Videoart & Experimental Programme

Historically, video art is an art of resistance. Since its birth, video art has been working closely with social issues, criticism of the mass media, illusionist cinema, and consumer society. Video art allows us to create multilayered statements with multi-format commentary.

The total length of the films is 63 minutes.

WISH YOU WERE HERE

Shaun Clark (United Kingdom, 7 min; 2022)

A journey through a characters imagination as he digs in the sand discovering objects left by others who he can only imagine. < Website >

FILM ROSA

Silvia Bertocchi (Italy, 15 min; 2022)

”Film Rosa” is a story in pink tones, no, it is not about love but about despair.

Every image is full of pink as well as every object, dress and every atmosphere, this color is used as a metaphor for the personal tragedy of each of us, a color that has always been sweetened, relegated to a habit for standard girls, in this film of about a quarter of an hour, it will be subverted in its meaning.

A pink slammed in the face that has nothing glamorous, combined with rock that connects us to what happens and is often not noticed, rock music is called to become the glue and visual soundtrack of a story with raw tones and atmosphere despite this, neat and perfect. A mistreated reality in which Regina Rosenberg lives passively, a young psychologist with a promising career ahead of her and a study started with its numerous patients hanging on her lips, or rather, on her pink lipstick.

Regina wakes up in her house with a man on a leash in her bed, kicks him out and that man disappears. Next to the bed we see an impassive man standing playing the bass, Regina gets up and enters the bathroom, in the bathroom we find the man with the bass but it seems that the two do not even see each other. Regina exits and reaches the office dancing in the street until she confronts her patients face to face. The man with the bass is always next to her as the voice of her conscience who often plays strange jokes.

A surprise ending will clearly define the positions of each character, each lost in his personal counter-story, in an infinite and identical choreography for all in which the bass is more than ever present and sets the guidelines for an image of life. exploited, sold out, more than ever fragile and powerful in her gestures, a message of union in torment, Regina will reach her patients by putting aside the barriers that separate the judgment from the judgmental, the cure from the curator, the pink color from the rest of the Rainbow.

This story, written, directed and performed by Silvia Bertocchi, is enriched by the collaboration of Roberto Dell’Era who also appears in the film, one of the most talented bass players in Italy. <Website>

GRAVITY

Paul Shepherd (Hong Kong, 4 min; 2022)

It’s been a very long time… to focus on controlling the uncontrollable and ignoring the extreme exhaustion from daily life, we all lost our minds – at once – together. Sooner or later, the unexpected befalls: me and you, and everyone we know – broken and scattered into pieces. Where are our minds? Fitting into different adult life roles with
unavoidable conflicts – absence of minds – do you feel you know yourself? In a sudden global cataclysmic event – me and you and everyone we know are unified in our isolation – we work isolated, we study isolated and we struggle isolated.

Embarking on a self-rediscovery journey…isolated.

Me and you, and everyone we know – masked by insecurities and exaggeration of being alone. Are we ready for this new era of life exploration? We have no choice. Sitting from our corner, isolated – me and you and everyone we know – staring at the old television that is being replaced by new digital technology. Sitting like an old television waiting to be replaced… The rhapsody begins with an infinity mirror – at the corner of daring and bored – the minds within you are daunting. The sound and silence, coming along with fatigue and lunacy represents the dispel of inwardness.

The real is just out of [human] touch. The only truth is our skin – me and you and everyone we know. We are the only real, now, isolated. Our many selves for conversation, for comfort, for introspection. Now our only friend will tell the truth. Now we know.

1MTH/MIN

Ethann Néon (Belgium, 4 min; 2021)

1 MTH/MIN crosses the spring of 2020 from the author’s main view of the outside world during this particular period. Each image represents a 24-hour scan taken every day from March 21 to June 21. Through the frame of a window, the landscape depicts natural phenomena: the flowering of trees, changes in the weather and the extension of daylight until the summer solstice… It is a reflection on space-time in a cinematographic form. From a sedentary point of view, this device explores the film’s ability to play with these dimensions by an effective compression of a really long confinement time. < Website >

FAILURE 02

Yun Lu (United Kingdom, 5 min; 2022)

THE ECLIPSE OF THE BLACK SUN

Rupert Jörg (Germany, 12 min; 2022)

Through the video collage of “The eclipse of the black sun”, the aesthetics and language of contemporary neo-fascist propaganda were examined. Found footage collected from social media channels of neo-Nazi groups and conspiracy theories promoters were embedded in a staged children’s news program. < Website >

GREEN DESERT

Carolina Schmidt (Austria, 11 min; 2022)

A woman is sitting in a room with red walls. One step over the threshold and she stands in the middle of a green and empty landscape where she embarks on a mystical journey. Strange and confusing figures cross her path. An ambiguity remains throughout this journey: Where do we go, who are we, where do we come from? A film on the beauty of observing life. < Website >

EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURTS

R Seventeen, Lucy (United Kingdom, 5 min; 2022)

Queer, post-romantic, low energy sci-fi film where two lovers try to connect in an underwater city. < Website >

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