Competition: Animation - II

Advertisements for myself 

Director: Paul Tarragó
UK, 2021, 8’11’’, HDD
English with Turkish Subtitles

A promotional vehicle with lane-changing tendencies, but both hands kept on the wheel at all times.

First video in ‘The Variations’ cycle, a suite of 4 standalone films, reconfiguring home life as a combination newsletter, ad campaign, personal cinema, and experimental workbook. 

Freeze frame 

Director: Soetkin Verstegen
Belgium, 2020, 5’, HDD  
No Dialogue

Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image.Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness.Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside 

Home Closed

Director:  Wobbe F. Koning
USA, 2020, 3’ 43’’, HDD
No Dialogue  

Stop Motion in times of Covid, created with junk in a basement.

Insane Brothers 

Director: Borja Santomé Rodríguez
Spain, 2020, 6’15’’, HDD
No Dialogue

Experimental animation piece in which surrealism and psychedelia come together to immerse the viewer in a dreamlike journey, where the magical and supernatural transcends the ordinary of everyday life. The creation of life, spirituality, and the transformation of the world appear as essential issues in this short film, which is told without following a linear narrative structure.

Lah gah

Director: Cécile Brun
Switzerland, 2019, 6’33’’, HDD, Color
No Dialogue 

A dive into sunny childhood memories and emotional depths of loss and disappearance, trying to grasp what is not tangible.

Microscripts

Director: Pelin Kırca
Turkey, 2020, 10’31’’, HDD, color
German; Turkish and English Subtitles 

Microscripts is an animated short film in homage to the Swiss writer Robert Walser.

The Ephemeral Orphanage

Director: Lisa Barcy
USA, 2020, 15’, HDD, Color
No Dialogue

A group of tattered paper dolls daydream alternate realities and surreptitiously explore the hidden lives of their strict and secretive caregivers. Mischief ensues and discoveries are made as the characters live out their childhood fantasies. Created with found paper dolls cut from a 1920’s newspaper and found in an attic, the film explores the adults attempt to dictate what girls learn, and the children’s talent for discovering forbidden knowledge. 

The long wail of a passing train slips into the heart of the ghosts and everything explodes into silence

Director: Anne-Marie Bouchard
Canada, 2020, 7’46’’, HDD, Color
No Dialogue 

An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.

Troubled Water

Director: Elena Wiener
Germany, 2020 10’, HDD, Color
No Dialogue 

What to do when your body eats you up? When the fight against yourself overshadows your daily routines, your relationships, and your freedom? It‘s about fighting autoimmune diseases and inner demons. 

Panel: Rethinking the Archive

Panel: Rethinking the Archive

Panorama: Colombian Highlights

Panorama: Colombian Highlights

Panorama: Emerging Artists

Panorama: Emerging Artists

Panorama: Hambre

Panorama: Hambre

Panorama: Nomadica

Panorama: Nomadica

Panorama: Portraits - KLEX

Panorama: Portraits - KLEX

Panorama: Tech-Myth

Panorama: Tech-Myth

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 1

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 1

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 2

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 2

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 3

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 3

Competition: Analog Works

Competition: Analog Works

Competition: Animation - I

Competition: Animation - I

Competition: Animation - II

Competition: Animation - II

Competition: Between Motion and Stillness

Competition: Between Motion and Stillness

Competition: Essay-I

Competition: Essay-I

Competition: Essay-3

Competition: Essay-3

Competition: Essay - 4

Competition: Essay - 4

Competition: Ethnogeographic

Competition: Ethnogeographic

Competition: First Experiments

Competition: First Experiments

Competition: Found Footage – I

Competition: Found Footage – I

Competition: Fresh Air-I

Competition: Fresh Air-I

Competition: Fresh Air-II

Competition: Fresh Air-II

Competition: Memory Boom

Competition: Memory Boom

Competition: Personal Cinema

Competition: Personal Cinema

Competition: A Machine to Live In

Competition: A Machine to Live In

Special Screening: When Forever Dies

Special Screening: When Forever Dies

Competition: Eyes/Eyes<br>Eyes/Eyes

Competition: Eyes/Eyes
Eyes/Eyes

Competition: Ailleurs Partout

Competition: Ailleurs Partout

Competition: The Personal Life of a Hole

Competition: The Personal Life of a Hole

Competition: This is China of a Particular Sort, I Do Not Know

Competition: This is China of a Particular Sort, I Do Not Know

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Top Ten Designers

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Top Ten Designers

Competition: Autumnal Sleeps

Competition: Autumnal Sleeps

Competition: Inside The Outset - Evoking A Space of Passage

Competition: Inside The Outset - Evoking A Space of Passage

Symbols

Symbols

Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

Turquerie

Turquerie

Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts. 

Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel

Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel

In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art.