This compilation brings together seven international works caught up in the push and pull between the worlds of film and art. In Shock of Time artist Sun Xun animates the history of China, while Yael Bartana shows how displaced Polish Jews are summoned back to Poland in Mary Koszmary. In Tzu-Nyen Ho’s video Reflections children tellingly convey how mirrors only show us what we already know. Outwardly from Earth’s Center recounts with serene imagery the fate of an island that is inexorably drifting further and further out to sea. The films in this programme, both individually and as a group, provide incisive insights into the current state of media art production.
- Armulaud (Communion)
Dir Jaan Toomik/ Estonia 2007/ Estonian with English Subtitles/ 12 mins
A story about a middle-aged man and woman, about their relationship and the woman’s desperate attempt to become pregnant while the man is afraid of any form of commitment. - Shock of Time
Dir Sun Xun/ China 2006/ Chinese and English/ 6 mins
An animation about the history of China. - Mary Koszmary (Nightmares)
Dir Yael Bartana/ Israel, Netherlands, Poland 2007/ Polish with English Subtitles/ 11 mins
The film is set in an abandoned stadium in Warsaw, using propaganda films style, calling for three million Jews to return to Poland. The protagonist is a young radical Polish leftist who claims for a radical change in his country. - Der Spiegel (The Mirror)
Dir Keren Cytter/ Germany 2007/ German and English with English Subtitles/ 5 mins
In one shot the film describes the story of a woman waiting for a young man to save her from loneliness. - Reflections
Dir Tzu-Nyen Ho/ Singapore 2007/ 14 mins
This film is a parable about man being a creature that can never see beyond his own reflection. - Between C, D and F
Dir Julia Oschatz/ Germany 2006/ 2 mins
A creature replaces Caspar David Friedrich’s solitary figures who contemplate landscapes. It hangs from a tree’s branch and jumps into an abyss trying to escape from the stage, that is from Friedrich’s paintings as well as from the film image. - Outwardly from Earth’s Center
Dir Rosa Barba/ Germany and Sweden 2006/ Swedish and English with English Subtitles/ 22 mins
A narrative about a fictitious society on an unstable piece of land in danger of disappearing. This situation requires the population’s collective initiative in order to secure the individuals’ and society’s survival.