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With nature there are no special effects, only consequences

Flatform

2007 00:02:00 Italy English Color Stereo 16:9 DV video

Description

A man is shot inside an empty room and he moves and takes on positions continuously out of center. The nature of the lack of balance is invisible and his ability to stand up in spite of unnatural postures is inexplicable: this videowork has been realized without special effects but is simply the result of a real shooting of an artificial condition.

Constructing a territory implies motivating events and creating spaces, concepts and inertia. Creating interactions between objects rather than interventions. Promoting relationships of position that are movements. Determining actions rather than depictions.

-- Flatform

Flatform was founded in 2006 and is based in Milan and Berlin.

Flatform works in video and time based installations including mobile installations. Works by Flatform have been shown in many exhibitions at museums and institutions including, among others, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio; the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; MARCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Catanzaro, Italy; Kulturhuset in Stockhom, Sweden; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Russia; Museu da imagen e do som in Sao Paulo, Brasil; and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Spain.

Videoworks by Flatform have been featured in several film festivals throughout the world such as Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Canada; LOOP Festival Barcelona, Spain; Melbourne Film Festival, Australia; International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Venice International Film Festival, Italy; Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil, and Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen.

Works by Flatform have been awarded at Screen Festival 2008, in Oslo; 25FPS 2009, in Zagreb; Lago Film Festival 2010, in Revine Lago; Festival International du Court-Metrage 2011, in Lille.