Syndicate: video selection transmediale.01

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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 12:08:16 +0200
From: "susanne jaschko" <sj@transmediale.de>
To: syndicate@eg-r.isp-eg.de
Subject: video selection transmediale.01


sorry for crosspostings

We would like to offer you the Video-Selection of transmediale.01 for screening.

The selection contains eleven of the best video films that participated in this
year's 
international competition of the Berlin-based media art festival transmediale,
and 
gives an insight into current artistic video production.

The video competition of the transmediale is now in its 14th year. This
continuity 
of selecting and presenting video art has fostered the popularity of the
festival, 
and the great quality of the participating works from all over the world. For
the 
transmediale.01 competition in 2001, about 600 video tapes were submitted. 
A jury of experts consisting of Catrin Backhaus (Videonale Bonn), Gereon Schmitz

(visomat, Berlin), and Angela Melitopoulos (media artist, Cologne) selected 
the winners of the transmediale award in the category video.

For the Video-Selection of transmediale.01 which we are now offering for an 
international screening tour, we deliberately chose video works that differ 
strongly in the way they were produced. Consequently, these videos give a
wide-ranging insight into the dimensions of current artistic video production
in form and content. The selection also includes the two ex-aequo winners 
of the transmediale.01 video award (Kantor, Laliberte) and two of the 
runners-up (Ellis, Niskanen).

ASCII Alphabet by Dorion Berg (CAN), mind's eye by Oliver Whitehead FIN), 
Course by Jordan Crandall (USA), and Broadcast by Istvan Kantor (CAN) give 
critical reflections of the digitalized urban society.

Ironical comments on artistic production with modern digital media can 
be found in the videos Sarcophagus by Zhel (CRO) and Video Hacking by 
Manuel Saiz (UK).

The video works A Girl Bathing in the Kitchen Sink by Pekka Niskanen (FIN), 
Telling Lies by Simon Ellis (UK), and De Tuin by Geesin and Rots (NL) look
behind 
the curtain of private human relations constricted in a consumption-oriented 
society.

With L'outil n'est pas toujours un marteau, Sylvie Laliberte (CAN) refers to the

same subject in her own special way, but provides us with a much more 
general statement on modern everyday life.

Last but not least, R4 by Michaela Schwentner (A) is a formal video experiment 
which explores iconographic reduction in relation to electronic sound.

The videos are in English or in the original language with English subtitles. 
We distribute the Video-Selection on a BETA SP PAL tape (90 min), together 
with a transmediale.01 programme booklet, and information sheets about each
work and author. The price is 250.- Euro, plus 16 percent VAT (which is about 
260.- USD) and refers to a single screening. The largest part of the amount
goes
to the authors as a honorarium.Shipping and handling of the material are
covered
by the screening venue. A preview tape is available on VHS-PAL.

Please contact us for further information: 
++49-30-24721907 or sj@transmediale.de









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