film

“Le armi della libertà - Ritratto di famiglia armata” by David Induni

Mr. Fontana is a geriatric doctor who has a big passion for fire guns and for the sport of shooting.
He shares this devotion with his whole family, including his youngest 10 year old daughter...

more...

Year:
2009

Original format:
HDV

Duration:
32:00 minutes

Language:
Italian (available with English or French subtitles)

Download the brochure:

The subject: Erna Omarsdottir, PONI, Erna Omarsdottir in PONI…
The film projects Erna Omarsdottir into her own imaginative universe and composes a character through the looking-glass.
A manifold identity, Erna combines innocence and perversity...

more...

Year:
2009

Format:
35 mm colour, Dolby SR

Original negative:
Kodak 35 mm (camera 35mm PANAFLEX MILLENNIUM – lenses set PRIMO and 300/600 Canon)

Duration:
28:25 minutes

Language:
English

Download the brochure:

This is a video documentary of the performance entitled Permit F, realised by Al Fadhil inside the “Shifting Identities” exhibition at the Zürich Kunsthaus during the summer of 2008. In permit F, the artist responding to the project in spirit, seeks to put into focus an important aspect of Swiss society today, the presence of political refugees.

more...

Year:
2008

Format:
HD video, colour,
stereo sound

Duration:
10:20 minutes

Download the brochure:

The subject of Jean-Baptiste’s monologue is love, reflections on the French conception of love and that of the ancients – Hadrian’s love for Antinous, the ideas about ideal love that are transmitted by French films and literary culture in general, and Marguerite Yourcenar’s transmission of those notions through her own intimate relationship with literature, with history as a materialof shifting properties, consciousnesses, points of convergence. Excerpted from an interview with Yourcenar from 1980, playing with the borrowing of a literary tradition, updating this interview into another context, drawing out the actor’s own relation both to inhabiting the current space and conditions of the city while reflecting Yourcenar’s timeless conceptions of real and fictional love and longing.

more...

Year:
2008

Format:
16 mm film

Duration:
31:00 minutes

Download the brochure:

In Manon de Boer’s new film installation, entitled Attica, music again plays an important role. The work is based on the composition of the same title by the American Frederic Rzewski which was written in 1971, as well as Coming Together, with which the film starts. The film tries to give a visual and auditive echo to the political subject of Rzweski’s composition.

more...

Year:
2008

Format:
16 mm film, black & white, mono sound

Duration:
9:55 minutes

Download the brochure:

The film is based on the firsthand testimony of special FBI agent Joseph Pistone regarding his undercover work inside American Mafia from 1976 to 1981. Pistone, having a south Italian origin, was the first agent who was able to infiltrate the New York mafia.

more...

Year:
2008

Duration:
ca. 30:00 minutes

The project is a fictional continuation of a Romanian film from the ‘80s, questioning the meanings of love during communism (Imposibila iubire, directed by Constantin Vaeni, protagonists played by Tora Vasilescu & Serban Ionescu, script based on the novel Intrusul/ The Intruder, written by Marin Preda).

more...

Year:
2004-2007

Format:
Super 8 and Mini DV transferred on DVD

Duration:
16:20 minutes

Language:
Romanian with English subtitles

Download the brochure:

Dead Satellites is an expression defined by Shahram Entekhabi for a certain culture within the migrant scene. In an astro-scientific context, the term ‘dead satellites’ stands for satellites that are out of service, but still circling around the earth without destination. The title refers to those people, who left their home countries and practice certain cultural traditions in an exaggerated way. By this, the traditions lose their origins and are unveiled in a way of total hypertrophy. This exaggeration mixes up with a deep feeling of discomfort and mistrust against the ‘host country’. As result there are ‘dead satellites’, rootless, in two ways: they are without any context to their home countries and live in a partly self-decided, partly forced isolation additionally to their situation in the new country.
Further interracial tensions are stoking between the groups of migrants since the European enlargement.
The three parted video performance ‘dead satellites’ tells the story of a Muslim couple, dressed up in western clothes, who are filled with hate against the ‘white’ race in their environment. During the three chapters, ‘bint ‘amm’ (inbreed*), ‘Jungle Fever’ (after a film by Spike Lee, that deals of the love and compassion between the races) and ‘Familycide’ (an expression for a committed murder on relatives), the conflict potential between the partners gets worse as result of the Dead Satellites-situation. It evaluates into a bitter battle.
*a wide spread practice in the orient
[Martina Schoene-Radunski]

Produced by:
Co-production: Shahram Entekhabi & Fine Arts Unternehmen video+film AG (Switzerland)
Thanks to: Kathrin Becker, Berlin - entertainment 3000, Berlin - Herr von Eden, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne - High Art, Berlin, London - Franco Marinotti, Lugano - Ali Zaidi, London - Melanie Jeske, Hamburg

more...

Year:
2007

Original format:
HD Video 16/9

Screening format:
DVD PAL 16/9

Duration:
26:32 min.

Language:
English

Download the brochure:

Who’s afraid... is a short film based on sensible human interactions between a woman and a man in a relationship. It is a fight for power and respect, both individuals struggle for their own wills. The relationship is based on fragile poles, from passionate love to mental and even physical destruction. Woman and man enclose themselves in a contained world, without leaving enough private space one another. The only connection the outside world is given through a telephone. This situation develops into a dangerous fight and sexual game. Also a sharp knife plays an important part in the story. It is used as a symbol of violence and an expression of power. Both, woman and man push their relationship in a psychological farce. The story comes to its turning end, when the woman...

Produced by:
Co-production: Shahram Entekhabi & Fine Arts Unternehmen video+film AG (Switzerland)
Thanks to: Ricarda Schuh - Die Hoffotografen, Berlin - Sterling Gold, Berlin - Theaterhaus Mitte, Berlin - High Art, Berlin, London.

more...

Year:
2007

Original format:
HD Video 16/9

Screening format:
DVD PAL 16/9

Duration:
27:21 min.

Language:
no dialogue

Download the brochure:



		“The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success” is a two minutes short movie transformed by an Internet data flux and re-edited server-side when web statistics (Google Analytics) are available: the public can watch a new movie every day. The core idea of "The Possible Ties …" is the relationship between manic depressive illness forms and success at large, a theme it symbolically tracks through the filming of an ill man lying in a bed and the presence of his partner...

Co-Production: Fine Arts Unternehmen AG (Switzerland) Carlo Zanni La Rada art center (Switzerland) VOSTOK Film (Italy)

more...

Year:
2006

Genre:
DATA Cinema
(Interactive Movie)

Format:
Mini DV (frame: 2,35)

Sound:
Dolby SR

Camera:
PANASONIC AG-DVX100

Original language:
English

Shooting location:
Rome (Italy)

Download the brochure:

The film PAVILLON NOIR is part of a cross-disciplinary project that, in this case, brings together architecture, choreography and cinema. The work aims to create a space “on the border” (of artistic disciplines and categories as well as of genres of the moving image), exactly where the individuals and things transform themselves, change their status, their identity. As a double or an mirrored image of reality. The disinclination becomes their main characteristic. This other reality is made at times visible by obscure forces in the individual: the drive world causes brusque disturbances to reality, multiple incidents, abrupt breaks of the narrative’s flow. The film’s reality is at the same time strange and familiar. Like little “demons”, the characters parody with drive the fictional stereotypes of cinema or films for the television (sitcom, etc.).

Produced by:
Co-Production : Regards Productions (France), Fine Arts Unternehmen video+film AG (Switzerland)
with the participation of Cityzen Télévision, Images Plus, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication-Direction de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Centre Pompidou, Procirep-Société des Producteurs, Angoa, Communauté du Pays d’Aix, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte
d’Azur, Programme MEDIA, and the support of Ballet Preljocaj.

more...

Year:
2006

Original format:
35 mm color
Dolby SR

Screening format:
Digital Beta

Duration:
24 min.

Language:
french

Download the brochure:



		In a village of former East Germany, young adults meet with the intention of finding an alternative to isolation and social precariousness while their parents demonstrate in front of the disused factory, as every day of the year for the last 15 years.

Produced by: Kunsthaus Zürich, Fine Arts Unternehmen video + film AG, Moser & Schwinger

more...

Year:
2006

Original format:
Digital video
16/9 color

Screening format:
Beta sp

Duration:
19:56 min.

Language:
German
(available with English or French subtitles)

Download the brochure:



		The story is about a young woman who travels to Warsaw from a poor region in eastern Poland to find a job. Her cousin takes her in, letting her stay in his tiny apartment. He introduces her to a friend of his with whom he devises various schemes that allow them to survive.

more...

Year:
2005

Original format:
betacam sp
16/9 colour

Duration:
55 minutes

Language:
Polish speaking with English subtitles

Download the brochure:



		This 20 minute, 16mm film creates a utopian fiction around the Modern Pentathlon discipline (running, swimming, shooting, fencing, and horseback riding), springboarding from this arcane Olympic sport to an investigation of Modernity, Romanticism, and the struggle for wholeness. more...

Year:
2005

Original format:
16mm

Duration:
20 minutes

Download the brochure:



		In the video Alias two female figures representing a single woman in diverse stages of life serve dinner to the son and father/husband who are seated at a table facing one another. Once the dinner is finished and the men move away, it is the women’s turn to happily celebrate the ritual.

more...

Year:
2004

Original format:
Beta

Screening format:
Digital Beta

Duration:
7 minutes

Download the brochure:



		The Video Installation Unexpected Rules was produced as the Swiss Contribution to the 26th International Biennal of Contemporary Art of São Paulo in 2004. The script is based on the "Clinton-Lewinsky Affair", which arose from the nexus between power, sex, and globalized media and shows how multifaceted levels of interest, along with public images, ultimately render the "true" interpretation of an event impossible.
more...

Year:
2004

Original format:
35mm transferred to HD

Screening format:
DigiBeta 16/9 colour

Duration:
16:06 minutes

Language:
English

Download the brochure:



		The video The Editor’s Cut was filmed and edited in a BBC newsroom in London. The main figures are the picture editor Pete Millest and the correspondent Shaun Ley, both employees of the BBC.

more...

Year: 2004

Original Format:
DV Video, colour, sound (2 Channel Video Installation)

Duration:
5:50 minutes

Language:
English (available with German Subtitles)

Download the brochure:



		The focus of the work Facing is a documentary by the BBC cameraman Darren Conway, who accompanied British soldiers in the most recent Iraq War as an “embedded” journalist.

more...

Year: 2004

Original Format:
DV Video, colour, sound

Duration:
6:50 minutes

Language:
English (available with German Subtitles)

Download the brochure:

GLUB (Hearts) by Shahram Entekhabi, in collaboration with Mieke Bal

This installation (video) aims to give a positive image of migration as an aesthetic phenomenon with economical and political undertones. It is set in contemporary Berlin and integrates academic and artistic work.

more...

Year:
2003-2004

Mixed media & video + photo installation

Duration: 29:00 min

Download the brochure:

Caution by Shahram Entekhabi in collaboration with Mieke Bal

Caution responds to performance art. Here, the man reappears on the prestigious oval lawn in front of the library, where students walk by to go to classes. A normal day on an American campus. The tiny figure walking the middle of the path opposite the high viewing point, strikes as slightly out of place: the gap is put in place, visually. It is also put in place in the performance, as he walks faster than others, as if he had a purpose.

more...

Year:
2004

Original format:
video on dvd

Duration:
9:08 min

Download the brochure:



		I was more interested in the conceptual nature of FILM than in any of its more modernist features. This concept includes the enlisting of a Hollywood star, of course, thus making a pre-post-modernist claim for the abolition of that boundary between popular and high culture. (Shahram Entekhabi)

more...

Year:
2003-2004

Original format:
video on dvd

Duration: 4:17 min

Download the brochure:



		During the course of the night the petrol-pump attendant Arthur Rimbaud re-reads his most famous work, "A Season in Hell", while he is busy with his new job. During his breaks his mind goes back in time to when poetry was his main object.
more...

Year:
2004

Duration:
42 minutes

Available in DVD and VHS

Download the brochure:



		Piero Golia can surely be considered as one the most interesting international young contemporary artists. His complex personality is not easily described by the usual adjectives applied to the artistic enterprise, inhabiting an area that lies somewhere between reality and fiction in a continuous interlacing of art and life. more...

Year:
2004

Original format:
16:9 DV video

Duration:
75 minutes

Download the brochure:



		Jonah Freeman’s work examines a variety of ideas and emotions surrounding the contemporary urban landscape. His recent projects have focused on the urban interior as theatrical space and the movement through those environments as a montage of phantasmagorical fantasy worlds. Freeman’s work oscillates between film, photography, drawing, text and installation.

more...

Year:
2004

Original format:
HD 24p video

Duration:
52 minutes

Language:
English

Notes:
edition of five

Download the brochure:



		One of Åsdam’s most major film/video works to date, Filter City focuses on two women their relation to each other, to a larger social group and to a city that is in transformation –architectonically, socially and politically.

more...

Year:
2004

Original format:
35mm

Duration:
21 minutes

Language:
English speaking with stereo sound

Download the brochure:



		Capitulation Project is a 21-minutes 16 mm black-and-white film, the starting point for which is Commune, a performance by the Performance Group (New York) from 1971 that addressed the massacre of My Lai committed during the Vietnam War. more...

Year:
2003

Original format:
black-white 16 mm transferred to DVD

Screening format:
DigiBeta

Duration:
21 minutes

Language:
English speaking with german or french or italian subtitles

Download the brochure:



		This film take part to the Prague Biennal „Peripheries become the centre“ in the section „Come with me“ curated by Gea Politi. There were a woman and a baby about 4 years old, who were walking, and an older woman, a grandmother or something.

more...

Year:
2003

Original format:
Digital video on DVD

Duration:
9.40 minutes - loop

Language:
English speaking subtitles in italian

Download the brochure:



		The subject of the film is the journey. The actors are the director himself and his daughter, the young child Andrea Vera. The two main characters, between real and imaginary, take a trip in which contemporary Berlin is the point of departure and the Adriatic sea the arrival. more...

Year:
2000

Original format:
Super 8

Duration:
18 minutes

Download the brochure: