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Channel: DEUS 2011 Selection

(2011) Wayne Horse - Walross

A volumptous woman in a handmade leather wallruss suit is rolling through a shower room. The cameraman provides the soundtrack.

Interview with Wayne...

(2011) Frank Koolen - Moon

An unexpectedly restless portrait of a neighbouring celestial body.
Interview...

(2011) Manon Bovenkerk - Eden

Tussen de flatgebouwen van Schalkwijk ligt de idyllische tuin van Eden. Maar ook daar is het niet helemaal pluis met langzaam ontploffende bomen en opgejaagde wezens, komt de zondvloed uit onverwachte...

(2009) Jasper Elings - Flashings in the mirror

One picture after the other - a mirror, a flash and different photographers. As the images quickly pass, one can discern the perfect circle the flash traces in the mirror.

(2009) Jasper Elings - Sharing a beautiful sunset

A video composed of images of sunsets, found by Google image search.

(2009) Ton Meijdam,Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond - Battery Cage

Chickens interact in incredibly defined manners and form complicated social structures. Contrary to popular believe, Scientific research at the University of Sidney pointed out that...

(2009) Ton Meijdam,Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond - Pimp my planet

We live in a time where everything or everyone can be upgraded or ‘pimped'. After the worldwide acceptance of plastic surgery, it was time to subject our worldly possessions...

(2009) Frank Koolen - Welcome to my brain

'Welcome to my brain' shows a scan of the brain of the artist while he's, very concentrated, thinking of the use of this specific video. It's an intimate visit to a strangers most personal organ. 

(2008) Wayne Horse - Flying Cars

Footage of my steam engine rocket-car. Compiled on thu 11.07.08 at 15h30.

(2007) Ton Meijdam,Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond - The Watchers

Camera systems have been programmed to predict human behavior and recognize the risk potential of individuals. Forget artificial intelligence, this is artificial judgment, and its for your own security.

(2006) Ton Meijdam,Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond - Kapitaal

Typo-Animation that gives you a clear impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that plague us every day. Due to the immense scale of the visual bombardment, the commercial...

(2004) Manon Bovenkerk - Polka

Something is moving through the dense, dark woods. It silently finds its way through the trees and shrubs. The vegetation parts and a mouse-like figure appears. It faces the danger and insolently shakes...

(2003) Manon Bovenkerk - Ms Providenskiya

Providenskiya is a small port in the furthest corner of Siberia. So is the motorship MS Providenskiya named after this desolate place, or does the name of the ship refer to ‘providence’...

() Wayne Horse - Die orgie

Most of the cast of the illmannered milkman, plus several befriended artists, plus some strangers came together to perform this milk, yogurt and feather orgy.

() Wayne Horse - Punch

A volumptous woman in a handmade leather wallruss suit is rolling through a shower room. The cameraman provides the soundtrack.

() Ola Vasiljeva - Lionel

Ola’s work is impulsive and gives a humoristic view on the relationship between the icon culture and the visual arts. She specializes in video, primitive animations and illustrations. Her working...

Channel: Hacking the Engine

(2009) Taras Hrabowsky - Thing Pit

Interview with Taras Hrabowsky  

Could you give us a description or summary...

(2008) Federico Solmi - The Evil Empire

The Evil Empire is the title of my latest video animation. The video animation takes place in the heart of Vatic-anal City, in the year 2046. Surrounded by the glorious frescoes and wealth...

Channel: Impakt 2009 Favourites

(2009) Doug Fishbone - Hypno Project

This project examines how people react to stimuli under the influence of hypnosis. I was interested to see how an audience would respond to one of my video narratives after their conscious state had been...

(2009) Reynold Reynolds - Secret Machine

In Secret Machine, a protagonist encounters an antagonist that is studying her, measuring her body and comparing her to units of space and time. Clocks rush and her movements are calculated on a grid:...

(2009) Karsten Krause - You and Me

A woman is walking towards her husband's camera through four decades. A love story accompanied by the voice of another woman, reading a poem by E.E. Cummings. Touching, easy and poetic.

(2008) Clorinde Durand - Naufrage

Naufrage lists fears: the narration stops at the frozen instant. But Naufrage relates something. What is it talking about ? We don't know... perhaps an accident, a depression, an explosion? This scene...

(2008) Manuel Saiz - The two teams team

A short film about the differences and similarities in video-art and cinema. Two actors are chatting in a film set, on a break, in the middle of props and cables. The conversation is about film sets in film...

(2008) Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure - You'll never walk alone

For this work Van Hulzen travelled through Uganda for three months together with Sander Breure. You’ll Never Walk Alone shows young men playing in surrealistic scenes that refer to Western film...

(2008) Jean-Charles Hue - Y'a plus d'os

It should have all been so peaceful around the fire, a glass of sky (Whisky) in hand. But the spirit of revenge seizes the group and the presence of a pistol becomes an object of a strange incantation,...

(2008) Johanna Reich - Line

A person dressed in black paints a black line on a wall. As a result of lighting conditions the camera cannot differentiate between the black of the person and the black background. Artist and art fuse,...

(2007) Erkka Nissinen - Night school

An assortment of characters is brought into a total institution where they are subjected to various mandatory exercises. The cast ranges from cooks to bears and prostitutes to digitally rendered panda...

Channel: Impakt 2010 Favourites

(2010) Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen - Ebedi Dönüş (Eternal Return)

On arriving home a weary soldier is embraced by his sisters and his mother for several minutes; baroque opera music accompanies the scene. A widow speaks with a medium on television and thereby comes...

(2009) Lopun Alkuja & Jani Ruscica - Beginning and Ending

The seven amateur actors of Beginning an Ending morph the "blank canvas" of the film studio into a temporary stage for their visions of the future, revealing in the process the very nature and fragility...

(2009) Broersen & Lukács - Everytime

A virtual Britney Spears singing the song ‘Everytime’. the sound and the expressions on her face are derived from a young Belgian girl, who recorded her he artfelt , genuine version of this...

(2009) Erkka Nissinen - Rigid Regime

A pornographic monologue about sense certainty in Hegelian sense’ with ‘a strong home-made look and feel

(2009) Jasper Elings - Flashings in the mirror

One picture after the other - a mirror, a flash and different photographers. As the images quickly pass, one can discern the perfect circle the flash traces in the mirror.

(2009) Pekka Sassi - Sissiaen Lahio (The Suburb Within)

A film about communication, narration and presence. 'Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, but today is a gift'. That's why it's called present.'

Interview...

(2008) Thomas Galler - Week End

Footage taken from youtube, originally recorded by U. S. Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 


Text excerpt from IMAGINE, THERE IS A WAR AND NOBODY TAKES ANY NOTICE...

(2004) Jean-Charles Hue - Quoi de neuf docteur?

The artist was awarded with the golden award at the Impakt Festival 2005 for his work “Quoi de neuf Docteur?”. The movie focuses on a spirited adolescent and the viewer gets an intimate fragment...

(2004) Fernando Huck en Eduardo Srur - Attack

Atentado (Attack) is a response to the capacity of art to intervene in the public space. Atentado was Srur’s first video and the author’s first collaboration, in which they use paint bomb...

Channel: Impakt Events 2011

(2011) - Mirko Schaefer's presentation at UNMA#5: Tagging the City - Highlights

The central topic of The Utrecht New Media Night #5:Tagging the City was the new digital graffiti practices, and how to establish alternative communicative systems that remain...

(2011) - Mirko Schaefer's presentation at UNMA#5: Tagging the City

The UNMA is an Impakt Event organized in collaboration with z25, NetNiet.org and Utrecht University (Master New Media & Digital Culture). The central topic of the Utrecht New Media Night #5:Tagging...

(2011) - Jeroen Jongeleen's presentation at UNMA#5: Tagging the City - Full version

The UNMA is an Impakt Event organized in collaboration with z25, NetNiet.org and Utrecht University (Master New Media & Digital Culture). The central topic of the Utrecht New Media Night #5:Tagging...

(2011) - Jeroen Jongeleen's presentation at UNMA#5: Tagging the City - Highlights

15 minutes of highlights from Jeroen Jongeleen's presentation at the Utrechtse New Media Night #5 'Tagging the City'.
 
Jeroen Jongeleen, Influenza, Rotterdam-based artist presents subtle...

(2011) - Evan Roth's presentation UNMA#5: Tagging the City - Highlights

Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris who explores the intersection of free culture and popular culture, making work simultaneously for the contemporary art world and the "bored at work"...

(2011) - Julius von Bismarck's presentation at UNMA#5 - Highlights

The Image Fulgurator & the Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus

The work of German artist Julius von Bismarck is a combination of radical ideas, technological contrivance and conceptual...

(2011) - Evan Roth's presentation UNMA#5: Tagging the City - Full version

Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris who explores the intersection of free culture and popular culture, making work simultaneously for the contemporary art world and the "bored at work"...

(2011) - Wayne Horse's presentation at Impakt Kokerloods - Highlights

Impakt is honoured to present the Dutch premiere of “The Ill Mannered Milkman,” the new film of Willehad Eilers, aka Wayne Horse. Eilers (Germany, 1981) is connected to the Amsterdam Academy...

(2011) Marc Tuters, Ricarda Franzen, Ronald Lenz, Dr. Stef Scaliola & Allard van Hoorn - Things to come: Oral sight-seeing - Highlights

In ancient rites, Australian Aborigines already mapped territories by means of song in so-called song lines. In this way, valuable information about both their spiritual and physical habitat was passed...

(2011) - Things to come: Oral sight-seeing - Allard van Hoorn

The oeuvre of artist Allard van Hoorn maneuvers between architecture, sound and visual arts.

He stages the performance ‘A Vesper Songline,’ an ode to Alvin Lucier. The performance...

(2011) - Things to come: Oral sight-seeing - Dr. Stef Scagliola

The scientific conscience of the evening is museologist and military historian Stef Scagliola. She specializes in oral history, ego documents, military cultures and handling of the effects of violent...

(2011) - Things to come: Oral sight-seeing - Marc Tuters & Ricarda Franzen

New media researcher / artist Marc Tuters (Canada) and playwright / sound artist Ricarda Franzen (Argentina/ Germany) present “Ritournelle”, a mobile application functioning as a tour...

(2011) - Things to come: Oral sight-seeing - Ronald Lenz (7scenes/waagsociety)


7scenes is a mobile storytelling platform connecting different media to specific locations in order to generate a new city experience. Ronald Lenz is creative director of 7scenes and head...

(2011) - Wayne Horse's presentation at Impakt Kokerloods - Full version

Impakt is honoured to present the Dutch premiere of “The Ill Mannered Milkman,” the new film of Willehad Eilers, aka Wayne Horse. Eilers (Germany, 1981) is connected to the Amsterdam Academy...

(2011) Ola Vasiljeva and Stellar OM Source - VJ op de dom

On Friday September 23 VJ op de Dom 2011 marked this year's event from

(2011) Impakt - Mediamatic Presentation at Visualising the cost of culture - Hightlights

In these barren times of national bankruptcies and severe cutbacks, having the right figures is crucial. Perhaps even more important than the right statistics is the way that these are presented to an audience....

(2011) Impakt - Visualising the Cost of Culture

In these barren times of national bankruptcies and severe cutbacks, having the right figures is crucial. Perhaps even more important than the right statistics is the way that these are presented...

(2011) Pavel van Houten - Placebo Presentation at Visualising the cost of culture - Hightlights

Pavel van Houten from EGBG presents  the first research exhibition in The Netherlands wherein the healing properties of art and the placebo will be tested by a consortium from the Behring Institute,...

Channel: Impakt Evergreens

(2002) Kent Lambert - Security Anthem

Een ode aan bloemen, angst, aardappelen en paranoia met een speciaal optreden van U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft

(2002) Bernard Gigounon - Starship

Gigounon shows that alien objects landed on earth ages ago and that we do not even have to look that hard to find them.

Interview with Bernhard Gigounon

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Channel: Mind Your Language

(2008) Jack Feldstein - The Fantastical World of Scriptwriting

A smart and funny neon animation by Jack Feldstein, in his unique stream-of-consciousness neon animation style, on everything you need to know about writing a script. (Plus all you need to know about life...

(2008) Adam Leech - Speech Bubble

The main concerns of Adam Leech’s work are the semantics of voice versus speech and the political engineering of public space and community. Speech Bubble began as an investigation into...

(2005) George Barber - Beyond Language

Beyond Language is an attempt to convey expression and emotion without words.  Two people are trying to convey feelings to each other on a city overpass.  Little camerawork...

(2005) Doug Fishbone - Towards a Common Understanding

A narrative filled with bizarre anecdotes and filthy jokes, homespun proverbs and strange social analysis, Towards a Common Understanding investigates the culture of media saturation which...

(2004) Tony Cokes - Headphones

‘Headphones,’ a short video work, borrows a promotional film  for "New Dimensions in Sound," a soundtrack by Berlin electronic artist Static, and image processing software that came with...

 





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