FAFF2010 Programme
Thursday 19th August 2010
Clare Harris (UK)
Passing Moment
Passing Moment is a short film in which the viewer is placed in a position of being a voyeur in which they observe consciousness looking in on its self. With ambiguous and sometimes tense imagery the viewer finds themselves lost in a void of emotion.
Roland Wegerer (AT)
Sunwatersandbucket
On a beach near the Danube a bucket full of water will positioned. The bucket will be knocked down. A splash flows over the sand and looks for a way to the water. Because of the angle of view the qualities of this process can be seen. Extensions, course, glittering, ooze away, reducing. A narrative game with our perception.
Lin de Mol (NL)
You Can
Slowly, in a meditative mood, the camera investigates details of the interior of an old house. The water tap is dripping, a woman’s hand is embroidering a table cloth and a lizard slowly crawls over a bowl of red berries. Trees, duckweed and brushwood alternate with scenes from the interior, describing the mood of a moment like a string of haikus. Bach’s opening aria of the Goldberg Variations forms the frame of this ‘associative editing’ piece that bears references to Dutch painters Pieter Claesz ad Lara de Moor.
Sara Rajaei (NL)
Forever for a While
A young woman enters a living room, moments later she is an elderly woman lookimg at herself in a mirror, or is a little girl sitting in a chair. Once in a while they seem to find themselves in the same space, which is otherwise populated by family members who are completely taken up with each other, while the woman is moving in isolation as if she is not really there, her gaze turned inwards.
Joanne Masding (UK)
Tree Door
A plastic three is wedged into and take out of a space in a door frame while a projection of a plastic tree is wedged into and taken out of a space in a doorframe.
David Cochrane (UK)
Incident
Performance related video – diptych
Left screen – a candle is melted using a blowtorch
Right screen – a paper house is built
Gerald Zahn (AT)
Nur Noch 5 Minuten (Just 5 More Minutes)
A study of time in cinematic perception, Viennese media artist Gerald Zahn visualises 5 minutes by filming a person holding his breath for the duration of the film. In contrast with the casual disregard for mere 5minutes in the film title, the film fills this period with significance. The emotional turmoil’s on the actor’s face as he fights through every second on the stop-watch, making 5 Minutes a cinematic era of tension, impatience, doubt and expectation.
