Aiming at the Sky

Aiming at the Sky

Date: 
03.02.2012 14:30
Edition: 
2012
Format: 
Screening
Location: 
HKW
HKW - Lecture Hall
Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai. Satellite
Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai. Satellite

Television in two senses, both as technical instrument of image transmission, and as metaphor for communication over great distances.
With works by Raphael Montañez Ortiz, eteam, Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai, Walid Mattar, Basma Al Sharif and Stefan Zeyen.

Television in two senses, both as technical instrument of image transmission, and as metaphor for communication over great distances. Election Promises is a classic from the inventor of the scratch technique; its found material moves jerkily back and forth in a montage, as do the election promises of a politician in society. The extreme manipulability of images in the digital age is demonstrated by Track One: what you get is indeed more than what you see. The short feature Tandid examines the state of Tunisian society before the revolution; ordinary life consisting solely of impotent commentaries about what is shown on television. In Satellite, on the other hand, Iranian expatriate communities attempt – with the help of satellite television and picturesque studio backgrounds – not only to preserve their own cultural identity (in this case by selling carpets), but also to have a direct influence on Iranian politics. The Story of Milk and Honey presents a highly poetic tale of a journey – its focus shifting between an individual and a love for society. Finally in Farewell, a moment of physical parting is obliterated through the artistic process, dissolving away into digital noise.

 

Election Promises, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, us 1988, 8 min

Track One, eteam, tw 2011, 2 min
Satellite, As Long As It Is Aiming At The Sky. Satellite, Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai, nl 2010, 29 min
Tandid – Condemnation, Walid Mattar, tu / fr 2010, 15 min
The Story of Milk and Honey, Basma Al Sharif, ps 2011, 10 min

Farewell, Stefan Zeyen, de 2009, 3 min

 
 

(Image: Satellite, As Long As it Is Aiming at the Sky, © Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai)

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