LiminalB
Video Selection
Curated
by Federica Matelli
LiminalB
Video Selection is composed by eight international artists who
collaborate with LiminalB. The selection is about different variants of
the limit and boundary matter, which
investigation animate LiminalB’s beginnings. So, in a
multidisciplinary approach, each video is about - and put face-to-face
- different fields, and explore as multiple contemporary sensibilities
and dichotomies melt each other.
LiminalB
Video Selection is an itinerant project and was projected in
contemporary video festivals and fairs of different countries:
www.glogauer.net www.electrofringe.net www.thisisnotart.org www.divafair.com
www.loop-barcelona.com www.fluid.localproject.org www.espacioenter.com
www.pprincipe.cult.cu/eventos/festival-video-arte-camaguey-2009.htm
Selected Videos
"Down Down Down", Jacopo
Miliani, 4:55 min, 2006, Italy
A
child falls endless stairs carrying with him a log. Down the stairs he
is transformed and possessed by a carillon music and he will dance till
exhaustion. Quoting directly film references, fairytales, music video
and personal mythology the video explores the category of banal to a
border where it becomes a source of a fantastic and mysterious imagery.
"Se está mejor en casa que en
ningún sitio", Fiumfoto, 5 min, Spain, 2005
The
video is a reflection on how fiction and reality merge. It tries to be
the expression of some of our current nightmares or fears. It is also a
metaphor about how the human knowledge is becoming more and more
influenced by the media an television.
"A love story", Aldo
Giannotti&Stefano Giuriati, 6 min, Italy/Austria, 2007
Two
Italian policeman discover the ‘Westhoek’, crossing the
border between Belgium and France, between French and Dutch speaking
regions, several times, on foot and by car. The World seems simple and
flan, open and happy. This small piece of land has a particular
history, and his inhabitant relate with boundaries in a really special
and own way. Therefore the concept of identity and his variants, takes
a central place in this work…Is an unexpected that this journey
ends in a love history out of space.
"Oval", Zumo Natural, 1:38 min, Spain,
2008
Lesson about the samurai's path
from afterlife.
"Tokio", Noemi Sjönberg, 9:04
min, France, 2004
"What
is logic, reason and true? What determines them? These are the starting
points of the author’s research during his stay in Japan. In this
video there are seven sequences that gather the loss of references and
the madness of human condition.
"Playa",
Perla Montelonga, 3 min, Mexico, 2004
The video shows images of a paradisiacal beach, converted to the
information code (ASCII: American Standard Code for Information
Interchange). It makes a reflection about the consume of fictitious
realities, contrasting with the real model and its representation with
the computer language.
"Ínodo", Veronica Eguaras. 10
min, Spain, 2008
Orfeo
arrives in a desert. In his internal exodus he is dragging a cart tied
to him by hooks. The madness chases you, Orpheus, fallen astronaut.
Ínodo is made using the technique of pixilation and was created
after Círculo Virtuoso. Despite being independent, both videos
dialogue and complement each other at symbolic level.
“Warning”, Angie Bonino,
4:36 min, Peru, 2008
Warning
is an ironic video. It brings over of the safety and the copyright in
to industry of the cinema, raising the problematics of marketing and
the illegal reproduction. This audio-visual one, has been realized with
images extracted from a DVD, from movie, with all the notices of
prohibition to the piracy in differents languages.
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