59 Seconds Video Festival
Launched by Project 59 last spring in Tribeca, the 59 Seconds Video Festival presents
a wide ranging collection of 59 videos and animations, 59 seconds each by artists from around the world that were selected through three international open calls.
The restricted time frame gives an opportunity to introduce 59 international artists and a wide range of video works - mini documentary, political satire, metaphorical, narrative, experimental, edgy, controversial, including a unique collection of videos that integrate number 59. 59 Seconds Video Festival is a video storm of a variety of techniques, ideas and visions within relatively short period of time.
“Maximum entertainment in minimum time.”
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 12/7/05
A collection of selected 59 videos, 59 seconds each by 59 international artists, shown 59 times around the globe is an ultimate goal of 59 Seconds Festival.
Film program
- 59 seconds (time is a convention) (Cristina Pavesi, Italy 2006)
- Joey Gets Milk (John H. Malone, USA 2005)
- AGN 59V (Alberto Gallingani, Italy 2006)
- Prima di tutto insegnami la neve (Anna Finetti, Italy 2006)
- Virtual Vision (Gruppo Sinestetico [= Matteo Albertin, Antonio Sassu], Italy 2003)
- Connect! (Alessandra Zucchi, Antonio Della Marina, Italy 2005)
- Connector (Briony Barr, USA 2005)
- Freeze (Akiko and Masako Takada, UK 2004)
- Elevate (Zoran Dragelj, Canada 2006)
- 59 Days to the end… of the beginning (Angelo Riviello, Gino Scannapieco, Italy 2006)
- Duna (Jessie Stead, USA 2004-2005)
- Boy With a Ball (Victor Barbieri, USA 2004)
- Frames with 59 repetitions in the study of a scream (Carolina Kohan, Argentina 2007)
- 59 Random Russian Words (Igor Baskin, Russia 2007)
- 59 Views of the Ambassador Bridge (Adam Glover, Canada 2006)
- Weather and Traffic (Project 59, USA 2006)
- and Football (Project 59, USA 2006)
- 59 Worms (Carine Doerflinger, Germany 2006)
- 59 seconds for… love (Serena Calò, Italy 2006)
- . 59 (Girolamo Santulli, Italy 2007)
- A Finger Orchestra (Jinho Im, USA 2006)
- Fast (Zoran Dragelj, Canada 2005)
- Gold words for you (Ricardo Morales Hernández, Puerto Rico 2006)
- Extracreato (Luca Acito, Dario Carmetano, Italy 2006)
- 59 seconds to be happy... (Marco Villani, Italy 2007)
- Pen and Paper (Emily Broadbent, Australia 2007)
- Roundabout (Moio & Sivelli [= Luigi Moio and Luca Sivelli], Italy 2006)
- Plastics (Gruppo Sinestetico [= Matteo Albertin, Antonio Sassu, Gianluca Scordo], Italy 2007)
- Recollection (Zoran Dragelj, Canada 2006)
- Stalker of Chaplin (Nora Gergely, Hungary 2006)
- 59 secondi per…/ 59 seconds to… (Antonio Patrizio, Italy)
- 59 Steps (Herve Constant, UK 2006)
- Traffic Love II (Traffic Love Collective, Australia 2007)
- The Gates Project (The Bruce High Quality Foundation, USA 2005)
- 59 Catches (Regina Vater, USA 2006)
- NO OW NOW (Gerd Stern, USA 2005)
- Dance Piece (59 Jumps) (Erik Moskowitz, USA 2005)
- Expensive Look Without the Expensive Price (Mauro Ceolin, Italy 2005)
- Sign 59 (Irina Danilova, USA 1998-2006)
- The Hair (Gianni Iannitto, Italy 2006)
- 59 is the key (Valerio Veneruso, Italy 2006)
- Under Glass (Gorilla) (Michelle Beck, USA; Jorge Calvo, Costa Rica)
- 59 Seconds of Pause (Estelle Artus, France 2006)
- Songs of Israel (Project 59, USA 2005-2006)
- Be Open (Ingrid Taro, Italy/USA 2005)
- Si and No (Ingrid Taro, Italy/USA 2005)
- Plastic Walk (Ingrid Taro, Italy/USA 2005)
- Back to the Reality (Ingrid Taro, Italy/USA 2005)
- Would you like to dance with me for 59 seconds? (Anna Finetti, Italy 2006)
- Water (Craig Downing, USA 2005)
- 59 Pixles of Grain (Aleksey Danilov, 2007)
- Buster (Diana Kingsley, USA 2004)
- Mosquito (Carine Doerflinger, Germany 2001)
- A portrait of a young man in a dog movie (Ian Keller, USA 2005)
- 59II (Michele Santarsiere, Italy 2007)
- Mediated (Raina Benoit, USA 2005)
- Moustache (Avi Dabah, Israel 2007)
- 59:59:23:7.8 (Scott Piscitelli, USA 2006)
- Sol Invictus (Alistair Gentry, UK 2005)
About Project 59
59 Seconds Video Festival is part of the Project 59, a ten year effort led by Irina Danilova, where number 59 is both a guide and a tool that injects just enough randomization into the creative process, helping to break free of subjective and cultural constraints, providing an arbitrary reason for penetrating into any issue or activity for artistic research. Since 2003 Irina Danilova works in collaboration with Hiram Levy, a NOAA research scientist. 59 Seconds Video Festival was founded and runs by Irina Danilova and Hiram Levy.
www.project59.org
About Irina Danilova
Visual and performance artist (born and raised in Ukraine, lived and worked in Moscow, now lives in New York, NY). Her installations were shown in Islip Art Museum (Islip, NY), Weisman Museum (Minneapolis), Spaces (Cleveland, Ohio), The Telephone Factory, Atlanta, Georgia. She has also exhibited in Germany, Bulgaria, Iceland, Russia and Ukraine. As a performance artist she appeared in Cleveland and Santiago international Performance festivals, and took part in Franklin Furnace program The Future of the Present. Irina Danilova won an international art competition in Halle, Germany and was recognized by Bronx Consul for the Arts as BRIO Awardees. She completed sponsored by Arts Link project in Ural Mountains, and a Longwood Cyber Studio Residency, her cyber works were presented at Thundergulch and Smack Melon Gallery in New York; and took part in Prixars Electronica in Austria. Irina’s video works were presented at VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, RedShift and X-Fest festivals in New York. Irina Danilova is presently teaching at Kingsborough College.
www.irinadanilova.net
