Programme: Award winners and other exhibited works

Jan Verbeek (award winner)
Skip and Return
2001, mini-DV, colour, 27’’
27 seconds and thirty three shots full of freedom and a zest for life. Jan Verbeek jumps from over ditches, walls, streets and squares but the dream of flying ends in his mother’s arms.

Beate Geissler/Oliver Sann (special award winner)
Shooter
2000-2001, DVD/Avid, colour, 16’
Shooter shows players from different occupational and social backgrounds who are connected in a network of channels and chat-rooms around the world to kill each other on virtual battlefields. The outside observer becomes a witness of a 5 to 10 minutes lasting game of life and death without consequences.

Hartmut Jahn (special award winner)
Jingle Jungle
2000, Betacam SP, colour, 7’18’’
Hartmut Jahn transforms a jingle for an evening broadcast on Arte into a video film of associative power and high aesthetic quality. Precisely edited images with a carefully composed soundtrack tell a story reflecting the political and social aspects of the so called “Third World” and the Western claims for dominance.

Bjoern Melhus (special mention)
The oral thing
2001, Betacam SP, colour, Loop, 8’
The oral thing is a video satire about the embarrassing confessions made on so-called daytime chat shows in the U.S.

Jung-Min Bae
Als ich einmal da wäre…
2002, S-VHS, colour, 2’40’’
A film about seeing and not seeing, recognizing and not recognizing in light and darkness.

Peter Becker/ Stefan Holmeier
Bollywood scratches
2001, S-VHS, colour, 4’30’’
Like a DJ the artist works with interacting auditive and visual impulses taken from classic and current Bollywood musicals, traits of large cities and techno clubs.

Sandra Draschaft/Marc Thurow
“P.I“ personal identity/ pedro ines a dance performance
2001, DV/VHS, colour, 11’40’’
This media-related dance performance examines the human body and the reproduction of it in the media.

Cornelia Erdmann
7 Minuten zum Thema Tankstelle
2001, DV, colour, 7’
(Seven minutes on the topic of patrol stations)
The film turns around the patrol station in Illmenau where the artist had spent a lot of time. “At 18, 19, 20, 21 and even at 22 I thought it would be cool to laze around there because all my friends where also there…” (Cornelia Erdmann)

Sven Harguth
Move
2001, digital Betacam, colour, 3’11’’
A woman dances through virtual rooms

Min Kim
URI
2001/2002, Mini-DV, colour, 4’34’’
“I’m interested in distance between spectators and performers, since this pattern can also be transferred onto interrelationships in society” (Min Kim)

Susanne Kutter
Moving Day
2001, DV, colour, 28’’14
A living room was set up in a construction container. Then the container is loaded onto a lorry and transported to a new location. During the trip the living-room furnishings begin to move…

Eric Lanz
Eingriff
2001, S-VHS, colour, 11’
The film simulating a video game in which an invisible player operates two scroll menus offers an interesting distance for observing our way of dealing with the new computer based media.

Bernd Mattiebe
Let’s play – visual culture
2001, S-VHS, colour, 13’’
The visualization of a dream or nightmare, or is it just daily chaos?

Matthias Müller
Phantom
2001, Betacam SP/DVD-R, colour, loop, 4’36’’
Shadowy figures wander like ghosts through a cinematographic room.

Claudia-Aline Müller-Herman/ Ruth Katharina Scheel
Annum per Annum
2001, DV, colour, 3’30’’
Caught in his own perception, the protagonist experiences a continually recurring reality that he attempts to break through by taking pictures with a Polaroid camera.

Bianca Rampas
Signy Rindsmagen (An icelandic fairy tale)
2001, Beta, colour, 4’30’’
This fairy tale is a kind of reverse story of the Fog Prince told from a feminist perspective. Princess Signy, transferred into a cow’s stomach has to find the king’s son to be released from her conditio

Anke Schäfer
Ich brauche deine... (I need your...)
2000, DV, colour, 18’’
A video reflecting the audiences’ desire for information, the basis for visual communication
(die Augen/the eyes) and the wish to be seen and recognized.

Harald Schleicher
Wahre Worte - Böse Bilder - Rauhe Rhythmen
2001, Betacam SP, colour 2001, 8’’
(True words - bad images - rough rhythms)
An experimental video about the apparently unstoppable rise and fall of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Nora Schmidt
hoch hinaus (high up)
2001, mini DV, colour, 2’
The film describes the lives of two dogs in an animal home.

Reni Scholz
Platzkonzert
2001, mini DV, colour, 2'24’’
“What interest me are the apparently simple, ordinary objects of everyday life, the things we normally overlook – fleeting, incomprehensible objects, the things that want to go away, that elude us, things that melt or pass away…” (Reni Scholz)

Anna Werkmeister
Still in move 2
2001, mini DV, colour, loop, 3’50’’
Reality, fantasy, and electronics flow into each other and merge to futuristic fiction that defines the perception of time and space in its own way.