59 SECONDS VIDEO FESTIVAL AND FUTURE SCREENINGS 2007-2008
Launched by Project 59 in the spring of 2005 at 59 Franklin Street in Tribeca, the 59 Seconds Festival is an alternative festival and research media project. Unlike traditional annual or biannual film/video festivals, 59 Seconds is a one time project. Artists are encouraged to submit 59 seconds long works that incorporate number 59 in any manner. Works are being collected through a series of open calls until the final collection of the best 59 videos has been selected with help of national and international audiences
during a series of 59 screenings.
galleryHomeland is very excited to announce that we will be hosting the 59 Seconds Video Festival:
Date - December 16th
Time - 7 pm
Location - SE Division and 11th at the Ford Bldg
Cost - Suggested donation of 5.00
FUTURE SCREENINGS 2007 - 2008
50. Gallery Homeland
December 16th at 7:00pm
2505 SE 11th Avenue
Portland, OR
Organized by Karl Lind
Thanks to Matt McCormick
Gallery Homeland website
http://www.galleryhomeland.org/about/index.php
51. Lecture Series in the Visual Arts
February 8th at 1:00pm
The University of Southern Maine
Burnham Lounge
Robie Andews Hall
Portland, ME
Organized by Jan Piribeck
http://www.project59.org/59seconds/screenings.html
59 SECONDS VIDEO FESTIVAL – Portland, OR
1. The stuntmen Carine Doerflinger (Germany) 2004 An incident in Paris.
2. 59 in Time Antonio Della Marina (Italy) 59 divisions of coloured time. Will something happen out of the blue?
3. 59 languages Petri Ala-Maunus (Finland) 59 languages in 59 seconds.
4. Blind Spots Jenny Vogel (USA) 2005 A close-up of an eye with the reflection of a TV that replaces the pupil as the eye is scanning the images.
5. Me to tango Lucia Warck Meister (Argentina /USA) 2005
A mirrored image of a woman dancing in front of a window depicts her loneliness.
6. Rainstorm Akiko and Masako Takada (UK)
A rainy urban city changing to a rainstorm. A tragic sense of narrative in the vanishing city.
7. hey, sweetheart Craig Downing (USA) 2005 Two people rebel against their parents' wishes.
8. Pirts Franz Wanner (Germany) 2000 Occurrence in the summer in the fields.
9. If you don’t call me back… Alain K (France) 2004 camera: Sophie Pigeron
“Each separation related to our emotional life sends us back to separations which we experienced in our early childhood starting from separating from the mother’s breast.” Necessary Renunciations by Judith Viorst.
10. Beauty No. 4 Victor Barbieri (USA) Beauty No. 4 begs for the suspension of disbelief balancing precariously between, seduction and illusion.
11. 59seconds for…love Serena Calò (Italy) 2006 Ti amo. 5 letters, 9 ways.
12. LIX Dubi Kaufmann (USA) LIX is 59 in Roman numerals and it all started from there…
13. Bah Bah Are Hauffen (Norway) 2005 With an imbecile attitude towards life in rural areas, the sheep came to equal a something with four legs from a child's play in the garden.
14. Rituali Urbane Masimo Lovisco (Italy)
Inspiration from asphalt football field when somebody wrote 59 Potenza Calcio.
15. Weather and Traffic Project 59 (USA) 2006
16. Fast Zoran Dragelj (Canada) 2005 A burst of imaginative dreamy panoramas
17. HIGHWAY Antanas Gerlikas (Lithuania) 2007
Usually, in the end of each letter we write "good bye", or "talk to you later", or "see you soon". But I like to end my letter writing letters, which when pronounced have a direct link to a certain sound signals. Especially, I like to use the sounds made by vehicles. Certain combination of letters when written creates the sound, the weigh, and the speed of that vehicle.
18. 59 Random Russian Words Igor Baskin (Russia) 2007 Russian language learning ‘Express method
19. A Finger Orchestra Jinho Im (USA) 2006 In a insipid daily life we usually hit fingers on things daily.
20. 59 Worms Carine Doerflinger (Germany) 2006
21. Broken H-H-Ha…Egg, Zvonka Simcic (Slovenia) 2000 A gently erotic play metaphorically symbolizing creation.
22. Trumped Autumn Andel, Camera: Christopher Covel, Lighting: Christopher Covel and Rick Guinan, Actors: Autumn Andel and Rick Guinan (USA) 2007 The amount of consumption does not always equal mass
23. Zapping Diego Nessi (Uruguay) 2007 Reflection of the moment in everyday life. A person is reflected on a TV monitor that is switched off. At the end, the TV is turned on and the person “disappears”.
24. 59 seconds to be happy... Marco Villani (Italy) 2007 smoking opium, 59 on the foil.
25. Order Sara Rajaei &Hadas Itzkovitch (Iran/Netherlands/Israel) 2005 Arrangement or disposition, relation and rhythm.
26. 59 seconds (time is a convention) Cristina Pavesi (Italy) 2006
59 seconds … may be extremely long or extremely short, it is a matter of everyone’s personal living.
27. Extracreato Luca Acito and Dario Carmetano (Italy) 2006, Sound: Heyehela Africa God is the creator in sixty seconds, Satan is the extra-creator in 59.
28. 59 Steps Herve Constant (UK) 2006.
Chilling tale of ones man’s descent into madness.
29. Blank Estelle Artus (France) 2006
30. Sign 59 Irina Danilova (USA) 1998-2006 Apex of urban minute.
31. 59 is the key Valerio Veneruso (Italy) 2006
59 solves the Sudoku.
32. Cube Persefoni Marlaka (Greece) 2007 The briefest battle of chance vs logic.
33. 59 II Michele Santarsiere (Italy) 2007
34. 59 Seconds Break Javier J. Plano (Argentina) 2007 this film is entended for this festival exclusively ….it should be placed in the middle…to give a break to the viewers…
35. AMNEZAC FULANA (USA) 2005
Block your historical memory and ask your doctor about AMNEZAC: The Most Powerful Anti-Historiamine on the Market.
36. annche la parola uccide Gruppo Sinestetico (Italy) 59”
37. Vrnitev: Sorisos Di Topolo (Smiles of Topolo) Katherine Liberovskaya (Canada) 2005 Based on interviews with inhabitants of the Slovenian/Italian border village.
38. 59 Shoots Antonello Matarazzo (Italy)
39. ASCENSION Myriam Thyes (Germany) 2004 The glass elevator at the luxurious hotel Marriott Marquis in New York brings you to "heaven" ... We are taught to strive for higher things – success, wealth, honor, enlightenment.
40. The Gods Yan Chung Hsien (Taiwan) 2005 The gods are playing in the playground. The gods are fabric….The gods are oriental. The gods are sentimental.
41. 590 Javier J. Plano (Argentina) 2007
Integrates 4 individual videos: 3 of them 177 seconds long (59x3) and another one 59 seconds long, all together – 590.
42. Miss Concetta Lello Lopez (Italy) 2007
43. 59 Segundos | da imitacao da vida Sofia Bustorff (Portugal) 2005 A memory taken to remember the night anticipating the dawn.
44. Position 59 Javier J. Plano (Argentina) 2007 59 pesos. Section 59 in the biggest Argentinian newspaper classified ads (a.k.a. “prostitutes section”). Ad number 59….
45. Rubro 59 - Servicios Utiles para la Mujer y el Hombr Damián Durán (Argentina) 2007
Be careful with your fantasies… they can become real.
46. Hypochondria Mariana Bertoldi Youssef (Brazil) 2007 Sound Atelier do Vitche After 58 diseases, a man concludes he is sick again.
47. U-turn Franz Wanner (Germany) 2006
48. Songs of Israel Irina Danilova and Hiram Levy 2005-6.
49. Collaboration Project 59 (USA) 2006 59 one minute videos.
50. Perfect Family Project 59 (USA) 2005 with Sarah, Rosa and Yelena Lidsky, Ignat Ayzenberg and dog Laila. Every family has mementos… Sometime you have to stop breakfast in order to catch one.
51. 59 Pellets David Lachman (USA) A short video about Zami, a cat with a will to eat. She loves her pellets and won't be distracted for too long.
52. The Twins Carine Doerflinger (Germany) 2002 Two mice run one after the other and try to catch up.
53. Perfect Family II Project 59 (USA) 2006 with Sarah, Rosa, Ilyusha and Zhenya Lidsky. Kids count.
54. Twenty-Six Randall Wakerlin (USA) One self portrait every day for a year.
55. Saddamites Fereshteh Toosi (USA) with Mark Dixon & Tsvika Solan
Inspired by Saddam Hussein’s use of body doubles, the video documents a visit to Washington DC on his birthday in 2003.
56. Moustache Avi Dabach (Israel) 2007
57. Hitler, the First Superstar Darya Zhuk (Belarus) 2004
A study in deconstruction of Leni Refienstahl's Triumph des Willens famous sequence.
Hitler's speech at Nuremberg rally is edited to leave him speechless on the podium.
58. Both Ends David Lachman (USA) 2005
A meditation on burning the candle at both ends.
59. 59 Endings Andrew Eyman (USA) 2006
Video montage of endings from films made during the Golden Era of 1950s Hollywood.
Ph.: Portland, OR