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BIO: a post-human despair : Aychele Szot and Ricardo Barreto

BIO: a post-human despair


BIO: a post-human despair

BIO: a post-human despair is the first photofilm developed under the concept of chronocollage.
BIO is introduced into the contemporary problematic from which no human being shall succeed to flee nor scape, and from which there shall be no return. Human "essence" reveals itself ephemeral when cultural memory has the power to modify genetic memory, and then a crossroad appears to Humanity: Shall there be a choice?

Posted by stunned at 04:03 PM
Body Language Sequences : Dr Hugo Heyrman

Body Language Sequences


Body Language Sequences

In the Body Language Sequences I walk through the streets of Antwerp City, to investigate how people are using 'silent language' and 'personal space'. I am interested in the temporality of speed, acceleration, slowness and pause. How 'sub-movements' are expressed. How motion precedes emotion. Up to 90% of all of our communication is nonverbal. The direct actions of the human nervous system are usually subconscious, instinctively meaningful and more honest than verbal communication. Bodies do not lie. The 'subliminal' messages of the body are playing a major role in how we relate to others and how they see us. Our bodies are the most public signals of our identities, and private reminders of who we are. We imagine by remembering, or vice versa. In the ritual quality of interpersonal actions there is a hidden code of behavioural patterns, through which hierarchical and social power structures emerge. The body language sequences of the human figure in motion, are a display of our motives in the flow of time.

The Body Language Sequences are a cinematic study of visualising and discovering time patterns of interpersonal behaviour. The revealed moments are giving an insight in the instinctive feelings, attitudes, expressions, gestures and emotions of human communication. In a series of experimental ultra-short films, each looped sequence draws attention to its own syntax —a rhythmic pattern of body language in motion. These visible acts of meaning are a search into what people tell with their bodies. During the montage I saw the world differently. I became aware that I was also documenting the diversity of changes in life style as an emerging element in society. The re-entered world became transposed, intensified, electrified. It was my intention to explore the micro-motions of human acts, extracted from the flux of life, to convey a message which brings an articulation of visual thinking into play.

Posted by stunned at 02:28 PM
Shadows of Computers : j.demeuzois - k. le ninan

Shadows of Computers


Shadows of Computers

Shadows of Computers is a series of eight short flash animations which tell the story of Professor Bulwer, Inspector Ashe and the critic M.de Sarriac who are plunged into the heart of an incredible investigation where they encounter humanoids with seaweed hair, dreaming microorganisms and oppressive ancient things.

Surrounded by a hypnotic soundtrack, Shadows of computers take us into a graphic world somewhere between film noir, manga and medieval iconography

Posted by stunned at 09:58 AM
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