Flüssige Wesenszüge einer Bildapparatur
Liquid Traits of an Image Apparatus


Vera Sebert | 2019 | 7'22

Abstrakte Codierungen erscheinen auf der Oberfläche des digitalen Schirms als Bild, das von Menschen gelesen werden kann. Visualisierte maschinelle Handlungsanweisungen bilden eine eigene Semantik und Grundlage für menschliche Handlungsanweisungen. Auf der Kinoleinwand wird dieses Bild von seiner Bedeutung entkoppelt. Es kondensiert am Bildträger und schwappt ins Auge. Die assoziative Montage minimalistischer Nutzeroberflächen verläuft wie ein wucherndes Konstrukt entlang der filmischen Zeitachse. Die eigene Körperlichkeit im Wahrnehmungsprozess und die medial bedingte Lesart sind Protagonisten in einem Film ohne Narrativ.
On the screen’s digital surface abstract machine codes appear as sensual images, readable by humans. Visualised machine instructions make up their own semantics and are base for human instructions. On a cinema screen these images are detached from their initial meaning.They condense on the picture base and swash into our eyes. Like a random rhizome structure an associative montage of minimalistic user interfaces follows the film’s timeline. Our own body perception and our interpretation formed by media conditions become protagonists in a film without narrativ.




Awards

Stuttgarter Filmwinter /// Special Mention (DE)
Emerging Artists Vol. 5 /// AG Kurzfilm (DE)
Festival International de Cine Austral /// Best experimental Film(ARG)
Best Austrian Animation /// beste Experimentelle Arbeit (AT)


Screenings

2024

Pisa Robot Film Festival (IT)
London Experimental (UK)

2023

Technologia /// Kino Club, Helsinki (FIN)
Live Soundtrack 76 /// CZKD Belgrad (SRB)

2022

Light Matter /// NY (USA)
FILE 2022 /// Sao Paolo (BRA)
Proyector’22 /// Madrid (ESP)
Squat Betty Avantgarde Film Festival (UK)

2021

Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival (PRT)
Image & Bias /// Goethe Institut San Francisco (USA)
Izmir Short Film Festival (TUR)
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival (TUR)
Fast Forward /// Dresden (DE)
Videobardo /// /// Buenos Aires (ARG)
La fanfarria-Moebius Animación /// Medelin (COL)
Fest Anca /// Zilina (SVK)
non-syntax Experimental Image Festival /// Tokyo (JPN)
Modolist Kyiv International Film Festival /// (UKR)
Media Art Biennale WRO /// Wroclaw (PL)
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart /// (DE)
Tricky Woman /// Wien (AT)
hungry eyes festival /// Gießen (DE)
Fisura Film Festival /// Mexico City (MX)
Stuttgarter Filmwinter /// (DE)

2020

Austral International Film Festival /// Cordoba (ARG)
Fisura Film Festival /// Mexico City (MX)
Robotic Online Short Film Festival /// Alicante (ESP)
International Short Film Fest Detmold /// (DE)
Weimar Poetry Film Award /// (DE)
El Festivalco /// Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia (ESP)
Under the Radar Festival /// Vienna (AT)
ALC videoart festival /// Alicante (ESP)
Athens digital Arts Festival /// (GRC)
Vienna International Short Film Festival /// (AT)
Filmfest Dresden /// (DE)
Ibrida /// Forli (IT)
Over the Real /// Lucca (IT)
Squat Betty Avantgarde Film Festival (UK)

2019

nodoCCS /// Caracas (VEN)
Palm Springs Int. Animation Festival /// (USA)
Ankur Film Festival /// (IND)
Pori Film Festival /// (FIN)
Best Austrian Animation Festival /// Wien (AT)
Kurzfilmfestival Köln N° 13 /// (DE)
Kasseler Dokfest /// (DE)
International Moving Film Festival /// Abadan (IRN)
Simultan Festival /// Timisoara (ROU)
Linz International Short Film Festival /// (AT)
Tofuzi /// Tbilisi (GEO)
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival /// (CH)
Film Fest Zell /// Zell am See (AT)
Unseen Festival /// Denver Colorado (USA)
Equinoxio /// Bogotá (COL)
Bideodromo /// Bibao (ESP)
Besides the Screen /// Vitória (BRA)
ARKIPEL Jakarta International Film Festival /// (IDN)
Photophobia Contemporary Festival /// (CA)
OpenEyes Filmfest /// Marburg (DE)
Internationales Kurzfilmfest Hamburg /// (DE)
FLICK Experimental Film Fest /// Chapel Hill (USA)