Videopark Broll Call for video:
Galerie Helga Broll, Lodypop and Videopark invite you to submit work for a 3-day mini-festival in 2008 in Basel. Your work will be screened at the cinema «Club» and at Lodypop, and will be part of an online exhibition on the website «Video Park Broll».
Videopark is an independent online video gallery project initiated by Jan Voellmy. Galerie Helga Broll stands for works that are collaboratively provocative, for the production of visual discussions and joint presentations. Lodypop stands as an art space for “performance without pressure†and “projects without panicâ€. www.galerie-broll.com / www.lodypop.ch / www.videopark.org
Interesting hybrid of an advertisement and a shortfilm. Martin Scorsese with a Hommage to Alfred Hitchcock.
The Video is an interesting mixture of the actual shortfilm-ad and a fake-documentary of Scorsese talking about how he found a lost Hitchcock script.
Also see the website for the campaign: ScorseseFilmFreixenet
“darkly twisted yet entrancingly beautiful” - Chocolade Haas is a short film by Sander Plug.
Another project I learned about at ARGOS:
Plugincinema is an early pioneer project of digital and web creative technology. They have published the pluginmanifesto which “aims to create a definitive framework that filmmakers can use to produce films specifically for the Internet” and a the plugincinema book - a guide to internet filmmaking.
Lots of interesting information and projects on the site, plugincinema is pushing the borders of web cinema.
It’s already over one week since I returned from the Video Vortex Conference in Brussels, but I’m still deeply moved by the amazing weekend! Thanks again to Stoffel, Maria, Andrea, Bram and the whole team at ARGOS for inviting me and organizing this exciting conference!
I will post some stuff I saw in Brussels within the next days but I’ll start with a selection of abstrakt short films I curated and that was shown at a screening evening at the conference. It’s called “Visual Poems - Abstract video works on the net” and you can see it online at the ARGOS Blog. There you’ll find the short films of the participating artists and some short interviews.
Participating artists are Mate Steinforth, WeWorkForThem, Alec Crichton, Devoid of Yesterday, Curt and Defasten.
“Abstraction has been an important theme in the arts for over a century. Concerning the moving image there has been a strong tradition of abstraction from early experimental films to video art. The exploration of form has always been the exploration of the rules and functionalities of the particular medium.
20 years after the invention of the Internet moving images invade the medium. YouTube is already causing about 10% of the internet traffic worldwide, videos are seen by millions of users. But what is a typical web video? Are there already existing rules and thematical focal points in the YouTube world? Critics complain that you only need someone hurting himself in your video to get the big click on YouTube. Serious content or artistic expressions don’t arrouse enough attention and get lost in the digital nirvana.
So what about abstract or poetic web videos? Aren’t they objecting the rules of the medium by not impressing the viewer with fast food entertainment? Or are they by contrast indeed exploring the rules of the new medium by addressing issues like fragmentation or postmodernity?”
“Dead Bird is an experiment in storytelling & editing.
The same story is presented 3 different ways with each edit revealing a little more about the characters personalities, through their relationship with the environment, each other and a dead bird.”
You can watch the shortfilm either in a split screen edit or two classical edits. You can learn a lot about spatial montage comparing the three edits. In my opinion the classical edits in this case are much more compelling. The split screen edit transfers a certain atmosphere but no dramatic development while the classical edits offer more suspense. The split screen shows you different view points at the same time, but in this case it’s not really leading somewhere.
18 Seconds is a short film by Zac&Mac (Bruno Zacharias and MacGregor), who also did Similio.
Amazing visuals again, and the atmosphere of the film really draws you in. Love everything except the end which is a little bit too predictable.
Via Not Fat Clips.
Josie’s Lalaland is a very intense and truly beautiful animated short film by Eb Hu.
via Motionographer.
“Antarctica, some time in the future. Hebe (Magda Ritz) and Ciro (Benedicto Moya) are spending their vacation. But they�re not an ordinary couple.
Similo is an amazing SF short movie by Blackmilk Films, that is Bruno Zacharias and MacGregor.”
via Ticklebooth