- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2..
color.
fullscreen. sound.
Titles
+ Double Bubble
- Director:
- Bajevic, Maja
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Bosnia
- Year:
- 1999
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. English. From the Renaissance Society catalogue: “Addressing the camera, Bajevic repeats fictionalized statements belonging to an ideologue justifying acts of oppression and violence in the name of religion. Delivered in the first person, these statements are the same as those rationalizing atrocities committed during Yugoslavia’s civil war. Set in rakishly lit, empty interiors, DOUBLE BUBBLE’s tone is decidedly noirish. However, there is no crime. Bajevic’s performance would constitute a confession were her delivery not so assured as to become matter-of-fact. She repeats the statement once on screen and once on voice-over. As one voice speaks to the viewer, the other speaks for the viewer. The contradictory logic of each statement is not being challenged but affirmed, making DOUBLE BUBBLE a portrait of psychological submission to orthodoxy despite hypocrisy.”
+ NataSsa
- Director:
- Nemeth, Hajnal
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hungary
- Year:
- 2000
- Language:
- No dialogue.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. From the Renaissance Society description: “Nemeth thinks of her short pieces (often looped) as wallpaper. Shunning special effects, she relies on gestures and actions that can be read both forward and backward like a Mobius strip. In NATASSA, a mysterious figure dressed in black, strolls through a pasture. Upon passing a large orthodox cross, she is inexplicably pulled in reverse, arms outstretched in cruciform position and lifted from the ground. More than the spell or the grip of religion, this is Christianity come again as tractor beam.”
+ MOST
- Director:
- Zarevac, Dragana
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Serbia
- Language:
- Serbian with English subtitles.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- Sound. In Serbian with English subtitles. From the Renaissance Society description: The city of Mostar on the Neretva River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, exemplifies the deep layering of cultures that is the Bakans, from its late Roman roots to its Ottoman flourishings. Running through the city, the Neretva served as an historic divide with Muslims to the east and Croats to the west. It became one of the more symbolic battlegrounds of the 1992-5 civil war in Yugoslavia when, in November of 1993, the world watched in horror as Bosnian Croats turned their artillery on Mostar’s spectacular 16th century Ottoman bridge, destroying it completely. Instead of documenting the architectural restoration efforts that began in 1997 Zarevac has chosen to survey the state of Mostar’s psychological healing through brief interviews with several of its spirited residents.”
+ Albanian Stories
- Director:
- Paci, Adrian
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Albania, Italy
- Year:
- 1997
- Language:
- Albanian with English subtitles.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- Sound. In Albanian with English subtitles. From the Renaissance Society description: Videomaker Paci recorded his 3-year-old daughter as she relates a series of rambling fairy tales starring a cat, a cow, and a rooster. The reassuring sense that comes from indulging to a child’s endearingly convoluted narration slowly evaporates with the little girl’s nonchalant introduction of “international forces” into the tale.The allegory of Kosovo is clear. Its gravity is inversely proportional to her innocence.
+ Run Rabbit Run
- Director:
- Vockovic, Pavle
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Serbia
- Year:
- 2002
- Language:
- No dialogue.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- Sound. From the Renaissance Society description: A rabbit protagonist dreams he is the subject of an allegory that is traumatically shattered by an all too successful Elmer Fudd. In an abrupt series of identifications and misidentifications it becomes impossible to distinguish between levels of reality inside and outside the fable. The result is an utterly dysfunctional allegory, which is prehaps the only way to truly craft an allegory of dysfunction.
+ Survived ‘N’ Lived Another Day
- Director:
- Becirovic, Alma
- Production Co:
- Kul Produkcija
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Bosnia
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- Bosnian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: Becirovic has chosen a female member of the Bosnian de-miners corps for a study in courage. The tensions and hazards of someone who risks their life daily are aptly portrayed in footage of the heroine probing for and discovering a mine. Her story is exceptionally heroic due to circumstances that force her to acknowledge de-mining first and foremost as a means to provide for her family.
+ Essential Current Affairs
- Director:
- Acostioaei, Dan; Wodinski, Ann
- Production Co:
- Centre Cultural Francais de Iasi
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Romania
- Year:
- 2002
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: Wearing the ubiquitous black ski mask favored by terrorists of every nationality, a man and a woman attempt a lover’s embrace.
+ Revolution Dans Le Boudoir, La
- Director:
- Mihaltianu, Dan
- Running Time:
- Short. 23 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Romania
- Year:
- 1999
- Language:
- Romanian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: LA REVOLUTION DANS LE BOUDOIR features close-ups of a man grooming himself (shaving, clipping his nails) while radio broadcasts of the turbulent events leading up to the 1989 Romanian coup play in the background.
+ Back Sun
- Director:
- Johannson, Tiia
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Estonia
- Year:
- 1997
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: “The late Tiia Johannson made this work shortly after being diagnosed with Hodgkins disease. The title is a metaphor for depression. The background featurse video footage shot during a 1990 vacation in Aland, a Baltic sea archipelago -- a trip her husband, artist Raivo Kelomees, recalls as a very happy time. Johannson symbolically inverted the color values so that it appears as a solarized negative. Like her pain, the superimposed circle contracts and expands becoming more or less obtrusive but never disappearing.
+ VM 14.50
- Director:
- Tvico, Muhidin
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Bosnia
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- No dialogue.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- Sound. From the Renaissance Society description: Tvico superimposes the frontal view of a washing machine on news footage for results that are extremely foreboding. A soundtrack consisting of slight sounds, and an ominously repeated bass tone, hint at an immanent doom. The piece gathers speed as the impending spin cycle approaches, at which point it becomes clear that there will be no apocalypse precisely because it is a cycle.
+ Displacement In Reverse
- Director:
- Ki’Wa
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Estonia
- Year:
- 2003
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: Achieving an altered state of consciousness is one thing, communicating it is another. In DISPLACEMENT, Ki’Wa uses sound, image and spoken word not to describe such a state but to reproduce it. After several generous helpings of nitrous oxide, a young woman recites a poem whose nonsensical lines, although completely cryptic, contain striking imagery. Communicating an irrational experience irrationally, it is more urgent than it is inchoate, and the overall tone is indebted to Artaud.
+ HH
- Director:
- Niesterowicz, Anna
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Poland
- Year:
- 2002
- Language:
- Silent.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent. From the Renaissance Society description: Three female Warsaw natives smitten with hip hop dance for the camera. The video is silent, focusing attention on the body language of the dancers, which on the surface is that of provocation. But beneath its aggressiveness, Niesterowicz finds a mode of communication belonging to an internationalist youth culture, which, as always, is bent on expressing allegiance to a mythically authentic subculture.
+ Strip Tease Or Not?
- Director:
- Nemeth, Hajnal
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hungary
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- No dialogue.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. From the Renaissance Society description: Nemeh uses a mobius strip structure to step outside the flow of time and perform a Houdini-style removal of bra. Nemeth invites, noly to counter, a male gaze of her own, a confident stare bolstered by a pair of sunglasses.
+ My Dream Pop Star
- Director:
- Ki’Wa
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Estonia
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- Estonian
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: Ki’Wa’s videos are developed out of an interdisciplinary performance practice that runs the gamut from fashion to poetry to activities such as the Festival of Non-Existant Bands. This time he indulges nostalgia by dredging up fond memories of Anne Veski, a 1980s Estonian synth-pop star. Ki’Wa bestows glamour upon the shamelessly silly, mundane acts of a friend who plays Veski. The text (in Estonian) is nonsensical, typical of Ki’Wa.
+ Love Letter To Myself
- Director:
- Kaljo, Kai
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Estonia
- Year:
- 1999
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: An expression of contentment that takes the passage of light through a set of clerestory windows and a recording of Bob Dylan’s song “Just Like a Woman,” and turns it into an homage to herself.
+ Untitled
- Director:
- Floricic, Alen
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Croatia
- Year:
- 1999
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- The artist sits, poker-faced, besides a flashing Christmas tree for the duration of a carol being electronically tooted from one of the tree’s ornaments. Floricic lets the tree do the talking as his blank expression registers as something below sardonic and well beyond resignation.
+ Brainshifters Intro
- Director:
- Son:Da
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Slovenia
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- English with Slovenian subtitles.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- Sound. In English with Slovenian subtitles. From the Renaissance Society description: Appropriating several seconds of an unidentified film clip, this piece of “scratch video”, because of its style and source material, has an anachronistic feel, as though it could have been produced in the 1980s when homelessness reached record levels. A black man, down on his luck, delivers a piece of proverbial wisdom that is simultaneously reinforced and undermined through jarring repetition. Between the form of the piece and the content of his message, a circular logic emerges in which ideology is being absorbed and then immediately erased.
+ Namebook
- Director:
- Johannson, Tiia
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Estonia
- Year:
- 1998
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: “After being diagnosed with Hodgkins disease, Johannson produced two very different works, both bold efforts at coming to terms with her illness. Whereas BLACK SUN captures her physiological state, NAMEBOOK is a trip to the cemetery. Each frame lasts only a few seconds and features images of dozens of graves. Cropping each image so that only the first name is visible, the dead become friends, family and perhaps even ourselves.”
+ And Nevertheless
- Director:
- Kaljo, Kai
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Estonia
- Year:
- 1997
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Images of a woman’s face, surrounded entirely by black, as she speaks, with her voice played in reverse.
+ Time Travel
- Director:
- Bardic, Dario
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- Croatia
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- No dialogue.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- Vintage photographs are digitally morphed into images of present day Croatia, showing the change in buildings and landscapes over a century as if it is happening in an instant.
+ Birds
- Director:
- Alvaer, Jesper
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Czech Republic
- Year:
- 2001
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: Placing the camera on the ground of a public square, Alvear sprinkles bird food in front of the lens. Within seconds, pigeons smother the frame, cooing, fluttering and pecking until they become a violent cubist jumble whose dissolution is just as sudden.
+ 17 Stories
- Director:
- Rascic, Lala
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Croatia
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. From the Renaissance Society description: Lala Rascic’s friends often congratulate her on scoring an apartment with a spectacular view of Zagreb. Rascic, however, is afraid of heights, a fear she conquers through a simple but ingenious use of the camera. But why stop there? Rascic applies rapid-fire digital editing to explore the daily rhythms of her entire apartment complex, crafting a piece that is the revolution in perception envisioned by early modernists.
+ Lucy
- Director:
- Sukmit, Killu; Laanemets, Mari
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Estonia
- Year:
- 2000
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- A woman in free fall: a blonde woman in a red dress holds her arms in the arm as a fan blows her hair upwards, while in rear projection the image of a building vertically scrolls by rapidly, giving the impression that the woman is falling through space.
+ Magic
- Director:
- Gyula, Varnai
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hungary
- Year:
- 2003
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- From the Renaissance Society description: A black backdrop makes the atmosphere of this video still-life more Spanish than Dutch. Through a painfully awkward digital morphing sequence, a hand becomes a chair, and an arm becomes a knife. The transitions are replete with minor stutters, chinks and glitches, resulting in a beautiful soundtrack. But unlike morphing programs in which one thing smoothly becomes another, this contemplative object lesson captures something of the pain that might come with defying the law of physics.
+ Virtuoso Donkey
- Director:
- Lidaka, Peteris
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Latvia
- Year:
- 2003
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- Sound. From the Renaissance Society description: Although notably more upbeat, this fable still shares striking parallels to Robert Bresson’s film AU HASARD BALTHASAR. The length and recurrence of certain symbols and motifs makes VIRTUOSO DONKEY a narrative, however open-ended. From the opening shot of a stuffed donkey lying in a crib, it appears to be a coming of age tale, one that involves love, loss, and the growth of the military industrial complex. Eye popping production values and a soundtrack sampling the likes of Portishead and Belle and Sebastian betray Lidaka’s background in advertising.
+ Hardcore
- Director:
- Tvico, Muhidin
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Bosnia
- Year:
- 2002
- Language:
- English.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Performance
- Notes:
- Sound. From the Renaissance Society description: Muhidn Tvico revisits and updates the apocalyptic mood of VM 14.50 (also on this program) with a barrage of website imagery that warrants a warning to anyone prone to epileptic seizures. The piece lasts the duration of Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “For the Good Times”, whose leisurely tempo is in stark contrast to the breakneck pace of imagery hammering the screen. The only breathing space in this mind numbing blender comes when a user’s age demographic is announced. There is no discernible distinction in terms of speed and type of imagery from one group to the next as the flow resumes seemingly unabated. Whereas the soundtrack frames this piece in terms of a loss, the imagery suggests it is one without end.