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Three special screening programmes in the relaxed setting of the Futurevisual Lounge.

Futurevisions
Direct from Berlin: Transmediale.07
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Futurevisual Installations

Direct from Berlin:
Transmediale.07

10-12 May
11am, 2pm, 5.45pm
Contact Theatre, Space 2

The Transmediale.07 video selection consists of eight outstanding video works that were presented in the 2007 edition of the Berlin based festival for art and digital culture. www.transmediale.de

Alexandra Crouwers - One Short Story [1] (Netherlands/Belgium, 2006, 3 mins)

One Short Story [1] is a description of a junction in a forest, where things have happened that are difficult to imagine. It resembles a fairy tale, or a short horror story.

Blas Payri - Schaefferiennes - urbaines (Spain, 2005-2006, 8 mins)

Schaefferiennes is a series of audiovisual works based on electro-acoustic music. The title refers to Pierre Sch?ffer and his studies on the concrete description of the sound in the 50s, having great influence on electronic music and radio art.

Matthias Meyer - The Black Museum (Germany, 2006, 5mins)

The Black Museum moves between the genres of music video , experimental film and short film. The story of a museum of black pictures, where the actions of the protagonists are committed to absurdity and senselessness.

Claire Hope - In All Honesty There's Nothing I'd Like More (UK, 2005, 8 mins)

An exploration of the problematic social potential of a landscaped public space. The video depicts a journey around designated paths synchronised with a performed soundtrack of shifting roles. The performer creates powerful, pathetic and often absurd characterisations which refer to the uncertainty of an environment caught between function and folly.

Javier Toscano - The Chronic Argonauts (Mexico, 2006, 11 mins)

What would a group of people, radically conscious of their own finiteness, do with a little extra time on earth? Pointing to H. G. Wells' The Chronic Argonauts, this work explores the imagination and the experience of a group of people infected with HIV, projecting onto their future.

Billy Roisz & Toshimaru Nakamura - AVVA:RAGTAG (Austria/Japan, 2006, 5 mins)

Ragtag in the sense of impenetrable, a colourful mixture - is the title of a joint work by Billy Roisz (visuals) and Toshimaru Nakamura (sound), which was created under the project name AVVA after a 2004 tour in England.

Liu Wei - A Day To Remember (China, 2005, 13 mins)

On June 4 2005, Wei walked with his camera to Peking University and the Tiananmen Square - locations closely connected to the incidents later known as Tiananmen Square Massacre. They refer to the violent ending of the student occupation of the square on 3 and 4 of June 1989 by the Chinese military.

Tim Shore - Cabinet (UK, 2006, 19 mins)

Tim Shore's Cabinet is a complex and multi-layered film which evokes humankind's ambivalent relationship with history, memory and technology. The film uses the Unabomber's Manifesto as its main subject, going beyond it by presenting to the viewer something simultaneously meditative and disturbing.

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