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mixed videos playing on different days of The Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival

Laura Soria MX
Reality, about Yoko Ono's Grapefruit in 20 Stations 29:57 2012


Yoko Ono's Grapefruit instructions book has become famous as an example of conceptual art. The filmmaker has taken 20 of her instructions to create one-minute videos in urban settings with 4 groups of performers.
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Russell Chartier/ Paul Botelho US
06:24:11 06:25 2012


A video artist and a composer use the "principle of synchronicity" to collaborate: they never work directly together but through a process they call "a collective subconscious". Satellite re-transmissions, video feedback and feedback circuits comment on the self-reflection of the medium.
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Leila Nadir/ Cary Peppermint US
Wilderness Collider non-stop real time 2012


This documentary video is a capture of Wilderness Collider, a generative internet art installation. This live web app collects digital datas and produces a nonstop real-time "Kaleidoscope" of images from across the earth and across moments in time.
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Margarita Novikova RU
Processes' Regulation 05:56 2010


"What does it take to regulate the crowd and what are the ways of doing it?" The video shows how crowds have been regulated in Seoul, Bordeaux and Milan.
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Jonathan Rescigno FR
Core 'ngrato 10:00 2012


In an old "hanging room" where the workers used to unclothe, the artist replays their everyday routine. A passing zone between the surface and the ground of the shafts, the day and the night, the past and the present.
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Yanovsky Yaroslav UA
Dragonfly 2:42min 2013


Driving through the city, the filmmaker contemplates its visual layout and prospect. "The territory of each CITY could be a unique creative space in circumstances where it would be possible to realize unusual futuristic projects."
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Ada Kobusiewicz PL
Azotara 10:35 2013


Shot in an abandoned factory bombed by NATO in 1999, this experimental film explore the possibility of the art of light, space and dance. Completly overwhelmed by the space and the artificial light, we move in transitory space, somewhere between something and nothing.
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Roberta Orlando IT
Bright Berlin Lights 02:58 2011


This is a tribute to Berlin. The video shows the beauty of the city wandering all night long through its enlightened streets.
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