dARKLIGHT FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING-ISAFF OPEN CINEMA FESTIVAL ST PETERSBERG , RUSSIA AUGUST 2007
The Very Thought of You (02:45)
By Karl Hunter
IRL
2004
The artist is filmed each day holding up the front page of the daily newspaper.
He sings the song "The Very Thought of You" and as the song progresses, the lyrics of the song replace the words of the newspaper headlines.
The film utilises the pop song's sentimental take on romantic obsession in combination with an idea of the heroic cult of adversity.
CARDIOID (03:18)
By Istvan Laszlo
IRL
2006
Cardioid is the digital recreation of a dream. The subject of this piece is losing our most important body part, symbolized by the heart. The body rises up from the darkness and slowly opens. The movements reflect pain. The chest splits open and the heart leaves the body. The heart disappears and the body falls back in to the darkness.
December, Version 1 (06:30)
By Anita Delaney
irl
2005
By disrupting the usual genre of a chorus line display I wish to unsettle the viewer and question notions of what is being presented. Ideas of femininity, the male gaze and the body are also alluded to. The young dancing girls are supposed to be passive and pleasing yet they are somehow menacing and move with military precision and rhythm.
The Window (02:00)
By Clare Shanahan
IRL
2006
Domestic discourse- investigating alienation in the household.
There's an Extraordinarily Tall Man & an Extraordinarily Short Man that Follow Me Wherever I Go (06:00)
By Luke Franklin
IRL
2006
An extraordinary tall man and an extraordinarily short man follow start following a third man (of average height)everywhere he goes, he tries to run and he tries to get rid of them, but nothing he does loses them. He grows accustomed to them, learns to live with them in his life and even likes them being there but then one day it occurs to him, what will he do if they leave?
GRAVITY LOOP (03:30)
BY DAVID PHILLIPS AND PAUL ROWLEY
IRL
2006
Gravity Loop is a series of photographs and video works which reconfigures a single image in order to present multiple approaches to viewing time. Taking its starting point in relativity, the series moves to consider recent movements in Theoretical Physics and String Theory, which discuss the possibilities of time as a non-continuous dimension, that is, that at the quantum level, there may be gaps in time.
One way to imagine this concept visually is to consider the use of clocks to tell time. Instead of a single clock that displays the passing of time continuously, instead we must imagine an infinite number of identical clocks, each of which come into existence for the tiniest fraction of a second, display the time at that instant, and then disappear. In between the appearance of these clocks is nothing, a gap in time where no matter or movement exists.
Much as the model of the atom as a solid sphere of matter was replaced in the early Twentieth century with a model that describes the atom as almost empty space, the work uses similar ideas to illustrate possible models of timekeeping in a non-continuous time.
In parallel with this conceptual depicting of time, the work is altered to exist in a multiplicity of configurations depending on its installation site. The images can flicker across a video wall, along a long line of single monitors arranged side by side in a space, or as a series of HD projections. The number of screens, and the image combinations configured for each screen, depend on the dimensions, shape, and location of the space in which the work is to be installed.
The audio for the piece was composed using a prepared piano, prepared according to the directions John Cage provides in the score for his Sonatas and Interludes (1948) and is performed by pianist Emily Manzo.
Cal-TV: "Imagine This" (04:16)
By: John Callaghan
IRL
2006
"Imagine This" is an audio mash up of George W Bush singing the John Lennon classic "Imagine", it has been a worldwide hit and has made it into the BBC Radio 1 Music Festive 50 on UK Radio 1. The video gives us a lip-synching Bush interspersed with Iraq war footage, leaving a humorous but poignant take on the Iraq War.
Covered Road (02:49)
By Anne-Maree Barry
IRL
2005
Covered Road documents a journey that was taken on stolen bicycles in the fifties. The journey is recreated in digital media format and from the inside of an automobile.
Double Adaptor: "200 Nanowebbers" (02:49)
By Semiconductor
Osaka Recordings 2005
IRL
2006
For '200 Nanowebbers', Semiconductor have created a molecular web that is generated by Double Adaptor's live soundtrack. Using custom-made scripting, the melodies and rhythms spawn a nano-scale environment that responds to the audio's resonances. Layers of energetic hand-drawn animations play over vector shapes that form atomic scale associations. As the landscape flickers into existence, substructures begin to take shape and resemble crystalline substances.
DEMON (09:37)
BY ZANITA FILMS
IRL
2005
In a tiny cell, somewhere in the prison district of Heaven, there is a new inmate. A Demon, she will not look out her window because the light burns her.
But outside she has a persistent visitor.
COMMONWEALTH (04:30)
BY DAVID PHILLIPS AND PAUL ROWLEY
IRL
2007
Commonwealth examines ideas of social progress through re-visiting the Soviet Space program of the 1960's, in particular Yuri Gagarin's orbit of the earth in 1961.
The importance of the space program in shaping perceptions of what is good for a society, uplifting the spirit of a community, is examined in relation to the role of the individual figurehead, selected from the masses to represent the society internationally.
Inspired in part by Hobbes' writings on the Body Politic, and writings on the history of science, the piece examines ideas of governance and community, and the use of division in social models to create order.
A rich collection of visual references are brought together in building the piece; for example, Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegories of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and Country, Soviet mosiac murals, the iconography of the space race, the visual language of progress, and the utopian architectures and designs of the World Fairs of the late 1960s and early 1970's.
LET ME BE FRANK
BY NIAMH MURPHY
IRL
2006
RINGING IN SICK
BY DOGMEDIA
IRL
2007
STARS
BY DEL 9
IRL
2006
"Stars" tells the story of Sophie, a woman who becomes fatally ill due to a neuron disease. The film uses the concept of synesthesia (a condition where one sense is confused with another) to explore our inner relationship with the outer world. This allows the film to visualise Sophie's fears and dreams, leading the viewer to a place where neither life nor death exists.
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