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C-19

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Philippos Kappa is a visual artist working mainly with video art. He approaches art as a metaphorical social examination. His work explores the interconnections between image and data and investigates how data influences the understanding of the visual representation, as well as how changes in the twenty-first century, such as mass media and the vast amount of information, transform the way we see and interpret the visual word. Kappa was born in Athens, Greece. He studied at Middlesex University, BA. Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, MA. Fine Art in London, UK. He has participated in more than 50 exhibitions and festivals around the world, and today he is a researcher at Tokyo Geidai University at the GA program
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The following work is a video that I produced as a metaphorical social examination of the current COVID-19 situation. It explores how fragile the systems that are currently built into society are. The sound of the piece is a medical sound recorder of the lungs of a COVID-19 patient when he is breathing; the visual part in slow motion is a group of people that have collapsed, one over the other, and are trying to breathe and escape under the pressure that they are receiving from one another. The original footage in my work is from archive material, which I have processed. This work investigates the relationship between the individual and the group’s behaviour how they exist, coexist and interact.

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Black&White

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Eluned Zoe Aiano is a British filmmaker, video editor and translator whose work is generally centred on Central and Eastern Europe. In 2017 she was one of the artists selected by London Short Film Festival for their “With Teeth” programme, which supported and presented the short I Have a Song to Sing You. Her first feature, Flotacija, is also currently in production and won the Balkan Documentary Centre Discoveries pitch at Dokufest, Kosovo, 2018. She also writes about film and is a regular contributor to the East European Film Bulletin. Anna Benner is an artist working in the media of animation, drawing and installation. Her work deals with psychology and emotions, often using hand-drawn rotoscope animation. Her animated short films have screened worldwide and won prizes at international film festivals like Annecy, Encounters and Stuttgart Trickfilmfestival.
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The small Czech town of Třeboň found itself at the centre of unexpected international attention when the world-wide press picked up on an obscure urban legend from World War Two, some 70 years after the event. The story in question involves nurses, Nazis, seduction and syphilis, but no-one can agree on what really happened. Black&White pieces this legend together through a collage of interviews with a group of locals. The film explores how the story came about in the first place, and how it evolved after it ended up in the news. Their reflections are visualised through a combination of excerpts from the history of cinema, together with animation, problematising the types of tropes and conventions used to depict the roles of women.

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Antropocene

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During his studies of the master’s time-dependent media in Hamburg, Moritz Schuchmann found his main focus in the field of experimental film and abstract animation. His style is characterized by a strong formalism in the tradition of the Absolute Film as well as the examination of contemporary political and social topics. His film anthropocene was shown at various festivals around the world.
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anthropocene investigates the effects of global industrial capitalism. The international port city of Hamburg serves as an example of mass consumption, environmental pollution, gentrification and exploitation. Through the sequential animation of satellite images of the city, the extent of human interference in natural ecosystems is radically depicted. Repeated sequences in image and sound symbolize the unstoppability of the global machinery as well as the loss of all individuality in mass production.

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aniBABEL_av

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Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Valladolid. Have made individual and collective exhibitions of paintings, photography, video art, installations and audiovisual performances
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AniBabel_av (collage21) is a collage from the ani series, and is part of a broad experimental audiovisual research project that tries to explore, from the point of view of artistic-expressive activity, formal, structural, narrative and aesthetic issues. For this we intervene and construct variations, spatial and temporal, of mythical scenes from the cinema that have passed through the public domain. We modify its previous meanings, amplifying or varying its narrative value and its audiovisual aspect.

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A Room of Oblivion

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Dorothy Cheung (b. 1987) is a writer and artist. She is recently graduated in Media Design (Lens-based) in Piet Zwart Institute, the Netherlands and currently based in Hong Kong. Her works, inspired by her background from gender studies and community art, explore ideas of identities and home through a double perspective – personal and political, memory and forgetfulness. She embarks on the filmmaking journey with co-writing the screenplay of Pseudo Secular (2016), the feature film is selected for South Taiwan Film Festival, Torino Film Festival and Hong Kong Independent Film Festival. She has then directed and written several moving-image works that are screened in Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, EYE Filmmuseum and Korzo Theater, and selected for festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Seoul Women’s Film Festival, South Taiwan Film Festival, Queer Lisboa and Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival.
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A Room of Oblivion is an experimental film reflecting on the notion of queer memories, and the failure of it through rediscovered footage taken in a journey with an ex-partner.

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A Desert Appears

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Joel Cortina Suárez (1993, Argentina) was trained at Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica, and at Centro Cultural Recoleta’s audiovisual workshops. In 2018, he participated at Berlinale Talents Buenos Aires, and won a scholarship to the Vanessa Ragone’s documentary essay workshop with the support of National Art’s Fund. His work has been shown and awarded at festivals worldwide, cultural centers, contemporary art galleries, universities and video-on-demand platforms. He is currently shooting his first feature-length film.
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A sensorial journey to an an emblematic, historic site from Buenos Aires during the last stage of its legendary existence, as a result of a financial instability era in Argentina.

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6 Ways to Survive

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Lintang Ratuwulandari, born in Jakarta (Indonesia) on 1993, currently living in Amiens, France, is an independent animated filmmaker. She was majoring in Film Studies for 7 years in the University of Picardie Jules Verne. Passionate in animated films, she started making 2D animations by herself since she was a little girl. Since then, she makes, writes, and draws one short-film per year. On her first year in France, in 2012, her short-film A Boy with a Camera (2011) won double prizes : Jury Prize and Public Prize, at a Gobe ta Péloche Film Festival in Amiens. In 2014, she won the 3rd prize on the program Fêtons Court at the International Film Festival of Amiens for her short-film, STUCK (2014). The next year, she made another short-film, I’m Tired (2015), on which she innovates her real style of animation. The film was programmed for 5 years on movie theaters around the region of Hauts-de-France. Since 2016, three retrospectives of «Focus on Lintang Ratuwulandari’s Animation» had been programmed around Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her film ANIMER (2015) is currently still showing all around Java, Indonesia, for a program SOROT, by AnimasiClub, on which the program is to educate Indonesian children about animation. Since 2018 to present day, she’s working on a new animated film, titled IDENTITY. The film is currently on a writing program « La Première des Marches » sponsored by l’Acap Pôle Image, Picardie.
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A guy and a girl are talking about ways to kill themselves. They found six ways to do it.