On Tuesday, 11 April 2006 CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival (COFF) http://coff.newmediafest.org http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=7
is opening its 1st edition - Easter 2006 under the theme "Identityscapes" "In times of the globalization, the migration of people cross the world due to political, religious, ethnic and economical reasons, when the emancipation of the genders is advanced in certain countries & cultures, in others however, suppressed and persecuted, the questions of one's identity, defining oneself opposed to others becomes necessary in order to survive. "Identityscapes" has its starting point in the identity of the genders as the roots of each society. Through the variety of different approaches and definitions a rich, colourful landscape of human identities becomes visible via the artistic reflections manifested in the moving pictures." The festival, however, is no local phenomenon, but due to its online status it has got global relevance and can be accessed for free at any place under the conditions of a broad bandwidth Internet connection. Screenings in physical space will follow at a later stage at Cologne and many other places. Cologne OFF is organised by VideoChannel http://videochannel.newmediafest.org and powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]||:cologne www.nmartproject.net . The film festival is featuring 40 shortfilms and videos of a duration between 1 and 15 minutes, selected and curated by Agricola de Cologne, It released a PDF catalogue for free download http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_1st_edition_2006.pdf These are the selected film/videos - also published on http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=7 Arzu Ozkal Telhan - Entitled as... Andrew Johnson - Black & White Elia Alba - La Jaba A. Girik & O. Shatalova - Warning: Woman! Eleanor Gates Stuart - KNIT Ina Loitzl - Snow White and Red ..... Joao Paulo Simoes - Take.This.Turn Elisabeth Smolarz - You & Me Beatrice Allegranti - In my Body Unnur A. Einarsdottir - Toilet Sonja Vuk - Cosmo Club Irene Tetaz - il nue Risk Hazekamp - Gay King Rahel Maher - Misstar Eileen Bonner - I Thou Steven Dixon - Invisible Girl Sinasi Günes - Androgen Michael Brynntrup - TV-X_PERM Fred Koenig - Voodoo Diva's International.. Lorenzo Nencini - Traviata Joey Hateley - A:Gender Ane Lan - Ane Lan Carlo Sansolo - Panoptica Erika Frenkel - Cascadura Baby Yamil Jamani - All Quite on the Western ColognFront Reuben James Preston -Remembering Welmo E. Joseph - 1/2 de porcillo (1/2 chicken) Calin Dan - Sample City Jens Salander - The Colossus by the Sea Dana Levy - Time with Franz Antonia Valero - S/T Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry - Embracement Gudrun Bittner - A dark glimps on a white gloved mouse Petra Lindholm - Reported Missing Yi Hyung Kim - Wo-men, Wo-rld Andrea Ferrara - Spazio dell'Assenza Tan Chui Mui - Hometown Nita Mocanu - Waiting Room Rafael Alcala - Smoked Nancy Atatkan - The Wall # COFF - Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=7 (please disable pop-up blockers) *********************************** Released by NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and New Media operating from Cologne/Germany. . info& contact info (at) nmartproject.net ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
