6:30 pm: Urban Research • part 4

•18 h 30 • 6:30 pmUrban Research curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr


program D


Paul Druecke US Daley Plaza

• Paul Druecke US Daley Plaza 4 min 50s, DV, 2006

• Paul Druecke US Mainstreet Square 4 min 50s, DV, 2006

• Rebecca Meyers US Lions and Tigers and Bears 12 min, 16mm, 2006

• Edyta Stepien + Margaret Noble US Sonata 16 min 19s, DV, 2004

• Julia Halperin + Jason Cortlund US Interstate Part One 6 min, DV, 2006

more bout Urban Research on Film here

8 pm: ZEBRA poetry and film

• 20 h • 8 pm Film and Poetry curated by Thomas Zandegiacomo

ZEBRA


• Assorted highlights from the biannual ZEBRA poetry film awards

In attendance of Thomas Zandegiacomo

• Antonello Faretta IT Just Say No To Family Values 4 min 37s, DV, 2005

received the award for poetry, film and politics
Poem: Just Say No To Family Values John Giorno

An elderly local woman of a village in Southern Italy endures defenceless and almost guilty, the new values dictated by the poet himself.
Hilflos und beinah schuldbewusst, erträgt eine alte Frau in einem süditalienischen Dorf, den Monolog des Dichters über die "neuen Werte".



• Shelly Wain GB The Cummerbund 3 min 21s, DV, 2004

Poem: The Cummerbund Edward Lear



In a night full of twittering creatures and glittering stars, romantically minded ladies should not stay alone.
In einer Nacht voller zwitschernder Wesen und glitzernder Sterne, sollten romantisch veranlagte Damen nicht allein bleiben.



• Taatske Pieterson NL One Person/Lucy 3 min 30s, DV, 2005

received the prize for Experimental Film Poetry 2006
Poem: One Person Taatske Pieterson



Thousands of reasons can cause the death of one person but there are only a few reasons for the death of thousands of people…
Es gibt tausende von Gründen, unter denen ein Mensch zu Tode kommen kann, aber nur wenige Gründe für das Sterben tausender Menschen...



• Eddie White, James Calvert AU Carnivore Reflux 7 min, DV, 2006

Poem: Carnivore Reflux Eddie White



A gastronomical, phantasmagorical nightmare from another time about a little known condition brought on by carnivorous excess.
Ein gastronomisch phantasmagorischer Alptraum aus einer anderen Zeit über den Zustand, den Exzesse des Fleischfressens mit sich bringen.



• Rong GB Oedipus 6 min, DV, 2005

received the ZEBRA Prize for the best Poetry Film 2006
Poem: Oedipus Nathan Filer



No film called Oedipus will ever end happily.
A hand warming tale of lust, incest, death...
Kein Film der Oedipus heißt, wird je ein gutes Ende haben.
Eine "Hand erwärmende" Geschichte von Lust, Inzest, Tod...



• Jason Lam AU Unfed 6 min 25s, DV, 2005

Poem: Cusping I-V Gareth Sion Jenkins



The painful eagerness of unfed hope: about the hidden inner landscape of our longing for connection, meaning and love.
Die schmerzhafte Begierde unerfüllter Hoffnung: über verborgene Seelenlandschaften voller Sehnsucht nach Verbindung, Sinn und Liebe.



• Ralf Schmerberg DE Nach grauen Tagen / After Grey Days 5 min, DV, 2003

received the ZEBRA Prize for the best Poetry Film 2004
Poem: Nach grauen Tagen Ingeborg Bachmann
The regular Sunday activities of a family are here not idyllic, but torture; the only means of escaping the hecticness lies with a balloon.
Das sonntägliche Treiben einer Familie ist hier keine Idylle, sondern Tortur. Da hilft nur ein Ballon, um der Hektik zu entfliehen.



• Eivind Tolas AU Love Is The Law 7 min, 35mm, 2003

Poem: Love is the Law Ole Mads Vevle



The message of love from the Christian tradition is perverted through a modern television news setting.
Die christliche Botschaft der Nächstenliebe wird in ein modernes TV-Nachrichten-Format übertragen.

10 pm: Australian Gothic

• 22 h •10 pm Australian video art curated by Shaun Wilson


Australian Gothic


• Australian Gothic

will be a survey show of current emerging and established Australian video artists.Evidenced work will reflect a 'Gothic' mode, as further discussed by Gerry Turcotte in his essay 'Australian Gothic' (Turcotte, 1995), including Brendan Lee's Two Birds with One Stone, Brie Trenerry's fly infested Sleep Paralysis and Tammy Honey's pop-desire

• Alex Avtzoglou AU One Two Red Blue 10 min, DV


A Surreal journey into dreamscapes and lost memories featuring
a seductive and somewhat grotesque petting scene between a girl
and a squid.




• Larissa Hjorth AU Loosing You 1min 54s, DV

Filmed on a mobile phone in Seoul during 2005, the artist brings us
identity and romantic crisis through a cutesy rendition of South Korean
pop culture iconography.


• Tammy Honey AU Threesome 3 min 39s, DV

A tone deaf performance piece by the artist focusing on the darkened and
obsessive desire for pop music fame in a combination between an amateur
'You Tube' do-it-yourself video and the music video clip genre.


• Brie Trenerry AU She Creeps 2 min 36s, DV

The story of a girl who falls asleep, or is she really dead?, who
becomes the desire for flies.


• Marsha Berry AU Untitled 2 min 56s , DV

The concealed footage filmed on a mobile phone 15 minutes after an
earthquake in Hawaii in 2006.


• Shaun Wilson AU Uber memoria I: short version 8 min 48s, DV

Filmed on location in London and Southern Germany, this shorter version
of the wider 'Uber Memoria' series explores themes of lost memory by
restaging performative narratives originally found in the artist's
family home movies filmed in 1956 at the same locations.


• Brendan Lee AU Two Birds with One Stone 14 min 51s, DV

Originally screened as a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales in 2006, Lee brings us a dark and confronting dialogue between two
prisoners in a waiting room.


• Aaron McLoughlin AU Chloroplasm 4 min, DV

The story of a man who brings home a lady friend who gives him more than
he bargins for. What he thought was a sexy romp ends up with the 'Lady'
transforming into a green, dribbling zombie who disembowells her lover
in true 1970s horror style..

Shaun Wilson is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and academic working with themes of memory, place and scale. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator of Higher Degrees by Research (MA and PhD) in the School of Creative Media, RMIT University.

12 pm: Muhammad And Jane

• 24 h •12 pmmidnight feature

Muhammad And Jane

• Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Muhammad And Jane 80 min, DV, 2003



"Video maker Usama Alshaibi is the sort of canny visual stylist who can sustain a mood... the handheld videocam, tight close-ups, and disorienting angles create a potent sense of paranoia. The haunting score is by Andy Ortmann and Camilla Ha."

Ted Shen Chicago Reader

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