1. Altina Asier, Soroa, 2014, Spain 00:12:32
2. Ewa i Jacek Doroszenko, The same horizon repeated at every moment of the walk, 2014, Poland 00:02:05
3. Margarita Novikova, Seasicknesses, 2013, Russia
Seasicknesses:
Filmed during a 1-month expedition in Pacific. The main idea of the film was to match the largeness and greatness of the ocean and its cosmic rhythm of rolling eternity with small human beings on the ship on the ocean, fussy and busy with their minor problems. People (sailors, scientists and poachers) are present in the video as voices only – they are reasoning, discussing, talking with each other about some simple things and sometimes questionable dealings – and the ocean sounds and moves alone in the frames. The ocean does not care about them or their business.
Margarita Novikova
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Margarita Novikova was born in Moscow and worked at a documentary film studio while studying at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI). She graduated with a degree in Engineering. She later studied at the TV department of the Faculty of Journalism at the Moscow State University. Novikova worked for several UK, French, US and Canadian TV crews who frequently visited post-Perestroyka USSR and Russia (1989–93). She collaborated with Alexander Selin, the author of paradoxical humour stories, on TV series – as film editor and a crew chief (1991–92). Between 1993 and 1994, she made documentaries for The Reporter programme on Russian TV. She graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (“Theory and Practice of Video Art” Course) in 2010. Member of the Moscow Artists Union since 2014. She took part in 4th and 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011 & 2013); VIDEOAKT International Videoart Biennial (Barcelona, 2011); Video Art Festival Miden (Greece, 2013); “Cosmos on earth and in the sky” show (Gent, Belgium, 2013); Lost Spaces project (Berlin, 2014); Nomaden Kino programme (Berlin, 2014); Videoholica video art festival (Varna, Bulgaria, 2014); BRAVE NEW WORLD, a politically motivated screening, the Institut für Alles Mögliche (Berlin, 2014); Crosstalk video art festival (Budapest); BERLIN FÜR DIE UKRAINE Charity Art Auction, a coordinator (Berlin, 2015); Time is Love screening (San Diego, USA, 2015 and Tirana, Albania, 2015).
4. Marieke Job&Joris, Mute, 2013, Spain 00:04:00
5. Dominik Ritszel, Film o szkole, 2014, Poland 00:09:13
The video focuses on specific architectural elements in the space of the school, which create a symbolic game field between the students and the institution. The students’ silhouettes are inscribed into the growing rhythm of the building’s architecture; passages, dressing room, corridors, gyms etc. The building seems to be obsessed with organising and putting everything in order. Institutions take away the feeling of identity, imposing not only the discipline of given actions, but also the discipline of existence.
Dominik Ritszel was born in 1988 in Rybnik. He studied at the Faculty of Graphics at the Institute of Arts at the University of Silesia in Cieszyn and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where he did graphic arts. His works were exhibited, among others, at international video art festivals Les Rencontres Internationales (Gaîté Lyrique, Palais de Tokyo, Paris) and Video Art Review THE 02 Spaces as a tool for shaping social attitudes. He participated in group exhibitions, such as the Show Off Section at the Krakow Photomonth Festival (2013), Curators Network in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK) in Krakow (2012), Mum, I just really need to focus on my art right now in the Arsenał Gallery in Poznan (2012), and in a collective exhibition presenting works of young Silesian artists Mleczne Zęby (Milk Teeth) in the BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice (2013). He had solo exhibitions in the Centre for Contemporary Art Kronika in Bytom and in the Silesian Museum in Katowice. He was chosen among the three finalists of the Talenty Trójki 2013 contest in the Visual Arts category, he was short-listed for the Grey House Foundation Prize. In 2014 he was awarded the Young Poland Programme scholarship. In spring 2014 he stayed in the A-I-R Laboratory in the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle as an artist in residence, where he produced Versus presented in Bank Pekao Project Room in Warsaw. In 2015 he participated in a group exhibition Waiting for Better Times curated by Magda Kardasz (Zachęta Project Room, Warsaw).
6. Isabella Gresser, Nietzsche a Nice, 2013, Germany 00:05:00
Friedrich Nietzsches „Noon and Eternity“ in times of mass tourism and digital viewing habits. A young tourist is mirroring himself on his tablet PC at the beach while in the air above Nice, up to 49.000 passengers a day, longing for happiness. Down at the beach they can watch themselves flying over. An animated screenplay frames the setting for Nietzsche’s thoughts out of his late work written in Nice. As if the sky embodies a dystopian image of “The eternal return of the same”.
Isabella Gresser is a visual artist living in Berlin since 1998. In addition to studies at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig with Marina Abramović, she has studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) as part of the Free Class. Her multilayered videos—in which distinctions between analog and digital technologies are foregrounded—encompass found-footage, drawings and photographs combined with literature. Main subjects in recent years have been Western and Eastern cultures, as well as sociology and philosophy referring to global tiredness and "Fatigue societies". She has been awarded residencies in Asian countries and her videos have screened at many international art and film festivals.