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BAREBACK- SERIAL DISCHARGE
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Germany
Video, 6’00”
This experimental film tells the story of a homeless person, who lost their identity in all the traumatic experiences they were undergoing. Agricola de Cologne uses the form of an allegorical representation for pointing to essential questions of human existence. All people are homeless in one one way or the other, most however, suffer from it without being aware of it. The film is a mirror of our time which has lost its roots.
Producer: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Script: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Camera operator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Editing: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
FEVER FOREVER
Martin Sastre
Spain-Madrid
Video, 18’00”
Based on sequences from Fiebre (Fever, Argentina, 1970), the Latin-American erotic film classic directed by Armando Bo and starring the legendary Argentinian actress Isabel Sarli, Martín Sastre strings together hundreds of clichés about Latin people: macho men and their women, passion, forbidden love… The lead roles in Sastre’s video are played by the number one Spanish pop diva, Alaska, and Mr Nacho Vidal, international porn movie superstar and icon.
Producer: Martin Sastre
Script: Martin Sastre
Camera operator: Gianfranco Capocino
Soundtrack: Verónica Ramos
Cast: Alaska, Nacho Vidal y Martin Sastre
SHOUT

Andrés Denegri
Argentina Argentina
Vídeo Video, 24’00’’
In Latin America, the 1970s and 1980s were darkened by military dictatorships whose regimes rested on terror and extermination. The personal history of many who were children during this period is marked by complex trauma. Grito explores autobiographical memories, images that resound in the mind and become stuck in the throat.
Producer : Andrés Denegri
Script : Andrés Denegri
Soundtrack : Enrique Bernacchini
Camera operator : Andrés Denegri
Editing : Andrés Denegri
DIGITAL SKIN 2
Avi Rosen
Israel
Video, 4’25”
The Cyberspace is an extension of the human foot, eye and the skin. The electronic gadgets and the data sphere are Galactic immediate Torus like an extension of the human central nervous system, and the stage of ‘Digital Skin’ performance. It creates virtual extension of Marcel Duchamp's unfinished "Big Glass" piece, his voice (manipulated by the speed of light) on the video explains it. The transparent Cyberbody (digital mummy) is located eternally in cyberspace superposition. The departure and arrival are compressed to a singularity (Paul Virilio), on the digital skin’s surface.
Producer: Ephemeral8
Script: Ephemeral8
Soundtrack: Ephemeral8
Camera operator: Ephemeral8
PARALLEL PARADISES ECUADOR, 2007
José Manuel Saiz Martínez de Pisón
Ecuador-Spain
HDV, 8’00”
The interaction between the llama, which inhabits moorland, and the supermarket is perturbing. She wanders lost in the codified landscape, far from understanding what humans have put there. In the video, foreground and background belong to different universes.
Camera operator: Abel Menéndez
LANCER UNE PIERRE [Throwing a Stone], 2008

Mehdi Meddaci
Francia
Vídeo, 22’00”
My work is built up of successive layers. This piece is the necessaryextensión of my thoughts on the space of the Mediterranean.
Producer: Le Fresnoy
Soundtrack: Mehdi Meddaci, Yann Leguay
Camera operator: Mehdi Meddaci, Alga
FERNDALE, WESTERN CANYON, LOS ANGELES
Richard O’Sullivan
USA-The United Kingdom
Video, 12’14”
Ferndale, Western Canyon, Los Angeles is a portrait of an area of Griffith Park in LA. The work explores the contrast of “real” and “fake” places.
Producer: Richard O’Sullivan
Camera operator: Richard O’Sullivan
Editing: Richard O’Sullivan
A + B + Z, 2008
David Pichardo Vázquez
Spain/Canary Islands
Video, 3’27”
No one said that life would be easy, but for some it is more difficult than for others.

Production: David Pichardo Vázquez
Script: David Pichardo Vázquez
Camera operator: Xabivideo
Editing: Xabivideo
Lights, 2008
Amaury Santana Marrero
Spain/Canary Islands
Video, 9’00”
Seven stories about lights, set at night.

Production: Amary Santana Producciones
Script: Amaury Santana Marrero
Camera operator: Amaury Santana Marrero
Editing: Amaury Santana Marrero
INTERVAL 2, 2008
Suk Wan Chan (Suki Chan)
United Kingdom/China
Video, 18’00”
Suki Chan’s film explores the relations between light, architecture and the landscape.
Production: Suki Chan
Script: Suki Chan
Camera operators: Suki Chan & Andrew Hunwick
Editing: Suki Chan
SHE WANTED TO BE BURNT, 2007
Ruth Paxton
The United Kingdom
Video, 10’33”
A girl wakes up, into reality, a nightmare, a memory? Terrified at what she may have done, she runs.
Producer: Ruth Paxton
Script: Ruth Paxton
Soundtrack: Tim Matthew
Camera operator: Federico Bonfanti
Editing: Ruth Paxton
Rumours, 2007
Vicent Gisbert Soler
Spain
Video, 4’30”
You never know what is behind the door, nor where those who close doors behind them came from. Is a staircase only a staircase? Do falls end on new steps? Rhythms spring from the corners, and movement is generated when energy and time converge between two doors that are trying to open.
Production: Vicent Gisbert
Script: Vicent Gisbert
Camera operator: Vicent Gisbert
Cast: Vicent Gisbert
Breaking Clouds, 2007
Raúl Bajo Ibáñez
Spain
Video, 1’00”
In this single-channel video, we first see a wall, packed with advertising posters. Several young people then attach papers over the posters, showing a sky full of clouds driven by the wind. They then begin to rip off the posters once more.
Production: Bongore
Camera operator: Rafael Martínez
Editing: Bongore
Cast: Bongore, Eduardo Bertone, José Morente
Pornographic ABC, 2007
Sonia Armengol Texidó
Spain
Video, 2’16”
This piece is the result of an exercise in direct intervention on film negative, an experiment in manipulating physical material in search of an artistic approximation to the moving image.
Production: Sonia Armengol
Cast: Emily Caulfield
The Wolf’s Skin
Raúl Bajo Ibáñez
Spain
Vídeo, 1’00”
A lightning-fast visual review in which important international events broadcast this century are processed to create a short, sharp video clip, like recent memories that should be forgotten. Using the most concise slogans, the piece reflects the feelings of disillusionment and betrayal that are Raúl Bajo Ibáñez’s response to television (which he urges us to expunge from our lives).
Production: Raúl Bajo
Script: Raúl Bajo
Editing: Raúl Bajo
ETERNITY, 2008
Khalil Charif Hussein Neto
Brazil
Video, 4’39”
The video explores the fascination with Mona Lisa and examines the way people obtain images from the painting. Recorded at the Louvre Museum, in front of the place where Mona Lisa is permanently exhibited, we see how the audience reacts on first seeing the painting. While investigating local-global themes, the author explores the relationship between film, video and photography.
Producer: Khalil Charif
Camera operator: Khalil Chraif
Editing: Glaucia Mattoso
MOMENTUM: A VIDEO SERIES IN FOUR MOVEMENTS
MOMENTUM: A VIDEO SERIES IN FOUR MOVEMENTS Impulso: serie de vídeos en cuatro movimientos, 2007
Owen Eric Wood
Canada
Video, 13’30”
Momentum is a series of four videos that explore synesthesia - the concept that stimuli experienced by one human sense can invoke another, such as a sight invoking a smell. In the case of these videos, relationships between sights and sounds are created by carefully manipulating and matching visuals and audio from different sources.
Producer: Owen Eric Wood
Soundtrack: Owen Eric Wood
Camera operator: Owen Eric Wood
Editing: Owen Eric Wood
ANNEM SINEMA OGRENIYOR [My Mother Learns Cinema]
ANNEM SINEMA OGRENIYOR,2007
Nesimi Yetik
Turkey
Video, 04’00”
A story of a son who teaches cinema to his mother or a story of a mother who learns cinema from her son.
Producer: Yusuf Yetik, Dudu Yetik, Gülcon Yetik
Script: Dudu Yetik, Nesimi Yetik
Camera operator: Nesimi Yetik
Editing: Boris Sohin
Cast: Dudu Yetik, Nesimi Yetik
GRAVITY, 2007
Nicolas Provost
Belgium
Video, 6’07”
Playing with the physiological and cinematographic principle of the after-image, Provost causes dozens of fast-edited kissing scenes from European and American film classics to collide. The viewer sees flashes from emblematic films such as Vertigo, North by Northwest, Blue Velvet, The Thomas Crown Affair, From Here to Eternity, made by illustrious directors like Hitchcock, Lynch, Jewison and Zinnemann.
Editing: Nicolas Provost
TRY HARD JOHNNY!, 2007
Valentina Scotti
Italy
Video, found-footage, 4’11”
Johnny is a child. Johnny can’t play the game because everyone gets in his hair. It’s just a matter of changing, of altering his own face. With a smiley face, he would be considerate of others. But there is a gap between the inside and the outside. Something like the ambiguity of memory, which is a game that makes fun of us and fixes its rules through time and generations.
Producer: Valentina Besegher
Script: Valentina Besegher, Alessandro Massobrio
Soundtrack: Alessandro Massobrio
Camera operator: Valentina Besegher
Editing: Valentina Besegher, Alessandro Massobrio
FALSE FRIENDS, 2007
Sylvia Schedelbauer
Germany
Video, found-footage, 4’50”
A montage of found footage from the mid-20th century. Mysterious strands are obsessively braided to create a poetic reflection about an anxious interplay of memory and projection.
Producer: Sylvia Schedelbauer
Script: Sylvia Schedelbauer
Soundtrack: Violeta
Editing: Sylvia Schedelbauer
LIGHT + SOUND, 2008
Andrew Sowerby
The United Kingdom
Video, 10’07”
An experimental work by a group whose members are: Cassie Ashbridge, Gareth, Evans, James Stanton, Andy Sowerby.
Soundtrack: Simon Thorne
Camera operators: Cassie Ashbridge, Gareth Evans, James Stanton, Andy Sowerby
REMISE, 2008
Frans Van Lent
Holland
Video, 3’48”
Two men repeat a pattern of movements, according to their own personal time-schedule. The movements are recorded synchronously by two cameras in opposite corners.
Producer: Frans Van Lent
Script: Frans Van Lent
Camera operator: Frans Van Lent
Editing: Frans Van Lent
BREAK-FAST, 2008
Gregorio Viera González
Spain/Canary Islands
Video, 4’00”
Breakfast is the first, basic meal of the day, everyday, each and every morning…
Production: Gregorio Viera
Script: Gregorio Viera
Editing: Gregorio Viera
Cast: Gregorio Viera
MATCHBOX, 2008
Daniel Belton
New Zealand
Video, 46’00”
Matchbox is an evocative “partnerships game” played out on a jazzy dance floor with sporting physicality and sheer fun. Eight delightful dancers pitch themselves at each other in a romantic rollercoaster ride to love. At the heart of this story, a magical jukebox sets the pace and direction. Do the dancers choose the songs, or do the songs choose them? And who is doing the match-making?!
Producer: Good Company Arts
Script: Daniel Belton, Donnine Harrison
Soundtrack: Jukebox Audiology
Camera operator: Jac Grenfell, Peter Belton
Editing: Daniel Belton
WELCOME TO SOUTHSIDE, 2008
Christopher Steel
The United Kingdom
Film 16 mm, 3’00”
The same nocturnal voyage across London was exposed 36 times onto one roll of film. A half-orbit around the London Eye ferris wheel propels the film along the river from the city centre to the suburbs. Navigating by urban constellations, the frame clings to familiar sights. It is a silent, unedited study of repetition and a souvenir of my journey home.
Producer: Christopher Steel
Camera operator: Christopher Steel
Script: Christopher Steel
Recitation, 2007
Kevin Logan
The United Kingdom
Video, 4’30
Recitation is an audiovisual piece examining oral traditions and their relationship with text based information and belief systems, in particular religious texts.
It is inspired by and uses a poem by Jarmain Patrick, which was performed during a development week that brought together visual, spoken word, and audio artists.
Producer: Kevin Logan
Script: Jarmain Patrick
Camera operator: Kevin Logan
Editing: Kevin Logan
COUNTERCLOCKWISE, 2008
David Muth
The United Kingdom
Video, 02’14”
The animation Counterclockwise explores the tonal qualities and timbre of various harmonic drones juxtaposed against each other. Specially written sound-responsive software created the imagery.
Soundtrack: Hiaz
Involution, 2008
Santiago González Morales
Spain/Canary Islands
Video , 1’06”
Involution will be the necessary path to correcting errors committed in the past. We are the result of disordered, destructive evolution. The closer we believe ourselves to the creator, the farther we become from the primary sense of humanity.
Producer: Santiago González
Script: Santiago González
Camera operator: Santiago González
Editing: Santiago González
SELF STORAGE
Stacey Horton & Maureen Bradley
Canada
Video, 4’00”
Alone in an old warehouse, a woman breaks through her confinement, which is both physical and emotional. Her movements leave traces of her existence down the abandoned corridors of her world.
Producer: Stacey Horton, Maureen Bradley
Script: Stacey Horton
Soundtrack: Kirk Schwartz
Camera operator: Stacey Horton
Editing: Stacey Horton, Maureen Bradley
ENERGIE! [Energy!], 2007
Thorsten Fleisch
Germany
Video, 9’00”
From a mere technical point of view, the TV/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. In Energie! an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30,000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organisation. Even though the result is abstract, it tells a universal story older then the world itself.
Producer: Thorsten Fleisch
Soundtrack: Jens Thiele
Editing: Thorsten Fleisch
PAL. ALTOVITI.’07, 2007
Bárbara Fluxá Alvarez-Miranda & Samuel Alarcón
Spain
Video , 7’00”
This video begins with a still shot of a fragment from a Renaissance fresco, accompanied by a disturbing, empty, low sound, placing us in a strange, indeterminate location. Only when the painting slowly begins to lose its shape and the sound starts to suggest aquatic movements do we realise that the scene is set under water. There then follows a series of abstract underwater shots that show us, slowly and poetically, in different places, gods and mythological scenes relating to water and the river Tiber.
Production: Bárbara Fluxá & Samuel Alarcón
Soundtrack: Bárbara Fluxá and Samuel Alarcón
Camera operators: Bárbara Fluxá and Samuel Alarcón
Editing: Bárbara Fluxá and Samuel Alarcón
VID, 2007
Arturo Fuentes Calle
Spain
Video, 6’00”
Vid, m.: minimal unit of meaningless visual material. Vid helps to create meaning in the upper unit of which it forms part: the image. Vids are not deposited on a flat space; rather, what we capture from them on-screen is the shadow of what they generate in the life space, one governed by four dimensions: colour, orientation, size and distance.
Production: Arturo Fuentes
Script: Arturo Fuentes
Soundtrack: Arturo Fuentes
Camera operator; Arturo Fuentes
Editing: Arturo Fuentes
PUBLIC FIGURES, 2007
Erik Olofsen
Holland-Belgium
Video, 10’00”
An endless shot of people on a subway platform passing by in slow motion. The tranquil movement of the camera and stillness of the people portrayed encourage a hypnotic chain of thoughts and associations. The platform seems to have been transformed into a stage where ordinary people’s small gestures and simple routines become a performance.
Soundtrack: Ravit Behcor, Erik Olofsen
Camera operator: Erik Olofsen
Editing: Erik Olofsen
NOLI ME TANGERE [No me toques]
Armida Gandini
Italia
Vídeo , 6’40”
In Noli me tangere, I deliver a video version of the stratification that characterises my blend of drawings and photography, on this occasion working with film and animation sequences. The setting is a kind of ascetic limbo, in an atmosphere loaded with premonitions which seem to prefigure sudden, unpredictable changes.
Producer: Armida Gandini
Script : Armida Gandini
Camera operator: Rinaldo Capra
Editing: Irene Tedeschi
Cast: Sara Apostoli
70 STILL FRAMES AND 5 MINUTES 50 SECONDS OF VIDEO, 2007
Sam Holden
The United Kingdom
Video , 5’50”
Using a digital SLR, image capture software and a hidden video camera, 70 Still Frames and 5 Minutes and 50 Seconds of Video highlights how much we simply don’t see when encountering someone’s photographic reproduction and underlines how problematic photography can be as a representative medium.
Normal Poetry Collection, 2008
Rocío Huertas Jimenez
Spain
Video, 12’00”
Nine poems made by images, words, and sounds that talk about fear and loneliness, wishes and memory. Old pictures, animated photo sequences, pixilation and painted film mixed with real action shot on 16 mm and reframed on an edition film table and found 8mm films.
Production: Rocio Huertas
Script: Rocío Huertas
Soundtrack: Julio de la Rosa
Editing: Rocio Huertas
120 Degrees, 2008
Juanjo Fernández Rivero (gNomalab)
Spain
Video , 5’49”
Don’t look back in anger, nor forward in fear; rather, look around you, carefully.
Production: Huete y gNomalab
Script: Joana Zoyo
Soundtrack: Juanjo Fernández
Camera operator: Juanjo Fernández
Editing: Juanjo Fernández
Domestic, 2007
Gabriela Golder
Argentina
Video, 1’30”
Women breaking dishes, excited. Women trying to generate the greatest noise possible. An exquisite polyphony. To make noise, to say “enough”. Fatigue, submission and liberation. The act of breaking dishes proposes the destruction of preconceived notions between “woman” and the domestic.
Producer: Gabriela Golder
Script: Gabriela Golder
Camera operator: Gabriela Golder
Editing: Gabriela Golder
OIKEA PRINSESSA [Una verdadera princesa]
Jaana Partanen
Finlandia
Vídeo, 5’47”
The sequence A Real Princess, which brings the Everyday Alchemy trilogy to a close, consists of a series of digitally processed photographs and videos in which the subjects and their backgrounds have been shot separately and combined at a later stage. It follows in the footsteps of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, except for the fact that their photographs printed from negatives and their gold and silver backgrounds have been replaced here with digital files and attain visible form only through the medium of a computer screen or projector.
Producer: Partanen
Script: Jaana Partanen
Camera operator: Partanen, Hannula, Littiläinen
Editing: Partanen, Pesonen
Cast: Heli Vainikka, Lila Vainikka, Ilona Sares et, al.
LEHETSÉGES ÚTVONALAK [Posible Solutions], 2007
Szabó Éva Eszter
Hungary
Video, 3’49”
The film comprises three videos which are variations of the same theme. It uses simple objects (ball, tile, Frisbee), but the dynamic moving objects appear as static pictures.
Camera operator: Szabó Éva Eszter
Script: Szabó Éva Eszter
Cast: Kulcsa’r Írisz, Grófandrás, Kerényi Róbert et. al.
HERR MATHES [Sr. Mathes], 2007
Anna González Suero
Germany
Video, 6’00”
Since Mr Mathes had his second stroke, he can hardly speak, and the few words he can pronounce include “ja” (yes) and “nein” (no). However, one of the earliest lullabies, Wiegenlied (Johannes Brahms, 1868) is engrained in his memory, perhaps because he used to sing it to his son.
Productor Producer: Anna González Suero
Guión Script: Anna Gonzalez Suero
Edición Editing: Anna Gonzalez Suero
Producer : Anna González Suero
Script: Anna Gonzalez Suero
Editing : Anna Gonzalez Suero
NOBODY’S PET, 2007
Aysegül Güryüksel
Turkey
Video , 6’31”
A woman from the past travels to the future then returns to the past which is still her future, in the nature of nothingness with no rules, no causation and no limits - except the minimal sustained oppositions of subconscious awareness.
Producer : Aysegül Güryüksel
Script : Aysegül Güryüksel
Cámara : Aysegül Güryüksel
Editing : Aysegül Güryüksel
Cast : Aysegül Güryüksel