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Genre > Video Art / Film Art > City2City: A Compilation of Ten Films and Videos by Artists from Around the World.
City2City: A Compilation of Ten Films and Videos by Artists from Around the World.
MC-709, 2006 microcinema exclusive
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Format: DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0 (All)
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Made up of previously unreleased films, this program offers a new perspective of urban aesthetics and artistic interpretations by video artists and experimental filmmakers. Since the dawn of cinema, cities have inspired artists through their creative energy, mechanical forces, and architectural geometry. The birth of the metropolis coincides with the invention of new forms of art – photography and cinema – that seem to be the ideal medium for their representation. Today cities continue to fascinate filmmakers and video artists, who draw inspiration from their shapes and energy for their shooting and editing of images in movement. The CITY2CITY DVD offers ten different visions by ten different artists and invites us to take a cinematographic trip from one city to another. Using a diversity of techniques, the works can be described through their original artistic approaches. Whether it be Worst Case Scenario by John Smith, a montage of mainly black and white photos, Exchangeable Cities by Kentaro Taki which aims to re-invent the split-screen by reconstituting a homogenous space through fragments of different places, or Marina Chernikova who with her film Crossings uses and abuses the super positioning of layers through horizontal scans. Je n’ai pas du tout l’intention de sombrer by the talented French video artist Augustin Gimel can be summed up in a simple phrase: behind buildings, there is sky. The montage consists of a rapid succession of scenes of building facawdes that invade the screen until they finally allow a bit of blue sky to appear. Another fine example of expression through editing is Sarajevo Vertical by Toby Cornish, an impressive portrait of Sarajevo that reveals itself vertically after so many years of war. The urban rhythm and musical score of the Hors Chants by Dudouet & Kaplan (trio including two video artists and one musician) results in an energetic graphical symphony that uses video shots of the unfinished cité de la musique in Strasbourg and overlays it with computer-generated motion graphics.
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