Erik Binder (SL)

Plastic Bag Kung-Fu, 2005, video, 2:41min

As an art activist Binder shows us how to react to society. Creativity is the only possibility to get a way out of the reality of chaos and reach a kind of personal enlightenment, which we call art.

Carla Cruz (PT)

Uprising, 2006, video, 3:00min

"Uprising is a narrative about self-determination. It tells about the desire for different life, a better life or just a bearable one. From the resources used to keep national integrity of Finland during the conflict that started with the Soviet Union in 1939, to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. I put into check our notion of what is fair on not when it comes to uneven strengths.”
Carla Cruz

János Fodor (HU)       

Mind, 2004-2005
video,

Fodor's collection of images points out the lost moments - the left over or the in between actions from the whirl of the city's life, in which we leave in without notice.  Slowing down, repeating, bringing those moments the center of our observation in a quasi poesy, Fodor's camera shows us how to witness the human behave as we would not belong to this world.

Hermelinde
Hergenhahn (DE)

The others, 2001, video, 2:03min

Beautiful view from the metro.

Zsolt Koroknai (HU)

Ne T lover, 2007, video, 12:00min

Katarina Sevič (SRB

Social Motions, 2007, video, 6:00min

"Project 'Social Motions' experiments with the idea of mass patterns and motions of different scale, defined by our cultures or everyday habits. Whether in order and rehearsed or spontaneous and self-organized, social formations reveal how a society orders itself, and at times, legitimizes certain ideologies.
As a 'choreographer', I implicated myself as a facilitator, and observer of those who would otherwise be the audience."
Katarina Sevič

Angelo Ferreira Sousa (PT)

Brule!, 2005, video, 4:31min

Guli Silberstein(IL) 

Re : Commandments, 2007, video, 5:00min *

A rapid stream of looped images sampled from the epic Hollywood film "The Ten Commandments", TV news broadcasts depicting the summer 2006 war in Lebanon, and a lively belly dancer, all synced up to a hardcore techno track - an apocalyptic Middle East horror rave party unfolds, unveiling contradictions and pathologies in human behavior and beliefs.

Valérie Morignat (FR)  

Artemis, 2001, video,13:00min *

In the Greek mythology, Artemis is known as the goddess of the night and fertility, the Lady of the beasts, the guardian of frontiers. In the movie of Valérie Morignat, directed through interactive video
editing, Artemis is an ambiguous apparition constantly emerging from the music of Costin Miereanu as an allegory of desire. The motion
capture based system used for the editing generated more than 50 versions of the video.

Richard Martin (CDN)

Mixed Signals, 2004, video, 08:00min *

"Submission is total". A scrambled satellite signal sets the tone for the mixed messages of fundamentalism and politics. The original images were recorded in 1995 as they appeared on a digitally scrambled two
hour broadcast.

Rosemary Berrios (MEX)

Desfloracion, 2001, (16 mm), 04:00min *

A sensual woman acts in a strange ritual of pleasure.

Jan Verbeek (D)

Tokyo en Met Trop, 2004, video, 05:00min *

A trip in the metro in Tokyo.

Ethem Özgüven (TR)  

F, 2004, video, 06:30min *

The situation of women as victims of criminal acts commented by a female Flamenco dancer.

Ines Cardoso (BR)

Trusting Trance - Confronting Life, 2007, video, 3:30min *

The first fight of Xang, 12 year old boy, in a ring built in a viaduct in Sao Paolo, constructed by street inhabitants.

Christoph Rainer (A)  

Fawn, 2006, video, 05:50min *

A dystopia of smashed images. A physical force emerges from the unarticulated movements of contours and shadows. And besides that there´s a slack-jawed, fable girl trying to reconstruct her relationship to the world as a silhouette.

Antonello Matarazzo (I)

Moon Zero (Luna Zero), 2007, video, 10:30min *

"Project Apollo" planned, from 1961 to 1972, a long series of human
spaceflight missions, turning into a real conquest, one of the greatest dreams in history. Since then, no American has ever landed on the moon again, but on this side of the outer space, the adventure is keeping on...

Claudia  Nunes (BR)

Experimental documentary showing files scenes of two outstanding episodes of the fight for the land in the countryside and in the city in Brazil. Santa Luzia's Farm and Parque Oeste Industrial, in Goias state.

Emanuela Marassi (I)  

Fragile!, 2003, video, 5:18min **

The artist contaminates with a premonition of death the banal happy beauty of the absolute declination of the feminine, that is the Bride, all wrapped in tulle.

Massimo Premuda (I) 

Paesaggi animali (Animal Landscapes), 2007, video, 7:31min **

Groups of animals bring on their heads the weight of ecology and, with their migrations, they produce changes of vegetal and animal landscapes.
At the end a mouse arrives and destroys this project.

Massimo Premuda (I)             

Black hands, white bread, 2007, videó, 1:58p **

The video takes inspiration from a Slovenian proverb about food and hard working: "Črne roke, bela pogača” (Black hands, white bread). The protagonist of the movie is a deeply black guinea pig, symbol of the greediness, who eats white bread, symbol of traditional food but also object of desire. The video mix bread's animation with the animal movements.

* courtesy of Signes de Nuit
** courtesy of Trieste Contemporanea