Reviews 2011

There are very strong moments of intensity in Vitor Medeiros’s "Psychic Spies from China". The sound, in particular, is used to excellent effect to create tension, suspense, and a tactile yet dreamlike quality.

Home is a gentle piece that explores a complicated and sensitive issue of suicide. Seeing this work once again reassured me that my choice to watch films prior to reading descriptions pays off. My..

Debra Fear’s inquisitive approach allows her to notice and capture the most underestimated moments in life translating them into captivating video works often with a degree of dark humour...

Metropol Drift Reaction by David Anthony Sant is a visual essay somewhat akin to the works of British filmmaker John Smith. By dissecting the city’s urban elements into categories, such as neon..

The sound in this piece is its backbone and hops from languid to crisp to anguished to incidental. Are the cafegoers greedy consumers or lost and hungry animals? The jangle of different sounds, the tension between sounds and images, and the lack of human onscreen presence all evoke the mood during the riots successfully, as well as opening up thoughts on the cause of these riots and how they reflect society.

The video work in this piece has been captured through a plastic bag. This was the artists intention not knowing exactly what the outcome would be, I feel a sense of risk that has been taken. A question surfaces, are we taking risks simply by seeing things differently?

This piece is hypnotic, I can’t put it any other way. It is also long. I have been put into a trance, and I can’t leave the video. I feel as though I may have passed away, and my life is flashing before my eyes. The technique and style is consistent through out the whole video, this works really well design wise. It keeps me focused as well.

Thanks to a bag covering a camera, here we assist to a metaphor of our lives. The author seems to share the impossible fly of a butterfly in the rain with us.

Symphonic aphony plays empty cold spaces and empty hot sounds. I feel the sounds and the cold atmosphere of empty spaces.. One of the most interesting investigation about musical and cinematic..

Nowadays you don’t see often on your tvscreen the color bars together with that an horrible sound, indicating no signal.

The music gives a total different feeling of the video, a nice contradiction with the black and white images, where you see the cruelty of nature. Which seems to be a metaphor for our society, the big difference is animals have a reason to kill, humans not. However this bird could have a little bit mercy with his victim, hunger or no hunger.

The dualism between calm and storm is an usual condition in human life. Here instead there’s a sort of "freezing" yin and yang so that the two elements never melt. It’s unexpected to..

What happens when our ultimate anxiety and anger are inherited by our equipment?....

A most interesting investigation of the way we usually communicate and show ourselves off thanks to video networks that enable us to mix real and fictional events.

An experimental film playing on oniric vision. An infinite escape through reality and dreams. Psychic Spies From China is an interesting short film that properly shoots the initial negative and..

There’s a good balance between the rhythmic and involving music and the crude and rather disturbing images, which makes up for a symbolic representation of our times

Polar opposites create a dualistic balanced composition. One half breathes while the other does not, one half is cold, and the other is warm. One half moves while the other does not.

I really love the song that smoothly flows through this video. The bass line takes you, and with out any effort, seduces you. As the video plays you feel a tension between the the warm high of the music, and a cold low as natures cruel reminder kicks in.

The secret behind successful profile documentaries is most usually the unique qualities of the featured person themselves. This is certainly the case for Mulugeta Gebrekidan’s short The Triumph..

Life in a big city is chaotic, busy and full of noises. David Anthony Sant brought it back to beautiful scene of balanced, ordered images, overlaid geometric forms and more or less one sound. A..

Who doesn’t know the Mona Lisa? You have seen it in the Louvre or maybe saw the interpretations by other famous artists. Or even you read all the explanations about who, what and how of the..

I enjoyed Elizabeth Riley’s experimental video work. Dragons of Iceland is a fun, colorful tension building work. Juxtapozed by transitioning images that are based on artistic process we feel the repetition of movement, a strong principle of design.

I enjoyed "To the beach"! This short black and white film has a wonderful deceiving quality that has your perceptions and assumptions tricked! Mizin has carefully captured your attention from the films beginning.

In Long Live Egypt director Karim Shaaban gets us closer to the action than the news ever does. There are no hero journalists in flak jackets shouting into a microphone in front of a revolutionary..

Back to the good old days in the history of the movies with famous names and classicals remixed into a contemporary video-art piece.

It was for the description of the video and the title which made me curious to watch it. ’Schadenfreude’ means in English ’malicious joy’ and Daniel O’Reilly has catched..