Panorama 10: Visual Trickery
Friday, October 16 2009 / 23:00
Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Hall 1
Sunday, October 18 2009 / 17:00
Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Hall 1
War
is hidden behind paradisiacal images and children’s television is
the best means of revealing the hard lessons from the evil adult
world. Images happily lead us astray. “What you see is not what you
get.” This can be annoying, but delusion can be fun too. This
programme explores the natural high of images, breaks the cinematic
spell and subjects the viewer to dark visual experiments.
15 Experiments on Peripheral Vision
Adele Horne & Paul VanDeCarr (USA, 2008, 16mm, 29:00 min) (works)
Surrounded as we are by the proliferation of photographic images, we sometimes confuse these images with the actual, embodied experience of seeing. In reality, only ...
Manuel Saiz (United Kingdom, 2008, video, 10:00 min) (works)
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 ...
1859
Fred Worden (USA, 2008, video, 11:12 min) (works)
"The
political or cultural aspects of history are the mere surface of
history; that in preference to, and deeper than these, the reality of
history lies in biological ...
Black Hole
Johanna Reich (Germany, 2009, video, 06:00 min) (works)
A
person dressed in black clothing digs a hole into snow until the
black of the clothes and the black of the ground fuse. The person
disappears in ...
Painting Paradise
Barbara Hlali (Germany, 2008, video, 05:30 min) (works)
Media
reports show how the wall, which surrounds the Shiite quarter in
Bagdad, is painted with beautiful landscapes. Aesthetic creation is
used to cover military measures and war ...
Morakot
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 2007, video, 11:50 min) (works)
In
The Pilgrim Kamanita, a Buddhist novel written in 1906 by the Danish
writer Karl Gjellerup, the protagonists are reborn as two stars and
take centuries to recite ...
CUTECUTECUTE
Clemens Kögler (Austria, 2008, video, 01:50 min) (works)
“The
concept was to take the ‘well-known genre’ of instructional
videos for kids, usually teaching the various sounds of animals or
how to count to 10 and changing ...
Vantaa
Erkka Nissinen (The Netherlands, 2008, video, 11:30 min) (works)
Nissinen's
inventive and idiosyncratic new video work provides us a glimpse of a world in
which a trio of overweight chefs, a transvestite and ...
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