Video Program 20.-21.07.2016
Empathy 20.07.2016 17:00-17:50
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art
Avenija Dubrovnik 17
10010 Zagreb
Locations / DeTerritorialization 2 22.07.2016. 19:35-20:10
Jardines…Plantas
Eliana Otta
PE 2014, 17.16 mins
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
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
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 sabenero (cold and gloomy environment) will evoke a glorious past, agonising present and an uncertain future.
Locations / DeTerritorialization 1 21.07.2016. 17:00-17:40
Cumulo
Hector Delgado
PE 2015, 11.36 mins
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?
RAM (Mil pantallas)
ClaRa apaRicio yoldi
UK 2014, 6.20 mins
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 disagre-ement, 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
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
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.
Rituals 20.07.2016. 19:10-20:00
Economies of Spaces
Nina Kurtela
HR 2014, 13.40 mins
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
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
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.
370 New World
Marcantonio Lunardi
IT 2014, 5.08 mins
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.
Lovearthcam
Aitor Marín Correcher
ES 2013 Video 3.21 mins
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!
Paradies
Max Philipp Schmid
CH 2015 Video 15.00 mins
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.
The Message
Nika Radic
HR 2014, 15.00 mins
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.
