THE W:OW PROJECT- We Are One World
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Dove Fermarsi? (Where to Stop?) / Linda Jasmin Mayer
(06:45) 2017 Video Installation: Linda Jasmin Mayer & Sebastian Kulbaka Costume Design: Andrea Ferri Synopsis “Dove fermarsi?” (Where to Stop?) Is the first part of a video work on the difficulty of finding your home in the world. The aim of this journey is not a static place but a mental space that unfolds through personal relationships and is constantly changing. |
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Dictator / Liisa Ahola and Veera Salmio
(3:10) 2017 Video installation: Liisa Ahola and Veera Salmio Footage: You Tube Synopsis: The theme of the video is patriotism, masculinity and dictatorship. The topic examines traditional patriarchal symbols; playing with them and giving them new meanings. The footage of the work is collected from Youtube channels news-, propaganda- and documentary videos. |
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Camp Europe / Anna Knappe
(6:45 ) 2017 Synopsis: Welcome to Camp Europe. Camp Europe welcomes refugees and expects them to be grateful and happy, providing food and shelter but not dignity. Camp Europe knows better than the refugees what is good for them and deports them back to where they came from. Camp Europe continues. |
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Forest Poem / Taina Valkonen
(1:13) 2017 Script, Direction & Performance: Taina Valkonen Cinematography & Video Production: Markku Korsu Synopsis Trees are disappearing into paper paper burns into ash and is flown with wind into non existing |
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Medical Record / Veera Nelimarkka
(3:55) 2017 Synopsis Medical Record handles the difficulties of getting help to mental illnesses. While it tells a story of an individual, it widens the problem into a national one. |
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Uuno Turhabuto/King of Dance vol.2 / Sabotanic Garden
(8:16) 2007 Dance: Pasi Mäkelä Video: Jussi Saivo Music: Pasi Mäkelä, Kusti Vuorinen, Janne Tuomi and Jussi Saivo Synopsis Sunbathing on frozen lake. Getting lost in the woods. Setting home on fire. Visual research and study of Finnish solitude, isolation and loneliness - presented in the form of alcoholic man, wandering endlessly from one catastrophe to another. |
The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival
The W:OW Project is dealing thematically with the Present and Future of planet Earth under the influence of the human species. WE ARE ONE WORLD is not just another artistic topic, it is the complex reality and at the same time an Utopia that matters.
The „world“ is not just planet Earth as an all encompassing whole, but also the „world“ in terms of the environment or place the individual is living in: family, circle of friends, society, city, region, country or continent, or other sortlike unities marking the individual and collective identity, their relation between each other, and the responsibility of the individual for each other and the Whole.
THE W:OW PROJECT, respectively THE W:OW ART FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL initiated by artvideoKOELN & The New Museum, of Networked Art – directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – is representing such a sample world on a small scale, in which artists, curators and worldwide networking partners and, not to forget, the audience are acting in mutual respect, demonstrating the diversity of artistic and curatorial concepts. The festival project is consisting of three (3) basic program components, the general festival selection, the contributions by invited curators from all over the world and curated selections from associated art film collections like artvideoKOELN Collections,The Refugee Film Collection or Collective Trauma Film Collections, they form the fundament for a wide range of presentation formats like screening, projection and installation (exhibition). According to its concept, the W:OW Project – incorporating different levels on a local and global scale – will manifest at many venues all over the world,
Before the official launch of The W:OW Project in 2018, The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival has been presented in 2017 in different constellations in India (Kolkata & Kochi Muziris Biennial Kerala), Ecuador (Quito), Brazil (Belo Horizonte), Greece (Athens), Cyprus (Nikosia), Venezuela (Caracas) & Ethiopia (Addis Abeba).
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