Competition 4: It Moves

A fragment of a film made of possible histories made and imagined. How things become cultural artefacts, dead and alive, hidden and seen through the appraisal of a watchful eye looking to decipher a code, form a language, apprehend a space. Like a incantation the magic comes in the process and the revelation in the suspension of possible meanings occurring simultaneously.

Let’s get going! And everything is turning! The Big Monster takes us into a strange world of pleasure and sends our perception into a spin. This time-lapse film features individually edited long exposures. Due to the long exposure time everything that moves is blurred and the images follow each other haltingly. The sound collage emphasises the unreal atmosphere. It is made of sounds that were recorded at the amusement park.

Shot entirely from an apartment on the 36th floor of a high-rise building, the images in this experimental animation survey large parts of Hong Kong’s cityscape, drawing attention to the individual lives hidden inside its buildings – together alone, collectively sequestered. Initially recorded in 2020 during lockdown and completed in 2023 with the advantage of critical distance, TWENTYTИƎWT (“Twenty-Twenty”) attempts to encapsulate the darkness, confinement, and uncertainty of the year of the global pandemic.

Rule No. 5: Shadow Your Man Closely assembles a film loop collage out of Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. train scene. One shot becomes the base for specific editing procedures through which the film narrative is reconstructed and a new plot is created.

On the 24th of June, 1958 the philosopher and anti-nuclear activist Günther Anders was flying to Japan to take part in the Fourth World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs and for Disarmament. He recollected this experience in his book “The Man on the Bridge: Diary from Hiroshima and Nagasaki”.

Embodied avatars mingle in free-space.

Care and violence, acknowledgement and reprehension, to give or withdraw support: the video finds performative, sculptural, bizarre and poetic images for this range of diverse gestures and actions. They line up like a series of tests reflecting interpersonal relationships and current social conditions. One person adjusts, confirms or distracts the attitude of another person; actions are helpful or destructive, gentle or authoritarian, determined, hesitant, clumsy, tender, encroaching …