The Impakt Highlights selection contains 14 of the best works from the Impakt Festival 2002, that was organized from October 29 to November 3 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The selected works were part of the Panorama program in wich the Impakt Festival every year gives an overview of the most remarkables, idiosyncratic and innovative films and videos that have been produced in the past year. The selection contains humorous aswell as compelling works. Rude and upfront videos alternate with highly sophisticated contemplations. This selection is a treat for every art-lover.

I AM A BOYBAND

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

video / 00:05:00 / Germany/Canada / 2002

What are the ingredients for a real boyband – a cute tune, dance moves and of course 4 handsome hunks, each with their own look…

 

REDSHIFT

Emily Richardson

video / 00:04:00 / United Kingdom / 2001

In an attempt to let us understand the immense scope of the universe we beautifully lose our sense of proportion...

 

DAS SCHLAFENDE MÄDCHEN / THE SLEEPING GIRL

Corinna Schnitt

16mm / 00:08:30 / Germany / 2001

By means of one long camera movement through an apparently deserted holiday resort the witnesses of a previous meeting are gradually introduced

 

MY AUNT SUPERSTAR

Igor Sevcuk

video / 00:03:00 / The Netherlands / 2002

A sympathetic portrait of an aunt as a superstar on the basis of old photographs.

 

REPLAY (BIS)

Joreige Lamia

video / 00:10:00 / Lebanon / 2002

A text which keeps being accompanied by new images which make it tell a different story and a different reconstruction of the past. The work is concluded by the image of Beirut’s port as a point of reference and contemplative image.

 

AH-AAH-AH

Aïda Ruilova

video / 00:08:00 / USA / 2002

 

BUSCAM (NO.2)

Matthias Fritsch

video / 00:03:00 / Germany / 2001

Behind the scenes a girl is waiting for the bus.

 

TRAIN

Julika Rudelius

video / 00:0?:00 / The Netherlands / 2001

 

VARIATIONS FOR MOVEMENTS

Yoshinao Satoh

video / 00:05:30 / Japan / 2001

With the consistent perseverance with which Yoshinao subjects images of his urban environment to his digital techniques, he very discretely forces the city to submit to him totally.

 

FIVE

Bas van Koolwijk

video / 00:03:00 / The Netherlands / 2002

An entirely abstract video. Van Koolwijk’s work is very minimal and has a clear structure. The video images are stripped of their representation and sometimes limited to ‘a search for the balance between order and chaos’. The sequences often erode the boundary between signal and a lack thereof. Power techno in image and sound.

 

THE SIMPSON VERDICT

Kota Ezawa

video / 00:03:00 / USA / 2002

A 2D animation

 

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

Leon Grodski

video / 00:06:00 / USA / 2001

American history explained by a preaching homeless man with a Coca-Cola cup: Godzilla, the atom bomb, Elvis, JFK, Martin Luther King, while in the background the Twin Towers collapse.

 

NO DAMAGE

Caspar Stracke

video / 00:12:30 / USA / 2002

A memorable quest through film and television archives introduces us to a powerful city, powerful enough to resurrect itself after its demise. In sharp contrast to the swarming, vulnerable humans that inhabit this mighty power.

on the O.J. Simpson trial instead of courtroom sketches.

 

STATE OF THE UNION

Bryan Boyce

video / 00:02:00 / USA / 2001

What would happen if George Bush focused on the land of the Teletubbies.