SMART Project Space | 1e Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam, +31 (0)20=
427 5951
Tuesday June 10 and June 24, 20.00 hrs. Smart Project Space presents:

FILMMAKERS PRESENT:
A series in which film- and video makers present their work.


Tuesday June 10, 20.00

Filmmaker, producer and artist Gerard Holthuis creates films and installati=
ons in which he intuitively combines images, atmosphere and colours to evok=
e a world of recognizable images made unfamiliar. His films are made withou=
t predetermined scripts, lack narrative with a clear beginning, middle and =
end, but are always guided by an intuitive registration of what the filmmak=
er perceives.

- Hong Kong (HKG) (1998/35 mm/13 min/b-w) In 1998 Kai Tak airport in the mi=
ddle of Hong Kong was closed. Approaching Kai Tak was a unique experience f=
or the passengers. "One could read the newspapers in the street" one passen=
ger exclaimed. This is a film about the approach and the passing by of the =
airplanes in the middle of a city. An observation at the end of the 20th ce=
ntury.
- The West (SFO) (2000/ 35 mm/10 min./b-w) A "road movie" in the desserts o=
f California, Arizona and Utah
- City at Night (AMS) (2000/35 mm/9 min./b-w) A thriller without a storylin=
e and a portrait of a city at night. The audience makes a trip on a boat th=
rough the canals of The Hague. A city almost deserted.


Erik Wesselo makes films that are marked by a clear beginning and end, but =
in between everything stays the same. Wesselo uses film, the medium of the =
moving image, to bring time to a standstill. For the duration of the film =
he tries to capture the viewer with this one image. The tragic moment in th=
ese films overlap with its liberating potential.

- Oil (2001, 16 mm, 28 min. 10) records a performative in which the artist =
and his friend are engaged in a monotonous and backbreaking task of loading=
a shipping container with boxes of oil. The film ends when the container i=
s full and the actors no longer have a performance space. While resembling =
the performative durational films of structuralist 70's cinema, the action =
is also an illusion as the piece has been edited in the continuity style of=
classical Hollywood cinema. Slowly it becomes clear that the time depicted=
in the film is fictional, the edits elide labour in the creation of an eff=
ortless and assimilable 'seamless' reality, connecting this rigorous concep=
tual project to the narrative tradition.



Tuesday June 24, 20.00

Artists duo A.P. Komen/Karen Murphy work with video, videostills, photograp=
hy and text. Their work usually consists of narratives in image and texts i=
n which form and the relations between image and text recall reminiscences =
of the photo novel, while the content refers to docudrama's and television =
soaps.

- Too much reality (2003, DV, 28 min.) Video from an installation with the =
same title. A group of friends each spend one night alone in a beach hut so=
mewhere in South East Asia that is believed to bring bad luck. Unexpected t=
hings happen with the group. Is it caused by the hut, or by alcohol and dru=
gs abuse?
- Copper Fusion (2001, DV, 9 min. 40) An interpretation of the film "Paris =
Chic" by Andrew Blake. A woman's account, told in 12 short scenes, remember=
ing another woman's attempt to create a doppelganger, clone of herself.
- Me, Martin & I (2001, DV, 13 min.) A single screen video installation in =
which a Dutch woman revisits her spiritual home (Thailand) and narrates a s=
eries of her own experiences. As the story unfolds, the true nature of her =
testimony is brought into question.


Marc Schmidt will present a collection of his short films that focus on the=
small secrets of modern life, observed with great eye for detail while lac=
king any judgement. Currently the filmmaker has turned away from making sho=
rt films and is preparing several documentary films.

-Slow Start (2002/ DV/ 7 min.) About boys, girls and scooters in the Maasvl=
akte.
-Baby Baby Sunmobiel (2000/ 16mm/ 5 min.) About crying on bed, a baby phon=
e and a mother under a solarium.
-Polder (1999/ 16mm/ 6 min.) About the Flevopolder, traffic poles and handi=
capped.
-Kom (1998/ 16mm/ 2 min.) About the life of a thee cup.


Location: Smart Cinema
Price: 5.50 Euro
For information please contact Alice Smits


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