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| Director | Movies |
| Chia-En Jao |
'Father's Tongue' 05:33
Video projection This series of videos are co-operated with people who don't speak Mandarin, my native language. Several stories based on my personal encounters during the journey in foreign countries are whispered in Chinese in their ears and the person imitates the sound and speaks out without knowing its meaning. In the end, a Chinese speaker translates what could be understood in English. In this video, I was talking about a homosexual encounter in Paris and the story copes with specific body gesture, which implies but not confirms the relationship between two males. Besides, the person's pronunciation was corrected until the limit of his ability.
©Chia-En Jao 2007
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| Paul Malone | 'Synaptic Sun' 07:47
A journey throught the bicameral mind.
A new vision of the Sun is described. That which was once so familiar and the source of all life, is now a strange and mysterious land inviting adventure. It is also a dangerous place, edgy and unpredictable. The torrent of light and energy we see comes from tornadoes of electrified plasma arcing at its surface.
'Footfall Railroad' 02:00
'Heavenly Hydrocarbons' 03:34
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| Nicola Rae | 'Presence / Absence' 03:05
Binary video projection While studying for an MA at the Institute of Education (University of London), I have travelled repeatedly to the area where two of the worst bombings happened in 2005 - one above ground in a bus beside Tavistock Square, and the other nearly directly below ground on the Piccadilly Line between King's Cross and Russell Square. In an interview with Peter Lodermeyer, for an article to be published in Junge Kunst, June 2008, I answered a question about Absence-Presence: "Your question about whether this work has 'political meaning' for me, has been problematic to answer. Maybe this is because the initial impulses of this work were more investigatory and physical. Claustrophobia in a rush hour train, due to another tube line being closed, caused the initial interest in filming what that experience felt like. By holding the DVD camera down low in a rush hour crush, the footage allows an experience of claustrophobia to be managed through focusing on reflections in train windows and the narrow gaps between people. However I was also investigating the 2005 London Bombings Victims' website at the time - particularly the victims' and their families' need to understand why the bombers had carried out this attack."
©Nicola Rae 2007
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| Daniel Rodrigo | 'Fashion Death' 04:13
Directed, edited and writed by Daniel Rodrigo. Music: LXLMAsterKD ©Daniel Rodrigo 2007 www.danielrodrigo.com |
| Tom Sands | 'Freudian Slap' 08:52
A revenge story with a psychoanalytical twist.
After a vicious, unprovoked attack by a gang of Chavs, grammar schoolboy Chris is determined to understand the reason behind the violence. His best friend, James, desperately wants revenge. They find the perfect solution: enforced psychoanalysis.
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| Tom Walker | 'Untitled 2007' 01:00
My video works reference the Youtube generations desire for short, fast, pithy entertainment. They endeavor to undermine the quick-fix notion of such video works with an initially humorous but ultimately sinister take on the day-to-day routines of fatherhood and family life. ©Tom Walker 2007 tdmwalker3@hotmail.com |
| Tom Webber | 'Cat and Dog' 02:00
A conversation between a cat and a dog. ©Tom Webber 2007
'Untitled (hello / goodbye)' 00:35
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| Chia-Hua Wu | 'Spectral Field' 07:31
The video use colour as a positive device to generate form and force, to challenge the conventional school of fashion that considers colour as a passive sub-production from light reflected by material object, and has used the method to explore the signifier and signified of 'Spectral Information'. ©Chia-Hau Wu 2005 E-mail: wu.chiahua@googlemail.com |