30 - BLOW VOICE, Angie Bonino (Peru)

“Blow Voice” is videoart that brings together video documentation of women from five continents of the planet in demonstrations calling for social justice, political and economic.

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29 - NO COMMENT..., Vouvoula Skoura (Greece)

An old lady in front of her portrait when she was young... The portrait was painted by her late husband, who was ·professor of Painting.· A life that covers almost a century, her feelings, without words,· are obvious throughout her eyes...

With Arica Mitropoulou

Portrait by Michael Mitropoulos, 1963

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28 - S/H/A/P/E, Sté Ternes (Luxembourg)

This video speaks about female beauty ideals, from the Venus of Willendorf to the Barbie of nowadays, about being pressed in an image, about being influenced by the medias and about the violent act to shape yourself together.

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27 - BUD, Anna Selander (Sweden)

I had this beautiful amaryllis flower with several buds at home. It grew and opened up bit by bit and I was filming it every day in different lights. The different phases of it’s·development·made me associate to the female sexual organ. I asked a dancer to watch the images and to interpret them.·The filmed mouvements of the dancer seemed more mysterious and poetic than the filmed flower.·A metalanguage or a meta-emotion that became more abstract. A secret language.·The choreographed movements of the flower creates a poetic female sexual metaphor.·

Dancer Caroline Östberg

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26 - WE ARE WOMAN, Alena Kupcikova (Czech Republic)

We make them feel like heroes. We are women

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25 - ARZNI SANATORIUM, Lusine Talalyan (The Republic of Armenia)

This video artwork is comprised of a number of photos that were taken with a Praktica film camera, in a sanatorium that no longer functions after the independence of Armenia. Mainly the working class was spending its recreation time at the sanatorium during the Soviets. Through my performance I tried to reconstruct the environment where women during the 70s were having “recreational time”. But, even in the sanatorium women were not enjoying their time, but rather were taking care of children, cooking and doing other housework – the reality of the 70s and especially women portrayed through the lenses of men.

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24 - FEMME - FEMMES, Véronique Sapin (France)

Little girls, teenagers and young women are still constrained to marry a man they neither choose or have ever met. The first part of the video shows a bride balancing on a wire, reflecting her uncertain future. Her fall is the symbol of all these married women that enter into this life of submission and often abuses. The second part of the video examines the protests of these women against violence, and their struggle for their rights.

The Conservative rejects their claims as a Western theory whose Universalist pretentions reflects an ethnocentric prejudice.

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23 - CLEANING THE MESSAGE, Raquel Kogan/Lea van Steen (Brazil)

The confrontation between real and virtual is revealed in the image of someone drying the floor.

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22- THE CRY, Sara Malinarich (Chile)

Economy and primordial food supply.

Manuel Terán. Poduction

Jorge Ruiz Abánades. Edition

Maku López. Photography and cast

In collaboration·: Zona NN and Monster Studio

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21 - HER LIFE UNWRAPPED, C. M. Judge (USA)"

Two women, one in the springtime of life, the other in winter embrace the possibilities of each other’s lives or is it one women who holds both her youth and her agedness in her own hands, her own memory or projected imagination?

Credits:

The Judges Three: Helen, Shea and Colleen

/ Jay Heimo

/ Nashoba Park

/ FATV)

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20 - WIRE, Xiuwen Cui (P.R.China)

Wire connects things to each other. As the medium that transfers energy and information, we couldn’t live a modern life without wire. It is part of everybody’s daily life. Especially for females, who spend more time with all kinds of wire. Taking care of their children, their family, for love, for friendship, for everything, wire is one of the most important media for them.

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19 - ISHTAR, Raya Mazigi (Lebanon)

A young girl, in traditional wedding attire, is trying to smile but one can sense her mind is absent, amidst sounds alternating between chaos and celebration. This video is a reflection on growing uncertainties in war torn regions of the Arab and Middle-East where thousands of women were thrown overnight into slavery and humiliation. As if by tragic premonition, the goddess of femininity Ishtar, local counterpart of Venus and Aphrodite, is also the goddess of war.

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18 - HUIS CLOS, Zoulikha Bouabdellah (Algeria)

Men playing football on the edge of a beach. Faced with this camera, you realize there is an absence of women. Here the absence is present, demonstrating the existence of one kind necessarily depends on the existence of the other.

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17 - EVERYDAY MUDRAs, Doris Mayer, (Austria)

La video is questioning the female quality of the gestures while investigating the invisible phenomena of energy work. The female cliché of softness is relocated in the gentle, soft characteristics of the movement and is questioned when the motion, still soft and gentle and without breaking the flow, is showing attributes that might rather be associated with male quality. Based on the concept of yin and yang and the understanding of interdependence and inter-transformation - one is including the other and can change into the other - I am investigating the qualities of energy in general and female aspects in particular in this work. Performing with my own - female - hand, the video seems to show a soft, floating motion, that does, at the same time, include some agressive parts. Sometimes clear, sometimes ambiguous. I am asking for female qualities.

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16 - 16 - THE WOMAN DOES NOT HAVE MASK, Minoo Iranpour Mobarakeh (Iran)

Religion, tradition, politics and culture all define and determine a woman’s social and sexual identity within a given context. In my place, women wear what men want them to. In fact, men wear women’s clothes. In my place, streets belong to men. Markets belong to men. Buses belong to men. Offices and universities belong to men, and even nature belongs to men. Clothing is produced by men. A woman has no control over the space she inhabits and how she appears.

Actors: Mina Iranpour, Mahzad Mashayekhi, Ala Foughi, Jila Manani, Sahar Moghadasi, Fariba Farghadani, Mahtab TayebanTayeba, Nilofar Talifi, Ali Farzadi, Parinaz Torkian, Fatemeh Aghakabiri. Anahita Zamani, Marziyeh Shahriari, Faramarz Khataei Ilkhchi, Hojat Khajavi, , Mona Aghababaei, Javad Ghobadi,Parvin Mohamadi

Compositor: Pedram Pourghazi & Minoo Iranpour; Special thanks, Samira Hashemi, Helen Oliyaeinia, Kavous Farzadi

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15 - CONNECTING THE INVISIBLE, Madelon Hooykaas (The Netherlands)

A homage to the blind female shamans of Japan

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14 - BORN IN SPRING, Sudsiri Pui-Ock (Thailand)

Woke up in the morning of my birthday, and feeling like hanging all the laundry that I have with me in the main library room of the castle. This room used to be the reception room in which the important guests were received. Above the large fire place is a text engraved “NONME DOMABIS” meaning “No one can dominate me”.

Video camera by Francesco Lauscher

Song ‘Child Dance’ from album ‘Breathing Clouds’ by Studio THomasso

Filmed at Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy

Special Thanks to Civitella Ranieri Foundation

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13 - TRAVERSEES (Crossings) Cagdas Kahriman (Turkey)

Transpierced by invisible forces, portrait of an invincible woman.

Transpercées de forces invisibles, portrait d’une femme invinscible.

Anne-Candice Servant (interpretation); Erwann Chabot (editing); Yaylagül Kahriman (stop-motion assistant)

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11 - VENUS, Nicoletta Stalder (Switzerland)

Here is an other variation of how Venus was born. There is not one way, but many different variations to live a woman’s life.

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10 - A CAGE OF BUTTERFLIES, Dagmar Kase (Estonia)

As long as girlhood is taught and sold only as pink and beautiful, and boyhood only as (dark) blue and strong, feminism is relevant.

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09 - BOSQUE ESPESO, Amaranta Sanchez (México, DF)

In this video, the idea is to inhabit each other’s history, speaking of the cliché of the fantastic to transform into the character who inhabits stories. Highlighting the terrifying state of loss in a thick forest, in order to reach our reconciliation.

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08 - IN THE ROBING ROOM, Áine Phillips (Ireland)

“In the Robing Room” is a video of a performance made in the 18th Century Bishops Palace Robing Room in Kilkenny, Ireland. The live performance and video were curated by Josephine Kelliher for the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2012. The piece explores ideas of female entrappment and confinement, especially in relation to histories of the Magdalen laundries in Ireland.

Cinematography by Vivienne Dick

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07 - LINEA DE TIEMPO / TIMELINE, Camila Rodríguez Triana (Colombia)

When I was asked to make a video about the word «female», several questions came to my mind. I am a female, but what is a female? What does it mean to be defined or belong to a group of people who gather around the word «female»? What I found were different women that are women in different ways. Then I thought maybe the problem came from the same quest that started this dissertation, that is, from the need to define for all the cultures, ages, places what is woman. Maybe the problem is trying to attempt the impossible task of putting standards on life itself that is diverse and tied to a particular context. I do not know how to answer the question of what is a female? I could only say that I, who fall within the definition of female, not quite understanding why, am a human being who follows a path in this thing called life, a path somewhere. From this personal feeling I made the video «Timeline».

Camila Rodríguez Triana. Integrante del colectivo de artistas audiovisuales Heka Films

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06 - FEMALE, Maria Papacharalambous (Cyprus)

Video created through the use of selected original collages / cards made by myself, with respective quotations with the theme female.

Video co-editing: Nefeli Kentonis

Sound editing and composition: A. Kentonis

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05 - GO FIND YOURSELF, Katya Nikonorova (Kazakhstan)

The third series of the cycle about Katipa Apai. As the ancient Diogenes, Katipa Apai walks in the social places with a flashlight and looks for a Man. Out of despair and impossibility to express her sexuality, that she has to hide with hijab, she commits an action, sacrilege, something perverse for the eyes of the audience, that the viewer can only guess about the end, but a recognizable pose of a woman who found herself.

Music by Denis Kolokol

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04 - «·0.0.0.·», Angelika Rinnhofer (Germany)

“0.0.0” is a self-portrait. It reflects on the aging process and its effect on the female body. Hormonal fluctuations before and during menopause influence the body not only physically, but also psychologically. These significant and often arduous transformations are caused by the decline of reproductive hormones, which in turn affects menstruation cycles. The endometrium, the lining of the uterus, consists of two layers, one of which regenerates periodically. In my video, the peeling of membranes from eggshells symbolizes a woman’s uterus and her endometrium. The wearing of different outfits mirrors the lapse of time.

Music·: Mark Hilbert

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03 - PASSAGE DIFFICILE, Mouna Jemal Siala (Tunisia)

Behind a shaded veil with branches dancing in little movements, appears the shadow of a female hand, then the torso of a body and a face. Like a shadowgraph, the body of this woman caresses the veil, which seems strange to it, and as if to cross it, it gets closer then farther, appears and disappears. A dialogue between nature, foliage, shadows, light and the female body which, delicately, struggles against the veil.

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02 - EVERYTHING GOES DOWN WITH HER, Lucy Azubuike (Nigeria)

Conscious and unconscious harmful actions against the source. The wax represents natural resources provided by mother nature and the breast of a woman. As the melt down of the ozone layer; the source of energy, the breast of a woman wears off as her rights are undermined. What happens when a woman’s abode of milk with which she nurtures her offspring degenerates? And what happens when nature’s natural oil ceases to flow?

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01 - FLUID FLUX, Evgenija Demnievska (Serbia)

This video is the complement to the video I did on the Male in 2009 Fluid flux ♂ which bears the Mars symbol, usually interpreted as the shield and spear from the war god Mars/Ares. I see these two videos being presented together. While similar in structure, Fluid flux ♀ is solely based on the portraits of women and presents a rather poetic and luminous image of them. While we know so little or almost nothing about these women, the video leaves us with something surprising even hypnotic.

Computer assistance·: Radisa Kostic

Music·: remix de Monteverdi’s «·Pur ti Miro·» (Nicol Lemieux et Philippe Jaroussky)

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FEMALE This Video-Composition includes 30 videos / 30 artists / 30 countries : 62 min

FemLink-Art (FL'Art)