FOCFEST: Uluslararası Video Art Festivali 6-7 Aralık'ta İstanbul'da

FOCFEST: A Brand New International Festival of Video Art!

A group of curators and artists, within the international community Artists for Peace (www.artistsnpeace.com), promotes the achievement of a new international audiovisual festival focused on civic intervention based on a broader view of the humanistic principles of freedom of choice, peace and human rights.

Initiated in 2007, in the midst of a great artistic online platform (Artmesh), the Artists for Peace Group was founded to accomplish the organization of international events promoting the link of art to the issues related to the theme of Peace. The group includes all existing artistic currents and styles and recently joined up with other sister organizations to work together in the completion of more complex projects.

Besides not being a competitive contest, the programme of the FocFest - Freedom of Choice International Film and Video Peace Festival is although the result of a selection process that came from an international public announcement of which resulted the inclusion of a wide array of works from visual artists and directors from the most diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds. The exhibition is divided into three categories: the fictional and experimental film and video art (from installation to narrative fiction), the documentary (experimental and traditional) and animation (cartoons, multimedia and muppets).

The event aims to be, in a short term, a new audiovisual and thematic expertise festival benchmark (of film and video art) in Europe and in the rest of the world. The festival has an important feature already once being a production shared by three European countries, with shows taking place simultaneously in: Lisbon (Portugal) at the Fábrica do Braço de Prata in the next day 04, 05 and 06th December; in Yerevan (Armenia) at the NPAK / ACCEA - Armenian Center of Contemporary Art, also in the day of 04, 05 and 06th December; and in Istanbul (Turkey) at the Ciplak Ayaklar Studio in the day of 06 and 07th December of 2008. The simultaneous aspect of the event, makes of the FocFest, if not the most unique, at least, one of the most daring and exquisite audiovisual festivals in the world.

The Curators: Alberto Guerreiro | Milton Dias | David Kareyan | Sahin Ozbay.

Focfest Freedom of Choice International Film and Video Peace Festival.
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E-mail: focfest@gmail.com
Website: http://www.artistsnpeace.org/focfest.htm
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FESTIVAL PROGRAM

06.12.2008

15.30-16.30

> Hanna Smitmans (Germany) "Who is your enemy" (2002: 6'45)
> Kika Nicolela (Brazil) "Face to Face" (2006: 15'00)
> Bruno Bresani (Brazil) "Soy" (2007: 3'20)
> Sara Servati (Iran) "The Bloody World of Mine" (2008: 1'40)
> Kevin Logan (UK) "Recitation" (2007: 4'29)
> Clemens Kogler (Austria) "Herr Barr" (2007: 3'10)
> Jean-Julian Pous (France) w/ Pierre Prinzbach (France) "Switch" (2007: 5'57)
> Ricardo Nascimento (Brazil) "Autrmx" (2008: 5'24)
> Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal) "Hunter" (2008: 3'26)
> Vesna Milicevic (Serbia) "Zero Tolerance" (2007: 5'48)
> Sonia Balassanian (Armenia) "Anush" (2003: 5'00)

16.45-17.45

> Richard Jochum (Austria) "The Rosary: Sibba as a Communal Sculpture" (2007 2008: 5'00)
> Fabio Dolso (Italy) "The Olympic Torch Light War Weapon / Mutations" (2008: 8'00)
> Jossie Malis (Peru) "Bendito Machine I" (2006: 4'45)
> Jean-Gabriel Périot (France) "Ni Juman No Borei: 2000 000 phantoms" (2007: 10'00)
> José Freitas Cruz (Portugal) "Barca Borneo" (2008: 10'00)
> Hannah Smitmans (Germany) "From Alicia" (2003: 3'00)
> Joas Sebastien Nebe (Germany) "The Place of Safety" (2002 2008: 3'54)
> Hannah Perry (UK) "Untitled" (2008: 1'56)
> Guli Silberstein (Israel) "Schizophrenic State" (2003: 6'00)

18.00-19.00

> Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) "One Day on Mars" (2007: 8'00)
> Jean-Gabriel Périot (France) "Even If She Had Been a Criminal" Eut-Elle Ete Criminale" (2006: 10'00)
> Neil Howe (Australia) "Genesis" (2006: 10'34)
> Jean-Julian Pous (France) "Seeking You: a love letter to Hong Kong" (2008: 3'14)
> Gonçalo Brito (Portugal) "Bianca" (2006: 3'00)
> Lemeh 42 (Italy) "Per fare un tavolo / How to make a table" (2008: 2'30)
> David Kareyan (Armenia) "No Return" (2002: 11'00)
> Blerta Zeqiri (Kosovo) "OK" (2007: 11'00)

19.00 Blerta Zeqiri videosu hakkında konuşacak ve sorularınız yanıtlayacak. After this section Blerta Zeqiri will talk about her video and answer your questions.

07.12.2008

14.30-15.30

> Jossie Malis (Peru) "Bendito Machine II" (2007: 5'53)
> Guli Silberstein (Israel) "Beach" (2006: 4'55)
> Bruno Larini (Italy) "Innesto Lirico" (2008: 6'00)
> Kika Nicolela (Brazil) "Passenger" (2007: 5'00)
> Victor Vidal (Peru) "A Social Realistic Story" (2007: 10'00)
> Kika Nicolela (Brazil) "Tropic of Capricorn" (2005: 30'00)

15.45-16.45

> Susanne Babila (Germany) "I'm Schatten des Bosen Der Krieg Gegen die Frauen Im Kongo / The Shadow of Evil The War Against Women in Congo" (2007: 59'00)

17.00-18.30

> Liuyi Wang (China) "Echo from Tiananmen" (2006: 4'42)
> Renata Padovan (Brazil) "Habeas Corpus" (2008: 7'20)
> Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) "Message from Behind a Wall" (2005: 10'00)
>Hanna Smitmans (Germany) "Two Women on War" (2002: 12'00)
> Renata Padovan (Brazil) "White Reflections" (2006: 1'54)
> Bruno Brezani (Brazil) "Stones" (2007: 7'29)
> Layla Eve Glantz (UK) "Behind the Veil" (2008: 3'58)
>Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) "Life is Coming" (2007: 1'13)
>Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) "I see you" (2008: 1,54)
>Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) "Disforme" (2008, 2'28)
>Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) "Tainah" (2008: 1'00)
> Adam Buczek (Poland) "Home is Hope" (2007: 0'10)
> Ob-Art Group-Fatima Torconal (Spain) "Rara Avis Through the Other" (2007: 3'55)
> Victor Vidal (Peru) "In Jail" (2007: 3'40)
> Gruppo Sinestetico (Italy) "Anche le parole ucci domo / Words can kill" (2005: 1'00)
> Monochrom (Austria) "Kiki and Bubu and the Shift" (2008: 4'00)
> Emre Özkapi (Turkey) and Asli Buyukkoksal (Turkey) "Uzun Ince Bir Yol / A Long and Thin Way" (2006: 6'00)
> Sahin Ozbay (Turkey) "Dogrular - Straights" (2006: 2'29)

Türkiye Özel Gösterimi - İsyancı Sinema ve Video Aktivizm
Turkey Special Screening - Rebelloious Cinema and Video Activism

06.12.2008

19.00-20.00
> Oktay NCE - Kaos-gl, Karahaber Video-Eylem Atölyesi (Turkey)
"Devrim Beni Aramad" (2006: 56'00)

20.00-21.00
> Aydn Sevinç (Turkey) "Gözmece" (2006: 46'00)
07.12.2008

20.15-21.15
> Afilms (Turkey) "between past and present" (2008: 16'00)
> Afilms (Turkey) "Transitions" (2008: 18'00)
> Afilms (Turkey) "portakal hasad" (2008: 17'00)

21.15
Yönetmenler videolar hakknda konuacak ve sorularnz yantlayacak.
After this section directors will talk about her video and answer your questions.

Official selection:

Neil Howe (Australia), artist for peace; - "Genesis" (2006: 10'34) A semi abstract
visual and aural journey from the Big Bang to Armageddon.
Production: Australia.
Category: experimental/poetical.
Screenings: Naples Magmart Vídeo Festival (Italy: 2008); Brisbane Techno Art
(Australia: 2007); Melbourne Fringe Arts Festival (Australia: 2006); New York Rooftop
Film Festival (USA: 2006).

Joas Sebastien Nebe (Germany) artist for peace; - "The Place of Safety" (2002-2008:
3'54) consists of a text part and a cinematographic part. Both parts produce synergy in
evoking association in viewers mind. The text part is about famous and unfamous,
fictious and non-fictious characters who are involved in questions of security. Hereby
the issue security is shown as a general problem existing in all kinds of worlds and
affecting all kinds of inhabitants. The cinematographic part shows a couple of blossom
branches in a foggy landscape. Blossoms are metaphor for harmony and peace, which is
denied by that experience people have, described in the pretitle text.
Production: Germany.
Category: experimental/poetical.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Clemens Kogler (Austria) "Herr Barr" (2007: 3'10) - Music video for the track "Herr
Bar" from UK-musician Clark (Warp Records). The film solely consists of photos of
human body parts, which are arranged to form landscapes, animals, plants.
Production: Austria.
Category: animation/poetical.
Awards:
II Audience Award at the Vienna Kaiserstrasse Film Festival (Austria: 2008)
International Winner of the New York Diesel New Art Award (USA: 2007).

Jean-Julian Pous (France) "Seeking You: a love letter to Hong Kong" (2008: 3'14) -
A man lost his love. He decides to go out and find her in the night of Hong Kong, only
to realize that it's not with her he's in love, but with the city itself.
Production: Hong-Kong (China).
Category: animation/poetical.
Screenings: Vancouver Film School (Canada: 2008)

Jean-Julian Pous (France) w/ Pierre Prinzbach (Canada) - "Switch" (2007: 5'57) - A
metaphysical thought on time through a man running. Facing what choices he could
have made and will be able to make in life, he sees them materialized as doubles of
himself, going through majors steps of life.
Production: France.
Category: animation/social.
Awards:
Jury grand prize of the Folie-Ô-Skop, Québec (Canada: 2008).

Kevin Logan (UK) "Recitation" (2007: 4'29) - an audiovisual piece examining oral
traditions and their relationship with text based information and belief systems, in
particular religious texts. Inspired and utilizing a poem by Jarmain Patrick which was
performed during a development week which brought together visual, spoken word, and
audio artists. This development week led to a number of short films commissioned by
B3.Media, Brixton for the identities TV project. It incorporates computer animated
text/hand-made graphics and footage captured by a mobile phone camera.
Production: UK.
Category: mobile phone/poetical.
Screenings: Transmediale 2008 in Berlin (Germany: 2008); Media Forum Moscow
International Film Festival (Russia: 2008); ICA London (UK: 200/); Amsterdam Film
Experience Festival (Netherlands: 2007).

Jean-Gabriel Périot (France) "Ni Juman No Borei: 2000 000 phantoms" (2007:
10'00) The Atomic-Bomb Dome, a massive form that stands in silence. The film
presents almost 600 photographs from 1914 to 2006 showing the continuing existence
of the dome before and after the war to the accompaniment of poetic laments. Here is
Hiroshima seen via the French director's eyes over decades.
Production: France/Japan.
Category: experimental/social - archive footage.
Awards:
Grand Prix / Japan media art festival Tokyo(Japan : )
Grand Prix / KIVF Kansk (Russia:
1st prize and audience prize / Videologia Volgograd (Russia :
Dick Arnall award / Aurora Norwich (England :
Animate Award / Encounters Bristol (England :
Best internatioan film / Ann Arbor international film festival
Best documentary / L'alternativa Barcelona (Spain :
Best experimental / Montecatini international short film festival (Italy :
Youth prize / Vendôme festival (France :
Youth prize and audience prize / Limoges short film festival (France :
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Prix coup de coeur / Courts devant Paris (France :
Prix Image et son / Les écrans documentaires Arcueil (France :
Press prize / short film festival Nice (France :

Jean-Gabriel Périot (France) "Even If She Had Been a Criminal - Eut-Elle Ete
Criminale" (2006: 10'00) - France, the summer of 1944, at the time of the Liberation.
The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the
war... Abruptly the celebration turns to a cruel spectacle as we witness the public
humiliation and punishment of women accused of having affairs with German soldiers
during the war. Their heads are shaved, they are beaten and forced to paint swastikas on
their faces. As the camera pans through the crowd the film shows the shocking breadth
of emotion present: from the shame of the victims to the hatred and joy in the eyes of
the perpetrators, it is evident that the atrocities of the war lived on long after Hitler's
army was defeated.
Production: France.
Category: experimental/political - archive footage.
Awards:
Grand Prix / Tampere international film festival (Finland:
Best International Short / Cork film festival (Ireland:
Grand Prix / International Odensee film festival (Denmark:
Grand Prix parallel competition / Pris de courts Paris (France:
Best movie / betting on short London (England:
Special Prize of the Jury / off-courts Trouville (France:
Special Prize of the Jury / Chronograph International Documentary Festival
Chisinau (Moldovia:
Best short / flEXiff Auburn (Australia:
Jury's prize and festival's prize / Videofestival, Bochum (Germany:
Best international short / Prends ça court ! Montreal (Canada:
Prix Artfilm Documentary / Artfilm international film festival, Trencin
(Slovenia:
Best short Documentary / International documentary film festival Punto de vista,
Pamplona (Spain:
Best short Documentary / International Human Rights documentary film festival
One World, Prague (Chec Republic:
Best short documentary / Aarhus festival of independent arts (Denmark:
Jacek Kuron Award for best short documentary / Watch Doc, Human rights in
film Warsaw (Poland:
Best short / Les écrans documentaires Arcueil (France:
Best Documentary / Sapporo short festival (Japan:
Best Documentary / Kratkofilm international short film festival Banja Luka
(Bosnia:
Best Documentary / MFA international film festival (USA:
Best Documentary / Euroshorts Warsaw (Poland:
Best Documentary / Limoges short film festival (France:
Best original film / EEAF Argus (France:
Innovation prize / Chicago international documentary festival (USA:
Best Director, Best Editing, Best Sound / Festival Internacional de Curtas de
Belo Horizonte (Brazil:

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) "One Day on Mars" (2007: 8'00) - A
human being is obliged to spend at least one day in his lifetime on Mars. Mars the red
desert planet, Mars the god of war. Mars can be anywhere, any place which is identified
with the inhuman, violence, hate, rage, revenge and despair.
Production: Germany.
Category: experimental/political.
Awards:
Special Jury Award in the category best experimental film 1st Cyprus
International Shortfilm Festival (Cyprus: 2008)

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) "Message from Behind a Wall" (2005:
10'00) - featuring Faten Nasdas, one of the initiators of the wall paintings, is
transporting different messages, but the main message represents the action of children's
innocence. The moving picture is a unique document of the day of 17 February 2005.
Meanwhile, the construction of the wall in Bethlehem is completed.
Production: Germany.
Category: documentary/political.
Screening: Premiere in the Israeli Digital Art Lab Holon (Israel: 2005)

José Freitas Cruz (Portugal) artist for peace; "Barca Borneo" (2008:10'00) In April
2005, after four years of persistent work and subtle diplomacy, fourteen artists residing
in Sultanate of Brunei got together to work on a common project. The theme that won
over consensus of all parties involved breaking the ice after years of hesitation and
attracting the participants of 9 Brunei artists was a boat.
Production: Portugal/Brunei.
Category: documentary/social.
Screenings: I International Biennale of Montijo (Portugal: 2008)
David Kareyan (Armenia) artist for peace; - "No Return" (2002: 11'00) - Man,
trying to reach accommodation and harmony with himself, may have destructive
desires, and return to the roots by merging with nature... Often he seeks refuge in
religion. Sometimes he even resigns from all human attributes, but still is unable to find
what he is looking for. Figures dressed in religious robes accompany their ritualistic
movements with primitive and rough rhythms, as if calling their ancestors... These are
the rhythms, which awaken animal instincts...
Production: Armenia.
Category: experimental/political.
Screening: 50th Venice Bienale (Italy: 2003); Gyumri International Biennale (Armenia:
2002).

Sonia Balassanian (Armenia) - "Anush" (2003: 5:00) - In this year's project Sonia
Balassanian appears to the Armenian audience by a less known side of her work; by
drawings and video-art made independent of performing/multi-media projects. This is
an analysis on video-art section of the project.
Production: Armenia/USA.
Category: performance-doc/poetry.
Screenings: Yerevan Armenian Center of Contemporary Art (Armenia: 2003)
Hannah Perry (UK) "Untitled" (2008: 1'56) .
Production: UK.
Category: mobile phone/poetical.
(Festival premiere)

Ob-Art Group-Fatima Torconal (Spain) "Rara Avis - Through the Other" (2007:
3'55) - Since distant times motherhood has been glorified and full of taboos.
Questioning it stirs our human ambivalence towards love, an ambivalence of which is
hardly spoken of, and which grows in a woman's case when she is a daughter and a
mother.
Production: Spain.
Category: experimental/poetical.
Screenings: Festival premiere.
Bruno Larini (Italy) "Innesto Lirico" (2008: 6'00) A sort of spiritual, visceral and
prophetic travel of the author. Settled between video-art and performance this work
represents the involment of life in a continuous metamorphosis, one ancestral feeling of
the image in symbiosis with the intimate, artistic and anti-conformism id the author.
Production: Italy.
Category: experimental/social.
Screenings: Bizarro Film Festival (2008).

Gruppo Sinestetico - Matteo Albertin, Antonio Sassu, Massimo Perseghin and
Gianluca Scordo (Italy) "Anche le parole ucci domo/Words can kill" (2005: 1'00) -
faces the problem of the use of words. Through the visual poetry introduces a message
that has two interpretations: war and death. The "decisional" word in this perspective
has prerogative of death as much as a Kalashnikov can have.
Production: Italy.
Category: performance/loop.
Screenings: London Biennale (UK: 2006).

Monochrom (Austria) "Kiki and Bubu and the Shift" (2008: 4'00) Bubu wants to
know why his dad is working all the time. And Kiki explains him whybecause of the
neoliberal shift.
Production: Austria.
Category: animation-puppets/political.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Sara Servati (Iran) "Miss" (2008: 2'27) A picture of abstract figures out of lights
and the relation between these figures which one of them is the author. A show how
people, who are fulfill by peace, have been disconnected in this Bloody World.
Production: UK.
Category: experimental/social.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Renata Padovan (Brazil) "Habeas Corpus" (2008: 7'20) is the union of sound and
image recorded separately. In a first moment a voice recorder was given to F.S., a
transsexual in the process of becoming a woman. F.S. speaks freely of her feelings, of
her childhood while growing up in a small countryside Brazilian town. In a second
moment a 5-year-old boy was asked to make a drawing, whatever he wished; the result
was very surprising. In the video the young boy neatly makes his drawing using colored
pencils as F.S. talks about herself and her childhood memories. Voice and image
together build up a statement, the fear of being ridiculed.
Production: Brazil.
Category: documentary/social.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Renata Padovan (Brazil) "White Reflections" (2006: 1'54) White waves slowly
cover a red breakwater. As the water retreats the concrete structure is unveiled, just to
be hidden again, on and off, the screen becomes all white. In the sound track we hear
news about the war in Iraq and other international issues roughly broadcast on a radio.
The quality of the broadcasting makes it hard to discern the spoken words. At a certain
moment the sound of playing children is overheard, just to be suddenly broken by the
sound of a firing machinegun. The piece is meant as a break for reflection.
Production: Brazil.
Category: experimental/political.
Screenings: Narratives #2 at the Centre d'art Plastiques et Visuels de Lille (France :
2008); XXeme Instants Vidéo in Marseille (France: 2007).

Guli Siberstein (Israel) "Schizophrenic State" (2003: 6'00) Two images on my TV
screen: An Israeli soldier being lynched in Rammallah. A Palestinian child and his
father being fired at in Gaza. How can horror be constructed in words? It's a
schizophrenic situation - two sides trapped in a cycle of violence. And I`m in a
schizophrenic state of my own, watching this in New York - not here nor there. Are
these images real?
Production: USA/Israel
Category: experimental/political.
Awards:
Best Political Piece in Mixed Messages at New York New School University
Annual Competition (USA: 2007)

Guli Siberstein (Israel) "Beach" (2006: 4'55) A personal account in the form of an
out of tune TV broadcast; an accelerating stream of images, depicting a family on the
beach in Tel Aviv, is juxtaposed with a video of a girl running frantically on a bombed
beach in Gaza, only about 100 kilometres away. It's a reality where tranquillity turns
into horror in an instant, and where possibilities of the Real are repressed, raising
perceptual, existential and moral questions.
Production: Israel
Category: experimental/ political.
Screenings: V Naoussa International Short Film (Greece: 2008); Transmediale 2008 in
Berlin (Germany: 2008); Solo Exhibition at Artists House in Tel-Aviv (Israel: 2007);
International Digital Film Festival in Bucharest (Romania: 2007); XXIV Kassel
Documentary Film Festival (Germany: 2007); VideoBrazil in Sao Paulo (Brazil: 2007);
XXIX Festival du Cinema Méditérraéen in Montpellier (France: 2007); Media Arts in
Freisland (Netherlands: 2007); Weimar Backup Festival (Germany: 2007).

Victor Vidal (Peru) artist for peace; "A Social Realistic Story" (2007: 10'00) - This
film is a humoristic and critical view of the manner how parents in the so-called rich
societies treat their children. They prefer materials goods and wellbeing rather than the
creative and social development of the youth.
Production: Denmark.
Category: experimental/poetic.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Victor Vidal (Peru), artist for peace; - "In Prison" (2007: 3'40) - This short video
dramatizes the horrible situation of innocent people being in jail in many places in the
World, both in the rich and poor countries.
Production: Denmark.
Category: experimental/political.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Jossie Malis (Peru) "Bendito Machine I" (2006: 4'45) A primitive tale about power,
corruption, religion and machines as usual.
Production: Spain
Category: animation/political.
Awards:
Best Film at Animation Film Festival Nontzeflash in Bilbao (Spain: 2006)
Best Film at Fernando Quiñonez Film Festival Cádiz (Spain: 2006)
Best Film at Torino Flash Festival (Italy: 2006)
Best Film Animaizon Film Festival in Zaragoza (Spain: 2006)
Best Film Animatu International Animation Film Festival (Portugal: 2006)
Best Film Shortfilm Festival Hospitalet in Catalunya (Spain: 2006)
Best Animated Film, Audience Choice Award, Fantastik Film Festival (Sweden
2006)
Best Design Channel Frederator Animation Awards (USA: 2006)
Best Film Audience Choice Award, Sestao Fantastico Short film Festival (Spain:
2006)
Best Film Aniboom Online Festival, 2007
Best Internet Animation at SICAF (South Korea: 2007)
Best Animated Film 24fps Festival, Texas, (USA: 2007
Best Sound Design 24fps Festival, Texas (USA: 2007
Grand Prix Animation Film Festival of Tindirindis (Lithuania: 2007)
Special Jury Prize at Anifest in Trebon (Checz Republic: 2007)
Special Mention Comarca de la Sidra Film Festival (Spain: 2006)
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Special Mention at Fantosfreak de Cerdanyola del Valles in Barcelona (Spain:
2006)
Special Mention Caostica Shortfilm Festival in Bilbao (Spain: 2006)
Best Visual Solution, Multivision Film Festival in St. Petersburg (Russia: 2006).

Jossie Malis (Peru) "Bendito Machine II" (2007: 5'53) A primitive tale about the
spark of life. The 2nd moment of Bendito Machine move series.
Production: Spain.
Category: animation/political.
Awards:
First Place at Intermon Oxfam Actúa Film Festival (Spain: 2008).
Best Catalan Film at Mass Sorrer in Catalunya (Spain: 2008).

Fabio Dolso (Italy), artist for peace; - "The Olympic Torch Light War
Weapon/Mutations" (2008: 8'00) The time for see: there are some people who persist
in wanting to obscure the eternal shinning of the Olympics torchlight thus transforming
it into a scheming war weapon. There is time for answer: could we do something to
make it shine brightly again? The time to think
Production: Italy.
Category: animation/political.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Blerta Zeqiri (Kosovo) "Ok" (2007: 11'00) - This is a story of two trafficked girls in
a room. The room is dark with nightclub music coming from the outside. The pimp
comes and takes the girls one by one to serve them to the clients. During moments of
solitude, while one of the girls is not in the room, we witness the deranged state of mind
in which one of the girls is in.
Production: Kosovo.
Category: narrative/social.
Awards:
Best National Movie Prize Dockufest International Documentary and Short
Film Festival.

Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal) "Hunter" (2008: 3'26) First tiger story. Ode to peace.
Trees dance with the wind and someone faces his nature moments before a dramatic
event occur in the woods.
Production: Portugal
Category: experimental/narrative.
Screenings: Streaming Festival, The Hague (The Netherlands: 2008).

Richard Jochum (Austria) "The Rosary Sibha as a Communal Sculpture" (2007-
2008: 5'00) - The short movie documents the making of a public art project called "The
Rosary / Sibha (Arabic for Rosary) as a communal sculpture"which was built in a
communal effort together with students, faculty and the public in March 2007 on the top
of the roof of the American University in Cairo. The installation that was originated by
visiting professor of AUC Richard Jochum is still on public display.
Production: USA/Egypt
Category: performance-doc/social.
Screenings: American University in Cairo (Egypt: 2007).

Bruno Bresani (Brazil) - "Soy" (2007: 3'20) - I am myself, I am myself, not anyone
who wants, these are voices of self-determination, regardless of race or language, I am
my mother, my daughter, my sister, my girl, are all one, I am myself, and I am not mine
for whoever.
Production: Austria.
Category: experimental/poetical.
Screenings: Click & Rec (Spain: 2008); "Otras Dulcineas" at the Museo Cervantino,
Toledo (Spain: 2008); "Fast Curt" in Barcelona (Spain: 2008); "BAC" - Barcelona Arte
Contemporáneo (Spain: 2008); "Samples" of the Universidad de Las Ameritas in Puebla
(México: 2008); 15FIAV of CasaBlanca (Morocco: 2008); Kunstler House - Lades
Atelier of Salzburg (Austria: 2007).

Bruno Bresani (Brazil) - "Stones" (2007: 7'29) - A film dedicated to ten men who died
while trying to reach a dream, this migration that has divided the citizens first with the
second, in the world of inequalities.
Production: Austria.
Category: experimental/political.
Screenings: "Dança em foco"of Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo (Brazil: 2008); 15FIAV of
Casablanca (Morocco: 2008); KunstlerHouse Lades Atelier of Salzburg (Austria:
2007).

Hannah Smitmans (Germany) - "From Alicia" (2003: 3'00) - in a letter a friend writes
about her experiences with the Argentinian military regime. Letter from Alicia Dupoy.
Production: Germany.
Category: documentary/political.
Screenings: Tubingen No Budget Festival (Germany: 2003); Albuquerque Experiments
in Cinema (USA: 2004); Reutlingen Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst (Germany: 2004).

Hannah Smitmans (Germany) - "Two Women on War" (2002: 12'00) - a refugee from
Iraq and a German peace-activist talk about war.
Production: Germany.
Category: documentary/political.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Hannah Smitmans (Germany) -"Who is Your Enemy" (2002: 6'45) - In January 2002,
three months after the September 11, people in the streets in Manhattan answer to the
questions "Who is your enemy"? "Who is your friend"?
Production: Germany/USA.
Category: documentary/political.
Screenings: Lausanne Underground Film Festival (Switzerland: 2005); Berlin
Transmediale (Germany: 2006); NGBK Berlin (Germany: 2004); Zurich Shedhalle
(Switzerland: 2004); Tubingen No Budget Festival (Germany: 2003).

Vesna Milicevic (Serbia) - "Zero Tolerence" (2007: 5'48) - A hate speech between an
Albanian and Serb from Kosovo, found on the Internet. Is this situation of high tension,
typical or unique only to Kosovo, or is it universal? Within the larger scheme, is this
lack of tolerance a global threat?
Production: Serbia.
Category: documentary/political - loop.
Screenings: Festival of Strech Media, Belgrade (Serbia: 2008); Crime and Punishment
at the 198 Contemporary Arts and Learnings in London (England: 2008). April
Meetings at SKC Gallery in Belgrade (Serbia: 2007).

Susanne Babila (Germany) - "Im Schatten des Bosen - Der Krieg Gegen die Frauen Im
Kongo" / The Shadow of Evil - The War against Women in Congo" (2007: 59'00) - The
cruelty that women in Congo have to cope with on a daily basis.
Production: Germany.
Category: documentary/social
Screenings: SWR TV Channel (Germany: 2007); ARTE (Germany/France: 2007);

Kika Nicolela (Brazil) - "Face to Face" (2006: 15'00) - Various men and women
answer to five questions concerning love. These people were left alone with a camera,
facing their own image on the video monitor. The questions, written over a paper,
approached different aspects of love and provoked the participants to reflect and expose
themselves.-
Production: Brazil.
Category: documentary/social.
Awards:
Best Video (Prix de la Création Vidéo)in Videoformes 22e Manifestation
Internationale Art Vidéo et Nouveaux Médias (France: 2007).

Kika Nicolela (Brazil) - "Tropic of Capricorn" (2005: 30'00) - Four transsexuals are
brought in to a hotel room on the same night. Each trans woman is asked to lay on a bed
in an empty room and reveal herself to a camera mounted on the ceiling. As the film
progresses, their stories blend, separate and overlap in a beautifully-constructed collage
of multi-coloured images. They share with the camera their fantasies, hopes,
questionings and experiences in the streets of Sao Paulo.
Production: Brazil.
Category: documentary/social.
Awards:
Best Documentary in Sopot Independent Film Festival (Poland: 2006).

Kika Nicolela (Brazil) - "Passenger" (2007: 05'00) - One path. One landscape. One
passage. These images were recorded from inside a bus, between the Beauvais airport
and Paris. But the trip taken by the passenger is a different one. Original soundtrack by
Thierry Gauthier, with the collaboration of Delphine Measroch.
Production: France/Brazil.
Category: experimental/poetic.
Screenings: LIVRE Experimental Vídeo Exhibition at Usina do Gasometro in Porto
Alegre (Brazil: 2008).

Ricardo Nascimento (Brazil) "Autrmx" (2008: 5'24) - This project came out from
the previous work called "Authority" where the author filmed a policeman (actually an
actor playing a policeman) in different moods while talking a nonsense text with
someone. During the movie he changes his mood between very calm and indifferent to
angry and nervous. This film and also the previous installation is a metaphor of
Foucault's power theory in modern societies witch has the characteristic of not be fixed
but is always moving.
Production: Germany.
Category: experimental/political.
Screenings: Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (Singapore: 2008).

Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) "Life is Coming" (2007: 1'13) One urban reflection about a
day in the city of São Paulo.
Production: Brazil
Category: experimental/narrative.
Awards:
First Place in the Experimental Category at the 1º Festival Cuco Short Film
Online (Brazil: 2007);
Second Place in the Experimental/Arte Category at IV PUTZ Curitiba
University Festival (Brazil: 2007).

Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) "I See You" (2008: 1'54) I see you, when you don't know
I'm looking.
Production: Brazil.
Category: experimental/narrative.
Screenings: Time is Love Exhibition at the Galerie Octobre in Paris (Françe: 2008);
Indie 2008: Mostra de Cinema Mundial da Bahia (Brazil: 2008).

Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) "Disforme" (2008: 2'28) - A shadow questions itself about it
shapes.
Production: Brazil.
Category: experimental/narrative.
Screenings: Portobello Film Festival of London (England: 2008).
Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) "Tainah" (2008: 1'00) A video poetry using the digital
media and the low resolution for an intense and short love declaration, like a digital
haiku.
Production: Brazil.
Category: mobile phone/poetical.
Awards:
Prize Foraster@s Best Foreign Movie - Film Fest 2008 of Barcelona (Spain:
2008);

Gonçalo Brito (Portugal) "Bianca" (2006: 3'00) Bianca cleans the room.
Production: Portugal.
Category: animation/social.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Sahin Ozbay (Turkey) artist for peace; - "Dogrular Straights" (2006: 2'29) -
PHRASES go straight live an honest life after being a criminal. Keep a straight face
keep a blank or serious facial expression when trying not to laugh. The straight and
narrow the honest and morally acceptable way of living. Straight away immediately. A
straight fight Brit. a contest between just two opponents. straight from the shoulder 1
dated (of a blow) swift and well delivered. 2 (of words) frank or direct. Straight off (or
out) informal without hesitation or deliberation. straight up informal 1 Brit. honestly. 2
chiefly N. Amer. undiluted or unadulterated.
Production: Turkey.
Category: animation/social.
Screenings: The First International Art Tech Media Congress Tenerife (Spain: 2008);
Online Competition for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue - Spanish Ministry
of Culture (Spain: 2008). Lodz IV International Animated Film Festival ReAnimacja-
Panorama (Poland: 2007); Los Angeles Venturous Vanguard Video Festival (USA:
2007).

Emre Özkapi (Turkey) and Asli Buyukkoksal (Turkey) "Uzun _nce Bir Yol /A Long
and Thin Way" (2006: 6'00) - Unusual shootings on the "unusual" time, with
uninterested with permission and the powers and the practisers of the authority. Do it
yourself what you want to do.
Production: Turkey.
Category: documentary/political.
Awards:
Jury Special Award, Professional Category in Ankara International Film
Festival (Turkey: 2006).

Liuyi Wang (China) "Echo from Tiananmen" (2006: 4'42) - As an artist and Witness
of Tiananmen Square, Liuyi Wand use the bush to represent his experience of Beijing
Tiananmen Square in the 3rd and 4th June of 1989. Then he uses them as reference to
shot a movie.
Production: Canada.
Category: documentary/political.
Screenings: Festival premiere.

Lemeh 42 - Lorenza Paoloni and Michele Santini (Italy) "Per fare un tavolo/How
to make a table" (2008: 2'30) - Taking inspiration from the famous italian song from the
80's, this animation analyzes ironically the terms of industrial production using a
famous brand known for its ambiental care.
Production: Italy.
Category: animation/social.
Screenings: Videoholica 08 Art Biennale of Varna (Bulgaria: 2008).

Adam Buczek (Poland) "Home is Hope" (2007: 0'10) States for the hope that
everyone experienced when lost shelter, migrated or were moved by force out of the
place that one called home. Hope is in a place that we make home, hope is immanent
element of home as a wish that would result in fulfilment. Hence these terms are used as
a reflection of each other, because there is a hope in every home as well as home in
every hope.
Production: UK.
Category: loop
Screenings: Museum of Contemporary Art in Yekaterinburg (Russia: 2008); Valencia
Java Museum (Spain: 2008); California State University (USA: 2008); London Photo-
Month (UK: 2007); XI Media Art Festival Friesland (Netherlands: 2007); London
Octoply Royal Arsenal (UK: 2007); Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art Web
Biennale 07 (Turkey: 2007); Mascalls Kent Gallery (UK: 2007).

Layla Eve Glantz (UK) "Behind the Veil" (2008: 3'58) - deals with the odd body,
and the objectifying gaze of the viewer. Placed in an undefined space, a hallway, a right
of passage, which is viewed through a doorway, symbolizes virtual meeting places. In
virtual space we can hide our "imperfections" as we have a natural veil between the
other and us, and are therefore free to choose how and when we reveal ourselves, an
advantage not available in our tangible reality of everyday life.
Production: UK.
Category: loop.
Screenings: Balancing Acts 7th Disability Arts Festival in Calgary (Canada: 2008)

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Yapım Tarihi : Mayıs 2006, Ankara
Süresi : 00:56:00
Formatı : Belgesel Video

Yönetmen - Oktay İNCE
Yapım - Kaos-gl, Karahaber Video-Eylem Atölyesi

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Geçişler - Transitions - 2008 - 18 dakika

Bir yıldan daha fazla zaman önce Lübnan ordusu ve islamcı militan örgüt fatah al-islamın çatışması süresince evleri yok edildi. -kolektif mülksüzleştirildi...- Kuzey lübnandaki Nahr al-bared mülteci topluluğu oldukça zor bir duruma itildi. Evlerine dönemediler, işsizliğe ve prefabrik evlere mahkum edildiler. Birçoğu boşuna uğraştıklarını düşünmekte ve umutsuz, sadece arasıra hafif ışıldayan bir umut var...

between past and present -2008 - 16 dakika
Geçmişin ve şimdinin arasında...
İlk filistinlilerin yok edilmiş olan nahr al-bared mülteci kampına; sözde "Yeni kamp"a dönmelerine izin verileli bir yıl oldu. Aynı zamanda, 15.000'e yakın insan tekrar yerleşti ve birçoğu harab edilmiş olan "eski kamp"taki yok edilmiş evlerine dönmeyi bekliyor. Lübnan ordusu hala "eski kamp"ı kontrol etmekte "yeni kamp"ı kontrol etmekte olduğu gibi...

portakal hasadı 2008 - 17 dakika
sabahın erken saatlerinde, 5 ile 6 arasında, güney lübnan'daki bourj ash-shamali mülteci kampının dar geçitlerinde ayak sesleri ve fısıltılar duyulmakta. yüzlerce filistinli günlük işçi, sabahın erken saatlerinin karanlığında, evlerinden çıkıyor, sokaklarda bir araya geliyor ve çalışacakları tarlalara ve ekim alanlarına doğru yöneliyorlar. kamptaki işgücünün üçte ikisinden daha fazlası en azından yarı zamanlı olarak tarım işinde çalışmaktadır.

lübnan yasaları ülkedeki 400.000'den fazla filistinli mülteciyi yabancı sayıyor. bu yüzden onların toprak edinme hakları yok, düzinelerce işte çalışmaları yasak, asgari ücret almaları garanti değil ve lübnan sosyal ve sağlık sigorta sisteminden yararlanamıyorlar. bu tarz çeşitli dışlanmalar, onları savunmasız ve sömürüye açık bırakıyor.