FAFF2010 Programme
Wednesday 18th August 2010
Continued
Vincent Meessen (BE/US)
Dear Advisor
This must be Chandigarh, the well known preconceived city in the Indian state of Punjab. With his black suit, bow tie and bowler hat, the walker looks like Le Corbusier, the creator of this city. The film is intermixed with images of someone typing a letter that opens with the words “Dear Advisor.” Both the salutation and the voice-over refer to “Three Reminders to the Architects,” a seminal text by Le Corbusier who, during this project in which various architects participated, would rather be addressed as ‘advisor’ than as architect.
Jorge García Velayos (ES)
La Bestia (The Beast)
In Paris begins a strange revolution on the roofs, with the sculptures and the clouds. When the beast appears is time for the destruction.
www.rhiz.eu/person-38933-en.html
Semiconductor (UK)
Time Out of Place
The Kings Cross area in London is rapidly transforming, creating a city in flux. Semiconductor have captured this moment in human history by documenting the day to day happenings in a short moving image work with a process whereby we see the past, present and future simultaneously.
Manuel Saiz (IT)
Sic Transit
For a contemporary artist it can be overwhelming to come to a city like Rome to live and work. Thousands of years of (art) history can be a heavy load on your shoulders. Certainly any artist coming to Rome for a short time will be wondering what his/her contributions could be. Is there anything that can be done? Manuel Saiz, who lived in Rome as an artist-in-residence, wrote an essay on this. On the banks of the Tiber, Rome, near a viaduct over which traffic is racing in the dusk, runners are approaching one by one. They stop in front of the camera panting and stumbling over their words and read out fragments of the text.
John Deller (UK)
Gear Change Action
The artist cycled to work using the same route twice a week an approximate round trip of 11miles. Attached to the front of his bike was a super 8 camera rigged with a cable release attached to the gear shifter and set up to take a single frame every time the gears were changed. Filming was continued during the journey until the film ran out.
Max Hattler (UK)
Striper v0.1
“I am interested in the space between abstraction and figuration, where storytelling is freed from the constraints of traditional narrative. My work contemplates microcosms, moments, atmospheres: Close-ups as reflections on the big picture. While my films tend to be without dialogue, they explore the relationship between sound, music and the moving image.”
Maggie Hall (UK)
Round Drawing
“I produce work without a narrative and verbal content, work that exists purely to be experienced communicating a semi-intuitive understanding. I want to leave my work open to the formation of ideas and concepts rather than react to them. Recently I have begun to merge the initial creation of my work with the final product, recreating a version of the process. These works intend to compress, contain and capture the initial energy and tensions revealed in their creation.”
www.axisweb.org/artist/maggiehall
Kevin Boniface (UK)
Summer Wine
Compo, Clegg, Foggy and an Angel’s kiss in spring.
web.mac.com/victorygarden.mac
