TRUE STORIES Installaties
Overview of films
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De l’autre côté, fragment d’une installation
The subject of the work De l’autre côté is the attempts of Mexicans to illegally enter the United States. Akerman made recordings in the no-man’s-land near Agua Prieta where people set up improvised camps, waiting for an opportunity to cross the border. She also filmed in Douglas, Arizona, where ranchers take the liberty of opening […]
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Worldview 2002
www.worldview2002.net With the aim of making a portrait of the world in 2002, in the form of a website, and later an installation or linear film, a large number of international filmmakers – including Jon Jost and Peter Snowdon – is making one shot a minute long every week. An impressive collection of video material […]
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King Kong
Since his first appearance on the silver screen in 1933, King Kong has represented Western notions of the exotic and the monstrous. In Peter Friedl’s video installation the original King Kong story is interwoven with two variations on the theme. In the video, the US musician Daniel Johnston is featured with a song he composed […]
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Terra Nullius
Terra Nullius (Latin for `land of no one’) is a new work by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi. It shows Australia at the turn of the twentieth century. The film is constructed from found footage and archive material. The artists spliced together old nitrate sequences to form a filmic topography. The British colonists declared […]
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An Insignificant Moment
An Insignificant Moment is a video triptych reflecting exactly that. Arceneaux filmed three women of different social backgrounds in apparently unrelated situations in Houston, Texas. They silently take children to school, work on the computer, shop at a neighbourhood grocery, walk home, eat and drive a car. In one moment their paths cross. The alignment […]
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Shrink2b.demos
Shrink2b.demos consists of two video projections with one musical soundtrack. The video and sound elements of the installation will have a running time of approximately 11 minutes. The project takes a structuralist visual approach, and is an excerpt from a feature-length work-in-progress. The imagery consist of two projections of the Manhattan skyline as seen from […]
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Homeless
www.abc.net.au/homeless Everywhere in the world, large cities offer a ‘home’ to increasing numbers of homeless people. How do people survive without a house, money and support in different time zones? Through the Web, these unusual personal stories are told, augmented with backgrounds and links.
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Parts from ‘No Quarto da Vanda’
To make the film No Quarto da Vanda, Pedro Costa followed the life of drug addict Vanda Duarte with a digital camera for a whole year. The film is primarily set in Vanda’s room, where she receives her friends and family and where she eats, deals, and shoots up. At the same time it presents […]
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Little Sister
www.azapp.de/littlesister Using more than 20 links to WebCams and surveillance cameras, public and private spaces can be observed on this site worldwide. The links to live material together forms an open narrative, a social system and a stage, but also play with the notions of voyeuristic media technology and Reality TV.
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Hard Cut
Hard cut shows two extremes of the centre of Johannesburg: the abstract image of the skyline and the bustle of everyday life at street level. From the roofs, the city looks lifeless. Only the indefinable sound of the street betrays another dimension to the city. The day begins, the sun is reflected in the windows […]
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Sonic Memorial
www.sonicmemorial.org Hundreds of people contributed to this site with their recordings of the WTC before, on and after 11 September 2001. In this way, it forms a special archive of direct, personal memories that look at the historical event from almost every point of view.
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Objets de grève; Produits de Palestine; Documents
Jean-Luc Moulène shows photos from the series Documents: Produits de Palestine, Documents: Objets de grève and Documents. With the products that he has selected with care and photographed against a monochrome background, Moulène infiltrates and `dirties’ dominant advertising and media strategies. Slight exaggeration in the aesthetics and lighting exposes the random nature of advertising rhetoric: […]