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Video clip for a song Death is Approaching (Mirtis Ateina) made on Super8 film entirely, hand cut and glued and postprocessed. Drawn-on-film animation (scratches, perforation) and film tinting techniques were used at places. Song is about death. Film is about…
The video “Coronapocalypse” refers to the coronavirus pandemic. In the video, the artist fights against the coronavirus COVID-19, an invisible enemy that has caused the death of many people and plunged the world into fear and uncertainty. Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (TG/DE)…
Main hero of Radek Brousil’s film in a half-dead fish costume wanders through a city and a country in a mental dialog speaking to a female hyperobject about the end, shame, guilt and possibility to do something. Skateboarding, smoking cigarettes…
Who is really being farmed? Sheep and cows have spread to every continent, attached to humans, and humans benefit from their company in many ways. An exchange has taken place. Drawing from posthuman philosophy and speculative ethics, artist Shane Finan…
Culture critics tend to emphasize the exploitative destructive and addictive nature of screen based culture. Fake news, miss information, alienation, and simplified polar discourses are the major flaws of contemporary mobile and social media. The covid pandemic enlightened the other…
We are talking about fiction. We are talking about memory. We are speaking of remembrance. We are talking about wounds. We are talking about brands. We are talking about childhood. We are talking about poetry. we are talking about ache.…
Anamesa animates the last page of a young girl’s journal, just before she enters her teens. The story is narrated by her future self, and it takes place in Ouranoupolis, on the boarders of Mount Athos where women are prohibited…
Airdrop (I want your data) is a love song by #Sergina about wanting to get inside somebody’s mind, body and device. #Sergina is a phone obsessed, multi locational, multi bodied drag queen who emerged out of parties in Berlin on…
The ‘Translucence’ series serves as a reflection on the fragility of life, investigating Waterman’s experience of mourning and loss. The collection of moving image works, ‘February’, ‘Against’ and ‘Wisdom’, interpret three instrumental tracks from Donna McKevitt’s musical score, ‘Translucence’ (Warner…
The ‘deepfake’ video ‘Across Capitalism’ depicts a burlesque portrait of Donald Trump reciting the slightly altered lyrics of the Beatles song ‘Across the Universe’. This version is part of the ‘decay series’ that deconstruct the previous representations to produce further…
The work re-imagines Cocteau’s Jeune Homme et al Morte and re-aligns the gender focus from the man/victim to tell the story from the perspective of the Young Girl/Death Woman, attempting to remember the moment of the Young Man’s death, to…
“VIA DOLOROSA” (Way of Sorrows) is an experimental documentary film that dwells with recorded voices of women through conversations with migrant workers and locals of Biella, Italy. As we silently pass through old narrow roads, we can hear voices of…