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Nice Hat: 5 Enigmas in the Life of Cambotia

Documentary Feature Film (86')

David Brisbin, CANADA

‘NICE HAT!’ is an attempt to use a completely original paradigm as an entrée to the profound and very specific culture of Khmer. The method is to take an utterly prosaic entity -the hat- and through it find conveyance into the deep social and artistic matrix. It is an effort to discover complexity by the simplest of means.

Prokalo

Short Film in French, Greek and Ancient Greek, Subtitles in English and French (15') (DVD PAL Stereo 4:3)

Adrian Westbrook, FRANCE

Prokalo is a richly textured, multi-layered experimental thriller that probes the nature of destiny. It tells the story of Kostas, the honour-bound right-hand man of a corrupt and powerful merchant. Framed for murder, robbed of his liberty and his fiancée, he must choose between vengeance and reason if he is to find out who wanted him put away and why. The merchant, his playboy son, and his headstrong daughter, Kostas’ ex fiancée, are all potential suspects or allies in a search that threads though modern Paris to medieval France and back to the shores of ancient Greece. One common story of love, hate, greed and betrayal binds three eras. And a book containing an ancient secret holds the key to controlling them all.

Her

Short Film (25') (DVD PAL Stereo 4:3)

Ayoka Chenzira, USA

A parable where science fiction meets social commentary.A female alien transforms herself into a live-action superhero traveling to earth to confront three iconic male figures whose misogynist views are destroying her world. A fully digital production shot in high definition with film lenses and recorded on P2 cards.

Cities of The Italian Cinema

Short Video (18')

Sonia Massari, ITALY

This work is part of a didactic project for foreign students called “ID cITy” Identities of Italian Cities. What is “new”? Are the Italian cities or the urban communication “new”? This work is an editing of famous Italian movies and it was created to analyze and interpret the main processes of change and continuity in the Italian city. It was focused on the numerous layers of shapes, spaces, cultures, functions and symbols in the Italian contemporary city, understood as active sediments of the past interacting with the present. For too long we have held the idea that the world is “out of control” be it our cities, economy, or technology.

We have filled the world with complex systems, technologies and distance communication that is indeed hard to understand, let alone shape or redirect.
But, we have culture and language, and the ability to understand and share knowledge about abstract phenomena. We have a tool, call it “design”, with which to shape them. Design is a new way to study, analyse and describe people, knowledge and disciplines. Traditionally, ”design” is understood as a professional process of creating products such as vacuum cleaners or software programs, or in terms of visual or graphic design.

“Design” may therefore not seem relevant to questions of learning, but in fact it can be a useful way of approaching many different areas and activities. In its broadest sense, designing is a conscious and planned process of generating new ideas and taking decisions in order to create something original.

Joe's Brother

35 mm combined with DigiBeta and 3D generated backgrounds (10')

Marineta -MAK- Kritikou, GREECE

In this 10 minutes multimedia fiction movie, the hero, a chief executive in a multinational company that deals in virtual reality programs is caught in a maze, trapped in a hotel that could stand for a whole city, just a few minutes before disaster strikes on him. The plot is deployed precisely nowadays. At a time of hyper-information and complexity, art has a most important part to play. It is the only field where information is used as a trigger for artistic expression, thus confirming that information must transcend mere knowledge, if it is to have meaning and positive application.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 04 February 2009 15:58 )

Design Cinema 2008

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