"It is in vain to dream of a wildness
distant from ourselves. There is none such.
It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the
primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires
that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of
Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess
of Concord, i.e., than I import into it."
Henry David Thoreau,
Journal, August 30, 1856
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Martin Putz | Austria | 2011 | 3:00 | mobile phone | color
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athens kerameikos. a rusty door. a hole. big enough for my hand to pass ...
dedicated to michelangelo antonioni
Gustav Deutsch | Austria | 2011 | 2:00min | mobile phone |color
www.gustavdeutsch.netA fenced Terrain Vague in close proximity to the port of Piraeus. Surrounded by heavy traffic, I am filming the forbidden paradise through a small light gap along the fence.
Hanna Schimek | Austria | 2011 | 3:00 | mobile phone | color
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www.hannaschimek.atA peculiar expedition through abandoned rooms, places of lost civilisation, brings the dog Lari to her own paradise: a simple fresh and blooming meadow.
Edith Payer | Austria | 2011 | 2:50 | mobile phone | color
a fallen leaf struggling in the rustling wind. nature can be eerie and mysterious.
Michaela Grill | Austria | 2011 | 1:05min | mobile phone | color
A shop window with pot plants. The shop is closed. The window almost clouded. The plants seek for light. Sprawling against the window. I pass by regularly. Nothing ever changes. The shop stays closed. The plants sprawl. The window gets more and more clouded.
A warm summer evening. I am standing in front of the shop window. In my short-sleeved red shirt, with white Philodendron leafes. I take out my mobile phone and go close to the window: menu–camera–options–video–record. From leaf to leaf I scan the plants. Stepping back, the low sun hits my shirt, mirrored in the window. Red mingles with green, Philodendron leaves mingle with the leaves of the pot plants. Across the street: a bar. In the mirror of the window its name: ARROGANCE.
Gustav Deutsch | Austria | 2010 | 2:52min | mobile phone |color
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www.gustavdeutsch.netDesire Paths (Bachelard) cut individual traces through urban space. They offer new idiosyncratic experiences in relation to time and space.
In Paul Divjak´s Praterlauf the figure of Benjamin´s Flaneur has accelerated obviously, and it seems that he is aware of some situationistic practices.
It´s midsummer in the city, the sunlight is shimmering through the leaves. Desire driven the subject annexes the local recreation area by running. Concrete alleys, grit lanes, green lawn: we are passing yesterday´s newspaper, couples and pedestrians. And within seconds we meet mothers, children, teenagers, dog owners, cyclists and people having a picnic: town twellers open-air.
The visual information is completed by an occasionally asynchronous kaleidoscope of fragmented aural reality. What we hear is a polyphonic soundtrack consisting of the shape of different terrains, the breathing of the runner, distant voices and the wind.
Praterlauf is sort of a running diary (Murakami). It´s the sensual concentration of an average one hour mileage into one minute and 25 seconds. Using his Nokia E71 as a camera stylo, Divjak is mapping the brush of the urban space in hard cutting sequences. Motive and form of the cinematic essay could be read as references to early works by Austrian avant-gardists Kurt Kren („Das Walk“) and Hans Scheugl (P.R.A.T.E.R). The image of the city Praterlauf is constructing is by all means one full of lust for life, diversity, open-mindedness and selfconfidence: „We are Vienna“ a graffiti announces programmatically in the end.
(Bel Beer)
Paul Divjak | Austria | 2010 | 1:25 | mobile phone | color
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If townspeople move to the countryside, there can be problems with enthusiastic gardening if you do not have any scientific background. In this episode you see the consequences of planting a running bamboo without a rhizome barrier. There is nothing else for it but to use an excavator…
Gerda Lampalzer & Manfred Oppermann | Austria | 2010 | 2:02 | mobile phone | color
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www.members.aon.at/glampalz"ottosdream" is a short film about the beauty of the Common Dandelion and the incredible imagination of a small dog with a high passion for this flower.
Edith Payer | Austria | 2010 | 1:47 | mobile phone | color
I regard pocket films as material filmed without a specific intention.
In other words, rather than creating something new I make a selection from the existing footage in my telephone’s library.
While searching for structure and filmic form, a system of order for colors was created through editing.
This provided the foundation of my selection from among the wide variety of available images.
The images that are shown are puristic in terms of form.
They reference a spectrum of what is possible in the same way that red, green and blue can be used to create an infinite variety of colors, though they merely describe the edge of a spectrum.
Martin Putz | Austria | 2010 | 1:55 | mobile phone | color
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www.2kfilm.atFilmed on a one-hundred-meter long strip alongside the edge of one of the main roads of the city – the Viennese Gürtel. The strength of the delicate little plants, fighting their way between asphalt and concrete, never ceases to amaze me. A tribute in pocket (film) format for all urban guerrilla plants.
Hanna Schimek | Austria | 2010 | 2:45 | mobile phone | color
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www.hannaschimek.atWho is entitled to use or abuse public spaces? Imagining Latin American mega-cities, one might mainly think of the poor, who use unexploited soil for their daily needs. But public spaces in Mexico City suffer another sad reality. It is the omnipresence of the waste, publicly left over by its twenty-something million inhabitants in parks, streets and neighborhood corners. Local governments mostly ignore the problem. Neighbors fight it daily but have to fail – unless they ask the Holy “Virgencita” Mary for help. And she appears - and she helps! Ecological and aesthetical solutions in Mexico are made spiritually.
Fridolin Schönwiese | Austria | 2010 | 2:54 | mobile phone | color
Walking by a shopping center in Vienna, I noticed the iconic logo of a fast food restaurant next to the sidewalk. It caught my attention because, while being placed neatly within the architecture, it was slightly overgrown by weeds. I was amused by the accidental critical statement of the scenery. By approaching and surrounding the illuminated logo by night while filming it with the mobile phone, I attempted to create the effect of suspense referring to hand-held camera shots in horror movies.
Karo Szmit | Austria | 2010 | 1:46 | mobile phone | color
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www.karoszmit.blogspot.comI love plants and trees and flowers. In case they have no flesh-eating habits. As a genuine (Viennese) townee I am enjoying nature by running through parks in the city and through wonderful Vienna Woods to keep myself fit. I feel pleased when friends and admirers are giving flowers to me and sometimes I am buying Ranunculus or Tulips for myself. It is a stunning experience watching flowers and plants coming into bloom. It makes me uneasy when they are fading. I never really got by with nature.
Martina Theininger | Austria | 2010 | 2:07 | mobile phone | color
