Highlights of tapes from one of Europe's leading experimental art festivals. Introduced by Ralf Sarsmikat, EMAF.


ZUCKERHUT Ralf Drechsler 1989 4 min
Why is life so hard? Why do we live ? Why there is so much that is unfair in this world? Where do we go for our holidays this year?
MARILYN'S CONDENSED BEAR SOUP Barbara Lazar 1990 2 min Under the cover of the perfectly styled product M.M, and contrary to it, the lost personality of the artist M.M has been remodelled. With the help of editing and in an ironical kind of approach, quotations from her films stand between new gestures, passions and not yet revealed obsessions.
KNIESPIEL 111 Claus Blume 1990 3 min 40 sec
Blume uses the video-editor as a musical instrument. The staccato like montage transforms a typical Bavarian Schuhplattler performed by the Traunwalcher Goasslschnalzer to a new audio-visual patterm, close to minimal music.
REVERSE BIG BROTHER Paul Garrin 1990 1 min
HOME(LESS) IS, WHERE REVOLUTION IS Paul Garrin 1990 5 min
BILOCATION Grzinic Marina 1990 14 min
Bilocation is a term which means a dislocation - one body in two different places (Bilocation is a term for transcendental and spiritual existence). The project Bilocation is a political and artistic view on the recent events/incidents in Kosovo/Yogoslavia.
RADIO IMAGE John Goff 1989 4 min 30 sec
Electro magnetic rays are visualized with the help of a cathode ray tube and a
computer: the radio image moves in an attempt to display its heterogenous
WHITEWASH Jan Peacock 1989 15 min 7 sec
"You can imagine everything... you invent nothing ".- In Whitewash, two themes are fused together through a disordering and reordering of the conventions of the T.V. news format and domestically sited T.V. commercials. One of these themes is the way in which T.V conventions are collected and remembered, framing experience and affecting the formation of identity. In the character of a female news anchor, we are presented with a compendium of television behaviours and gestures which at every turn interfere with her own process of attempting to write the character of her inner self. The second theme questions the authority conferring power of these conventions. Whitewash challenges the assumption that information is inherent in the familiar forms of the T.V. news format and in commercials which are constructed to prove the success of their products. Whitewash presents television as a world of appearances whose familiarity induces in us "the sleep of complicity", the semi-conscious state in which we absorb ideologies.
MATTSCHEIBE Christoph Doering 1989 5 min
For once the screen is not just a projection surface for visual ideas but is used in its concrete measures as a space and in its limitations. But what happens when the images feel imprisoned in their cages and tubes?
WINDOW FIGURE K.B Hogg 1990 3 min 20 sec
The spiritual figure in this case is trapped in the material relic represented by the window.
STILLEBEN - MILENA'S JOURNEY Marikki Hakola 1989 5 min 22 sec
STUDIES Beate Priolo 1990 7 min
There is only one constant in this body of language, it is that change is absolute.
UPSTAIRS Angela Hanke-Wahls 1990 5 mm 30 sec
'Upstairs is my second film with a description of place as its subject. The film is not based on a story, but there derives a sequence of image/sound built after its own rules. I use fragments of my personal way of perception and experience of this place like a collage, and by overlapping the aesthetic and emotional levels try to give the viewer room for his own associations, which on the other hand can arouse his own emotional involvement.' ANGELA HANKE-WAHLS
MAOS BIBEL Antal Lux 1990 8 min 20 sec
Mao's instructions and the thoughts of the red leader were critically observed and subjected to sarcastic visual commentary. Nonsensical propositions were emphasized and the fragments joined together into a new visual unity. A radio play by Helga M. Novak served as a basis.
ART MODERNA CHA CHA CHA Akiko Hada 1990 5 mm 50 sec
A complete history of Modern Art in five minutes of Spanglish. An art historian (Martiniquen singer Chantal Remion) sings in a relaxed Latin mood, 'Salvador Dali es luno...Pollock el splishos y splashos...enormous lumpo Moore'. The 'interview' is suitably illustrated and includes a lesson in forging Van Goghs, from the late great British forger Tom Keating.
PLAYING DANDELION Johan Oja 1990 1 min 42 sec

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Highlights of tapes from one of Europe's leading experimental art festivals. Introduced by Ralf Sarsmikat, EMAF.


ZUCKERHUT Ralf Drechsler 1989 4 min
Why is life so hard? Why do we live ? Why there is so much that is unfair in this world? Where do we go for our holidays this year?
MARILYN'S CONDENSED BEAR SOUP Barbara Lazar 1990 2 min Under the cover of the perfectly styled product M.M, and contrary to it, the lost personality of the artist M.M has been remodelled. With the help of editing and in an ironical kind of approach, quotations from her films stand between new gestures, passions and not yet revealed obsessions.
KNIESPIEL 111 Claus Blume 1990 3 min 40 sec
Blume uses the video-editor as a musical instrument. The staccato like montage transforms a typical Bavarian Schuhplattler performed by the Traunwalcher Goasslschnalzer to a new audio-visual patterm, close to minimal music.
REVERSE BIG BROTHER Paul Garrin 1990 1 min
HOME(LESS) IS, WHERE REVOLUTION IS Paul Garrin 1990 5 min
BILOCATION Grzinic Marina 1990 14 min
Bilocation is a term which means a dislocation - one body in two different places (Bilocation is a term for transcendental and spiritual existence). The project Bilocation is a political and artistic view on the recent events/incidents in Kosovo/Yogoslavia.
RADIO IMAGE John Goff 1989 4 min 30 sec
Electro magnetic rays are visualized with the help of a cathode ray tube and a
computer: the radio image moves in an attempt to display its heterogenous
WHITEWASH Jan Peacock 1989 15 min 7 sec
"You can imagine everything... you invent nothing ".- In Whitewash, two themes are fused together through a disordering and reordering of the conventions of the T.V. news format and domestically sited T.V. commercials. One of these themes is the way in which T.V conventions are collected and remembered, framing experience and affecting the formation of identity. In the character of a female news anchor, we are presented with a compendium of television behaviours and gestures which at every turn interfere with her own process of attempting to write the character of her inner self. The second theme questions the authority conferring power of these conventions. Whitewash challenges the assumption that information is inherent in the familiar forms of the T.V. news format and in commercials which are constructed to prove the success of their products. Whitewash presents television as a world of appearances whose familiarity induces in us "the sleep of complicity", the semi-conscious state in which we absorb ideologies.
MATTSCHEIBE Christoph Doering 1989 5 min
For once the screen is not just a projection surface for visual ideas but is used in its concrete measures as a space and in its limitations. But what happens when the images feel imprisoned in their cages and tubes?
WINDOW FIGURE K.B Hogg 1990 3 min 20 sec
The spiritual figure in this case is trapped in the material relic represented by the window.
STILLEBEN - MILENA'S JOURNEY Marikki Hakola 1989 5 min 22 sec
STUDIES Beate Priolo 1990 7 min
There is only one constant in this body of language, it is that change is absolute.
UPSTAIRS Angela Hanke-Wahls 1990 5 mm 30 sec
'Upstairs is my second film with a description of place as its subject. The film is not based on a story, but there derives a sequence of image/sound built after its own rules. I use fragments of my personal way of perception and experience of this place like a collage, and by overlapping the aesthetic and emotional levels try to give the viewer room for his own associations, which on the other hand can arouse his own emotional involvement.' ANGELA HANKE-WAHLS
MAOS BIBEL Antal Lux 1990 8 min 20 sec
Mao's instructions and the thoughts of the red leader were critically observed and subjected to sarcastic visual commentary. Nonsensical propositions were emphasized and the fragments joined together into a new visual unity. A radio play by Helga M. Novak served as a basis.
ART MODERNA CHA CHA CHA Akiko Hada 1990 5 mm 50 sec
A complete history of Modern Art in five minutes of Spanglish. An art historian (Martiniquen singer Chantal Remion) sings in a relaxed Latin mood, 'Salvador Dali es luno...Pollock el splishos y splashos...enormous lumpo Moore'. The 'interview' is suitably illustrated and includes a lesson in forging Van Goghs, from the late great British forger Tom Keating.
PLAYING DANDELION Johan Oja 1990 1 min 42 sec