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Video Days    01.-03.09.2016    16:15-18:45

These video screenings are presented in the context of the meer teilen: share more pro-ject, where artists investigate which ideas of the culture of the Allmend and buen vivir are still valid today. Three themes have been chosen to visualise our time: Rituals, Dete-rritorialisation and Empathy.

Place
Cinema Luna
Lindenstraße 10,  
8500 Frauenfeld
One extra film is shown at Shed
im Eisenwerk 22.09. & 29.09.2016 Industriestraße 23, 8500 Frauenfeld

Entrance Fee
All video films at Cinema Luna

SFr 15,–

How to Make Money Religiously

Laure Prouvost

UK 2014, 17.38 mins

01.09.2016 16:15

In How to Make Money Religiously (2014), two slightly altered versions of the same work are placed se-quentially in a loop creating a moment of deja-vu. Centering on the problems, as well as the possibilities, of memory and forgetting, the piece addresses the arbitrary distinctions that can be ascribed to power and possession. Prouvost expands her multilayered investigation and slippages between systems of co-mmunication and conjures diverse interpretations dependent on how one perceives or remembers the story, while considering consumption, desire and the persuasive syntax of internet scams.

Laure Prouvost (1978) is a French artist and filmmaker. In 2013, she was awarded the Turner Prize.

Speak in Tongues

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup

IT 2015, 22.00 mins

01.09.2016 17:05

When someone “speaks in tongues”, they speak a language they don’t know, possessed, as it were, by foreign idiom. Six panoramas from the ZAPRUDER filmmakers’ group depict people believing in their own artificial realities.

Founded in 2000 by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti, the ZAPRUDER filmmakers’ group is an art film venture, a non-commercial organisation engaged in out-of-pocket, low budget and independent movie making.

Locations / DeTerritorialization    02.09.2016

Cumulo

 

Hector Delgado

PE 2015, 11.36 mins

02.09.2016 16:15

In Cumulo (Cumulus), a young man is absorbed in a video game world, living with his family on the outskirts of a city. After a stroll through the forest, he witnesses an unusual event; is this a dream or the spark that will lead him to an encounter with himself?

A Memorial to Failure

Mahmoud Khaled

EG 2013, 19.55 mins

02.09.2016 16:30

In 2012, the well-known theorist Franco “Bifo” Berardi conducted studio visits with artists on an indepen-dent international postgraduate study program in Beirut, Lebanon. One of these artists was Mahmoud Khaled, who was trying to recover from an artist’s block induced by the current socio-political comple-xities. Instead of showing to Berardi his work, Khaled decided to interview him, asking questions related to the conditions hampering his creativity.

Mahmoud Khaled was born 1962 in Alexandria. He currently lives and works in Cairo.

RAM (Mil pantallas)

 

ClaRa apaRicio yoldi

UK 2014, 6.20 mins

 

02.09.2016 17:00

 

The film RAM (Thousand Screens) is based on a text from Jose Luis Brea’s RAM-city (Thousand Screens), part of the book Culture RAM – Mutations of culture in the age of electronic distribution. It concerns the transition from a city with Read-Only-Memory (ROM) to a city with Random-Access- Memory (RAM); from a file-based memory to a network memory. In RAM city, everything is in disagreement, nothing is to be concluded as real. The formation of the imaginary is a continuous and open negotiation, not between individuals and the state, but among the units of work, performance and exchange.

Rerouting

Luiza Margan

HR/AT 2016, 07.10 mins

02.09.2016 17:10

Rerouting explores ways of reinterpreting and appropriating public space, facing failed utopias of moder-nity and threats of historical amnesia in the rapidly developing Mexico City. The film focuses on La Ruta de la Amistad (The Route of Friendship), a public space cultural project developed in parallel to the 1968 Olympic Games, involving 22 large scale sculptures developed by artists from all around the world.

Transformance

Nina Kurtela

HR 2010, 08.15 mins

01.09.2016 17:20

During a six month process of reconstruction of an old Berlin Transportation (BVG) storage building into a theatre, the artist takes 200 portrait photos daily from the exact same position, witnessing and docu-menting the transformation. The performance finishes once the stage is complete.

Jardines…Plantas

Eliana Otta

PE 2014, 17.16 mins

02.09.2016 17:40

In a tour through Lima, you hear the voice of a gardener who travels daily from very poor areas, such as where he lives, to wealthier ones, where he works. Charged with both knowledge and affection, he talks about his routine, his relationship with nature and his job.

Propaganda 10 mo aniversaro

Cristian Alarcon Ismodes

PE 2010, 2.18 mins

02.09.2016 18:05

Propaganda 10 mo aniversario (Tenth Anniversary) is the would-be trailer of a propaganda film celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori’s “great victory”: his imposed fraudulent election in 2000, despite mass protests. The trailer is envisioned as if produced by Toho Studio of Japan – that is, in the style of Godzilla (1954). Fujimori’s 10-year authoritarian administration came to an abrupt end when he fled to Japan in 2000; he was later convicted of human rights violations, embezzlement, and bribery. Nevertheless, he still enjoys a measure of popular support, and the fictive trailer leaves open the question of whether the real monster is Fujimori or the mob of angry protesters in the streets.

Antennas (Centro Espacial Satelital de Colombia)

Elkin Calderon & Diego Pińeros (La Decanatura)

CO 2015, 11.30 mins

02.09.2016 18:10

Antennas (Satellite Space Centre of Columbia) is a project planned as a tribute, as a farewell to these monumental and sculptural structures. The children from Chocontá Symphonic Band, aged between seven and fifteen, who never experienced the satellite an-tennas in their functioning glory, will be perfor-ming a particular interpretation. The structures imposing on nature and the devastating climate are the other guest characters in this work. Among the three obsolete antennas, talented children and the sa-benero (cold and gloomy environment) will evoke a glorious past, agonising present and an uncertain future.

Economies of Spaces

Nina Kurtela

HR 2014, 13.40 mins

01.09.2016 16:40

During the 10-hour performance, Economies of Spaces, the artist marks her route by throwing euro coins behind her in a walk from the city centre to the nearby forest. Referencing Hansel and Gretel, in-stead of pebbles and breadcrumbs, the artist leaves the coins, exploring the possibility of abolishing the value of money along with the changing environment.

Humanexus

Ying-Fang Shen

EEUU/Taiwan 2014, 10.36 mins

01.09.2016 17:35

The human race has long searched for meaningful interpersonal connections. Tools and technologies have made it easier to reach out and share ideas, but each form presents new and unforeseen challen-ges. We must always ask – Is this what we want? What do we want?

VII Pulgadas

Cristian Alarcon

PE 2013, 12.20 mins

01.09.2016 17:50

A journey through a child’s imagination, built by endemic militarism and servile catechism for the pur-poses of power, based on a popular prayer sung to children as a lullaby and still repeated in schools in Latin America.

Rituals    01.09.2016

Empathy    03.09.2016

370 New World

Marcantonio Lunardi

IT 2014, 5.08 mins

03.09.2016 16:15

370 New World is a story of human loneliness and the death of dreams. This work is based on two kinds of solitude: the first one is imposed, the other is deliberate; both are generated by the new world that we have to face.

The Message

Nika Radic

HR 2014, 15.00 mins

03.09.2016 16:23

The Message (2013–15) was originally a collaborative work that Nika Radić started by constructing an abstract, spatial installation. She then invited visitors to give their interpretations and to change the work to convey their intentions. Each participant was a primus inter pares for part of the time and Radić’s role was to care for the general structure. The video, The Message, is a documentation of this process.

Paradies

Max Philipp Schmid

CH 2015 Video 15.00 mins

03.09.2016 16:45

In todays’ society, fear of the unknown unleashes our inner longing to build a stockade. In our Garden of Eden, we’ll be able to brush aside the threats of everyday life and live in a fools’ paradise. In his film, Max Philipp Schmid questions our image of the ideal and the attempts to shield the artificial in our front yard.

 

Max Philipp Schmid (1962), based in Basel, is an independent filmmaker of experimental films, musical films and animations.

Lovearthcam

Aitor Marín Correcher

ES 2013 Video 3.21 mins

03.09.2016 17:05

In a time of ubiquitous cameras, global interconnections and accessibility, can the essence of the indivi-dual be measured without the qualities of tactile contact? In this work, the moments of relationships through media questions the real, the dreamt and delusional!

Esperanto El Tsunami

Lulacruza & Vincent Moon

CO 2014 Video 67.00 mins

03.09.2016 17:10

A sonic journey through Colombia in the footsteps of Lulacruza. The intoxicating power of images and sound creates a disguised kind of road movie, visualising the qualities of ones’ country. A love story of how beautiful countries are, where we should live our lives, take our time, look for the movements of this planet and listen for the ideas of our fellow humans.

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