Experimental Animation and Video Art | Hegemony of emptiness
IZONE

07.09 | 21:30-23:00

Open-Air

07.09 | 21:30-23:00

Energy is turned off, development stopped, irregularities started in the social mechanism – therefore, the power has been taken by emptiness. The latter comes in different shapes: attacking those who are different, glorifying post-truth, losing empathy, impersonating, turning to the cult of violence and exploitation. Emptiness reigns and encourages to think separately, ignoring the very fact of irregularities in our world. Attempts to resist this situation include multimedia manifests, cuss words and critical look at emptiness through the attentive eye of an artist.

  • Beware the intuition
    Robin Courtel

    France | 2018 | 08:00

    A monkey lives in a suburban house. Strange little men are trying to end that madness.

  • Empire of Rusted Steel
    Damian Lintell-Smith

    UK | 2017 | 02:18

    Audio & visuals were using a rewired Megadrive video game console & ZX spectrum tape computer. Author rewired the video/audio chips to switches, buttons & added additional circuits. Visuals & audio are continuously mutating, glitching in time with each other showing the interplay between visuals & audio.

  • Silicontology
    Himali Singh Soin

    India | 2017 | 06:00

    Silicontology is a coined portmanteau that fuses the world of integrated circuits and data bytes with sea sponges and shimmering sands. It is an idea that zooms far out to the celestial—the astronauts of Apollo 11 left a piece of silicon inscribed with messages from Earth on the moon—then zooms in to the earth's sediment and further still, to the aesthetic realm of poetry.

  • Cartographer
    Daria Blazevic

    Croatia | 2017 | 06:10

    A satellite breaks free of Earth and roams through space forever.

     
  • from this side of space to the other side of the signal
    Benjamin Rosenthal

    USA | 2017 | 09:54

    "from this side of space to the other side of the signal" utilizes footage produced on unique analog equipment from the early history of video during a residency at Signal Culture (a contemporary version of the original Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY), and emerges from a nod to Michael Snow's iconic structural film La Région Centrale. Virtual landscapes pumped through the analog system become caught amidst sets of "meaningless" signs/barriers and violent signals.

  • Shithead Fuckface
    Elliot Cowan

    USA | 2018 | 00:57

    Shithead Fuckface and other bad things.

  • Painting With the Man
    Freya Björg Olafson

    Canada | 2017 | 03:37

    ‘Painting with the Man’ was developed through the use of a camera-less motion capture suit worn by Freya Olafson. The work references Yves Klien’s Anthropométries 1960 series; wherein Klein engaged nude women as 'human paint brushes'. Dressed in bow-tie and suit Klein would conduct the women as they covered themselves (in his patented color ‘International Klein Blue’) and made imprints of their bodies on canvas. In ‘Painting with the Man’ Olafson uses a digital readymade generic male 3D body to imprint the canvas / screen.

     
  • ULTRA
    Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand

    Canada | 2017 | 02:12

    ULTRA is a psychedelic film about the dysfunction between furniture and the female body. Through a series of colorful and animated background, an aesthetic and conceptual change operates between the furniture and the body.

  • A Blank control
    Maëva Jacques

    Belgium | 2017 | 06:48

    Life-giving beings live in this world filled with diversity. But suddenly bird-headed humanoids turn up. They catch, use and suck the life out of these colorful beings until all resources are exhausted. This world’s colorful diversity fades until the planet is turned into a wasteland.

  • Crowded
    Olena Maksymova

    UK | 2018 | 01:00

    A short animation, exploring the experience of living in a claustrophobic space. The animation reflects upon the theme of living in overcrowded, quickly growing city, highlighted in sound design.

  • Energy Off
    Nikita Liskov

    Ukraine | 2017 | 02:23

    Abstract animation on the existence of energy in time and space.

  • COMPARTMENTALIZE
    Anna Burholt

    USA | 2O18 | 00:55

    Compartmentalize is sort, break down, categorize, class, classify...

  • Edge of Alchemy
    Stacey Steers

    USA | 2017 | 17:15

    In Edge of Alchemy the silent-era actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are seamlessly appropriated from their early films of the 1920's and cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story and an undercurrent of hive collapse. 

  • An Open Letter to Mimi Walters
    Jessica Stossel

    USA | 2018 | 03:39

    We are tired of the deaths. Do something or get out.

    A somewhat experimental film working to bring attention to this incredibly important topic via the platform it is so widely talked about on. Inspired by the students of Stoneman Douglas and others around the country who are speaking out. This will be the last one.

  • AR-15s Around the Glock
    Daniel Maw

    USA | 2018 | 01:00

    An exploration of the appeal / repulsion of firearms.

     
  • Ants
    Victor Haselmayer, Felix Karte

    Germany | 2017 | 04:26

    An operator plays a game that has an error which forces him to make a decision.

     
  • Back on the self
    Fran Gondi, Marie Flacon, Renaud Farlotti

    France | 2016 | 05:05

    1966. The French army is testing its nuclear weapon on a little atoll, Mururoa. 50 years later, Yann remembers those days in Polynesia.

     
  • Business Meeting
    Guy Charnaux
    Brazil | 2018 | 01:45

    Just another business meeting, like any other business meeting. Yes, I believe this is a good description of the film. What do you think?

  • Sinking of the truth
    Tobias Gundorff Boesen, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Sander Joon, Wiep Teeuwisse

    Denmark | 2018 | 07:30

    An eclectic reinterpretation of “The Sinking of the Lusitania” in the age of fake news.