Panorama 8: On the Shoulders of Giants
Friday, October 16 2009 / 17:00
Film Theater ’t Hoogt, Hall 2
Saturday, October 17 2009 / 21:00
Film Theater ’t Hoogt, Hall 2
Scientists tend complicate their ideas. Fortunately, artists can explain us how the world works. A rocket can also be launched with a scrap car, laboratories need not be averse of eroticism and the big questions of life can easily be answered in three minutes.
Vostok ’1
Jan Andersen (France, 2008, 35mm > video, 02:45 min) (works)
“Vostok’”
takes a humorous look at the USSR’s Vostok program, which was
designed to put the first human in space. Anderson recreates the
launches with a dilapidated station ...
Persijn Broersen & Margrit Lukacs (The Netherlands, 2009, video, 17:30 min) (works)
In
Manifest Destiny, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukacs explore the
boundaries of what we can perceive in time and space, fictionalizing
this with a voice over that is ...
Sand Saga
Shana Moulton (USA, 2008, video, 10:32 min) (works)
In
Sand Saga, Moulton's alter ego Cynthia again gains access to a
parallel universe via the transformative powers of New Age body
treatments and domestic objects. After applying ...
Vostok ’2
Jan Andersen (France, 2008, 35mm > video, 02:36 min) (works)
“Vostok’”
takes a humorous look at the USSR’s Vostok program, which was
designed to put the first human in space. Anderson recreates the
launches with a dilapidated station ...
Le Grand Content
Clemens Kögler & Karo Szmit (Austria, 2007, video, 03:57 min) (works)
The
wild chains of associations set in motion by Le Grand Content are
insidiously translated into the language of contemporary PowerPoint
presentations: pie charts, graphs and tables. Le ...
About a World
Corinna Schnitt (Germany, 2007, video, 09:00 min) (works)
In
“Von einer Welt” [“About a World”], the world is an idyllic
Alpine landscape of forests and meadows. A man is striding through
it, alone, to stand in ...
Boy / Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein’s “Narrative of a Child Analysis”
Steve Reinke (USA, 2008, video, 05:26 min) (works)
Disrupted
identities and unconscious dynamics are ever-recurring motives in
Steve Reinke’s work. With great rhetorical suppleness he ties
together observations and speculations on ego, sexuality, nostalgia
and artistic practice. ...
Vostok ’3
Jan Andersen (France, 2008, 35mm > video, 02:21 min) (works)
“Vostok’”
takes a humorous look at the USSR’s Vostok program, which was
designed to put the first human in space. Anderson recreates the
launches with a dilapidated station ...
Secret Machine
Reynold Reynolds (Germany, 2009, video, 14:00 min) (works)
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 ...
Hypno Project
Doug Fishbone (United Kingdom, 2009, video, 12:55 min) (works)
“This
work 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 ...
Vostok ’4
Jan Andersen (France, 2008, 35mm > video, 03:51 min) (works)
“Vostok’”
takes a humorous look at the USSR’s Vostok program, which was
designed to put the first human in space. Anderson recreates the
launches with a dilapidated station ...
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