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Video Art Festival Mide.
www.festivalmiden.gr

Festival Miden, the first Greek video art festival presented in open public spaces, is an annual video art & new media cultural event held in Kalamata, GR. It is an independent organization founded, organized and curated by a team of contemporary Greek artists.

Since 2005, Festival Miden has been gradually established as one of the most successful and interesting video art festivals in Greece and abroad and has been a significant point of cultural exchange for Greek and international video art, creating an alternative, peripheral meeting point for emerging and established video artists. [*Miden means “zero” in Greek]

COME AS YOU ARE
Curated by Manuela Gascon

One planet, 7,129,317,147 inhabitants in 2013.

Further than a culture, a country or a belief, everybody has his own past, present and future; and creates his own experience day by day. That is what makes each of us deeply different from the others. Our identity is partly built with the others’ behavior towards us.

Starting from the famous “everybody is unique”, let’s welcome who wants to come, as he is.

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	Video Art Festival Mide. www.festivalmiden.gr Festival Miden, the first Greek video art festival presented in open public spaces, is an annual video art & new media cultural event held in Kalamata, GR. It is an independent organization founded, organized and curated by a team of contemporary Greek artists. Since 2005, Festival Miden has been gradually established as one of the most successful and interesting video art festivals in Greece and abroad and has been a significant point of cultural exchange for Greek and international video art, creating an alternative, peripheral meeting point for emerging and established video artists. [*Miden means “zero” in Greek] COME AS YOU ARE Curated by Manuela Gascon One planet, 7,129,317,147 inhabitants in 2013. Further than a culture, a country or a belief, everybody has his own past, present and future; and creates his own experience day by day. That is what makes each of us deeply different from the others. Our identity is partly built with the others’ behavior towards us. Starting from the famous “everybody is unique”, let’s welcome who wants to come, as he is.

		PEOPLE SQUEEZING THROUGH SMALL GAPS Tim Hill UK People squeezing through small gaps” is part of a collection of videos exploring our psychogeographical relationship with the city. The videos concentrate on minor disappointments and a sense of being lost in urban environments. This video candidly captures people not quite able to make it through small gaps unhindered. The banal situation and minor disruption create an amusing moment with which the audience can both empathise with and laugh at relating it to a feeling that pervades through life when systems don’t quite work for us.

		SNOW I´M BEAUTIFUL Cat Del Buono USA This video uses performance and humor to show the absurdity of conforming to a certain idea of “beautiful” while commenting on plastic surgery.

		THE PERMANENT CERTAINTY Rosario Cobo Chile Fusion between documentary and experimental video based on still photographs taken during 2009-2010 in Villa Frei of Santiago de Chile, founded in 1969 a housing heir of modern architecture. The comprehensive urban planning behind the maze that has conditioned over time.

		H Marta Ivanova Lithuania The projection “Neckties”consists of various scanned neckties.

		SONG Nº 20 Céline Trouillet France A young homeless Belgian sings "Knocking on Heaven's Door" in Flemmish, referencing a cover version by Guns 'n Roses of the Bob Dylan song. The morbid context presented in the song could equally serve as a metaphor for the state of Belgium today.

		THE COLLECTION Filip Gabriel Pudlo Poland A video work in which games are played with classic portraiture conventions. It is suspended between the verges of photography and video while creating a parable between a photographic archetype, a classical portrait, tradition of a family album and contemporary images transmitted by media.

		AVRIL 2010 Gilivanka Kedzior & Barbara Friedman France [AVRIL 2010] is the video of a performance realized through the streets of Montauban, France. It carries to the eye of a lambda public, crossed by chance during a non-premeditated wandering, the peculiarity of the main character.

		BIG WILLOW Jared Katsiane USA My big brother has been friends with Willow for a long time. But today he got real scared that she wouldn’t be around much longer.

		THE PARABLE Aleksandra Godlewska Poland This work uses stereotypical viewpoint of Western culture to Muslim culture. Especially it focuses to lives of Afghan women. This is a personal impression about Muslim culture.

		SERIE: I´M COMPRESSED SIGNAL, I´M TECHNOLOGIC TRASH Elena Gaztelumendi Spain Digital artist in 60.000 inhabitants town

		SONG Nº 15 Céline Trouillet France Farida is a singer went blind at the age of thirty, following an illness. She performs « My Heart Will Go On » by Céline Dion, the song featured in « Titanic », the last film she saw at the cinema before losing her sight.

		SALGUOD SELRORB Jolene Mok USA This is a short piece about Douglas Broyles, an elderly Durham resident who obsessively collects bizarrely beautiful objects and curates his own exhibitions within his old house. As an obsessive moving images collector, I was not interested in documenting every single object in Douglas' infinite and ever-changing collection. I was simply fascinated, and hoping to visualize his way of seeing things.Ultimately, this is a documentary about how the parallel universes of two obsessive collectors collide.

		BUS STATION SONATA Anton Hecht UK Commuters at a bus station in newcastle are asked to play a note or two with a pianist of Moonlight sonata. This is filmed and editied to make a composite player.