Year 1997 - 373

A young man shut himself up in a house on sea shore for two weeks. He brought only music recorded tapes. He wants to write on music, the main question being for him: what represents music for man? He tells eight experiments done in different places or occasions (in a car, at the opera, at a rock gig, listening a walkman,..). He expresses how the way you are listening can affect your feelings and reflection. His voice and his written words appearing on screen are the mental counterpoint of silent images.

Paul Ramírez Jonas’ Longer Day (1997) is an attempt to make a summer day longer as he drives west into the sunset, racing against the dying light. In Michael Stanley’s words, a “sense of futile endeavour pervades the work and an almost perverse celebration of ‘failure’, as the unwritten history of technological progression provides a platform for the discussion of much broader concerns such as time, memory and loss.”

Garish logos, labels, corporate symbols and brand-names frenetically alternate, detached from their context (TV or Internet), re-modeled on the computer, broken down into their structural elements, and spinning in an endless loop.

Body in the past, the present and the future.

A computer generated video exploring possibilities of new media through multiplications, cutting outs and other ways of manipulation with electronic and geometric image.

For five days a super-8 camera exposed a single frame every three minutes. A film about a carousel, a small harbour, a light tower and about wind, waves, weather and the tides.

A retired game show baron and his estranged gay son spar over old family bitterness and popular culture while testing recipes for a book on the history of cocktails.

OVA based on The Game Paradise!

Animated short by Mariola Brillowska.

Follows the story of a handicapped street musician, Maurice Chan, as he explains what life is like for him in Hong Kong. In the process we go on a journey back in time to the Walled City of Kowloon. Once dubbed the 'sleaziest' place in Hong Kong, it was an island of Chinese sovereignty within the British colony. As a result of a secret political compromise between the Chinese and British Governments the Walled City was destroyed in 1992. This decision resulted in the displacement of the Walled City's 40,000 residents. The documentary gives the story of modern day Hong Kong from a personal viewpoint and shows historical links to a place the authorities preferred to forget.

A trinity of dying, as hand exposure of film, drawing, live action and stop motion conspire to probe the mystery of the final moments. Potent and disquieting as it seeks answers to the great question.

A fearless young woman cleans the outer windows of an upper floor.

Absorb these images, “breathing slowly, quietly, and very calmly. Sinking softly, silently…” Drift into a relaxing reverie.