EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK 2011 - Emaf

INTERNATIONAL SELECTION
GREEN SCREEN
SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW
Jesse McLean
Kurz vor dem Ausscheiden droht die Spannung sie aus der Fassung
zu bringen, die Kandidaten warten und erfahren nun, ob
sie nach Hause fahren müssen. Das Publikum zu Hause ist genauso
gespannt ... Teil zwei der Bearing Witness Trilogie die sich
damit beschäftigt wie wir, als Kultur, uns selbst betrachten, vor
allem in Momenten von großer emotionaler Bedeutung. Mit
Filmmaterial ausgewählt aus Mainstream media und TV, destillieren
die Videos (The Eternal Quarter Inch, Somewhere only we
know, The Burning Blue) aufrichtige Augenblicke aus eigentlich
unseriösen Quellen zusammen (Fernsehprediger, Kandidaten in
Reality Shows, Bildschirmschoner, B-Movies). Da sie in verschiedenen
Welten verankert sind, versetzen die Videos die Zuschauer
mal in die Rolle des Voyeurs und dann wieder in die des
Teilnehmers.
Standing on the brink of elimination, the suspense threatening
to fracture their composure, contestants wait and see if they
will be going home. The audience at home is also waiting... Part
two of Bearing Witness Trilogy concerned with how we, as a culture,
watch ourselves, especially in moments of great emotional
significance. With footage culled from mainstream media and
television, the single-channel videos (The Eternal Quarter Inch,
Somewhere only we know, The Burning Blue) distill moments of
sincerity from perhaps insincere sources (televangelists, reality
show contestants, screensavers, B-movies). Located in interstitial
spaces, these videos continually shift the role of the viewer
between voyeur and participant.
Jesse McLean grew up in Pennsylvania, studied Art at Oberlin
College and received her MFA in Moving Image from University of
Illinois at Chicago. She has shown her work most recently at Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, Threewalls, Migrating Forms at Anthology
Film Archives, Art Chicago, Portland Documentary and
Experimental Film Festival, Director's Lounge in Berlin, FLEX,
Monkeytown, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago Underground Film Festival,
LUMP gallery/projects and Space 1026. She lives and works
in Chicago, IL.
�USA 2009, Video, 5:15
�Realisation Jesse McLean
�Distribution Video Data Bank
�Image copyright of the artist,
courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
TURNING TORSO
Stefan Neuberger
Der Turning Torso ist das neue Wahrzeichen
der schwedischen Stadt Malmö. Ein 190 Meter
hoher Wolkenkratzer, der einen sich drehenden
menschlichen Körper darstellt.
›Normalerweise möchte ich mich nicht umdrehen,
weil ich Angst habe der Gefahr ins
Gesicht zu blicken.‹
The Turning Torso is the new landmark of the
Swedish city Malmö. It's a 190 meter high
skyscraper that represents the form of a
twisting human being.
›I usually don’t want to turn around, because
I am afraid of facing the danger.‹
Stefan Neuberger, *1983 in Nuremberg, has
been studying at the Filmakademie Baden-
Württemberg since 2005. He lives and works
in Berlin.
�D 2010, Video, 4:35
�Director Stefan Neuberger
�Script Stefan Neuberger,
Christophe Rolin, Olivier Jourdain
�Camera Christophe Rolin
�Editing Olivier Jourdain
�Sound Dave Abbot
�Music mix Dave Abbot, Jonathan Schorr
�Cast Hrvoslava ›Lala‹ Brkušic,
Melissa Suárez del Real Adalid,
Frida Nordström,
Lina Sundén pursued unknown
�Producers Lina Sundén,
Frida Nordström, Jenny Trobeck
�Distribution Stefan Neuberger
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