IFFR 2015

Agnese Cornelio

Our bodies are conditioned by repeated work actions. Cornelio showcases herself at work, while attempting to organise and categorise her film archive.

Signals: 24/7

[Working Title]

Steffen Köhn

Sexcam couples often spend a large part of the day online solliciting customers. Ordinary conversations or even political debates unwittingly permeate their scripts.

Always Here

Luz Olivares Capelle

For Capelle, trying to grasp the concept of film is like chasing a rainbow. With a colourful collage of poetic images she evokes all kinds of mental apparitions.

Apariciones

Slow Motion Radio

Classic homage to one of the most famous horror actors by New Wave band Bauhaus, lovingly stretched to no less than nine haunting, Gothic hours.

Bela Lugosi's Dead

Lukas Marxt

An unprepossessing cityscape is recorded in one long, uninterrupted take. Nothing happens, yet so much happens. The sky becomes dark, with a sense of menace.

Black Rain White Scars

Addie Wagenknecht

Pablo Garcia

Special software allows us to peep into the world of sexcams, but only when the performers are not there. The emphasis is on their empty beds and often cramped cubicles.

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JD Beltran

Scott Minneman

The inspiration for this innovative interface for watching short films clearly comes from the traditional snowglobe, revamped as an interactive sculpture.

The Cinema Snowglobe

Metahaven

A meditation on life, love, work and privacy in neo-liberal times. The starting points are Constant Nieuwenhuys’ architectural maquettes for his ‘New Babylon’.

City Rising

Martin John Callanan

A vertical screen announces in real time all departure times and destinations from international airports around the world.

Departure of All

Aura Satz

Approaching the typical dial tone of a telephone as a form of drone music, Aura Satz invests a moment of non-communication with new meaning.

Dial Tone Drone

Emmanuel Gras

With painful precision, a male voice describes how fast things can go downhill when you become homeless and face a daily struggle for a safe place to sleep.

Être vivant

Alison Craighead

Jon Thomson

The artist duo Thomson &amp; Craighead subvert our viewing habits by flipping the numerals on a digital clock by 180 degrees on a computer screen. Time still moves as precisely as ever.

Flipped Clock

Lenny Oosterwijk

A river is a symbol of eternal motion. For years, Oosterwijk has been collecting almost abstract recordings of rivers. The music by Artvark SQ adds more layers.

Heraclitus (Installation)

Lisa Spilliaert

Clara Spilliaert

A traditional Japanese song and the Tokyo love hotel ‘Red Shoes’ inspired an artist duo to create a performance video on ritualised desire.

Hotel Red Shoes

Anna Barham

A reading group interprets the lyrics of Donna Summer’s disco hit. A speech-recognition programme serves them up a different variation every time: a semantic remix.

I Feel Love

Emi Kodama

Take off your shoes and close the curtains in your hotel room. Imagine the city around you. It is in motion. A bedtime story will guide you into the night.

If the bed were water, you could sleep on a wave

Zoe Beloff

Two cartoon figures from the 1930s experience social progress and industrial management. A reflection on the eternal problem of the pressure of work.

The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff

Julien Maire

In this performance, a man shapes amorphous little heaps with ‘slow motion material.’ Maire distills the ‘essences’ of cinema from the medium itself, and applies them to other materials.

Model for the Apocalypse

Sara van der Heide

The artist speaks to our biological clocks by showing a rhytmic montage of images of growth and decomposition she filmed in her garden during one year.

Mother Earth Breathing: The Garden

Burkhard von Harder

Uninterrupted aerial views of the snow-covered city on a grey day in January 2009 follow the path of the Berlin wall, twenty years after it fell.

Narbe Berlin

A hallucinatory, sixteen-hour flight above the zone that for decades bisected the world: the entire length of the Iron Curtain: 1,378 kilometers.

Narbe Deutschland

Shambhavi Kaul

Amidst desert landscapes and splendid ocean views, a dog and a parrot appear. They emphasise the cosmic rhythm of day and night.

Night Noon

Anton Ginzburg

A beautiful Islamic location with typical mosaics is the starting point for a muted investigation of the materiality of film versus video images.

Kevin Jerome Everson

With a screening time equivalent to a full day's work, Everson turns the cinema into a factory floor. Workers are observed while performing specific tasks, as well as while taking breaks. His humble approach paradoxically results in a monumental film.

Park Lanes

Leslie Thornton

During a serious mountain hike, a group of intellectuals debate the concept of the sublime. When words fail, the camera comes to the rescue.

Philosopher's Walk on the Sublime

Gavin Hipkins

Hipkins combines quotes from H.G. Wells' science fiction novel The Time Machine (1895) with images from Indian astronomic temples and landscapes from New Zealand.

The Port

For this unique variation on 3D-cinema, the artist created his images using a 3D-printer. Like so many prototypes from early cinema, the piece consists of just a short loop.

Relief

Jonathan van Essche

Two girls and a boy make a road trip to some woods, where they set up camp and spend the night. A speechless ode to slowness, quiet and intimacy.

The Second of August

Deborah Stratman

Stratman selected a pretty heterogeneous set of documentary images from the vaults of the Chicago Film Archives, combining them to form a suggestive landscape.

Second Sighted

Michael Snow

A boss says goodbye to his secretary and leaves the office: what normally takes only a few seconds, is slowed down to a play lasting more than fifteen minutes.

See You Later/Au revoir

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A project group from Harvard University investigates how to improve urban life by capturing data and visualizing this in efficient graphics.

Senseable City Laboratory

Juha Lilja

Fifty years since Andy Warhol made his famous film debut, a Swedish artist films eight instead of five hours of solid sleep for this video remake.

SLEEP

Using specific search terms for Google data, Callanan brings to the surface above all the simplifications that underly most statistical representations.

Text Trends

Bertrand Flanet

While keeping in touch by phone, two protagonists live in visually completely distinct universes. One is a drone pilot, the other works in an office.

Unmanned Distances

Rachel Monosov

Exploring the timeless landscape of the Judean desert like a lost space-traveller, a woman examines plants and animals. Synthetic sounds defy all logic.

The Visitor

Gwenola Wagon

Stéphane Degoutin

This installation is the introduction to a feature film project describing the planetary network surrounding us and considering its perverse side-effects.

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