5th Cologne Online Film Festival on VAD
VAD features during the coming weeks for one day another festival film.
CologneOFF V is standing under the theme of “TABOO”. The festival selection explores the phenomenon of “taboo” in the context of our contemporary reality.
31 January 2010
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Ascan Breuer
German videomaker
biography
participant in
CologneOFF V – 5th Cologne Online Film Festival 2009
Video title:
The Kurukshetra-Report, 2009, 8:00
synopsis
“…Two bodies in battle – mutually smitten in clean engagement. THE KURUKSHETRA-REPORT is an expedition to the nucleus of violence. In cold blood the video peels the flesh to reach the pure core, to make this dumb thing talk point-blank – without mercy.
…Beyond good and evil, beyond issues of morality, empathy and adequacy something remains: a demand that refuses to speak – and which is rejected by us. As a result violence emerges easily in our culture as an enigma, a fascinating phantom – now and ever since: in sports, computer games, film, comic, art, politics, history and sex. As the title implies the cultural time-space-frame of this phenomenon is unlimited. The video traces this tradition in a sinister synthetic manner.”
Amon Brandt
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Read the review on Furtherfield–>Art Cinema Everywhere, All The Time.
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and CologneOFF V
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=370
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Previous CologneOFF V Features
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30 January 2010
Everyday Occurrences, 2004, 8:00 by Fumiko Matsuyama (Japan)
29 January 2010
Good Trip, Good Hunt, Good Appetite, 2008, 2:54 by Roland Fuhrmann (GER)
28 January 2010
Ophelia, 2006, 4:30 by Virginie Foloppe (France)
27 January 2010
The Magnitude of the Continental Divide, 2009, 6:00 by Chis Coleman (USA)
26 January 2010
The Visitors, 2009, 14:55 by Nilgün Serbest & Tobias Kurtz (Germany)
25 January 2010
My Way, 2006, 1:00 by Sonja Vuk (Croatia)
24 January 2010
Kassandra 2009, 2:16 by Johanna Reich (Germany)
23 January 2010
War is Good for Business, 2009, 3:06 by Jill Sigman (USA)
22 January 2010
The Wild Goose
2009, 2:56 by My Name is Scot (Canada)
21 January 2010
Essay for a surveillance video
2009, 5:26 by Arthur Tuoto (Brazil)
20 January 2010
As Angels under Snow, 2009, 1:00 by Luana Viscilia (Italy)
19 January 2010
UpStairs, 2009, 7:39 by Jonas Ungar (Germany)
18 January 2010
“Cruentation, 2008, 3:38 by Iona Pelovska (Canada)
17 January 2010
“Everything is Urgent, 2008, 6:20 by Ran Slavin (Israel)
16 January 2010
“A Face, 2009, 1:00 by Yin-Ling Chen (Taiwan)
15 January 2010
“In front of us is a wide valley, 2009, 15:50 by Dina Boswank (Germany)
14 January 2010
“Lolita, 2007, 0:49 by Carla Della Beffa (Italy)
13 January 2010
“Habeas Corpus, 2008, 7:20 by Renata Padovan (Brazil)
12 January 2010
“Into Eden, 2009, 12:46 by Jym Davis (USA)
11 January 2010
“My identity by web application”, 2009, 1:00 by Junho Oh (South Korea)
10 January 2010
“Basbas” by Joaquin Palencia (Philippines)
9 January 2010
“Imagenes et Loci” by Susanne Wiegner (Germany)
8 January 2010
“Hole in the Floor” by Heidi Kumao (USA)
7 January 2010
“Red Star” by Milica Rakic (Serbia)
6 January 2010
“Anomia” by Nuria Fragoso (Mexico)
5 January 2010
“etude: red and blue” by Vladimir Mitrev (Bulgaria)
4 January 2010
“1 minute crash-course on SEDUCTION” by Sreedeep (India)
3 January 2010
“Noli Me Tangere ” by Masha Yosefpolsky (Israel)
20 December 2009
“No Pigeonholes ” by Sarah Adetola (Germany)
19 December 2009
“Pigs Feet” by Priscilla Pomeroy (Mexico)
18 December 2009
“Delivery” by Marianna & Daniel O’Reilly (UK)
17 December 2009
“The Tunnel” by Soumendra Padhi (India)
16 December 2009
“Cyclic Islands: Meme´s”, .by Sibylle Trickes (Germany)
15 December 2009
“Sacrificial” by Sinasi Günes (Turkey)
13 December 2009
“Berenice” by Bill Domonkos (USA)
12 December 2009
“Anonymous Soldiers Don’t Tell Your Mother” by Haim Ben Shitrit. (Israel)
11 December 2009
“Rope Trick” by Abhilash V. (India)
9 December 2009
“Rebirth” by Pekka Ruuska (Finland)
8 December 2009
“I love you so much I could kill for you” by Boris Sribar (Serbia)
7 December 2009
“Partition” by Holly Rodricks (USA)
6 December 2009
“Scale of Reference” by Daniel Castillo & Carolina Padilla (Spain)
5 December 2009
“Stockholm Syndrome part I – golden mission” by Amit Epstein (Germany)
4 December 2009
“Picking Cherries” by Ioannis Roumeliotis (Greece)
3 December 2009
“Elena in the prison of herself (Elena en la prision de si misma)” by Julio Orta (Mexico)
2 December 2009
“Motorized Ordeal” by Les Riches Douaniers (France)
1 December 2009
“fleeting glimpse (street) ” by Johana Reich (Germany)
30 November 2009
“Murdered Brides” by Arzu Ozkal Telhan (Turkey)
29 November 2009
“Layers: Bodies and Metals” by RAFAEL (Belgium)
28 November 2009
“The Great Identity Swindle” by Nikesh Shukla (UK)
27 November 2009
“Roghieh” by Alysse Stepanian (Iran)
26 November 2009
“Cakesitter” by Valerie Garlick (USA)
25 November 2009
“The Art Reception” by Ulf Kristiansen (Norway)
24 November 2009
“Forbidden City” by Lily & Honglei (China)
22 November 2009
“Little Pleasures” by Jamie Marie Waelchli (USA)
21 November 2009
“A Beautiful Day” by Philip Matousek (Germany)
20 November 2009
“dead SEEquences” by Fabio Scacchioli (Italy)
19 November 2009
“Benefits of War” by Nitin Das (India)
18 November 2009
“How to clean a puddle” by Roland Wegerer (Austria)
17 November 2009
BIP by Karlos Alastruey (Spain)
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The entire festival can be accessed online via
http://coff05.newmediafest.org
The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded as PDF for free –>
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf
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