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“Film Rolls”, 2006 by Matias Faldbakken.

»Disney Couture«, 2007-1937, and

»Paramountains«, 2008 by Kari Altmann.

»Film drawing#10«, 2008, collage by Holly Zausner.

»Ink On Paper«, 2008,

»Cover«, 2007 by Lars Morell.

»Filmspace«, 2006-2007, is a series of stills from movies placed and montaged together to produce a new space. By Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube.

Andy Warhol eating a hamburger. The scene is taken from a movie by the Danish director Jørgen Leth called »66 scenes from America«, 1982.

Excerpt from »Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy«, 1998, by Martin Arnold.

»INFINITY X 10« (program to repeat the scene “The Infinite and Beyond” from “2001: a Space Odyssey” ten times, offset by a frame) by Charles Broskoski.

»Seduction of the Stone« (2008). Foreign subtitles extracted from »Romancing the Stone (1984, Starring Kathleen Turner
and Michael Douglas)« and translated into english using Google Translate. By Charles Broskoski.

»LIGHT READING 1500 cinematic explosions«, 2006 by Elizabeth McAlpine . The whitest frame from 1500 different cinematic explosions has been taken and compiled together to make a minute long white flickering movie the sound track has become an agitated micro sound due to the editing process.

»Quintet«, 2006; Vinyl records, record player, plywood. By Elizabeth McAlpine .

»Following the Right Hand of Janet Leigh in “Touch of Evil”«, 2006. For the duration of the film, Pierre Bismuth placed a pen, so to speak, in Janet Leigh’s right hand so that through her movements the actress produced a drawing on the screen.

Origami »Tortue«, 2003. A ready-made origami is unfolded and doesn’t reveal any trace of its creation; every object keeps nevertheless name of the thing that the corresponding origami is supposed to represent. By Pierre Bismuth.

»Stock Exchange«, 2006, takes the form of a video ‘letter’ written to the footage acquisitions department at Artbeats Software, Inc., a company whose main business is to provide high quality and royalty-free film and video clips for commercial clients. The artist theorizes how the company might go about accepting (or not accepting) footage shot by freelance videographers, eventually asking Artbeats to define their selection criteria. The response, during which a representative of the company lists a set of ‘shooting tips and guidelines’ is juxtaposed with actual clips from the Artbeats catalog. The work as a whole seeks to meditate on the construction of visual meaning in today’s very fluid (and increasingly template-driven) image economy.

»i (towards a reconciliation with technoromanticism)«, 2004, is an inquiry into modes of escapist representation within leisure and entertainment technology. Apple’s iTunes software was modified using Apple’s own plug-in architecture, originally built to allow non-affiliated programmers an opportunity to come up with their own algorithms for the ‘Visualizer’ component of iTunes. In this case the original Visualizer engine was swapped out, not for another synced color/shape generating algorithm, but for a looped video of the artist creating light patterns with common sparklers. The piece was shown orginally on a laptop computer playing seminal classics by Kratfwerk, but any music can be played. By Nate Harrison.

»Scene for a New Heritage«, 2004 and »Scene for a New Heritage II«, 2006. These two films take place at a Petrova Gora Memorial Park at a monument designed by esteemed modernist sculptor Vojin Bakiç. In Croatia, 2045 a group of young travelers makes a journey to a silver monument which had been erected under the communist government of Yugoslavia to commemorate the Second World War. It is the 25th of May, Tito’s birthday anniversary, and they are on a quest to recollect the monument’s fading promise. Nearly two decades later, in 2063, Petrova Gora Memorial Park is visited for a second time. In both films the monument-museum, once idealised as an abiding testament to ideology, is now perceived as at first a moment embedded with avant-garde ciphers, and ultimately an abstraction. By David Maljković.

»Zen For Film«, 1964 by Nam June Paik.

Excerpt from »Blue, White and Red (tracking colors in Kieslowski’s Trilogy)«, 2007 by Aleksandra Domanovic.

»Remake of The Deer Hunter« (2005) by Ronny Hanson, Jonas Kjellgren and Stig Sjölund.

“Simulating Gravity” by Jesper Carlsen. Reanimated scene from the film “Space Odyssey 2001″. Video.

»Autobahnschleife (motorway loop)«, 1996, offers the driver a chance to leave the motorway at a sign-posted exit and take a 360 degree bend which loops back to the motorway, rejoining it at the point where he left.

»kurz vor fünf (shortly before five)«, 2001, combines the disciplines of film and photography, in which the 4,290 individual frames from each of several short films have been printed to form a chronologically sequenced photo-mosaic to make up one large image for each film.

»Olympic Pong«, 2003. All three projects by M+M.

»Sharanga« (2006), oil on canvas, 200 x 100 cm. Lollywood is a series of oil paintings on canvas that are refering to various film posters of Lollywood productions. The word »Lollywood« refers to the Pakistani film industry, based in the city of Lahore.

»The Right Way To Pray« (2002-03), interactive flash animation/ found footage from the web.

»Seat« (2003). All projects by Shahram Entekhabi.

Orte in Zeiten: avantgarde films by Christoph Brunner.