Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeEvents
15/04-14/06/13 Maison Populaire: Films d'animation #1 [Montreuil]
Discover a rich selection of animated films at Maison Populaire from 15 April to 14 June 2013 in a programme that features a variation of work from the Lowave collection such as Metronomic & Co., City2City and Human Frames.
@ Maison Populaire, 9 bis Rue Dombasle 93100 Montreuil, France
Usama Alshaibi / Allahu Akbar / Iraq / 2003 / 5'10 / 4:3
Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.
Sarnath Banerjee / Sophistication / India / 2009-2010 / 5′ / 4:3
Sophistication is a collage animation based on real images and drawings by Sarnath Banerjee. The video ironises humanity’s insatiable lust for power and its fanatical political and religious excesses from Europe to Asia.
Arthur de Pins / La revolution des crabes / France / 2003 / 4'45 / 4:3
In the browny waters of Gironde estuary, between the rocks repainted with fuel and the muddy sand that provides a home for the best oysters in the world, noone is aware of the tragedy that has pervaded us for the last one hundred an twenty million years. We are the Pachygrapsus Mormatus, commonly known as "depressed crabs".
Yuki Hayashi / The outline of everything / Japan / 2010 / 7' / 3:4
Yuki Hayashi creates animated works by cutting and combining some of the many photographs and videos he has taken and stored on his computer. In The outline of everything, he uses computer drawings to manipulate his photographic and video data. A line, which serves as a vestige of this data, begins to move while maintaining the relationship to the photographs and videos. The artist created this work while thinking about questions, such as whether this data, which has no specific materiality and possesses a certain kind of indefiniteness, can interact with defined images and what lies beyond the limits of that world.
Masayo Kajimura / Outside the sun is shining / Japan-Germany / 2010 / 9' / 4:3
Outside the sun is shining documents the inside of the former spa hotel in Ahrenshoop/Germany. The empty rooms of the ruin were filled with poetry, as if this inbetween state of decay had stories and inhabitants of its own. The building was pulled down in 2009. All that is left is the eternal sea.
Adolfo Kaplan & Vincent Dudouet / Hors chants / France / 2004 / 6'44 / 4:3
The madness of a hungry drawing gives rise to a strange form of life within the deserted building site of the Cité de la Musique et de la Danse (Dance and Music Center) in Strasbourg, France.
Veronika Samartseva & Samo (Anna Bergman) / Hello Antenna / Germany / 2008 / 4’40 / 16:9
Hello Antenna is the story of Susie, her mother, the Royal Family and shopping. A musical animation with lots of aeroplanes, moments of happiness and a giant explosion.
The Suleiman Brothers / Rojak! / Malaysia / 2009 / 4’42 / 4:3
A Rojak seller’s take on Malaysia’s multi-faceted social political tapestry. Made entirely with CGI special effects the video is visually stunning.
Izabela Plucinska / Afternoon / Germany-Poland / 2012 / 2’38 / 16:9
They live together, but live separately – held together by a thin thread. An unfortunate accident leads them to each other again.
