Video Mundi Program 8 Friday, April 22 8:00pm at the Chicago Cultural
Center Domestic Insomnia explores the thin line between two fundamental human feelings: fear and attraction. Not just since terrorist attacks succeed to penetrate the emotional framework of Western societies and "shock and awe" campaigns serve as a military response - both broadcasted live on TV -, these personal feelings are more political than one might refuse to believe. They are reliable companions due to the irrational nature of the human psyche, and play an historical role in media strategies, economical profit-making and national security policies. Catastrophe and spectacle are two sides of the same medal, and technological progress worked to enhance this ambivalent relation. In the program, the political and cultural dimension of the issue is matched with poetic registrations, personal narratives and somber fantasies. Combining video art, animated drawings and experimental film, Domestic Insomnia aims to generate a kind of scratchy suspense in the cinema space. So watch out too for roaming sounds and images! Emily Richardson UK John Watt USA Andreas Wutz D Jean-Claude Bustros Canada Babak Afrassiabi NL |
Kiarash Anvari Iran Ann Course and Paul Clark UK
Aleesa Cohene Canada Florian Wuest, born 1970 in Munich, is an artist, filmmaker and curator for experimental film and video art. He studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig School of Arts and participated in the Master of Arts Programme of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam. His curatorial projects include: real[work], in collaboration with Marcel Schwierin, 4th Werkleitz Biennial (2000), Catastrophe, 48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2002), Alternative Histories of Modern Conflict, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Imperial War Museum and Lux, London (2003), and Ecstatic Bodies, Independent Film Show 3rd Edition, E-M Arts/Fondazione Morra, Napoli (2003). |