In of the line of contemporary moving graphic arts (which can also be extensively seen in the programme of Austrian videos), a minimalist, electronic soundtrack offers the opportunity for variations on a motif. Here that is especially the generic city, grey apartment blocks that are conjured into bright, radiant compositions.
Also in this combined programme
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Soundings
Alternating between abstraction and very concrete, this film offers an adventure as much for the ear as for the eye.
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The World is too Big for Me
A video compiled from a series of 242 abstract computer drawings in a square format.
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Héros
The film is the result of an attempt to interest children from an underprivileged area of Brussels in the medium of video.
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Semi-automatic Cohen
A split-screen observation of two couch potatoes watching TV to the tones of a Leonard Cohen song (Famous Blue Raincoat).
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5%
Tony Cokes analyses and comments on the culture of pop music with as much lucidity as criticism.
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Electronic Organ Club
One episode from a series of short anthropological studies, about sounds from everyday life recorded in their context.
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Cascadence
A digital evocation of a water surface, disturbed by a pebble and reacting energetically.
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Contemporaries
An airport provides the point of departure for a reflection on movement, transport, trance.
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2002
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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