Film Category: VIDEO ART

Phantom Dance

“I’m your phantom dance partner. I’m your shadow. I’m nothing more.” ― Haruki Murakami Director Biography – Wheeler Winston Dixon Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, editor of the book series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture for […]

Fluxions

Fluxions is a generative audiovisual composition in which sound data controls visual processes in real time. Three tree-like figures with geometric blossom structures respond to energy distributions across the frequency spectrum. Color transitions, shape variations, and movements emerge as algorithmically determined resonances of the audio signal. The graphical structures unfold through recursive growth—oscillating between generative […]

Kingdom of animals

Grand tour of Germany’s national monuments. Thadeusz Tischbein has been on a journey to Germany’s largest national monuments, some of the heaviest chunks in the nation’s digestive tract, so to speak. And there he came across all sorts of animals, which do not accidentally come into conversation with mythical creatures and animals from legends and […]

Misericorde

In the Middle Ages a misericorde was a weapon used to put a wounded knight out of his misery.  As a theological term, it refers to forgiveness and compassion. In French it has been used as an invocation, notably in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: “Christ have mercy on us!” That there may be no one […]

EQUAL

EQUAL is a cinematic exploration of Richard Serra’s sculpture of the same name on display at the Museum of Modern Art. The sculpture consists of eight forged-steel blocks stacked in pairs. Each rectangular block measures 5 feet by 5 and 1/2 feet by 6 feet and weighs 40 tons. The blocks are rotated and stacked […]

Linija Među Nama/ A Line Between Us

The work A Line Between Us stems from the artist’s personal experience of loss, symbolically emphasizing the need for connection with the absent and the act of remembering. The artist performs a walk through inaccessible, rocky terrain, leaving behind a turquoise fabric as a line/river in the landscape – a trace of her passage and […]

Leisure/Labor

Leisure/Labor is a single, unbroken 8-minute video shot from the director’s studio window that documents the intensely dense street Blocos de Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. The film documents the disputed public spaces where collective playful celebration and economic necessity overlap. Director Biography – Artur Silva Artur Silva is a filmmaker, visual artist and educator, […]

The Power of stream

The story of the search for “POWER” in the form movie meditation based on the song contained in “Gitanjali” book written by Rabindranth Tagore and the poem “Tryptyk Rzymski” aut. John Paul II. Rabindranath Tagore, awarded in 1912 with the Nobel Prize, was a special master, for whom the theater was the most important element […]

Resin

Seduction, deformation, hardening. The brutality of the accelerated and constantly available media of our present – the era of remixes, remakes and sequels – is concentrated in endless repetition. It shifts temporality. ‘resin‘ explores the resulting possibilities of depicting deformations and breaks in our sense of time and our memories. This second part of the […]

THE ARTIST DIES IN ART | SELF PORTRAIT

In the video ‘The Artist Dies in Art’, within an existentialist philosophical vision, the perfor-mer problematises the relationship with Being and Art, taking up the Greek metaphysical origins. The investigation of Being, within the performer’s poetics, is the very search for Art, for the Self and the I in Art. In this light, the golden […]