video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Chrystelle // Bubi Canal // 2011 // 02:01 min.

”Chrystelle is set against the striking natural landscape of his native Santander, his main character’s slick, vivid costuming surprisingly resonant with the vibrant elemental surroundings. At once alien and native, much like the artist himself, his work mimics life and his life is his work. He puts it best himself: “I like to create a new reality that remains connected with my life. I like opening doors onto the unknown and building something new.” —Stina Puotinen 

Screening May 19: LE DERNIER CRI

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Chrystelle // Bubi Canal // 2011 // 02:01 min.

”Chrystelle is set against the striking natural landscape of his native Santander, his main character’s slick, vivid costuming surprisingly resonant with the vibrant elemental surroundings. At once alien and native, much like the artist himself, his work mimics life and his life is his work. He puts it best himself: “I like to create a new reality that remains connected with my life. I like opening doors onto the unknown and building something new.” —Stina Puotinen 

Screening May 19: LE DERNIER CRI

video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Belief // Jon Thomson + Alison Craighead // 2012 // 13:15 min.

Belief is made from information found entirely on the worldwide web. In fifteen minutes, this two-screen installation presents a series of fragmented broadcasts about belief, all sourced from the video sharing community YouTube.

Screening May 19: BELIEVERS

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Belief // Jon Thomson + Alison Craighead // 2012 // 13:15 min.

Belief is made from information found entirely on the worldwide web. In fifteen minutes, this two-screen installation presents a series of fragmented broadcasts about belief, all sourced from the video sharing community YouTube.

Screening May 19: BELIEVERS

video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from The Shape of Our Best Intentions // Megan and Murray McMillan // 2011 // 06:09 min.

This work is inspired by Jan Van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Marriage Portrait” (1434), as a meditation on the institution of contemporary marriage. In the video, a real-life married couple fold sheets in a room on a suspended structure, which is rotating over a reflecting pool of water. The structure is pushed by a group of workers circling the pool. When the structure stops, the couple steps out of the room into the water. They walk to the camera, pick it up, and move it to a crane, which pulls back to reveal the structure which was supporting them.

Screening May 19: CAMERA OBSCURA

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from The Shape of Our Best Intentions // Megan and Murray McMillan // 2011 // 06:09 min.

This work is inspired by Jan Van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Marriage Portrait” (1434), as a meditation on the institution of contemporary marriage. In the video, a real-life married couple fold sheets in a room on a suspended structure, which is rotating over a reflecting pool of water. The structure is pushed by a group of workers circling the pool. When the structure stops, the couple steps out of the room into the water. They walk to the camera, pick it up, and move it to a crane, which pulls back to reveal the structure which was supporting them.

Screening May 19: CAMERA OBSCURA

video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Someone Else’s Project // Shirin Mozaffari // 2012 // 04:39 min.

Someone Else’s Project gives an unmediated insider look to the everyday lives of residents of Tehran, focusing on a correspondence between a U.S. based artist, and a Tehran based videographer, who takes on the risk of shooting illegally on the streets. The videographer recounts her interactions with civilians and guards, where strangers offer her voluntary and enthusiastic support to accomplish an illegal task. While reflecting on the unexpectedly familiar nature of everyday life in Tehran, Someone Else’s Project sheds light on Tehrani civilian’s resistant attitude towards civil obedience and the isolation of a society that is desperate to participate. 

Screening May 19: MEANS FROM AN END

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Someone Else’s Project // Shirin Mozaffari // 2012 // 04:39 min.

Someone Else’s Project gives an unmediated insider look to the everyday lives of residents of Tehran, focusing on a correspondence between a U.S. based artist, and a Tehran based videographer, who takes on the risk of shooting illegally on the streets. The videographer recounts her interactions with civilians and guards, where strangers offer her voluntary and enthusiastic support to accomplish an illegal task. While reflecting on the unexpectedly familiar nature of everyday life in Tehran, Someone Else’s Project sheds light on Tehrani civilian’s resistant attitude towards civil obedience and the isolation of a society that is desperate to participate. 

Screening May 19: MEANS FROM AN END

video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Horizon // Joshua Thorson // 2011 // 13:00 min.

Walt Disney World’s EPCOT Center opened to the public in 1982–a little late for such a utopian modernist project. The original park featured an “infotainment” ride, sponsored by GE, called Horizons, that showcased a future in which technology and innovation coupled with the family unit would evolve into exciting and previously unimaginable territories–colonies in outer space and under the Earth’s oceans. In 2000, the ride was demolished to make way for an immersive thrill ride. The story in this video, about a family doing research on a space colony whose supplies and funding inexplicably stop arriving and who are determined to survive however they can, is accompanied by archival Hi-8 video footage of the ride. 

Screening May 18: SPACE SHIFTERS 

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Horizon // Joshua Thorson // 2011 // 13:00 min.

Walt Disney World’s EPCOT Center opened to the public in 1982–a little late for such a utopian modernist project. The original park featured an “infotainment” ride, sponsored by GE, called Horizons, that showcased a future in which technology and innovation coupled with the family unit would evolve into exciting and previously unimaginable territories–colonies in outer space and under the Earth’s oceans. In 2000, the ride was demolished to make way for an immersive thrill ride. The story in this video, about a family doing research on a space colony whose supplies and funding inexplicably stop arriving and who are determined to survive however they can, is accompanied by archival Hi-8 video footage of the ride. 

Screening May 18: SPACE SHIFTERS 

video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from I’m Not The Enemy // Bjørn Melhus // 2011 // 13:30 min.

Home is a place of comfort, of security and peace. Delve into the world of a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suffering war veteran however, and such notions drastically become perverted and uneasy. The home becomes alien and family members come to encapsulate the demons against whom the veteran has to fight. Appropriating dialogues from Hollywood movies that deal with the legacy of the Vietnam War and firmly implanting them amongst quiet German suburbs, I’M NOT THE EMEMY cuts open the ways in which a society engaged in war deals with the guilt of problematic returns. In a society that has such little interest in the faraway Afghan war that is fought in its name, how then is the war veteran ever to find any degree of acceptance? 

Screening May 18: TIPPING POINT

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from I’m Not The Enemy // Bjørn Melhus // 2011 // 13:30 min.

Home is a place of comfort, of security and peace. Delve into the world of a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suffering war veteran however, and such notions drastically become perverted and uneasy. The home becomes alien and family members come to encapsulate the demons against whom the veteran has to fight. Appropriating dialogues from Hollywood movies that deal with the legacy of the Vietnam War and firmly implanting them amongst quiet German suburbs, I’M NOT THE EMEMY cuts open the ways in which a society engaged in war deals with the guilt of problematic returns. In a society that has such little interest in the faraway Afghan war that is fought in its name, how then is the war veteran ever to find any degree of acceptance? 

Screening May 18: TIPPING POINT

video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Hyperborea // Anton Ginzberg // 2011 // 45:00 min.

Hyperborea constructs points of intersection between memory – individual or collective – and imagination. Drawing on the many stories about the mythical region of Hyperborea, as the land of Golden Age, artist set out to locate it and travelled to the distant Northern territories. The expedition runs through the forests of the American Pacific Northwest, the faded palaces of Saint Petersburg, and the Gulags of Russia’s White Sea. On the trail of ancient vestiges, primary forests, mammoth fossils and ruins, the explorer is accompanied by the vast cloud of red smoke.  

 Screening May 18: THE IDEA OF THE NORTH

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Hyperborea // Anton Ginzberg // 2011 // 45:00 min.

Hyperborea constructs points of intersection between memory – individual or collective – and imagination. Drawing on the many stories about the mythical region of Hyperborea, as the land of Golden Age, artist set out to locate it and travelled to the distant Northern territories. The expedition runs through the forests of the American Pacific Northwest, the faded palaces of Saint Petersburg, and the Gulags of Russia’s White Sea. On the trail of ancient vestiges, primary forests, mammoth fossils and ruins, the explorer is accompanied by the vast cloud of red smoke.  

 Screening May 18: THE IDEA OF THE NORTH

video_dumbo Film Exhibition at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Suddenly, Last Summer // Juha Mäki-Jussila // 2013 // 04:17 min.

Suddenly, Last Summer is an experimental animation based freely on the play of the same title by Tennesee Williams. Some fragments of the original play are restaged frame by frame by new botanical performers.

Screening May 18: NEW FINNISH VIDEOART

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video_dumbo Film Exhibition at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Suddenly, Last Summer // Juha Mäki-Jussila // 2013 // 04:17 min.

Suddenly, Last Summer is an experimental animation based freely on the play of the same title by Tennesee Williams. Some fragments of the original play are restaged frame by frame by new botanical performers.

Screening May 18: NEW FINNISH VIDEOART

video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Stardust //Nicolas Provost // 2010 // 20:00 min.

Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost investigates the boundaries of fiction and reality by filming everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and editing the cinematic images into a fiction film by using cinematographic and narrative codes from the Hollywood film language.The award winning Plot Point (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in Stardust and films real Hollywood stars - Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and turns the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital into an exciting crime story. 

 Screening May 17: CINEMA AFTER CINEMA

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Stardust //Nicolas Provost // 2010 // 20:00 min.

Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost investigates the boundaries of fiction and reality by filming everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and editing the cinematic images into a fiction film by using cinematographic and narrative codes from the Hollywood film language.The award winning Plot Point (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in Stardust and films real Hollywood stars - Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and turns the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital into an exciting crime story. 

 Screening May 17: CINEMA AFTER CINEMA

video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Intermorior // Simon Mullan // 2011 // 02:00 min.

Produced in Stockholm with one of the last remaining knife throwers worldwide. The artist becomes the focus and he is also the target. Mullan chooses to be subjected to an old ritualistic fairground act. Central to the piece is the two man facing each other  in their roles and respective professions. The performance is punctuated by the rhythm of the knives piercing into the turn table also known as the “wheel of death”. The artist is deliberately encountering a feeling of mortality, total helplessness and compliance while there is an anticipation felt from him as well as the viewer. Curiosity and arousal of the ten knives being thrown ceremoniously and intermittently at the artist transport the viewer into the artists place. With the fortuitous outcome a sense of relief is felt at the end of the performance. Simon Mullan is searching in all his work for the point of no return. He is also addressing the questions of masculinity, machoism, innate fear and pathos. 

Screening May 17: RISK

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video_dumbo Film Festival at Eyebeam: May 16 - 25

Still from Intermorior // Simon Mullan // 2011 // 02:00 min.

Produced in Stockholm with one of the last remaining knife throwers worldwide. The artist becomes the focus and he is also the target. Mullan chooses to be subjected to an old ritualistic fairground act. Central to the piece is the two man facing each other  in their roles and respective professions. The performance is punctuated by the rhythm of the knives piercing into the turn table also known as the “wheel of death”. The artist is deliberately encountering a feeling of mortality, total helplessness and compliance while there is an anticipation felt from him as well as the viewer. Curiosity and arousal of the ten knives being thrown ceremoniously and intermittently at the artist transport the viewer into the artists place. With the fortuitous outcome a sense of relief is felt at the end of the performance. Simon Mullan is searching in all his work for the point of no return. He is also addressing the questions of masculinity, machoism, innate fear and pathos. 

Screening May 17: RISK