miscellaneous

(image: hurriyet.com.tr)

I feel sad; Turkey has lost a very important woman (an actress, performance artist, example) in this very critical and difficult time for the women’s movement.

Another chance to watch Murdered Brides.

Selection of Experimental Films, Istanbul Independent Film Festival
Editors: Fatma Çolakoğlu, Eytan İpeker

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February 9 | 2008 | Gato Vadio | Oporto, Portugal

“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who do the fuck do you think you’re talking to? Oh, yeah? Ok.” Videolab Project is pleased to announce the beginning of what will be a monthly multimedia presentation in “Gato Vadio”, a bookstore-café, in Oporto, Portugal.

While preparing the event, due to start on February 9, important questions such as the place/specific ambiance of the bookstore were once again considered of utmost importance, thus allowing Videolab to continue to reflect on the issues that were defined during its foundation, back in 2004:

- What characterizes the language of video? - Which is the ideal place for its presentation? - Is there an ideal place?

“You talkin’ to me?”, an obvious reference to De Niro¹s talking to himself while staring at the mirror in “Taxi Driver”, is a selection of 17 videos whose main goal is to directly address the visitor/viewer. Videolab¹s intention is to make sure that the show will not use video works as some sort of decoration objects, to where the visitor/viewer may look or not. At the same time, narrative works were excluded because they would require the audience full attention. With this two requisites in mind, Videolab¹s selection of videos intends to free the works from the absolute need of the full attention mentioned above; but at the same time makes the works selected responsible for being able to attract people¹s look, be it for what they are trying to communicate, be it for the sound, or for a single image.

The 17 short films will be shown in loop during February 9, in “Gato Vadio” (Rua do Rosário, 281, Oporto, Portugal).

PROGRAMME:

“Loud and Clear” by Dietmar Krumrey | 3’ (excerto) | USA
“The State of Things” by Amelia Winger-Bearskin | 9’ | USA
“Entitled As” by Arzu Ozkal Telhan | 3′31 | Turkey/USA
”Gay?” by Jean Gabriel Périot | 2′ | France
”Packaged Goods” by Leah Meyerhoff | 1′ | USA
“Der Bewohner” by o habitante | 3′06’’ | Portugal
”Ornamental” by Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli | 1’50’’ | USA
“Baby Marleena” by Erica Eyres | 4′30 | Scotland
“Falling Down” by Jan Hakon Erichsen | 53” | Norway
”Mother look what they’ve done to me (a tribute to Amanda Lear)” by Risk Hazekamp | 5’20’’ | Netherlands
“Gender Bender Hallo” by Alison Williams | 5’17’’ | South Africa
“Perfect” by Johanna Lecklin |1′ | Finland
“O Burro” by Artur Varela | 4′ | Portugal
”Ah Pook is Here” by Philip Hunt | 6′ | United Kingdom/Germany
”Fine, Thanks” by Ruggero Mantovani | 1′50” | Italy
“Front” by Johanna Reich | 1’56’’ | Germany
“Slippy Bunny” by Corrine Bot | 5’40’’ | Netherlands

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