Fundada Artists’ Film Festival

FAFF2010 Programme

Wednesday 18th August 2010

Çağlar Çetin (TR)

Peki (Alright)

A motionless woman, who is surrounded by ceaseless speeches of her family, colleges and childhood memories, comes across with people shaking their heads. Would she really like to take any action?

Sarah Lüdemann (NL)

Other Voices

If you do not have a language, do you have an identity? Twelve “impossible” conversations between the artist (German) and participants speaking their own mother tongue arranged into a symphony of voices, sounds and gestures.

www.sarahludemann.com

Jenny Triggs (UK)

The Unnamable

A short animated film based on ‘The Unnamable’ by Samuel Beckett

www.jennytriggs.co.uk

Tory Smith (UK)

Bariera Jezykowa (Language Barrier)

Language Barrier (Barieka Jezykowa) portrays the inability of words to approximate the visual image and successful translations from one language to another. The short film incites the visual and spoken word through the production of dynamic exchange. The combination of elements; taught language, the art of translation, identity, and memory, confront the prejudices of linguistic lack to shape the perception and understanding of foreign languages.

www.tory-smith.com

Lernert & Sander (NL)

How To Explain It To My Parents: Martin de Waal

Martin de Waal is a Dutch artist who uses his own body as a medium and pushes the boundaries of self-alteration, in order to reflect on human identity and people’s judgement about physical appearance. In How Yo Explain It To My Parents: Martin de Waal, he speaks with two people who might be worried about this – his parents. The conversation shifts to expectations, understand and memories of the furniture and artworks in the parental home.

www.nimk.nl

Keren Cytter (DE)

Der Spiegel (The Mirror)

With simple means, Keren Cytter stages a Shakespearean drama in a stripped contemporary Berlin apartment. A 42 year old woman is confronted by her mirror image with the fact she’s not 16 anymore, she is being rejected by her crush and has no eyes for the man who loves her.

www.nimk.nl

Jacki Storey (UK)

Vanitas

Vanitas is the unmediated recording of a live camera obscura projective installation. Ordinary objects are animated in real time using synchronicity, juxtaposition, transparency and transition and the manipulation of light. By perceptually transforming the normal appearance and behaviour of objects, the realm of the Uncanny is explored.

www.jackistorey.co.uk

Jane Chavez-Dawson (UK)

Seeing The Woods For The Trees

‘Seeing The Wood For The Trees’ sees Jane Chavez-Dawson build upon the idea of Frieda Kahlo as a cultural signifier, Kahlo is synonymous with the myth & truth of her suffering, this persona often depicted in her own work is adopted by Chavez-Dawson. Yet here the mechanics of the work is made transparent and a multi visual presentation; from the initial video, to post-production to a backdrop for a live performance is revealed, each phase adds a new level to the audience’s reading of Chavez-Dawson as Kahlo with the prospect of the footage being considered authentic.

www.myspace.com/janechavezdawson

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FAFF2010 Programme

Tuesday 17th August 2010

Continued

Robin Kiteley & Samuel Stocks (UK)

Carbon Dating Angels

The idea of “carbon dating angels” suggests a search for origin, and by extension meaning or truth, in that which is beyond the realms of scientific enquiry. This piece appropriates the controlled and precise movement vocabulary of archive x-ray films in an intriguing, yet impenetrable, ritual of choreographed opened a new visual perspective this films alludes to ways of knowing that are at once buried and revealed.

Kathy Toth (UK)

Loop

Loop is a stopframe animation where handmade charcoal drawings have been photographed. Each object is rubbed out and then redrawn onto the same drawing for the next frame, thus leaving a trace of movement. These objects are inspired by found imagery resembling scientific diagrams. My interest lies in how diagrams are perceived once taken out of context and viewed purely as a set of shapes and lines. While drawing diagrams I begins to associate them visually with other objects in a way that is similar to cloud spotting and ‘projective tests’ within psychoanalysis.

www.kathytoth.co.uk

Semiconductor (UK)

Black Rain

Black Rain uses images from the STEREO mission by NASA (2006-2008) in which twin satellites tracked interplanetary space for solar wind as well as registering violent eruptions of matter from the sun; coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Semiconductor collected all images resulting from the mission, selecting unwanted images usually edited out of scientific research presentations.

www.nimk.nl

Saskia Takens-Milne (UK)

Untitled (Toast)

Saskia Takens-Milne’s video art presents us with an uncanny, realistic depiction of life in a looking-glass world. The world depicted is the actual world in which we live, the only world we could – perhaps – ever have, the unreal world of ideology. The work is allusive in nature; but these videos surprise themselves – risible melodrama is a structural feature of her work – by being finally irreducible to, and inexplicable by, their origins.

www.saskiatakensmilne.com

Alice Bradshaw (UK)

Brown Paper Bag Box

Box, made from a brown paper bag, animated.

www.alicebradshaw.co.uk

Paul Tarragó (UK)

The Badger Series Episode 4

The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.

www.paultarrago.net

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FAFF2010 Programme

Tuesday 17th August 2010

Paul Tarragó (UK)

The Badger Series Episode 3

The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.

www.paultarrago.net

Kevin Boniface (UK)

Worktime Learning

A postman’s diary

web.mac.com/victorygarden.mac

Lernert & Sander (NL)

How To Explain It To My Parents: Bart Julius Peters

In How To Explain It To My Parents: Bart Julius Peters, Photographer Bart Julius Peters shows one of his latest photographs to his father – a portrait of a young hockey player in the North of Amsterdam. Dad struggles to understand why it is art and investigates how his son decides on the quality of his photographs.

www.nimk.nl

Manuel Saiz (IT)

The Two Teams Team

The Two Teams Team is a short and multi-layered film about the difference and similarities between video art and cinema, two subjects which Manuel Saiz regularly addresses in his work, often on a meta level. Two actors – one specialised in film, the other in video art – are having a chat. Their conversation revolves around film sets in film and video art, bout differences in budget, about emotions, the relation to fiction and reality, and about punchlines.

www.nimk.nl

David Cochrane (UK)

Cube

Performance related video

2 sugar cubes soak up and exchange coffee from a saucer

Maggie Hall (UK)

Line

“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

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FAFF2010 Programme

Monday 16th August 2010

Continued

Rä di Martino (BE)

August 2008

In a spacious, classic-looking room, which could also be the décor for a 1950s movie, a man and a woman are singing to each other. In an absurdist manner, they are singing a flood of information about attacks, wars, catastrophes and political highs and lows. The title suggest that these are things that all happened in one month, which seems rather unlikely. And yet, the lyrics of their song are based purely on newspaper headlines from August 2008.

www.nimk.nl

Tomoyuki Yago (JP)

One Two Three. Five

This is a film about nothing as a place for everything. Every person in these videos is silently imagining the seconds from 123.5 without the help of a clock. At the start they hear a metronome for 3 seconds, which gives them a precise duration for reference. When reaching what they believe is the duration of 123.5 seconds they clap once. Only nine videos are selected randomly from a larger pool of over 90 videos when a renewed set of videos starts.

yagonomise.sakura.ne.jp

Sarah Harbridge (UK)

Sum Card

This video comes from Sarah Harbridge’s current project (March 2010) to attempt to make a piece of art each day, within her means: time, ability, cost. May contain some nudity and swearing, parental guidance may be required.

David Cochrane (UK)

Leads

Performance related video

breaking pencils

Elodie Pong (CH)

After the Empire

Zurich based video artist Elodie Pong is known for her subtle, analytic works focusing on how human relationships and cultural conventions impact contemporary society. In After The Empire, Pong orchestrates face-to-face conversations between various late icons of popular culture and political history including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Batman and Karl Marx. Surrounded by a post-apocalyptic set, the actors embody their character’s individual and symbolic extremes, longings and ideals in simultaneously humourous and elegiac ways.

www.nimk.nl

Marlanna & Daniel O’Reilly (UK)

Longbridge

Copenhagen, St George’s Day 2008. The Institute of Film and Video Studies produced a documentary about a mysterious case of arson somehow connected to the coincidental encounter of three individuals at the famous landmark of Longbridge, The documentary presents original footage from the only surviving piece of evidence – a video tape recorded by the arsonist who was compiling a video archive spanning years of private surveillance of the citizens of Copenhagen.

www.mariannaanddaniel.co.uk

Paul Tarragó (UK)

The Badger Series Episode 2

The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.

www.paultarrago.net

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FAFF2010 Programme

Monday 16th August 2010

Fumiko Matsuyama (DE)

Abenteuer der Rumflasche (Adventure of the Rumbottle)

A mischievous rum bottle travels in a country where the ideals and the reality of the revolution do not always reconcile with ideals with each other. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and US embargo Cuba is an embarrassing situation. So much so that the dollar was recognized as legal currency. This short experimental film was shot mostly in Gibara, where the whole town turned out to celebrate its film festival. The famous Cuban film director and festival director, Humberto Solas who passed away meanwhile appears in this in cognito.

Paul Tarragó (UK)

The Badger Series Episode 1

The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.

www.paultarrago.net

Milk, Two Sugars (UK)

Funny Little Dance

Tom Senior on Funny Little Dance: “Our practice gives serious regard to the faux decadence of girlish or womanish preoccupations, like dancing. The choice of imagery in the film questions gender distinctions and the status of the decorative as opposed to typical male ideas of grandeur and building for prosperity; exploring the gulf between the two archetypal constraints. This creates the tension, symbolised in a funny little dance.”

www.milktwosugars.org

eddie d (NL)

Majesteit (Majesty)

In his clever and witty poems, eddie d mercilessly exposes the conventions and clichés of television and films. In Majesty, eddie d tackles a special (and extreme) example of political ostentation and ritual in the Netherlands: ‘Prinsjesdag,’ the day on which the monarch presents the governmental policies for the forthcoming year to the collective Dutch parliament. Majesty compares two so called ‘Throne speeches’ with each other from 1997 and 2008. Are there essential differences – apart from Queen Beatrix’s new hat and perhaps the newly designed upholstery on her throne?

www.nimk.nl

Sebaldo (UK)

Bomb Ed

“I am eating the bread of modern design. I spend my days teaching ideas how to spread their wings and cross roads safely. I am extremely versatile. I specialise in Illustration, animation, 3D, concept building and narrative work. When not swimming in ponds I am an expert Papier Mâché sculptor. I love my work, and unlike normal ducks, I can land on trees.”

www.sebaldo.co.uk

Alice Bradshaw (UK)

Static

The remains of a hole-punched text The Rocks Remain in constant motion. The found, mass-produced object has been manually hole-punched and the remains captured as stills. The stills created a frame pool which were randomly sequenced to create the moving image based on a random number from the computer’s operating system entropy pool.

www.alicebradshaw.co.uk

Thomas Rummelhoff (NO)

Brainbox

Brainbox is a recent video project incorporating live action and animation, creating a string of scenes in which the spectator encounters various characters and events in haunting spaces. The juxtaposition of ambiguous scenes intends to trigger a creative thought process, where the spectators and invited to interpret and continue the narrative for themselves.

Maggie Hall (UK)

Face

“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

Robert Crosse (UK)

The Right String

Exploring the notions of restriction and control by isolating hand movements to tell a lyrical story of poetic manipulation. Taking inspiration from the story of Petrushka the hands appear in both conflict and conversation with each other. The projected image hints at the dance of puppetry and the invisible lines that keep us in line. We are the puppets.

www.robertcrosse.com

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