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A Place in the Story
A Place in the Story (or How to Get from My House to Being an Insider) 
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Abroad
Already with the title, Alli Savolainen denies any placement of the film's images, although they seem not to be composed from different but only one city in Latin America. The shown cityscape is one of memories after having traveled. Rather showing "memoriable landmarks", Alli recreates a kind of passageway, reconstructing the memory of experienced architectural structure. 
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Augenblick Nr.3, Nr.25, Nr.39
Augenblicke, moments, which Telemach Wiesinger took in Lissabon (#3), Mexico-City (#25) and in Praha (#39), just show one detail from a travel to different cities. One shot, on tripod, for 3 minutes. He thus forces us to read the given details, the small things happening, and the spatial relations. Neither is he even trying to give an overview or a complete story, nor any pretension of a "understanding". Rather, he is forwarding his glimpse onto one vernacular scene to the viewer, as if he or her may better understand what is happening. And, there might be beauty. 
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Berlin Warszawa Express
In Berlin Warszawa Express a disappearance becomes a departure, but rather than attempting to reconstitute what is lost, the filmmaker follows the clues and signs framing the site and scene with an anticipatory gaze. She performs the kino eye, meeting the same train day after day, yet here the eye is aligned with not just any body, but with the distinctly maternal body. Her pregnant self a decoy, the filmmaker takes in the world around her, and makes contemporary the tradition of the city film. 
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Bike
A bike ride through the city and at the waterfront that bursts forth with rapid images of the urban surrounding. While this film is challenging the viewer in classical ways of the avant-garde, it also gives a unique construction of vectorial space. The movement being linear, the view is not. It is interesting to think of the represented space, the perceived space, and how it could be described. This short piece of film very nicely demonstrates that movement through the urban environment may be multi-facetted and multi-dimensional while at the same time directional. 
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Blumenthal (work-in-progress)
Blumenthal ist der Name einer Hochhaussiedlung im Pariser Randgebiet.
Die meisten der Planstädte der Île de France sind durchzogen von
floralen Dekorationen, Hainen, und Natursteinelementen. Besonders viele
der Orte, die als "cité sensible" gelten, haben Prädikate als
ville fleurie erhalten. Was wohl in der Absicht entstand, die
Lebensräume
attraktiver zu machen, verstärkt den Eindruck des Disparaten zwischen
der am Reißbrett entstandenen Wohnsituation und sozialer Wirklichkeit.
Der Film bewegt sich an Orten, wo sich Lebendiges nicht an die
planerischen Absichten anpasst und wo das Areal in seiner
Unüberschaubarkeit den Eindruck einer neuen Art von Landschaft
entstehen lässt. Dabei untersucht er die Möglichkeit von Momenten, in
denen diese Lebensräume mit dem alltäglichem Dasein verschmelzen. 
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Bullying: Stand Alone
From the time that I have been investigating human behaviour disorder in our modern society for degree show2005/2006, I intended to explore the social alienation such as the "Bully" which it can be described as an individual who tends to torment others or who uses strength or power to hurt others, either through verbal harassment or physical assaults or through more subtle methods of coercion. It can manifest as individual harassment and the cruel acts (harassment) of the group to an individual. 
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Coney Island
"On the pier the poorest of the poor live and fish and in the dark backroads behind the carousels one can buy weapons and drugs. In summer this is hardly visible for the tourists, between all those colored lamps, Hot Dog and Burgershops, roller coasters and freak shows, so that one gets the feeling of a normal bathing resort. However, in winter the sad emptiness of this former 'No Go area' and the mexican and afro-american workers who scantily repair the park trying to keep it in good condition, are the only ones left. " 
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Cultivated Plants
Shooting trees ... a harmless tourist video (taking place in Nice/F) documents all of a sudden a strange natural phenomenon.
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Daley Plaza
A Public Space: 2003 (in progress) 
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Das Geheimnis von LE, 1 Episode: Too Much Land for One Man
Im Frühjahr 2004 bekam die Künstlerin Anke Haarmann aus Hamburg den Auftrag von der Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst ein künstlerisches Projekt über schrumpfende Städte in Ostdeutschland zu realisieren. Sie entschied sich für Leipzig. Warum Leipzig? Leipzig ist Boomtown und Leerstandsgebiet diese Mischung interessierte Haarmann. Sie lud die Filmemacherin Irene Bude aus Dresden/Hamburg ein an dem Projekt mitzuarbeiten. Gemeinsam haben sie dem Geheimnis von LE hinterher recherchiert... 
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Detroit Park
"Michigan Theatre was an elaborately decorated theater at the heart of a busy and vibrant downtown Detroit in the 1920s. The advent of television in the 1950s saw a significant drop in public performance attendance and it was finally closed in 1967. Sometime in the 1970s it was converted into a parking lot, where floors and ramps were installed with only the most necessary intrusion upon the old interior. The great carapace of elaborately molded plaster ceiling still hangs from a network of trusses attached to the roof and even the great stage curtains remained hanging, though these have since rotted away, looking more like a ragged cutty sark than the rich red drapery they began as. This video is an attempt to cast a number of speculative lines to imagined ghosts of its past while showing a picture of its present."—Julie Murray 
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Drum Symphony — Rumpu Zinfonia
The camera meanders through artificial architectural space: architecture models. However, all the models are representing built architecture in Helsinki. The camera speeds up, the low-resolution video quality and lighting create sensations of real space, of emotional space. Thus, the film reinterprets the imagination and conception of materialized architecture, or more so, the ways architectural space has been depicted before being realized. Rumpu Zinfonia is the film that inspired the program vectorial space.
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Fear Itself...Yeah Right
"According to the media and government officials we have much to fear, despite what FDR once proclaimed. With anxiety on the rise, running scared is all we have left, at least to warn others of the impending doom. This custom animation and action script allows me to frantically run through the streets typing out my fears for all to know in real time. If needed my character could stop running to converse with someone on the street, but when fear strikes, its off and running again." 
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Fluctuation Theme
Fluctuation Theme is part of a trilogy, "Contrapunctual".
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Helsinki Walks Helsinki Walks is showing images of Helsinki's urban land- and cityscape. Made out of stills, which are being superimposed through transitions that seem to slowly melt one images into the other, the film represents first impressions of light, landscape and architecture when the artist explored the city for his panorama photography project "Familiar Spaces - Helsinki" during his residency at HIAP in Finland. 
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Inside
This film shows the sensations of a visitor of Sao Paulo, who is being taken out by car. His remoteness becomes a symbol for the impossibility to grasp the "reality" of the city, while being confronted with the realilty of being driven around. 
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Interstate Part One
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Janeiro
"Janeiro" depicts one of the sensations of small incidents in the neighborhood, we only have being a foreigner to the place. Perceptions of the environment being lost in daily life, which now become precious — or annoying — to the fresh eyes and ears. 
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Leerstelle-Rückbau
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Lions and Tigers and Bears
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Mainstreet Square
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Nocturnal Dance
"Somewhere in the city of Prague an encounter with a nocturnal dance.
A dance in two planes simultaneously."
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Observatory
"A scrutinizing gaze surveils the passage of people in a downtown park. Vision is partially altered: have the senses become deficitary or is it an electronic blur ? The gaze shifts to an observation point which embraces the park, pursues pedestrian trajectories until it reaches the intimate sphere of a walking couple. But to whom does this gaze belong, what is it really ?" 
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One Eye Open
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Sister Cities
Sister Cities consists of a series of 3D anaglyph images shot
The central symbol of the piece is the Sister Cities signpost,
spot or providing immediately useful information, the Sister
directions to places thousands of miles away. In this sense
Angeles a sort of center without a center, a place in many
intended to extend the metaphor, consisting of recordings
samples of recordings from TV, radio and the internet. 
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Sonata Interested in the collaborative fusion between audio and video, analogue and
synthesized, Margaret Noble and Edyta Stepien decided to explore these dichotomies
through a contemporary reinterpretation of the classical form ‘Sonata.’ Through the
sounds and imagery of architecture and nature, this piece works to examine our current
environmental conditions. Modeled on a pictorial score and recorded as a live
performance mix, "Sonata" alternates between nature and urban industry in the settled
terrains of the American Midwest. 
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Soprus
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There Is Nothing There
Ponětovice. A village close to Brno in Czeque Republique. No post office, no school. One Saturday in May 2003, evrybody in town is doing what they usually do on Saturdays, just they do it at the same time. This game set up by Kateřina Šedá is designed like a real life video game, only it is a win-win situation: The synchronism of the ordinary makes everything special, the "Daily regime" becomes the script for a film out of the ordinary. The resulting film gives a multitude of ideas on the problems and chances of being on the verge between rural and urban life. "My biggest public project was a party game called ‘THERE’S NOTHING THERE’. … From the questionaires handed out to the citizens of the village I found out that all families spent Saturdays in the countryside in a similar way. I also discovered that nowadays people from a village live with a certain skepticism, as they feel that all the important things happen in the city (they say ‘there is NOTHING’ in their village.) I therefor set myself the task of pointing out this NORMALITY." 
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Visual Violence
This film explores surfaces of the ordinary urban environment, which surround us in daily life, and which we usually blind out from our consciousness. It is not uglyness the filmmaker is interested in, it is the relation we have to this surrounding. And maybe, it is also the sensations we would live through if we would open our senses to unrestricted perception of this surrounding. 
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Wo ist Denkmal?
"Produced in former East Berlin, this video wonders aloud where the old monuments from the days of the GDR have gone and what their absence tells us about the politics of German reunification as well as the provisional and personal nature of monuments and the public spaces they demarcate." 
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Urban Research Program
Hui-Min Tsen