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"Hungry eyes" isn’t just a great name for a festival that operates at the “intersection of film, performance and the visual arts,” it also stands simply for a very interesting format. Founded in 2017 by students of applied theatre sciences at the University of Gießen, the makers, who work as a collective, are particularly interesting in building a bridge between the arts and a shared audience experience. Hungry Eyes 2021 took place completely online because of the pandemic; the next edition is planned for Gießen again in August 2022. In cooperation with hungry eyes, from Friday to Sunday we’ll be showing one film a day from the 2021 programme to start the day.

12. November 2021 / 10:00 LIQUID TRAITS OF AN IMAGE APPARATUS / Österreich (Austria)
13. November 2021 / 10:00 PERSISTENT DISTURBANCE / Österreich (Austria)
14. November 2021 / 10:00 FINDING EVA / Deutschland (Germany)

LIQUID TRAITS OF AN IMAGE APPARATUS / short film by Vera Sebert / 2019 / 07:22 min.

Visualised machine instructions make up their own semantics and are base for human instructions. On a cinema screen these images are detached from their initial meaning. They condense on the picture base and swash into our eyes. Like a random rhizome structure an associative montage of minimalistic user interfaces follows the film’s timeline. Our own body perception and our interpretation formed by media conditions become protagonists in a film without narrative. Vera Sebert, *1987, Media Artist 2007- 2015 Fine Arts at University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 2015-2019 Language Arts at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her artistic works are situated in the border areas of visual media, language, film, computer programs

PERSISTENT DISTURBANCE / by Laurien Bachmann, Sebastian Six / 2019 / 08:06 min.

„Laurien Bachmann and Sebastian Six shoot a static shot of a man running through the picture at each location of their three-month journey through South America, who insistently makes a hand horn sound. […] PERSISTENT DISTURBANCE is on the one hand a small but space-consuming, formally consistent and somehow also funny performance with a view to the absurdities of the art business, but on the other hand it can also be read as a commentary on one‘s own travel plans as well as on collecting images as a colonialist practice: Wherever the white man crosses a landscape, one will know that he is there.“ (Catalog Diagonale´20, Alejandro Bachmann). Laurien Bachmann *1992 in Gmünd/Kärnten and Sebastian Six *1980 in Vöcklabruck are visual artists, currently based in Linz. In their collaborative works they often deal with different topographies and acoustic spaces.

FINDING EVA / by Jeanne van Eeden / 2019-20 / 13 min

FINDING EVA is an (auto)biographical essay film that addresses the language-robbing mechanisms of sexualized violence and counters them with the self-empowering decision to speak. The point is not to join #MeToo, but rather, in the sense of MeToosa, to let the language-stealing voices petrify and, as women who have become subaltern through experiencing sexualized violence, to lift themselves up into the Olympus of speakers. At least for the length of the play. So it's about the right to speak. Strictly speaking, it is about being heard, since speaking alone does not mean having a voice and prevent one from falling into an eloquent silence. FINDING EVA zooms into the inner life of young women, zooms out to their bodies, as it tries to capture the view on both. Uncovered and unfolded, baring and (self-)portraying. Jeanne van Eeden lives in Cologne. Currently studying there at the Academy of Media Arts. She is researching ways to turn the channels of subaltern voices louder and the channels of hegemonic voices quieter. Apart from that, all good!

In Co-operation mit Hungry Eyes Festival / kunstrasen giessen e. V.