The hitman in this parody of a music video, inspired by the figure of the bad men-rapper of music videos, he tells a fiction in which the act of killing is banalized, as in action movies, one after another, the bodies of the actors, they are riddled under the bullets, the killing activity is acted upon and recorded indifferently.
Life is certainly stranger than fiction. Even if he’d tried, filmmaker Sheldon Cohen couldn’t have made up the events that led to his being rushed to an Emergency room one sunny summer afternoon. This is the true story of “a nice Jewish boy with Buddhist inclinations” who should have been the last person in the world to need cardiac surgery.
The heroine, tormented by insomnia, accepts the help of the unconscious part of her personality. She falls asleep and meets the feelings that overwhelm her in order to unravel the invisible threads of childhood trauma.
Enter a micro world of colors and fun! Join butterflies, caterpillars, spiders and all the amazing creatures that inhabit the marsh. When a new frog shows up in the swamp the bugs welcome him only to learn the new creature is not what it seems. Get ready for a buzz of an adventure!
'Laundry Day' follows Ren-303, a service bot designed to assist with household chores, as it patiently waits for its masters wash load to finish while reading a book. What follows is an emotionally resonant journey as Ren-303 reflects on its role in the life of its host family and contemplates the impending moment of its retirement.
Anouk came to her grandmother's old house to sort things out and prepare it for sale. She is visited by strange memories of a piece of glass through which, as a child, she could see spirits. These memories do not give her peace.
A commercial promoting the Czech Brouk and Babka department store and its branches in Czech towns Prague, Pilsen, Ostrava and České Budějovice. Felix the Cat sails the sea as a cabin boy, and the boat founders even though Felix and the captain spot the upcoming storm in time. The two survivors are captured by a local tribe of cannibals; they are imprisoned and seem to face death. Yummy Yum, the king of the cannibals, however, has a conceited daughter Ufrfina and decides to reprieve the two captives in order to meet her wishes, as well as the wishes of his subjects - only the men have to buy themselves out by the things from the list submitted by the cannibals. The desperate captives have no idea where to get so many things so fast. A magician hears their weeping. He conjures them two beetles who get them everything the cannibals crave. Felix wonders at this and the beetles confess to owning the Brouk and Babka department stores where everything is available.
An insect dreams of flying and hears of a powerful white spider that has discovered the secret of making beautiful butterflies. Setting out to find this spider, he befriends several other insects on his journey. But when he learns of the spider's evil plan, he must face his fears and rely on his new friends and determination to stop it before the spider conquers the insect world.
Both abject through its texture and relatable in its fragility, WETWARE offers hyperreality without the common symptoms of alienation. A seemingly self-sustaining ‘organism’ is generated completely in digital through synthesis without reliance on ’real’ imagery. The resulting image is limitless, perpetually spilling outside itself. Suggesting a feed pulsating beyond a bodily surface or even any bodily context, the work examines digital intimacies while also referencing worship music in its relaxing albeit disorienting sonic composition.
Three cyborg couples enter a newly opened building: the Human Museum. They are confronted with exhibits of humanity: statues of intertwined bodies, anatomical informations, and educational films, reacting emotionally with astonishment, disgust, fear, and curiosity toward the objects in the exhibit. In an inevitable process of machine learning, the six protagonists change during their visit, learning to simulate the rules of arousal and attraction. The pairs are not just the juxtaposition of two cyborgs. Can the machines ever feel what their bodies skillfully mimic: desire?
A promotional video of the exhibition ‘ArtPath 2011’ by Tokyo University of the Arts Musical Creativity and the Environment. The excitement before ArtPath starts.