Body Studio
n this program, bodys are used as artistic tools. It can be the own body in the image, whose gesture of crying is saying more than an explanation could or that is conventionalized, seeming like it's own copy. The subjective of a body that is digging through a performance and a bulk of bodys, that becomes a distinct creature. The body of a dancer, expressing herself in puppets. Or someone, who is getting lost in presenting the body of someone else. And a body, that ist merging with nature by arising above it.
Video 01
There she is again, ready to post the next video on her blog. But somehow the "Hey there, it's me again" doesn't come across as lightly as she tries it to be. She just feels miserable. So miserable, that not even Ryan Gosling can comfort her.
- Österreich
- 00:06:00
- Director: Kurdwin Ayub
- Production: x
- Photography: x
- Editing: x
- Music: x
- Sound: x
- Languages: de
- Year: 2014
- World Premiere
The best ones make you feel as fearless as Beyoncé
We follow a breathless, vibrating, nearly psychedelic night trip through the inside of a sports utility van chaotically packed over and over with equipment for self-optimizing leisure activities, creatin pills, nostalgic folkloristic and esoteric objects, etc. – seen through the subjective camera of an action-cam fixed on the head of a constantly monologizing person. Stressed out by fears of social decline, amongst others, the protagonist is, on the one hand, longing to somehow stay selfcontrolled and healthy via hi-tech self-surveillance accessory, and on the other hand, to fall in love as the final solution for quite everything.
- Österreich, Deutschland
- 00:15:30
- Director: Stefan Panhans
- Production: Susanne Milberg
- Photography: Action Cam & Performance: Lisa Marie Janke
- Editing: Stefan Panhans / Wolfgang Oelze
- Music: Neue Filmmusik, Berlin / Stefan Panhans
- Sound: Stefan Panhans / Wolfgang Oelze
- Languages: de,en
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2015
- Website
- World Premiere
every-one
A line of people in white shirts and black pants navigates through a city. The architecture is sometimes modern, sometimes rural, sometimes public, sometimes derelict.They walk, jump, sit or slide. Always perfectly alined but still with little individual imperfections. The soundtrack is provided by some tacky music which seems to come out of an early computer game. 2D-Computer aesthetics built the frame at the beginning and end of the action. The film was inspired by the theories of Michael Certeau, dealing with rituals and practices of everyday actions.
- Österreich, Lettland
- 00:08:53
- Director: Willi Dorner
- Production: Christina Medosch
- Photography: Lisa Rastl
- Editing: Lāsma Ābele, Adnan Popovic
- Music: „dark heroes“, „Sarah’s Song“ from Zelda
- Sound: „dark heroes“, „Sarah’s Song“ from Zelda
- Year: 2015
- Website
- German Premiere
Annelise Frankfurt
A filmic portrait of the almost forgotten choreograph, dancer and doll maker Annelise Frankfurter. The film makes use of dark, fascinating aesthetics to raise questions concerning the physical and social role of ‘the outsider’, what it means to observe and be observed at the same time, about social norms.
- Schweden
- 00:07:00
- Director: Martina Hoogland Ivanow
- Production: x
- Photography: x
- Editing: x
- Music: x
- Sound: x
- Languages: sv
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2015
Uncanny Even
The artist herself is the protagonist within her video. She tries to converge to the peculiarities of digital bodies, using the language and the surface of her own body. The characteristics of the digital like the messy shading of body parts, the edgy shapes and logic of movement which is enclosed in the language of the program itself, is known from the avatars of gaming culture and amateurish 3D circulating within the Internet. Through their qualities, they convey the image of a very technical construct of femininity and technical sexuality. In the video this aesthetic of materiality is mixed with the way of constructing ones surface cosmetically. "Conturing" a trend of shaping ones face with make-up which originates from digital spheres where it is used to give the face "photoshopped" proportions. It is applied by both, young woman and men, in order to create a feminin appearance. This make-up trend was actually a measure to achieve a certain digital look, but the connection of the modern cosmetic surface and the anachronistic look of the Avatar turned out to be one of the videos contextual main idea.
- Deutschland
- 00:06:44
- Director: Jascha Bernhard
- Production: Jascha Bernhard
- Photography: Jascha Bernhard
Alla Poppersoni - Editing: Jascha Bernhard
- Music: Jascha Bernhard
- Sound: Jascha Bernhard
- Year: 2015
- World Premiere
I'm in Pittsburgh and It's Raining
The body double and lighthning stand-in von Anne Hathway talks about her work. She can only be seen at the edge of the frame, from behind or in silhouette. Her body is being fragmented and officially these fragments belongs to somebody else. Proxies. At the same time the construction of a mirror is going on and we can hear "I'll be your mirror" from somewhere.
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 00:14:19
- Director: Jesse McLean
- Production: x
- Photography: x
- Editing: x
- Music: x
- Sound: x
- Languages: en
- Year: 2015
The Tower
Maybe Kolja’s experiment of merging his body (human) with the tree (nature) venturing into a border zone between the earth and the sky is due to his purity of spirit, to the grandeur of the idiots, or the foolishness of the mystics; or is it all this together? Maybe it is a symptom of the enlightened – or simply an elaborated suicide.
- Portugal, Deutschland, Moldawien
- 00:08:00
- Director: Salomé Lamas
- Production: Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar /Balagué, Marcin Malaszczak
- Photography: Jorge Piquer Rodriguez
- Editing: Salomé Lamas
- Music: Alvin Singleton
- Sound: Bruno Moreira
- Year: 2015
- Website
- German Premiere
