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#32 Scrambles Amongst The Alps
- Martijn van Berkum I'm convinced that you cannot describe nature, not philosophically, nor in a scientific manner and, not in the last place, not from an aesthetic point of view either. The moment you start describing it, studying or painting it, nature is undone and becomes something different altogether: a dissertation, a story, or an art work, anything that fits into a human framework of understanding. It's a Bermuda triangle of philosophy, science and culture in which nature disappears.
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#30 20th Century Type Coins
- Marc Ganzglass 20th Century Type Coins is a radio play about two characters hoarding coins. The first - Ephraim, is a scholar, an empiricist and a diligent coin collector. The other character - Mungo, is impetuous, anti-authoritarian and a survivalist. The two characters compare sorting reports and tactics for acquiring coins based on their value as raw material.
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#25 A Parallel Script To The Film: The Dream Of A Book
- Beata BerggrenImage: A very sunny late summers day at the southern coast of Sweden. On the beach a placard has been erected, 3,60 x 2,55 meters. Behind it, the sea and the sandy beach. The sun stands low and shines like a lamp on the placard. A shimmering light from the sea. The placard is painted with straight lines, in the same colors as the sky, the sea and the beach. It is quite windy and Dad is standing behind the placard, holding a rope to straighten it up. On the placard it is written:
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#24 06.04.02
- Jelena Rundqvist SQUID said they wanted me to write about that which triggers me, which makes me want to do things, create. The things that give me energy, something important to me and thus also a part of my work as an artist. I thought it would be fun to write. Exciting. Possibly demanding, but in a challenging way. I was thinking I was going to write about Seinfeld.
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#20 Dear Tom
- Michael Blum Script of a video-letter to Thomas Hoving, former director at the MET and author of the unforgivable Art for
Dummies.
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#13 How I Became An Artist
- Saskia Holmkvist One thing leads to another - so can the world be related. Causal connections above and beyond the easily
predictable make me curious and therefore the chain of effects motif occupies an important place in my work,
especially as a narrative means.
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#10 The Heroes Of Absolute Zero
- Janna Holmstedt The first days of the experiment had been uncomfortable, claustrophobic. Imagined sounds caused him to react
as if someone was just outside - knocking, steps, distant conversations. But they were only sound memories. The
only thing that there was to listen to in fact was the murmuring of his own blood circulation.
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#9 Poetry Is What Gets Lost In Translation
- Ylva MazettiAs I, in any situation where emotions are called upon, invariably turn to vocabulary to facilitate and comprehend,
I also understand the arts through words. Every visual question, statement and sensation needs to pass through
this internal transformer...in order for me to place it in the correct category in the winding tunnels of my
comprehension to store for further interpretation.
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#5 The Melancholy Of Evolution
- Po Hagström Today there are 1,600,000 registered species on earth. It is reckoned that around 320,000 of them will have
disappeared by the year 2020. Around 2050 it is assumed that every other species (800,000 species) will have
vanished. What is a species worth?
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#3 Crystal Palace
- Camilla Bergqvist A strong dazzling sun from a cloudless blue sky. Glass facades emerge in the sunlight. A house of glass looms into
view. A panning and presentation of a city constructed entirely of glass: Crystal Palace.
[...] we wish everyone a good morning. Today in room 101 we'll be showing a film on the legendary mountain, Mt.
Everest, which according to our sources reaches around 8848 m. At the same time, in room 314, the classical
costume drama, Room with a view, will be screened. For children, there will be a visit by a clown.
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#2 The Story As Seen From A Moving Viewpoint
- Yukie KamiyaAs a result of filmic expression that has benefited from technological advances, the fusion of 'the visual' and 'the
narrative' is now resulting in unprecedented forms of expression. What kinds of stories are being told by artists
who have acquired the medium of 'the moving image?' How are these stories being told? The focus of this essay
will be on storytelling in the medium of the moving image, which has seen a rapid growth since the mid-nineties.
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