THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE ON VIDEOCASSETTES
1 9 91 / 92 OSNABRÜCK / SKOPJE
51 CONTRIBUTIONS - 16 COUNTRIES
Editors: Heiko Daxl, Osnabrück/Zagreb, Evgenija Dimitrieva, Skopje
Supervisor: Keiko Sei, Praha/Tokyo
Osnabrück / Skopje 1991-92
1-Inch, 360:00
Production: INFERMENTAL, Makedonska TV, European Media Art Festival
Coordination: media in motion © The Artists, INFERMENTAL
BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE ANOTHER WALL
AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE OTHER SIDE ANOTHER ONE ..
INFERMENTAL tries to remove walls, to pass over thresholds, to combine the other with the own and shows HERE as BETWEEN the THERE, is media (bridge) BETWEEN HERE and THERE, shows HERE and THERE the BETWEEN.
This tenth edition sets the preliminary end-point of a ten-years history of INFERMENTAL and the international experimentalfilm workshop, Osnabrück. INFERMENTAL, born as a idea BETWEEN Hungary and Poland, is continued - after 9 editions produced in different cities of the world - as an edition BETWEEN two countries: Yugoslavia and Germany. Two countries, both in a stage of BETWEEN HERE and THERE: Yugoslavia BETWEEN Orient and Occident, Germany BETWEEN East and West, Yugoslavia BETWEEN an old and (several ?) new states, Germany BETWEEN two old and one new state. INFERMENTAL is BETWEEN both countries: one editor from Germany, one editor from Yugoslavia. (Heiko Daxl, May 1991)
" CAN YOU STAND THIS ? "
I heard this sentence in one of the tapes. If art ever had been reasonable, art would never exist. If reality does not exist, moving images would never touch us. THERE - BETWEEN - HERE. For You who is reading this, it might be a very simple, maybe a reasonable title. But what does it mean for me HERE ? Feeling the difference BETWEEN all those 6 Billion people THERE in this, our terra lingua, terra ars, terra full of racism, desasters, unjustice, violence and negations. But this is the world, we are living in. This artificial world says Thank You for seeing us and absorbes our true images. (Evgenija Dimitrieva, May 1991)
The war on the balkan since 1991 tells its own story
Cassette 1:
PEOPLE, SITES, TIMES
Showing the own flagg. The reclamation of space and time by personal statement. To develope in opposition to the "official" sight of the media the own rhythm and angle. To aim at the supposed minor matters. To locate a viewpoint. To reconstruct the whole from a detail. To map out one's own territory and time.
APOKATASTATIS - Dragan Abjanic
2:45, YU 1991
When the Child was a Child / Was that the time of the following questions:
Why am I I and Why not You. Why am I Here and Why not There.
When did Time begin and Where will Space end.
Is Life under the sun not just not just a dream.
ALLES WANDELT SICH - Llurex
7:45, BRD 1990
Everything changes. What happened, happened.
The water You once poured into the wine cannot be drained off again,
But You can make A fresh start with Your final breath.
But what happened, happened. Everything changes.
The water You once poured into the wine cannot be drained off again,
But You can make A fresh start with Your final breath.
(Bert Brecht)
INTRODUCTION TO THE END OF AN ARGUMENT - Elia Suleiman & Jayce Salloum
14:00 (excerpt), USA 1990
So many films about Palestinians seem to concede defeat at the outset, trying to prove, for instance, that Palestinians are also human, that they deserve freedom too, that they are heroic too, and so on, at infinitum. While there is nothing inherently wrong with such messages, it seems to presuppose that assumptions of the oppressor to be correct.
SLAVES - Pentti Arnio & Liru Rüüt
3:00, SF/USSR 1990
Video-clip-like comment on the turmoil raging in the Soviet Union,
emphasizing the viewpoint of the Baltic Republics.
GEOGRAPHY - Breda Beban & Hvorje Horvatic
10:00, YU 1989
Will I ever be able to make with my own hands a line as delicate as the one between Your mouth and nose.
HOME(LESS) IS WHERE THE REVOLUTION IS - Paul Garrin
3:00, USA 1990
A documentary with artistic means about the housing situation around Tompkinsquare in New York. That's where cheap housing for poor peoples is being converted into condominiums for Yuppies.The former inhabitants are resisting.
THIS KIND OF PEOPLE - Roi Vaara & Seppo Koskola
7:00, SF 1989
"Those are my kind of people !"
BILOCATION - Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid.
14:00, YU 1990
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/Yugoslavia.
Cassette 2:
NAVIGATE !
When we have passed through the old spaces time has come to keep on working on the building of developement and to pass the thresholds to new spaces. These new spaces are still connected to the old or parallel ones even when we lost the keys of their doors. The new can only be build on the foundation of the old (experience, knowledge, morality) to find it's destination. That is, where our civilisation comes from, the source of greatness and mistakes, intelligence and fatal errors, humanity and cruelty.
We have to understand the ground-plan to find our way in the jungle of more and more enlarged and complicated structures, to come to that decision, which really opens new spaces. We have to be aware of the fact that the passing of one threshold implies the passing of following thresholds, that can show the way to well-being and progress or describe the path to catastrophy. We always have to be conscious about our steps. - You are Your Navigator !
LEAVING THE OLD RUIN - Irit Batsry
10:00 (excerpt), USA 1989
A sea journey, a passage from past to future, from dark to light. It is an evocation of a haunted personal/ collective memory. It examines the state of a social/personal consciousness in transit between a collapsed past and a utopic future.
NOBODY HAD INFORMED ME - Paul & Menno de Nooijer
16 mm, 14:00, NL 1989.
A statement by the photographer Paul de Nooijer. De Nooijer uses a variety of animation and live action techniques (pixillation, stoßaction, object animation) in creating a colorful and theatrical world of illusions which directly results from the illusion-producing nature of both photography and filmmaking.
FROZEN INK - Katherina Liberovskaya
13:15, CDN/F 1989
From blank to blank a visual poem unfolds through the vast while territory of the empty spaces the dottet lines left behind by those familiar cage words: name ... address ... date of birth ... occupation ... that persue us all along our lives from blank to blank questions seek answers answers question questions while suspension points punctuate frozen time.
I 8843 (PARADAYS) - Michael Saup
8:00, BRD 1989/90
A video about the most fragrant symbols of para-psychology of the 70's. "Slippery ice, a paradice, for everyone, who knows to dance !" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
LICHNIDA - Nusa Dragan
7:00, YU 1989
The end of the summer. The lost love, the remembrance. A female body is communicating with its environment, is recepting the cosmos, which bears traces of all the related legitimacy of physiology with all energetic zones. Those energies are corresponding to spiritual experience.
RAUCHNÄCHTE - Raskin (Pape & Coerper)
10:25, BRD/F 1990
Twelve nights, raw nights, smoke nights, the nights between the 25th December and 6th January. This is the time of the return of spirits, the wild chase and the appearance of ghosts, who are entertained or repulsed by smoke, noise-making, or the sign of the cross.
Cassette 3:
BREATHE IN - BREATHE OUT
The artist's perception of himself using the machine as a mirror. The self becomes identical to the medium and the body and the soul of the artist becomes a demonstrative object. The thoughts circle around recognition and embodiment. Who am I and where is my place in this world? The artist breathes in the past and breathes out the future.
DAS VIDEORAKEL - Kain Karawahn
7:00, BRD 1989
Hard times, hard hearts, hard duties
WATERBOY - Jeremy Welsh
7:30, GB 1990
A return to eternal themes, that one can lose oneself in reflection, in water, in self obsession, and a suggestion that images, like Water, may conceal hidden depths and mysteries that we are not yet ready to confront.
STUDIES - Beate Priolo
7:00. USA 1990
There is only one constant in this body of language, it is that change is absolute.
SONNENSEUCHE - Park Hee Sook
9:00, F 1990
"I am afraid ..."
AUS DER FERNE - THE MEMO BOOK - Matthias Müller
16 mm, 8:00 BRD/USA/ß1989/90
Begun with the Aids related death of a close friend, AUS DER FERNE is both eulogy and science fiction. Closing hands with an indiscriminate contagion without succumbing to fatalism of despair. That the site of desire should be so resolutely joined to death - or that the passage of death should follow the lines of love - these are the paradoxes heneath which Müller refashions the bodys of film and maker.
STILLLEBEN - MILENA'S JOURNEY - Marikki Hakola
6:00, SF 1989
"Stilleben" is based on the letters of Kafka to his beloved Milena: the communication between two people who, instead of physically touching each other, are using a medium to come closer. Milena's journey leads into her innerworld and, eventually to loneliness but also to independence.
WINDOW FIGURE - Kevin B. Hogg
3:20, CDN 1990
The spiritual figure in this case is trapped in the material relict represented by the window.
IF WITH THOSE EYES AND EARS - Leighton Pierce
7:00, USA 1989
A study in the perception of motion, rhythm, shape and sound as inspired by watching my newborn baby.
BREATHING - Skip Arnold
1:20, USA 1989
Cassette 4:
PLEASE INSERT CARD !
The evolution of the man-kind and the spreading of knowledge was a continuous sequence of abstractions: from cave-paintings to picture-writing, from phonetic syllabic writing to the alphabet and the digital code of present time.
This was followed by a more and more ongoing separation of life into specialized fields, which revealed a misunderstanding by the public. Through the increasing of trade, traffic and exchange a constant rise of parallel codes, languages and alphabets appeared.
Our everyday-world looks like a new Babylon. This dilemma can not be solved by existent languages. The year 2000 was always our synonym for the future, in less than 10 years we will reach it, but how looks our vision about future ? New codes, new symbols have to be invented. The world, life and human society should be touched in new ways to make it understandable again and open for everyone.
NEO GEO: AN AMERICAN PURCHASE - Peter Callas
10:00, AUS/USA 1989/90
Critical reference to the "New World" and what America has made of it. In a frenetic bombing of emblems and icons of american culture, Callas portrays the dark side of the early process of colonisation and onwards to the contemporary imperialistic policies of the US.
PIECE TOUCHEE - Martin Arnold
16 mm, 15:30, A 1988/89
An 18" long take out of an american B-picture which was produced in the early 50-ies is reproduced picture by picture and revised in its temporal and spatial progression. Given factors: him and her, the scenographic space and the time spent in there.
IMAGES FROM "VIDEO ROAD" - Kjell Bjorgeengen
4:35, N/USA 1990
The tape deals with time, movement in time and our memory and perception, especially with the doubling of vision based on the reentry of images from the recent past into the visual field.
IT'S ALL IN THE TIMING - Teddy Dibble
2:00, USA 1990
Machine dictates time ... THAT`S FUNNY !
WELCOME TO H.K. - Heiko Daxl
13:00, H.K. 1990
As an island HongKong is determined by two diversive sides. The european - surrounded by medial noise, the rythm of telecom, which defines ratio in action and the shape of urban environment - and the chinese - surrounded by water, the good "Fung Shui", which influences action in accordance to nature. Like in the the all-around cash- machines and their call "Welcome ..." there could be a choice between those different sides (options) of H.K..
LIVEWIRES - Paula Fairfield
9:45, CDN 1990
The work utilizes the analogy of a broadcast version of Plato's Cave, delineated by the volatile combination of water and electricity and explores the position of the female viewer in relation to media constructs. This positioning aligns the viewer with LIVEWIRES on-screen counterpart through the use of a subjective audio perspective.
TALES - Laszlo Kiss
6:00, H 1990
"It can be seen, because it seems apparent. (...)"
HA ! - Ilse Gassinger
0:04, A 1990
It is apparent. Can it be seen ?
Cassette 5:
IMAGES AND ICONS
In all aspects of life and experience, our desires and intentions, images have superseded reality and have destroyed traditional distinctions and opposites. The image is everywhere, in our expectations, our ethics, in propaganda and advertising and create categories of experience, where differences between real and unreal are vanishing and illusions replace ideals.
WHITEWASH - Jan Peacock
14:07, CDN 1989
"You can imagine everything ... you invent nothing" WHITEWASH challenges the assumption that information is inherent in the familiar forms of the TV 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.
DAS WESEN DER VERWANDLUNG - Monika Funke Stern & Hanno Baethe
8:00, BRD 1990
The frog and the princess; the famous prince, disguised as the frog, is searching for the magic word that frees him. And he keeps searching and searching ... Is it a blackout? Is the search thus magical? Or is the frog thus magical to keeßthe princess wishing he'll be a frog forever, searching and searching everlasting ...
MARILYN'S CONDENSED BEAR SOUP - Barbara Lazar
2:00, A 1990
Under the cover of the perfectly styled product M.M. and contrary to it the lost personality of the artist M.M. has been remodeled. With the help of editing and an ironical kind of approach quotations from her films stand between new gestures ...
NEO GEO IX - Screco Dragan
7:00, YU 1989
In the beginning was the line.
LA VIE TERRIBLE ET ACHEVEE DE MONSIEUR MERCIER - Herlinde Smet
7:00, B 1988
What happens if a painter and a videomaker bump into each other in a disco? a) You can all put it down in a 5 min. video of basic gestures! b) You end ußwith a comic video strip!
What can you do if someone asks you what life is all about? b) you end ußwith a comic video strip! a) you can all put it down in a 5 min video of basic gestures!
THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY - Simon Biggs
4:20, GB 1990
"... that our eyes might reach to the heart of the rocks, to the bottom of the seas, to the ends of the sky ... that our soul, irradiating everywhere, might go and live amongst all this ... forever to push forth under the sun of eternity its metamorphoses ..."
(Gustave Flaubert,Travelogue from Belle-Isle, 1847)
BLACK FOREST - BLUE DANUBE - Zora Mari Bauer & Viola Kiefner
14:11, BRD 1990,
The videotape BLACK FOREST - BLUE DANUBE presents a listing of sometimes humoristic, sometimes sarcastic notes on the theme "homeland and folklore", packed ußin 24 chapters. The typical Viennese and typical swabian way, germanism and indispensable yodeling play ... under/in/with studiolight, bluebox and soundsampling ... between art, daub and cliche, Biedermeier and musicclip with themes of the present day: nationalism contra integration, pattern contra perspective and the ABC of songs and history contra the CBA of forgetting.
Cassette 6:
SOUND SO
Videosound sounds so and so. In his essay "Film as pure form" (1929) Theo van Doesburg regarded the film as a vehicle of "optical poetry, dynamical architecture of light", as a tool "to create a mobile ornament". The film, he continues, will achieve Bachs Dream "to find an optical equivalent to the temporal structure of musical forms."
Signal becomes sound. Image becomes sound. Sound becomes image. The eye hears "an art that should look like music sounds". (John Whitney)
WIPE BOARD - Volker Schreiner
2:42, BRD 1989
One hundred and thirty changes on the screen in one hundred and fifty-eight seconds
a video that takes the "wipe" at its word.
JAPANISCH FÜR ANFÄNGER - Birgit Antoni
16 mm, 7:30, BRD 1990
Dog, fish, bell, carrot and all kinds of combination with Japanese subtitles.
TRAVELLING - Vencislav Voidanovski &
Stojan Stojanoski
3:30, YU 1990
Leave your skin. Imagination is the best way to travel.
BEAM - Enrique Fontanilles
4:30, CH 1988/89
The demarche on which the computer animation BEAM bases, is the creation of sound and image,in total simultaneity and direct influence. For the present video version, various takes from four live performances were assembled by means of magnetical recordings.
KNIESPIEL III - Claus Blume
3:40, BRD 1990
The video-editor as a music instrument. The staccato like montage transforms a typical Bavarian Schuhplattler performed by the Traunwalcher Goasslschnalzer to a new audio-visual pattern, close to minimal music.
MUSIQUE - Jouri Lesnik
1:20, USSR 1990
Leningrad mix-up
RADIO IMAGE - John Goff
4:30, GB 1990
Electromagnetic rays are visualized with the helßof a cathode ray tube and a computer: the radio-image moves in an attempt to display its heterogeneous sources.
ZUCKERHUT - Ralf Drechsler
4:00, BRD 1990
Why is life so hard? Why do we live? Why there is so much unfair in this world?
Where do we go for holidays this year?
THE IMAGE OF DISEASE - Matrix Mind
4:00, SF 1989
Based on the genetic code of the Aids-virus the structure of death is giving beauty.
MATTSCHEIBE - Christoph Doering
5:00, BRD 1989
For once the screen is not just a projection surface for visual ideas but is used in its concrete measures as a sprace and in its illuminations. But what happens when the images feel imprisoned in their cages and tubes?
AND GRIND HARD STONE TO MEEL - Agnes Hegedüs
8:25, NL 1989
Mediative approach to different aspects of sound-implementation using computer/animation within an interactive sound-video connection. Symbolical intercourse between the meaning of the sound and the elements of the image.
C'MON BABE (DANKE SCHÖN) - Sharon Sandusky
16 mm, 12:00, USA 1989
This film uses footage of lemmings running frantical across a northern landscape to represent history as obsessive compulsive behaviour. The images and sounds were totally taken from found- footage. C`MON BABE was proclaimed as "the Blue Velvet of the documentaries".
THERE REMAINS THE SMALL HANDFUL THAT DID NOT MAKE THIS FATAL JOURNEY, AND IN TIME, NEW GENERATIONS WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN LOST.
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