FILMIDEO @ The Newark Museum
Reza Golchin: Classmates (Iran)
Children should pass a long way to reach school.
Eddie Hoon Yang: 3x Flags (USA)
Drawing inspiration from Jasper Johns’ Three Flags’, Yang’s ‘filmic painting’ features a flag blowing in the wind. Using an effect to bombard the viewer with repeated images of the flag, a hypnotic effect is induced suggesting focus and repeated exposure to patriotism (as represented by the flag and the inherent ritualistic act of viewing a flag ) leads viewers open to influence and used as a tool for those in power.
Bon Bon: The Dimension. A Clockwork Humankind (Lithuania)
Intervals and duration. Time as cyclical indicator. Man as an intrinsic and altering object, the absence of its trajectory and intuitive representation. Staged passage of time as a mirrored projection of personal symmetry into the future.
Aaron Bowles: Immeasurable Distance (USA)
Immeasurable Distance” combines the mediums of painting, photography, and video into a single entity that hints at the ever-widening economic gap between the rich and the poor and relies on imagery of Manhattan from an outer borough as the model for financial disparity. A digitally altered photograph, with all elements other than the cityscape itself removed, was given new life by a single painting of a highway light positioned in linear perspective at multiple points and set into motion through the process of stop animation.
Caspar Below: The End of Ebb and Flow (UK)
The text based video The End of Ebb and Flow is a digital fable of a double act of opposing characters, bound to each other by mutual dependency and disdain. This video is part of a series of videos on storytelling, technology and change.
Justin Levesque: Sea State-White Horses (Iceland / Maine)
In 2013, Icelandic shipping company, Eimskip, relocated their North American headquarters to Portland, Maine. In response, Justin Levesque created a nine-day independent artist residency aboard container ship, MV Selfoss, and travelled their Green Line shipping route from Portland, Maine to Reykjavík, Iceland. He describes Eimskip’s Green Line as “the invisible thread that connects our two cities, countries, cultures and economies.” Levesque chronicled both the invisible world of shipping and his ocean journey with photography, video and a podcast for his project, ICELANDx207. This video, made from the vessel’s bridge, includes one Chief Officer’s love for opera and the open sea.
Rob Steinberg: Scatters (Chicago, IL)
An abstract recreation of dreamlike states in the style of Robert Breer Animations done aggressively.
Shelley Jordon: Night Flight (Oregon)
Night time activity in the woods. Hand-drawn stop motion animation.
Vasilis Karvounis: Chemical Flower (Greece)
“I’m trying to make whatever is divine within me rise back up to whatever is divine in the universe”. (Plotinus) The technique of ecstasy still appears today in many religions and cultures throughout the world. All religions show great interest in the “holy ecstasy” and each based on her own manifesto follows a different path for its achievement. One of the oldest is the exercise with the breath, the sound technologies, dance and other forms of movement, social isolation, fasting, sleep deprivation, meditation, prayer, the use of phychotropic substances and other spiritual practices, that act out the holotropic states of the mind. The project “Chemical flower” is a reference to Beckett’s breathing examining breath as an ecstatic process of the consciousness emerging beyond the limits of individuality and its unity with the whole. The video shows a peyote cactus breathing in and out, creating a virtual illusion.
Weston Uram: Pretty Life Changing (Vermont)
I’m really excited about apps where you pay to have a celebrity tell you how to eat a branded food.
Aaron Oldenburg: Cho-Am (Maryland)
A sleepwalker visits the cremation site of Pol Pot. This is documentation of a videogame prototype where the player must interpret the world their character is inhabiting by their gestures and brief glimpses inside their head.
Amanda Wallace: Post-Instagram, (Untitled #1) USA
Each video in the triptych was originally created through Instagram, and are related to my interests in identity formation and performance. They are also experiments with the performativity inherent in social media postings. In them, I have become an ‘other’ self: A self that I felt comfortable only displaying through social media platforms (namely, Instagram and Facebook), rather than in real life. Each is a documentation of a private performance ultimately meant for sharing via a public platform. They partly, yet intentionally exaggerate widely used editing effects available in certain applications to either make photos/videos more visually appealing (dependent upon subjective aesthetic preferences) or to summarize/index a process of physical adornment/alteration.
Azizi Al Majid: Main Yuk (Let’s Play) Indonesia
Framing the joyful of happiness of childhood and playing together, the cideo taken by children where Ilubiung forum doing Social engaged Art and Public Art project in one of village in Bandung City, named Dago Pojok.
Ben Quesnel: You Are Next (NY)
Advancement of technology has increased the complexity of war and allows extremist groups to form and communicate globally. NPR recently informed listeners how ISIL potentially used playstation 4 video games as a platform for planning their attacks on Paris. The video I have created shows the original Mario game fireworks altered to communicate a specific message in the pattern of morse code, “You are next”. This is a statement Obama made on Monday, December 14th; “ISIL leaders cannot hide, and our next message to them is simple… You are next.”
Brandon Bauer: A Short and Incomplete History of Experimental Film and Video (Wisconsin)
A short and incomplete history of experimental film and video.
Cristina Pavesi: Matter of Weight (Italy)
A still life comes to life with a little experiment of stability.
Daniel Wechsler: Squaring The Circle (Israel)
Squaring the circle is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle. It is used as a metaphor for trying to do the impossible.
Domenico Barra: Face Detection (Italy)
Identity, gender, race….how many stories can tell our faces? Corporations, Governments and other institutions invest huge capitals and efforts to scan, collect and archive faces, our faces, via advanced softwares to high-end technology to match digital and physical identities, big brother’s watchful eye is all around us. “Unlike fingerprints or iris scans, which presumably have to be done either with your participation or by physical force, facial scanning can be done remotely and surreptitiously.”* But, too often our face is served by us to the big brother on a shining screen via selfies or photos sharing on social networks. Our faces and the technologies built to scan, collect and archive them are totally out of control. Law should control how these technologies are used but we should become more aware of how we use and where we place our face.
Laura Hyunjhee Kim: User Laura (California)
As time spent online (as an active logged-in community member) grows, the library of usernames and passwords increase as well — this often generates chaotic situations filtering through memory lane in order to retain the matching combination of codes to access a personal online identity.
Khalil Charif: Victory (Brazil / France)
Victory is a Gestault-experimental sequence plan that examines the moment in which the audience is passing by the sculpture “Victoire de Samothrace” in the Museé du Louvre. An investigation about the absence, the relation of the viewer and the artwork, among other issues.
Mark Ramos: Eostre of the Dawn (NY)
Eostre of the Dawn is an exploration of creating artificial, 3-d environments within video space. The video’s imagery is inspired by Eostre/Ostara and the various dawn goddesses whose presence signaled the coming of Spring, rebirth, and new life.
Matt Dombrowski: Dance of Joy (USA)
Dance of Joy is an experimental art piece that explores the visualization of the eruption of creativity. The piece is intended for looping playback and to result in a mesmerizing, almost hypnotic user-experience. Its intention is to invite the user to experience the focused moment when an artist is in creative mode.
Kuesti Fraun: Capacities (Germany)
A description of capacity, as it exists in general and un/limited nature for man and his environment.
Kelli McGuire: Wind, Wind (Newark, NJ)
Sarah Schneider: Late Night Programming (USA)
Inspired by found imagery, domestic spaces, and everyday objects, Sarah Schneider’s work revolves around private interiors and personal narrative. Her practice includes drawing, painting, comics, and collage. Born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, she earned a BFA from New York University in 2011 and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015.
Emilia Izquierdo: The Big Swallow (UK)
Using contemporary consumer imagery the piece evokes the 1901 experimental film ‘The Big Swallow’ that critiques early twentieth century’s industrial revolution. The loop format produces a feeling on entrapment in a constant repetition with no beginning and no end. No Sound.
Georgia Elizey: My Soul Sleeps (UK)
MY SOUL SLEEPS Believe Believe in desire I want drawn out, desiccated, bleached, purified; read arid heat, dry sticks, whiplash, pure dawn and bones White meant just this: stripped, bleached by sun and rain and sun, then more sun until with nothing left but structures devoid of life. Text extract from The Unintentional Man 2015 Tim Riley Short video as part of a series of autobiographical video collages entitled MY mind My body, referencing alienation and the identity of self…….
Heath Schultz: My Queerness… (Texas)
With Bikini Kill as backdrop, “My Queerness” explores the space between theory and action.
Heejin Jang: Ctrl+$now (NY)
Heejin Jang’s work manifests itself in the forms of experimental video art. She transforms the ordinary portrait, the landscape, and the noise of daily routine into something unusual. The convolution of layered moments demonstrates the way Jang interacts with the culture and place she has been involved in, or has never been reached out.
Julia Kurek: Lucha Libre (Poland)
Social and cultural space. In Mexico Lucha Libre fight are part of the cultural identity of the country. Fighting often is a grotesque, sometimes end up outside the ring. The impetus for the implementation of the performance Lucha Libre in front of the Presidential Palace was the analysis of the political situation in Mexico. September 26, 2014 43 students who manifested against the reform of the education system were abducted. Performance, which I did in front of the Presidential Palace took place a day later. Two weeks after kidnapping students bodies were found burned in mass graves. My action was an expression of solidarity with the part of the society, which opposes the situation.
Sarah Granett and Steven Dressler: Blowing in the Grass (NJ / California)
Mostly handmade video and music.
Sarah Granett and Steven Dressler: Have You Ever Heard of David Bowie
Mostly handmade video and music.
Carlo Ferraris: Bang (NY)
”Bang” is a miniature video concert of an angry sentiment.