Angelique Bosio
Andrew Ellis Johnson
Anson Mak
Akatombo
Anne Verhoijsen
Artemis Potamianou
Cindy Malon
Daya Cahen
David Poolman
David Dinnell
Diana Deleanu
Dave Griffiths
Fernando L B. Castillo
Gordon Culshaw
Gerard Freixes Ribena
George Gyparakis
Hossein Jehani
Iro Laskari
Jennifer Beth Guerin
Jason Jagello

Ralph Juergen Colman
Rusz isecker Vacca
Richard Schuetz
Spiros Papadopoylos
Shaun Wilson
Sean Burn
Thorsten Fleisch
Torry Mendoza
Tina Kotsi
UA! Films
 Urfurslaag
Wilhelmus Jozef Oda salki
Vasileia stilianidou
Yasmyn Karhoy
Yiannis Isidorou
Yiannis Savides
Yiannis theodoropoulos
Zhenchen Liu

Andrew Ellis Johnson
“AnnunciationII: Victeory”
ajlj@andrew.cmu.edu

The “Annunciation II: VICTEORY” (sic) presents a nude knight wearing a helmet that obstructs his vision, existing in a land without popular support. This warrior crawls across a vast bed of sand imprinted with Islamic patterns, inscribing the word “V-I-C-T-E-O-R-Y” (sic) with a heavy sword while uttering each letter, error and all.  His sword is a replica of the one used by Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade in which he massacred thousands of Muslim prisoners. His helmet, with its eagle-beak visor, sheds its plume during his trek.

Akatombo
“Unconfirmed Reports”

“Unconfirmed Reports” is a multi-part musical and visual journey from one winter through to late spring set in Hiroshima, Japan, as realized by Scottish expatriate musician/artist Raul Thomsen Kirk and Wisconsin videomaker Chad MacClure. This series of thematically linked music videos takes the viewer/listener through the streets of the city; observing daily life as it occurs in public and semi-public spaces. Images of individuals in transit, nondescript modern architecture, derelict building, radio towers, satellite dishes, flashing messages, malfunctioning lights, wires, rust, and concrete were filtered through layers of digital effects to form a visual counterpoint to the dark, brooding music of Acatombo (aka  Paul Thomsen Kirk). Themes of urban isolation, the effect of communication technologies, and the changing face of the landscape are exposed. 

Artemis Potamianou
Art scene – Art seen
artemispot@yahoo.com

The Art scene – Art seen consists of two videos. The first one is a collage- collection of scenes where famous artists talk about their work and the second one a collection of movie scenes that show the life of well- known artists in time of creation. It is a sarcastic comment on how the films of Hollywood present in a non- realistic and beautified way how the artistic object is created by the artists and how they choose to promote themselves.

Anne Verhoijsen
“It's a boy . A remarkable birth ”
anne@verhoijsen.com

I shot this footage in 2001 on 16 mm. At the time it was the result of a project in which I played with the idea of what my life would have been like if I had had a brother. It was one shot of 10 minutes.The film lay in a cupboard (transported on VHS) till a few months ago when I took it out, had another look at it and devised this game. Robin Schlosser made the sounds cape for it.

Cindy Malon
“The Lab”
c.malon@studiomweb.nl

The Dr. Neher Laboratory was built during the reconstruction period after World War II to house a research facility which was completely off-limits to the public. At the time this video was made, the facility had been closed and was scheduled to be demolished. As a result of public protest the city permit needed for destruction of the building was delayed. Because of this delay, the age requirement (50years) for monumental status was reached and the building was placed on a protected monument list of historical buildings here in The Netherlands.
The images in Malon’s film are film fragments made of materials within the city archives and new footage.

David Poolman-Kathryn Mockler
“The reluctant Narrator”
d_poolman@yahoo.ca

When Donald Rumsfeld briefed his press secretary on how to deal with the media he said: ‘begin with an illogical premise and proceed perfectly logically to an illogical conclusion.” Then he said “They (the media) do it all the time.”
In constructing the narratives in these videos, we are juxtaposing the rational against the irrational through quotidian imagery of contemporary North American life.
In this collection, we introduce scenarios that are simultaneously familiar and opaque, and create a narrator who is anonymous and whose, ethnicity, age and economic status is deliberately vague yet is defined by the characteristics with which it is associated.
The world we are creating is a world in which the viewer is forced to suspend his or her disbelief, and at the same time asked to critique the ambiguity of the narrative that haw been presented. The viewer is then left to come to his or her own conclusions about not only what is true or believable but also what he or she understands to be the underlying message of the narrator.

Diana Deleanu
“Humoresque”
diana_deleanu@yahoo.com

In every people’s proverbs a real moral code is hidden. Maria had piously respected this code and yet at her 94 years of age she is in major dead lock. She is the oldest woman in the village. Since she never attended school not even or a day, Maria doesn’t know how to read or write. She only knows how to work. She has worked since she was a child. “Hard work makes one a man.”

Daya Cahen
“The Stalin that was played by me”
Dayacahen @ gmail.comFrom the Netherlands comes Daya Cahen who portrays Josef Stalin '

From the Netherlands comes Daya Cahen who portrays Josef Stalin 's grandson who lives his life trying to reflect Stalin's image to change public opinion on Stalin and even to pursue a political career .

Dave Griffiths
“Love is a Burning Thing”
griff@davegriffiths.info

Fernando L Barrajon Castillo
“Solitude”
Fernandox@visualdreamers.org

The film “Solitude” tries to show life with sound in uninhabited, empty buildings and places. The short film expresses also a feeling of stress and loneliness among today’s contemporary youth in this new digital era.

Gordon Culshaw
“The light side”
gordonculshaw@hotmail.com

The creature from the movie: “Alien” sings to Sigourney Weaver –“Always look on the bright side of life”.
Gordon Culshaw sees the “light side” as being about media representation, looking at how the unknown is so often portrayed as something fearful or evil. It has been said that Science Fiction is a genre which reflects the fears of today rather than providing any kind of informed insight into the future. The “Alien” series then can be viewed as a reflection of the West’s fear of the unknown non-West.
Just as the horrific and terrifying “Alien” series creature becomes quite comical when the added hype of sound effects are removed and an alternative soundtrack inserted, so the fear of the unknown outsider in our society may be considered to be largely a product of the media, which doesn’t impartially reflect society’s fears, but more often, creates and nourishes them.

Gerard Freixes Ribena
“Aislado”
gerardfleix@hotmail.com

Exploration on loneliness as found by a shipwrecked in a desert island or in 20th century’s metropolitan crowds.

George Gyparakis
“Exit”
geogypa@otenet.gr

The part of the woman in the older as well as in the contemporary societies remains fundamental as it manages life as well as death as a ritual. Scenes of birth and death with main characters women wearing a digital hijab show the phallocratic view of women.

Hossein Jehani
“A Snowy Day”
daria980@yahoo.com

 It is early morning and the sky is getting brighter on a Kurdish village as it starts to snow. People gradually emerge from their homes and tend to their everyday chores. We follow a little boy visiting his father’s grave and then to his house where his mother tells us about the death of her husband. During the Iraq-Iran war the area was covered by mines and the father died trying to retrieve one to sell it back to Iran for money. Every Friday the little boy visits his father’s grave and pretends he is a soldier defending his home.

Iro Laskari
“AdDominance”
ilaskar@gmail.com

The dominance of Domino the horse, upon the abdominal master depicts a transfusion of creatine (force) as well as the constant succession of causes and results in the context of nature. The pure bread horse and the perfect abdominal of a trained man are shown with a sneer as comment on the models of beauty.

Jason Jagello
“Slaughterhouse of the West”
jasonja50@yahoo.com

The film questions the underlying oppositions important to our present day: ”How can we distinguish between “civilized/uncivilized”, “humanizing/de-humanizing”, “natural/unnatural?” In the context of contemporary society and the world the film creates, brutality becomes a purely subjective concept.

Ioanna myrka
“game”
myrk156@yahoo.com

A pair of Siamese twins that resulted from a laboratorial experiment tries to understand what is happening to them. Their conversation is controlled and every so often they are opened and closed like a game.
A video based on the dialogue between two individuals seated back to back with limited freedom and choices.

Kate Walker
“Angelina Burdett”
kate.walket@paradise.net

Angelina Burdett is a meditation on the products of the natural world. The ordinary plum can seem extra-ordinary when viewed as a close up and in slow motion.  The richness of colour and texture take on mysterious qualities.
Botanical names for many plum varieties are whispered as though telling a well kept secret.  This sound track is overlaid with found media footage reminding the viewer of external events such as international wars and local council politics interspersed with a local music channel.

Kuo I-Chen
“Lose Contact”, 2005
magic321@ms69.hinet.net

Kuo I-Chen utilize a balloon floating in the air with a miniature wireless camera lens mounted on it and then set the balloon free in the air and through this observation method collects images that are relayed from the balloon to a recording device on the ground. In this image recording artwork the floating lens collects images of the earth which are then put in a simple order and retain the feeling of everything the wireless lens sees.

A performance dedicated to violence with the use of organic materials. The mineral oil that is poured on the floor reminds an hourglass. This one minute action will never bring the environment in its previous state.

Lina Theodorou
“Loan”, 2006
lina@dreamzpace.com

My Greek journey began with research: information on companies that went bankrupt in the late Eighties and Nineties; ghost factories, depressed areas, abandoned villages and places of no possible interest to tourists.
I was looking for the sites and the sights that would give me free rein to redefine the concepts of development and of disaster, and to define a personal mapping of regions that contradict the unreal image projected by the media, folklore documentaries, tourist guides and advertising. Within the context of the work, the urban environment was the real world; leaving it behind, I was entering a zone of uncertainty and obscurity. In this ‘other’ world, which often verged on the bizarre, the depressed, the scary, the  impoverished, the futile and the forgotten served as catalysts to reveal a virtually unexpected, transcendental dimension to their reality.

Mahmoud Hojeij
“We Will Win”, 2007
mhojei@hotmail.com

An attempt to solve the Arab-Israel conflict in eight minutes.
An attempt to solve the Arab-Israel conflict in eight minutes. Three men gathered in Paris to try to solve the problem taking into consideration all the political, economical and psychological issues.

Mary Zygouri
“Symbiosis”
zygourim@hotmail.com

1902, JUNE
Paul Polloni from Corsica, during the French Colonial Government of 1900 on Devil Island, was appointed at the Department of Public Service of Acts and Policies. Initially his responsibilities were to organize groups of prisoners for the purpose of breeding Butterflies. In June 1902 he was promoted. He is recorded as Inspector of Butterflies. 
1946  JUNE Peron was elected on 1946. He was  provoking the Democratic Liberals, by the syntax of the Constitution, censoring the newspapers and by inventing laws which were  perpetuating his power in Argentinean politics. Borges signed a manifesto expressing his opposition to the Military Coup. In June 1946 the Writer’s Association have dedicated a dinner for Borges, where he gave a speech against Peron. The next day, Peron dismissed Borges from Librarian at the National Library and appointed him as a Public Inspector of Poultries

Majoreine Boonstra
“Bad Dream”
info@marboni.nl

In a temporary shelter, 80 miles north of New Orleans, seven victims of Katrina tell us their stories. Pictures of hope, fear and exhaustion. Worn out but alert, between dream and reality. The main character, Tony Magee, is so tired and exhausted that he keeps falling asleep during the interview. He ends his shocking account with the astonishing remark: “Besides that everything is all right”

Nikos Papadimitriou
Yiannis Theodoropoulos
“Vosporos”
Papajim71@hotmail.com

The videos of Nikos and Yannis are not premeditated. The idea is based on the instant creation and sometimes it is even random. The creation of the video entitled “Vosporos” was accidental it resulted from the sound of a small tap in Yiannis’s kitchen, the sound reminded the whistling of  a boat and arises issues like distance, travel, place and time.

Paul Gabel
“I will always wait (it will never be)”
paulgabel@hotmail.com

Philip Newcombe
“20th Century Glitch”
flutterspoons@hotmail.com

Paul Zografakis
“The saddest woman in the world”
artzog@gmail.com

Peter George Lewis
“Dedicated to the 2 I love”
peter_lou8@hotmail.com

Spiros Papadopoulos
“my aunt ”
spap@tee.gr

The Easter family table with honored person my aunt, is not set in the countryside but in an apartment in the center of Athens as a sign of modern times. Times focused on pleasure and over consumption

Sean Burn
“Chekhov”
buinsean@supanet.com

Illness hospitalized the artist and made him homeless; on discharge he was placed in temporary accommodations. In order to stay well he created art reflecting his experiences; “Chekhov” references how the arts /finding commonalities with other artist and not a physical building / structure are my true home. The film uses animated visual cut-ups that parallels the poetry and sound work that form the aura track. “Chekhov”  incorporates culture-jamming techniques in his work, reclaiming / reworking/ subverting existing material that tries insisting we buy into narratives he doesn’t recognise. Radical antipsychiatrists, deleuze/guattari talk about the lines of our life-both the formal ones- the interstices-& also the more subliminal, curved lines that mark more personal, unique voyages. Sean Burn follows these more subliminal, unique lines in “Chekhov”.

Thorsten Fleisch
“Energie!”
snuff@fleischfilm.com

Torry Mendoza
“Kemonsabe”
info@torrymendoza.com

“Kemosabe version 1.0” utilizes deconstruction to examine and comment on two American icons, "The Lone Ranger" and his faithful sidekick "Tonto" through reassemblage. Traditionally I worked in film, but my transition to digital video is acknowledged in Kemosabe version 1.0 with the use of color bars (I thought it was pertinent to personally comment on video since my vernacular is stuck within the mire of celluloid--and I tend not to make the distinction out of habit not because I don't think video viable--thanks to friend and professor, Tom Sherman for helping me realize that I continually spoke about my work as film while I worked in digital video). The representations of Native Americans in American media have historically proven problematic because most opinions regarding Native Americans were formed through individual's exposure to these inaccurate portrayals and it has been these inaccurate portrayals, which have confined Native Americans to exist solely in the past and not as a contemporary people within the American psyche. The montage re-presented in “Kemosabe version 1.0” illustrates how American media, intentionally or not, did and does negatively and inaccurately portray Native Americans, whereas the subtext of “Kemosabe version 1.0” illustrates how the "Lone Ranger" has subjugated "Tonto" as he consumes and assumes "Tonto's" "Indian-ness".

Tina Kotsi
“Draw away”
constacotsi@yahoo.com

What I wish t o do is to break into actual image and by means of a gesture recreate it, indirectly replace its material essence and create relations between the grandeur of the city and the idea caused therapy.  

Urfurshlaag
“freaks”
urfurshlaag@gmail.com

My short films based on classic animation technique and tell the story of two young activists, too lazy to act. Urfurshlaag is a gentle but also aggressive pink dragon. He lives in the net. He has a blog but he is mainly a youtuber. He is an artist but above all he is a deeply political person constantly harassing the Greek neo-Nazi and extreme right wing community.

Vassiliea Stylianidou
“infinity” , 2006
mail@stylianidou.com

In a keen choreography of rhythm, silence and light, the artist stages her playfully ironic view of the world, which begins as curious observation of her surroundings, and which she then extends to the borders of the imaginary. In her videos, sequences often continue for minutes without apparent movement. The boundary between the media film and photography is probed; the montage of frames becomes a film sequence. The meditative movement occurs through digital animation of the objects, whose ambivalent essence can be a surface of self-reflexive projection on the one hand, and a sensual repository for nature on the other. Vassiliea Stylanidou questions reality at this critical juncture. She highlights particular constellations in her photos and film stills that play with the sceneries, where evasion and ambiguity are inherent to the game. The encounter among persons, strange forms, and surfaces are captured associatively in aphorisms, which in turn develop a life of their own, both visually and conceptually.

Yasmyn Karhoy
“Rain,Sugar, Eye”
yasmijn@xsyall.nl

In the trilogy “Rain, Sugar, Eye”, thoughts are captured and made visible. Each film is made in one single shot; in which a total shot solely changes into a close-up. The leading characters in “Rain, Sugar, Eye” are focusing on a detail. Literally seeing another world in this detail causes a fundamental change of their ideas about this reality. The effect of the close-up, which shows a total shot of reality, reveals the clue of the story in a visual way.

Yiannis Isidorou
“Cravanism On Frozen Border”ghai”
jisicore@gmail.com

Arthur Cravan, poet and boxer, lived in manifests, announcements and drunken fists that missed their target. Just like modernism, of which he later became a 'legendary representative', Cravan was put on the map with his disappearance. I hope that the 'stolen frames' of this short video piece will be effective someday. I will state it in French, as it has been said by someone who knew something more: " D'autres préfèrent le monologue intérieur. Moi non. J'aime mieux battre. "

Zhenchen Liu
“Shanghai Shanghai”
zhenchenliu@gmail.com