Visual Verse

O Josien Vogelaar

Hand drawn animation film based on the novel of Pauline Réage "Histoire d"O" (Story of O). The film was made during an exhibition at the Art Center in Amsterdam Zuidoost (Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost). The film is inspired on the books last chapter; a naked woman is walking into a ball room and it turns out that she is wearing a mask of an owl.

Mermaid Josien Vogelaar

An interpretation of Hans Christian Andersens" tale of the Little Mermaid. The film focuses on the cruelty the mermaid has to endure to become a human being and on the question that is on everyone"s mind but no one poses: what is there between her legs? Made with stopmotion technique

The Future-Primitive Jol Thomson

Simultaneously a video exploring human relationships to technology and nature, this pseudo-science fiction is also a partial documentary, which takes its footage from a night-performance that occurred in May 2009 at The Tree Museum in the Muskokas, Ontario, Kanada. The most fundamental elements of human experience, that of perception and relationships are explored and pushed..

Intergalactic Space Travel Maria Kubysh

Intergalactic Space Travel is about the road and exploration, and looking for a path, the meaning of life, and sometimes looking farther than necessary. The soundtrack for the film is the artist’s interpretation of the song “Tenderness” that was written on the occasion of the first manned space flight performed by Yuri Gagarin.

Sack round the freezing tree Sean Burn

Sack round the freezing tree. (after brechts spring 1938). 2009. 3"36"". a response to the tumultuous events in london this spring at the time of the g20 meeting/protests and very much inspired by brechts poem spring 1938. film of bae systems here on tyneside is intercut with that of a branch from our estate already snapped off, that i managed to regrow for a while, and..

Meme’s Sibylle Trickes

My video deals with our self-perception. We often act like completely different persons depending on the person we communicate with: We behave different with our chief or with our family. The different aspects of our personality are represented in my video by only one person . The splitting of one´s self is demonstrated via multiplication of this main character. I pick the..

Global Vulva Myriam Thyes

The animation GLOBAL VULVA connects female figures and vulva symbols from different times, countries and cultures, while they morph into each other: Paleolithic engravings, the Greek goddess Baubo, a winged woman from an Arctic ice-age culture in Siberia, an Irish Sheila-na-gig, drawings of real vulvas and abstract symbols, an Indian yoni stone, the Tibetan goddess Naljorma..

Woman Kim Engelen

Incompleteness leads to coloured perspective. stealing a moment from the inner world of three women in different phases of their lives. with the parallel, the longing for sanctuary, security and love. the camera observes them shamelessly as they expose themselves

Pronto Josien Vogelaar

A desperate woman tries to contact her lover through mobile phone...

I have forgotten Melissa Grey

The narration is compiled from the google search "I have forgotten." The tree was photographed by Robert Kirkbride everyday for a year.

Lila Ricardo Gomes Oliveira

Lila is a love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm. But Lila may be the girl that we see from distance through the window, dancing. Her steps sound like piano; her movements are music.

Fish tales Midi Onodera

Movie of the Week 2009 Originally posted on June 1st SYNOPSIS: Even a fish has a BFF.

Selene en Endymion Josien Vogelaar

Mural drawings in stop motion technique. A classic story of the moon goddess Selene who is enchanted by a sleeping young man called Endymion.

Home Gianfranco Foschino

Stillness and movement play in opposition in this video. In a long shot framing and a single take, Foschino’s camera captures an everyday life scene in Chilean country farm.