Notes on the Image Forum Festival 1999

[Joss Winn]

 The overhead bypass was
>probably done the same way, but with the matte positioned
>horizontally.  Just a guess, but I'm fairly certain that
>would work.


Thanks.
>
>> 1999 was the festival's 13th year and included a special
>programme, "Shall
>> We Forget [the] 20th Century?", which "included several works which explore
>> the sensation of video games from within digital film."
>
>Could you perhaps provide a little more information about
>the works which expore this topic?
>

I didn't see this particular programme.  There were two shows with this
theme, one was the last screening of films by Martin Arnold and Gustav
Deutsch and the other was 'killer.berlin.doc' (1999, video, color, Germany,
74min) by Bettina Ellerkamp and Jorg Heitmann.  The catalogue description
says:

"In May 1998, ten people, wanting to talk about their lives in a changing
city, decide to turn their lives in Berlin into fiction.  They play
'killer', a game in which on-one knows of the others, each one is culprit
as well as victim.  Knowing that yet another person is searching for him or
her, the player looks for the designated victim.  The players create a web
across the city, the paths they take, the places they visit and the
encounters with people all draw a subjective sketch of contemporary life in
Berlin in the 'interim.'"

It continues, to describe the style of the film: "architectural film";
"diary film"; "flowing transitions between documentary and fictitious
elements".....

Joss