins.)
(Netherlands 2017, 02:18 mins.)
A Futuristic Pagan performer was intimate with the Trees and Greens in a city center for approximately 2-hours. During their appearance...
A SHORT STORY
IBRO HASANOVIC
(FRANCE 2011, 10:20 MINS.)
(FRANCE 2011, 10:20 MINS.)
A prophetic story – handed down from generation to generation – from former Eastern Bosnia about the start of a dramatic piece of...
FWD: UPDATE ON MY LIFE
NICKY TAVARES
(UNITED STATES 2010, 28:00 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 2010, 28:00 MINS.)
Bittersweet portrait of a drastic development in the real and online life of highly educated woman told in the shape of interviews,...
AND I WILL RISE IF ONLY TO HOLD YOU DOWN
JENNIFER REEDER
(UNITED STATES 2012, 24:30 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 2012, 24:30 MINS.)
Simultaneously theatrical and dry, this film tells a brief story about a family. Although it, at first, appears to abide by the rules it...
DOOR GAMES WINDOW FRAMES: NEAR DRAMA
LINDA CHIU-HAN LAI
(CHINA 2012, 11:13 MINS.)
(CHINA 2012, 11:13 MINS.)
A hypnotic, triple screen video collage consisting of iconic images from cinema history, though not from Hollywood, but from Hong Kong...
DAS BADEZIMMER
BJØRN MELHUS
(GERMANY 2011, 5:15 MINS)
(GERMANY 2011, 5:15 MINS)
Alfred Hitchcock himself dubbed the German trailer for “Psycho” (1960). With a heavy English accent he transported viewers to a very...
DONOR
KEVIN AND JENNIFER MCCOY
(UNITED STATES 1995, 5:00 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 1995, 5:00 MINS.)
Donor examines the new psychological terrain full quantification of the human body. With the invention of new medical technologies that...
HOST
KRISTIN LUCAS
(UNITED STATES 1997, 7:41 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 1997, 7:41 MINS.)
In this video, Lucas performs characters on both sides of the screen. Set in the future, a young woman approaches a street-side...
WAYSTATION
HALFLIFERS
(USA 1996, 4:50 MINS.)
(USA 1996, 4:50 MINS.)
A strange Good Samaritan figure in a vivid red suit takes pity on a retching soldier who drags himself through the vile green, almost...
INVOLUNTARY CONVERSION
JEANNE C. FINLEY
(UNITED STATES 1991, 9:00 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 1991, 9:00 MINS.)
In a time of “permanent pre-hostility”(peace) where an “energetic disassembly”(nuclear explosion) is imminent, a disembodied...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN LUCY
TXUSPO POYO
(SPAIN 1995,15:52 MINS.)
(SPAIN 1995,15:52 MINS.)
In an era of post-ecological sustainability, where our planet is running out of basic resources, humanity turns to the wide expanse of...
THE SOPHISTICATED NEANDERTHAL INTERVIEW
NATHANIEL MELLORS
(UNITED STATES 2014, 23:20 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 2014, 23:20 MINS.)
A humoristic dialogue between a Neanderthal and a bit of an idiot from our time, questions the actual origin of human evolution.
RECKONING 3
KENT LAMBERT
(UNITED STATES 2014, 11:14 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 2014, 11:14 MINS.)
Using the visual material that Lambert collected during two years of active gaming, he explores the poetry and alienation of male...
PINGITAN
ORIZON ASTONIA
(INDONESIA 2013, 13:54 MINS.)
(INDONESIA 2013, 13:54 MINS.)
A traditional marriage is preceded by a period of isolation, but two young Indonesians lovers can’t be stopped.
THING
ANOUK DE CLERCQ
(THE NETHERLANDS 2013, 18:00 MINS.)
(THE NETHERLANDS 2013, 18:00 MINS.)
An architect attempts to design a city in his imagination. Gradually we realise that the city is imaginary. 3D images have a shape...
JABAL HADROH, JABAL AL JANNAH (GREEN MOUNTAIN, HEAVEN MOUNTAIN)
OTTY WIDASARI
(INDONESIA 2013, 9:20 MINS.)
(INDONESIA 2013, 9:20 MINS.)
The Impact of massive Arab tourism in West Java is shown in the documentation of a park, where women must be escorted at all times....
BLOOD & CINNAMON
STEVE REINKE & JESSIE MOTT
(UNITED STATES 2010, 5:26 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 2010, 5:26 MINS.)
Fully fledged commentary on an inexplicable catch. The fear of a possible diabolic birth causes unrest in the animal community.
ROZMOWA
PIOTR SULKOWKSI
(POLAND 2011, 16:30 MINS.)
(POLAND 2011, 16:30 MINS.)
A complex long-distance relationship between two people both of whom have a home base they cannot leave.
HYPERCRISIS
JOSEF DABERNIG
(AUSTRIA 2011, 17:00 MINS.)
(AUSTRIA 2011, 17:00 MINS.)
A micro society that exudes social, political and creative crisis. A melodramatic portrait of a former institute for Soviet artists with...
N’ÊTRE
OLFA BEN ALI
(FRANCE 2012, 11:42 MINS.)
(FRANCE 2012, 11:42 MINS.)
A personal portrait of a place in which rigid, modernist architecture and a poor reputation stands in marked contrast to the warm...
OFAEDDUR UNGI
KATRIN OLAFSDOTTIR
(ICELAND 2011, 10:08 MINS.)
(ICELAND 2011, 10:08 MINS.)
A familiar environment as the idyllic point of departure for an escape from reality.
METEOR
CHRISTOPH GIRARDET & MATTHIAS MÜLLER
(GERMANY 2011, 14:52 MINS.)
(GERMANY 2011, 14:52 MINS.)
Nostalgic excerpts of fiction, fairytales and vintage science fiction from a child’s room to way out into the galaxy. Unfortunately...
CLEAN YOUR ROOM
PEOPLE LIKE US
(UNITED KINGDOM 2011, 3:00 MINS.)
(UNITED KINGDOM 2011, 3:00 MINS.)
Using very recognisable source material, this video is not so much intended as a bad dream, but more as a journey through the underworld...
HARVEST
An odd event in an olive grove: one of the trees starts a revolt. As the spontaneous protest spreads, a police squad rallies through the...
UNBOXING EDEN
Unfortunately this video is not available on the Impakt Channel, but you can see an excerpt here. A Youtube collage about snake owners...
ZIMA
CHRISTINA PICCHI
(RUSSIA 2013, 12:07 MINS.)
(RUSSIA 2013, 12:07 MINS.)
How do you manage to survice the merciless climate in Siberia where man and nature are at odds with one another? What seems extreme to...
NATURE HOUSE INC.
A nesting box builder in a small town in the Midwest is thriving thanks to the fact that some 1 million Americans now want to offer the...
HEATHER’S DREAM
STEFANIE SCHNEIDER
(GERMANY 2012, 15:08 MINS.)
(GERMANY 2012, 15:08 MINS.)
Surreal events shot using Polaroids and Super-8 film. A doctor (Udo Kier) receives Heather in his outdoor treatment room in the desert...
THE TIGER’S MIND
BEATRICE GIBSON
(UNITED KINGDOM 2012, 23:00 MINS.)
(UNITED KINGDOM 2012, 23:00 MINS.)
A conceptual detective film against the backdrop of a remote, modernist villa. Six characters, the set, the music, the foley, the...
RESTLESS LEG SAGA
SHANA MOULTON
(UNITED STATES 2012, 7:41 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 2012, 7:41 MINS.)
The pharmaceutical industry’s marketing machines differ little from New Age-like selfhelp methods. A new saga by Shana Moulton...
RETURN TO THE WORLD OF DANCE
DAN BOORD
(UNITED STATES 2011, 7:00 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 2011, 7:00 MINS.)
An instructional video for everyone who loves dance, but is confused by the postmodern condition. An ode to Fernand Léger’s...
FOUR SEASONS
KEREN CYTTER
(DENMARK 2009, 12:15 MIN.)
(DENMARK 2009, 12:15 MIN.)
The story of Four Seasons revolves around a woman entering her neighbor’s apartment to complain about the loud music but finds the...
IN A PIG’S EYE
ATSUSHI WADA
(JAPAN 2010, 10:10 MIN.)
(JAPAN 2010, 10:10 MIN.)
A weird relationship between a pig, a dog, and humans. Do we forgive the existence of a gap? BIO: Atsushi Wada (b. 1980) is Japanese...
KURASHI ATO
MAKI SATAKE
(JAPAN 2009, 11:40 MINS.)
(JAPAN 2009, 11:40 MINS.)
A late night visit to the empty house where her grandparents have lived for years. In her editing, Satake beautifully integrates this...
JONAS MEKAS IN KODACHROME DAYS
KEN JACOBS
(UNITED STATES 2009, 3:22 MINS.)
(UNITED STATES 2009, 3:22 MINS.)
Ken Jacobs films Jonas Mekas, a fellow icon from the history of experimental film, at an apparently everyday and homely moment. But...
I AM NOT THE ENEMY
BJØRN MELHUS
(GERMANY 2010, 12:50 MINS.)
(GERMANY 2010, 12:50 MINS.)
Is it possible to ever come back from war? For those who have tasted it, returning home doesn’t signal peace but a self-destructive...
SCARY MAZE
CAMILLE VERBUNT
(THE NETHERLANDS 2008, 02:30 MINS)
(THE NETHERLANDS 2008, 02:30 MINS)
Parents and sisters or brothers have fun scaring their little ones. Those are filmed when resolving a puzzle in concentration and not...
MURPHY
BJØRN MELHUS
(GERMANY 2008, 03:01 MINS)
(GERMANY 2008, 03:01 MINS)
The videolight sequence is based on sound snippets from the movie Blue Thunder (USA, 1982), which was one of the early 80’s media...
ON THE LAKE
JEROEN KOOIJMANS
(NL, 2008, 01:35 MIN)
(NL, 2008, 01:35 MIN)
At dawn, four small ‘islands’ floating on a lake are moving slowly towards an indefinite other side. Music can be heard in the...
LOGORAMA
FRANÇOIS ALAUX, HERVÉ DE CRÉCY, LUDOVIC HOUPLAIN
(FRANCE 2009, 16:04 MINS)
(FRANCE 2009, 16:04 MINS)
Police chase an armed criminal in a version of Los Angeles comprised entirely of corporate logos. BIO: François Alaux, Hervé de...
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: WAYS OF SEEING
DONNA VERHEIJDEN
(THE NETHERLANDS 2013, 18:25 MINS)
(THE NETHERLANDS 2013, 18:25 MINS)
All the World’s a Stage shows how everything around us -from movies to ads, from literature to politics- is immersed in staged...
PAINTINGS WITH HISTORY IN A ROOM FILLED WITH PEOPLE WITH FUNNY NAMES 3
KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI
(THAILAND 2015, 24:55 MINS)
(THAILAND 2015, 24:55 MINS)
Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3 is the epilogue to a series of works about the process of...
BACK ROW
TOBIAS KASPAR
(GERMANY 2016, 21:01 MINS)
(GERMANY 2016, 21:01 MINS)
Back Row depicts the back office of the leisure-industry. In it, sequences of close ups fo hands, space, and fabric show a model...
THE ANNALS OF PRIVATE HISTORY
AMALIA ULMAN
(UNITED KINGDOM 2015, 14:07 MINS)
(UNITED KINGDOM 2015, 14:07 MINS)
Amalia Ulman is a 24-year-old Argentinean-born, predominantly Spanish-raised artist who presently divides her time between the cities of...
PILOT
GENERAL IDEA
(CANADA 1977, 18:56 MINS)
(CANADA 1977, 18:56 MINS)
General Idea is the collective name of Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson and Pilot reveals their avant-garde branding strategy....
INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY ART
JOÃO ENXUTO & ERICA LOVE
(UNITED STATES 2016, 16:20 MINS)
(UNITED STATES 2016, 16:20 MINS)
Institute of Southern Contemporary Art (ISCA) imagines a model for contemporary art that pushes certain probabilities towards logical,...
WE’RE ALL HERE
BENY WAGNER
(UNITED STATES/THE NETHERLANDS 2016, 12:02 MINS)
(UNITED STATES/THE NETHERLANDS 2016, 12:02 MINS)
The feeling of inexplicable loss and yearning for something unknown is addressed in Beny Wagner’s video work by means of unexpected...
STIMULATE SURPRISE
DAN REES
(UNITED KINGDOM 2015, 7:04 MINS)
(UNITED KINGDOM 2015, 7:04 MINS)
Stimulate Surpise is a rebranding of a laverbread product by a New York advertising agency, Sid Lee. The product named “Bafa Lafwr”...
THE WAS
SAM SMITH & SODA_JERK
(UNITED STATES/AUSTRALIA 2016, 13:41 MINS)
(UNITED STATES/AUSTRALIA 2016, 13:41 MINS)
The Was is a sample-based video for now, about the time before now. Part experimental film, part music video and concept album, The Was...
A NECESSARY MUSIC
BEATRICE GIBSON
(USA , 2008, 20:00 MIN)
(USA , 2008, 20:00 MIN)
Derived from texts by residents of Roosevelt Island, and Bioy Casares, A Necessary Music is a musically conceived science...
MOUNT SHASTA
OLIVER HUSAIN
(CANADA, 2008, 08:05 MIN)
(CANADA, 2008, 08:05 MIN)
“It’s always a pleasure to get blindsided by a great new film. I’ve been vaguely aware of Oliver Husain, mostly as a video...
JLG /PG
PAOLO GREGORI
(CROATIA/BRAZIL, 2008, 08:06 MIN)
(CROATIA/BRAZIL, 2008, 08:06 MIN)
A 20,000 km journey to meet the master of modern cinema and how this encounter turned out to be deceitful. BIO: Paolo Gregori is an...
THE FANTASTICAL WORLD OF SCRIPTWRITING
JACK FELDSTEIN
(AUSTRALIA, 2007, 32:00 MIN)
(AUSTRALIA, 2007, 32:00 MIN)
An amazing, perceptive and fun neon animation film on how to write a script by stream of consciousness neon filmmaker Jack Feldstein.
SELF PORTRAIT
EMILIA UKKONEN
(FINLAND, 2007, 06:15 MIN)
(FINLAND, 2007, 06:15 MIN)
“The video Self Portrait is a portrayal of expectations and desires. A small-town girl wants to be someone. This semi autobiographical...
Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Episode 1: Love and Power)
Adam Curtis
(U.K 2011, 59:32 Mins)
(U.K 2011, 59:32 Mins)
The first episode in a three-part series produced by the BBC explores the proliferation of Ayn Ryand's pseudo-philosophy of...
Watch High Speed Trading in Action
CNN
(U.SA 2013, 2:50 Mins)
(U.SA 2013, 2:50 Mins)
A short news clip on computer controlled high-frequency trading focuses on the aesthetic changes to the stock-trading “floor” now...
The Flag
Koken Ergun
(TUR 2006, 9:01 Mins)
(TUR 2006, 9:01 Mins)
The Flag is the second part of Köken Ergun’s video series about the state-controlled national day ceremonies of the Turkish Republic....
The Truth Will Set you Free
Ben Judd
(U.K 2005, 11:08 Mins)
(U.K 2005, 11:08 Mins)
The Truth Will Set You Free uses the words of preachers from Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park and central London, whom Judd filmed for...
Audition Tape
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
(Canada 2003, 8 mins.)
(Canada 2003, 8 mins.)
What happens when a self-described "gay white male, 5'11", 155 lbs, 29, good singing voice and physical co-ordination" answers an ad for...
Druhy Zivot
Peter Kovacik
(Slovenia 2010, 18:45 mins)
(Slovenia 2010, 18:45 mins)
The whole world will be once downloaded into a single communications network. People no longer have to travel to orient themselves in...
REAL SNOW WHITE
Pilvi Takala
(France 2009, 9:15 mins)
(France 2009, 9:15 mins)
The absurd logic of the "real character" and the extreme discipline of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Disney's Snow...
Larry Emdur’s Suit
Emile Zile
(Australia 2002, 9:15 mins)
(Australia 2002, 9:15 mins)
‘Zile is chosen as a contestant on The Price is Right. He comes-on-down, gliding and shuffling. He shrugs, waves his hands, twitches...
Life in adwords (edited)
Erica Scourti
(Greece 2012, 20:00 MINS)
(Greece 2012, 20:00 MINS)
Starting in March 2012, and running until January 2013, Erica Scourti kept a daily diary in the form of Gmail emails that she sent to...
Sportstugan
Gunilla Heilborn and Marten Nilsso
(Sweden 2005, 12:22 mins)
(Sweden 2005, 12:22 mins)
How will his city friends cope with nature when Henrik gathers them in a summer house by a lake, deep in the forest? How will they react...
MY VOICE WILL REACH YOU
MEIRO KOIZUMI
(JAPAN 2009, 11:26 MINS)
(JAPAN 2009, 11:26 MINS)
Dislocation and the fetishization of relationships underlie the work of Japanese artist Meiro Koizumi and no more so than in My Voice...
ALL FLOWER IN TIME
JONATHAN CAOUETTE
(USA 2010, 13:00 MINS)
(USA 2010, 13:00 MINS)
“I am not from this place,” declares a French cowboy. An old toothless man asks, “Do you know why you’re here?” These...
ADVENT
PETR HATLE
(CZECH REPUBLIC 2010, 18:00 MINS)
(CZECH REPUBLIC 2010, 18:00 MINS)
An experimental portrait of desperate existence in preChristmas Prague. Welcome to the Golden City in the Heart of Europe. BIO: Petr...
EXTENSIONS
HANS OP DE BEECK
(BELGIUM 2009, 10:58 MINS)
(BELGIUM 2009, 10:58 MINS)
Our technology driven society as a dark dream, as an obscure an impenetrable labyrinth in which the individual tries to survive with...
TIME’S UP
MARIE-CATHERINE THEILER & JAN PETERS
(GERMANY 2009, 15:00 MINS)
(GERMANY 2009, 15:00 MINS)
While the makers are expecting a baby, they get into a car crash. This confronts them with the finiteness of their existence and makes...
Seeing Bush Through Trees
Jan van Nuenen
(The Netherlands 2002, 02:01 mins)
(The Netherlands 2002, 02:01 mins)
Logos of notorious multinationals are creating a distorted portrait of the even more notorious G. W. Bush. Bio: After his education at...
Untitled (The Remake)
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
(GREECE, 2007, 14:08 mins)
(GREECE, 2007, 14:08 mins)
Untitled (The Remake) combines archival footage from the years of the 1967-1973 military dictatorship in Greece which depicts official...
Cleopatra’s Teeth
Mike Kiburz
(United States 2008, 17:00 mins)
(United States 2008, 17:00 mins)
An oral historian's obsessions with the famed ruler of ancient Egypt. A montage of love letters, dental decay, cavities and general oral...
Chillida (Forms and Feelings)
Falke Pisano
(The Netherlands 2006, 13:40 mins)
(The Netherlands 2006, 13:40 mins)
In Chillida (Forms and Feelings) the artist reacts to a series of sculptures by Eduardo Chillida taken by David Finn. The ostensible...
Polis
Erkka Nissinen
(Finland 2012, 13:40 mins)
(Finland 2012, 13:40 mins)
'Pig Shit Tit Ass Sailor' is only one of Polis' inhabitants who, just like politicians, porn actors and lost tourists, encounter...
OUTER SPACE
PETER TSCHERKASSKY
(Austria, 1999, 35mm, 09:57)
(Austria, 1999, 35mm, 09:57)
Unfortunately this video is not available on this IMPAKT Channel page. You can currently view the film on our channel here. ...
Freedom Device
John Butler
(United Kingdom 2011, 3:20 mins.)
(United Kingdom 2011, 3:20 mins.)
Demonstration of a new high tech device that was specially designed to improve the controllability of democratic countries and other...
The Turner Film Diaries
James T. Hong
(United States 2012, 26:00 mins)
(United States 2012, 26:00 mins)
A pseudo-educational film from an alternate future based on the controversial extremely racist sci-fi novel The Turner Diaries....
Pigs
Black Dice
(United States 2011, 3:28 mins.)
(United States 2011, 3:28 mins.)
The latest music video by the experimental noise punk trio Black Dice from New York, that is just as insane as the band's previous video...
PROTEST OHNE ÄSTHETIK UND FORM
Manfred Rainer, Pawel Szostak & Hannah Rosa Öllinger
(AUSTRIA 2011, 14:40 mins)
(AUSTRIA 2011, 14:40 mins)
The short film "Protest ohne Ästhetik und Form" tells the story of the fictitious protest movement in Warsaw in the late 90s. The...
THE BULL LEAD BEAR
Oliver Ressler & Zanny Begg
(AUSTRIA 2012, 24:00 MINS)
(AUSTRIA 2012, 24:00 MINS)
The economic crisis and the collapsed banking system, but now for a change very clearly explained by a sceptical economist, in a bar....
The Suburb Within
Pekka Sassi
(FN 2009, 11:30 mins)
(FN 2009, 11:30 mins)
A film about communication, narration and presence. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why...
Alva Noto – Uni Acronym
Carsten Nicolai
(Germany 2011, 6:42 mins)
(Germany 2011, 6:42 mins)
208 recognisable three letter words cascade across the screen. The foundations of our capitalist, technocratic society. From time to...
When Adar Enters
Yael Bartana
(IS 2003, 7:01 mins)
(IS 2003, 7:01 mins)
'When Adar Enters' opens with short shots of boys and girls in the streets of Bnei Brak (a religious suburb of Tel Aviv) dressed in...
Danse Macabre
Persijn Broersen and Raymond Taudin Chabot
(NL 1974, 3:26 mins)
(NL 1974, 3:26 mins)
The film consists of photographs taken at ‘’Chez Ali’’, a roadhouse in the countryside of Belgium. The portrayed village people...
SUCHY PION
Suchy Pion
(Poland 2012, 12:14 mins.)
(Poland 2012, 12:14 mins.)
In this short film Bakowski develops an architectural metaphor to literalize the way a film can construct emotional states by piecing...
Let’s Face It (Extravios Mentales)
Miguel Jara
(Mexico 2013, 8:00 mins)
(Mexico 2013, 8:00 mins)
Jara, a mathematician and artist, created a psychedelic animation in which odd characters and geometric patterns create a dark, out of...
Erdős–Bacon number
Jessica Tsang
(Great Britain 2012, 13:42 mins)
(Great Britain 2012, 13:42 mins)
Let’s explain: a Bacon number indicates the amount of film roles that seperate an actor from Kevin Bacon. Science has the very...
Triangle
Grace Nayoon Rhee
(United States 2012, 6:07 mins)
(United States 2012, 6:07 mins)
A curious figure derails daily routine. Psychological tension mounts and then explodes. BIO: Grace Nayoon Rhee is a young filmmaker,...
A Few Extra Copies
Bobby Abate
(USA 2012, 10 mins)
(USA 2012, 10 mins)
On 22 January 1987, Pennsylvania's state treasurer Budd Dwyer, who was convicted of taking bribes, handed out copies of his farewell...
Presuda
Duro Gavran
(CR 2013, 11:20 mins)
(CR 2013, 11:20 mins)
Sixteen years after the war, a few thousand people gather in Zagreb to watch the Tribunal's verdict against Croatian generals....
The Amateur Scientist
Tom Sherman
(CAN 2012, 5:53 mins)
(CAN 2012, 5:53 mins)
Conspiracy theories about the government suppressing scientific information leads an amateur to conduct old-fashioned, empirical...
A Holy Order
Ben Fain
(U.S 2012, 19:34 mins)
(U.S 2012, 19:34 mins)
Locations: a family-oriented parade in Chicago; Facebook; an ambulance and a car wash. An absurdist collage of bizarre interventions...
Coffins
Kelman Duran and Hyesung Moon
(U.S 2012, 19:06 mins)
(U.S 2012, 19:06 mins)
Even when removed from civilisation, man cannot escape capitalism’s structures. A portrait of a difficult position outside society....
Visiting Joint Surveillance Area
Tae Eun Kim
(S.K 2011, 5:55)
(S.K 2011, 5:55)
The Korean film Joint Security Area (2000) was shot in deserted village of Panmunjeom in the demilitarised zone between North and South...
This Lemon tastes of Apple
Hiwa K
(IR 2011, 6:15 mins)
(IR 2011, 6:15 mins)
Survivors of the massive gas attack in Northern Iraq in 1988 say deadly chemicals smelled of apple. During the Arab uprising, also...
PULNOC (MIDNIGHT)
KLÁRA TASOVSKÁ
(CZ 2010, 40:00 MIN)
(CZ 2010, 40:00 MIN)
“Midnight”, a visually refined film by Klára Tasovská, blends several layers. The personal experience of the director, who chose...
Babel
HENDRICK DUSOLLIER
(FR 2010, 15:00 MIN)
(FR 2010, 15:00 MIN)
From the celestial mountains to the peak of Shanghai’s towers, two young peasants leave their village to get to the metropolis....
Line III
Johanna Reich
(DE 2008, 2:20 mins)
(DE 2008, 2:20 mins)
The video „line“ shows a high-resolution digital camera reaching its limits: A black-clothed person paints a black line on a wall....
ADRESSEN UNMÖGLICHER ORTE
YVES NETZHAMMER
(CH 2009, 22:00 MIN)
(CH 2009, 22:00 MIN)
In this new work by Yves Netzhammer, he further explores the poetics of his computer animated aesthetic. Netzhammer juxtaposes the...
Everybody
STEVE REINKE & JESSIE MOTT
(US 2009, 04:00 MIN)
(US 2009, 04:00 MIN)
This short fable depicts how animals suffer from the exact same interpersonal everyday struggles as we humans do. As an example a...
PLUS TRAVAILLER
YVES-MARIE MAHÉ
(FR 2008, 01:45 MIN)
(FR 2008, 01:45 MIN)
Because of age restrictions the video will only be accessible when logged into Vimeo Plus Travailler demands a closer look at our work...
“S”
YURI A
(CH 2008, 12:20 MIN)
(CH 2008, 12:20 MIN)
Cakes in general only evoke good feelings, while farts, some of the most common substances around, shock, repel and offend. But the...
NAUFRAGE
CLORINDE DURAND
(FR 2008, 07:00 MIN)
(FR 2008, 07:00 MIN)
Naufrage lists fears: the narration stops at the frozen instant. But Naufrage relates something. What is it talking about ? We...
Picture The Homeless Tent City
Not An Alternative
(US 2009, 15:54 mins)
(US 2009, 15:54 mins)
Video from the tent city that was installed in East Harlem on July 23rd 2009. Not An Alternative teamed up with Picture The Homeless,...
Endless Cities_Redux
D-Fuse
(UK 2009, 4:36 MINS)
(UK 2009, 4:36 MINS)
As the world population continues to move to urban centres, growing numbers of people contest a limited supply of space as their place...
Future Past Perfect
Carsten Nicolai
(DE 2009, 3:43 mins)
(DE 2009, 3:43 mins)
On a quiet autumn evening in Tokyo, a man is trying to get a small bottle of tea from a machine, but instead he is treated to a small...
11 Fragments of Japan
Paulien Oltheten
(JP 2009, 20:28 mins)
(JP 2009, 20:28 mins)
The public domain and human behaviour is the starting point for the work of Paulien Oltheten (1982). Through photographs and video...
Brilliant City
D-Fuse
(UK 2008, 14:16 mins)
(UK 2008, 14:16 mins)
The title refers to the location, a residential complex comprised of 25 highrises in the northern part of Shanghai, China. It is...
City of Progress
Justin Bennett
(NL 2009, 11:00 mins)
(NL 2009, 11:00 mins)
“A city could start like this drawing: first there’s an empty space and then an event:a dot on the paper.” The video traces the...
Fictions and Futures
Arne Hector & Minze Tummescheit
(DE 2013, 30 mins)
(DE 2013, 30 mins)
Anybody can legally participate in the huge casino of the commodity futures market in the hope of making real profits from an abstract...
The Making of Utopia
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochla-Kalleinen
(FI/AU 2006, 60:00 mins)
(FI/AU 2006, 60:00 mins)
Tellervo and Oliver sent an open letter to the communities in Australia inviting them to join a workshop and write a fiction film about...
The Possibility of Utopia
Julio Soto
(ES/US 2004, 17:45 mins)
(ES/US 2004, 17:45 mins)
This eighteen-minute audiovisual work dynamically combines found images of once-ideal cities such as Akademgorodok, an artificial city...
Luxury Survival Fair
Mary Ponomareva
(RU/NL 2018, 13:28 mins)
(RU/NL 2018, 13:28 mins)
The future is full of uncertainty, danger, and fear. At the Luxury Survival Fair, we expect ‘the end of the world’ to be fabulously...
Imitations of Life
Mike Hoolboom
(CA 2003, 22:04 mins)
(CA 2003, 22:04 mins)
When Mike Hoolboom himself gets hold of a camera, it's above all to film Jack, his sister's little boy, for whom he shows concerned...
The Pakistani Starfleet: dOvestar Chronicles
Kenny Irwin
(US 2009, 09:03 mins)
(US 2009, 09:03 mins)
Pakistani Starfleet Explorers is a series of artwork by Kenny Hassan Irwin who is not Pakistani by descent but he seems to be Pakistani...
Civilization
Marco Brambilla
(US 2008, 3:22 mins)
(US 2008, 3:22 mins)
This crazy video collage of miscellaneous footage from movies and television displays a different world that illustrates the various...
Cable Xcess
Kristin Lucas
(US 1996, 4:35 mins)
(US 1996, 4:35 mins)
Cable Xcess is a public service announcement/infomercial which informs viewers about the consequences of long term exposure to...
Raymond
Nina Yuen
(US 2014, 5:19 mins)
(US 2014, 5:19 mins)
In Raymond, an intimate film about the relationship between the artist and her father, Yuen indirectly sketches a picture of her...
Every (Movie, Sound, Image, Text) On My Cell Phone
Darrin Martin
(2009, 8:00 mins)
(2009, 8:00 mins)
Another example of how our memories can blur together if we mix up, with no particular order or selection. The result is quite curious:...