Time: 4pm
Solar Sinter | Markus Kayser | 2011 | 06:07 minutes synopsis: In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as...
Time: 4pm
the Eagleman Stag | Michael Please | 2010 | 08:55 minutes
synopsis: Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his interest turns to obsession and he undertakes progressively extreme measures to control and c...
Time: 4pm
Mediating Mediums – The Digital 3d | Greg Tran | 2011 | 5:24 minutes
synopsis: “Technology is on track to produce a new medium: The Digital 3d. As it escapes the screen, the digital enters into the realm of architecture and ceases to fu...
Time: 4pm
Wireless in the World | Timo | 2010 | 4:39 minutes
synopsis: An ongoing Touch theme is about making invisible wireless technologies visible, in order to better understand and communicate with and about them (see a Graphic Language for RFID, Dashed lines and Fictional radio spaces). Right now I am sitting nea...
Time: 4pm – Saturday, 24th September
The Great Western Singularity | Eric Schockmel | 2010 | 4 minutes
synopsis: Commissioned by jotta.com and sponsored by Intel for the REMASTERED: a jotta and Intel Visual Life Production exhibition at One Marylebone London (March 2011), The...
Alpha-ville 2011 programme: ‘Zeitgeist: from Digital to Post-Digital’
Time: 4pm | Duration 1h12
The programme aims to participate in the ongoing debate about the contemporary digital revolution, specifically in the artistic field. The core Alpha-ville film p...
Time: 2pm | Duration: 51.34mins
Nobody Here – A survey of art in a digitised society, curated by Paul Purgas
A selection of artists’ moving image exploring themes of culture, identity and ownership in the expanded digital age. The programme reflect...
Athens Video Art Festival compilation curated by Sotiris Iliadis and Timothy Laskaratos collects video works with the aim to pose questions marking a starting point for a substantial shift from the surface straight to...
Time: 2pm
Showcase of work by one of the most talented units at the Bartlett School of Architecture curated and presented by Nic Clear – course Director.
Unit 15 is a postgraduate design unit that specialises in the use of film, CGI, animation and motion graphics to expl...
Time: 12pm | Saturday, 24th 4pm | Sunday, 25th
PressPausePlay | David Dworsky & Victor Köhler | 2010 | 1h20 minutes
PressPausePlay is a film about the digital culture, hopes and fears. Premiered at South By SouthWest, this docume...
Screening of the winners of the 2011 moving image competition in partnership with Vimeo, Little White Lies, Shooting People and Animate Projects, Alpha-ville has invited artists working across ...
This programme follows the directives of Alpha-ville’s main film programme, focusing on the contemporary digital revolution debate, specifically in the artistic field and exhibiting the work of artists that eng...
This programme brings together a number of Spanish artists working in audiovisual format from a permeable perspective, where the practice of video art intersects with other disciplines such as film, video games, video or graphic design. Despite the disparity of styles present in this select...
Time: 4pm
Stardust | Nicolas Provost | 2010 | 20 minutes
synopsis: The video works by Nicolas Provost are characterised by their cinematic language, used in both experimental and narrative short films. He uses the language of film to manoeuvre and influence the interpretation of images and stories. He manipulates time...
Time: 4pm
Future Past Perfect pt. 3 | Carsten Nicolai | 2009 | 03:43 minutes
synopsis: conceived as the third part of the series under the name future past perfect, the short film introduces a narrative story that was inspired by a fascination for automation processes as we...
Time: 4pm
the External World | David O’Reilly | 2010 | 15 minutes
synopsis: A boy learns to play the piano.
bio: David OReilly (21 June 1985, Kilkenny) is an Irish animator based in Berlin. At 15 he began worki...
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ALPHA-VILLE 2011 PROGRAMME: CUT
ANIMATION
Time: 4pm
CUT | Kristian de la Riva | 2010 | 3:05 minutes
synopsis: In CUT a lone male character attempts to cut away various body parts using ever more extreme methods to do so. A distorted ode to relationships lost is hinted at within the work but the field of reference is expanded to incorporate the pain and humour implicit ...
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