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Ouaga! is an existential research that moves from the conjunction of cinema as movement to travel as movement and vice-versa. It follows an impulsive drive, none of the shots are built, everything is shown as a continuous flow of images, signs, random words. The editing process is nothing but a recognition and organization of the collected footage. The image is broken down according to an emotion that never aims toward aesthetics but toward the transposition of instincts. The authors of this film are enclosed in one figure, a traveler, the voice of Thomas Sankara has been reinvented, rewritten according to the uncertainty of a man, a country or history itself.
malastrada.film is a house of creation and diffusion of cinema of research, estabilished 4 years ago. At its inside Alessandro Gagliardo and Giuseppe Spina continue with their hunt considering the cinema as an instrument able to affect human processes and cultural dynamics of contemporary society. Above all, cinema is a way to investigate the existence, the way to "recognize the experience momentums" as the consequence of an impulsive action. These four years of production are our biography.
Martha Colburn is a filmmaker currently living in Long Island City, New York. She is most well-known for her animation films, which are created through puppetry, collage, and paint on glass techniques. She has made over forty films since 1994.[1] Colburn has also been fervently involved in playing music. One out of numerous groups she has been a part of is The Dramatics, a band she formed in Baltimore with Jason Willett.[2] Recently in her career, Colburn has made sculptural/video installation work and experimented with integrating her films with musical performance. Yet music and film have always shared a deep connection within Colburn’s work.[3]
Eileen Maxson makes videos, installations, and photographs.
She made her first videos in 2000, showing them at her next door neighbor's house, Aurora Picture Show, before becoming a regular at underground film festivals. Since then, her works have shown internationally at museums and microcinemas from Texas to Tel Aviv. In 2008, Aurora Picture Show released Lost Broadcasts a DVD compilation of Maxson's videos. Maxson is also the first recipient of the Arthouse Texas Prize.
Shooting Locations is researching the borderlines between war, playing war, war games and the disappearance of the separation between reality and fiction. The combination of "found footage" sounds at Youtube from England, Honkong and Afghanistan with images of a 19th century villa, a skyscraper and townhouses are irritating.
Thomas Kutschker is an award-winning Photographer, Camerman and Filmmaker from Berlin, Germany.
He studied at Academy Media Arts in Cologne, and is the recipient of the NorthRhine-Westfalia emerging Artist Award / Fellowship. He taught at Humboldt University, UdK Berlin as well as Arts Academy Dusseldorf.
One excerpt from a flow of Internet video news: a family is hiding behind a wall in a neighborhood that turned into a war zone. The compressed video is slowed down and enlarged, revealing additional dimensions in the scene. The image is transformed into a psychedelic landscape, creating a troubling contrast between imagery and content, leading to an uneasy affect: anxiety deconstructed into pixels.
Born 1969, in Israel. Guli Silberstein graduated from Tel-Aviv University with a BA in Film & TV in 1997. He lived in Manhattan, New York from 1997-2002, during which time he graduated from the New School University in 2002 with an MA in Media Studies and a focus on Media Art and video editing. He completed his debut video art project in 2001, and in 2002 he returned to Tel Aviv, where he continues to develop his ideas in the form of video art works, which have been presented in dozens of exhibitions around the world, including Transmediale Berlin 2004 and 2008, Kassel Film and Video Festival 2007 and 2008, and Videobrasil Sao Paolo 2007.
Footage taken from youtube, originally recorded by U. S. Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
1970 born in Baden, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2009 Walking trough Baghdad with a Buster Keaton Face, Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland (catalogue)
2007 MNAC / National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Romania (in collaboration with Erich Weiss)
Sounds of War, Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris, France
The Prison Drawings, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff, Bern, Switzerland
2006 Dark Asylum, Wartesaal, Perla-Mode, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue)
A young man's statement to the jury is cut short by an unseen predator.
Eileen Maxson makes videos, installations, and photographs.
She made her first videos in 2000, showing them at her next door neighbor's house, Aurora Picture Show, before becoming a regular at underground film festivals. Since then, her works have shown internationally at museums and microcinemas from Texas to Tel Aviv. In 2008, Aurora Picture Show released Lost Broadcasts a DVD compilation of Maxson's videos. Maxson is also the first recipient of the Arthouse Texas Prize.
This film extracts the essence of action movies. Their soundtracks provide the rhythm for the strobe light effects where planes
of different colours dance on the screen. The filmmaker edits all this so originally and extraordinarily that the spectator who
allows himself to be immersed in this experience takes off with the starting helicopter, is shaken thoroughly and at last gently
lowered back into his or her cinema seat. (Jury Shortfilm Fest Oberhausen 2009).
Bjørn Melhus is a German media artist of Norwegian ancestry born in Kirchheim/Teck, Germany, in 1966. His works have appeared on television, DVD, and in live art installations throughout the world. Many of Melhus' works provide a critical view of television culture and consumer habits.