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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
