TERMINAL COMMUNICATION

Experimental!

With Experiments, once again britspotting will show you an enthralling selection of contemporary experimental films and video art from Great Britain and Ireland this year. Alongside well-established artists and filmmakers, we will present you emerging talents who are to watch in the future.

Ben Rivers is one of the most renowned contemporary English experimental filmmakers. In his exceptional, very subjective documentaries, he often deals with charackters, who backed out of the “ordinary” society and try to live their own utopia. Suitably to the prior Darwin Year, britspotting presents his film ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES about S., a man – far away from any civilisation - who engages in Darwin’s theories over decades in order to understand the world.

MATTER IN MOTION, a film by the British artist duo Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) presents Milan in an uncommon way. The two artists put the seemingly fixed material of buildings into motion and show the constant changes the city is exposed to.

BAFTA-rewarded filmmaker Tal Rosner deals with urban space in a very different manner. In WITHOUT YOU, he explores the industrial outskirts of London with the help of surface structures.

Ian W. Gouldstone, whose BAFTA-rewarded animated film GUY 101 will be shown in the britspotting Anniversary Shorts series, ventures a very special experiment with TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Basically, the film does not have any director, but is a joint project together with animation film students of the Newport University.

The Irish vidoe artist Michael Fortune shows how much exhileration a badly signposted terminal can cause – in the audience at least. TERMINAL COMMUNICATION is the first short film by Michael Fortune to be shown at britspotting.

You can see the full list of shorts in the Experiments series here.

EXPERIMENTS (82 min):
November,13 – 10:30 Uhr – Das Filmcafé
November, 14 - 6:30 Uhr – Das Filmcafé

britspotting rewind:
November, 17 - 10:00 Uhr – Das Filmcafé

Here you can gain an insight of MATTER IN MOTION: