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Also in this combined programme

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  Kilvo

  A remote, barren, almost unfriendly landscape: Kilvo in Lapland was the inspiration for Radian’s music, and even the accompanying visuals by Michaela Grill play with the bare countryside’s resistance to its depiction. A fourfold split screen shows views of this place in a kaleidoscope of animated digital postcards.

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  La jeune fille et la mort

  This video is a letter to a missing person. The spectator has the choice of either following the narration and/or observing the abstract pattern of lines. The superimposition of the same image with a delay can also evoke the ‘phase music’ of Steve Reich. What matters is precisely the choreography between these two interpretations.

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  Palm

  In a Christian context, palms are a symbol of victory, a foreshadowing of rebirth. Sandra Gibson’s use of palm fronds as a purely visual subject, as textures, is linked to both interpretations. This also marks her return from animated films to direct observational work.

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  A Woman and Circles

  An adaptation of a film script by Jan Brzekowski (1903-1983), poet and member of a Polish avant-garde group. In 1930, while living in Paris, Brzekowski published a short film script titled ‘A Woman and Circles’ in the French magazine Cercle et Carrée. But Brzekowski himself never realised the film.

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  Interlude

  A short meditation inspired by the track Interlude by the British band Manyfingers, a Chris Cole project. The film shows a group of ‘Lookdown Fish’ (S

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  Even odd Even

  The images Barbara Doser produces plunge into their own abyss. She makes videographies that have nothing to do with film. What we can see has been generated through feedback strategies of the equipment. The acoustic carpet fuses with the visual suggestions until we hear images and see sounds.

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  Grey

  A snow-covered landscape, quietness, the passing of the seasons, a permanently empty flat. Grey’s theme deals with emotional distress caused by the death of a close person. This film expresses the time and situation in which a new life starts emerging.

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  There Is Only Light

  Luis Buñuel once said: ‘There is no narrative, there is only light’. Shot in Warsaw, There Is Only Light was filmed using a faulty S8 camera to explore diverse sources of illumination. The fantastic music is from the theatre group Orkiestra Antyczna that interprets Byzantine manuscripts.

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  Medicine Box

  Medicine Box takes as its starting point the interior of a medicine cabinet. Pills of different shapes and sizes are arranged in Morse Code fashion, providing cryptic clues to ‘cure-alls’. The intention of the work is to make the viewer question the necessity of medication, and to respect the influence that a small pill can […]

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• Monochro.me 2

  The image of a young child. The suggestion of a repeated sense of loss. This video is inspired by the game of the spool as mentioned by Freud in his theory of the fort-da. Kurtag: ‘I wanted to evoke memory, because emotions help to consolidate memories…’

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  ((()))

  A window shuttered between a light-sensitive mechanism – ‘camera’ – and photo-synthetic aperture – ‘blinds’. Light artist Luis Recoder continues his exploration of film as an apparatus which disperses, scatters, redistributes and re-resolves light.

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