Videoformes festival (Fr)

See also the Videoformes festival laureats 2015 : Reynold Reynolds (EU) ; Gianluca Abbate (It) ; Francesca Fini (It) ; Christophe Laventure (Fr) ; Ding Shiwei (Chn) ; Arash Nassiri (Ir) ;

• Momoko Seto (Fr) : Planet Σ – 2014 / 11’50

Planet Σ hosts giant creatures sleeping in the ice. Undersea explosions cause a warming effect and give a new animal life.

• Ryo Ikeshiro (Jp/En) : Construction in Kneading – 2013 / 6’30

” Construction in Kneading” is a generative and immersive audiovisual work performed live. This is a speculation on a form of virtual life based on fractal Mandelbox. The film contains excerpts of a performance.

• Mihai Grecu + Thibault Gleize (Ro) : Exland – 2013 / 7’40

Somewhere, lost among the majestic fjords and cloudy peaks, mysterious postmodern monuments testify to an ambiguous human presence. This presence tends to change the landscape to an abstract ideological symbolism. This film is both an imaging works of an utopian “land art”, a critique of consumer society and a misuse of the contemporary imagery of disasters.

• Alessandro Amaducci (It) : I am your database – 2014 / 3’52

We only have one life. In the video game of life, the final battle began, and the winner is already known. Life database, death database.

• Hugo Arcier (Fr) : Nostalgia for nature – 2013 / 8’59

“Nostalgia for Nature” is a sensory film entirely in Computer Graphics. We are plunged into an urban character’s mind. The character recalls moments of his childhood linked to nature. Guided by a voiceover, these flashbacks are interwoven, diffracted by his memory.

• Sandra Araújo (Pt) : Rio-me porque és da aldeia e vieste de burro ao baile – 2014 / 2’53

Popular, fun, teasing, Simple, Fado, Humor.

• Demetris Shammas (Cy) : Sciss Cut – 2014 / 3’59

“Sciss Cut” is a work on the moving image and digital algorithms. A collection of known geometric objects can create a space where we can find some new abstract objects.

• Edouard Taufenbach (Fr) : FROM A TRAIN – 2014 / 3’40

A train platform described from a departing train. The image reveals the present and the depth of the past. Travel reminiscences are given room for the imagination.

• Masanobu Hiraoka (Jp) : Land – 2013 / 3’41

Abstraction and metamorphoses.

• Frédéric Bonpapa (Fr) : Light Motif – 2014 / 4’15

“Light Design” explores the opportunities for synergy between image and music through a semi-abstract environment made of colored lights and geometric shapes.

• Nicolas Brault (Ca) : Corps étrangers – 2013 / 4’12

Corps étrangers is inspired by the myth of the “transparent body” conveyed by medical imaging. The purpose is to make the viewer feel the strangeness which he can sometimes feel in his own body.

• Carl-Antonyn Dufault (Ca) : La répétition – 2013 / 6’30

Combining dance and digital arts, this short film is the exploration of thousands of painstakingly synchronized movements creating a different choreography.

Alain Longuet, Gabriel Soucheyre and Stéphane Trois Carrés have been working on a new application called Video_Age. This is an algorithmic engine mounted for the thirtieth edition of this festival which has already gone through many historical periods. The project is actually a development of Cage Suite, an interactive point requiring the participation of many artists in tribute to John Cage and his famous work 4’33, presented for the first time in March 2013 and VIDEOFORMES and renewed in a version in March 2014.

The main idea is to revisit the last decades of the video through the captured images, the rushes, the various productions, installations, performances. These memory pictures come from both VIDEOFORMES archives and Grand Canal (federated association with many French video artists in the early 80s).

This is a corpus of images, captured and produced through several video art, digital and analog eras. They testify to the multiplicity of creations. These images were assembled in 90-second segments. This is a re-appropriation, a reading repetition, image mix. The sound is not kept and it gives the possibility to contemporary designers to give a sound interpretation and the public a ‘play’ that connects the memory, heritage and the time lived in the present.

This formalistic posture may seem sterile if the generated combinatorial were not so huge…

For Transnumériques, two versions of Video Age are offered: Video Age 2.1, a performance that will take place on opening night, and Video_Age 3.0, a single-screen installation that offers image editing / sound programmed variability, already developed in Cage Suite. Its random editing allows all unsuspected relationships between images and sounds.

Production : Videoformes – Partnership Videoformes Transcultures for the performative version.